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Voltron Coming To The Big Screen
wo1verin3 writes "Voltron is coming to theatres!. While details are sparse, we do know it will be produced by Mark Gordon ('The Day After Tomorrow'). I'm still waiting for the DVD sets." From the article: "The 'Voltron' animated TV series debuted in 1984, about the same time as Hasbro's Transformers toy line, igniting a morphing robot phenomenon. According to sources, Voltron has generated $750 million in worldwide licensing and nearly $200 million in toys and merchandising since 1984."
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Voltron cast:
Keith: Jon Bon Jovi
Lance: John Cusak
Princess Allura: Natalie Portman
Hunk: Brian Thompson
Pidge: Elijah Wood
King Zarkon: Anthony Hopkins
Prince Lotor: Christopher Walken
Robeast: Rosie O'Donnell
Read further only if you don't mind knowing how the Voltron movie ends...
OK...you've been warned...
^_^
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What does 'Since 1984' mean? What was the cutoff date for those stats? Prior to any news of a new movie, have there been any Voltron toys in stores for years? I don't recall seeing any for a long time now.
And they said zombies weren't real!
and the server's already out of bandwidth: www.voltronforce.com Temporarily Unavailable This account has surpassed its bandwidth allocation at the present time. You may reach the account administrator at www@www.voltronforce.com I wonder what it'll be like for that SA the next few days...
I'm waxing nostalgic for the good 'ol days of 1984, when cartoons were Japanese, cheap, and inventive, when toys were mass-marketed towards those clicks that like them..... I was in a click in my elementary school - we were the Voltron Kids. We were enemies with the GI Joe guys, and I eventually became a traitor because I liked Thundercats and became friends with the Thundercats. In reality, I could use less nostalgia and less crap in Hollywood. Transformers, Voltron - what's next, My Little Pony Strikes Back???
In addition to this awesome news, they mention that a transformers movie is coming also. Please let them not mess up these movies. These have the potential to be the coolest movies of all time, as long as they don't turn them into a "Look what we can do with CGI" showcase. Even that would be moderately cool, but with a good plot these would excite me.
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Seems to me there were at least two separate Voltrons (my local affiliate would never bother to order them or show any consistency whatsoever).
I wonder if this new one will adopt either one of the universes or strike out on it's own.... if Voltron somehow ends up fighting Iraqi Robeasts, though... I'm outta here.
Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaa....
I just can't stop laughing at your post... and I'm at work too. XD
"and I'll form the head!"
My mother still has a picture of me on my first day of grade school... with my brand new Voltron backpack.
Fressssh!
Not every argument requires reduction to absurdity.
Is it the Voltron that is made up of different colored lions, or is it the one made up of a bunch of different automobiles?
There is a difference. I think...
That's a legitimate question, since there was that Voltron CG series in the late 90's that, honestly, I thought had much much better storylines than the original series. Granted, the CG made Voltron look like a toy and not a force to be reckoned with.
"Volton is coming to theatres!.
Great news...
we do know it will be produced by Mark Gordon ('The Day After Tomorrow').
Followed almost immediately by crappy news.
Oh well.
"Serenity" now!!!
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
Sure, ruin Star Wars, Dukes of Hazzard, Transformers, and millions of other memories from my childhood days. Why not ruin Voltron.
While you're at it, go back in time and kick my dog, slash my bike tires, and burn down my fort.
Kiss my bass.
Form BLAZING SWORD!!
This'll be hilarious, regardless of whether or not it is good on merit.
1. I'll form the head!
2. Form blazing sword!
3. ???
4. Profit!
Who the heck is Volton?
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No. That's like saying why should they make a new Transformers movie when they already made "GoBots meet the Rock Lords."
Here we are now, popped collars on the polo shirts, pastels, etc. Now Voltron and Transformers. When old is new again.
-Randy
Fark didn't lead their write of this with Proving Hollywood has run out of ideas...
Pity. Because it's true.
So what's the next crappy 80's cartoon that must be re-created with crappy CGI? God forbid we could have an original idea for a movie when it's easier to license something as a pre-sold commodity.
-Chris (realinvalidname)
will be released directly to DVD as gay porn. Come on folks, all of these shows are blatently homo-erotic.
