Voltron from the 1980s, oh my goodness this is still the greatest cartoon ever at least I think it is and as you can tell I'm a big fan of it to this day. Voltron defender of the universe needs to come back on television, I miss watching it, I loved it and I enjoyed watching it as a kid.
Remembering this as the kid especially when the theme song played. All goosebumps couldnt hardly wait for these warriors to activate the lions once more and voltron was greatly needed again....go lions!
Try watching Voltes V Legacy trailer on youtube. They made a live action of Voltes V and remained true to the original source material. The volt-in sequence was also perfectly recreated. Gave me goosebumps.
I didn't cry, but I freaking loved this show. (I'm 48) I miss the cartoons of the 80s. I watched a bootleg version of Starblazers (Yamato). It was a 2010 movie with great subtitles. I heard that Australia made a version with English voices.
@@kingofdragons7 original Japanese title is 百獣王ゴライオン which translates to Beast King GoLion, which he called by it by it's original title. Also the reason for name "GoLion", to say number 5 in Japanese is "Go", therefore 5 lions 🙂
Am I the only kid never to have been bugged by that? I understand why they did it now as an adult (basically a shoutout to Super Sentai with Red being the leader), but I thought nothing of it until the internet and people complaining about the suits not matching the lions.
no other team form up in the history of Anything i have watched, not even Avengers Endgame, can give me chills like this. Like bruh, that music is absolutely EPIC!
+MartyvH I could never be a Lion pilot. The other day it took me 40 minutes to find my keys. A Robeast would be doing the Green Lion doggy style with Pidge yelling at me "Dean!! Yahhhrrgg, help me, Dean! Help me!!" and I'd be there powerless apologizing while looking in the pants I was wearing yesterday trying to find that friggin' key! They should at least put a key ring on that shit.
+Dean Strickson They need those key tags that you can find with your phone. They're Voltron, for crying out loud, it's justified. Come to think of it, you need one of those too! They can order it online. That latest robeast will have to wait for it be delivered
This video brings me back to my childhood. I'm 37 now and this music still gives me goosebumps of excitement. The music is perfect and badass. All the haters need to stop nit picking at miniscule stuff. Yes it's corny! Guess what! It's not real life lol!
have you seen the new show? its great i never watched the original Voltron as I am only 20, but looking at this in comparison it seems that the new show got the character design right
Ah yes, September of 1984. Another year had started in college, I had recently turned 19, and still loved some cartoons. Then this new Japanese-based cartoon showed up and I was hooked. I don't care if it was made for 10-year old kids - I still loved it.
Sven was my dude... I was like who is this cool laid back dude with an interesting accent I never heard before in my life (I was young). Then they had to go an maim his ass. I was like when is he going to get better so that he can come back to the Blue Lion. Then years later I find out in the Japanese version he actually died.. and that the dude that showed up later was not him but his twin brother.
I think it was such a missed opportunity to incorporate this into the end of "Ready Player One" instead of the Gundam...they even had the right amount of team members 4 men and 1 woman...it would have been glorious to see Voltron come to life in the middle of all that nostalgic awesomeness!
I never understood their unmatched color combinations with the pilots and lions. Only the green lion (Pidge) had a green uniform. Everyone else picked whatever the hell they wanted. Red and white for the black lion. Black and white for the blue lion. Blue uniform for the red lion and orange uniform for the yellow lion. It made interesting I guess.
Luis Diaz Could be wrong, but I believe it - and a lot of other weirdness associated with the show - was due to the fact that the show was sorta pieced together from multiple anime series, which were apparently quite different than the end product we got in the West.
Luis Diaz Seeing as orange and yellow are more closer in color than the other combinations, I'd say it's fair to let that one slide a little. But yeah, red, blue and black does not make any sense at all. Even more crazier when you throw pink in the mix.
