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January of 2010

 

Rate Sven VS Hagar Voltron Set

Original at mannymederos.deviantart.com external link    Thu, Jan 28

Everyone remembers the classic moment where Sven fights Hagar and gets a cheap shot by kitty right? This scene is one of Voltron's more epic episodes and funny at the same time. This is 1 of 50 I d...

Rate Voltron Allura

Original at 24h Age external link    Wed, Jan 20

One of the 4 sketch cards I did for the Voltron set from 5FINITY.Prismacolor markers.

Rate Voltron Sketch Card Series

Original at 5finity.deviantart.com external link    Sun, Jan 3

Voltron: Defender of the Universe Sketch Card Series021510© World Events Productions, Ltd. Used with permission.

December of 2009

 

Rate Japan's Life-Sized Gundam to Make a Return

Original at Escapist Magazine external link    Wed, Dec 23

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the "real robot" genre, which treated giant robots as military hardware rather than the magical superheroes of the "super robot" genre like Voltron. ... and more »

Rate Voltron

Original at 24h Age external link    Thu, Dec 17

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Defender of the Universe....sorry, no Optimus Prime voice.I loved this cartoon as a kid and it was my first encounter with "bots" way before transformers was on it's way. Several people...

Rate This Weekend in Beer

Original at Seattlest external link    Thu, Dec 17

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Those of us that grew up on Transformers, GI Joe, and Voltron more than likely can relate when the words "Speed Racer" are spoken. ...

Rate Voltron Vehicle Force

Original at 24h Age external link    Sat, Dec 12

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Try to have fun with Dairugger XV aka Voltron Vehicle...nice show and nice toys....I always want the toy since I was 5!!!! I used water color pencil for this one

Rate Voltron: Defender of the Universe Review (iphone)

Original at GamersDailyNews external link    Fri, Dec 11

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Then at the end of each 'Act' of the game a Robeast shows up. So the Lions combine to create Voltron and you have a 2D fighting game to beat the Robeast. ...

Rate Voltron: Defender of the Universe to mobile phones, iPhone

Original at Crispy Gamer external link    Tue, Dec 8

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As players travel through the game, they get the chance to form those lions into the giant robot Voltron to take on the more menacing Robeasts in ... Voltron' Assembling For iPhone And Other Mobile DevicesMTV.com Voltron Announced for iphoneIGN

Rate Voltron Gets Served, Skulks Off To iPhone - Kotaku.com

Original at Kotaku.com external link    Mon, Dec 7

Voltron Gets Served, Skulks Off To iPhone blog) It's based on the original Voltron (am I the only person in the world who preferred the one with the vehicles?), with the kids and the lions, ... Voltron Announced for iphoneIGN iPhone game Voltron claws its way onto the US App StorePocket Gamer

Rate Voltron game hits iPhone, has best 'unpause' feature ever

Original at Destructoid external link    Mon, Dec 7

than use the Black Lion to paw away rockets, I can confirm this: no other game is more awesome when paused and then unpaused than Voltron on the iPhone. ... Voltron Announced for iphoneIGN all 2 news articles »

Rate Voltron Announced for iphone

Original at IGN external link    Mon, Dec 7

As players travel through the game, they form their lions into the giant robot Voltron to take on the more menacing Robeasts in traditional 2D fighting ...

Year 2009

 

Rate Kotaku NYC, For A Day

Original at Kotaku external link    Tue, Aug 4

By Stephen Totilo The black lion of the Voltron that is Kotaku took the day off today. In that lion's place was me. Hooray? That's right, Kotaku was temporarily headquartered in New York City today. I'd have all sorts of witty things to tell you about my day and how we recovered from our tech problems of yesterday...

Rate 10 Transformers To eBay For

Original at io9 external link    Sat, Jun 27

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By Graeme McMillan Let's get this out the way right now: The Action Masters subset of the Transformers line? A completely bad idea. For those of you who don't remember the Action Masters, this is their gimmick: They were Transformers that didn't transform. You'd think that someone, somewhere at Hasbro might...

Rate DVD Review: Transformers: The Complete First Season (25th ...

Original at The Trades external link    Mon, Jun 15

 OR I recognized Prowl, the police car Autobot, as Michael Bell, who had voiced both Lance and Sven from Voltron as well as GI Joe leader Duke. Another Scooby Doo alum, veteran radio personality Casey "Shaggy" Kasem, voiced Bluestreak and the "shoot first, ...

