Voltron : Defender of the Universe - The Complete Original Series 9/10/19

[jeffm2016]

Originally Posted by SGB

Wow, wasn't expecting Voltron to get a DVD re-release. Good news for those who missed out on the original DVD releases.

The new Universal DVDs are already listed on Amazon, replete with covers:

Voltron: Defender Of The Universe -- The Complete Original Series

Voltron: Defender Of The Universe -- Lion Force

Voltron: Defender Of The Universe -- Vehicle Force

Good to see that according to the back covers of the Lion and Vehicle sets the DVDs will have English SDH, something the previous DVD releases did not have.

I hope the DVDs will not be sourced from the digital masters that were used for iTunes and "Voltron '84" on Netflix as those masters were riddled with technical problems such as aliasing, juddering, audio/video speed-ups, incorrect frame rate, on a couple of occassions missing frames of footage, truncated lines, and a bunch of weirds edits.

The digital masters used for the previous DVD releases from Media Blasters were devoid of those issues, so hopefully the Universal DVD has been sourced from those masters.

I’m confused what’s the difference between original series and lion force? I watched it growing up and don’t remember two different versions of the lion. I do remember the vehicles.

[Pulp Hero]

Originally Posted by jeffm2016

I’m confused what’s the difference between original series and lion force? I watched it growing up and don’t remember two different versions of the lion. I do remember the vehicles.

The Complete Original Series DVD set has both the Lion Force and the Vehicle Force shows. WEP's original idea was to use 3 different super robot anime and adapt them into 3 Voltron series than would have been sold as 3 "seasons" of an overall show to television stations. [Similar how ROBOTECH was later created] Ultimately only 2 anime were adapted into Voltron shows.

Lion Voltron (adapted from BEAST KING GO LION) proved to be immensely popular, so much so that WEP had new episodes created beyond what was available from Go Lion. Vehicle Voltron (adapted from ARMORED FLEET DAIRUGGER XV) was not as popular, though I don't remember it getting near as much air time as Lion Voltron, which led to the plans to adapt the third show being dropped.

That third part of the original Voltron plan was to adapt LIGHTSPEED ELECTROID ALBEGAS, which itself proved not so popular in Japan and was cut short.

[jeffm2016]

I remember the toy line had 2 voltrons, near universe, mid universe and far universe. I had the middle which was 3 humanoid robots that combined.

I liked the vehicle one....always wondered why we never saw the third Voltron. Thanks!

[SGB]

Originally Posted by jeffm2016

I liked the vehicle one....always wondered why we never saw the third Voltron. Thanks!

World Events Productions opted not to make the third Voltron series due to the less-than-stellar reception the Vehicle Force series received.

I do know a pilot script was written for the third Voltron series, but things never progressed beyond that.