"Tetsuwan Penguin" wrote:[QUOTE=SuwaHana;214192][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.[/QUOTE]
Got no idea why they added the clip show but I imagine they didn't add it to the DVD for the same reason. Even when putting it on DVD they just wanted to sell it as the same generic action series that they tried to sell it as on TV. I mean, look at the box art. (or lack there of) It's just Astro's angry face.
it seems that there have been few if any responses to the topics I have posted lately, so, I will not likely bother with it.
