History Trivia / SpaceThunderKids

* ShoddyKnockoffProduct[=/=]SerialNumbersFiledOff: A weird example that was mandated by law. After UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo and UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar, UsefulNotes/SouthKorea out of both a spirit wanting to rebuild native Korean culture and out of some understandable fury at the decades-long Japanese occupation, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Japanese_media_in_South_Korea banned all Japanese media]] until 1998. However, thanks to bootlegs and word-of-mouth, the South Korean citizenry knew of anime and wanted it. Enterprising Korean animation houses were all too happy to make home-grown versions for their audiences. Much of the output was... well, what was seen in ''Space Thunder Kids''.

* ShoddyKnockoffProduct[=/=]SerialNumbersFiledOff: A weird example that was mandated by law. After UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo and UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar, UsefulNotes/SouthKorea out of both a spirit wanting to rebuild native Korean culture and out of some understandable fury at the decades-long Japanese occupation, [[https://variety.com/1998/music/news/s-korea-to-lift-ban-on-japanese-culture-1117481242/ banned all Japanese media]] until 1998. However, thanks to bootlegs and word-of-mouth, the South Korean citizenry knew of anime and wanted it. Enterprising Korean animation houses were all too happy to make home-grown versions for their audiences. Much of the output was... well, what was seen in ''Space Thunder Kids''.

* MainstreamObscurity: Mercifully so, as it is merely a copy-and-paste movie of about ten different Korean anime knockoffs compiled into one film. The film never saw any wide release in the West.

* NoBudget: [[UpToEleven An extreme example]] since the anime in its entirety is made up of StockFootage from other low budget animes.

* MainstreamObscurity: Mercifully so, as it is merely a copy-and-paste movie of about ten different animes compiled into one film. The film never saw any wide release in the West.
* NoBudget: [[UpToEleven An extreme example]] since the anime in its entirety is made up of StockFootage from other low budget animes.

* NoBudget: [[UpToEleven An extreme example]] since the anime in its entirety is made up of StockFootage from other low budget anime films.

* NoBudget: [[UpToEleven An extreme example]] since the anime in its entirety is made up of [[StockFootage stock footage]] [[LazyArtist from other George Lai-produced titles.]]

* NoBudget: [[UpToEleven An Extreme example]] since the anime in its entirety is made up of [[StockFootage stock footage]] [[LazyArtist from other George Lai-produced titles.]]

* NoBudget: [[UpToEleven An Extreme example]] since the anime in its entirety is made up of StockFootage [[LazyArtist from other George Lai-produced titles.]]