Trivia / Visionaries

• Acting for Two: Chris Latta voiced both Darkstorm and Cravex. It gets hilarious when the former tells the latter to shut up.
• He Also Did: Kent Butterworth (of Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog) handled some storyboard work. Sander Schwartz (a major player with Warner Bros. for most of the 2000s) was one of the production executives.
  • For the anime fans, Osamu Dezaki, Yoshinori Kanada and Osamu Nabeshima were also involved in the production (as creative consultant and co-animation directors, respectively).
• International Coproduction: As mentioned on the main page (and confirmed in the credits), Visionaries was co-produced by two American companies (Hasbro and Sunbow Entertainment) and the Japanese studio TMS Entertainment.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes:
  • There's still no Region 1 and 4 DVD release, although there was one for Region 2.
  • "The Trail of Three Wizards" never received an official VHS release in the UK, so, until the series was released on DVD, the only way British fans could see that episode was via off-air recordings.
• What Could Have Been:
  • A fan site has made a PDF of the series bible available, leading to a few revelations:
    • Leoric and Darkstorm were originally brothers.
    • Ectar was originally named Kuneng.
    • Lexor was originally named Rankor.
    • Cravex was originally named Craven.
    • The Lancer Cycle was originally named the Speedor Cycle.
  • As this article discusses, Hasbro planned to add many characters (as well as new vehicles) to the canceled second year of the toy line — and presumably the cartoon, if it hadn't been canceled as well.
  • The cartoon was originally planned to be paired with a series based on another Hasbro toyline, Air Raiders — but that show never got on the air because of low pre-orders from retailers and a general over-saturation of toylines and Merchandise-Driven cartoons. (However, a short-lived Comic-Book Adaptation was released.)

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