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In my hunt for new stuff to watch on the ol’ TV Series department, I came across a name… beetleborgs, this rang a bell, unfortunately it wasn’t the series I was looking for but I quickly found it, Insektors. One of the many great shows I enjoyed as a kid, and one which helped my fascination with 3D Animation. And thinking back, it was simple, but effective.

Only now, with the power of the internet I can learn the secrets behind this series, like how it was originally french, and the UK version was completely re-written and all the characters had new names and dialogue, but the american version stayed true to the original french version. (What the hell? My world is turned upside down. Isn’t it normally the other way around?)

Of course there were other shows I enjoyed as a kid included ReBoot (anyone see a pattern here?) but also classic animations such as Danger Mouse, Bananaman and Freakazoid. Then there was Animaniacs which was in a class of it’s own. And thanks to the internet we have the power to learn about these great peices of entertainment which used to be so rare, but now thanks to downloads we can watch at will.

Well mostly, some of these series are VERY rare and finding copies to download of Insektors is nigh impossible. ReBoot came out on super-limited edition DVD. Animaniacs DVDs are out there, but downloadable they are not, at least not all of them. But no releases for Freakazoid. Strangely though, Bananaman is readily availible.

So for now, they are still just magical memories, mostly. The only last resort is youtube, but who wants to bet how long they’ll stay on there for, even private videos get taken down for non-compliance. Youtube has come, and gone now and the community has sharded into many different sites. But if you know of places to see these awesome little animations which fascinated probably not only my childhood, but many others, then please let me know =)

Youtube has stuff (For how long is the question).
Youtube: Insektors – Frogbucket – Part 1 (UK Version)
Youtube: Insektors – Frogbucket – Part 2 (UK Version)