The FAILURE of VOLTRON: The Third Dimension

[@Balt21Raven]

Tim Curry somehow being even more ubiquitous as a 90's cartoon character than anyone ever realized....

[@Alucard-A-La-Carte]

I'll always remember him as Kilo Khan from Superhuman Samurai Cyber Squad.

[@Dynaman21]

Smashing!

[@blackc1479]

​@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.

[@Canoby]

He was sublime as Capt Hook too

[@AdamYJ]

The main thing I remember from this show is that the Voltron Force members' colors finally matched the colors of their lions.

[@spoonsky]

Honestly I was disappoint Dan didn't do the entire thing dressed as Dan Lartron ... Informer of the Secret Galaxy

[@kevwwong]

Dan won't turn Informer.

[@Dorelaxen]

Immensely disappointed Dan didn't wear the Voltron costume throughout the entire video. COMMIT TO IT, DAN!

[@PirateJohnson]

He didn't even show if he had the feet.

[@SoulforSale]

Quite disappointed

[@wstine79]

Where's the sword?!

[@mankind8088]

...........was his suit canon........NOOOOOOOOOO

[@Nobody18718]

Damn it Dan

[@ericthompson3982]

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.

[@Ryan_Carter]

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

[@CantankerousDave]

My condolences for that mocap, with that studio's ubiquitous "Butt stuck out / chest thrust forward" thing.

[@nine_tails137]

Wow! no wonder the human CGI models looked worse than the ones in Reboot!

[@christopherfrazier9670]

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.

[@dtester]

Oh right, I remember that. That was pretty silly.

[@RedisNotaFlavor]

the patreon money must be going crazy to afford that voltron suit 😂😂

[@Randomark3087]

As a 90s kid, this was actually my first introduction to Voltron. I still have my 3 inch Voltron figure.

[@jasonnewell7036]

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]

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?

[@daviddalrymple2284]

@@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.

[@daviddalrymple2284]

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.)

[@dtester]

Plushies make great Kaju ^_^

[@goranisacson2502]

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...

[@itsagundam79]

Holy shit! That outfit! 🤩🥰 "Hi I'm Dan Lartron..." Really amazing and appreciate the work you put in even for the intros!

[@Meowanaise]

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.

[@jeffreystein9871]

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.

[@IAmMightyMike]

Actually kind of jealous of this

[@martymuerto]

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😢

[@IDiggPattyMayonnaise]

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

[@JoseBronxRican]

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.

[@QuestionMan]

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.

[@wstine79]

Ready to form Dan Lartron! Activate interlocks! Dyna-therms connected. Infra-cells up. mega-thrusters are go!

[@leodenverrex3819]

" GOOOO LARTRONNNN FORCCCCE!!!!! "

[@bluebraixen]

Trendmasters tried to make a new Voltron called "Voltrex", which was made out of dinosaurs. It never appeared in the show, though.

[@leodenverrex3819]

"You have a T. rex!?"

[@kidprime6863]

The closest we got was Dracotron

[@Rob-z7k]

Would be crazy if they ever did a Voltron/Thundercats/He-Man cross over animated series!

[@Ryecrash617]

If I hadn't been subbed for years, I would have subbed the moment Dan put on the Voltron costume. Great video as always

[@ashnodmtg]

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

[@KingCasual1986]

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?

[@wankertanker1813]

Really?!? Yes. Yes. Yes!!

[@AkumaSephitaro]

Time for us to redub it ourselves! Might be funny if someone did redub it as a Voltron series though.

[@blackphoenix77]

I wish they would release the anime that was originally supposed to be Voltron, Daltanious

[@KingCasual1986]

@@blackphoenix77 they actually did. Like two years ago. Last I checked it’s still in print.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

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.

[@CyberDragon10K]

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.

[@abcmaya]

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.

[@VoodooGremlin]

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.

[@kidprime6863]

Wow. I, on the other hand, thought it was going to be a Godzilla movie

[@megaszx08]

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.

[@SinistralWolf]

Channel membership has been really great. For such a low price I get to support one of my favorite channels and get extra videos!

[@anonimonn9775]

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.

[@xGasTon87x]

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

[@MaverickMagnus]

I always thought it was Arbegas. xD Last time I watch it was airing in TPO's channel. Aguante,Merlo!!! xD

[@alexismazzanti6929]

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

[@xGasTon87x]

@@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"

[@glarryg2318]

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).

[@yeeessimusprime3422]

Wait this show existed, I thought it was just a fever dream of me getting it from the library.

[@justbuggin67]

Just take my money for that costume. You have legendary status Dan.

