If you know me well enough, then you would know that I’m a big fan of Voltron: Defender of the Universe. I’ve been collecting Voltron action figures since I was a old enough to know about it from the original lions to the Voltron Vehicle Force (DaiRugger XV).
Since returning to the LEGO community, I’ve been thoroughly impressed with some of the LEGO Voltron MOCs such as the one by len_d69 on LEGO Ideas which is still under consideration to become an official set. The same builder has also created a LEGO version of Voltron Vehicle Force as well.
The newest MOC is by Dennis Qiu and it is equally impressive. This version seems to be based on the Voltron Maquette from Sideshow Collectibles which has their sleeker interpretation of Voltron. One of the more notable differences is the slimmer body that it has compared to the bulkier original version.
Now the only thing I’m pretty much waiting for is the official LEGO Ideas Voltron set to be approved and released.
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I remember religiously watching the lion Voltron as a kid (though wondering why they always waited to form the sword, before realizing as an adult that it was all about padding the script as much as they could get away with). I remember that Princess Allura wore a pink costume when there wasn’t a pink lion (though it turns out Keith wore red while piloting black and Lance wore blue while piloting red, and I never noticed). I also remember not really liking watching Vehicle Team Voltron…but feeling the exact opposite about their toys because the Lion Force Voltron lions looked so ridiculous (black looked like a bulldog on steroids, while red and green looked closer to dachshunds), while Vehicle Team Voltron didn’t change size when forming the giant robot.
And I also remember shopping at Kay*Bee and finding a third Voltron toy that formed from three robots (and getting yelled at because I started playing with a set that someone else had opened). I was very confused about why there would be three Voltrons when there were only two on TV, but a few years ago I looked it up and found out that they originally intended to adapt three different anime series into Voltron of the Near Universe (vehicles), Voltron of the Middle Universe (robots), and Voltron of the Far Universe (some other anime series that featured a giant robot with a lion head embedded in the chest, but a bit of confusion resulted in footage from the wrong show being sent, and they liked it so much better that they ran with it). And they got the Far and Near teams on TV, only to realize that the substitute Lion team was so much more popular than the Vehicle team that they scrapped the plans to make the robot Voltron series and just made new Lion episodes.
Part of me wants Voltron to be turned down because I don’t want to feel obligated to buy what I’m sure would be an expensive set, and part wants it to be turned down because, based on the old toys, only the legs look decent in lion form.