The premiere of Adult Swim’s Titan Maximum, from the creators of Robot Chicken, is approaching and consequently some publicity media has been released along with more details. Like the other show, this is primarily animated with stop-motion and will be seen in 15 minute episodes, aside from the pilot which appears to be 30 minutes. Titan Maximum spoofs the likes of Voltron and any other show that has ever involved teenagers or kids controlling large robots. it’s set 100 years in the future when mankind has colonized the solar system. A team of young pilots defend Titan, one of Saturn’s moons, with their robot ships that can combine to form the Titan Maximum. The squad is disbanded due to budget cuts but must regroup when a former member turns villain and tries to take control of the solar system. Seth Green voices Gibbs, the rogue villain. The remaining team members are Palmer (Breckin Meyer), Jodi (Rachel Leigh Cook), Sasha (Eden Espinosa), Willie (Dan Milano) and Leon the monkey. Billy Dee Williams voices Admiral Bitchface. Matthew Senreich and Tom Root are the creators while they’ll be joined in the writing the series by Geoff Johns and Zeb Wells.
Tom Root previously had this to say about what to expect:
“There were always teams of extraordinary young people with the fate of the universe in their hands. In reality, that would end terribly. The last thing you want when giant monsters attack is a bunch of teenagers in charge of defending you. ‘Titan Maximum’ is about what would really happen if a team of idiot kids was in charge of a 6-story-tall robot.”
You can watch the first two minutes of the show over at Adult Swim’s site. They also have three short videos that focus a bit more on the individual characters. It’s pretty goofy and crass, but I suspect it’ll prove fun for 15 minutes especially if they can deliver on parodying giant robot shows. I am, however, disappointed to see that the space battles rely fairly heavily on rudimentary CGI. I would have liked to see them maintain the hand-crafted look, even if it meant dangling models from strings. Ah well.
Titan Maximum will premiere on Adult Swim on Sunday, September 27th at 11:30 PM. Follow the jump for several more pictures.
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