I remember working on this show as my first animation job in LA. Yes, it did look pretty bad, even by 90s standards. But doing each episode in 2 weeks with 6 animators using 90s tech and having little to no control over the motion capture that we were given, it was a battle just to get each episode complete
My brother has bought literally every Voltron figure he could get his hands on, particularly from Japanese sources, and still asks for them as gifts for his birthday and Christmas. He's 51. I respect the hell out of that.
@Alucard-A-La-Carte never watched it, but remember when it came out. Now I'm going to have to at least check it. All hail Tim🫡 Hell, that was the only reason I watched fern gulley, though I gotta admit, it was pretty good, and Tim and Robin Williams both nailed it, no surprise.
I remember working at the theater when the first Transformers movie. It had the teaser trailer for the first Cloverfield, but a lot of people swore it was the long rumored Voltron movie.
Man, I was totally there for Voltron - End with Timothy Omundson as Red Lion's Lance. I grew up with all the Voltrons and I even liked the vehicle one . . . just not near as much as the Lion one.
I remember the animation was so bad compared to Beast Wars and Reboot. But I was super grateful for the opportunity to pick up the reissued die cast Voltron toy, complete with accessories that were never included before in the 1980s US Voltron release.
I had bought the die-cast reissue at Toys R Us during this time. I remember his blazing sword was gold and the face was black where it was originally blue. Pretty awesome I should have kept it😢
I was a young lad and the animation was mine blowing to me. They all looked incredible. Now they all look terrible and choppy, but I was obsessed as a kid. It's like thinking back to Mario 64 and remembering a completely immersive second real world, but now it's horrible
I recall being more impressed with the visuals than I expected with a Voltron 'reboot' (SWIDT?), even tho, agreed, they didn't match Mainframe's work, and faces looked surprisingly lifeless.
This was my first Voltron series, and I loved it as a kid. I revisited it when the dreamworks series came out, and its aged horrendously. You never know which will be a persons first entrance into a fandom.
My main gripe with Voltron toys was always that you got plenty of Voltrons, but not a lot for them to fight. I had the big transforming Voltron that all the pilots sat in, and I loved merging all the lions into the big robot but once I did I always had a moment of, "... now what?" I never really had any other toys the same size for it to fight. It's just one of my legacy issues with the toys of my childhood. If the whole shtick of a property is, "giant robot fights 'X'," why aren't you giving us any toys of 'X' for them to fight? It's luke toylines for series where the enemies use minions. Toys of the minions should never be singles! Packs of 5 minions at the least!
@@beipiaosaurus Yeah. I know that toy companies are always experimenting with minion multipacks (back in the day, you could buy 3-packs of Cobra Troopers, for example) but they never seem to stick. I think the problem is that they always insist on charging the same for a multi-pack of figures as they do for the same number of individual figures. They won't give parents a break, and so they end up shelf-warming.
Yeah. Supposedly, toys of villains don't sell as well as the heroes (especially in Japan) which is why so many toylines focus more on the heroes. (Even in GI Joe and Transformers, there were typically more Joes/Autobots than Cobras/Decepticons, and the Joes/Autobots tended to have bigger and more expensive toys than the Cobras/Decepticons. Fort Max was so much bigger than Scorponok, for example.)
On the other hand you ARE right and you should say it, but I will say that for me that usually meant you had to stretch your imagination and involve other toys from other places- then again that may have been what sets people on the dark path of becoming a fan-fic writer...
I was able to meet the producer and got a tour of the studio back in 1999. I really like that show. I just wish they kept the helmet and costume for the pilot the same as the original commercial for it.
I don't mean to be the "drama guy" but I will say discotek had some issues recently. It's never good when a company who's known for releasing anime has issues with the dubbed part. These companies just never learn.
I barely remember Voltron: The Third Dimension. I was a huge fan of the original 84 Voltron and yes even vehicle Voltron. Voltron holds a very special place in my heart because several years ago a podcast my fiance and I hosted we had none other than King Zarkon, Jack Angel as our special guest. Yeah that was awesome (RIP Jack). To be honest I've always felt reboots/remakes take away from the original. It's why I never accepted any variant of The TransFormers, ThunderCats or Voltron. I'm just one of the lucky ones who got to grow up with the best original 80s cartoons!
This was my intro to Voltron. I really liked it as a kid since 3d animation was still a novelty back then. i even used my first holy communion money to buy the full Voltron toy set. One of the coolest toys I've ever had. Too bad it wasn't long before I lost some of the parts.
Saw the original Voltron (the lion one) as re-runs in the early 90s, and in the late 90s I saw the Third Dimension. Funny thing is, I never knew about those other Voltron shows. I guess their plan to bury those other shows worked, because by the time I started watching TV, they were nowhere to be found.
I never got to saw the 3D Voltron. I remember seeing something about it back in the 90s but never saw it on any of the stations I got on antenna. The Live action Voltron needs to be based on the 80s.
