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Geekville Radio #346: Examining the X-Men ’97 Trailer

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The first trailer for X-Men ’97, which is set to air on Disney+ this year

Disney announced X-Men ’97 a few years back. As the name implies, it takes place in 1997 and is a direct sequel to X-Men: The Animated Series, which ran on Fox in the mid-1990s.

Not only does it reunite the cast and characters from the original show, but it is also done in the same animation style as well. There are no 3D renderings or obvious CGI to be found. We took a deep dive into this trailer to see what we could find. As always, we reserve the right to cry and complain if our predictions are wrong.

Examining the Deadpool & Wolverine Trailer

New and unimproved for The MCU, Deadpool!

We FINALLY got a trailer for the third Deadpool movie Deadpool & Wolverine during some sports event over the weekend. So, like any other geek site starved for clicks, we’re going to dive in and see what we can analyze and get angry over if we turn out to be wrong…

Marvel Studios Disney+ Day Report

Disney+ celebrated its second anniversary today with several short specials on what is coming down the pike in 2022. In the Marvel Studios edition, several updates were given for MCU projects, and a few surprise new shows were announced as well.

Superhero Sunday: Pryde Of The X-Men (1989)

If you frequented arcade games in the early 1990’s you probably saw that monstrosity. A SIX PLAYER arcade game devoted to The X-Men. Not only was this giant quarter muncher a favorite among fans, it’s also one of the few, if only, game where Dazzler is a playable character.

However the story of the game is a bit older.

Before the classic 1990s X-Men animated series that aired on Fox, there was an attempt by Marvel to produce a syndicated series through Sunbow. Animation fans may remember Sunbow as the company that made the Transformers and GI Joe syndicated series 80s kids grew up on. Some of the regulars from those series even showed up here, including Michael Bell (Duke in GI Joe) as Cyclops, Frank Welker (Megatron in Transformers) as Toad, and Alan Oppenheimer (Skeletor in He-Man) as Blob.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQPAIMCA-6I

The animation is classic Sunbow, as is much of the music. Only a Pilot episode was produced, but did not get picked up after the initial airing during The Marvel Action Universe. However, through the magic of The Internet, it is preserved on YouTube. The basic plot of this pilot episode became the premise of the classic arcade game, though the game of course had far more depth. And bad guys.