Knights of the Magical light, transform and roll out! Or something...I think those were more or less the words shouted as the battle cry of these mighty holo-warriors who could turn into various animals, I think. Animals that were occasionally cool, but more often something along the lines of Dolphins, Mollusks, I dunno, probably Cicadas too. The series was short lived and pretty standard 80's fare...the toys were built like extra large GI Joe figures, and were neat...they also had little holo-plates on their chests and holo-staff things too, which were just large enough to not lose immediately, unlike their included helmets.
           

They too, of course, suffered from the deadly rubber-band-tear disease that caused countless GI Joes to fall apart...and for some reason the thumb piece on each and every one of their damn hands fell off on mine. EVERY SINGLE THUMB. This was even before I had my Transformers beat the crap out of them! I had a whole army of holo-pansies giving people judo-chops since they couldn't even pick up a rock to throw!


In theory, each character both bad and good(Bad guys were dumb animals with lame names, good guys were good animals with lamer names...i.e. Witterquick, Ectar, Reekon) could draw on some grand mighty power, so speaks the tech-spec type things on their packages. For example, the two here could respectively become INVULNERABLE, or ALL KNOWING.
I think I'd have the "Everyone Gives me Money" power myself, but apparently these Knights of Magical Lights were too noble and/or inflicted with down syndrome to realize they could TURN INVINCIBLE AT WILL. It never did occur to Leonic there to draw on ULTIMATE WISDOM to ask what the bad guy's weaknesses were, or how to get into Galadria's pants, or anything even remotely useful in any conceivable way. Likewise, the bad guys "Darkling Lords" were usually too busy bitch-slapping eachother to ever realize they could probably just push the good guys over and take their lunch money. There was also some old wizard named Merklyn who got his kicks by randomly changing sides and scerwing with everyone. He'd kick the Darkling's asses so the good guys could capture them, then give them the key to escape, then make both teams go fight a Zoid/Techno-Dragon, then the bad guys would kick his ass, then he'd help the good guys, then re-join the bad guys and well, yeah. He was probably senile and incontinent anyway, and pissed that they kept walking on his yard.

Also, the boxes had more warning labels then Area 51. Apparently these holograms are highly unstable and exposure to skin, air, or water will cause them to erupt into flame or squirt acid, or open a rift to dimension Y where hologram gods walk the earth.
Now, these guys all supposedly got powers that matched their personalities...and personally if I was the guy who got 'mollusk' I'd kick Merkyln's ass. But what if their personality was something un-animal? Well, I've taken the liberty of choosing what I'd end up with as my holo-totem power animal thing deal.
Behold, Rob, Knight of the Magical Light...with moustache of semi-magical fuzz...and his Secret Power!


The Knights of Coleman shall ride again!

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