[@carlosreid51]

That voltron costume rocks

[@SkittleKicksPlays]

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!

[@woodbine108]

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.

[@williamrogers4917]

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.

[@deralfenderson]

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.

[@csj9619]

I didn't know you were the actor that played Voltron.

[@Gamma_Hydra]

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.

[@brianjl7477]

The Beetlejuice cartoon was fantastic!

[@playfulpanthress]

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.

[@OzzyTragic]

Excellent. As a kid, I called Vehicle Voltron by the moniker "Car Voltron"

[@jeremymiller6264]

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!!!

[@AdamYJ]

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.

[@restionSerpentine]

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

[@BensBrickDesigns]

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!"

[@ComradeGSRM13]

Child: "Can we buy Voltron?" Mother: "No, we have Voltron at home." Voltron at home: Albegas.

[@crystalfrasier5876]

Oh, wow, I haven’t thought about Hypernauts in decades…

[@gundambassexe31]

Omg Dan Is cosplaying Lion force Voltron ! XD let's go Voltron force third dimension 🖤❤️💚💛💙

[@orinanime]

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.

[@GeekCulture101]

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.

[@Masterge77]

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.

[@darrenbent7601]

I still say my favourite version of Voltron, toy version at least, is the Vehicle Force version, with everything that the set can do.

[@MrUniq]

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.

[@darkhierophant4914]

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.

[@mightyfilm]

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.

[@brianjl7477]

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. 😁

[@darkhierophant4914]

@@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.

[@nbc4513]

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”

[@MarkERoth]

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.

[@HeresWhyItsCool]

I couldn't help but click "Like" right away upon seeing Dan's Voltron Costume.

[@gaxiola1701]

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.

[@hwogrillo]

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.

[@obsessivefanboy7]

Voltron the Third Dimension was my first introduction to the franchise. It will always hold a special place in my heart.

[@padawanmage71]

For a sec, thought the costume was CGI’d in, where Dan has all those ping pong balls to ‘paint’ the costume later :D

[@Magni_Prime]

...kinda sad he didn't wear the getup for the whole vid.

[@lordkakabel76]

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!

[@jkinghorn]

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.

[@rensm7873]

3rd dimension was my first Voltron. And I was hooked

[@1977TA]

You should have worn some blue face paint to go with that Voltron costume and some yellow eye contacts to complete the look.

[@vladimirlagos2688]

Switching channels I once stumbled upon this show, watched about ten minutes of it, and then noped right out of there regretting the loss of ten minutes of my life.

[@Starhound]

The thing I remember most about 3rd Dimension was their grand idea of blowing up the Lions and rebuilding them as the less colorful, less impressive looking "Stealth Lions" to form the even less impressive looking "Stealth Voltron."

[@BrianGeers]

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”.

[@PaulDozierZZoMBiE13]

Activate interlocks! Dyna-therms connected. Infra-cells up; mega-thrusters are go!

[@JohnKelly2]

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.

[@brianjl7477]

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.

[@IDiggPattyMayonnaise]

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

[@bigdave8651]

I knew the Gladiator Voltron was real!!! They showed a commercial when I a kid of the 80's for the cartoon (lions) and at the time when it first started airing they would show all three robots in the opening then it got edited and went away and I swore for years there was a third robot with a giant lion head on it's chest but years later when my friends and I were flashing back I was the only person to remember the 3rd Voltron. Thanks guys that was a 40 year nag at the back of my brain

[@SutargozTheKaijuFromKrypton]

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.

[@Kepley100]

I remember buying the Trendmasters Voltron Mighty Lion set 25 years ago.

[@justbuggin67]

If you still have it, those things are like 250-300 now on eBay.

[@Rob-z7k]

​@@justbuggin67its crap. Trust me

[@davediaz1742]

Not you guys shouting out your friend AJ and not Academy Award Nominee Steven Yeun lol!!

[@scottywan82]

I was genuinely wondering why he brought up AJ twice. 😂

[@DarkKnightBatman420]

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]

Captain Power maybe?

[@DarkKnightBatman420]

@@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.

[@A-0-K-GAMER]

I remember this, my older brother had a VHS or is it a DVD of that? Also, could you cover Voltron force?

[@Ixapter]

That Golion Get-Up is just too priceless. I wonder if we'll see more toy costumes in the future.

[@retrosmodernlife8705]

I about choked to death when I saw Dan in the Voltron costume 😂😂

[@btetschner]

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.

[@EvaFull]

Happy 40th Birthday Voltron 🎉🎉🎉

[@Mister_Mag00]

lol still looks better then Thundercats Roar XD

[@zazaranger5]

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

[@wstine79]

The REBOOT Voltron just felt too extreme for my liking as a teenager.

