Stone Protectors



Stone Protectors was a toy line and 1993 animated series. The whole thing was made in an attempt to market troll dolls to young boys. It was fairly unsuccessful.

The premise was that five members of a terrible band called the "Rock Detectors" stumbled across some strange magical stones, which are sought by Zok, an evil music-hating reptile-like creature. Princess Opal of Mythrandir split a powerful magic stone into six pieces, and Zok only has one. He wants to gather them all and reforge the original magic stone in order to become all powerful. The crystals make each band member gain awesome powers (none of those powers being playing well), and they are whisked away to Mythrandir to help save Princess Opal's land form Zok.

This rather obscure show only lasted 13 episodes. It was released onto some VHS tapes in 1994. A video game was also produced, which got better reviews than the show did.

Tropes:

 * All Trolls Are Different
 * Color Coded for Your Convenience: Guess which stone the bad guys ended up with? The Onyx - the black one.
 * Fake Band: The Rock Detectors
 * Magical Land: Mythrandir. You didn't expect a Tolkein reference in this context, did you?
 * Merchandise-Driven
 * Mineral MacGuffin
 * New York City
 * The Power of Rock
 * Reptiles Are Abhorrent: The enemies are all reptilian.
 * Rollerblade Good: Maxwell
 * Teenage Mutant Samurai Wombats
 * Totally Radical
 * What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart Anyway: Three of the five band members got cool powers - one became a skilled samurai, one a wrestling expert with super strength, and one became a skilled soldier who could turn anything into a weapon. Maxwell and Clifford, however, got rollerblades and an affinity for climbing things respectively.