Robotech, or Macross if you will, made the whole transforming robots thing a hit. In fact, the Jetfire toy was a rip-off of a Robotech/Macross veritech fighter.
Regardless, this is just another in a long line of the lasted Hollywood crazy; remember-when-you-were-a-kid nostalgia remakes aimed more at the parents.
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
I am such a karma whore but here you go just tell them you got served
Sorry about the writing. Robot fingers, you know? Cliff Steele in DOOM PATROL #23
... Voltron got served on the dance floor! [Hilarious WMA mini-movie].
Tiller's Rule: Never use a word in written form that you've only heard and never read. You will end up looking foolish.
I don't know about you, but I liked the "vehicles" based Voltron much better. Somehow the one based on tiger-like vehicles didn't appeal to me.
The main reason is I liked the robots with much more details, like the transformers.
It is nice to see that 20 years later, people are pursuing new ways to tell those stories that defined our childhood. But, I am skeptical as to how it will be presented in the screen, because I know I will NOT like somebody in a giant suit (a la Ultraman or power rangers) and I believe that other than original cel animation it will be very hard to translate to the silver screen.
The more detailed and anime-like, the more difficult to translate... I wonder if I'll like the EVAs, Transformers, and even if they attempted to, Robotech or other anime that it is in my "must own" list.
I am a comics fan, and a hard core X-men at that, and I know I didn't like the live action most of the Marvel incarnations, except for Daredevil and maybe the first Spdierman. And I think those were "easier" to translate...
the whole world is destroyed? Please, no Keanu Reeves!!!
I still remember wanting a Voltron so bad before Christmas that one year. And luckily I was in Sunday School at that time so my prayer skills were sharp and I put them to good use.
Needless to say, God told my parents to buy that thing.
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I must've been about 5 years old or so when I first started watching Voltron on TV. I remember it because it was the first cartoon I ever saw that actually featured bloody battle action, and I think it really scared me at first. Later of course, I thought it was really cool.
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro" -Hunter S. Thompson
from the sounds of it, this will be the *Lionbot* Voltron. I can recall with envy some of the kids that had the Japanese import *Lionbot* that featured all of the shooting missiles that the American distributor (using the *Voltron* brand) was afraid to market.
The *Lionbot* is the only version of *Voltron* that the general public remembers/cares for. There were two other versions remarketed in the States under the *Voltron* name (the car/plane one and the other version with the three robots that made a six arm combo), but in comparison, they were obscure.
*Lionbot* *Voltron* was iconic. Its hard to forget a giant robot made up of five other lion-esque robots brandishing a giant sword that chops up all the other robot villains.
Perhaps Disney might seek out the motion picture license for *TranZor-Z* (aka Mazinger Z). That show was funny and also had a following (not as big as *Voltron,* but bigger than the *Gobots* even with the *Gobots* junk toys) back in the 80s here in the States.
Granted, a live action *Cowboy Bebop* would be sweet, even if Joss Whedon already pillaged that property (and *Blake's 7*) to create *Firefly.*
Pillage...oh wait, I should have stated "homage."
Tee hee...
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Cool, I'll have to go see this. I enjoyed it as a kid, but ironically hate the Power Rangers now, which is really the same thing but without the cartoony special effects. Ah, I can't wait to see how these toys will compare to those I had back in the day.
There was a Voltron feature movie where the Lion Voltron and the Auto-Voltron teams combined to fight both mutual enemies. Before the fight, the two leaders were at a target range, neither of them missing a perfect shot each time against each other. The crews were watching the spectacle, bored.
I prefer the Lion, although the Auto-Voltron had more versatility to create other specialized fighters.
Vos teneo officium eram periculosus ut vos recipero is.
Please oh G-d please do not let this come to fruition. Please let it be optioned to oblivion and tossed in a drawer. May they get horrible debilitating diseases if they attempt it. May a curse on the level of Tut's strike them.
If this happens, Gatchaman cannot be far behind. We must act now to stop this for the preservation of all human kind.
I'm going to go put myself in an 80s-bad-Japanese-animation-adaptations-free room and not come out till this is a painful and soul-scarring memory... And drink... A lot...
