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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Mercedes-Benz originally commissioned the film in celebration of their centenary under the title ''Centurion Odyssey'', with the late Michael Pfleghar as the director and a [[https://www.ebay.it/itm/Lp-CENTURION-ODYSSEY-Vince-Tempera-The-Dragsters-NIKI-LAUDA-Vinyl-Ost-SHRINK-NM-/203151777141 soundtrack album]] released to tie in with the film. Disney later took up ''Odyssey'' to be aired on their newly-minted cable channel as an "after-school special" under the name ''Top Kids'', inserting new sequences such as the subplot of three kids hacking an arcade machine to tap into Eric's computer car.

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Mercedes-Benz originally commissioned the film in celebration of their centenary under the title ''Centurion Odyssey'', with the late Michael Pfleghar as the director and a [[https://www.ebay.it/itm/Lp-CENTURION-ODYSSEY-Vince-Tempera-The-Dragsters-NIKI-LAUDA-Vinyl-Ost-SHRINK-NM-/203151777141 soundtrack album]] released to tie in with the film. Disney later took up ''Odyssey'' to be aired on their newly-minted cable channel as an "after-school special" under the name ''Top Kids'', inserting new sequences such as the subplot of three kids hacking an arcade machine to tap into Eric's computer car.
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* FakeNationality: Austrian Mercédès Jellinek is portrayed by French actress Joëlle Miquel. Averted with her father Emil who was played by fellow Austrian Werner Kreindl.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Mercedes-Benz originally commissioned the film in celebration of their centenary under the title ''Centurion Odyssey'', with the late Michael Pfleghar as the director and a soundtrack album released to tie in with the film. Disney later took up ''Odyssey'' to be aired on their newly-minted cable channel as an "after-school special" under the name ''Top Kids'', inserting new sequences such as the subplot of three kids hacking an arcade machine to tap into Eric's computer car.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Mercedes-Benz originally commissioned the film in celebration of their centenary under the title ''Centurion Odyssey'', with the late Michael Pfleghar as the director and a [[https://www.ebay.it/itm/Lp-CENTURION-ODYSSEY-Vince-Tempera-The-Dragsters-NIKI-LAUDA-Vinyl-Ost-SHRINK-NM-/203151777141 soundtrack album album]] released to tie in with the film. Disney later took up ''Odyssey'' to be aired on their newly-minted cable channel as an "after-school special" under the name ''Top Kids'', inserting new sequences such as the subplot of three kids hacking an arcade machine to tap into Eric's computer car.car.
** The liner notes to said soundtrack album contain the following passage, hinting at a vastly more different plot than just a cheesy edutainment movie:
--->During the unveiling of the car of the century, a phenomenon occurs which catapults its designer, Sam, and his young son Eric, through the gap in the space-time continuum into the fourth dimension where Sam, the "living" computer that controls the super automobile, forces them to take a perilous time trip to find its roots and the effect the machine has had on mankind in the 100 years since its invention - while the gap back to 1986 gradually closes off, the two humans and the machine engage in a series of exotic adventures and resolve the conflict of who is the master: man or the machine?
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Mercedes-Benz originally commissioned the film in celebration of their centenary under the title ''Centurion Odyssey'', with the late Michael Pfleghar as the director and a soundtrack album released to tie in with the film. Disney later took up the film to be aired on their newly-minted cable channel as an "after-school special" as ''Top Kids'', inserting new sequences such as the subplot of three kids hacking an arcade machine to tap into Eric's computer car.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Mercedes-Benz originally commissioned the film in celebration of their centenary under the title ''Centurion Odyssey'', with the late Michael Pfleghar as the director and a soundtrack album released to tie in with the film. Disney later took up the film ''Odyssey'' to be aired on their newly-minted cable channel as an "after-school special" as under the name ''Top Kids'', inserting new sequences such as the subplot of three kids hacking an arcade machine to tap into Eric's computer car.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Mercedes-Benz originally commissioned the film in celebration of their centenary, with the late Michael Pfleghar as the director. Disney later took up the film to be aired on their newly-minted cable channel as an "after-school special", inserting new sequences such as the subplot of three kids hacking an arcade machine to tap into Eric's computer car.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Mercedes-Benz originally commissioned the film in celebration of their centenary, centenary under the title ''Centurion Odyssey'', with the late Michael Pfleghar as the director. director and a soundtrack album released to tie in with the film. Disney later took up the film to be aired on their newly-minted cable channel as an "after-school special", special" as ''Top Kids'', inserting new sequences such as the subplot of three kids hacking an arcade machine to tap into Eric's computer car.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Outside of unofficial reprints on DVD and uploads on Website/YouTube, the film is out of circulation.

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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Outside of unofficial reprints on DVD and uploads on Website/YouTube, the film is out of circulation.circulation.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Mercedes-Benz originally commissioned the film in celebration of their centenary, with the late Michael Pfleghar as the director. Disney later took up the film to be aired on their newly-minted cable channel as an "after-school special", inserting new sequences such as the subplot of three kids hacking an arcade machine to tap into Eric's computer car.

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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Outside of unofficial reprints on DVD and uploads on Website/YouTube, the film is out of circulation.

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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: *ExecutiveMeddling: According to a [=YouTube=] user who got in touch with Ross Harris, the film was originally sponsored by Mercedes in celebration of its centenary (and the centenary of the automobile for that matter). Niki was supposed to be the guide in the computer car, but the video game and hacking elements were shoehorned in later when Disney bankrolled the film so they can air it as an "after-school special" on the then-nascent Creator/DisneyChannel, leading to some glaring plot holes.
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