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  • I Want To See That They Should Put It On YTV !!

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  • Oh, great, another cartoon-network-ization of a good anime...

  • Well, I guess it can't be any worse than the abortion that was Voltron: Third Dimension.

  • wow, that art style looks really, really dated

  • @Flegan777

    True. They're probably living under a rock these days.

  • @neovoltron25 Most likely.

  • reminds me of zoids, but with poorer animation :(

  • Hmmm new age cartoon characters...Dumb but cool!

    Anyway i dont like this new voltron ...its kinda suck.

  • ive got a voltron half sleeve

  • american animation at its best

  • 5th Velocity........my animation teaser. Watch it. tnxs.

  • That has got to be the worst professional animation that I have ever seen. It reminds me of flash animation. Bad flash animation. Each Voltron revival since the 90s has been worse than the next. Shame this couldn't have gone to Cartoon Network. They worked a miracle with the Thundercats.

  • Lol. Looks absolutly pathetic. Shoulda got the team behind the new Thundercats cartoon to handle this.

  • @FireBomberBassist Yeah, I was hoping it's be like the same Thundercat animation... totally regret watching this trailer now. Maybe the toys will be cool? Maybe...?

  • This just doesn't look right....

    Original Voltron >

  • BTW where is Hagar and her cat?

  • @tmungaz They're deceased in this series as is King Zarkon, though they reference her through the Hagarium mineral that's used to revive Lotor.

  • i think this new version was targetted at the same age group as the original version of voltron. So I don't expect them to please people in both(the originals and the hacked) age groups which should have an ocean between them right now.

  • I'd rather watch Hyakujuo Golion (original Voltron) than to watch this garbage!!

  • I find it funny how a lot of idiots are complaining that they are "ruining" Voltron. Voltron was just a hacked up, heavily editied version of a Japanese anime called Golion. If you want to complain about anything, complain about the original Voltron lol. Idiots. :)

  • CN killed Sym-Bionic Titan. Saban ruined PR with the crap work of copying Shinkenger. Voltron Force is all we got left. Quit bitching already.

  • This has gotta be the ugliest animation I've seen since in the last decade. And yet the premier got really high ratings. I don't even know.

    I mean, not only is the animation bad but the coloring is just terrible.

  • @Ccs1989 Looks fine to me.

  • @Ccs1989 Yeah... I had some hope for this till I saw what it looked like in motion. Ugh.

  • What the fuck. Sorry but Nickylodean, but this art is just fucking terribad. I know they've been rebooting a lot of old shows, but this show shoulda gone to Cartoon Network. They woulda done the art RIGHT. Like Young Justice and Thundercats. What is this shit.

  • WOW..........this is the most stupides show ever

  • It looks better than Voltron Third Demension

  • sym bionic titan is better :/

  • @TheSkullranger

    Ha. Agreed.

  • AMERICAN'S SHOULDN'T MESS WITH VOLTRON!!!

    Aaaanyways... Can't be worse than Transformers Prime. :/

  • LEAVE VOLTRON ALONE!!!

  • VOLTRON.....REPRESENT!

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  • Get the $@'^*| outta here with that stuff. Old voltron was better

  • COMBINE FUCK YEAH

  • NOTHING like power rangers!

  • This looks decent but I really wish it had the quality and production values that the new Thundercats Cartoon that was released had.

  • It's like they're fighting a lame copy of Arthas in World of Warcraft. Bleeehhhh...

  • Yeah.... no.

  • Effing epic fail, they have ruin my childhood cartoon with this crap. I will just watch the Voltron I liked as a kid on Netflix.

  • Is uglyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! uyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy, damm it i willl watching my old Voltron now in my TV.

  • this sucks!!!, leave the cartoons of my childhood rest in peace!!! ಠ_ಠ

  • Ah, have to make-do, since Japan is not revamping their GoLion :( at least not heard of.

  • This is American. Not anime. Fuck it. The original Voltron was anime, and it rocked. And we don't need to see 3D in a cartoon to say it's good.

  • voltron returns is this a sequel to the 80s voltron or a new take on the 80s one.

  • love the voltron music

  • it looks intresting but i was child of the 80's when the original voltron came out

  • i really hate this shit ),:

  • the new series looks more like a middle school preteen show... the other one was a bit more serious about saving galaxi and stuff...as a kid in the 80s it sucked to me to but this is like hey i got some powers let me dick off... altho i dont think the show will be barable for me (cuz western humor is so over played and over done) i think if they make a decent video game of this ill buy it for that sake. cuz videogame wise i can see something cool being made out of this where the show wil fail.

  • Would anyone die if makers would just continue the look and feel of the original cartoon? Would people drop like flies? i dont understand why they can't do this. Is it politicS? is it war? is it the president's mamma?

