Phoenix bot Phoenix King
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Director Su-yong Jeong Duration Music director Min-seob Jeong Producers Joseph Lai, Deok-su Choi Country South Korea | 4.4/10 IMDb Genre Animation, Action, Sci-Fi Running time 1h 7m Screenplay Woong-sun Lim Writer Woong-sun Lim Language Korean | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date January 20, 1984 (1984-01-20) Initial release January 20, 1984 (South Korea) Similar movies Diatron-5 (1985), Thunder Prince (1982), Gancheopjamneun Ttorijanggun (1979), Robot Taekwon V (1976), Hungry Best 5 (1995) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Phoenix King (불사조 로보트 피닉스킹 Bulsajo roboteu Pinikseu-King) is a South Korean animated feature film. It was later dubbed into English and released in America and Europe as Defenders of Space and parts of its footage was used to create Space Thunder Kids. The small image of the movie poster depicts a toy version of Phoenix King that was released.
Phoenix King is identical to a Diaclone toy No.10 Fire Engine, that later became Inferno of the Transformers. This is the earliest animated version of said toy.
Criticism
The film is infamous for copying designs from numerous Super Robot Series in Japan, especially Mazinger Z, Ippatsuman, Space Cruiser Yamato, Mobile Suit Gundam and many of Leiji Matsumoto's work. China's Astro Plan later is said to have ripped off far more numerous series.
References
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