I'm looking for the name of a sci-fi series, intended for children. Robots have control over the humans. There is a squad of humans who attack them. Every member in this squad has a badge on their suit, and when they touch this badge the suit becomes armed. This series was not cartoon series, it was performed by real people. The main robot character is very similar in style to Darth Vader in Star Wars. The series aired in the 1990s. I am sorry but I can't recall many details.
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What is the name of this kids’ show from the late 80s? It was based in space, and I think it was some sort of live-action TV show. Some of the images looked like TV static, and you could buy some toy spaceships shaped like a gun to shoot at the images (and somehow get hit) to gain or lose points.  I thought it was called "Captain Skyhawk", but apparently that's an old NES game.  Does anyone know what this show was called?
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I have memories of watching it a few years ago (I was a kid then) in the early 2000s probably; before 2010 I think. It was a movie with giant robots, and the enemies were aliens piloting what I remember as giant, more animalistic robots. I remember those animalistic ones running on water. The aliens themselves were a little taller than humans but mostly humanoid. I remember what the aliens look like a bit; most of the movie they were clad in some kind of armor, but the scene I mentioned showed one's face, if I remember well, grey skin, vividly green eyes, a beard made of some kind of quills, bald. I have this one scene that stayed crystal clear in my memories. The heroes had captured an injured alien, and other aliens attack to, in the end, just retrieve the injured one, leaving with this one without attacking further this time. I also remember the aliens going through a city in some machine (I'm actually not sure this one was piloted though) and destroying anything it perceived as a threat, from cars to security cameras. My memories are coming from years ago, so I might be wrong in a bunch of things there, but this one scene, I can assure is correct. This might remind a bit of Pacific Rim, but it isn't. (It's watching Pacific Rim that reminded me of this movie.) It doesn't seem to show up on any giant robot movie list on internet, weirdly, so I hope you can help me. And now I'm starting to wonder if there was really robots on the heroes' side. Maybe it was warships (sea ones, not spaceships). As I said it was some time ago and I was young, so bad memories are likely.
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I think it was in the late 70s/early 80s an anime movie appeared on HBO. During that time HBO mailed a monthly TV Guide of prominent movies being aired and I think it had a high profile spot.  I don't think the name of the movie is Space Dragon because I rented that already and it seemed different from what I remember.  I remember the main character tries to assemble the robot but is unable to and gets injured in the process.  It's kind of like the Voltron robot but with just one person controlling the robot.
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I read this in the early to mid 80's.  It was a textbook sized hardcover anthology with color illustrations throughout.  Each story had a few images, some were full page illustrations.  The particular story I remember the most involved Earth survivors living underground.  Robots controlled the war from the surface.  A teenage girl and boy decided to sneak away to the surface as no one had been up there in a long time.  The kids discover greenery and a healthy environment, with rusted robot guardians.  The robots had been keeping the humans fooled that the war was still going on, and had kept them under the surface.  Mars had been wiped out from nearly the first volleys of missiles.    The robots judge the teenagers as worthy and let them remain on the surface.  The kids had silver jumpsuits that dissolved when they got wet.  The robot illustrations were blocky, almost weathered stone-like statues.  They had nearly spherical feet and square simple heads.  The faces had eyes and simple mouths.  -edit- The robots were similar in shape to the one in this picture, but smoother, and no arms.  The illustrations with them had the robots being several stories tall.  I kind of remember that the kids emerged from the belly of one or something like that.
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I'm looking for a movie I've seen as a kid, the details are foggy and sparse but I'll try my best following :  What is it?: An animated movie. Tell us what it isn't: It is not . Tell us what made it memorable: A planet where some brain-sucking insect-like aliens live, also an old bald man lives on the same planet. When did you see this film?: Late 80's, early 90's. How old was it?: If I've seen the movie on TV in Spain, is a pretty safe bet that it will be at least 5 years old. Was it part of a series?: I don't think so. Plot: No clue, sorry. What language was it in?: The movie was dubbed to Spanish (Spain).  No detail is too insignificant  What details can I recall?:  Sci-Fi story with one character being an old bald man living on a planet where some insect-ish aliens can open your skull and suck your brain. Habitat of those insect-ish foes was depicted in light blue colors, I kinda remember giant mushrooms as well. A young boy befriends the old baldie, the boy came to the planet with some adults.   Other details I'm not completely sure (maybe my mind is filling the gaps):  I think that the movie was drawn using , not 100% sure though. I cannot remember which year I've seen the movie, but it should be late 80's or early 90's. I'm pretty sure that I've seen the movie in Spanish TV (not rented videotape). Somehow the young boy was the young version of the old baldie (time travel?). The old man lives in a wood house near the brain-sucking insect habitat, as many old man does he spend his time on the porch.    Try to offer unique details As anyone would expect from this kind of movie, there's a scene where the alien insects attack a group of people trying to suck their brains. A young boy was with those adults and survived with injuries in his head. The old bald man have some surgery in his head due to an attack he suffered years before.