If my grammar and spelling are off, I am [distracted/tired/careless] (take your pick)
I was about to ask whether it was the lions-based Voltron, or the "stupid" cars-based one. Crap that's embarassing.
1984 was the big year for Voltron in the States. Dunno where you are, or how old, but in 1984, you either liked GI Joe, Voltron, Transformers or the traitorous Thundercats, He-Man, or GoBots.
GI Joe kids are in Iraq today, The Voltron/Transformers are running your IT dept, and all teh rest are drooling on somebody's hamburger patty right now.
they parodied Voltron in more than one episode.
lets have Battle of the Planets (Gatchaman), pr even Starblazers.
There were two different Voltrons (but for some reason I remember a third one, no info on that tho'):
;-)
One was the 5 lions (edited down from the Japanese series Golion - which mean '5 Lions' in Japanese)
The one made from 15 different cars, edited down from another series Kikou Dantai Dairugger-XV. It was called 'Vehicle Force Voltron' here in the States.
I do remember seeing an episode of Golion directly from Japan (got to watch Gundam and Lupin once in a while, I loved Lupin) and Pidge walks out into the night and started to take a pee! I was used to Japanese television content but that was a new one to me, cartoons dont ever have to do that or so I thought.
I liked Goshogun better
Typo wasn't in my post... it was edited in.
My post started with (paraphrasing): Those who come from the pre-power ranger generation should appreciate this...
TFA states that Voltron is made up of five smaller robots (this must be referring to the Lionbot, the Autobot had 15 vehicles; 5 land, 5 sea, and 5 air). It also states that they will be fighting against the Drule empire, but the only Voltron to fight the Drule empire was the Autobot. The Lionbot fought King Zarkon and his Robeasts. Perhaps they are just combining the two storylines, since the took place in the same era/universe.
The Autobot was constructed to fight the Drule because the Lionbot was to far away (on Arus) to defend the Galaxy Alliance from Drule.
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Yes.
I quit!
Darn my inner child...
Okay, even better then. I love it when "editors" add and publish typos...
I'll turn into a supernova and burn up everything. Well I'll turn into a black little hole and you'll turn into string.
What about the third one, which was three humanoid robots that somehow combined into a larger humanoid robot? I had toys of all three when I was little, but never really figured out this third one as I never saw a cartoon to really explain how it all was supposed to fit together. The instructions were lacking or absent... I think there was a red one, a black one, and a blue one if I remember right.
The vehicles Voltron was cool too. The toys were great, but I didn't get into this cartoon as much as I liked the one with the lions for some reason.
What about Sven? Ok it would be a bit part, but still needs to be there non the less. Same goes for the butler dude.
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Voltron was really cool. I remember watching it after Speed Racer on Saturday mornings. Comes close to Robotech as my favorite Giant Robot Anime. I just hope this isn't based on the shitty computer generate cartoon from a few years back.
what typo? :)
Power rangers are based off the old Voltron series and IIRC they were made by the same company, Saiban.
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I'm pretty sure Hasbro did the Gobots, not the Transformers.
Your gonna get called a troll, but that was still funny.
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The lion version was the original. It's what most people will remember. The biggest reason for this movie clearly is the nostalgia, which would be limited to a smaller audience by using the cars.
For those of you who don't know the original Japanese name for lion's version. For the Go (5) lions.
As previous mentioned about the Wikipedia article.
Since it's going to be just recycled story in a 71? minute format, they could try to hire some decent non-BermanBraga type writers.
With the USA pretty much abandoned cel animation by now (Dreamworks, Pixar), how is it going to look?
Japan is still king of animation that includes traditional cel-look with CG, and Golion just won't look the same otherwise.
Just look at that ugly "newer and better!" CG-only series in the late '90s. Even now with horrible looking 'cel-shaded' CG Transformers.
However, Shrek/Incredibles level 3D animation would be sweet, but unlikely.
It better have those little Mice that helped out Princess Aurora.
Chewie does not get a medal. Come on, George. Can a Wookie get a medal?
Once, but then my spell checker caught it.
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Act 2: Introduce the current despotic galactic overlord looking to rule the entire system. Lead antagonist looks ugly as sin and suffers from severe halitosis.
