Anyone remember Stan Lee’s “The 7th Portal”? It was that Shockwave-animated action series that was done by Stan Lee Media back around the turn of the century, but then seemingly disappeared from sight and mind when the dot-com bust took out STM.
Short synop: 3 guys and 3 girls (all gamers), one each from Brazil, North America, Germany, India, Japan, and South Africa all turn into cyber-superheroes in order to stop an interdimensional villain from taking over our own. The big joke about it is that both the webisodes and the internet connections in the webisodes are all dial-up, LOL.
I was just wondering because I just updated the Wikipedia page with direct links to StanLeeReturns.org’s archive of 7th Portal episodes if anyone cares to watch…..or cares at all, LOL.
Anyway, the surprising thing is that I only knew about this series when I went to Wild Adventures in Valdosta some three years back; there, they had this one ride, a virtual reality ride (complete with those red and blue glasses) known as the 7th Portal. I think I rode it three times before we had left the park, such was the impression that it made on me.
I tried searching for it a year or two ago, but only now have I turned up the episodes. Now all the Wikipedia page needs is a descriptive picture.
And for anyone who’s interested, the StanLeeReturns.org site has – of all things – swimsuit pics of the characters from the series (I guess you’d expect that sort of thing
Oh,god. Yet more evidence that STAN LEE MUST BE STOPPED.
LOL. I forgot to add a “Caution: Limburger-texture dialogue and weak-ass plotline” adjoinder to the end.
But then again, that could describe most of Stan Lee’s other ventures, no?
From about the past twenty years, yes. GOD…have seen the abomination called the “Staniverse”??
Although I can truly sum up Stan Lee’s fall from grace in one word:
STRIPPERELLA
I remember reading about that in the paper and thinking “man alive, that sounds weak. The powers of the internet, eh?”