  • I don't think the animation direction is as good as the original the drawings look to childish but I don't think it's because it's a Western company. There have been well drawn mature American cartoons. It's just a bad style direction.

  • @sportsdude18111 Dude i completely agree, im sorry to the makers of this, but my god this looks horrible, and its not just me nerd-raging because its not the original, this is such watered own politically correct crap. This is just straight up garbage

  • Boo... hate it.

    Take it back to the drawing board and make some real Voltron.

    You make me sick...

  • so this was what the show was called back like 10 years ago i got a yellow cat part that became a leg sadly i never ended up getting the other ones for it and i forgot what it was called this is awesome

  • I actually enjoy Voltron Force. While it'll never match up to the original (it's a classic) this new show is leagues better the CG version that came out in the late 90's. I also noticed something else watching Voltron Force and I'm surprised to admit it. Prince Lotor is just not an interesting villain on his own without King Zarkon leading him. I actually find Sky Marshal Wade to be the better & more interesting villain in this new series.

  • GOT MY BALCONY HOOKERS

    GOT MY BALCONY COCAINE

  • Oh wow that looks bad. Coloring was terrible, art direction was terrible, movement was terrible. I say this both as someone that watched Voltron as a small child in the 80's as well as a student of animation. If my fellow classmates and I had made that, it would be passable as student work, but it's truly terrible for a professional studio. I know the original series had basically no story, iffy animation at times, etc, but you have 30 years of advancements in technology, and art in between.

  • this new voltron series is whack

  • The revamped Thundercats on CN is better than this abomination

  • @dezthaman it only looks better. The story for voltron force is way better though but i still won't watch just because they drew it so badly.

  • oh sshhhhhiiiiiiiiit!

    Better get a voltron toy motherfucker!

  • Fail. Epic.  Fail.

  • I CAME

  • At first I was excited when I heard there was a new Voltron series. The I saw this mess. Is it better than the old show? Sure, but so is just about anything made after the 80s. I just didn't want to see a bunch of 90s teenage kool doodz stereotype crap in 2011. Guess I shouldn't expect too much from Voltron.

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  • I just do not like this animation. The quality seems a bit lack luster. The 3d animation does not seem too bad, i have seen worse. I am sure the story is fine. But then again, i really did not like voltron that much to begin with.

  • anime style would be better

  • voltron would look a thousand times better with a mask

  • Okay the art style looks like ass, but the 2008 transformers animated series did too and the story/characters saved it.  The new characters seem very 'typical 90s teen hero' stereotypes, so hopefully they break out of that quick. I'll give it 5 episodes to see if they can succeed at not messing up the story as bad as the art.

  • What is with the art designs in this show? Okay, the CG is a step up from the Stealth Voltron show, but the color choices seem very......90s.......like an episode of captain planet or Denver the last Dinosaur. The CG animation should not mix entirely with the 2D animation (as is it's nature), but when you have blocky character designs and such curved CGI models just comes off as clashing. If it is deliberate to show scale for the giant robots, then it kinda falls short on that goal... by a mile

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  • Okay if they are going to BUTCHER my childhood they should at LEAST do better artwork. Old art was good (even if the dialog was bad) this one just makes my skin crawl.

  • @Eveningkiss u know the old artwork look like pile of shiit u know this looks better than the old one

  • @wordlesess23 i don't think there is anything wrong with the artwork, and I fail to see what they are bitching about.

  • @chinbunny1 facepalm

  • @wordlesess23 you mean the old show from like the 70's/80's? nigga you retarded.

  • To all those people bashing this show.... WATCH IT FIRST!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU ACTUALLY MIGHT LIKE IT!! IF YOU'RE A REAL FAN OF THE ORIGINAL THEN YOU SHOULD LIKE THIS SHOW!! Point blank period!

  • Applejack DD:

  • Looks interesting, I wish the lions did not have jut-jaw, but it might be cool. Hell, it might be better than the first time they tried CG... I still shiver at the thought...

  • @viraticwars Only the yellow lion has jut-jaw.

  • this looks just plain horrible... nuff said...

  • YES! THAT AWESOME THEME SONG IS BACK!

  • at least they did thundercats justice. this just looks weak....

  • Good lord, the animation is horrible. Absolutely Horrible.

  • Something about the animation...doesn't look right to me. Not complaining about it deviating from the original (the updates I actually like). There's just something to most of the show's animation that looks bad to me. The lions and Voltron himself look great, but the humans and pretty much everything else just looks bad (under-detailed I guess). Oh well, I've got the new Thundercats, and TFP to occupy my time. Though I might get a Voltron toy or two, lol.

  • I guess that's what happens when the creators, directors, producers, and editors get HIGH on the job together... So Disappointing!!!!

