Solarman

This episode was created in 1988 and pitched to television stations in 1989. No station picked up the pilot. Eventually, the episode aired as a special on Fox Kids on October 24, 1992. This is exactly what happens when Marvel creates a cartoon character instead of a comic book character, total garbage. The entire idea of this character is just stupid and the writing was even worse. They even gave him a stupid little robot(FF rip-off) so all the kiddies would love him. When he turns into Solarman the first time he says "Outta sight, I've become a..a hunk. Fantabulous!" I guarantee that super creepy line sealed this terrible show's fate.

The world has seen its fair share of poor superheroes, I mean come on we had Captain Planet (1990) and many of them didn't last all too long.

Solarman was the pilot episode of a proposed television series which never came into fruition. Had I been on a board watching this deciding whether I wanted to invest into such a show I'd have turned it down to.

Solarman has a very similar origin story to Green Lantern, it's kind of Green Lantern meets Shazam in fact.

A boy finds a wounded alien who tells him he is earths last hope before handing him a bracelet that turns him into *Dun dun dun* Solarman.

Solarman powered by the sun (Original) and has an unspecified cluster of powers and must face off against a generic villain who looks like he's straight off the He-Man boat.

Generic, clichéd, and not even remotely original this is one series that I'm very glad died before birth.

The Good:

Nope

The Bad:

Tacky as hell

Entirely unoriginal

Things I Learnt From This Show:

A villain who threatens to make people "Feel his touch" should have worn a white collar

SPOILER: Ever heard of Solarman? Of course not because his comic only ran for two issues or so before being cancelled and his cartoon only ran for one episode; this one. Gormagga Kraal is an alien warlord who is planning to drain the sun of all its power so he can convert it into energy for his super-laser. The scientist who developed the super-laser decides he doesn't like this at all and so he fires a strange bracelet device to Earth where it is discovered by a boy named Benjamin Tucker. The scientist explain that if Benjamin Tucker presses the button on the bracelet while it's out in the sunlight then it will turn him into a fully grown superhero named Solarman. If you're a fan of the cheesy then you owe it to yourself to see this film; it's short so it's not too much of your life gone and it manages to pack a lot of 'what the flying hell?' into its runtime. This movie is technically solid for its time and action is incredibly entertaining.