"Silverhawks Vol. 1" DVD Talkback

[Palin Dromos]

Volume 1 of the 80's animated series "Silverhawks" is out on DVD.


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Silverhawks: Volume 1
Studio: Warner Home Video
Release Date: October 14th, 2008

Synopsis: Created as a follow-up to the successful Thundercats TV series, Silverhawks pits a cybernetically engineered team of heroes - Quicksilver, Tally Hawk, Blue Grass, Steelheart, Steelwill, Commander Stargazer, and the Copper Kid, agians the universe's most dangerous villian Mon-Star and his ruthless band of criminals. Starring Thundercats voice actors Earl Hammond, Larry Kenney, Peter Newman, and Bob McFadden.

This release inclued 32 episodes of the shows's 65 episode run.

Bonus Features:
- "Partly Metal, Partly Real: Remembering Silverhawks"
- Exclusive Sneak Peak at DC Universe's "Wonder Woman"
- Trailers


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Comments:

I'm rather shocked that this release hadn't gotten noted on these boards yet.
If you grew up watching Thundercats and He-Man chances are you caught a few episodes of Silverhawks. It's definetly in the same 'toyetic' vein as those series, but seems to be not quite as well remembered.
Personally I remember being a bigger fan of Silverhawks than Thundercats, probably the space angle that got me. (Though I enjoyed Thundercast too.)
Anyway this DVD release was a surprise. The retrospecitive is short but still interesting for those who remember the series.
I'm still getting throught the episodes, with 32 it will take a bit of time, but they're pretty much what you'd expect from animation from that era. Lots of re-used animation bits, and the dialogue isn't anything to write home about. The characer design is where this series really shined, lots of unique heroes, villians, and other characters. There's a lot of bizzare stuff and you sometimes have to toss logic out the window, but its still a lot of fun.
It's funny but this series is constantly noted as only being around for 1 season, but back then 1 season was 65 epsiodes!

Does anyone else remember this series? Did anyone else pick up this DVD?

[PRdude]

Of course I remember this series. Did I get this set? Not yet.

By the way, let me know if there are problems with episodes I ought to know about.

[Knightmare]

I picked up this set and I'm really enjoying it, the series is very well written and animated.

[Cawnball]

I liked this series, it seemed like sort of a fusing of the DC Hawkman/Thanagar/Hawkworld verse and THE THUNDERCATS to me.

But correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't this one of those series that never threw an actual punch and had those maaad tight FCC/BSaP shackles on the fight scenes and violence? I remember watching this (as well as THUNDERCATS) and almost taking stats on the fights scenes where they avoided throwing a punch or hard kick.

BUT believe it or not THUNDERCATS was no better. I don't think ONE punch or impact kick was ever connected on that show.

[Goodfellow]

I loved this show as a kid, but when I watched it off CN a few years ago, it just was not that good, which is a shame as it has some of the most interesting and unique villians out of all the 80's properties.

I may still pick up the set, but not until it is really cheap, especially since the episodes are not remastered.

[Batmex]

Does it have spanish audio track? it had a terrific dub(and the oppening song dubbed kicked butt)

[Zorak Masaki]

I liked this series, it seemed like sort of a fusing of the DC Hawkman/Thanagar/Hawkworld verse and THE THUNDERCATS to me.

But correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't this one of those series that never threw an actual punch and had those maaad tight FCC/BSaP shackles on the fight scenes and violence? I remember watching this (as well as THUNDERCATS) and almost taking stats on the fights scenes where they avoided throwing a punch or hard kick.

BUT believe it or not THUNDERCATS was no better. I don't think ONE punch or impact kick was ever connected on that show.

Which is strange because you'd think that being syndicated, they could get away with more.

[Palin Dromos]

Does it have spanish audio track? it had a terrific dub(and the oppening song dubbed kicked butt)
It's got English, Spanish, and French audio channels.
English and Spanish subtitles.

Also all the episodes have the "coming up on" segments at the start and the "space lessons" and the end.

Oh and chapter stops in all the logical places.

[Batmex]

It's got English, Spanish, and French audio channels.
English and Spanish subtitles.

Also all the episodes have the "coming up on" segments at the start and the "space lessons" and the end.

Oh and chapter stops in all the logical places.


MMMhhhh nice I might pick it up...I only hope they keep the spanish dub in the second set and not pull a "thundercats" on us

[ABrown]

I haven't seen this DVD in the stores at all. I've seen it on Amazon.com. But if I'm gonna get it on Amazon.com I'm gonna wait for the price to go down first.

[PRdude]

I haven't seen this DVD in the stores at all. I've seen it on Amazon.com. But if I'm gonna get it on Amazon.com I'm gonna wait for the price to go down first.

Why not get it at deepdiscount.com? They sell it the cheapest. Too bad you missed out on their 25% off sale last month. That would have made it even better.