Above is everything those putting together an attempted reboot have posted about it on the official Captain Power Facebook.
CPL! also has a little scrap of news as well, there is some reason to think that CBS is at least interested enough in a Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future reboot to have someone researching the show.
So the day after CPL! posted about a 1943 White Motors M4A1 having been used as a Bio-Dread Empire half-track in the filming of Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future, Andrew MacLeod of Keswick,Ontario Canada contacted CPL! with more information and even photographs of the Bio-Dread Empire’s M4A1. In fact, Mr. MacLeod is the owner of the very M4A1 used in the show!
Here’s a photograph of the M4A1 today:
(Q1) How did you come to purchase this vehicle and what brought you to buy it? “For a while I have been looking for a military vehicle to have some fun with. It seems most people that have military vehicles have jeeps or trucks. I wanted something not so common. I was on a few military websites when i came across someone mentioning a halftrack forsale here in Ontario listed on Kijiji.”
(Q2) Are there many more Captain Power vehicles hidden away in the Canadian countryside? “I know 2 other vehicles that were disguised in the Captain Power TV show. One was a WW2 Bren carrier (smaller with tracks) and a Clark airport mule (in the same episode as the halftrack, its the first vehicle with lasers and a canopy). The half track was also in Episode 7 and 15 but lesser roles!”
Whether we get a whole new series or not, whether the pilot gets shot or not, we now know that there will at least be a new Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future story out in the world soon! WIN!
Also, more exciting news concerning a Captain Power soundtrack:
A video back from May 2010 where a fan talks about and quasi-reviews the show:
(Source: thatguywiththeglasses.com)
Captain Power Lives! Blog is proud to announce its new sister-site Captain Power Wikia. A website where everything in the Captain Power Universe gets identified, described, and photographed by the shows fans in an open, collaborative wiki.
At Captain Power Wikia you’ll find entries from everything from prominent elements of the show like the Power Base and the XT-7 all the way to the such obscure elements of the show like the unnamed scanning device the Power Team uses throughout the series.
More about how this new website came to be after the “Read More” link.
Today we learn a little more about that Bio-Dread Empire half-track that appears as the second vehicle in the convoy ambushed in the opening scene of the episode “Wardogs”. In a posted YouTube clip from the episode, the owner of the vehicle reveals that his 1943 White Motors M2A1 half-track was used for the episode.
[CORRECTION: New word from the owner, after getting the frame stripped down he has determined that the vehicle used in the show was an M4A1 Halftrack—not an M2A1; Visually the same, but the M4 is a Mortar Carrier.]
Now that we know what specific vehicle was used, maybe someone could build and modify a model kit of an M2A1 half-track into one of these awesome Bio-Dread war machines.
Photos of a M2A1 Half-track after the “Read More” link.
(Source: youtu.be)
To see my earlier post about “Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future” Magazine, Issue 1: http://captainpower.tumblr.com/post/7128693693/power-base-blueprints
“Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future” Magazine, Issues 2-3:
Even after about two years of running the Captain Power Lives! blog, I still occasionally discover something new and original about the show. Usually, it’s something small like the two pair of Captain Power sneakers that just got auctioned off on eBay. But I consider discovering that Captain Power Magazine ran for three issues instead of just one big news!
The reason why the Captain Power websphere (including this blog) appears to have never known about Captain Power Magazine issues 2-3 was that they were only released with issues 15 and 16 of He-Man Magazine rather than as stand alone magazines. But thanks to a fan website dedicated to He-Man Magazine, we Captain Power fans now know about and possess digital scans of the further two issues of Captain Power Magazine!
Complete scans of issues 2-3 after the “Read More” link.
(Source: he-man.org)
Two pair of Captain Power sneakers just sold in separate auctions on eBay from the same Canadian seller (each for $10 USD + $18 USD shipping to the US). Neat to find out these existed; it was hard for me to resist buying one of the pair for myself:
Looks like there was a spike of searches for “Captain Power” in April, July, and October 2011, and then a more permanent rise in “Captain Power” searches since the DVD set’s December release. I assume the other spikes correlate to announcements made concerning the DVD set during those months.
Also, while I can understand why Canada fans seem to be outpacing US fans in their Google searches for the show, but does anyone know why Portugal would be #1 in “Captain Power” searches?
A post over at “Halvorson Blog,” online graphic novel artist and writer David Halvorson tells us why Captain Power still keeps him up at night:
Here’s David Halvorson’s blog post long with the cartoon:
Kids toys aren’t the same as when I was a youngin’.
Our parents would buy these Captain Power toys – mainly the white ship and the black ship (which were also laser tag guns).
We would then sit and watch the show and shoot our ships at the screen.
The screen would shoot a message back and our ship would respond by taking a hit.
So many hits and our little pilot ejected from the cockpit.
Even better? We could use these ships away from the TV to have gunfights with our friends! We could shoot at each other and the same amount of hits would eject the pilot again.
So it’s funny when people my age say, “I used to play outside with a stick and some mud!”
No you didn’t.
(Source: talesofarmstrong.com)
Review’s opening line: “Special thanks to my mother-in-law, who despite the normal tensions that exist in a mother-in-law/son-in-law relationship, has a pretty solid knack for getting me a Christmas present I really enjoy every year.”
This is no news to long-time Captain Power fans, but just as 2011 came to a close, webvideos of the Captain Power music videos became a bit viral on the internet. The sudden publicity seems to be a result of a December 28th 2011 blog post on the all-things-nerd website Topless Robot.
Below you’ll find the (in)famous “Digitize” Captain Power rap along with several other of the CP music videos from that special music CP VHS.
Captain Power - Music Video “Digitize”
Captain Power - Music Video #1 “Power On”
Captain Power - Music Video #2 “Blastarr’s Rage”
Captain Power - Music Video #3 “The Flight of Soaron”
Captain Power - Music Video #4 “Lord Dread’s Theme” /w Credits
(Source: toplessrobot.com)
Captain Power. Box art Mega Man.
Truly, their similarities reflect the culmination of humanity’s most powerful ideas circa 1987.
A nice, new bit of fan art of Lieutenant Michael “TANK” Ellis up at DeviantArt.com
Artist ewgraphics caption: “Full Color Single Character Commission No background / With this I sort of put a little of my own take on it as opposed to direct copy from the series look.”
(Source: fav.me)
Over at author Carrie Vaughn’s blog she made a short post about receiving the CP DVD set in the mail:
And then there’s the official DVD release of Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future. Holy crap, people, this thing shouldn’t even exist, yet here it is. This is a half-hour TV show that ran for exactly one season (1987-88) and then vanished, to the point that people I tried to talk to about it thought I was making it up. But it was my favorite show when I was 14, and was (in retrospect) a pretty big influence on me creatively. It had an ongoing storyline, complex characters, and a level of realism that was a bit shocking. It was about war — and people died. Anyway, over the years I managed to find other people who loved the show as much as I did, helped put together the 20th anniversary website, and dredged up copies of the show to reassure myself that a) it existed and b) it really was that good.
I love living in the future. When Captain Power first aired, I figured that would be it. A show like that — one season, not real popular — would fade into the ether, never to be seen or discussed again except maybe at science fiction conventions. But now — it doesn’t matter how obscure a show is, you can find it online, on DVD, whatever. Getting this DVD set 25 years after the show aired seems like a little bit of magic to me. (I’ve only had a chance to watch an episode, just to try it out, and the first thing I notice is how great the sound is. I’ve been watching rerecorded versions of this show for so long I’d forgotten what it was supposed to sound like.)
So, I am a happy camper.
(Source: carriev.wordpress.com)
