Nope, (unless the secret message of the film was: in the future only white people exist).  It was Disney's shot at grabbing some of that late 70s Star Wars mojo (not that every other studio at the time was doing the exact same thing).

Yes, the Acroyear story arc was practically a Shakespearean tragedy (to my 12 year old sensibilities).   

Yup, I had one too, most awesome toy ever. 

Baron Karza up in this mutha fucka!!!

Chelsea Handler, Katherine Heigel and Olivia Munn should form a super-villain group called "The League of Suck" that threatens to release shitty rom-coms on the world every 3-months unless we pay them a billion dollars each.