Rate Voltron camera transforms into robot in time for Transformers 2

Original at T3 external link    Fri, Jun 12

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The plastic camera was made in Macau for Impulse Ltd. of Missouri, United States, in 1985, and was inspired by the Japanese Voltron robot. Unfortunately an eBay search doesn't turn up any results, so the chances of finding this camera are fairly low ...

Rate Vol. 2 DVD Set for the Series from the Makers of Voltron

Original at TVShowsOnDVD.com external link    Tue, Jun 9

 Canada Back in early April we had the heads-up that World Events Productions ("WEP") and VCI Entertainment was planning an upcoming DVD release of Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs - Collector's Edition, Volume 2. Now a new pre-order listing at Amazon shows ...

Rate Robot Chicken Meets Voltron In 'Titan Maximum'

Original at Screen Rant » Search Results » iron external link    Fri, May 8

Co-head writer/producer Tom Root and co-creator/executive producer Matthew Senreich created the spin-off series, which pits a collection of dysfunctional heroes and their Voltron-style assembled robot (pronounced “RO-bet,” if you're cool and from the ...

Rate Voltron: Defender of the Universe Space Explorers Captured ...

Original at TV.com external link    Fri, May 1

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Air unit leader Keith (a surprisingly non-threatening name for an air unit leader) takes a team of pilots to the planet Arus to find Voltron, the ... www.tv.com

Rate Report: opacity through inefficiency at DHS

Original at Ars Technica external link    Mon, Mar 23

 MA What comes across most clearly in GAO's review is that the disparate Voltron lions that make up DHS have each been developing their own distinct systems for processing FOIA requests, many of which sound positively quaint. Only three of the seven major ...

Rate Voltron: Defender of the Universe, Season 6, In Search of New Worlds

Original at Video Marketplace external link    Tue, Jan 6

With Earth and its allied worlds suffering from dangerous levels of overcrowding, Galaxy Garrison sends the Stellar Ship Explorer into the Near Universe to search out new worlds. However, doing so brings them critically close to the evil Drule Empire. For protection, they develop 15 exp...

Rate Voltron: Defender of the Universe, Season 6, A Temporary Truce

Original at Video Marketplace external link    Tue, Jan 6

A young Drule pilot crashes during training exercises and is saved by Jeff and the Voltron Force. Nursed back to health, the pilot begins making friends. Newley and Hawkins think that the Drule pilot could become an emissary of peace. However, Sea Team member Shannon has a brother who is a POW...

Rate Voltron: Defender of the Universe, Season 6, Planet of the Bats

Original at Video Marketplace external link    Tue, Jan 6

Cliff and his Land Team find an ancient city on a forgotten planet. While exploring, Cinda and Modok find an army of strange bats. Modok goes berserk before finally collapsing, burning up with fever. It seems the bats have given him a strange virus. Then the Drule fleet attacks, but without Mod...

Rate Voltron: Defender of the Universe, Season 6, First Day on a New World

Original at Video Marketplace external link    Tue, Jan 6

The Stellar Ship Explorer has landed on a new planet and is preparing to set up a permanent base. Drule fleet commander Hazar has gotten word of this plan, and has decided to capture the planet and the Alliance facilities in one fell swoop. However, his assistant Captain Quark gets impatient...

Rate Voltron: Defender of the Universe, Season 6, Building a New World

Original at Video Marketplace external link    Tue, Jan 6

Hazar issues an ultimatum to the Explorer and her crew: vacate the planet or he will obliterate it. Jeff, Cliff, Krik and the rest of the Voltron Force try to stop them, but the planet is too fragile and begins to explode. To escape the doomed planet, the Land, Sea and Air Teams must combine to fo...

Rate Voltron: Defender of the Universe, Season 6, Goodbye New World

Original at Video Marketplace external link    Tue, Jan 6

Krik's sixth sense leads the Stellar Ship Explorer to a strange black hole cluster. A faint distress call convinces Commander Hawkins of the need to investigate, so he sends in the Sea Team. However, the entire team is soon lost in the Sea of Holes, and there they encounter an enormous Robeas...

