Well, you're first
question is probably, what does FUS stand for?
And if you read the top of the main page, it
stands for Fans United for SatAM (Sonic). If
you're not familiar with the SatAM version of
Sonic, what are you doing here? Oh well, I'll
fill you in.
This Sonic series
aired on ABC Saturday mornings from 1993-1995.
(dubbed SatAM Sonic by most Sonic fans). It all
began when Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog (AoStH)
was orginally going to air on ABC, but when ABC
saw the horrible animation, plots and catch
phrases of AoStH, they told DiC they either had
to make a new cartoon, or Sonic would not air on
ABC. DiC quickly came up with some new
characters, better plots, and better animation
and created the series Sonic the Hedgehog
To this day, it is
considered the best of all Sonic series that
have aired. It captured the hearts of many and
created a cast of Sonic characters that reign
superior among the Sonic universe. Fanficion,
fanart and even a few fan made games revolve
around this universe and in it's best days, the
Archie comics based itself off this universe.
So, if it was so great, what happened to it?
It's end came on a cliffhanger ending due to
rating shifts (thank the Power Rangers) and a
new President at ABC. The show aired on USA for
a few years, but USA chopped up the show so bad
for their advertisements, a few of the scenes
didn't even make sence and many fans lost
interest in it. Sadly, it was canceled once
again on USA sometime in 1997 (I THINK).
This was the end of the SatAM series. A few
webpages have the episodes up for downloading,
but several out there have yet to see the series
air in it's full version on a TV.
For many years, fans
sulked around, wrote fanfiction on what they
believe the third season would have held,
complained and started petitions and still
nothing. Then FUS became....
The name FUS was
actually created by Rob Showalter when we were
trying to come up with a name for our team for
SAGE. I suggusted SatAM United but then the
acronyms would be SU, which also means Sonic
Underground, and we didn't want that. Rob then
suggested Fans United for SatAM, we put up quite
a FUS, and VOILA! FUS was born!
Now the part where I
get to gloat. So many people said it was futile,
so many people said it wouldn't succeed. But in
early 2001, things started turning in our favor.
DiC had announced that they had freed themselves
from Disney's control, they were once again an
independent company. Why was this good? This way
they didn't have to listen to Disney who seemed
to like AoStH and the occasional showing of
SU.... MORE GOOD NEWS came around. Soon
afterward DiC announced that they would be
releasing videos and DVDs of some of the old
series and some of the new including Sonic
the Hedgehog. No one knew, however, which
series they were releasing, so we wrote and
wrote and wrote pratically begging for it to be
SatAM. I don't know exactly how it happened, but
sometime at the end of 2001, I got an email from
Ronald Mears titled "Sonic DVD Information." At
first I groaned thinking it was someone asking
what the DVD would be of, but was I in for a
surprise. He had contacted someone from DiC and
they had informed him that in fact they were
releasing from SatAM! And a large cheer rose up
from the SatAM community... okay sorry got
carried away. Later on, we found out the
episodes would be ones all ready released, but
if sales were good enough, they'd release more.
On February 26th,
2002, the DVD was released online and in some
stores, and there was... well more rejoicing.
And news from DiC is that another DVD will be
released sometime in the future. Now let's all
bug them to show Ultra Sonic on the DVD ;) Their
address is:
DiC Home Entertainment
4100 West Alameda
Avenue
Burbank, CA 91505
They listened on the first one so I'm thinking
they will on the second. Let's do it to it and
get the whole series, and let's ask for new
episodes too ;)
.... and on
March 27, 2007 FUS helped accomplish
perhaps it's biggest goal to date ... Somone
Listened ...
This Sonic series
aired on ABC Saturday mornings from 1993-1995.
(dubbed SatAM Sonic by most Sonic fans). It all
began when Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog (AoStH)
was orginally going to air on ABC, but when ABC
saw the horrible animation, plots and catch
phrases of AoStH, they told DiC they either had
to make a new cartoon, or Sonic would not air on
ABC. DiC quickly came up with some new
characters, better plots, and better animation
and created the series Sonic the Hedgehog
Now the part where I
get to gloat. So many people said it was futile,
so many people said it wouldn't succeed. But in
early 2001, things started turning in our favor.
DiC had announced that they had freed themselves
from Disney's control, they were once again an
independent company. Why was this good? This way
they didn't have to listen to Disney who seemed
to like AoStH and the occasional showing of
SU.... MORE GOOD NEWS came around. Soon
afterward DiC announced that they would be
releasing videos and DVDs of some of the old
series and some of the new including Sonic
the Hedgehog. No one knew, however, which
series they were releasing, so we wrote and
wrote and wrote pratically begging for it to be
SatAM. I don't know exactly how it happened, but
sometime at the end of 2001, I got an email from
Ronald Mears titled "Sonic DVD Information." At
first I groaned thinking it was someone asking
what the DVD would be of, but was I in for a
surprise. He had contacted someone from DiC and
they had informed him that in fact they were
releasing from SatAM! And a large cheer rose up
from the SatAM community... okay sorry got
carried away. Later on, we found out the
episodes would be ones all ready released, but
if sales were good enough, they'd release more.