One of the things I did love was that the lions were essentially just machines, powerful ones, but it was on their pilots to know how to use them. Also that we saw the team doing other things, sometimes with their lions, and if the bad guys showed up, they had to get to the lions to use them.
A different character suddenly appears in the next aired episode and the master tape of the episode where it happened is kept in a vault while the producers hope it dosen't get leaked until the show is long forgotten. Then 40 years later when they come out with the retro Super Platnum Deluxe boxed edition Voltron disc set, they include the "lost" episode and use it as a selling point for all of the drooling fanboys. That's what happens if someone loses grip of the bar. :)
You take a zip line down to a shuttle that takes you to a lion capable of space flight. How cool was that to a 6 year old back in the 1980s?! Go Lions!
And the only reason all four railcars weren't in the tubes, was they weren't in possession of all five keys yet, also pidge was out of the castle at the moment.
Catching as many episodes as I could with the original GoLion series of this, I think the show would have done way better in Japan if they used the music and sound effects that America had edited with. Granted, there was a lot of mecca styled anime to compete with, but the American sound editing made Voltron(GoLion) appear way more heroic. But that's just my opinion
How is it possible I get chills after all these years?
me too
Me too
Because you still have youth in you don’t ever lose it
Absolutely. I miss these years so much
good music
This was THAT cartoon.
I miss those days so much.
Everything was so much simpler.
Facts! My favorite cartoon of all time then second is Thundercats.
I agree definitely 💯
Good times, good times.
Voltron and all of the afterschool and Saturday morning cartoons have been missed.
Voltron from the 1980s, oh my goodness this is still the greatest cartoon ever at least I think it is and as you can tell I'm a big fan of it to this day.
Voltron defender of the universe needs to come back on television, I miss watching it, I loved it and I enjoyed watching it as a kid.
Agree only if it’s the old school one
@@jeffmckeough4012
Old school is the only way
Shawn Eldridge in my ric flair voice (woooooooooooo
Facts. I agree the greatest carton EVER.
Remembering this as the kid especially when the theme song played. All goosebumps couldnt hardly wait for these warriors to activate the lions once more and voltron was greatly needed again....go lions!
Can you imagine a live action movie with this happening? Would be the greatest goosebumps of all time
micheal bay as the director
Try watching Voltes V Legacy trailer on youtube. They made a live action of Voltes V and remained true to the original source material. The volt-in sequence was also perfectly recreated. Gave me goosebumps.
@@randylletabora8733 A bangin', live-action, Pilipino Voltron is definitely not something anyone would've expected.
yes yes. the goosebump never ends
@@hedgehog1684 Micheal bay would destroy this.
Made sure to wake up early Saturday morning to watch this.
Where I grew up in the 80's it came on 4pm during the week lol
I’m 44 years old and I can’t believe that I literally cried like a baby watching this.
61 one, here. Don't lose the inner child.
I didn't cry, but I freaking loved this show. (I'm 48)
I miss the cartoons of the 80s.
I watched a bootleg version of Starblazers (Yamato). It was a 2010 movie with great subtitles. I heard that Australia made a version with English voices.
😂😂😂😂
Why not? Youth and memory is alive in you! Don’t let that joy go silent.
@congo480 You're the same age as me, dude! I cried, too. It's the nostalgia shock that does it.
Coran says "Go lions!" an obvious reference to the original Japanese title of the show; Golion.
30 years have past.. and i never knew Voltron was Golion
For the longest time I did not know either, also did not know that this was part of a trilogy of connected series.
Please upload more of Voltron, I remember watching these as kids.
You used to be multiple children?! Like... at the same time?!
"Go, Lions!"
I see what he did there.
Honestly I never made the connection until now lol. 😂
@@tzford what?
@@kingofdragons7 original Japanese title is 百獣王ゴライオン which translates to Beast King GoLion, which he called by it by it's original title. Also the reason for name "GoLion", to say number 5 in Japanese is "Go", therefore 5 lions 🙂
@@otacon23 i see
@@otacon23 so wait, the appropriate title should be “Beast King 5 Lion”?
