BW Media Spotlight

Many moons ago I went looking for information on a show called Power Masters, a cartoon based not on the Transformers Powermasters figures but a Lionel toyline that had little to do with the toy trains they’re mostly known for. The concept is credited to Victor G. Reiling, who originally titled the toys Motor Masters, which still would have brought Transformers sites up given the Stunticon commander was also called Motormaster, another two-word Lionel/one-word Transformers situation During the one time it aired around me either the station, the cable, or (ironically as you’ll soon see) power went out, or something happened to the recording. Either way I never got to see more than a few minutes of it. Finding information on Power Masters isn’t easy due to the Transformers and their one-word Powermasters dominating the search results. Even finding the show’s intro required me to outsource to someone better at finding obscure stuff. That posting has gotten me a surprising number of hits. If you read the comments the man who posted the intro to YouTube, Professor Doc, stated that he’s wanted to post the full miniseries but has been reluctant to. I also brought in Douglas Booth, who wrote the episodes. Neat.

Well, while backtracking one of the links coming to that post I learned that Professor Doc finally decided to upload the episodes, figuring the rights owners must not care or something. However, he rant into a snag as the videocassette (who remembers those?) he used is not in perfect condition. The result was that he wasn’t comfortable uploading everything and just posted long clips from the three episodes that were released, filling in the gaps with text to catch people up. While I’ve been waiting for him to post either the last act of episode three or another text synopsis it doesn’t look like we’re getting either, so here’s what he has posted, just to show you what the show was like.

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