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[[File:Space_Thunder_Kids.jpg|frame|[[Covers Always Lie|This cover is the best thing about it.]]]]
Those of you who are familiar with Joseph Lai's body of work, this is ''Thunder Kids <
This decidedly weird animated film is a result of Joseph Lai buying South Korean cartoons on the cheap and [[Macekre|editing them to make "new" features]]. The result is a benchmark case of [[They Just Didn't Care]] and [[Cut and Paste Translation]] after putting all the different shows together.▼
▲Those of you who are familiar with Joseph Lai's body of work, this is Thunder Kids <small>[[In Space]]</small>. A very, very bad [[Humongous Mecha]] pseudo-anime released in 1991 about three children (or three teams with three children each depending on how you interpret it) that can pilot giant robots trying to defeat the [[Big Bad]] and his army: the Dark Empire. There are also some [[Space Opera]] elements thrown in with advanced space stations and dogfights going on in space.
▲This decidedly weird animated film is a result of Joseph Lai buying South Korean cartoons on the cheap and editing them to make "new" features. The result is a benchmark case of [[They Just Didn't Care]] and [[Cut and Paste Translation]] after putting all the different shows together.
This "film" was edited with footage from ''Savior of the Earth'', ''Defenders of Space - Phoenix-bot Phoenix King'', ''King Robot'', ''Protectors of Universe - Super Express Mazinger 7'', ''Solar Adventure'', ''[[Space Transformers]] - Micro-Commando Diatron-5'', ''Super Mazinger 3'' and ''Iron Man Trio''. All of these aforementioned movies also ripoff other anime like [[Mazinger Z]] (and all but the last were separately dubbed by Joseph Lai as well).
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[http://www.archive.org/details/SpaceThunderKids Download it in its entirety here], [[Bile Fascination|if you dare]].
Has nothing to do with ''[[UFO Robo Grendizer]]''{{'}}s [[Finishing Move]].
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* [[Aborted Arc]]: A lot of these. Or are there? Thanks to the constant Art Shifting, it is rather hard to tell what is and what isn't supposed to be there.
* [[All There in the Manual]]: It's a good thing the back of the cover describes the
* [[
* [[Child Soldiers]]: The main characters.
* [[Covers Always Lie]]: None of the characters on the cover are actually featured in the movie.
* [[Cut and Paste Translation]]: Definitely a lot of these. The same characters changes their appearance completely from scene to scene.
* [[Decoy Protagonist]]: Who the hell are the space thunder kids? There is a random focus on
* [[Detail-Hogging Cover]]: If only the movie looked that good...
* [[The Empire]]: The forces of Earth are supposedly fighting one.
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** Arguable, since this trope implies that a majority of the work is on-model.
* [[Plagiarism]]: Hoo boy, where to begin...
** Phoenix King is Inferno from ''[[Transformers Generation
** As mentioned in the ''[[Space Transformers]]'' article, Diatron is really a robot with the name "Machine Buffalo" from the Pre-Transformers ''Diaclone''
** The various "Mazingers" that, well, aren't.
** Then Savior of the Earth,
** And that's just a few of many, many examples...
* [[Space Does Not Work That Way]]: The various animators apparently have never paid attention in science class.
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* [[Strong Family Resemblance]]: Subverted doesn't even begin to describe it. Apparently the seven foot tall one eyed blonde space pirate badass vixen has a sister who is... a one foot tall robot... pig... thing... named Sandy.
* [[Trailers Always Lie]]: Inverted; the '[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPIR_S1Zrcc trailer]' found online? The repeated exclamations of ''SPACE THUNDER KIDS''? That's in the actual ''film''.
* [[What Happened to
** The tanks.
* [[Who Is This Guy Again?]]: Try, just ''try'' to keep track of ''anyone'' in this movie as they come and go.
* [[
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