I am 44 and yes I still get emotional when I watch this every time lol 😂 core child memory unlocked
It kinda bugged me that Keith, Lance, Allura and Sven's uniforms never matched the colors of their lions.
Good thing Legendary Defender fixes that Shiro(Sven)- pilots Black, Kieth - pilots Red, Lance- pilots Blue
@@jeffbrehove2614 but then the problem returns in season 3
@@thepierogigaming5489 Well I grew up with the OG anime so I'm used to it, but Legendary Defender kind of explains the mis match in a clever way.
Am I the only kid never to have been bugged by that? I understand why they did it now as an adult (basically a shoutout to Super Sentai with Red being the leader), but I thought nothing of it until the internet and people complaining about the suits not matching the lions.
@@DairXV I'm with you. Its something I've always loved but have no clue why
The reason why you get chills We loved voltron as kids And we love it even more as Men It was.
N't just a cartoon It Was a big part of our childhood.
Voltron, He-Man and Thundercats were my favorite cartoons of my childhood. Forever thankful to be Gen-X 🤘.
no other team form up in the history of Anything i have watched, not even Avengers Endgame, can give me chills like this. Like bruh, that music is absolutely EPIC!
The emergence of the Yellow Lion is awesome!
🏔️ 🦁
Could it be a “Mountain lion”?
By far one of my favorite 80s cartoons ‼️🤫
I really miss being young again, I loved this show seen every episodes
54 years old and i get emotional watching this. the music the build up the anticipation messes with your head when youre a kid 😂😂
i hear you.....its like whe popeye eats his spinach.theme...you knew asskicking was coming..80s was the best
This is not a good system. One of these guys better not lose their Lion Key otherwise the Universe is fucked.
What if they go all that way through the tunnels and elevators and they left their lion key in their room. Oops
+MartyvH I could never be a Lion pilot. The other day it took me 40 minutes to find my keys. A Robeast would be doing the Green Lion doggy style with Pidge yelling at me "Dean!! Yahhhrrgg, help me, Dean! Help me!!" and I'd be there powerless apologizing while looking in the pants I was wearing yesterday trying to find that friggin' key!
They should at least put a key ring on that shit.
+Dean Strickson They need those key tags that you can find with your phone. They're Voltron, for crying out loud, it's justified. Come to think of it, you need one of those too! They can order it online. That latest robeast will have to wait for it be delivered
+MartyvH no lie, I had so many issues finding my keys and wallet that I bought one of those homing locator thingeys and guess what? I lost that too.
the princess gives in to temptation additionally, she could lock her keys in her blue lion. no locksmith can open it EVER!
I got so excited as a kid. Now I look at it as they simply put the same 2:00 into every show to save money.
Used to watch this everyday afterschool 9th grade. Im 55 now.❤👍
OMG, I just noticed! Coran says "Go Lion"! I wonder if anybody saw this callback to the Japanese original?
1:08-1:13 Ultimate magic. I wished for a lion key so much. So awesome.
I love watching volton when I was a kid 😀😀
Nostalgic. Brings back great memories.
it really is a special cartoon that even in 2024 im still looking it up. the music everything just lightning in a bottle.
I have the complete series and watched this episode last night I still got chills and leaned in to watch. 80s cartoons are the best.
Same here..
@@lof7845 awesome!
I being 42 will never tire of this theme its badass and rockin
Cause I grew up watching this
Cartoons of 2018 have nothing on Voltron and the classic Cartoons of the 80's, Keith still rocking a mullet with style.
This video brings me back to my childhood. I'm 37 now and this music still gives me goosebumps of excitement. The music is perfect and badass. All the haters need to stop nit picking at miniscule stuff. Yes it's corny! Guess what! It's not real life lol!
