Trivia / Starzinger

• Actor-Shared Background: Kugo has romantic feelings for Aurora. Hilariously, in the Swedish dub, Kugo is voiced by Tomas Bolme and Aurora is voiced by his wife Elisabeth Nordkvist.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Good luck getting your hands on the original Force Five. A certain individual, owner of the now-defunct website Grendizer.net has been keeping the series away from every other distributor by claiming to be the only authorized dealer of Jim Terry's syndicated compilation while releasing it in various editions of varying quality. The best version he ever made available, while it does remove the watermarks of inferior versions, omits not just bits and pieces here and there, but also the entirety of Spaceketeers. You can hear the saucier, messier details from the keyboard of one dissatisfied customer; be aware that discussion on that page is locked because the ensuing debate got a little too heated, to put it lightly. And, of course, seeing that the individual's website is, as mentioned earlier, defunct, even that version isn't available anymore. Thankfully, the complete, unaltered (for a certain value of the word, anyway) Force Five did see a home video release during the pre-cert era in the UK, but those tapes are hard to find.

• What Could Have Been: Great Mazinger was actually set to appear in the US back in The '80s. As part of the Force Five series, it would have complimented UFO Robo Grendizer, Getter Robo G, Gaiking and DanguardAce, but the plan fell through and they replaced it with Starzinger.