Voltron was one of my favorite shows as a kid. I had the Black Lion toy produced by Panosh Place (and was super jealous of my friend who had the whole set), my brother had two of the three Vehicle Teams (Water and Land), and my other brother had the Alpha Gladiator from Voltron II. The three of us together formed... an argument over which Voltron toys we should have chosen to beg our parents for. I was super-excited when Third Dimension first aired, even though I was not particularly awed by the visuals. It was impressive, however, that there were even some of the original actors in it, because even back then it felt like the animation industry didn't care much about voice actors. That said, it was odd that they recast the part of Pidge even though they had Neil Ross right there to do it (unless he was no longer able to squeeze his vocal chords like that).
my wife is a huge voltron fan and I got her the stealth version for her as a christmas gift, she hated it and thought it was so ugly (I agreed) that she ended up garage sailing it
Speaking of CGI / cartoons, with the upcoming Beattlejuice sequel coming out, It would be cool if you covered the cartoon. I remember there were Neitherworld commercials with a CG skeleton guy and am wondering if that was the first implementation of CGI in cartoons. Edit: Nevermind. You guys did cover it and I watched it prior. Still, I loved that show growing up.
I never watched Voltron or any of the spinoffs. I am in the same boat, I know what Voltron is but I couldn’t tell you a dang thing about it…until today! Thanks for another great video!!!
When the first Cloverfield movie came out and 'Cloverfield' seemed like a code name or a placeholder name when the first trailer there was a small group of people who thought it might have REALLY been a live action Voltron movie.
This one was well after me, but I gotta say…. I shook my head every time LIONS was mentioned, as I was the kid that preferred the vehicle Voltron. Always wondered why it disappeared.
In Argentina, we had "Lion Voltron" on TV and the "Vehicle Voltron" was released as a "video movie" so many never heard of it. Voltron was made of lions, period. Alvegas or Arvegas was released on its own here, never had anything to do with Voltron and had some success. Arvegas its one of my favourite robot animes.
I remember "Vehicle Voltron" in I think "The Big Channel" or "Magic Kids" also we got Mazinger and Grandizer. I think we skipped Great Mazinger in the middle there
Cartoon network and Magic Kids aired Lion Voltron in mid / late 90's, and vehicle voltron aired in Magickids shortly after in early 2000's. I'm pretty sure lion voltron aired on some other channel before that, but can't remember what channel it was. Also, it was slightly after power rangers premiered over here, and I was weirded out by the megatron desing "this looks so familiar", sooo... I think I might have seen some voltron lion in the 80's? Third dimention I was never able to watch, i blame the schedule. In the mid 90's Big Channel aired Grandizer, Arvegas and that other giant robot anime with one lion robot tha convined with other two, can't reember what it was called :P
@@alexismazzanti6929 That other lion robot was Daltanius, which funny enought was supposed to be who "Lion Voltron" was if there was no mix up at Toei when the Voltron people asked for "the one with the lions"
I still have the five separate lions released during Voltron The Third Dimension's initial airing. I remember asking for them from a local Zellers (a now defunct Canadian store chain) as the "reward" from my parents for doing well in school. They're still complete (somehow!) but the paint on the lions has been battered by years of hot/cold cycles in an attic that wasn't temperature controlled. They've been moved into the basement where the now collect dust instead.
I was a huge fan of all voltrons. So was excited about this. Loved what i seen sadly the airing schedule in my area wasn't consistent. Then it was pulled.
I grew up on reruns of Voltron. And i love Beast Wars, Reboot, Battle Planets, Max Steel, etc. Janky 90s/00s CGI animated TV shows were/are my jam! I watched Voltron The Third Dimension whenever I could. Loved it! I wish a complete series set was available to purchase.
I vaguely recall it but the 90s were a bit a blur for me tv-wise, was busy starting to adult and that was hard, also tons of sci-fi shows to watch so was hard to keep up, Earth 2, Seaquest, Flash, Babylon 5, M.A.N.T.I.S., Viper, and then the Xenas and Hercules and all that, was a golden time of too much content I could never remember when it was on. The Netflix series was pretty good though, like how they mixed it up on different lions forming the head.
I completely forgot Billy West did voicework for this. Now I can write my own fanfic where the Jackie Puppet pilots one of the Voltron lions, and it won't sound completely insane.
Something about third dimension looked familiar and then it clicked. The humans looks like they are from the Questworld segments from the real adventures of johnny quest.
We had an Albegas as kids and never really knew what it was. I'm sure our parents were like "Hey, it's Voltron (and we didn't have to spend a lot)" and we were like, "Somebody sold you a bill o' goods!"
When I was a kid, I loved Voltron, both the lion one and the Vehicle one. Obviously, I loved Voltron best, the lion one. I really wanted Voltron for Christmas, either one. For Christmas I got Voltron! The gladiator one. 😢 I was optimistic that I'd be the first to have the new one for the new season, which never happened.
You know, it'sw funny, as a kid I remember the abrupt change in Voltrons - I still watched it, but I was confused, always holding the Lion Force in higher esteem. Many years later (around this time I think) I sorurced some Vehicle Coltron tapes directly from World Events (seriously they sold them i fyou just wrote to them and asked). Anyway, my oldeer self definitely appreciated Vehicle Voltron more and now having complete sets on DVD of both, I feel that Dairugger is the superior show. The lions are more iconic, but I wonder what would have happened if they led with Voltron I.
I loved Voltron when I was a kid, I even sent the USA network a letter, suggesting Voltron fight an evil copy of Voltron, or many ro-beasts at once. I got back a letter, thanking me for the suggestion, and enrolling me in the USA kids club, it came with a fanny pack, and a baseball with their logo on them. Imagine my excitement when I was watching Voltron and realized they used my ideas in actual episodes. Then as an adult, I learned it was a dubbed show of a Japanese series, and that my letter did nothing, it was just coincidence. Then even later I learned that additional episodes were commissioned so... did my letter actually have an influence? Did some writer keep it by their desk for inspiration or was it really still just a coincidence. I'll probably never know
The funny thing about the original plan for Voltron is that they were trying to take three unrelated anime series and make them into a metaseries. The irony being that with series like Gundam, Pretty Cure and Digimon, anime has a number of real metaseries. I wonder if modern kids would be more accepting of it now that anime is more established in the U.S.
