Product Details

• Actors: Darrin Baker, Jean Chalopin, Luba Goy, Gilles Laurent, John Stocker
• Writers: Jean Chalopin, Barbara Hambly, Bill Schienkai, Bruce Reid Schaefer, Dale Kirby
• Format: Animated, Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 4
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Shout Factory Theatr
• DVD Release Date: March 25, 2008
• Run Time: 30 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0012680BM
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #63,545 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, Vol. 1" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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JAYCE & THE WHEELED WARRIORS VOL 1 - DVD Movie

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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best 80s Toon You've NEVER Heard Of..., January 27, 2008

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This review is from: Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, Vol. 1 (DVD)

"Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors" was one of my favorite 80s animated series. It's right up there with "ThunderCats" -- that good! But "Jayce" was rather overlooked compared to the likes of "ThunderCats", "He-Man", "She-Ra", "Voltron" and many other good animated series of that decadent decade.
"Jayce" has very good storytelling for starters: the basic premise is about a scientist named Audric (Jayce's father) who nearly succeded with ending starvation and hunger in vast star systems with the creation of genetically-engineered vegetation. Out of the blue, a cosmic explosion occurs and causes Audric's creations to wildly mutate into creatures with evil brains (called Monster Minds). Audric had to flee his laboratory with one half of a magical relic called "The Root" (Jayce somehow has the other half) that, when fused, would revert the evil creations and their machinations back to harmless vegetation. Jayce, with the help of an old and wise wizard named Gillian, an empathic girl named Flora, and an intergalactic traveling merchant named Herc Stormsailor, sets out to search for his father before the Monster Minds take over the universe. And I can't forget Jayce's little companion, a robot squire named Oon who believes his lance is "magic" (which adds a degree of cuteness to what is otherwise dramatic and thrilling stories).
"Jayce" was among J. Michael Strasyncski's ("of "Babylon 5" fame) first major efforts at sci-fi storytelling and was also co-producer of this series. It also has great music by Shuki Levy and Haim Saban (some of the most talented musicians for animated fare), and is pretty nicely animated by DIC (the creators of "M.A.S.K.", "Inspector Gadget" and "Where On Earth is Carmen Sandiego?).
I think "Jayce" is a timeless series and is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, especially if you are a fan of 80s toons, or any 80s TV program for that matter.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cancelled Vol 2 hurt the sales; ironic, March 31, 2009

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Distant Skies - See all my reviews

This review is from: Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, Vol. 1 (DVD)

The fact that the DVD release of the 2nd half of the episodes was canceled only hurt the existing Vol 1 release. It's very ironic. They should have released both at the same time and it would have done better. It really is sort of useless when it's only half of it, better than nothing, but sort of useless.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!....OH!?, November 29, 2008

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ED4 (UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, Vol. 1 (DVD)

Well the title was my first reaction to seeing this:

Jayce And The Wheeled Warriors #2 - This item has been discontinued by the manufacturer.

Until I perused the Shout Factory (publisher) forum. It seems that another publisher (NCircle Entertainment) was about to do a second volume - again probably a 4 episode disc.....(bit dumb in my opinion as we have half of the 65 episodes on this DVD already).

Reason for the initial panic, was that shout factory will only publish the second half once the first half have enough sales....evil perhaps, but there you go.

I was overjoyed that they did the first half (I preordered) as I have collected bits on VHS awhile....until I got a 8 DVD full series of VHS copies (years ago - now not available) which unfortunately had a few episodes either missing, duplicated or not in order. Damn!
It's menues were good ..quality..hmmm. I still miss a few episodes from second half (wrrra! ...ahem).
The only other option was to get the complete thing in French...Doh!

Although the series never released/made the final movie tie in (aparently still on drawing board & written), it is truly an enjoyable & amazing work...well written, great characters & a theme tune that will have you happily pumped up!

That done, what about Jayce....well I'll try not to be biased, lol....BUT:

A friend recently lent me Thundercats to watch......it does get to be same all boring after a while (admittedly a long while). Ulysses 31 - another great from the time, which I own - just does not seem as good.

In Jayce & the wheeled warriors they created a great mix of story, fun, characters, music & lively animation, that for the era simply cannot be beat (even by battle of the planets). In aging it is still extreemly good & appropiate for all ages. Not tiresome at all.

This rates for me (incase you cannot guess my love & fond memory for it) as one of the top 2 series in the era (the other being Star Fleet - which I happily own in full with thanks - they really need to do this too - probably don't know what I mean, but do know it).

If you buy this (great price for ammount you get) & you like any of the series mentioned above - you will not go wrong.

Plus also you will help us all be one step closer to completing the series by getting the 2nd half released.....you never know - they may even be tempted someday to do the final movie. We can only hope.