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List Price: $39.95 Our Price: $24.99 You Save: $14.96 Features • Animated • Box set • Color • DVD-Video • Subtitled • NTSC In Theaters : 1986 DVD Release : 26 September, 2006 |
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Voltron - Defender of the Universe - Collection One: Blue Lion description Like Robotech, Voltron is an anomaly: an anime series that never aired in Japan in this form. The program Americans know under that title is comprised of recut footage from Hyakujuo Go-Lion ("Hundred-Beast King Go-Lion") and Kikou Kantai Dairugger XV ("Armored Fleet Dairugger XV"). Voltron debuted in syndication in th ... review details |
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| The Blue Lion Voltron collection comes in a totally awesome molded metal case, inside of which is a somewhat inconvenient folding cardboard digipak 3-disc holder. There are fifteen beautifully restored episodes in all, starting with the following six classic adventures, found on disc 1:
"Space Explorers Captured": The epic story of the Voltron Force begins as the five space explorers--Keith, Sven, Lance, Hunk and Pidge--approach Planet Arus only to discover that the once peaceful blue sphere is under attack by the fiendish forces of the cat-eyed King Zarkon. Skyscrapers crumble and pastel-colored space mice scamper as Zarkon's indigo-skinned android army marches through the burning city streets. Before they can fully comprehend the devastation now filling their telescanners, a massive white laser beam rushes at the explorers' spaceship from a dark spiny enemy craft. Forced to eject to escape the explosion, the young heroes fall into the cold clutches of Zarkon's reptilian robots and land in the dank dungeon of the vulture-infested Castle Doom. "Escape to Another Planet": As the space explorers race towards the embattled Planet Arus in the red-bellied slave ship they appropriated from King Zarkon, they are once again forced to eject amid enemy laser blasts. The hapless adventurers land safely in Arus' soft soil and stumble through the foggy night air until they reach the badly damaged Royal Palace. Here they meet the mustachioed castle keeper, Coran, and the lovely blonde Princess Allura. After judging the five strangers to be trustworthy, the initially suspicious Coran recounts the terrifying tale of how Witch Haggar's energy blast split the mighty Voltron into five mechanical lions. Then, the Princess gives the brave warriors spiffy white uniforms and officially dubs them the Voltron Force: Arus' last hope against Zarkon's evil. "A Ghost and Four Keys": Frustrated with his red-monocled military commander's apparent inability to capture the Voltron Force, the pointy-eared King Zarkon dispatches a giant Robeast in a fancy flying coffin. Meanwhile, as Yurak's forces continue their relentless assault on Arus, the diminutive and impetuous Pidge grabs his puny laser pistol and foolishly runs off to tackle the rifle-bearing robots all by himself. So, after recovering only four of the five essential keys from the sarcophagus of King Alfor, Keith, Sven, Lance and Hunk ride the elevators leading to the legendary mechanical lions and hurry off to rescue their little nasally-voiced buddy. "The Missing Key": Princess Allura is reunited with her childhood friends, the space mice, and the royal beauty tells the Voltrom Force all about how the talented rodents used to slip into tiny red and white dresses and dance the cancan for her. Meanwhile, Witch Haggar's horrible piranha-faced Robeast is fully super-charged and hungry for fillet-o-lion. "Princess Joins Up": King Zarkon summons his most gruesome gladiators to Castle Doom's arena for a royal rumble, and the winner goes to Haggar's tower to be transformed by her magic krypto ray into the ultimate Voltron killer. On Arus, the indomitable lions smash through Yurak's endless supply of odd looking red and gold attack ships with alacrity. "The Right Arm of Voltron": As Princess Allura hosts a decadent Thanksgiving-type feast to celebrate the return of Voltron and the defeat of Zarkon's fiendish forces, the unsinkable Witch Haggar descends upon Planet Arus and orders her feral blue-furred feline friend to go at poor Sven's neck with all the ferocity of a hungry vampire! Disc 2 is loaded with six more episodes, and the third disc concludes the set with an additional three, plus a nice selection of special features, including: A Birth of Voltron' documentary with Ted Koplar, president of World Events Productions; executive producer, Peter Keefe,; director, Franklin Cofod; and story editor, Marc Handler. A Making the DVDs' featurette detailing the painstaking process used to restore Voltron's video from the original Japanese masters and recreating all of the American edits. Plus info on how the sound was re-mastered by using a baking process to re-melt the broken down glue of the heavy 24-track audio tapes. The original pilot, in which Planet Arus was called Planet Nim and Castle Doom was called Darkstone Fortress. And a Voltron-themed stop-motion animation short from the Robot Chicken' show entitled, You Got Robo Served.' Although Voltron is remembered fondly by fans of 80s cartoons, I think it falls short of perfection due to its obvious repetitiveness. The plot is basically the same in every episode: Zarkon is always upset that Planet Arus hasn't been completely destroyed yet, and Haggar always has a new Robeast ready to be sent in an elaborate red coffin to destroy the Voltron Force once and for all. Then the good guys have to ride the elevators to their respective lions, form Volton, form Blazing Sword, and destroy the giant Robeast. The animation is appealing, the music is appropriately heroic, and the formation of Voltron is excitingly portrayed, but the show would've benefited greatly from a little more variety. Nevertheless, Anime Works has done a fantastic job with the DVDs, especially with respect to the cool and collectible lion tins. So buy Voltron, but don't expect it to be as great as Robotech. Go Lion! |
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