Tuesday, May 4, 2021

It's game time!


In 1993 during Super Bowl XXVII on NBC, Bud Bowl had a major change in the fifth edition. The bottles were transitioned to CGI by Pacific Data Images (later PDI/DreamWorks), & the hosts were Ahmad Rashād & Karen Duffy. The previous human hosts in the third & forth editions were the late Keith Jackson, Don Meredith & Chris Berman. Team Budweiser won 4 times in a row, which was coached by Joe Namath after Bud Light's The Illuminator was caught by a Budweiser blimp. Speaking of The Illuminator, it was transformed from a Bud Light truck using a morphing effect by an unnamed Team Bud Light coach portrayed by Corbin Bernsen with a radar. The sixth edition the following year did the exact same thing, this time hosted by Marv Albert & the CGI bottles including The Basher were done by Boss Film Studios. Same thing with the Pillsbury Doughboy, from stop motion to CGI.

Thursday, February 18, 2021

Dragon Ball on RPN

Before Cartoon Network in the United States aired it in the early 2000s, RPN aired the English dub of Dragon Ball in my country in the mid to late 1990s. The network also aired the 1st season of Dragon Ball Z that decade, before GMA Network pick it up in early 2000s with a Filipino dub.