Act 3: Some more time fillers like travel to different planets and maybe a pitiful romance with some soppy love interest.
Act 4: Show down with the rogue beast and after an awful dragged out sequence where Voltron is getting the crap kicked out of it, the famous Flaming Sword is whipped out at the last crucial moment ending the rogue beast in a quartered fashion. I fail to remember is this quartering is done in a big "x" fashion or "+" a crucifix like fashion. Probably the later since Voltron represents all that is good in the bloody universe.
The End.
Discussion point: Why the hell don't they use the Flaming Sword in the very beginning? Seems to be the ONLY weapon that has worked against ALL their adversaries.
However, those coming from the post-power ranger generation certainly appreciate Amy Jo Johnson (aka the pink ranger)
"I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer." -Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear
There were 2 different Voltron's, the first (lions) and the second (spaceships.)
Basically think an animated version of Power Rangers. (well before the time of the power rangers.)
5 people have robot lions, they use them like cars/tanks... When the fighting against the main baddie of the week get tough, the 5 lions "transform" into a huge humanoid robot. 4 lions make the arms and legs and teh leader lion makes the torso and head.
Oooh! I can't wait for the sequels: Re-Voltron, Voltron vs. Michael Boltron, Voltron Meets The Electric Johnson, and Voltron Gets His Robotic Ass Handed to Him.
You anime fans are far more pathetic than comic book fans. At least they grow up even if some still read comic books. And don't get me started on Dr. Who luser fans.
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I didn't mean to say that the TARDIS should be hauling garbage. I meant to say that it should be hauled away AS garbage.
"You'll get nothing, and you'll like it!"
It's going to be one of those movies, and my guess is he's going to be one of the only redeeming characters (again). My guess is he'll either get a villain (as he was in the mind-numbingly bad CGI Voltron) or the butler. It's going to be Congo all over again, except with giant robots instead of grey gorillas.
Don't get me wrong, as a kid I used to love the show. However, let's be realistic: The show was a tad redundant... but Hollywood will still manage to totally miss the mark.
To heck with Voltron! I want a live action, GCI ridden Starblazers!!
Will Voltron get served?
- Team member goes missing for some reason. (Kidnapped, low self confidence, etc.)
- Bad guys create a "robobeast".
- Robobeast slaps around individual Voltron lions, things look bleak for our heroes.
- Somehow, team member returns to their lion. (Escapes, realizes how important the team member is, etc.)
- Lions form Voltron.
- Voltron kills robobeast.
The end.Cars? I recall 2 Voltrons. The first being the 5 lions, the other being a dozen or so space ships, (Which I guess you could see as cars, though I tend to think of cars as being land based) Am I missing one?
..."Voltron" was just the name the American company came up with when they licensed the Japanese shows. The five-lion show was called "Golion" ("go" being Japanese for "five" - think Speed Racer/Mach Go Go Go). Much like the three Japanese shows that made up "Robotech" over here had nothing to do with each other originally, I think that was the case with the three (though like others have said, only two got shown) were seperate shows originally.
It's been eons since this was on, and eons since I was a serious anime geek, so I could be wrong.
"People" using "unnecessary" quotes should be "shot".
You think Power Rangers are on the same level with Voltron? That's it. You're out of the club.
Hand in your geek membership card, secret decoder ring, and Linux CDs on the way out.
I remember giving PR the benefit of the doubt and watching the first episode. Piece of crap looked like it was done by Sid and Marty Kroft on a bad day.
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Aw hell I can't resist
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I remember owning the '57 Chevy that turned into the 6 wheeled tank. Man I miss those toys.
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I'm all for a Voltron movie, but "The Day After Tomorow" was the worst movie I've, sadly, paid money to see in a long time. I have little faith that anyone involved in that horribly contrived plot could do justice to Voltron.
I will not be surprised if the Voltron movie involves a gratuitous timber wolf chase scene through an abandoned ocean tanker.
Dewey, you fool! Your decimal system has played right into my hands!
If you use the packaging for the toys as a guide, the lions version was labeled Voltron III while the cars version was Voltron I. There was this weird three robot combining into one freaky looking super robot called Voltron II.
