Blazing Dragons

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Blazing Dragons is the title of a graphic adventure video game released for the original Sony Playstation and Sega Saturn in 1996 by Crystal Dynamics. It is based on the popular British cartoon series of the same name, is the brainchild of Monty Python's own Terry Jones and features the voice talents of several celebrities. The game is based on the short-lived animated series of the same name that aired in 1992.

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[edit] Story

In an odd twist on the legend of King Arthur you control the young dragon named "Flicker" who lives in Camelhot castle and is in love with the Princess Flame, but alas, is not eligible to ask her her hand in marriage, because he is not a dragon knight. However, the King has announced a dragon tournament, where the winner shall not only win the princess but also become the new king.

As the young "Flicker" you have to collect various objects and interact with an eccentric and odd cast of dragon and human characters in order to solve puzzles. Your overall quest is to become a dragon knight so that you can compete in the grand tournament and win the heart of Princess Flame. However, you soon discover that the evil humans are plotting to take over the kingdom, and will stop at nothing, even kidnapping the princess, to accomplish their nefarious ends.

As is the case with other graphic adventure games such as The Secret of Monkey Island and the first two Simon The Sorcerer games you can never die in the game, or get to a place where a puzzle can not be solved. Like these and other games such as Discworld the humour in the game is heavily influenced by the British comedy of the Monty Python and thus includes plenty of mild sexual innuendos, and other shenanigans.

[edit] Television series

It was first a cartoon series in 1996 to 1998 produced by Nelvana in Canada and Ellipse Programme in France. In this series, King Allfire and his knights of the square table fight against the evil Count Geoffrey and his evil knights. It only ran for 2 seasons consisting of 39 episodes.

[edit] Episodes

[edit] Season 1

The Quest for the Holy Quail
A Gift for Griddle
Tournament Day
Excaliburn
Newt for a Day
Knights and Kightresses
Merle's Mirror
Renaissance Dragon
Robbing Hoodlum
The Stone of Wizdom
Hermits and Heroes
Sir Hare
Bleepin' Beauty

[edit] Season 2

A Killer Make Over
The Age of Retention
The Lost Ruby Hat of Omar the Ham
Achy Breaky Mace
Shamrocks and Sheananigans
Three Dragons and a Baby
King for a Day
Erik the Well Read
Chain Mail Letter
You Dim Slum, You Louse Sum
Excalibroke
The Infernal Flame
Macbreath
Attila's Hot Buns
The Isle of Dwight
Ice Try
Single Green Dragon
Sphinx Jinx
Griddle's Sleepless Knights
Whine and Roses
The Reign in Spain
Geoffrey's Evil Pancakes
The Golden Thimble of Theodora
Seven Dragon Sins
Quest to Success
Slay the Dragon

[edit] Characters

[edit] Royalty

[edit] King Allfire

He is the king of Camelhot and is the knights of the square table's boss. He is married to Queen Griddle. King Allfire is also wielder of the legendary sword, Excaliburn, but rarely uses it seeing how he's semi-retired from fighting.

[edit] Queen Griddle

The (second) wife of King Allfire. She is the daughter of the gigantic Queen Mum, and is infatuted with Sir Loungelot. Griddle is also very short-tempered, and tends to get violent when angry. Due to her robustness, she is often the butt of many fat jokes.

[edit] Princess Flame

The daughter of King Allfire and stepsister of Blaze. She is in love with Flicker, but he does not seem to notice. In season one, Flame was purple-haired, but in season two, she became a blonde. Her role also seemed to diminish in season 2.

[edit] Sir Blaze

The son of Queen Griddle and the stepbrother of Flame. Blaze is unusually energetic, and described to have amazing panash. He is one of the only three knights (the others Loungelot and Burnevere) who stays throughout the series.

[edit] Dragon Knights (and squires)

[edit] Sir Galahot

The proper knight of the square and was the first knight. He only appears on one season and never gives up like Sir Loungelot.

[edit] Sir Hotbreath

He is a fire-breathing character who has many ideas. He also helps people solve clues and is not clever like his family. He often ends up torching any dragon within his presence due to outburst of uncontrollable fire exhaling burps! Like Sir Galahot he only appears in Season 1.

[edit] Sir Burnevere

Sir Burnevere the Scottish knight is a plucky hero who can help whenever there is danger. Burnevere appears to be the oldest, and wisest of the knights. He often screams "Hoot Megregor!" when something happens to him. Burnevere is actually linked to the Scottish royal family, but turned the throne down at the thought of being surrounded by all his relatives.

[edit] Sir Loungelot

An incredibly lazy knight whose squire is Flicker. He treats Flicker more like a servant than a knight in training, but Loungelot is the favorite knight of Queen Griddle. This is because he butters up to her and often takes credit for what Flicker does. Loungelot is the son of the Lady of the Lake (something he is not proud of since she nags him constantally and talks about his choir boy brother). Loungelot loves gambling, sleeping, and most of all food, especially pastries (such as biscuits which he calls "biscies"). Loungelot is often the cause of much of the knight's trouble due to his crass and selfish nature.

[edit] Squire Flicker

The main character of the series, a squire under Sir Loungelot, he happily accepts any task his master gives him. Flicker longs for the day he'll become a Dragon Knight himself. Unlike the game version, the series Flicker was (seemingly) oblivious to Flame's affectons and appeared to return them. Flicker is also an amazing inventor far ahead of his time.

From left: Princess Flame, Squire Flicker and Sir Loungelot
From left: Princess Flame, Squire Flicker and Sir Loungelot

[edit] Humans

[edit] Count Geoffrey

He is the bad guy in the series. He wears a purple knight's armor in season 1 and silver knight's armour with a dragon skull helmet in season 2. Geoffrey also turns from red-haired to black-haired in season 2 (after an image boost from the Black Knight). He also sounds like the comedian and former Python Graham Chapman.

