Ulysses 31

[DocHorror]

Anyone remeber this great cartoon?

Ah, it takes me back a while...the plot was really cool & the music gave you that special spine tingling greatness that only the A-Team could other wise prove....

Truly awesome...

Thoughts?

While Im at it, anyone remember Jason and the Wheeled Warriors?

[white_rabbit]

I rmember both.

Loved that evil rotablade wheeled Warrior

Ulysses was just cool..

lightsaber/gun and junp belts...cool

[BenRG]

It was "Jace and the Wheeled Warriors".

Yes, I remember "Ulysses 31". It was a fantastic story: Homer's "Oddessy" transferred to a sci-fi setting. It had one of the coolest alien ships in history, the 'Grapevine' fighter carrier: Basically dozens of sphere-shaped fighter carriers in a cluster like a bunch of grapes. A really strange and original ship design.

Turning the myth and magic of the Greek myths into sci-fi tech must have been quite an undertaking, but they made it all the way. And they didn't only concentrate on Greek myth. Remember the episode with Noah's Ark turned into a space colony ship?

One episode, where Chronos used his time powers to age most of the Oddessy's crew to death was one of the first sci-fi stories that gave me a chill (remeber that I was only about 13 at the time). The general feel and the technology caught the imagination.

Remember the good-guys' party tricks:

• A PPK-sized hand-blaster that doubled as a lightsaber
• Rocket belt (obligatory )
• The three-in-one shuttle with the fighter on the nose and the heavy lifter on the back
• The 'Oddessy' herself: A weird ring-shaped starship with a massive reactor core called the 'Iris' that really looked like a human eye, even with 'eyelids' that opened wider when the reactor was pumped up to higher power levels.

I will always remember that wonderful animé-like sequence when they use ship's main sub-light boosters and the engines start to glow inside before the exhaust bursts out of the engine bells.

[paladin]

It was interesting but not earth shaking.

[ClaysGhost]

The 'Oddessy' herself: A weird ring-shaped starship with a massive reactor core called the 'Iris' that really looked like a human eye, even with 'eyelids' that opened wider when the reactor was pumped up to higher power levels.[/list]I will always remember that wonderful animé-like sequence when they use ship's main sub-light boosters and the engines start to glow inside before the exhaust bursts out of the engine bells.

It was great. I keep trying to make a 3D model of it, but I have the modelling and texturing ability of a banana.

[Joe Richter]

If I remember correctly, the iris on the Oddesy had to stay open at all times because that was the only thing guiding Ullesies back home. Quite a few episodes revolved round the iris almost closing.


And my memory is insisting that the following is from the courus of the theme tune.

Ullesies, Ullesies
soaring through all the galaxies
in search of earth
flying into the sun.

[BenRG]

If I remember correctly, the iris on the Oddesy had to stay open at all times because that was the only thing guiding Ullesies back home. Quite a few episodes revolved round the iris almost closing.

Nah, I'm fairly certain that I remembered correctly. The Iris was the power system. If it 'closed', it would mean that they would have lost the ship's main power source (pretty disasterous when you considered that they were in entirely the wrong galaxy).

IIRC, the gods had erased the ship's navcomp so they had no idea how to get home anyway. They were looking for Olympus, the gods' homeworld in a hope of convincing them to let them go home.

And my memory is insisting that the following is from the courus of the theme tune.

Ullesies, Ullesies
soaring through all the galaxies
in search of earth
flying into the sun.

The last line was, I think: 'flying into the night'. However, I might be wrong. It was translated from Spanish anyway, so any translation would, by force of neccessity, probably sound a bit wrong.