[@Rob-z7k]

Same here

[@btetschner]

A+ video! Awesome video, such a memorable franchise!

[@shaider1982]

I like the 1980's voltron costume.👍🏻🤣

[@mightyfilm]

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.

[@brianjl7477]

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.

[@rafalopez282]

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.

[@yargkcirtap8946]

CG cartoons ruled in the beginning days! War Panets, Transformes, and Starship Troopers blew us away with the possibilities that awaited us.

Battletech was mind blowing the first time I saw it, the way it would switch from classic animation to "Image Enhancement" aka CGI for battles.

[@mrdarryljones1]

Some of my favorite content on KZbin!😊

[@shockwave75]

Yeah, this show was hard to watch. I did buy the normal and stealth Voltron toys though.

[@MoonbeamBase]

Stealth Voltron was peak 90s ugliness

[@warmachine9846]

Yes I watched Voltron third dimension It was hard to find It was always moving time slots I don't think I saw all of it

[@fragalot]

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!

[@AdrianAquarius]

I knew I wasn’t dreaming. I remember this show vaguely.

[@danoswald8099]

voltron legendary defender the Netflix series is by far the best that I have seen

[@theshakeups]

WEP showed a concept trailer for the live action movie at VoltCon 2022; I was there and it was miraculously awesome! WEP will be back this October for VoltCon with an update. ^_^

[@geardog24]

Thank goodness for the newer versions of Voltron that don’t look like they’re made on the PlayStation 2.

[@DragoonMS]

Nah, that's an insult to the PS2; Voltron: The Third Dimension looks like it was developed on a Super Nintendo.

[@papabearlives9995]

Was actually thinking PS 1

[@lordchapelseed791]

I remember getting the Stealth Voltron and Voltrex from Toys "R" Us. Warehouse shelf height.

[@alfonsomilla4775]

Anyone else catch Roy Harper during the Jurassic Park clip ?

[@Mr_GoR_]

Is that s blazing sword in your pocket, or are you happy to see me

[@jonathanward8967]

I absolutely LOVED Legendary Defender. A couple things they "changed" was a little jarring, but nothing to riot about. Some of those things I felt like they even just brushed away cause it didn't go over well. But it was a wonderful story front to back! Definitely worth a rewatch!

[@Dynaman21]

No it wasn’t. It was garbage.

[@jonathanward8967]

@@Dynaman21 why, cause it actually had a real story. Had a real ending. Ok so they had some woke stuff. But it's not like it was shoved in your face. Was legit 2 maybe 3 episodes about Pidges change, and you saw Shiros in the last episode. Definitely seen way more worse than that on basic cable. I was born in 84, so I only ever got to watch reruns of the OG. And the 90s version was hot dog water. I'll take legendary defender over the 90s 3d any day of the week.

[@Dynaman21]

No, because it was boring as all hell, because the plot collapsed in on itself, because it pointedly refused to use the robot or make it look cool. Because the character designs were ass. Because Shiro didn’t die early on like he should have. Because the merchandise didn’t sell one iota.

[@jonathanward8967]

@@Dynaman21 so you want some more of "the old", and merch? Don't get it twisted, there felt like a lot of filler episodes, but always wanting the same as something old defeats the purpose of a "reboot". For me personally, I was fine with the overall story. Now, if I go back for a full rewatch...I might have a different opinion. And that's all it is, an opinion.

[@WillKeaton]

_Reboot_ was the first all CGI cartoon, (unless you count _Insektors,_ which may have come out sooner) and it was made by Mainframe Entertainment back in 1994. This show was the first all CGI cartoon not made by Mainframe (that also wasn't _Insektors)_ and it came out in 1998. I would argue that the first season of _Reboot_ is superior to this from the standpoint of graphics and animation. The movement on these characters is just, it's not good. Thing is, by this point, Mainframe had been at this for years and had already put out the third season of _Reboot_ and was about to release a third season of _Beast Wars_ and to compare that stuff to _Voltron_ really shows how far ahead of the game Mainframe was.

[@shaeker]

Insektors was January 15 1994, Reboot was September 10 1994. Though Reboot was initially conceived in 1984, and insektors was 1991

[@jC-kc4si]

Foundation did much better CGI than Netter and they had some of Foundation's animators. Foundation went on to do work for Star Trek Voyager and the CGI Starship Troopers.

[@charlesweinert4116]

Secret Galaxy is slowly morphing into a secret Babylon 5 channel and I’m here for it.