Right on brotha preach!
have you seen the new show? its great i never watched the original Voltron as I am only 20, but looking at this in comparison it seems that the new show got the character design right
5 years old when I saw this. 40 now. Still epic!!
remember watching this as a kid for the first time...was completely hooked....
Activate interlocks, dynotherms connected... And the kicking of behinds start!
Heard the music for the first time in so long and like others, got chills.
Seems like a lot of work just to hop into a lion shaped car and turn a key.
By the time they man the lions and get ready for action, the world will have blown up!
It's a long procedure, isn't it
Thank God this isn't Vehicle Voltron! The scramble and formation of the Lions was long enough.
It's shorter than it seems because they show the sequence for each of them separately when they would actually happen at the same time.
well thats why you dont wanna count on to voltron
Hey, c'mon now... it's their first time manning the lions.
The one person who disliked this video must be Zarkon.
Actually, there are many dislikes, and they're all from Planet Doom.
I wish this show would come out on Netflix or Prime. I loved it and I want my kids to watch it too.
One of the greatest shows of my time!
The leader sounds like speed racer
Ah yes, September of 1984. Another year had started in college, I had recently turned 19, and still loved some cartoons. Then this new Japanese-based cartoon showed up and I was hooked. I don't care if it was made for 10-year old kids - I still loved it.
Sven was my dude... I was like who is this cool laid back dude with an interesting accent I never heard before in my life (I was young). Then they had to go an maim his ass. I was like when is he going to get better so that he can come back to the Blue Lion. Then years later I find out in the Japanese version he actually died.. and that the dude that showed up later was not him but his twin brother.
when that music kicks in, shivers down my spine!
OMG! This. Is TRULY a legendary moment.
I think it was such a missed opportunity to incorporate this into the end of "Ready Player One" instead of the Gundam...they even had the right amount of team members 4 men and 1 woman...it would have been glorious to see Voltron come to life in the middle of all that nostalgic awesomeness!
For those hardcore fans of this Voltron like me, shit talkers will be slashed with the blazing sword! lol
Yeah, fuck vehicle Voltron.
@@jkeegan154 I love Lion more but car Voltron was like a second child, can't not love em too.
I'm not crying....I'm NOT!!!!!! The music ALONE!....OMG♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡
I have the whole run on dvds.
They come in 5 lion shaped tins
Yellow,Red,Blue,Green and Black
What a nostalgia! We used to believe in absolute good and have a simple but so true and right example to follow.
So many things can go wrong.
I never understood their unmatched color combinations with the pilots and lions. Only the green lion (Pidge) had a green uniform. Everyone else picked whatever the hell they wanted. Red and white for the black lion. Black and white for the blue lion. Blue uniform for the red lion and orange uniform for the yellow lion. It made interesting I guess.
Luis Diaz Could be wrong, but I believe it - and a lot of other weirdness associated with the show - was due to the fact that the show was sorta pieced together from multiple anime series, which were apparently quite different than the end product we got in the West.
Luis Diaz Seeing as orange and yellow are more closer in color than the other combinations, I'd say it's fair to let that one slide a little.
But yeah, red, blue and black does not make any sense at all. Even more crazier when you throw pink in the mix.
Need StateFarm Insurance.
True but not nearly as bad as the plethora of things that could go wrong with Car Voltron forming 😂😂😂
That music is SO ICONIC!
This is childhood! The 80s brought us some of the best cartoons ever.
The cartoon was cheesy but the intro theme, closing theme, the Lions forming and the blazing sword were badazz!
Cheesy but still fun and lovable. And they did things with the genre you do not see in other similar team based shows.
I never thought about it before but how'd they get dressed into their uniforms so fast?
It's morphing time? >_>
princess allura knows they guy who put that pole in who helped bruce wayne to become batman in the 60's
Nano bots crocheted their outfits
Same way Bruce and Dick became Batman and Robin except more bad ass!