I’d watched (and taped) the first season of Third Dimension, but the second season either moved to a different time slot or just never aired in my area as I never actually saw it (but saw plenty of the associated merch like “Stealth Voltron”.
I remember hearing the possibility of a live action Voltron since the days of v3d. V3D had revitalized my interest in Voltron. I remember reading how the original concept for a live action wasn’t received well by fans as it took place on earth and describe the lions “being made out of junk”
My older brother had a Voltron figure that you can assemble, it's still somewhere in storage in our house. No action figures, so we used other toys like his G.I. Joes, & later on my Power Rangers as the pilots instead. 😁 I have a vague memory of the lion voltron series, & a slightly clearer memory of that crossover movie. Growing up before we got cable, I remember watching the vehicle voltron back to back w/ Saber Rider. I actually liked that version, but I never saw it as the real voltron & kept wondering when the lions would appear. For 3rd dimension, I think it was also aired on local channels, not sure if it was still in English or also dubbed inTagalog like a lot of foreign shows were by that time. Not sure how big voltron was exactly over here, but here in the Philippines the popular robot series was (& probably still is) Voltes V, which had a live action series made last year. Any super robot series would always be compared to that.
Hey I used to watch this. There was also some other space show that showed a icon when you were supposed to put on 3D glasses for a outer space fight for a couple minutes every episode that kind of aired around the same time period, or actually on the same Sunday morning.
@@TitularHeroine It's not Captain Power. I am not even trying too hard to look it up but I tried yesterday just to remember. I think the best thing was the music. I think one of the teammates was a humanoid dolphin who talked. The leader was human.
Voltron has to have one of the strangest histories of any franchise from the 80's, especially this version, which seems to be the most ambitious and somewhat forgotten version of the franchise. The CGI is definitely not on par with Reboot or Beast Wars (which surprisingly still hold up even now), let alone Pixar, which was just getting started at the time.
40 years later, I'm still sad we didn't get a translated Lightspeed Electroid Albegas show. I had the toys and liked it more than Dairugger. Fun fact: There's a laserdisc game of Albegas.
They really should have followed up GoLion with Albegas instead of Dairugger. Dairugger isn't exactly the kid friendly, from the couple episodes of the original Japanese one and Vehicle Voltron I've seen. You're going from the Power Rangers-like action and adventure with GoLion to a more muted, more mature intergalactic politics based series, you're going to lose the younger audiences. I'd tend to think the Robotech and Yamato/Star Blazers crowd would have liked it at least, but it's like going from Star Wars to Star Trek in terms of sci-fantasy vs sci-fi.
I always wish they would jsut go back and give the Albegas Anime the "80's redub hack job" treatment and make it fit retroactively. It is such an interesting idea. Also, by "80's redub hack job" I mean improved over the original in every way. 😁
@@brianjl7477 heck, I'd love a subtitle of Albegas. Someone upload Dairugger subbed on YT. I'm not sure if that's still on here as YT likes to purge stuff that isn't licensed as well as stuff that is.
I had watched a few episodes of the lion Voltron as a kid, but was really confused when I saw an ad for THREE Voltrons! The gladiator one looked dumb, but the 15 vehicle one inspired me to make a "copy" of it out of LEGO! So much fun!
Voltron Force was probably my favorite version since they did a lot of interesting and crazy changes, where they made each lion interchangeable to give Voltron different abilities, and they attempted to give each lion (and voltron in general) more lore. Do a video about that show please!
I had all 3 versions of Voltron from this show when I was a kid. Had the classic version twice, had Stealth Voltron, and I even had the dinosaur themed Voltrex in all of it’s leg chipping paint glory. Lord knows all that paint chipped off easily and I was left confused as a kid.
The problem with Netflix's Voltron? The show runners thoughr they were smarter than the source material. They weren't. Not even sure if they watched Beast King (I sincerely doubt it). But they thought the OG Voltron was dumb. Some people are just worthless.
I was a kid when this aired on TV, I vaguely remember an episode where the new voltron (Stealth Voltron) was stolen so the protagonists had to fight it with regular Voltron.
8:01 Speaking of Jurassic Park...I am watching the film tomorrow since it it Arbor Day (Tree Day) and the DNA for the dinosaurs was taken from tree resin. I am watching the next two Jurassic Park films, one a day, after that.
I was in college when the 3rd dimension came out. I would only run into it on my visits back home on the weekends. I gave a couple episodes a shot, but did not catch my attention in between loads of laundry at my mom's house. Those were the days.
I think this was the version of Voltron that I watched as a child. I got the red and green lion figures from KB Toys, and I probably still have them somewhere, but I never completed the collection.
I remember watching episodes of this show early mornings on The WB Network back in the late 90s or early 2000s. Good times. I even had a few figures including Stealth Voltron. Anybody remember those two episodes where Voltron battled his dragon counterpart Dracotron?
I only really remember this one for the fact that they re-released the Die-cast Lions with new accessories, the Lotor figure with the chainsaw arm and the decent Stealth figure they did. Shame we never got the Dracotron figure despite they're being a prototype showcased. But holy cow; I didn't realize it looked this bad! Nostalgia is a powerful thing.
