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

    What could possibly follow up a Voltron movie? Thundercats?

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