RoboForce: The Animated Series, the new 2D sci fi adventure from The Nacelle Company (The Toys That Made Us, Behind the Attraction), will make its streaming debut on Tubi. The 6 x half-hour season will premiere on the free AVOD platform in April.
Based on the 1980s toy line, RoboForce: The Animated Series is set in Detroit in the year 2089, when Soraya Aviram launches the RoboForce to assist a new intergalactic society on Earth. The same day, her rival Silas Duke unveils the Utopia Aegis 1010 line of robots, making RoboForce immediately obsolete. The team disbands and live mundane lives for 15 years until one day, Duke’sb bots turn on humanity and it’s up to RoboForce to stop them.
RoboForce: The Animated Series is directed by Brian Volk-Weiss and written by Gavin Hignight (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles [2012], Transformers: Cyberverse) and Tom Stern (Freaked), produced for Tubi by The Nacelle Company and Seven Bucks Productions. Music for the series was composed by Matt Margeson (Kingsman: The Secret Service, Rocketman) and Andrew Brick Johnson (Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures).
Volk-Weiss also serves as executive producer alongside Dwayne Johnson, Dany Garcia, Hiram Garcia and Brian Gewirtz for Seven Bucks Prods, as well as Cisco Henson, Matt Kravitsky, and Michael Goodman for Nacelle. Cartoon Conrad (Teen Titans Go!, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie) served as the lead animation studio for the series.
RoboForce launches Phase One of Nacelle’s “NacelleVerse” relaunch of classic toon, comics and toy properties. Up next is Biker Mice from Mars, co-produced with Ryan Reynolds’ Maximum Effort and streamer Fubo (as announced in 2023), which was recently majority acquired by Disney.
Phase One also includes Sectaurs: Warriors of Symbion, The Great Garloo, Cowboys of Moo Mesa and Power Lords.
[Source: Deadline]
