Battle of the Planets

You can find this on DVD now, but I watched it regularly. It preceeded "Volton" and Power Rangers, and was clearly the prototype. It was a Japanese cartoon about 5 teenagers with special powers to protect their world. There was the stud guy, the princess, the fat guy, the kid, and another guy not quite so studly. Each had a different vehicle, and a uniform with a beaklike visor. And the main villian appeared to wear lip gloss. It was bought by Saban of Power Rangers fame in the 90s and relaunched as GForce, basically taking the cartoon, and redubbing the cartoon with completely different scripts.

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Do You Remember Battle of the Planets?

Jay Mc on 2011-10-14 16:49:38

I have the entire series of this on DVD never been opened. If anyone is interested in it I am open to offers

thebhoywonder on 2010-04-12 10:55:24

absolutely loved this, saturday tv superb!

blueblood on 2008-08-25 00:30:08

Keyop was my fave, he dressed as a duck and said proop, or Brrrr root toot toot !. And the underwater base was called centre neptune ran by chief anderson.

Peterb on 2008-03-12 03:52:23

If I remember right, the ship was called the Phoenix.

wolfman7421 on 2007-11-18 16:54:59

Don't forget Tiny (the fat one) and Seven-Zark-Seven, who ran the underwater base, typical japanese animation (out of focus distant objects etc.), but it was the first to make it to the west, plus it was new and different in the fact that it had aliens as the bad guys instead of ghosts and dodgy relatives as in Scooby-Do. You're right Steve, the ship turned into the Fiery Phoenix when needed.

Anonymous on 2006-11-21 23:38:33

battle of the planets , now lets see there were tiny , keop , princess , mark and jason as i recall does this sound about right , and the space ship was called the phoenix and they used to say trans mute to turn into heroes ahh the memories

Anonymous on 2006-11-18 21:36:25

I used to play this at school with my friends obviously I was Princess and the boys played the other characters.

Anonymous on 2006-08-05 18:15:31

Princess was the first girl on TV I ever really fancied :-) I also think I remember the ship turns into a kinda firey bird and that was so cool!