This also makes the Music Video comment on the back of the box makes a little more sense now.
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As if we’d be stupid to think MTV would sink into reality tv nonsense and get rid of music videos all together. Its hard to remember a time when the “M” in MTV stood for “Music.” Beyond that, its hard to even remember a time when MTV was cool enough to show anime like Lupin The Third and Gatchaman. While I’ll talk about trading card in another article, but the MTV comment blew me away. Each tape includes two episodes from the “MTV broadcast” and a collectible trading card selling for $12.98 each. The next bit of info is on four tapes which features episodes from the original series. For the low, low price of only $19.98 by the way. Speed Racer tapes, but its always amusing watching an ad for the thing you already bought. This ad plays in front of the other F.H.E. You know, the very same tape your watching. The first thing it advertises is Speed Racer: The Movie. And great googly-moogly does it jam a bunch of information down your throat in 60 seconds.
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The first trailer is for the original Speed Racer series being released on VHS by Family Home Entertainment. There are only two trailers on this VHS and both of them are Speed Racer related. And it is delicious, but more on this later. The last selling point is this bit of large font in bold which reads, “Also includes the exclusive, SPEED RACER Music Video!” Oh yes, there’s a music video. Most people at the time were buying movies so they wouldn’t have to sit through ads while watching a highly censored version of Predator and here’s “Speed Racer: The Movie“ touting it’s ads as one of its selling points.
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You know, for when you really want to watch a movie on cable, but don’t want to miss out on all of those zany commercials. This movie is advertising that its been spliced together with ads. “All of this fun and excitement is interspersed with three wonderfully creative classic animated ‘words from our sponsor’ from the 1960’s.” T he box goes on to describe the plot and throws in this line towards the end, We’ll get to who this character is later in the “Additional Content” section of the article, but Colonel Bleep is one of the many things that sets this tape apart from your run-of-the-mill VHS tapes with collections of Speed Racer episodes. He actually doesn’t even show up in actual movie. WHO THE HELL IS SPACE HERO COLONEL BLEEP?! For those not familiar with Speed Racer, there is no character named Colonel Bleep. I’m sure all of you long time Speed Racer fans are wondering the same thing by now. “ SPEED RACER, space hero Colonel Bleep and all their friends join up for this exciting animated feature.” There’s a single image on the back of Speed in the Mach 5 driving away from the rising sun in the desert. The back of the box is where things get a little odd. Everything about it just screams charm, fun and adventure on the road ahead. Batmobile ain’t got shit on the Mach 5 son! Anyhow, I’m getting off topic. Who wouldn’t fall in love with that handsome face and those beautiful baby blue eyes? He even has the best car in all of nerdom. Meanwhile, Trixie is sitting next to him with a smirk that says, “I’ve got the coolest boyfriend ever!” And she’s a hundred percent right. Speed looks intense, gripping the steering wheel, eyes focused on winning the big race. Below him is a shot of the front of the Mach 5 with Speed at the wheel and Trixie riding shotgun. It features Speed smiling in front the rising sun with his signature helmet and ascot as he’s giving a thumbs up. The cover is so basic, but instantly recognizable. If I was to make a list of my favorite anime VHS box covers, this one would easily make the top five. One of the tapes I’d end up renting so often that my parent eventually bought it for me was tape labeled, “ Speed Racer: The Movie.”
Well, up until Pokemon exploded in popularity and then Speed Racer kinda got replaced. Three times out of ten, I’d walk out with a Speed Racer tape. It used to be weekend tradition for us to walk down to the store, pick out a movie for the night and return it the next morning. My family lived down the street from a convenience store that rented out movies. Sure every now and then, it’d pop up on the Speed Channel, but I watched a lot of Speed Racer through VHS tapes during the 90’s. But unlike most children, I rarely watched Speed Racer on television. It was fast, cool and had a monkey who liked to eat candy. At the time I was too young to identify it as anime, but young me could tell the style and direction was very different from the other Saturday morning flare.
When I was growing up, one of my favorite shows was Speed Racer.
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