Line #1 Animation/SpaceTransformers


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3	->''"So basically, it's ''[[Film/FantasticVoyage The Fantastic Voyage]]'' but with giant robots and Robin Hood's Merry Men."''
4	-->-- An archive.org user summarizes
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6	''Micro-Commando Diatron-5'', better known as ''Space Transformers'', is a [[QuirkyWork perplexingly insane]] and incredibly low-quality pseudoanime straight from South Korea. The plot focuses around a {{Cyborg}} woman named Ivy, who defends the entire universe from enemies with her built-in evil-sensing computers. The enemy infects her with a virus. Now the only one to save her is Diatron-5, a HumongousMecha shrunk down to microscopic size that goes in to fight the bacteria. Two kids, a battle station called the "Franchise/StarWars" and Diatron's inventor join her in the battle against evil. Evil being an androgynous woman named Mary, her brother with blue skin who looks suspiciously like [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Spock]] and their fleet of robots and forest green demon-like aliens.
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8	It was [[SameLanguageDub dubbed twice]]; first with an American-sounding cast under the name ''Micro-Commando Diatron-5'', which can be viewed [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYJUfjsSiBY here]], and later on under the name ''Space Transformers'' with a British-sounding cast (some being from Space Thunder Kids as well), released by infamous producer [[Film/GodfreyHoNinjaMovies Joseph Lai]], that can be downloaded [[http://www.archive.org/details/SpaceTransformer here.]]
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10	Bits and pieces of the film were redubbed and incorporated into ''Animation/SpaceThunderKids'' by Joseph Lai, in the same manner as the Film/GodfreyHoNinjaMovies.
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13	!!''Space Transformers'' provides examples of the following:
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15	* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs
16	* ApocalypseMaiden: Ivy
17	* ArtShift: The animation ranges from extremely poor to half-decent.
18	* ArtisticLicenseBiology: So many instances. For the most JustForFun/{{egregious}} example, people do not have small galaxies inside their bodies.
19	* BattleOfTheStillFrames: There's a beautifully crappy example of this (sans the battle) torwards the end. A good 1 minute sequence of nothing but a handful of completely still frames of the titular mecha panning around the screen to make it look like it's flying in space, to the tune of a visibly improvised and trippy BGM track. There were absolutely no attempts to make the backgrounds loop evenly or even sync properly with the robot, at one point it just pans through a completely still robot + BG image, and in other, ''Diatron-5 starts inexplicably flying backwards''.
20	* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace
21	* BloodlessCarnage: The red soldiers are shot down by Checker/Crackle, yet no wounds appear. Their clothes aren't even torn! However, this is probably due to the cheap animation rather than censorship.
22	* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler: Diatron-5 basically wipes out the entire enemy fleet with a single 5-shaped laser blast.]]
23	* DelicateAndSickly: Ivy
24	* FantasticVoyagePlot: Perhaps the only one to involve a giant robot, and once inside Ivy's body, nothing at all even remotely resembles a normal human-body's insides. It's not even like ''Film/OsmosisJones'' where the white blood cells are people, there's just a whole complete galaxy and a planet with human kingdoms inside her body!
25	* {{GASP}}
26	* HongKongDub: '''Two''' of them! Both with different {{Dub Name Change}}s.
27	* IncredibleShrinkingMan: Gene and Karen along with their CombiningMecha are shrunk to enter Ivy's body and fight off the virus that's infected her (which is rather strangely portrayed as goblin-like warriors and shrunken enemy mecha).
28	* LiteralAssKicking: Biphon gets Mary to surrender by repeatedly kicking her in the butt.
29	* TheMockbuster: To their credit, the plot is fairly original (if insane), but almost everything else was ripped off from something else. Interestingly, it does ''not'' rip off ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'', at least not directly. "Diatron-5" is actually Battle Buffalo, a robot from Takara's ''Diaclone'' toyline, which was also the source of about half the cast of G1, including Optimus, but Buffalo itself was never imported under the TF brand. Ironically, this film is probably the only reason anybody remembers it.
30	** There are also SD-ish, RobotBuddy sized facsimiles of [[Anime/GingaHyouryuuVifam Vifam]] and a [[Anime/ArmoredTrooperVotoms Scopedog]]. They didn't even bother to rename the former, he's actually called Vifam in this.
31	** Also a bunch of character designs were lifted straight from ''Anime/SpaceRunawayIdeon'', with minimal changes, like Cosmo's lookalike losing the afro and the evil general being just a blue-haired and gray-skinned Damido with more Spock like features.
32	*** All of the above were due to the then-current South Korean ban on Japanese media. Korean audiences were fascinated with anime (mostly seen through bootlegs), and animation houses in Korea were happy to oblige with legal, if [[ShoddyKnockoffProduct somewhat fly-by-night]], product.
33	* MysteriousWaif: Ivy
34	* NoNameGiven: Ivy doesn't have a name in the ''Diatron-5'' dub.
35	* NonDubbedGrunts: Especially jarring, considering the original voice actor sounded like a small boy, and the dub voice was an adult male.
36	* OrgasmicCombat: The sequence where Mary gets beaten up by Biphon sounds awfully like a rape scene if you have your eyes closed!
37	* SavingTheWorld
38	* ShowerScene: Ivy's in the shower when the assassin sneaks into her house and shoots her.
39	* [[StayInTheKitchen Stay In The Spaceship]]: The scientist tells the young girl this.
40	* TagTeamSuicide: Checker does this after Charlene is killed.
41	* TerminallyDependentSociety: It's said multiple times that Earth is doomed without Ivy to devise their defense plans.
42	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the Joseph Lai version, the red robot and the main male character's female sidekick don't appear or get mentioned anymore after they get captured by the villain.
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