Am I making this up? I don't think I am. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
I just got it...
Thundercats are LOOSE. EWWWWWwwwwwww.....
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This is so goddamn awesome!!! My favorite cartoon, ever!!! This is gonna RULE!!!
Get your facts straight jackass.....Voltron was tv cartoon first......they may have made a few comics based off the show later, byt that hardly qualifiesit as being a comic book movie.......
You're 15, right? I can only assume that you weren't alive (or at least watching cartoons) in 1984. (or were unfortunate enough to live in a market that didn't get Voltron.)
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That it doesn't suck like Robot Jox did. I could care less about the money I wasted on watching that movie, I want my time back!
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Anyway.. I would take the dates of the Japanese Anime's as the real deciding factor of which came first: 1981 for Lion Voltron; 1982 for Car Voltron.
http://www.absoluteanime.com/voltron/
http://www.absoluteanime.com/voltron/index-v.htm
Transfromers have nothing on Go Rangers I used to watch in the 70's in Hawaii.
They did it first.
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Voltron's Office of Homeland Security is in the Heeeouse!
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Nah, anyone of those losers who read Harry Potter will have read it seventeen times by now. Well, the ones who paid full price on release day for it, not the ones who'll wait 2 weeks to get it for 50p in the bargain bin.
n/t
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltron
Dude, I heard Sven dies right away and the Princess ends up in the Blue Lion! No way!
I also heard it was Snape who killed him, right after Dumbledore.
That Alan Rickman, can't trust him...
The characters weren't as annoying as the dorks with the lions, and there seemed to be a more complex backround plot/story.
Only saw vehicle Voltron a few times...the Lion one was all over the place.
Blar.
If Voltron was War of the Worlds, it would would still be in the red, and might never show an actual profit -- at least by movie studio standards.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
You got the Male hero.
You got an Overwieght guy.
You got a chick.
You got a strange little kid that is hard to understand.
You got a really cool Morphing Vehicle.
You got an Evil guy with a cape.
Now, you get the PROFIT!
So how long do I have to wait for VvT?
And here's your sign[tm].
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
I always wanted to know how bad of a pilot one would be to get the chest plate plane job for the vehicles team. Your sole purpose is to be a layer between the enemy and a part of the team that really matters.
I personally favored the lion team because the other show wasn't familiar to me. Plus, when you've got the five lions one and your friend has the 15 vehicles one, guess who will form voltron first?
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$#!^ happens, but why does it always have to happen to me???
If there is actually an old-toon-to-movie trend now, will someone, please, please, PLEASE I BEG YOU DAMNIT, make a movie based on the coolest 80s animated series - Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors?
Circumcision is child abuse.
The only thing they did not specify was whether it was going to be lion team of vehicle team... but the mention of Arus points me to believe it's going to be Lion Team (the original) Voltrol... What's next, Star Blazers? Macross?
Logic is the beginning of reason, not the end of it.
So, what are they going to do next? Star Blazers? BTW, Although "Arus" points me to believe they are going to use the original Lion Team Voltron, I hope they dont muck it up and use vehicle team... The cross-overs were bad enough back then...
Logic is the beginning of reason, not the end of it.
In much the same way as I find myself speed reading books (fiction) and eventually skimming them adding items to the list of things I have read before.
What's needed is the Borg's reading list. In theory it should contain only those things they see as having uniqueness and diversity to add to their own.
No you're not making anything up. One year the Toys R Us in my area screwed a bunch of kids over with that Voltron II bullshit. They stocked Voltron II after III and I ran out at Christmas time. Most parents had no clue to what Voltron was so they saw the name on the box and bought it. I was one of those kids. Three of my friends had that happen to them as well.
Voltron II had 3 "Gladiator" robots combining into one. Awful toy with no backstory for someone who like both of the other versions.
You know, just a couple of weeks ago, I was thinking, "What was that whacked-out 80s show where the guy had a little light that flew around that he called "cursor" and a car that could do 90-degree turns." Now that you've reminded me, I remember why I forgot it.
