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It's a hard hitting, side-splitting, ninja stomping episode of Remember That Show? as Adam and Will enter the arena to discuss WMAC Masters (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMAC_Masters), the scripted competition series (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/WMACMasters) from 1995 (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112216/) that brought (https://wmacmasters.org/) real martial artists into a world of fantasy fighting tournaments. What do you get when you try to make Mortal Kombat TV friendly (https://www.google.com/search?q=wmac+masters+site:www.reddit.com&sca_esv=34fb7e70802b3bda&sxsrf=AE3TifPigDpAzBe8Ty5hYfzSiKzVMww5fg:1765590478810&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=2ahUKEwinubuKubmRAxX6PDQIHbmvB7cQrQIoAnoECEUQAw&biw=1920&bih=979&dpr=1)? Listen now and find out!

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What happens when you combine Mortal Kombat, Power Rangers, real martial arts champions, video game health bars, and a giant mystical throwing star?

You get WMAC Masters—one of the strangest and most ambitious kids' TV shows of the 1990s.

For just two seasons, WMAC Masters blended real martial artists with scripted rivalries, superhero personas, tournament brackets, and serialized storytelling years before esports and modern combat sports embraced many of those same ideas. It featured performers from the original Mortal Kombat games and movies, was filmed at Universal Studios Florida, and somehow turned a martial arts competition into a Saturday morning fantasy epic.

So why did it disappear after only 26 episodes?

In this episode of Forgotten Failures, we're diving into the bizarre rise and fall of WMAC Masters—from its surprising Mortal Kombat connections and multimillion-dollar production budget to its unfinished cliffhanger ending, changing television landscape, troubled toy partnership, and the unexpected role 4Kids Productions and Pokémon would play in its fate.

Whether you watched every episode or completely forgot this show ever existed, this is the incredible story behind one of the weirdest television experiments of the '90s.

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Dial-Up Days examines the unconventional 1995 martial arts series WMAC Masters. The program explores how the show blended real-life fighting champions, video game aesthetics, and sports entertainment, while analyzing the industry shifts and production challenges that ultimately led to its premature conclusion.