Just Keep Rebooting!: The Crazy History of Zoids

I remember watching the show as a kid (I believe it was New Century). The High End Master Model kits are amazing. While Zoids is not as widely known as Gundam, it still has a charm to it.

I lived in England for a couple of years and Zoids were a much bigger thing there than they were in the U.S. Great toys, great comic.

As someone who's been along for the Zoids saga from the beginning, I appreciate the amount of exhaustive effort put into this episode. 👍

I discovered this show on Toonami during college when I would get home from class and there was nothing else on. I was hooked immediately by the visuals with the CG fight scenes

I had a Robo Strux Gordox as a kid, but had completely forgotten about it until this video. I never knew there was a related cartoon.

You gotta have a look at the Zoids HMM line of model kits. They started with those back in around 2005 and still come up with new designs. They are expensive as heck but the detail on them is absolutely stunning. Also Did you know that Zoids Wild: Zero has been written by the guys that made the first Zoids Anime, Chaotic century? Hench the less kiddie approach and more war and mysterious adventure plot of the series.

When I was a kid in the '80's, the small hardware store that my Dad frequented sold Zoids (and later Starriors) for some reason. That was the only place that I remember seeing them. As a kid who was all about the "lore", I found the lack of story to be confusing, but also strangely fun. I had a large HO scale train layout, and the tiny figures inside the Zoids seemed to be close in scale to my train set people. I quickly sat about using Zoid models to terrorize the good citizens of train town, and later added some 1/72 scale infantry figures as resistance. It was probably some of the most imaginative playing that I ever did.

I feel like New Century would have caught on if they did just one more season. Seriously, it was a perfect mix of comedy, action and the story was just getting interesting.

Fuzors also refers to the eventual ability of the Zoids to combine with the Damn Trash Can. For example, your mom discovers that your Liger Zero can fuse with the Damn Trash Can to create a less messy Fuzor called Since You Can't Clean Up After Yourself I Threw Liger Zero in the Damn Trash Can

The only Zoids show I’ve ever watched is Zoids: New Century back when it aired on YTV in the early 2000s. I miss the days when cable tv was good.

My first Zoid was a 'Tank' zoid and my brother got the 'Serpent' zoid. Got Zoidzilla and Gore the Lord Protector (Iron Kong) later. Loved these toys. RIght in my top 3 along with Transformers and Lego. Chaotic Century was a great cartoon too with a great storyline.

I saw the ''Zoids: New Century'' on TV. I also remember seeing commercials for the toys, which looked expensive. For a long time I did not know they were related.

I love Chaotic Century, Guardian force and new century. Van flyheight is like the Amuro Ray of Zoids.

I remember I got the t-rex model and the package was damaged. I was just too happy to get one after seeing those crazy commercials and after hours of trying to assemble all the parts...I realized it was missing a lot of parts and was basically useless and that taught me a valuable lesson about not buying damaged marked down toys...needless to say I was deeply disappointed....wasted money on a box of miscellaneous box of random toy parts and the store was either too greedy to care or just had no idea that it was missing the motors and parts to the set(probably both).

the toy I've been waiting on you to cover! Loved Zoids when they hit in the early 80's, really loved them when they came back as RoboStrux and as Techno Zoids.

I adored the “found future” aspect of Zoids a kid. It was fascinating seeing people in the anime use machines that had qualities unknown or not well understood to their current owners.

I really love Zoids. I wish it was more popular.

Zoids were a part of my Transformers universe in the mid 80s. I loved taking them apart and putting them back together

I loved liger zero with the mod kits. Panzer, Schneider, Jaeger, Plainer lol. He could be a tank, bladed attack force, speed demon. And plain white organoid system working overtime because plain has no visible advantage. Loved also how the cabin changed for each mod and how there were disadvantages for each mod used.

I remember the advert at 10:15 very well from childhood. I had a few of the pocket money sized ZOIDS, but always dreamed of Zoidzilla, and Gore (Ihe original Gorilla one). Thanks for the walk down memory lane!