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{{Infobox film
| name           = Phoenix King
| image          = Phoenix-bot Phoenix King (movie poster).jpg
| caption        =
| native_name      = {{Infobox Chinese/Korean|child=yes|hide=no|header=none
 | hangul         = 불사조 로보트 피닉스킹
 | hanja          = 不死鳥 로보트 피닉스킹
 | rr             = Bulsajo roboteu Pinikseu-King
 | mr             = Pulsajo rŏbŏt'ŭ p'iniksŭ-k'ing}}
| director       = Jeong Su-yong
| producer       = Choe Deok-su<br>An Bong-sik
| writer         = Lim Woong-sun
| starring       =
| music          = Jeong Min-seob
| cinematography = Kim Jong-seok
| editing        = Ree Kyoung-ja
| distributor    =
| released       = {{Film date|1984|1|20}}
| runtime        = 67 minutes
| country        = South Korea
| language       = Korean
| budget         =
}}
'''''Phoenix King''''' ({{Korean|hangul=불사조 로보트 피닉스킹|rr=Bulsajo roboteu Pinikseu-King}}) is a South Korean animated feature film. It was later dubbed into English and released in America and Europe as ''Defenders of Space'' and parts of its footage was used to create ''Space Thunder Kids''. The small image of the movie poster depicts a toy version of Phoenix King that was released.

Phoenix King is identical to a ''[[Diaclone]]'' toy No.10 Fire Engine, that later became Inferno of the ''[[Transformers]]''. This is the earliest animated version of said toy.

==Criticism==
The film is infamous for copying designs from numerous Super Robot Series in Japan, especially [[Mazinger Z]], [[Ippatsuman]], [[Space Cruiser Yamato]], [[Mobile Suit Gundam]] and many of [[Leiji Matsumoto]]'s work.

==References==

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==External links==
* [http://sulfur.pe.kr/tech/board.php?board=lyric&command=body&no=836 Phoenix-bot Phoenix King] at Mimanbu {{in lang|ko}}
* [http://karaeff.tistory.com/566 Karaeff] {{in lang|ko}}
* {{IMDb title|1947979}}
* [http://www.kmdb.or.kr/eng/md_basic.asp?nation=K&p_dataid=05591 Phoenix Robot Phoenixing (Bulsajo Roboteu Pinikseu King)] at the Korean Movie Database

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[[Category:1984 films]]
[[Category:South Korean animated science fiction films]]
[[Category:1980s Korean-language films]]
[[Category:Animated films about robots]]


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