Megas XLR

Coop, a 20-something slacker who enjoys the finer things in life: video games, watching professional wrestling and customizing his car. One day while searching through the local dump, he stumbles upon an 80-foot-tall mega-powerful fighting robot. Naturally, he decides to “improve” this sophisticated piece of machinery by turning it into the ultimate cruising vehicle, using his muscle car as the robot’s head.

The huge robot, technically called M.E.G.A.S. (Mecha Earth Guard Attack System), actually got there through a time-traveling accident. Far in the future, mankind has been all but eliminated by a creepy race of reptilian aliens called the Glorft. A brilliant robotics engineer named Kiva sends MEGAS back to the past in the hopes that it can retroactively affect the Earth’s defense against the Glorft. Unfortunately something happens during the trip and MEGAS ends up sitting in a landfill in New Jersey for 70 years until Coop finds it and starts to modify it.

Kiva finds Coop and his wisecracking pal Jamie cruising the suburbs, using MEGAS as the ultimate tricked-out hot-rod. With all the modifications Coop has made, Kiva can no longer even operate her invention. That means that Coop is Earth’s only hope. Luckily this easy-going gearhead has become a top-notch pilot through years of video gaming. The bad news is the Glorft, and a collection of intergalactic bad guys, have discovered Coop and MEGAS and want to destroy them. LowBrow chronicles the continuing adventures of Coop, MEGAS, Kiva and Jamie as they battle in suburbia and across the galaxy.

Megas XLR is set to premiere sometime in the summer of 2004. It was co-created by George Krstic and Jody Schaeffer.