Rate Voltron: Defender of the Universe, Season 6, Ghost Fleet From Another Planet

Original at Video Marketplace external link    Tue, Jan 6

The Explorer arrives at a new planet, only to find a strange Ghost Fleet appearing and disappearing around the globe. Intrigued, the Voltron Force begins a wild goose chase as the Explorer waits in a central lake. Hawkins has a bad feeling that the planet holds a terrible secret, but will the...

Year 2008

 

Rate Voltron Defender of the Universe DVD

Original at Great TV Shows on DVD external link    Fri, Oct 31

By Carina Coderis(noreply@blogger.com) Voltron was aired on television last September 10, 1984. Featuring the voices of Michael Bell as voice of Lance and Sven, B.J. Ward as voice of Alura / Nanny / Haggar, Lennie Weinrib as voice of Hunk / Lotor, Neil Ross as voice of Keith / Jeff / Pidge / Chip, and many more…

Rate Robot Chicken Season 3 DVD Review | TV Blog | UGO.com

Original at ugo.com external link    Tue, Oct 28

Personal favorite sketches include a play on the tediously slow assembly process of the Voltron robot in times of peril, and a hilarious take on the life of Where in Time is Carmen San Diego host Kevin Shinick (who happens to be one of ...

Rate Voltron Combine to Fight Boredom!

Original at Entertainment Earth Satellite Newsletter external link    Mon, Oct 20

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If you're looking to have some fun with an updated version of a classic toy, look no further! The Voltron Lion Force Gift Set brings back the famous robot with all five lions able to separate and combine at your pleasure. Additional accessories, like a giant sword, are included so you can van...

Rate Read: Putting up a good fight

Original at New Straits Times external link    Fri, Sep 12

 Malaysia - Back then, there was also Voltron, a humanoid robot. Again, each week Voltron would take on and defeat a huge monster. Even as a child I started thinking, ...

Rate Max Makowski in talks for 'Voltron'

Original at Variety external link    Wed, Sep 3

 CA - Scribe Justin Marks penned the live-action adaptation of the Japanese animated series of the 1980s that revolves around a sword-wielding robot that helps ...

Rate Meet The Man Who Tells Giant Cat Robots What To Do

Original at io9 external link    Fri, Aug 29

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 CA - Great lion-faced robots — the Voltron script that has been passed around for years finally has a director attached to it. Latino Review discovered that ...

Rate Some 'Queer' Guy has an 'Eye' to Direct the 'Voltron' Movie

Original at RopeofSilicon.com external link    Thu, Aug 28

By Brad Brevet Latino Review found out Max Makowski is going to direct Voltron, which is based on an animated television series in which five Galaxy Alliance pilots control vehicles shaped like lions that combine and form the massive sword-wielding ...

Rate Front & Rear DVD Package Art for Vehicle Force Voltron ...

Original at TVShowsOnDVD.com external link    Mon, Aug 18

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Front & Rear DVD Package Art for Vehicle Force Voltron ...  Canada - Since the Voltron of Planet Arus was too far away to help the explorers, a totally new Voltron is constructed to battle the Drule threat. ...

Rate Script Review: The <b>Voltron</b> Movie

Original at Cinema Blend external link    Mon, Aug 11

Justin Marks accomplishes the impossible: Robot lions that don't suck.

Rate Voltron: A Legend Forged #1 - Review

Original at Weekly Comic Book Review.com external link    Mon, Jul 21

By Deamentia I’m probably one of the few Voltron fans out there who prefers the Vehicle Force to the Lion Force, and in this issue we get both squadrons. I’m actually really impressed with how writer Josh Blaylock manages to get both teams in the ...

Rate Fanfiction: MMOM Day 8: Voltron Force (ensemble)

Original at were-lemur (Livejournal) external link    Sat, May 10

By Werelemur This fic is rated: R Fandom: Voltron: Defender of the Universe Characters/Pairing: Keith, Lance, Hunk, Pidge, Allura, (Nanny), (Lotor) Summary: what they think about Warnings: masturbation, mention of bdsm Word Count: 100 ...

Rate Speed Racer Review - UGO

Original at ugo.com external link    Fri, May 9

Speed Racer Review  NY - May 9, 2008 All the kooky animation stuff you know from Robotech to Voltron (or maybe Pokemon to Yu-Gi-Oh!'s for you whippersnappers) is replicated in live action to a ...

