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The Bots Master

animated television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ3224454
Source-derived summary

The Bots Master is a 1993 animated series produced by Jean Chalopin through his company "Créativité et Développement" ("C&D") in France and Saban International. In total, 40 episodes were made, each one having a special 2.5D segment and titles. The series was co-produced by Avi Arad and Associates. The show also had a toyline based on it.

Summary

In the year 2025 A.D., robots have become commonplace, performing menial tasks and working in industry. For that, the world can thank the young genius robotic engineer Ziv "ZZ" Zulander and the Robotic Megafact Corporation (aka RM Corp) which he works for. Ziv's creation of the "3A robot series" revolutionized the world and its application of robotics. However, RM Corp's CEO Sir Lewis Leon Paradim (aka "LLP") isn't satisfied being one of the wealthiest men in the world; he desires world domination. With his minions Lady Frenzy and Dr. Hiss, LLP plans to take control of the planet through a coup d'état using the same 3A bots that ZZ had invented to benefit humanity.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “The Bots Master” as animated television series. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1993, 2025—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Bots, Master and animated can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as animated television series. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3224454. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1993 and 2025.

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This entry incorporates text from The Bots Master” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.