In 2008, Battletoads was given the #5 place on the list of The 5 Worst One-Shot TV Cartoons Ever Made by Topless Robot. The comic with the backstory of Battletoads, written by Rare employee Guy Miller, was also published in Nintendo Power. The pilot served more as a prequel to the video game franchise. Bird and Princess Angelica from the Dark Queen, who wants to steal Angelica's magical amulet for her plans of universal conquest. They are charged with protecting Professor T. The trio is given the ability to transform into anthropomorphic toads with superhuman strength and the ability to change their arms and legs into weapons in techniques called "Smash Hits". Set in Oxnard, California, the show stars three Junior High Schoolers (despite the fact that the comic's story revolved around three video game testers). It was developed and written by Phil Harnage and David Wise (who has no relation to the Battletoads video games composer of the same name but was the main writer on the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series). A VHS tape with the pilot was released in the United States on January 15, 1994. However, only the pilot episode made it to the airwaves it was never picked up as a full animated series, despite comic-style ads in GamePro magazine claiming otherwise. Incidentally, DiC Entertainment would try this again later on by producing Street Sharks and then later Extreme Dinosaurs. It is assumed that the series was an attempt to capitalize on the popularity of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Battletoads - The Cartoon - Pilot Episode - Battletoads TV Showīattletoads is a half-hour, animated television special produced by DIC Entertainment, airing in syndication in the United States on the weekend of Thanksgiving 1992.
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