Just the other night I spent hours digging around Mechwarrior pages trying to see if anyone remembered the name of "that live-action Mechwarrior show" I saw once as a kid, and this just accidentally answered my question with Hypernauts. Thanks!
I just had prince lotar and the female blue lion pilot from this line, the figures had a lot of attachable weapons, and the pilots had space helmets that resembled the lion heads. When Lotar appeared on the Netflix show I was excited because of how much I enjoyed that wild alien cyborg toy.
Came here to enjoy a video about 3rd Dimension Voltron (Which I think I might have seen like two episodes from) but then you hit me with those Hypernauts clips and all sorts of sparks just went off in my brain. Definitely a show I completely forgot about, it was like the cool version of Space Cases... oh shit now I remember that show too
3:25 Chiming in to say that I watched Voltron on KBHK Channel 44 in the SF Bay Area. I think they ran episodes on Sunday mornings too. Channel 44 knew their audience and I think was the local station that had Robotech after school and would also have week-long themed movie nights such as the original Planets of the Apes movies or Battlestar Galactica episodes edited and presented as movies.
I've seen classic Voltron, I've seen Dreamworks Voltron, I've even caught a couple episodes of Voltron Force. This one I never got the chance to see much of. I saw one episode in poor quality from a compressed video file from an off air recording that made the dated CGI look much worse than it actually was. It was too distracting to sit through the whole thing, even though there was stuff to like.
I think I remember seeing that seam video. It wasn't carried in my local market, but I was so interested to see it. I really wish the complete series were somewhere. Also, Voltron Force was super upder-rated.
Sad to say this version of Voltron was my introduction of the series, or rather I missed clicked the remote and saw a 3D colorful mech as a child. What I remember vividly for 20+ years, is that Stealth Voltron. Voltron toys didn't even reached my local malls and wanted that version for so long. It's goofy looking but it lays dormant in my memory.
I remember waking up one morning and seeing this suddenly -- as a huge Voltron fan in the 80s I thought I was dreaming. Some of the choices were weird (those helmets...wtf...), but it was a real treat, despite the novelty of the CG kind of getting in the way.
I don't remember seeing this. I was a huge fan of the 80s version, what little I managed to see of it, but I did buy the toys whenever I found them at flea markets. What I do remember was Voltron toys "weirdly" showing up on shelves in the late 90s, and understanding why.
The main thing I remember from this show is that the Voltron Force members' colors finally matched the colors of their lions.
I remember working on this show as my first animation job in LA. Yes, it did look pretty bad, even by 90s standards. But doing each episode in 2 weeks with 6 animators using 90s tech and having little to no control over the motion capture that we were given, it was a battle just to get each episode complete
My condolences for that mocap, with that studio's ubiquitous "Butt stuck out / chest thrust forward" thing.
Wow! no wonder the human CGI models looked worse than the ones in Reboot!
Honestly I was disappoint Dan didn't do the entire thing dressed as Dan Lartron ... Informer of the Secret Galaxy
Dan won't turn Informer.
My brother has bought literally every Voltron figure he could get his hands on, particularly from Japanese sources, and still asks for them as gifts for his birthday and Christmas. He's 51. I respect the hell out of that.
Tim Curry somehow being even more ubiquitous as a 90's cartoon character than anyone ever realized....
I'll always remember him as Kilo Khan from Superhuman Samurai Cyber Squad.
Smashing!
@Alucard-A-La-Carte never watched it, but remember when it came out.
Now I'm going to have to at least check it. All hail Tim🫡
Hell, that was the only reason I watched fern gulley, though I gotta admit, it was pretty good, and Tim and Robin Williams both nailed it, no surprise.
He was sublime as Capt Hook too
the patreon money must be going crazy to afford that voltron suit 😂😂
I remember working at the theater when the first Transformers movie. It had the teaser trailer for the first Cloverfield, but a lot of people swore it was the long rumored Voltron movie.
Oh right, I remember that. That was pretty silly.
As a 90s kid, this was actually my first introduction to Voltron. I still have my 3 inch Voltron figure.
Ready to form Dan Lartron! Activate interlocks! Dyna-therms connected. Infra-cells up. mega-thrusters are go!
" GOOOO LARTRONNNN FORCCCCE!!!!! "
Holy shit! That outfit! 🤩🥰 "Hi I'm Dan Lartron..." Really amazing and appreciate the work you put in even for the intros!
Man, I was totally there for Voltron - End with Timothy Omundson as Red Lion's Lance.
I grew up with all the Voltrons and I even liked the vehicle one . . . just not near as much as the Lion one.
Immensely disappointed Dan didn't wear the Voltron costume throughout the entire video. COMMIT TO IT, DAN!
He didn't even show if he had the feet.
Quite disappointed
Where's the sword?!
...........was his suit canon........NOOOOOOOOOO
Damn it Dan
I remember the animation was so bad compared to Beast Wars and Reboot. But I was super grateful for the opportunity to pick up the reissued die cast Voltron toy, complete with accessories that were never included before in the 1980s US Voltron release.
Actually kind of jealous of this
I had bought the die-cast reissue at Toys R Us during this time. I remember his blazing sword was gold and the face was black where it was originally blue. Pretty awesome I should have kept it😢
I was a young lad and the animation was mine blowing to me. They all looked incredible. Now they all look terrible and choppy, but I was obsessed as a kid. It's like thinking back to Mario 64 and remembering a completely immersive second real world, but now it's horrible
I recall being more impressed with the visuals than I expected with a Voltron 'reboot' (SWIDT?), even tho, agreed, they didn't match Mainframe's work, and faces looked surprisingly lifeless.
