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Voltron Headed For The Big Screen

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the thank-god-its-the-lion-voltron dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Following the success of the Transformers movie, Hollywood is preparing to make another live-action film featuring giant robots from the 1980s: 'Voltron: Defender of the Universe'. The script, by Justin Marks, is described as '...a post-apocalyptic tale set in New York City and Mexico. Five ragtag survivors of an alien attack band together and end up piloting the five lion-shaped robots that combine and form the massive sword-wielding Voltron that helps battle Earth's invaders.' Let's go, Voltron force!"

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  1. Original by Bibz · · Score: 4, Funny

    My god, I can't believed that I found the PowerRangers original when they came out... It's the "same" thing as Voltron!

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    1. Re:Original by garett_spencley · · Score: 5, Funny

      I used to watch Voltron when I was around 4 or 5 years old. I had the toy robot that you could assemble / dissemble etc.

      Around the age of 11 or so the Power Rangers became "huge". Being a young, impressionable kid with no free will I watched it after school with my friends even though I thought it was "total crap". Anyway at that time I had completely forgotten about Voltron yet I KNEW that it was a rip-off of something that I used to watch as a young(er) child.

      I remember absolutely loving Voltron and for years I tried to figure out what that cartoon I used to watch as a kid with the cat-like vehicles that could assemble into one. Every person I described it to, in hopes that they would remember, could only think of "power rangers!" to which I'd respond "no definitely NOT the power rangers ... it was a cartoon!" and they'd just think "err... transformers ? :\"

      It was actually thanks to this /. article that I've discovered ... it was Voltron! :) ... and now, thanks to another poster, I know why the Power Rangers was so similar. Some days it pays it to slack on work and just hang out on /.

      Shit my boss is calling me ... oh well, he'll understand when I tell him "it was Voltron!"

    2. Re:Original by Capt+James+McCarthy · · Score: 4, Funny

      Screw that, it's all a copy of the Banana Splits. Just with different a different agenda.

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    3. Re:Original by elh_inny · · Score: 3, Funny

      I highly recommend seeing the Robot Chicken remake:
      http://youtube.com/watch?v=OGNCWxWTGFg

    4. Re:Original by Dogtanian · · Score: 3, Funny

      Some days it pays it to slack on work and just hang out on /. Shit my boss is calling me ... oh well, he'll understand when I tell him "it was Voltron!" Oddest response to "You're fired, you lazy sonofabitch!" ever...
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  2. Re:Voltron is Japanese.. by Bombula · · Score: 2, Funny
    they don't understand how to do a deep plot involving robots

    You mean like a giant alien robot made out of five smaller robots shaped like lions that wields a sword?

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  3. But...Voltron got SERVED! by SCHecklerX · · Score: 3, Funny

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVswFzaYcCM

  4. Re:Good old Holywood by CastrTroy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Gabe and Tycho saw it coming the whole time. Here's 2 approriate comics

    Part 1
    Part 2

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  5. For some reason... by david.given · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...I can't get this sequence from ReBoot out of my mind when reading the story...

  6. Re:Voltron is Japanese.. by Chineseyes · · Score: 3, Funny

    I dub thee Comic Book Guy.

    Go forth and overstate the seriousness of children's cartoons wherever you shall go. Be a menace to all those who may decry the merits of such entertainment for this is your calling!!

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  7. What's next??? by Ctrl-Z · · Score: 4, Funny

    What could possibly follow up a Voltron movie? Thundercats?

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  8. Re:Good old Holywood by Bazar · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think its also worth mentioning the Perry Bible Fellowship's take of Guntron!

    http://pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF186-Guntron_Alliance_ Force.png#172

    If you don't get it, you clearly don't remember voltron

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  9. Re:Let there be lions. by DigiShaman · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wonder how he's going to address the creation of the lions?


    They are (are you ready?)...found in some deep dark cave. They don't know how long they've been there, but the language on the instrument panel changes from something alien to English!

    Seriously, does it matter? It's a fuckin Voltron movie for god sake! Where talking about mechanical lion mech warriors (painted in different colors no doubt)!!!
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  10. Re:Obligatory by Stormwatch · · Score: 3, Funny

    You're doing it wrong. It is:

    >:3

    JESUS CHRIST IT'S A LION GET IN THE CAR!

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    (posting more text here to work around lameness filter)

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