  • I thought this was a flash movie at first.

  • I sat through the pilot and hated it.

  • @Lilsniffs109 go watch the one with the blazing guns and you might change your mind. 

  • Saw of clip of this show and hate it already. Some cadet spouting off lame one liners? Already too kiddie for me. Voltron was more of grown up show. It dealt with some real grim stuff. The Japanese version was scaled down because it was too violent. I mean, they killed Sven in Japan!

    There's some cool things here, but overal, the tone is all wrong. Just because it's a team of 5 people in diff colors doesn't mean it's Power Rangers. Voltron needs a serious edge to it, and that isn't here.

  • @raith0818 its only for two episodes. to introduce the kid into the series. The rest of the show focuses on each character and there is a new formation about every week. you can't judge the show just by viewing one clip. 

  • @chinbunny1 I watched an episode, and after I got over how the intro song made my ears bleed I almost fell asleep watching it. This is a kids show. It doesn't have the feel or spirit of the original. If you like it, that's fine, but it isn't for me.

  • @raith0818 So what. its much better then most of the shit they air on the cartoon channels anyhow. Its not supposed to be the original. it stands alone on its own. Give it a chance.

  • at 0:48 is that malcom macdowell!!? :0

  • So far this is the conclusion I've drawn from the responses:

    New Voltron drawn by a Western company: Boo, it sucks because it's not anime.

    The new Thundercats drawn by a famous anime company: Yay, it rocks because it's become an anime.

    Amazing how all it takes for you people to say yay is for someone to dangle "Japan" like a carrot in front of your faces. Just sad.

  • @Zindkeeper haha. Well I think thundercats looks like shit. Seriously, snarf looks like a pokemon!

  • @chinbunny1 I can't say I like his new design either. He was bigger before. Now he looks like some stock cliched anime mascot.

  • @Zindkeeper If the story line is good, that would be awesome. yes he was big and cute before. How he is ugly.

  • @chinbunny1 Worse yet, he doesn't talk anymore. And get this: I checked the voice records and apparently Snarf is "voiced" by the Japanese actress of Togepi from Pokemon. Hard to call it a voice when all he does is make kitty mewling noises.

  • @Zindkeeper NNNNOOOOOO! He was fat and funny! damnit i forgot it was airing tonight and I missed it. oh well. will catch it on the web or on demand. Did oyu watch it? Was it good?

  • @chinbunny1 It's pretty damn good, but I bet some morons will want to hear it with a Japanese dub. XD

  • @Zindkeeper Whut? One of the biggest complainants about Snarf is that he spoke WAY too damn much. They fix it and you fan-boys still bitch. And he's always looked like a generic anime mascot. You're letting your nostalgiafaggotry cloud your judgement.

    In other news, this looks like a pretty generic rehash. Like those crappy new GI Joe cartoons they always crap out.

  • @ShuHibiki You know what, i tried to get my nephews interested in the old gi joe cartoons. they thought they were crappy and boring. I don't see anything wrong with the animation in voltron. Some of it looks computer generated. The kids love it, and that's what counts. the new gi joe isn't that horrible either.

  • @ShuHibiki There's no such thing as nostalgiafaggotry first of all. Second, he didn't talk all that much. As far as I recall, he said barely that much at all during episodes. He wasn't a mouthy chatterbox.

    And I'm not a fanboy, kid. I said I still like the new Thundercats. I just don't like his redesign. God damn, it's amazing how people like you never read carefully.

  • @Zindkeeper Thats because most westerners still regard cartoons as "childrens shows" .. whereas Japan actually recognises animation as a mainstream media. This means that most of the time westerners half ass their cartoons and the japanese dont. So yes .. I am much more excited for an anime than I would be over a western production.

  • @DarkTenka I'm aware of the last few year worth of shitty crap this part of the world has produced.

    Japan and its creations aren't all winners dude. A lot of what they've made in recent years sucks horribly.

  • @Zindkeeper Irrelevent .. the general quality is still much higher.

  • @DarkTenka Um yeah it is relevant. You think an anime that fluctuates between degrees of quality between episodes is still a good one?

  • @Zindkeeper umm no .. I said it is still BETTER than a western cartoon .. and therefore it IS irelevent because its still better news to find out about an anime than it is finding out about ANY western cartoon.

  • @DarkTenka That makes a person sound like a Japanophile though. It's not as if every cartoon ever made here sucks.

  • @Zindkeeper it can make me sound like wtf u want .. it doesnt make it less true.

  • @DarkTenka Whatever man.

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  • @KronnangDunn Yeah calling someone a bozo really makes your argument solid.

  • @Zindkeeper I agree with you. But you can't deny that those western companies have the potential and the means to provide great animated series ( it was the case in the 80s and 90s), but they just settle for what seems to be the bare minimum in my opinion.

