Some youtube old animations find, and a little about Dragons.
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comet_scoutI was writing for almost an hour, but a fuck-up made me lose my draft. Here we go again regardless, lol (augh, that hurt all the same. Starting again makes it so inorganic)
I stumbled by this animation on Youtube a while ago, it was a very nice find to have something on the background while I illustrated.
A young slave boy in an Alien world raises a dragon in secret, in hopes of gaining his freedom at a Dragon fighting tournament. It says it is an adaption of a book, I missed the additional, "by the same name", and almost got worried that I had accidentally been spoiled for Dragonflight before I could have gotten to it myself. (I stumbled by a PDF for it while exploring Internet Archive.) I really like the backgrounds, otherwise the designs are very generic, I assume it's a very short resume of the story and much is missing, but it's a very charming find all the same! (Someone in the comment section said being an inbetweener on the project, I believe her, her actual channel is mostly supernatural and religious content. Just fun to explore.)
I also stumbled on this sort of Transformers-Knockoff called Robotix.
Astronauts crash on an alien planet, and find giant intelligent machines at war who once were two lizard alien species that had their minds transferred to these machines after an apocalyptic event. Fun premise, I like when the robot characters are very non-human like, didn't watch all of it thought, and I can see why it may have been so short-lived. I say Transformers Knockoff because they are obviously trying to maybe compete with it, and I'm sure I'm recognizing Iron Hide's voice actor on it. It did do the Headmaster concept first! The toy seems to have done alright, makes me think of Lego's Technics. (As I was typing, apparently they also had a comic series, and I got a recommendation for a video on its story, I'll check it out later.) upd8: It's not competing with TF, it was owned by Hasbro! And I was right about the toys doing ok, it's not Hasbro's anymore but it's still going. Neat!
On the first draft this is where I talked about how there is something about animation and franchises of the 70s~ to 80s~, and 90s, that really get to me. I was a very late 90s to very early 2000s kid, but because I had older sisters, the VHS with She-ra and G1 My Little Pony, and others, were given to me to binge, so there is an argument to many of these giving me a sense of nostalgia. But even media that I wasn't as familiar with like The Trap Door and The Dark Crystal, once I thought that maybe it was something about their simplicity, I don't think so anymore thought. There is just something whimsical on them, even when they are generic or not the most well written media. I really hope I get more recommendations like this.
I was going to try and find a way to turn the post into how I was a huge Dragon kid, and how this connected to snakes being my favorite animal at the time because of Boitatá, Giant snake with fire eyes in native Brazillian myth, probably somewhat disrespectful to say that Boitatá is a Dragon, it's not, but they were connected in my mind as a kid.
Seriously, I used to have a friend who had these really cool Dragon toys and I always insisted we played with them so I could play with the cool two-headed one, and when my mom organized her closet, I used to take her belts and pretend they are Boi Tata flying around. Then there was the drawing cool Dragons a lot, I only have this one I did for my Portuguese notebook, but I loved to draw Dragon eyes on MS paint. I'm more of a robots adult, but I do think there was always a connection with lizards and robots. RIP my cool Dragon book that got stolen.
I stumbled by this animation on Youtube a while ago, it was a very nice find to have something on the background while I illustrated.
A young slave boy in an Alien world raises a dragon in secret, in hopes of gaining his freedom at a Dragon fighting tournament. It says it is an adaption of a book, I missed the additional, "by the same name", and almost got worried that I had accidentally been spoiled for Dragonflight before I could have gotten to it myself. (I stumbled by a PDF for it while exploring Internet Archive.) I really like the backgrounds, otherwise the designs are very generic, I assume it's a very short resume of the story and much is missing, but it's a very charming find all the same! (Someone in the comment section said being an inbetweener on the project, I believe her, her actual channel is mostly supernatural and religious content. Just fun to explore.)
I also stumbled on this sort of Transformers-Knockoff called Robotix.
Astronauts crash on an alien planet, and find giant intelligent machines at war who once were two lizard alien species that had their minds transferred to these machines after an apocalyptic event. Fun premise, I like when the robot characters are very non-human like, didn't watch all of it thought, and I can see why it may have been so short-lived. I say Transformers Knockoff because they are obviously trying to maybe compete with it, and I'm sure I'm recognizing Iron Hide's voice actor on it. It did do the Headmaster concept first! The toy seems to have done alright, makes me think of Lego's Technics. (As I was typing, apparently they also had a comic series, and I got a recommendation for a video on its story, I'll check it out later.) upd8: It's not competing with TF, it was owned by Hasbro! And I was right about the toys doing ok, it's not Hasbro's anymore but it's still going. Neat!
On the first draft this is where I talked about how there is something about animation and franchises of the 70s~ to 80s~, and 90s, that really get to me. I was a very late 90s to very early 2000s kid, but because I had older sisters, the VHS with She-ra and G1 My Little Pony, and others, were given to me to binge, so there is an argument to many of these giving me a sense of nostalgia. But even media that I wasn't as familiar with like The Trap Door and The Dark Crystal, once I thought that maybe it was something about their simplicity, I don't think so anymore thought. There is just something whimsical on them, even when they are generic or not the most well written media. I really hope I get more recommendations like this.
I was going to try and find a way to turn the post into how I was a huge Dragon kid, and how this connected to snakes being my favorite animal at the time because of Boitatá, Giant snake with fire eyes in native Brazillian myth, probably somewhat disrespectful to say that Boitatá is a Dragon, it's not, but they were connected in my mind as a kid.
Seriously, I used to have a friend who had these really cool Dragon toys and I always insisted we played with them so I could play with the cool two-headed one, and when my mom organized her closet, I used to take her belts and pretend they are Boi Tata flying around. Then there was the drawing cool Dragons a lot, I only have this one I did for my Portuguese notebook, but I loved to draw Dragon eyes on MS paint. I'm more of a robots adult, but I do think there was always a connection with lizards and robots. RIP my cool Dragon book that got stolen.
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Date: Thursday, 27 November 2025 03:51 (UTC)