Voltron question

iceman57 · Post by **iceman57** » Thu Jul 22, 2010 10:56 am

Due to a long discussion I had with GardianOfGood in the past about the impact of Voltron on US audience, I'm strongly interested by pictures of this TV series and think that this item can possibly be a valid art for exhibition:

http://ekizo.mandarake.co.jp/auc_e/item ... 4813000061

But I'm quite lost with the US broadcast procedure to buy in bulk cut in piece and recreate another anime story guideline (Robotech, G Force...) consequently Daltanius broadcast in the US consider as a valid and representative Voltron or do I have to focus on Go-Lion one ?

Thanks for US citizens comments about this local taste.

yoshito · Post by **yoshito** » Thu Jul 22, 2010 11:31 am

Daltanius was never shown here in the US as "Voltron" so buying that would not mean anything to Voltron fans in the US. The only Voltron people know of is the Golion version if anything, even then it was a pretty small fan base.

iceman57 · Post by **iceman57** » Thu Jul 22, 2010 1:29 pm

Thanks a lot, I'll let Daltanius items go and focus on Go-Lion only

Mackettric · Post by **Mackettric** » Fri Jul 23, 2010 10:48 am

yoshito wrote:Daltanius was never shown here in the US as "Voltron" so buying that would not mean anything to Voltron fans in the US. The only Voltron people know of is the Golion version if anything, even then it was a pretty small fan base.

Don't forget Dairugger XV. World Events used both Go Lion and Dairugger XV for the Voltron series. With the new DVD release, more Voltron fans are appreciating the unfairly maligned Vehicle Voltron.

I think the reason Voltron fans aren't more familiar with Daltanius is that it was never made into a toy, unlike Albegas, which was called Voltron II "Gladiator Robot". Voltron fans are certainly familiar with Albegas, there's a a few clips of it on the Voltron.com site.

iceman57 · Post by **iceman57** » Fri Jul 23, 2010 12:18 pm

Thanks, would you please be kind to add pictures ? That'll be really helpfull for my records and researchs.

Mackettric · Post by **Mackettric** » Fri Jul 23, 2010 1:42 pm

World Events has a video on YouTube about the different Voltrons about the fans debating Lion vs Vehicle voltron.

http://www.youtube.com/user/WorldEvents ... -vRpEAD6JM

Albegas clip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWWmlp9q ... =1&index=2

iceman57 · Post by **iceman57** » Fri Jul 23, 2010 1:45 pm

Crap

"This video contains content from World Events Productions, Ltd., who blocked it in your country due to licence rights".

Any representative pictures ?

Mackettric · Post by **Mackettric** » Fri Jul 23, 2010 2:51 pm

Voltron Image Archive http://voltarchive.animation-web.com/

Albegas images
http://voltarchive.animation-web.com/albegaspics.htm
http://members.cox.net/skeeterkub/albegas/images.html

iceman57 · Post by **iceman57** » Fri Jul 23, 2010 3:51 pm

Thanks a lot !

kizu · Post by **kizu** » Tue Aug 03, 2010 10:31 pm

To give you a little history on Daltanius' relation to the "Voltron" series... Basically the US distributors was asking the Japanese studio to send "the one with the Lion". The one they reviewed and was going to air was Daltanius (which had "sentient" 1 lion part) however, the Japanese studio made a mistake and thought "the one with the Lions" and so got "Go-Lion" which was re-packaged as Voltron in US. Due to the initial success US imported another mecha series which had nothing to do with "Go-Lion" but wanted the combining into giant robot, so they brought over "Dairugger" which were made out of vehicles but marketed as still part of the "voltron" universe. In essence none of these shows were really related to each other at all. Just an FYI.

mookyblast · Post by **mookyblast** » Fri Aug 06, 2010 8:18 pm

Howdy y'all

I do recall watching a cross over between Go-lion and Dairugger. And sure enough there was. In order to introduce Dairugger to the american audience. They made this crossover event. The movie was utter garbage but since as a kid (and even now) I'm still a HUGE Voltron fan boy (had underoos and everything as well as trying to register the domain www.Iheartvoltron.com). I watched every moment of that atrocious cross over "event".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltron:_Fleet_of_Doom

On a side note in, retrospect I believe that shows like Voltron and Power rangers actually led to the outbreak of the gang mentality using subliminal messages.

Think about it, as a young robotic lion cub, you pick a fight with a big ol' robeast. What happens? You get your metallic teeth kicked in. However, If you get four of your friends to join you and gang up on the poor robeast what happens? Poor robeast sent to the infirmary with injuries afflicted by your blazing sword.

They call it "team work" I call it gang warfare.

jenn-b · Post by **jenn-b** » Sat Aug 07, 2010 6:02 am

Hey....what are doing coming out of the shadows mookyblast? Get back under your rock!

mookyblast · Post by **mookyblast** » Sat Aug 07, 2010 11:45 am

Figured I'd get a bit of fresh air now and again.

jenn-b · Post by **jenn-b** » Sat Aug 07, 2010 11:49 am

Fresh air is over-rated. I'm considering going into hiding myself.