This was my first Voltron series, and I loved it as a kid. I revisited it when the dreamworks series came out, and its aged horrendously. You never know which will be a persons first entrance into a fandom.
My main gripe with Voltron toys was always that you got plenty of Voltrons, but not a lot for them to fight. I had the big transforming Voltron that all the pilots sat in, and I loved merging all the lions into the big robot but once I did I always had a moment of, "... now what?" I never really had any other toys the same size for it to fight. It's just one of my legacy issues with the toys of my childhood. If the whole shtick of a property is, "giant robot fights 'X'," why aren't you giving us any toys of 'X' for them to fight? It's luke toylines for series where the enemies use minions. Toys of the minions should never be singles! Packs of 5 minions at the least!
That's a good point about minions- how many of us had one lone foot soldier to fight our ninja turtles alongside Beebop and Rocksteady?
@@beipiaosaurus Yeah. I know that toy companies are always experimenting with minion multipacks (back in the day, you could buy 3-packs of Cobra Troopers, for example) but they never seem to stick. I think the problem is that they always insist on charging the same for a multi-pack of figures as they do for the same number of individual figures. They won't give parents a break, and so they end up shelf-warming.
Yeah. Supposedly, toys of villains don't sell as well as the heroes (especially in Japan) which is why so many toylines focus more on the heroes. (Even in GI Joe and Transformers, there were typically more Joes/Autobots than Cobras/Decepticons, and the Joes/Autobots tended to have bigger and more expensive toys than the Cobras/Decepticons. Fort Max was so much bigger than Scorponok, for example.)
Plushies make great Kaju ^_^
On the other hand you ARE right and you should say it, but I will say that for me that usually meant you had to stretch your imagination and involve other toys from other places- then again that may have been what sets people on the dark path of becoming a fan-fic writer...
Would be crazy if they ever did a Voltron/Thundercats/He-Man cross over animated series!
Omg Dan Is cosplaying Lion force Voltron ! XD let's go Voltron force third dimension 🖤❤️💚💛💙
I was able to meet the producer and got a tour of the studio back in 1999. I really like that show. I just wish they kept the helmet and costume for the pilot the same as the original commercial for it.
Excellent. As a kid, I called Vehicle Voltron by the moniker "Car Voltron"
Speaking of Voltron, did you hear the anime that was GOING to be the third one, Albegas, is getting a US release at the end of May thanks to Discotek?
Really?!?
Yes. Yes. Yes!!
Time for us to redub it ourselves! Might be funny if someone did redub it as a Voltron series though.
I wish they would release the anime that was originally supposed to be Voltron, Daltanious
@@blackphoenix77 they actually did. Like two years ago. Last I checked it’s still in print.
I don't mean to be the "drama guy" but I will say discotek had some issues recently. It's never good when a company who's known for releasing anime has issues with the dubbed part. These companies just never learn.
I barely remember Voltron: The Third Dimension. I was a huge fan of the original 84 Voltron and yes even vehicle Voltron. Voltron holds a very special place in my heart because several years ago a podcast my fiance and I hosted we had none other than King Zarkon, Jack Angel as our special guest. Yeah that was awesome (RIP Jack). To be honest I've always felt reboots/remakes take away from the original. It's why I never accepted any variant of The TransFormers, ThunderCats or Voltron. I'm just one of the lucky ones who got to grow up with the best original 80s cartoons!
This was my intro to Voltron. I really liked it as a kid since 3d animation was still a novelty back then. i even used my first holy communion money to buy the full Voltron toy set. One of the coolest toys I've ever had. Too bad it wasn't long before I lost some of the parts.
Trendmasters tried to make a new Voltron called "Voltrex", which was made out of dinosaurs. It never appeared in the show, though.
"You have a T. rex!?"
The closest we got was Dracotron
Saw the original Voltron (the lion one) as re-runs in the early 90s, and in the late 90s I saw the Third Dimension. Funny thing is, I never knew about those other Voltron shows. I guess their plan to bury those other shows worked, because by the time I started watching TV, they were nowhere to be found.
If I hadn't been subbed for years, I would have subbed the moment Dan put on the Voltron costume. Great video as always
I never got to saw the 3D Voltron. I remember seeing something about it back in the 90s but never saw it on any of the stations I got on antenna. The Live action Voltron needs to be based on the 80s.
Voltron was one of my favorite shows as a kid. I had the Black Lion toy produced by Panosh Place (and was super jealous of my friend who had the whole set), my brother had two of the three Vehicle Teams (Water and Land), and my other brother had the Alpha Gladiator from Voltron II. The three of us together formed... an argument over which Voltron toys we should have chosen to beg our parents for.
I was super-excited when Third Dimension first aired, even though I was not particularly awed by the visuals. It was impressive, however, that there were even some of the original actors in it, because even back then it felt like the animation industry didn't care much about voice actors. That said, it was odd that they recast the part of Pidge even though they had Neil Ross right there to do it (unless he was no longer able to squeeze his vocal chords like that).
my wife is a huge voltron fan and I got her the stealth version for her as a christmas gift, she hated it and thought it was so ugly (I agreed) that she ended up garage sailing it
Speaking of CGI / cartoons, with the upcoming Beattlejuice sequel coming out, It would be cool if you covered the cartoon. I remember there were Neitherworld commercials with a CG skeleton guy and am wondering if that was the first implementation of CGI in cartoons. Edit: Nevermind. You guys did cover it and I watched it prior. Still, I loved that show growing up.
