Книга: Marvel Action Universe: Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, Dino-Riders, Spider-Man, X-Men: Pryde of the X-Men, Robocop: the Animated Series

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, Dino-Riders, Spider-Man, X-Men: Pryde of the X-Men, Robocop: the Animated Series, Marvel Action Universe. Excerpt: Dino-Riders Dino-Riders is a cartoon television series that aired in the late 1980s, primarily as a promotion to launch a new Tyco toy line. Only fourteen episodes were produced, thirteen of which were aired as part of the Marvel Action Universe . Episodes were also released as a collection of Dino-Riders VHS tapes, which are sometimes sought after as collectors' items. The series told the story of the Valorians, a peaceful race of telepathic humans whose home planet was conquered by the Rulon Empire. 400 survivors escaped on a space ship and time traveled to prehistoric Earth using the experimental Space-Time Energy Projector (also known as the S.T.E.P). But Emperor Krulos and his lead commanders accidentally followed them into the past when a tractor beam locked onto the Valorians' ship during the time jump. Stranded in the past, the two groups recruited the planet's dinosaur population into their struggle. The Valorians used their telepathy for taming dinosaurs to ride and for domestic use. The Rulons captured dinosaurs with 'brain boxes'. These were large metal helmets which fit onto dinosaur's heads and control their brains. Both Valorians and Rulons would often fit dinosaurs with huge arrays of laser and weapon platforms, upon which people could ride, and attack one another. Battles were mostly motivated by the Rulons' desire to steal the S.T.E.P. from the Valorians (to get back to their time), and almost always inconclusive, seldom accomplishing more for either side than restoring the status quo from the beginning of the episode. One of the recurring trends throughout the series was the Tyrannosaurus Rex getting de-brain b...