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cjrivera · Jul 26, 2005, 02:55 PM

I used to love this cartoon. (At least the ones with the lions...)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050726/...NlYwMlJVRPUCUl

paul w · Jul 26, 2005, 03:21 PM

jeez what's next Thundercats?

I preferred the other Voltron actually.

viperstrike · Jul 26, 2005, 03:34 PM

My brother and I always had battles with both our Voltrons when we were kids (would be kinda strange doing it now...becaues he doesn't live near me...yeah, that's the reason). He liked the cars (lame) and I was all about the 5 lions. Kinda looking forward to what they will do to bring this and Transformers to the big screen, but by no means am I excited. This also proves that the entertainment industry, (particularly big screen, small screen and music) has run out of ideas. My youngest brother, now 10 asked me what cartoons did I use to watch. "Oh, we had Transformers, Ninja Turtles, GI Joe". His response: "Uh, what are you talking about, we have those."

lavar78 · Jul 26, 2005, 03:39 PM

Originally Posted by paul w

I preferred the other Voltron actually.

Ew.

paul w · Jul 26, 2005, 03:45 PM

It had more action and less cheesy soap opera. Seriously.

Millennium · Jul 26, 2005, 04:25 PM

I loved Voltron back when I was a chibi.

That said, I remember in college, when they started rerunning all my old childhood favorite cartoons on Toonami. I got the privilege of watching all my precious childhood illusions of how awesome these cartoons were, all shattered one by one. DAMN YOU CARTOON NETWORK!

I'll probably still watch the movie, though.

jasonsRX7 · Jul 26, 2005, 04:28 PM

Is that the ones with the lead based paint? I think I had those

Transformers were my favorite, though.

cjrivera · Jul 26, 2005, 04:34 PM

Originally Posted by Millennium

I loved Voltron back when I was a chibi.

That said, I remember in college, when they started rerunning all my old childhood favorite cartoons on Toonami. I got the privilege of watching all my precious childhood illusions of how awesome these cartoons were, all shattered one by one. DAMN YOU CARTOON NETWORK!

I'll probably still watch the movie, though.

The DVD releases do the same thing. I bought season 1 of the Transformers and was just shocked at just how bad it was.

lavar78 · Jul 26, 2005, 05:28 PM

Originally Posted by cjrivera

The DVD releases do the same thing. I bought season 1 of the Transformers and was just shocked at just how bad it was.

It's nowhere near as bad as Voltron. Voltron was criminally bad. Seriously. Transformers is like Citizen Kane next to that show. Anyway, I still think Transformers: The Movie was excellent! Almost 20 years later, it's still engaging and the animation has held up fantastically.

cjrivera · Jul 26, 2005, 05:33 PM

Originally Posted by lavar78

Anyway, I still think Transformers: The Movie was excellent! Almost 20 years later, it's still engaging and the animation has held up fantastically.

I love Transformers the Movie. The soundtrack was also awesome.

MallyMal · Jul 26, 2005, 08:40 PM

I have dibs on forming the head.

iLikebeer · Jul 27, 2005, 02:11 AM

Originally Posted by cjrivera

The DVD releases do the same thing. I bought season 1 of the Transformers and was just shocked at just how bad it was.

Did you watch all the episodes? I think I maybe watched 4 or 5 before I realized some things should just be left to memory.

Originally Posted by lavar68

It's nowhere near as bad as Voltron. Voltron was criminally bad. Seriously. Transformers is like Citizen Kane next to that show. Anyway, I still think Transformers: The Movie was excellent! Almost 20 years later, it's still engaging and the animation has held up fantastically.

Transformers: the Movie is sweet. That was the climax of 80's cartoons, imo. When Spike said "Oh shˆt", every kid knew it was the greatest movie ever. Voltron wasn't that bad, they just used too many static frames instead of animating stuff. You know you loved it when they joined into voltron saying all that cheesy stuff. "and I'll form the head" The way they did everything was like cheesy kung fu where they start naming off every move as they do it.

You have to give Hasbro credit though, they succeeded not only in pushing these toys on us, but also of completely changing the show with new and bigger toys. Space Voltron had like 15 parts to it. Transformers just kept creating new groups of toys..er, characters. GI Joe always added a few new people here and there (not to mention new vehicles every other episode), but then they did the Serpentor, Sgt. Slaughter, ...added like 20-25 characters. The creators are probably laughing all the way to the bank with the upcoming movies.

Salty · Jul 27, 2005, 02:38 AM

I had some friends over in high school to watch the old transformers episodes from when I was a kid... I had the first two episodes on VHS... and man were they awesome! And by awesome I mean BAD! It was fun to watch but we just kept making fun of it... I felt bad...

IFLY2HIGH · Jul 27, 2005, 07:21 AM

Originally Posted by cjrivera

I love Transformers the Movie. The soundtrack was also awesome.

Ah the good ol days, I wanta get the 4 complete volumes on DVD sooner or later...