Rate Movie Review: Speed Racer - Pegasus News

Original at Pegasus News external link    Fri, May 9

Movie Review: Speed Racer  TX - May 9, 2008 Not that I didn't try --it was just too boring, too plain, and too predictable, especially when Transformers and Voltron were engaging my impressionable ...

Rate Voltron: Defender of the Universe - Update on Voltron DVD Release ... - TVShowsOnDVD.com

Original at TVShowsOnDVD.com external link    Wed, Feb 27

Voltron: Defender of the Universe - Update on Voltron DVD Release ...  Canada - But, since GoLion (and Dairugger, the source of "Vehicle Force" Voltron footage) are pretty tied up in the plans for scheduling releases of Voltron DVDs, ...

Rate Voltron: Hell Bent for Leather

Original at Seishun Shitemasu, a Bunch of Guys with a VCR external link    Thu, Feb 21

By Peter in Japan Voltron and Judas Priest -- what's not to love? If I was unable to obtain the Red Robeast episode, I was actually planning on using one with a robeast that looked suspiciously like a turtle as "Voltron vs Gamera," -- probably just as well for all of us that it didn't pan out.

Rate Voltron II: The Lost Episode

Original at Seishun Shitemasu, a Bunch of Guys with a VCR external link    Thu, Feb 21

By Peter in Japan Voltron: The Lost Years is a prequel to Voltron: Hell Bent for Leather, building off the conceit that all five-member hero teams are comprised of the same characters: level-headed, somewhat boring leader, hotheaded second, fat guy, chick, and kid. Gatchaman's famous fashion sensibil...

Year 2007

 

Rate TIFF Movie Review: Captain Mike Across America - /FILM

Original at /FILM external link    Thu, Sep 6

TIFF Movie Review: Captain Mike Across America  MA - RadicalX: Matt, It follows neither Voltron nor GoLion. It’s it’s own animal. Just as the Lions in the... RadicalX: Yeah, it’sa He-Man movie. ...

Rate RealNetworks and MTV Form Rhapsody America Music Service With Verizon Over-The-Air Downloads

Original at Gizmodo external link    Tue, Aug 21

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By Wilson Rothman Real and MTV are putting together a Voltron-like online retailer called Rhapsody America in order to better combat Apple's iTunes Music Store. The V Cast Music over-the-air service from Verizon Wireless will form the 3G-powered mobile-distribution arm. Though no pricing or timing det...

Rate Move Over Optimus Prime, "Voltron" Is Coming

Original at TMZ.com external link    Sat, Aug 11

By TMZ Staff Yet another '80s cartoon is set to hit the big screen -- "Voltron." And I'll form ... the head!New Regency is working with the Mark Gordon Co. to turn "Voltron: Defender of the Universe" into a live-action film. ...

Rate Upcoming Movies Based on Cartoons

Original at Cinematical external link    Mon, Jul 9

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By Tommy DiChiara Also on the horizon is a live-action Thundercats flick, in which Lion-O and an army of humanoid cats (yes, you read that correctly) battle the evil sorcerer Mumm-Ra on a planet known as Third Earth. And last but not least is a real gem for the true cartoon aficionado: a live-action movie base...

Rate Analyzing JJ Abrams’ Cloverfield: Voltron, Godzilla, Lost, Gamera

Original at /FILM external link    Thu, Jul 5

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By orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) Some have even speculated that this might be one giant campaign for the Abrams co-created television series LOST. It could just be a coincidence that LOST returns to network television a few weeks after the 1.18.2008 date and is expected to involve flash forwards to the “real world”. JJ Abram...

Rate Latino Review Gives Voltron Script A+ Rating

Original at The Movie Blog external link    Mon, Jun 18

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With Transformers on deck to smash the box office and plunder our wallets, you better believe that more robot films will be green lit. If I get to see the 5 lions assemble on the silver screen, it will be a glorious treat, this is for certain!

Rate David Goyer Taps 22 Year-Old Newcomer To Write 'Super Max'

Original at Cinematical external link    Thu, Apr 19

By Patrick Walsh Let this be an inspiration to all you aspiring screenwriters out there. 22 year-old newcomer Justin Marks has been selected by writer/director/producer David Goyer to write the screenplay for Goyer's proposed Green Arrow movie, Super Max. (Erik brought you news of the project here and h...

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