Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back when, when I was just a wee lad, we were watching movies and tv-series from vhs-tapes (also from that black box that's also known as a TV), and since I was just a wee lad most of the movies and tv-series were dubbed. The most famous from this was Golden Voice later known as Agapio racing team, to symblozie they're prodcution values I guess.
Now hold you're horses, I know I just said Agapio racing team, the voice over studio that made some of the worst voice overs you'll ever hear, but the thing was that the Golden Voice was actually a lot, lot better. I KNOW, right! Why? Well relax and I'll tell you. Golden Voice was a finnish voice over studio that did voice overs to following tv-series and ova's
Alf
Barbapapa
Denver the last dinosaur
Carebears
Blondie (tv-specials)
Heman and the masters of the universe 1983 version (propably one or two vhs's 'cause I haven't seen them in finnish language.)
Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin (the edited version)
Jungle book (anime OVA)
Captain N
Heathcliff
Beauty and the beast (WTF!!!!! Anime ova? or the Disney version? Seriously WTF!!!!!)
Lady lady!!
Lady lovely locks (never heard of)
Beetle Bailey
World of Maxes
Once upon a time...-series (not including the Space since the ones that I've see are speaken in swedish so they propably only translated it)
Little Mermaid (anime OVA)
Maple Town Monogatari
The Smurfs
Kimagure Orange Road
The all new Popeye hour
The new adventures of Flash Gordon
The Super Mario bros. Super show!
Tiny Toons
Top Cat
Dennis the Menace
Peter Pan (anime OVA)
Yakari
And now I'll admit that I haven't seen even half of these, but that's not my point, my point is that despite the fact some of the voice overs bordered on being really, really bad some of the were for finnish stantards okay like Tiny Toons, The all new Popeye hour, The Smurfs, Heathcliff, Dennis the Menace, Carebears, Little Mermaid (yes I seen it) and Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin.
And I'll even give it to you that some of them were really, really bad like Denver the last dinosaur. And I'll even admit that Golden Voice wasn't known for it's good quality, some of the translations were really bad, having serious mistakes, and on technical standpoint they sucked - HARD! But to me there was one series that proofs all this to be not true and that's they're work on Once upon a time... a Human. WHY? 'cause I've seen both version's and I'll have to admit that even though Golden Voice had some serious problems with it, it's still a lot better than the one that YLE did, yes I KNOW! But then YLE got itself together and did execellent work with rest of the Once upon a time...-series.
And even though Golden Voice wasn't known for a great quality, it still got payed, and translated everything that Future Film had to bring Finland and even some of the tv-series 'cause Golden Voice was pretty much the cheapest option. So all through to -95 Golden Voice was doing fine, then it changed it's name to Agapio Racing team, and this is when things started to go wrong.
Up untill now Golden Voice had done decent work, but as soon as it changed it's name to Agapio racing team they're quality went downhill. Where as Golden Voice's quality ranged from decent to pretty good Agapio racing team's quality ranged from painfully bad to decent. I'll give you an example you all know Foxes Peter Pan, the one wich Nostalgia Critic has talked so fondly as one of the greatest animated series of our childhood? Yeah the reason why I never got into it was the fact that it's Finnish voice-over was horrible!
And people started to notice this, since there allready was Production House Werne and PVP, wich did decent to really good voiceovers people started to rebel against Agapio racing team and it's rights to do voice overs were given to other Finnish voice over studios.
Agapio racing team died pretty soon after this, only to start another studio wich name I don't really know 'cause after Agapio racing team I really stopped caring about them.
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