News Mars Machines It’s a Tough Life for a Space Toaster in Mars Machines Toasters on Mars! By Molly Templeton | Published on February 21‚ 2024 icon-comment 0 Share New Share Twitter Facebook Pinterest RSS Feed Award-winning author Lavie Tidhar has a new project‚ and it’s not a book. Mars Machines is a seven-part animated series created by Tidhar (who wrote it) and Nir Yaniv (who animated and scored it). It stars an endearing pair: a cranky toaster and his persnickety coffee pot friend. As the synopsis explains: A grumpy toaster and a fastidious coffeepot uneasily cohabit in a kitchen on Mars. Their owner is gone‚ out on a case. The toaster used to be a spaceship‚ the coffeepot a burglar working for the Robo-Pope. Beyond the window ice-meteorites fall‚ and the enigmatic Dr Novum haunts their dreams‚ trying to get into their hidden shelter – and their minds. When a new answering machine turns out to be Bianca‚ a secret agent from Earth long on the trail of the inhuman Novum‚ their worlds collide. Mars Machines was created “at the height of the Covid-19 epidemic‚” a press release says. It stars Russell Wilcox as Buddy‚ Digger Mesch as Toaster‚ and Anne Wittman as Bianca. Tidhar‚ Yaniv‚ and these three actors (along with a larger cast) also created the short film Loontown‚ released last fall. Co-creator Tidhar is an award-winning author whose work includes Osama (winner of the World Fantasy Award)‚ Central Station‚ and The Circumference of the World. The trailer is below; the first episode is available now on YouTube and at the series’ website. [end-mark] The post It’s a Tough Life for a Space Toaster in <;i>;Mars Machines<;/i>; appeared first on Reactor.