''Mega Babies'' is an
animated
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television series
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created by the brothers Christian and Yvon Tremblay, who previously had made the
Hanna-Barbera
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show ''
SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron''. It is produced by
CinéGroupe and
Landmark Entertainment Group for
Sony Wonder.
The series was broadcast on
Fox Family Channel and
Teletoon
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. The show was also aired in UK on
Sky One
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's weekday mornings and later repeated on
Channel 5 on weekend mornings between 2001 and 2002.
Synopsis
The show is about a trio of
mutant
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babies who fight off evil monsters and aliens. Their names are Meg, Derrick and Buck and their caregiver's name is Nurse Lazlo. The show takes place in Your City, USA.
After their birth, they were brought to an orphanage. When the entire
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aligned itself, the babies and their nurse were struck by lightning. The babies were given super strength and other super powers, and Nurse Lazlo's I.Q. rose.
Voice actors
Buck was voiced by Sonja Ball, Dean Hagopian voiced many male characters, Laura Teasdale did Derrick's voice, Meg was voiced by
Jaclyn Linetsky, and
Bronwen Mantel voiced Nurse Lazlo.
Even though the voices were recorded in
Montreal
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, the voice directing was handled by
Vancouver
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-based veteran voice actor and voice director
Terry Klassen
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, who has done voice acting for many animated films and television series, such as voicing Krillin in the
Ocean
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dubbed version of ''
Dragon Ball Z
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''. Klassen has also voice directed other shows such as ''
Ed, Edd n Eddy
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'', ''
Johnny Test
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'' and several ''
Barbie
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'' films, as well as the English dub of ''
Cardcaptors''. This was the only time that Klassen has ever voice directed an animated project outside of Vancouver. During the later episodes,
Terrence Scammell, who also voiced several characters in the series, as well as providing the main title narration, took over as voice director. Scammell has also done many voice acting roles for film, television and video games in both Montreal and
Ottawa
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, Ontario.
Production
The show was announced in January 1999 as a co-production between
CinéGroupe and
Sony Wonder set to premier on the
Fox Family Channel in fall of that year. The show was created by Christian and Yvon Tremblay and
Landmark Entertainment Group budgeted between $5.9 million (C$9 million) and $6.6 million for 52 10-minute episodes which were pre-produced in Montreal and animated in Asia then bundled into 26 half-hour daily shows.
Episodes
Season 1 (1999)
Season 2 (2000)
Video game
A video game based on and having the same name as the show was developed and published by
Global Star Software in 2000, exclusively for
PC.
[, ''The Strong'']
References
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