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List Price: $39.95 Our Price: $20.99 You Save: $18.96 Features • Animated • Color • Dubbed • DVD-Video • NTSC In Theaters : 1984 DVD Release : 08 May, 2007 |
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Voltron - Defender of the Universe - Collection Three description Like Robotech, Voltron is a cut-and-paste combination of unrelated series created for American TV. Part of the early wave of "Japanimation" that helped to build an audience for anime in the U.S., Voltron also contributed to the fad for transforming robot toys. The episodes inCollection Three, the "Green Lion" set, originally aired in October and November of 1984. Four young stalwarts from the Galaxy Alliance, Keith, Lance, Hunk, and Pidge, pilot the lion-mecha that link to form the giant robot Voltron; Princess Allura of the planet Arus took over the fifth lion after Sven was wounded in battle. After being missing in action for some time, Sven (who talks like Wally Walrus) reappears in episode 41, but stays on planet Pollux with Princess Romelle as an ally of the Voltron Force. In each episode, Lotor, the son of King Zarkon, and the evil witch Haggar concoct a new scheme to destroy Voltron and seize control of Arus--only to be defeated by Voltron between the last commercial and the closing theme song. Comprised of re-edited footage from Hyakujuo Go-Lion ("Hundred-Beast King Go-Lion") and Kikou Kantai Dairugger XV ("Armored Fleet Dairugger XV"), the episodes have obviously been assembled like mosaics, with extensive dialogue covering the gaps in the visuals. Like Robotech, Voltron has a special place in the hearts of adults who watched it as kids. For younger otaku, it's an example of how far Japanese animation has developed in the intervening years--and how much more sophisticated its audience has become. (Rated 7 and older: violence) |
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| The Voltron Force goes green with this third installment of spine-tingling, Robeast-splitting action in a stunning emerald-green box. Although all of these episodes are built on the same basic formula, the stories are genuinely exciting, particularly the three-part Omega Comet saga--which is probably the best adventure of the series so far. This volume also features the return of a prominent character not seen since Volume One, and introduces Voltron's devastating lion head launching maneuver. The Green Lion Collection contains fifteen episodes, including these suspense-filled tales:
"Attack of the Fierce Frogs": Tired of getting hit on the head by his furious father's flying wineglasses, Prince Lotor meets with Witch Haggar (yet again) to ask the crafty crone to help him dispose of Voltron once and for all. She responds by having one of her obedient robot guards wheel in a skull-faced aquarium full of three-eyed tadpoles. The bad old biddy assures the Prince that these harmless-looking baby amphibians will eventually grow into ferocious purple monsters and eat the five lions for lunch. With some degree of skepticism, Lotor descends upon Planet Arus in his spooky spaceship and releases a whole mess of the slimy swimmers into the sparkling Arusian waters, where they are soon discovered by a couple of curious youngsters who just happen to be friends of Pidge. "Doom Boycotts the Space Olympics": With a little help from Denny and Susie, Hunk and his Voltron teammates prepare Arus for the coming of the Space Olympics by building a giant soccer and track stadium while wolfing down a seemingly endless supply of Nanny's scrumptious shish kabobs. Then one night, as the daunting construction project is nearing completion, a sleepless Denny leaves the safety of his bed and steps outside, where the awestruck child observes Lotor's ghastly spacecraft firing a little pink man into Hunk's mighty orange earth moving machine. The following morning, the Voltron Force laughs off the worried juvenile's urgent warnings...until the monstrous metal constructor suddenly springs to life and barrels toward their sleeping quarters like a runaway locomotive! "Raid of the Red Berets": Ignoring King Zarkon's sage advice that he give up Voltron hunting and start collecting stamps, the tenacious Prince Lotor calls for his band of crimson-capped android troopers to rise up through the floor of Castle Doom's fighting arena and terrorize Zarkon's alligator men. Next, the would-be philatelist loads his olive-clad commandos into Haggar's newest Robeast and drops them onto Planet Arus under cover of darkness. Immediately, the stylishly dressed humanoid hoodlums go to work smashing windows and triggering power outages all across the land. Frightened and frustrated, the ungrateful citizens of Arus storm the Castle of Lions and shout insults at a bewildered Princess Allura. "The Captive Comet": The first part of a three-chapter thriller begins as Witch Haggar reveals that she has discovered the secret location of the dreaded Omega Comet--a massive floating sphere with the awesome destructive power of a black hole. While Zarkon stares at his monitor in disbelief, the beastly old bag sends a starship to Sector G-29 to surround the comet with white rings of nuclear radiation so the lethal black ball can be hurled in Planet Arus' general direction. When the Omega Comet comes within one million hectares of Arus' verdant pastures, its far-reaching gravitons will rip the helpless planet apart in an unstoppable vortex of death! "The Sand People": The erudite Coran receives an S.O.S. from his old friend, Professor Sawa, on the barren Sand Planet. It seems that the despicable sapphire-skinned Witch is planning to turn the timid and docile Sand People (not to be confused with the violent Tusken Raiders of Tatooine) into vicious desert warriors. So, the intrepid Voltron Force is dispatched to the vast wasteland to rescue the turban-wearing Professor and protect the diminutive, beady-eyed dune-dwellers. Soon after their arrival on the waterless planet, Pidge is involved in a Herculean struggle to free the Green Lion's limbs from a nest of colossal boa constrictors. Meanwhile, Princess Allura has befriended the aptly-named "Sandy" by placing her shiny red and blue bracelet on the stubby jewelry lover's tiny wrist. "Voltron versus Voltron": Since Zarkon and fiends haven't done anything rotten to the good people of Yadil lately, the Yadilians naturally assume Ole Blue Face has forgotten about them. Ergo, they decide to celebrate their newfound freedom with a big Independence Day bash featuring Voltron as the guest of honor. The Governor sends a baldheaded boy named Bobby to Arus to deliver the official invitation to the beloved Voltron Force; but before the Charlie Brown look-alike has even passed through the electric barrier that envelops Yadil's atmosphere, Voltron has already arrived...with an escort of spaceships that look suspiciously like members of Lotor's infamous robot air force! Collection Three's extras include an interview with John Petersen, composer of the heroic Voltron theme; and a chat with hip hop superstar and avid Voltron fan, Murphy Lee, of St. Lunatics fame, whose infectious enthusiasm exemplifies the enduring appeal of 80s-era animation...ya know what I'm sayin'? There's also a series of fan-made animated shorts and some 1984 footage of actors dressed as Keith, Pidge and Allura warning kids in St. Louis about the evils of tooth decay. So order your Green Lion set now, and then go brush your teeth. Let's go Voltron Force! |
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