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Someone recently recommended a TV show to me. I remember them saying it starts with aliens coming to Earth, because something happened to their planet and they are in need of help. They agree to be settled or integrated somewhere, and then mysteriously the ship they had come in blows up. It leaves so much debris around the Earth that people/aliens can no longer go into space. I think he also said that the aliens have the ability to terraform.  Does anyone know what show this is/was?
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I would love to identify a sci-fi novel I read in the late 60s or 70s.  It followed a group of young space cadets through their training in the Space Academy.  The training culminated in small groups of cadets being sent through a gateway in the space station, into different worlds where they had to survive whatever conditions they met beyond the gateway, as part of their training.  One such trip went wrong and the group ended up stranded in a hostile world for days, hoping to be rescued by their trainers.  I can't remember much about the story or protagonists so this may be too vague, but I remember descriptions of a vast space station hall and these young cadets bringing whatever kit they hoped they might need - some brought breathing apparatus and full survival gear, but others came with very little as they believed they would not be sent into conditions where they could die without the right equipment.  They hadn't bargained for the power surge or whatever it was that misdirected them as they passed through the gateway!  I also remember rivalry between the cadets - I think the hero was male and quietly heading for top cadet of the year award... and I think at least one of the group died in the unknown planet before they were rescued.  Does this ring a bell with anyone?  I remember the mood and tension more than the details but it was a long time ago!  I have a 10-year old son who I think would love this kind of story.  If anyone can help you have my thanks!
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I'm pretty sure the title was "T".  It's about an alien race at war with humans. They decide to end the human race by destroying Earth before humans evolve. They send some humans through space and back in time to do the job.  I think the humans have single letter names (A, B, C, etc) They have raised/cloned the humans just for the job and to save space in their ships they have only a head, a body and one arm. Most don't make it.   The aliens don't know that there were 2 more planets in the past and they count the planets in from Pluto. One human hits a planet and completely destroys it and T hits a glancing blow and just breaks up his target forming the asteroid belt.
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I remember watching a sci-fi movie in the early 00s. It was full of comedy. Here are the details I recalled:   There was a space opera TV show in the movie. It seemed a true copy of Star Trek (they used to pilot a ship and there were captain, first officer, science officer etc on bridge). The name of the TV show was possibly the name of the movie. Once the main crew of the TV show were celebrating some achievement, they were approached by humans having weird behavior (they were actually aliens in disguise; in reality, they looked like octopus). The alien race was innocent. They couldn't comprehend the concept of art, lies etc. So, they believed that the TV show (they got the EM waves) was true historical documentary of mankind. So, they came looking for help from the brave captain of the show. From the TV show details, they had built a starship which really worked. The aliens needed the TV show crew to pilot the ship to defeat another alien race which terrorized them. The TV show crew didn't have any problems piloting the ship as the controls were familiar, only these controls were real.   Can you please identify the movie?
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I've been trying to track down a live-action children's TV series (or short story perhaps) from the 1980s or 1990s, probably on CBBC or CITV.  A few people I've spoken to IRL have suggested The Boy from Space or Sky, but I'm pretty sure it's neither as a lot of the details don't seem to match.  The story was set on Earth (possibly England or Wales) and was about an "alien" boy who was being pursued by a group of people, though I don't remember who they were.  Somehow he encountered siblings, a girl and a boy, and made friends with them. I think they lived on a farm with their parents, as I remember quite a large barn or other building, and they hid(?) the boy in a car which was inside or next to this building. He also slept in this car with a dog (which might have been a German shepherd).  The "alien" boy had a portable "radio" (all silver, very 1980s) that repelled his pursuers by emitting a high-pitched sound when he turned a dial on it, and he used it when out and about with the other children whenever they encountered a pursuer. I seem to remember lots of hills and valleys, lots of green.  In the end it turned out he wasn’t really an alien, but a human from the far future. He was pretending to be an alien as he was from 20000 years into the future and humans' appearance had changed by then, but he had the ability to make himself look like current-day humans. When he was in his car/bed he reverted to his normal appearance, so he would hide under the blankets until he was able to assume current-day human appearance.  In the finale, it was revealed that he was never in any danger – the pursuers were testing him as part of a kind of coming-of-age thing. I remember a scene on a spaceship or something where his elders/parents where shown telling him that he was safe all along and that he "passed".  I also seem to remember them referring to "ancestors" and making sure they didn't find out, so the either the girl or boy could well have been a direct ancestor.