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First they struggle to get to the lions when being attacked. Once in the lions, they go out and fight the robeast, but they don't form voltron yet. The lions get beaten up for a while, then they decided to form voltron. Then voltron would fight the robeast for a while, not bringing the blazing sword out yet. They would use all other weapons first, like shooting the lion heads. After voltron gets whooped, then the blazing sword comes out. CHOP! ... Robeast splits in half and blows up. Repeat same story for next episode only with different robeast.
When is the Transzor Z movie coming out? I want to see missle titties.
The lions or the vehicles?
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Master's of the Universe with Dolph Lugren. NUff said.
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Gatchaman (aka "Battle of the Planets" or "G-Force") but withOUT the stupid add-on robot characters! (Bastards.)
:)
MASK - I'd love to see some of those vehicles done up in some spiffy CG.
Thundercats, with the extra Thunderans added in the final episodes; they were great; non-Thundercat Thunderans.
Thundarr The Barbarian - totally want to see a 'real' Ookla the Mok. And Princess Ariel always did look hot.
Good times, man...good times.
The basic Voltron premise was to have standard villian create hair-brained scheme executed by horrifying giant monster/robot. Team Voltron goes off to fight this menace, nearly gets beaten, rises up again to heroic music, forms blazing sword, and lays the smack down - all while dealing with a touching interpersonal subplot.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113820/
Bad news folks. Voltron, the live-action movie has already been done. It's called Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers and if I'm not mistaken, we all hated it.
- StaticLimit
From TFA, it looks like this is going to featue the Lion Voltron. Cool. Though they don't specifically say Lion Voltron, it's implied by the reference to 5 smaller robots .
I was a little worried that it might have been about the Spaceship Voltron (the one made up of 27 little ships) or the 3 robot Voltron.
wbs.
Huh?
Am I part of the core demographic for Swedish Fish?
It's aleady a movie!
Chicks are like voltrons! The more you hook up, the better it gets!
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"I'm still waiting for the DVD sets."
Just picked up the 5th (and final set yesterday) and personally, I feel complete!
$300AUD Well spent!
Now, to find an Additional $300 for the 5 Box Sets of Battle Of The Planets
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Pay for a book whent the set is not complete??? maybe if i had a kid that age. But yes the potter fanbase has read the book and now has a document detailing the six horcruxes (and current status as known) handy. I figured that Dumbledore wouldn't make it to the end of the book when he showed up with a blasted hand.
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There's nothing like taking a crappy image from childhood culture and using it in the context of Bush foreign policy....
Piece of crap looked like it was done by Sid and Marty Kroft on a bad day.
Land of the Lost redux!
Course they would probably replace the Sleestak with zombies or something
I feel your pain. I once asked for one of the starship Lego kits only to get the Build a House lego kit. For some reason, my starships always looked like yellow cubes with windows...complete with couches and curtains.
But I do believe making lasers out of coat racks and coffee cups made me a more creative person
Not exactly.
Toy company Bandai makes the toys for Power Rangers and Voltron. Toei company made the Voltron cartoons and also the live-action Ranger shows. (this is horribly simplified, I know that)
Toei makes a ton of TV shows and movies of all sorts. They are comparable to a Paramount or Universal. In other words, a lot of stuff gets made my them. Most of it has nothing to do with anything else.
Bandai is IIRC the largest toy company in the world along with owning animation companies (Sunrise), and things like Gundam.
Back in 1981-82, a TV station in St. Louis formed a company to dub some cartoons from Toei and turned that into the Voltron TV show. Bandai had been selling some of the toys themselves to little success. Matchbox stepped in and bought the toys from Bandai which they then resold as Matchbox products. LJN sold another version of the toys.
It was huge hit. (Huge amounts of simplification)
A couple years later, cartoon music composer (Inspector Gadget, Mask, Wheeled Warriors, HeMan, Mysterious Cities of Gold, The Littles, etc etc -he was MISTER Cartoon Music through the 80's) Haim Saban bought the rights to the Toei live-action Ranger shows and started making the Power Rangers franchise. Bandai stepped in and sold the toys themselves this time, which they continue to do although sales are way down.
Saban eventually sold his company to Disney so the current Power Rangers series is actually produced and owned by the mouse.
Sig for hire.