The Beetlejuice cartoon was fantastic!
I never watched Voltron or any of the spinoffs. I am in the same boat, I know what Voltron is but I couldn’t tell you a dang thing about it…until today! Thanks for another great video!!!
When the first Cloverfield movie came out and 'Cloverfield' seemed like a code name or a placeholder name when the first trailer there was a small group of people who thought it might have REALLY been a live action Voltron movie.
Wow. I, on the other hand, thought it was going to be a Godzilla movie
Wait this show existed, I thought it was just a fever dream of me getting it from the library.
I didn't know you were the actor that played Voltron.
This one was well after me, but I gotta say…. I shook my head every time LIONS was mentioned, as I was the kid that preferred the vehicle Voltron. Always wondered why it disappeared.
Channel membership has been really great. For such a low price I get to support one of my favorite channels and get extra videos!
Just take my money for that costume. You have legendary status Dan.
That voltron costume rocks
In Argentina, we had "Lion Voltron" on TV and the "Vehicle Voltron" was released as a "video movie" so many never heard of it. Voltron was made of lions, period.
Alvegas or Arvegas was released on its own here, never had anything to do with Voltron and had some success.
Arvegas its one of my favourite robot animes.
I remember "Vehicle Voltron" in I think "The Big Channel" or "Magic Kids" also we got Mazinger and Grandizer. I think we skipped Great Mazinger in the middle there
I always thought it was Arbegas. xD Last time I watch it was airing in TPO's channel. Aguante,Merlo!!! xD
Cartoon network and Magic Kids aired Lion Voltron in mid / late 90's, and vehicle voltron aired in Magickids shortly after in early 2000's. I'm pretty sure lion voltron aired on some other channel before that, but can't remember what channel it was. Also, it was slightly after power rangers premiered over here, and I was weirded out by the megatron desing "this looks so familiar", sooo... I think I might have seen some voltron lion in the 80's? Third dimention I was never able to watch, i blame the schedule. In the mid 90's Big Channel aired Grandizer, Arvegas and that other giant robot anime with one lion robot tha convined with other two, can't reember what it was called :P
@@alexismazzanti6929 That other lion robot was Daltanius, which funny enought was supposed to be who "Lion Voltron" was if there was no mix up at Toei when the Voltron people asked for "the one with the lions"
Oh, wow, I haven’t thought about Hypernauts in decades…
I still have the five separate lions released during Voltron The Third Dimension's initial airing. I remember asking for them from a local Zellers (a now defunct Canadian store chain) as the "reward" from my parents for doing well in school. They're still complete (somehow!) but the paint on the lions has been battered by years of hot/cold cycles in an attic that wasn't temperature controlled. They've been moved into the basement where the now collect dust instead.
I was a huge fan of all voltrons. So was excited about this. Loved what i seen sadly the airing schedule in my area wasn't consistent. Then it was pulled.
This is going to be silly but I misread the title as ‘the failure of volition’. (The game studio) I was getting hyped for some Freespace talk.
I grew up on reruns of Voltron. And i love Beast Wars, Reboot, Battle Planets, Max Steel, etc. Janky 90s/00s CGI animated TV shows were/are my jam! I watched Voltron The Third Dimension whenever I could. Loved it! I wish a complete series set was available to purchase.
I vaguely recall it but the 90s were a bit a blur for me tv-wise, was busy starting to adult and that was hard, also tons of sci-fi shows to watch so was hard to keep up, Earth 2, Seaquest, Flash, Babylon 5, M.A.N.T.I.S., Viper, and then the Xenas and Hercules and all that, was a golden time of too much content I could never remember when it was on. The Netflix series was pretty good though, like how they mixed it up on different lions forming the head.
I completely forgot Billy West did voicework for this. Now I can write my own fanfic where the Jackie Puppet pilots one of the Voltron lions, and it won't sound completely insane.
Something about third dimension looked familiar and then it clicked. The humans looks like they are from the Questworld segments from the real adventures of johnny quest.
I remember buying the Trendmasters Voltron Mighty Lion set 25 years ago.
If you still have it, those things are like 250-300 now on eBay.
@@justbuggin67its crap. Trust me
We had an Albegas as kids and never really knew what it was. I'm sure our parents were like "Hey, it's Voltron (and we didn't have to spend a lot)" and we were like, "Somebody sold you a bill o' goods!"
Child: "Can we buy Voltron?"
Mother: "No, we have Voltron at home."
Voltron at home: Albegas.
When I was a kid, I loved Voltron, both the lion one and the Vehicle one. Obviously, I loved Voltron best, the lion one.
I really wanted Voltron for Christmas, either one.
For Christmas I got Voltron! The gladiator one. 😢
I was optimistic that I'd be the first to have the new one for the new season, which never happened.
You know, it'sw funny, as a kid I remember the abrupt change in Voltrons - I still watched it, but I was confused, always holding the Lion Force in higher esteem. Many years later (around this time I think) I sorurced some Vehicle Coltron tapes directly from World Events (seriously they sold them i fyou just wrote to them and asked). Anyway, my oldeer self definitely appreciated Vehicle Voltron more and now having complete sets on DVD of both, I feel that Dairugger is the superior show. The lions are more iconic, but I wonder what would have happened if they led with Voltron I.
