Space Ace question?

[George3000]

Seeing this "Space Age" segment for the first time in long times, I have one question: What was the REAL premise behind this R-S superhero constantly turing into a geeky teenager and back into an adult? -- In other words why was always like that?

If anyone can help or answer, that will be great thanks!;)

[dtemplar]

Seeing this "Space Age" segment for the first time in long times, I have one question: What was the REAL premise behind this R-S superhero constantly turing into a geeky teenager and back into an adult? -- In other words why was always like that?

If anyone can help or answer, that will be great thanks!;)

Well, like all Saturday Supercade segments, Space Ace was a video game. A laser disc game to be exact, in the game Space Ace was zapped by Borf's Infanto Ray. And it turns Space Ace into Dexter, and when real danger happens he becomes Space Ace.

Space Ace was created by Don Bluth, the man behind An American Tail, The Land Before Time, All Dogs Go to Heaven, and the first known laser disc game, Dragon's Lair.

[George3000]

Thanks!:)

[tucsoncoyote]

Well, like all Saturday Supercade segments, Space Ace was a video game. A laser disc game to be exact, in the game Space Ace was zapped by Borf's Infanto Ray. And it turns Space Ace into Dexter, and when real danger happens he becomes Space Ace.

Space Ace was created by Don Bluth, the man behind An American Tail, The Land Before Time, All Dogs Go to Heaven, and the first known laser disc game, Dragon's Lair.

Yep and if you have never ever seen the original laser disc game, (Space Ace) there are a few full game walkthroughs that show what Ace had to face (as well as Kimberly)

As for the Supercade segements, well that was based off the video game and in fact the only difference between the video game and the cartoon was.. You couldn't control the cartoon.. (and you never saw all the potential deaths Dexter could have faced (Which was unlike what Ruby Spears other show (Dragon's Lair) showed..(if Dirk had done this, this is what would have happened to him..)

But yes, I remember Space Ace (from Saturday supercade.. good times, good times indeed..)

:coyote:

[tb4000]

I know Bluth always said he wanted to expand on the universes of both Dragon's Lair and Space Ace with new movies, but they never came to light, sadly. I suspect some studio will attempt to snag the rights to those two for live action flicks at some point. I think the entire Space Ace plot was a metaphor for puberty to be honest. Ace has to learn to do some things without his muscular sinew and cunning and just be agile and lucky as Dex.

[dtemplar]

Yep and if you have never ever seen the original laser disc game, (Space Ace) there are a few full game walkthroughs that show what Ace had to face (as well as Kimberly)

As for the Supercade segements, well that was based off the video game and in fact the only difference between the video game and the cartoon was.. You couldn't control the cartoon.. (and you never saw all the potential deaths Dexter could have faced (Which was unlike what Ruby Spears other show (Dragon's Lair) showed..(if Dirk had done this, this is what would have happened to him..)

But yes, I remember Space Ace (from Saturday supercade.. good times, good times indeed..)

:coyote:

I do have the Space Ace Game as part of the Dragon's Lair 20th Anniversary Box set.

[Zorak Masaki]

Did Don Bluth do any animation for the space ace cartoon? (i know the dragons lair cartoon was done by different animators, which was nowhere near as good as the original video game designs)

[Blackstar]

Did Don Bluth do any animation for the space ace cartoon? (i know the dragons lair cartoon was done by different animators, which was nowhere near as good as the original video game designs)

Nope. Don Bluth was in no way involved in the Saturday Supercade cartoon.


I know Bluth always said he wanted to expand on the universes of both Dragon's Lair and Space Ace with new movies, but they never came to light, sadly. I suspect some studio will attempt to snag the rights to those two for live action flicks at some point.

I agree. Don Bluth is such a great artist/animator that if feature films based on Dragon's Lair or Space Ace ever do come into being, I would really hope that they would be animated, not live action.

[dth1971]

Don Bluth even created Dragon's Lair II: Time Warp which never made it to arcades until the early 1990's, and had plans to create a 4th. laser disc game called "Barnicle Bill and the Sea Beast" which never was made.

[STARTOUNZ]

When the series originally aired on Saturday Supercade, they regularly showed the sequence of how Space Ace became Dexter. It starts when Ace, with Kimmie, leads a raid on Borf's HQ. He gets piled on by a bunch of Groots (cat-like aliens). Upon breaking free, he's immediately hit with Borf's experimental Infanto Ray, which changes him into wimpy Dexter. Kimmie is able to prevent him from being hit a second time before he changes back into Space Ace, and he's able to topple the platform and wreck his Infanto Ray blaster. Borf escapes and the series begins.

I found this series as rather average. It reverses the wimp-to-hero formula as Space Ace's efforts to stop Borf and the other villains are continously wrecked by his inopportune transformations into Dexter, who himself was really a joke, than one who was genuinely funny (if you know what I mean). And there were so many blown chances for Ace to be permanently cured. The show lost its appeal after a few episodes and it's unfortunate there wasn't a real closure of Space Ace being cured. An overall waste in my opinion.

[Tobias]

NO show got closure in the 80's, outside of a lucky few. Jem and TMNT (and G.I. Joe if you count the movie and ignore the DIC run like I do) are the only 80's shows that come to mind that have any real closure to them.

I don't recall if they did or not, but I think Thundercats and Silverhawks both had some closure, as well.