Here are the elements of Giant Robot Week, as we have seen on Toonami this week:
Unique opening and intro elements.
One-time-only rights to popular ADV Films titles like Dai-Guard, Nadesico, and Evangelion.
One-time-only rights to Harmony Gold's popular series Robotech.
One-time-only rights to show Gigantor in serialized form.
The Toonami premiere of the popular Cartoon Cartoon short Low Brow.
Here's what I would change about those elements:
No squashed end credits.
Limited editing, to at least have a TV-PG (Parental Guidance) rating on some of the shows.
Airing spoiler-free episodes (i.e. episodes that wouldn't contain anything that would spoil the series).
Here's what I would have added:
The entire lineup would be dedicated to Giant Robot Week, not just one hour. Dragonball and DBZ would take a week-long vacation.
One-time-only rights to Universal Animation Studio's Exo-Squad and Sony Pictures Television's Roughnecks and Heavy Gear.
Toonami mecha franchises like Gundam and The Big O would be prominent in the special week.
One-time-only rights to Transformers: Generation One.
Here's a sample lineup, with a different lineup each day:
Monday
4 PM EST/PST: Zoids: Chaotic Century
4.5 PM: Mobile Suit Gundam
5 PM: Transformers: G1
5.5 PM Nadesico
6 PM: Roughnecks
6.5 PM: The Big O
Tuesday
4 PM: Zoids: Zero
4.5 PM: Gundam Wing
5 PM: Transformers Armada
5.5 PM: Evangelion
6 PM: Robotech
6.5 PM: Dai-Guard
Wednesday
4 PM: Mecha Shorts 1 (Frankenstein Jr., Big Bots, "Let's Save the World, You Idiot!")
4.5 PM: G-Gundam
5 PM: Astro Boy
5.5 PM: Roughnecks
6 PM: The Big O
6.5 PM: Exo-Squad
Thursday
4 PM: PPG "Uh Oh Dynamo"
4.5 PM: 08th MS Team
5 PM: Nadesico
5.5 PM: Evangelion
6 PM: The Big O
6.5 PM: Heavy Gear
Friday
4 - 5 PM: Viewer's Choice of Two of the Following Shows:
Transformers G1
Nadesico
The Big O
Roughnecks
Evangelion
Exo-Squad
5 PM: Toonami In-Flight Movie: Transformers The Movie
Fun? Yeah. Practical? Maybe. Pricey? Without a doubt. But it's better than what we got. Maybe we'll get something like this one day.