For a sec, thought the costume was CGI’d in, where Dan has all those ping pong balls to ‘paint’ the costume later :D
I remember this, my older brother had a VHS or is it a DVD of that? Also, could you cover Voltron force?
I loved Voltron when I was a kid, I even sent the USA network a letter, suggesting Voltron fight an evil copy of Voltron, or many ro-beasts at once. I got back a letter, thanking me for the suggestion, and enrolling me in the USA kids club, it came with a fanny pack, and a baseball with their logo on them. Imagine my excitement when I was watching Voltron and realized they used my ideas in actual episodes. Then as an adult, I learned it was a dubbed show of a Japanese series, and that my letter did nothing, it was just coincidence. Then even later I learned that additional episodes were commissioned so... did my letter actually have an influence? Did some writer keep it by their desk for inspiration or was it really still just a coincidence. I'll probably never know
You should have worn some blue face paint to go with that Voltron costume and some yellow eye contacts to complete the look.
The funny thing about the original plan for Voltron is that they were trying to take three unrelated anime series and make them into a metaseries. The irony being that with series like Gundam, Pretty Cure and Digimon, anime has a number of real metaseries. I wonder if modern kids would be more accepting of it now that anime is more established in the U.S.
I about choked to death when I saw Dan in the Voltron costume 😂😂
I’d watched (and taped) the first season of Third Dimension, but the second season either moved to a different time slot or just never aired in my area as I never actually saw it (but saw plenty of the associated merch like “Stealth Voltron”.
I remember hearing the possibility of a live action Voltron since the days of v3d. V3D had revitalized my interest in Voltron.
I remember reading how the original concept for a live action wasn’t received well by fans as it took place on earth and describe the lions “being made out of junk”
My older brother had a Voltron figure that you can assemble, it's still somewhere in storage in our house. No action figures, so we used other toys like his G.I. Joes, & later on my Power Rangers as the pilots instead. 😁
I have a vague memory of the lion voltron series, & a slightly clearer memory of that crossover movie. Growing up before we got cable, I remember watching the vehicle voltron back to back w/ Saber Rider. I actually liked that version, but I never saw it as the real voltron & kept wondering when the lions would appear.
For 3rd dimension, I think it was also aired on local channels, not sure if it was still in English or also dubbed inTagalog like a lot of foreign shows were by that time.
Not sure how big voltron was exactly over here, but here in the Philippines the popular robot series was (& probably still is) Voltes V, which had a live action series made last year. Any super robot series would always be compared to that.
That Golion Get-Up is just too priceless. I wonder if we'll see more toy costumes in the future.
Hey I used to watch this. There was also some other space show that showed a icon when you were supposed to put on 3D glasses for a outer space fight for a couple minutes every episode that kind of aired around the same time period, or actually on the same Sunday morning.
Captain Power maybe?
@@TitularHeroine It's not Captain Power. I am not even trying too hard to look it up but I tried yesterday just to remember. I think the best thing was the music. I think one of the teammates was a humanoid dolphin who talked. The leader was human.
Voltron has to have one of the strangest histories of any franchise from the 80's, especially this version, which seems to be the most ambitious and somewhat forgotten version of the franchise. The CGI is definitely not on par with Reboot or Beast Wars (which surprisingly still hold up even now), let alone Pixar, which was just getting started at the time.
I still say my favourite version of Voltron, toy version at least, is the Vehicle Force version, with everything that the set can do.
40 years later, I'm still sad we didn't get a translated Lightspeed Electroid Albegas show. I had the toys and liked it more than Dairugger. Fun fact: There's a laserdisc game of Albegas.
They really should have followed up GoLion with Albegas instead of Dairugger. Dairugger isn't exactly the kid friendly, from the couple episodes of the original Japanese one and Vehicle Voltron I've seen. You're going from the Power Rangers-like action and adventure with GoLion to a more muted, more mature intergalactic politics based series, you're going to lose the younger audiences. I'd tend to think the Robotech and Yamato/Star Blazers crowd would have liked it at least, but it's like going from Star Wars to Star Trek in terms of sci-fantasy vs sci-fi.
I always wish they would jsut go back and give the Albegas Anime the "80's redub hack job" treatment and make it fit retroactively. It is such an interesting idea.
Also, by "80's redub hack job" I mean improved over the original in every way. 😁
@@brianjl7477 heck, I'd love a subtitle of Albegas. Someone upload Dairugger subbed on YT. I'm not sure if that's still on here as YT likes to purge stuff that isn't licensed as well as stuff that is.
I had watched a few episodes of the lion Voltron as a kid, but was really confused when I saw an ad for THREE Voltrons! The gladiator one looked dumb, but the 15 vehicle one inspired me to make a "copy" of it out of LEGO! So much fun!
3rd dimension was my first Voltron. And I was hooked
Activate interlocks!
Dyna-therms connected.
Infra-cells up; mega-thrusters are go!
Voltron Force was probably my favorite version since they did a lot of interesting and crazy changes, where they made each lion interchangeable to give Voltron different abilities, and they attempted to give each lion (and voltron in general) more lore. Do a video about that show please!
I had all 3 versions of Voltron from this show when I was a kid.
Had the classic version twice, had Stealth Voltron, and I even had the dinosaur themed Voltrex in all of it’s leg chipping paint glory.
