"SuwaHana" wrote:[QUOTE=Dragonrider1227;214170]I think that whole "sued by Disney" thing was an excuse. The dubbers never liked showing Astro as a kid or vulnerable in any way. Preferring to just make him a generic super hero. This episode was full of that sort of thing so they skipped it saying "If anyone asks, we'll say Disney threatened to sue."
Now that I do think about it, this seems to be more likely. They found the episode unnecessary for their purposes, so they omitted it entirely. It's a common practice with anime localization, so I shouldn't be so surprised...[/QUOTE]
Then why add that stupid made up episode from clips of other ones. They could have just released the DVD with one missing. They did that with the '80 series.