[edit] Merle the Wizard

Merle the Wizard is a dispicabel ugly little witch. She speaks with an American accent. When she goes pop she appears. She also loves to tease King Allfire's dragons.

[edit] Evil Knights #1, #2, and #3

The bumbling henchmen of Count Geoffrey. #1 is medium height, fat, and has a bushy mustace, as well seems to be the smartest of the three. #2 is short, pointy-nosed, and skinny. #3 is muscular, bald, and seems to be the stupidest of the three knights. It is possible the trio are brothers, since #3 mentioned his mother in the sense she was all their mother.

[edit] Peasants

Count Geoffrey is always exploiting the peasants of the village for either tax money or using them in some mannor of slave labour such as human columns to hold up his failing castle.

[edit] Voice Talents

Videogame

Television series

[edit] Trivia

  • While the video game leaves open the possibility for a sequel, no sequel for the game was planned.
  • This is the first video game sold in the American market that depicted cross-dressing and homosexuality.

[edit] Credits

  • Concept Created by: Terry Jones, Gavin Scott
  • Executive Producers: Terry Jones, Robert Rea, Stephane Bernasconi, Patrick Loubert, Clive A. Smith, Michael Hirsch
  • Produced by: Jocelyn Hamilton
  • Directed by: Lawrence Jacobs
  • Supervising Producers: Stephen Hodgins, Philipppe Grimond
  • Coordinating Producer: Patricia R. Burns
  • Associate Producer: David Ferguson
  • Story Editor: Peter Sauder
  • Assistant Director: Ron Migliore
  • Voice Director: Dan Hennessey
  • Casting Director: Jessie Thomson
  • Recording Assistant: Joanne Boreham
  • Casting Coordinator: Karyn Bonello
  • Production Supervisor: Steve Chadwick
  • Production Managers: Nicolas Pesques, Ruta Cube
  • Production Coordinator: Amanda Johnston
  • Production Assistants: Caroline Simmons, Gitte Barroin, Ian Baggley, Mart Matsoo, Aaron Holm, Jeff Howard, Aviva Bertaux, Laurene Brun, Jimmy Capron
  • Storyboard Supervisor: Ron Migliore
  • Storyboard Coordinator: Allan Parker
  • Storyboard Cleanup: Mitch Manzer
  • Script Coordinator: Bonnie Chung
  • Design Coordinators: Barbara Huh, Hugh Neilson
  • Pre-Production Supervisor: Rick Dubiel
  • Pre-Production: Shelley Mills-Hughes, Darrell MacDonald, Peter Winninger, Ken Hurlbut, Terry Carter, Sheila Murray, Joanne Boreham, John Dubiel
  • Design Supervisors: Steve Daye, Derek Prout, Vincent Mommeja
  • Production Designers: Andrew Hickson, Mike Smukavic, Brad Coombs, Jason Groh
  • Designers: Denis Gagne, Dmitrije Kostic, Norbert Lafabrie, Jose Lemaire, Mitch Manzer, Koko Maung, John McDiarmid, Sasha McIntrye, Raymond Pang, Frank Revers, Royston Robinson, Patrick Rowsome, Michael Tymochko, Fernand Wallet
  • Layout Supervisors: Tony Tarantini, Richard Dabby, Genevieve Selby, Parastou Farivar
  • Layouts: Scott Bennett, Bruno Bligoux, Glenn Chadwick, Vincent Chasse, Georges C. Baigle, Olivier Franciscus, Veronique Franco, Didier Gourdin, Kevin Klis, Mark Komza, Patrick Lambert, Cecile Lavocat, Sylvie Le Crosnier, Ed Lee, Eric Loussaut, Mary Lyons, Monica Maaten, Francois Perreau, Maria Balsalobre, Brian Poeniman, Daniel Poitras, Dinah Polsma, Frank Ramierz, Ron Wilson, Patrick Saignes, Chris Minz, John Stuart, Gilbert Weppe, Affee Yepp
  • Layout Coordinators: Vivian Cheuk, Giles Sander, Renee Martin
  • Animation Supervisor: Mark Petlock
  • Key Animation Supervisors: Jason Groh, Niall Johnston
  • Key Animators: Denis Gonzalez, Maureen Shelleau, John Mahovlich, Lynn Reist
  • Timing Directors: Arnie Lipsey, Willard Kitchen, Gary Hurst, Paul Riley
  • Lip Sync: Steve Fifth
  • Art Director: Rebecca Barclay
  • Color Assistants: Karyn Chadwick, Derek Craig
  • Backgrounds: Peter Moehrle, Michael Hitchcox, Julie Eberley, Mei Tsuo
  • Music Score by: Amin Bhatia
  • Music Production by: David Greene
  • Theme Song by: Pure West
  • Music Producer: Stephen Hudecki
  • Post Production Audio: Ryan Araki, John Baittis, Peter Branton, Anthony Crea, Craig Marshall, Eric Mattar-Hurlbut, Scott McCrorie, Keith Traver
  • Supervising Editor: Rob Kirkpatrick
  • Post Production Manager: Lan Lamon
  • Post Production Coordinator: Jason Held
  • Supervising Sound Editor: Glenn Bama
  • Picture Editor: Algis Macuilus
  • Assistant Picture Editors: Brian Berger, David Dias
  • Additional Production Facilities: Hanho Heung Up Co. Ltd, Le Studio Ellipse, Studios Animage
  • Special Thanks to: Nelvana Digital Paint & Compositing

[edit] External links

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