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The Bots Master 4-Disc Box Set DVD
The Bots Master is the early-1990s syndicated animated series about Ziv Zoltan, the teenage robotics genius who has invented a small army of friendly, customizable bots and uses them to fight against the corporate conspiracies of the Lewis Lewis Corporation, his former employer who is trying to seize his work for less generous purposes. The show ran in first-run syndication across 1993 and 1994, with 40 episodes that lean hard into the era's CG-augmented animation experiments and serialized boys' afternoon plotting.
What stands out is the show's commitment to its specific tech-and-rebellion register. The action sequences pair traditionally-animated characters with early-3D rendered bots and vehicles in a hybrid that was unusual for kids' TV at the time, the writing builds a real serialized arc across the season, and the corporate-conspiracy plot gives the show a slightly heavier tone than the era's standard syndicated cartoons. The voice work plays the material straight.
It belongs to a specific early-90s wave of CG-augmented syndicated animation, the same family of toy-line-extended properties that experimented with hybrid 2D-and-3D rendering in advance of the all-CG shows that would dominate later in the decade. For Bots Master fans whose collection skews toward the era's syndicated boys' afternoon catalog, this run is one of the period's more distinctive entries.
Highlights in the set include "Adios ZZ," "Enter The Ninjzz," "Stop That Bot," "Spybot," "Assault On Bunker 435," "The Weapon," "General Blitzy," "The Duel," "Fly Me To The Moon," and "The Setting Sun," episodes that capture both the show's standalone bot-mission plots and its bigger serialized arcs. This 4-DVD collection gathers all 40 episodes, the complete Bots Master run in one place.
More Information: IMDB, Wikipedia
40 Total Episodes on 4 DVDs:
The Bots Master Episode 1 - Adios ZZ
The Bots Master Episode 2 - Enter The Ninjzz
The Bots Master Episode 3 - Blitzy's Battle Bots Brigade
The Bots Master Episode 4 - Stop That Bot
The Bots Master Episode 5 - Block 93
The Bots Master Episode 6 - Flowers For ZZ
The Bots Master Episode 7 - Rock The Corp
The Bots Master Episode 8 - This Land Is My Land
The Bots Master Episode 9 - You Can Bank On It
The Bots Master Episode 10 - ZZ, Come Back
The Bots Master Episode 11 - Lost
The Bots Master Episode 12 - Bring The Boyzz Down
The Bots Master Episode 13 - Spybot
The Bots Master Episode 14 - Climb The Mountain
The Bots Master Episode 15 - Assault On Bunker 435
The Bots Master Episode 16 - Blind Date
The Bots Master Episode 17 - Grasp For Power
The Bots Master Episode 18 - Bobby And His Bots
The Bots Master Episode 19 - The Weapon
The Bots Master Episode 20 - A Few Good Boyzzs
The Bots Master Episode 21 - A Tale Of Two Paradims
The Bots Master Episode 22 - General Blitzy
The Bots Master Episode 23 - The Zulander Scanner
The Bots Master Episode 24 - Mind Gamez
The Bots Master Episode 25 - Island Ploy
The Bots Master Episode 26 - Photo Finish
The Bots Master Episode 27 - A Gift For Frenzy
The Bots Master Episode 28 - ZZ And The Law
The Bots Master Episode 29 - The Appointment
The Bots Master Episode 30 - The Duel
The Bots Master Episode 31 - The Bad Boyzzs Are Among Us
The Bots Master Episode 32 - Friendly Enemy
The Bots Master Episode 33 - The Gift
The Bots Master Episode 34 - The Bots In The Booth
The Bots Master Episode 35 - Building Eight
The Bots Master Episode 36 - The Tome Of Doom
The Bots Master Episode 37 - Friendly Frenzy
The Bots Master Episode 38 - Momzz
The Bots Master Episode 39 - Fly Me To The Moon
The Bots Master Episode 40 - The Setting Sun
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