@@wolf4500 costume change lever like one near batpoles
One of the things I did love was that the lions were essentially just machines, powerful ones, but it was on their pilots to know how to use them. Also that we saw the team doing other things, sometimes with their lions, and if the bad guys showed up, they had to get to the lions to use them.
Beautiful. Like when I launched onto them in 1982.
This will never get old
The 80s were so fantastic....wish I could go back.
I still remember the sound off of all the lions.... #CHILLS!!!
1:17 "Go Lions Beast King!"
With all those cats running, the pilots ride steady like they're in a Lexus LS 400
I noticed that...must have some kinda stabilizer like in UFOs..lol
Miss this so much!
This was the best cartoon
Omg the goosebumps of all the lions 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
I was wondering where the fifth lion was then I remembered they lost the key but eventually found it .....90s kid here
When they go to those elevators, what happens if one of them slips from the bar?
+eshaw2115 broken leg
+eshaw2115 They're not worthy.
A different character suddenly appears in the next aired episode and the master tape
of the episode where it happened is kept in a vault while the producers hope it dosen't get leaked until the show is long forgotten. Then 40 years later when they come out with the retro Super Platnum Deluxe boxed edition Voltron disc set, they include the "lost" episode and use it as a selling point for all of the drooling fanboys.
That's what happens if someone loses grip of the bar. :)
Or they could have built regular elevators and saved themselves the effort XD
eshaw2115 this actually happens in the new Netflix series. Hunk falls off and had to run down the tube. lol
You take a zip line down to a shuttle that takes you to a lion capable of space flight. How cool was that to a 6 year old back in the 1980s?! Go Lions!
Man I remember watching this on boomerang and my uncle had the original voltron and I played it when I watched it
Back then, I was hoping they should have made the lead lion or the black lion, a male lion." Voltron's face was that of a male.
So glad they are making a live action movie finally
Hope they don't spoil it.
@@borngreat-4-life930 oh they probably will
@@Slavic_Boer true I’m just trying to hold onto hope that they won’t with this.
Great old show but I have one question. When did they change their clothes?
MAGICCC
The same way Batman & Robin do
Can you imagine being with the musicians scoring this for the first time?!
🎺 🎻 🥁 and 🎸
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I’m Gen X ( 1976 ) my favorite cartoon from the 80s
Can you imagine a live action movie similar to pacific rim where this music is playing? Inject that in my veins!
By far the best toy from
The eighties next to Transformers
And you had Peter Cullen on both.
My favriot cartoon
This looks like it’s from the 1980’s
It is
It looks amazing doesn't it?❤
It is!
MY Childhood. Always loved the Lions version of Voltron. Even if I watched bother versions Lions had me the most.
Came here to celebrate that we are finally getting a live action Voltron movie🎉
I love this part when they board the lions
And the only reason all four railcars weren't in the tubes, was they weren't in possession of all five keys yet, also pidge was out of the castle at the moment.
❤ Best moments ever made. ❤
I figured out how they get into their suits so quickly. They morph! Shishiza Sentai Voltranger!
Simply just EPIC!
This was the best version of voltron
What a time capsule!!!
Favorite part of the cartoon
Nothing beats the concept
Epic i still love this have wtched it will my sonmany times
love this....even 30 years later
Anyone here after the announcement that Henry Cavill's gonna be in the movie?
Omg 😅this show is still epic . Go Voltron
Oh sven you were the best. 😂 I always wondered what if?
In the beginning they are going from the bottom of lion to his head. They gold key (interlocking) will only activate the lion
My childhood, right here!!!
Catching as many episodes as I could with the original GoLion series of this, I think the show would have done way better in Japan if they used the music and sound effects that America had edited with. Granted, there was a lot of mecca styled anime to compete with, but the American sound editing made Voltron(GoLion) appear way more heroic. But that's just my opinion
I'm 45 going on 46. This brings back memories
Watching this just gave me goosebumps
BAM! Right in the childhood!
Miss the 80s cartoons
Yeah they were the best!