Hi
I liked to watch this series very much, but one thing I missed was our favorite police-robot ED-209 !
Didn't the producers have the rights to use it ?
/Fred
I don't think having an ED-209 would fit with how the series was portrayed; the series had less raw blunt violence than the movies.
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Simple, budget!!!
These kinds of shows cost a fortune to make. They probably could have come up with a good ED-209 model but it would have looked terrible on screen.
There is a device called the Video Toaster; it's a special effects machine, all electronic, no expensive little plastic/metal models. The Toaster was used on the show, so perhaps there would have been no huge expense to make an ED-209.
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There no way they had enough budget to have an active ED-209. Maybe if they had him just sitting around, unactive. That would be the only appearance.
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Robocop Prime Directives was produced by a company that had purchased the tv rights. When asked why ED wasn't guest starring, and why the original gun sound effect was gone, they stated that the only thing they had access to was a snippet of Robocop kicking down the door and Robocop himself, from the original movie.
They didn't have rights to ED-209.
i dont think even ED-209 could have saved the tv show, hell it was crap, im praying for more HARDCORE robocop sometime soon!!!! for god sake robo dont even kill anyone over 22 eps! all i can say is CRAP CRAP CRAPPPP
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Admittedly, it wasn't what it could've been, but it was fun.
As for ED-209, no, they didn't have the rights, but even if they did, it probably would've looked terrible. (The video toaster wouldn't have been up to it, really, not back then) The video toaster was used on other stuff like the early B5s, and only worked there because they did 1-simple space stuff, and 2- rarely any complex live-action/cg composites) A traditional Phil Tippet go-motion model as used in the originals would've been too expensive for the series as well.
It would be interesting to see a new series done now (ED-209 and other robots/cyborgs would be far easier). Make it grittier and darker, keep it serious and avoid the cheese, but keep the character of Diana from the series, and it could be fantastic.
"i dont think even ED-209 could have saved the tv show, hell it was crap, im praying for more HARDCORE robocop sometime soon!!!! for god sake robo dont even kill anyone over 22 eps! all i can say is CRAP CRAP CRAPPPP "
did you really expect HARDCORE for a TV SERIES?????
series was made for TV, had to be toned down. sure, hard core would be cool, but it would be broadcast until after midnight, so the revenue potential would be much lower, hence the budget would drop sharply, so you have you violence, but you'd whine like f... that the special effects where lame, it didn't look like real blood, the explosions looked like cheap fireworks etc. A show with a $1.5 million budget per episode has to go out at prime time, pure economics. This puts the show in the same slot as the A team, Knight Rider, Street Hawk, and directly up against Baywatch at the time (now a suppose the lack of real nudity made that crap too?) no one was killed in those shows either, doesn't happen in prime time TV, and if you expected Robo to break that mould and bring extreme violence to the early evening schedule then more fool you.
you say noone gets killed in primetime tv.....have you ever seen the show "24"? now thats hardcore, thats what i ment by hardcore and what i wanted to see from robocop the tv show, i guess times have moved on since then so now they could do more but even for back then it was lame...... robo shooting a light so it would full on the bad guys head....plz come on thats just saddddd!!!!!
"one ring to bind them all"
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ED -209 was for the Movies NOT the series; just like Robos Gun Arm in Robocop 3 !!!
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