Lord knows all that paint chipped off easily and I was left confused as a kid.
Hey Dan, I actually bought the 22 inch Voltron back in 1997 you can put the badly articulated figures that hardly fit in the lion cockpits
Voltron:LD feels like it came out not too long ago but it was 8 years ago. Almost a decade and ago but feels like it was only 2/3 years
The problem with Netflix's Voltron? The show runners thoughr they were smarter than the source material. They weren't. Not even sure if they watched Beast King (I sincerely doubt it). But they thought the OG Voltron was dumb. Some people are just worthless.
I couldn't help but click "Like" right away upon seeing Dan's Voltron Costume.
I was a kid when this aired on TV, I vaguely remember an episode where the new voltron (Stealth Voltron) was stolen so the protagonists had to fight it with regular Voltron.
This show was like a fever dream that I wasn’t sure I watched as a kid. But I always remembered watching the transformation sequence
8:01 Speaking of Jurassic Park...I am watching the film tomorrow since it it Arbor Day (Tree Day) and the DNA for the dinosaurs was taken from tree resin.
I am watching the next two Jurassic Park films, one a day, after that.
A+ video!
Awesome video, such a memorable franchise!
...kinda sad he didn't wear the getup for the whole vid.
I thought hypernauts was a fever dream. Thanks for unlocking that memory!
I like the 1980's voltron costume.👍🏻🤣
I knew I wasn’t dreaming. I remember this show vaguely.
I was in college when the 3rd dimension came out. I would only run into it on my visits back home on the weekends. I gave a couple episodes a shot, but did not catch my attention in between loads of laundry at my mom's house. Those were the days.
I can tell there were many haha's while Dan was in the costume on this one...its immediatelt in the HoF with the He-Man suit you wore that one time. 😂
I think this was the version of Voltron that I watched as a child. I got the red and green lion figures from KB Toys, and I probably still have them somewhere, but I never completed the collection.
I remember watching episodes of this show early mornings on The WB Network back in the late 90s or early 2000s. Good times. I even had a few figures including Stealth Voltron.
Anybody remember those two episodes where Voltron battled his dragon counterpart Dracotron?
Voltron the Third Dimension was my first introduction to the franchise. It will always hold a special place in my heart.
I only really remember this one for the fact that they re-released the Die-cast Lions with new accessories, the Lotor figure with the chainsaw arm and the decent Stealth figure they did. Shame we never got the Dracotron figure despite they're being a prototype showcased.
But holy cow; I didn't realize it looked this bad! Nostalgia is a powerful thing.
Just the other night I spent hours digging around Mechwarrior pages trying to see if anyone remembered the name of "that live-action Mechwarrior show" I saw once as a kid, and this just accidentally answered my question with Hypernauts. Thanks!
I just had prince lotar and the female blue lion pilot from this line, the figures had a lot of attachable weapons, and the pilots had space helmets that resembled the lion heads. When Lotar appeared on the Netflix show I was excited because of how much I enjoyed that wild alien cyborg toy.
Came here to enjoy a video about 3rd Dimension Voltron (Which I think I might have seen like two episodes from) but then you hit me with those Hypernauts clips and all sorts of sparks just went off in my brain. Definitely a show I completely forgot about, it was like the cool version of Space Cases... oh shit now I remember that show too
Some of my favorite content on UA-cam!😊
I remember getting the Stealth Voltron and Voltrex from Toys "R" Us. Warehouse shelf height.
3:25 Chiming in to say that I watched Voltron on KBHK Channel 44 in the SF Bay Area. I think they ran episodes on Sunday mornings too. Channel 44 knew their audience and I think was the local station that had Robotech after school and would also have week-long themed movie nights such as the original Planets of the Apes movies or Battlestar Galactica episodes edited and presented as movies.
I've seen classic Voltron, I've seen Dreamworks Voltron, I've even caught a couple episodes of Voltron Force. This one I never got the chance to see much of. I saw one episode in poor quality from a compressed video file from an off air recording that made the dated CGI look much worse than it actually was. It was too distracting to sit through the whole thing, even though there was stuff to like.
I think I remember seeing that seam video. It wasn't carried in my local market, but I was so interested to see it. I really wish the complete series were somewhere.
Also, Voltron Force was super upder-rated.
Sad to say this version of Voltron was my introduction of the series, or rather I missed clicked the remote and saw a 3D colorful mech as a child. What I remember vividly for 20+ years, is that Stealth Voltron. Voltron toys didn't even reached my local malls and wanted that version for so long. It's goofy looking but it lays dormant in my memory.
I am so jealous of that costume
I remember waking up one morning and seeing this suddenly -- as a huge Voltron fan in the 80s I thought I was dreaming. Some of the choices were weird (those helmets...wtf...), but it was a real treat, despite the novelty of the CG kind of getting in the way.
Anyone else catch Roy Harper during the Jurassic Park clip ?
I remember the excitement I felt when i found out the website Hunk and Pidge talk about in episode 1 actually existed.
Not you guys shouting out your friend AJ and not Academy Award Nominee Steven Yeun lol!!
I was genuinely wondering why he brought up AJ twice. 😂
I don't remember seeing this. I was a huge fan of the 80s version, what little I managed to see of it, but I did buy the toys whenever I found them at flea markets. What I do remember was Voltron toys "weirdly" showing up on shelves in the late 90s, and understanding why.
Happy 40th Birthday Voltron 🎉🎉🎉