Anyone ever heard of "Z-Force?"

[edmonddantes]

This was originally posted on Digitpress but as you guys are more active I thought I'd have more chance of finding answers here.

So I was looking up Voltron stuff on ebay last night, and one of the first hits I got was.... this:



www.ebay.com/itm/VHS-Z-Force-Sneak-Preview-Animated-Zodiac-Earthworks-Peter-Keefe-Voltron/262100593813?hash=item3d0669ac95:g:jCwAAOSwAYtWI-G-



That ain't Voltron. In fact I don't know what the hell this is. I have never heard of this cartoon or whatever and in fact googling Z-Force brings up info about a phone, no toy line or cartoon. "Zodiac Earthworks" got hits but they were all other ebay listings for this same tape. The companies "Headstar" and "Legendary Entertainment" brought up nothing in relation for this.



So I have two guesses.



One, this is some really obscure pilot that never got picked up.



Two, this is a hoax of some sort.



I honestly would like to save money and buy this just to put all questions to rest, but maybe someone here will be able to dig something up. Please feel free to copy-paste this post to other forums you think might be able to help (my own online activity is gonna be lessened due to recovering from surgery).



See ya laters.

[Bobinator]

There's a big thing online nowadays where people put entirely too much effort into making fake cartoons, so you might have ended up stumbling into one of those.

...I admit, though, now I have to wonder what's on that VHS. If it's even real.

[Weasel]

The extremely slipshod nature of the "Sneak Preview" star on that case (it might not even be in the photo, it looks pasted on to the picture to me) is furthering my opinion that it's a fake...but I really do wonder what the hell it is.

[edmonddantes]

Someone on Digitpress discovered something. I'll copypaste his post in full:

www.animationmagazine.net/features/earthworks-z-force-gets-theatrical/
www.animationmagazine.net/uncategorized/get-ready-for-chinese-zodiac-action/


Reading the comments on those, and this article, it seems there was some drama with investors in Headstart/Legendary Entertainment getting screwed. And then when Peter Keefe, who was the driving force behind the show passed away(the Voltron connection), it pretty much ended any chance this show had of seeing the light of day.

My only response to that was that those articles themselves seem strange--they begin as normal but two of them (counting the one that's in the body of the paragraph) suddenly seem to have these personal correspondences, or comments that aren't parsed as comments for some reason? Plus it just seems weird to me that a show I've never heard of, the only information anyone can find on it is also on an animation website that I've never heard of. But then, there's a lot of sites I don't know so I may just be veering into conspiracy theory for no reason.

One thing I just thought of... this thing being on VHS made me think it was old, but it says 2003... why wouldn't this thing be on a DVD?