Phoenix-bot Phoenix King

Phoenix King (불사조 로보트 피닉스킹 Bulsajo roboteu Pinikseu-King) is a South Korean animated feature film. It was later dubbed into English and released in America and Europe as Defenders of Space and parts of its footage was used to create Space Thunder Kids. The small image of the movie poster depicts a toy version of Phoenix King that was released.

Phoenix King
Hangul
불사조 로보트 피닉스킹
Hanja
로보트 피닉스킹
Revised RomanizationBulsajo roboteu Pinikseu-King
McCune–ReischauerPulsajo rŏbŏt‘ŭ p‘iniksŭ-k‘ing
Directed byJeong Su-yong
Written byLim Woong-sun
Produced byChoe Deok-su
An Bong-sik
CinematographyKim Jong-seok
Edited byRee Kyoung-ja
Music byJeong Min-seob
Release date
  • January 20, 1984 (1984-01-20)
Running time
67 minutes
CountrySouth Korea
LanguageKorean

Phoenix King is identical to a Diaclone toy No.10 Fire Engine, that later became Inferno of the Transformers. This is the earliest animated version of said toy.

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The film is infamous for copying designs from numerous Super Robot Series in Japan, especially Mazinger Z, Ippatsuman, Space Cruiser Yamato, Mobile Suit Gundam and many of Leiji Matsumoto's work.

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