This episode was created in 1988 and pitched to television stations in 1989. No station picked up the pilot. Eventually, the episode aired as a special on Fox Kids on October 24, 1992.
This is exactly what happens when Marvel creates a cartoon character instead of a comic book character, total garbage. The entire idea of this character is just stupid and the writing was even worse. They even gave him a stupid little robot(FF rip-off) so all the kiddies would love him. When he turns into Solarman the first time he says "Outta sight, I've become a..a hunk. Fantabulous!" I guarantee that super creepy line sealed this terrible show's fate.
3 Reviews
An obscure but worthwhile exercise.
CC_The_Martian4 April 2016
SPOILER: Ever heard of Solarman? Of course not because his comic only ran for two issues or so before being cancelled and his cartoon only ran for one episode; this one. Gormagga Kraal is an alien warlord who is planning to drain the sun of all its power so he can convert it into energy for his super-laser. The scientist who developed the super-laser decides he doesn't like this at all and so he fires a strange bracelet device to Earth where it is discovered by a boy named Benjamin Tucker. The scientist explain that if Benjamin Tucker presses the button on the bracelet while it's out in the sunlight then it will turn him into a fully grown superhero named Solarman. If you're a fan of the cheesy then you owe it to yourself to see this film; it's short so it's not too much of your life gone and it manages to pack a lot of 'what the flying hell?' into its runtime. This movie is technically solid for its time and action is incredibly entertaining.
Solarman: All kinds of bad
Platypuschow7 December 2017
The world has seen its fair share of poor superheroes, I mean come on we had Captain Planet (1990) and many of them didn't last all too long.
Solarman was the pilot episode of a proposed television series which never came into fruition. Had I been on a board watching this deciding whether I wanted to invest into such a show I'd have turned it down to.
Solarman has a very similar origin story to Green Lantern, it's kind of Green Lantern meets Shazam in fact.
A boy finds a wounded alien who tells him he is earths last hope before handing him a bracelet that turns him into *Dun dun dun* Solarman.
Solarman powered by the sun (Original) and has an unspecified cluster of powers and must face off against a generic villain who looks like he's straight off the He-Man boat.
Generic, clichéd, and not even remotely original this is one series that I'm very glad died before birth.
The Good:
Nope
The Bad:
Tacky as hell
Entirely unoriginal
Things I Learnt From This Show:
A villain who threatens to make people "Feel his touch" should have worn a white collar
Solarman was the pilot episode of a proposed television series which never came into fruition. Had I been on a board watching this deciding whether I wanted to invest into such a show I'd have turned it down to.
Solarman has a very similar origin story to Green Lantern, it's kind of Green Lantern meets Shazam in fact.
A boy finds a wounded alien who tells him he is earths last hope before handing him a bracelet that turns him into *Dun dun dun* Solarman.
Solarman powered by the sun (Original) and has an unspecified cluster of powers and must face off against a generic villain who looks like he's straight off the He-Man boat.
Generic, clichéd, and not even remotely original this is one series that I'm very glad died before birth.
The Good:
Nope
The Bad:
Tacky as hell
Entirely unoriginal
Things I Learnt From This Show:
A villain who threatens to make people "Feel his touch" should have worn a white collar
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