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I remember reading a series when I was around 7th or 8th grade about aliens who had taken over Earth by putting metal caps on people when they were "entering adulthood" to control them (not direct control, but it would keep them from rebelling). There was a faction of people who able to escape and had fake caps and would save teens who were about to be capped.  The main protagonist was a teen boy who was a boxer (or training to be a boxer or something). The aliens would hold tournaments for the humans and whoever won would be "worthy" to serve as personal slaves to the aliens.     The protagonist won and was able to get inside to try and learn more about the aliens from the inside.
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I remember very little but enough... I know that there were 3 worlds, a real one, a mid-world kind of with a teleporter, and the world with all the creatures. The first episode was in the desert and there was a good monster that saved the main guys from a bad one. Before he saved them he said every end is a beginning and every beginning is an end.   Please help me; I've tried everything. I saw it on , I think it was not Japanese. I live in Croatia, so I saw it there. It was aimed at kids, but not younger kids. The main characters were human, around 15 years old. The teleporter was in the middle of a big structure. It was a 6 piece tp, so every circle was one, and it was shaped like a star. There were robots working there; they carried food and other things.  I remember that all the creatures thought that the humans are evil, all but the one, the "lord" of all of them. And yes, the main character got to the world by some sort of a device that he found and it belonged to another kid who lost it and they were able to transform in the creatures from the world by it. When they are in the "other world", their body stays in the real world and acts normally but their soul gets transported to the mid-world
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I scarcely remember this animated series.  The gist of it is in the title: Earth vanishes (I can't remember the reason now but it was probably explained) and the only surviving humans were two astronauts on an interstellar spaceship. They decide to explore space and meet up with different aliens, hoping that one day they'll find out what happened to Earth.
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It was written in English and likely a young adult series. I believe it was a hardcover book and possibly from an Australian author, though I could easily be wrong. I have a feeling it was a series, but I'm not sure if I'm confusing it with other books from the author (see below). I believe it has been out for at least 10 years, probably longer, because I read it in middle school.  The book begins with a school boy seemingly hallucinating seeing a futuristic, armed girl. I think she might have been on the cover of the book, but again I could easily be wrong. The boy is later pulled into the space ship she is on (the school scenes were not real, I believe).  As I remember there was no real adults on the ship, although it might have been because they had all been killed off previously. I realise this seem similar to . Later in the book, or perhaps it was a later book in the series, other children joined the crew.  At the end of the book/series, it is revealed that Earth had been ecologically devastated (possibly by industrial pollution). The cloned (I think) children were on a return trip in space, so that by the time they get back to Earth, the planet is ready for human habitation again.  I recall reading in the afterwords that the author was writing some books set in the same universe, but about early space colonisation of the solar system.  I think it was set before the above scheme to recolonise Earth was enacted. The author said we'll see "familiar names", presumably because the characters were later cloned for the recolonisation mission.   I read a couple of these "prequels" (or at least other books from the same author) but don't recall seeing such names. One of the books mentioned the Earth's oceans had turned toxic, though.
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Shortly before his death, my father spoke to me about a series of novels that he had just finished reading which had a fascinating concept.  However I soon forgot the title(s) and author and I've been absolutely desperate to find out what they were.  The premise (as I understood) was that humanity had expanded out from the solar system into the local star systems before coming into contact with an incredibly aggressive species which was focused on wiping out the entire species.  Earth and her colonies were lost as remnants of the species fled.  Eventually it was decided by the military leadership to set up a colony in order to rebuild the human race.  However, in order for this colony to escape detection and to keep humanity from going back out into space and thus potentially running into this hostile alien race again, a series of satellites were set up around the planet chosen that would lock onto and destroy any form of technology (and usually the surrounding city) that went beyond pre-industrial standards.    One of the series protagonist is a long living android who possesses the consciousness of a human who was present at the original founding of the colony (and who seems shielded from detection) which observes as civilization is repeatedly regrown and torn down again and who attempts to try and reverse humanities self imposed lot in life.      From what I understood this was a series of novels, but I could be wrong. I've been trying to find this for years on my own with only a rough plot line as a guide and it's gotten me nowhere.
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I remember this show from the mid-nineties (I could be hallucinating, it could be late eighties.)  Basically a there was kid was able to go into a computer if he did something a certain way. There were other kids who were able to go in.  It was live action (for most of it).  When they went into the computer they got armor and other things.  If you need any more info from what I remember please ask me.
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I used to watch a show about a kid (Named Max maybe?) that was given this magic hat that opened portals at specific spots.  He has a fowl friend (a human who evolved into a bird or something) and a giant gladiator friend who was deathly afraid of spiders (or snakes or something).  It was a cartoon, and I can remember the plot of a few of the episodes if needed, I just can't remember the name.