  • @Zindkeeper Lol, these guys obviously never seen Batman Under the Red Hood. Western animation rocks!

  • @Zindkeeper ....the thing is....it's true

  • @Zindkeeper Sad indeed bud, and even sader still is that just by the replies alone, I don't think people quite get what you're saying. lol

  • @Zindkeeper It's a sad truth, isn't it? there have been equally as many great western animations. I don't mind this animation style, but the need of CGI with hand drawn animation is, in my opinion, not needed and usually looks really out of place/tacky.

    Also, why does everything now a days need to be piloted by children.

  • @Jericho1980 It definitely is.

    I think this could have been something a bit better, but it's not awful. I've seen worse.

  • @Zindkeeper

    It seems they didn't listen to any of the podcasts.

  • @neovoltron25 Of course they don't.

  • Seeing how shitty this looks makes me appreciate what we had.

  • You guys are aware that this stuff is aimed towards children, right?

  • @parismio That's what I should tell you. Have you bothered watching the show at all, or are you basing your opinion solely on a trailer? If so, you're just being shallow.

  • @Zindkeeper - eh, the trailer is a pretty good indication.

  • @Syntox Nope.

  • It wasn't to bad until the Nicktoons part.

  • The CGI for the lions look great, but the traditional stuff doesn't match well.

  • Why....why...why do I feel the godly urge to give each and every one of these characters a slap to the face?

    Please tell me I ain't the only one.

  • um.... no. This is not good. The animation from 25 years ago was better! And what is with making them all kids? It looks more like Power Rangers than Voltron.

  • Such poor cheap animation. Horrible.

  • Tried watching an episode on Nicktoon online... killed it in 10 minutes. The voice acting and dialog, even compared to the cheesy original 80s stuff... is sooooo bad. It's as bad as the previous reboot in 3D CG was... *sigh*

  • This series looks to suffer from the same thing the original US Voltron series suffered from...continuity problems!!! Allura all of a sudden has a niece when she had no siblings among one of the big problems. After finally having seen the complete "Go Lion" Japanese series, the plot holes left from the "series" US producers pieced together made SO much more sense. Too bad this "Voltron Force" group of producers failed to learn anything.

  • @dh1031 Thing is, if you read Wikipedia, the guys that made "Voltron" had used the clips from the Japanese shows, but didn't translate the dialog/plots. They wrote new dialog based loosely on what they surmised was going on, and additionally edited whatever they felt couldn't be shown on American TV.

  • Not sure about this Voltron series. A defective Voltron, new random characters that act as pointless plot devices leading to the super robot's self destruction, and an opening theme that sounds like it came from the Robot Chicken parody where Voltron breakdances.

    At least Voltron: The Third Dimension tops this new series by a huge leap.

  • looks childish i rather have cartoonetwork revamp this cuz tundercats looks awesome!

  • @parismio What do dislikes have to do with anything?

  • Spoony"BETRAAAAAAAYAAAAAAAAAAA­AAAAL!"

  • Voltron: Japans Garbage. No seriously. Super robots like Go Lion, Dairugger, etc. dime store bargain bin series dug out of obscurity.

  • why would you do this

    Also horrible art style it looks like it came from deviantart

  • i like this

  • The classic one was better!

  • computers do not a show make... you also need talent.

    even with all the tools available today this is not even remotely comparable to the original

  • This is trash!!!

    Very bad voice acting. Bad directing. Bad writing. Bad Animation. Useless extra characters. The new theme song is rap trash (it's not even good rap!). Lousy production!

    Anyone that likes this trash IS trash.

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    really guys sigh internet so sad

  • U are a bunch of nonbelievers!!!!!!! The new version is much better!

  • The animation looks like shit! The Thundercats reboot is much better!

  • @Ellipsis10 Thunder cats is anime and I think it looks like shit. We'll see how good it is when it premiers in a couple of weeks.

  • Would you people shut your yaps? Just because it's not catering to your weeaboo ways doesn't meant it's bad. Have you bothered watching the show at all? It's actually not that bad. It's a fairly loyal adaptation. All it did was make a sequel to the original story and tack on new characters. So far, it's doing a pretty good job living up to the name of Voltron. Not unlike that previous CG debacle from years ago.

  • @Flegan777 I agree too. People are all "Oh no my perfect Japanese Voltron has been ruined by the West. I hate the U.S.!" when they're not actually watching the show. You know, most of you morons watched the edited dubbed version of Voltron, something the West brought here so you could all enjoy it when you were brats. You didn't claim it was ruined despite that the violence was edited out and the English dub was a tad hammy. Amazing the criticism people spew out.

  • @Flegan777: Thankyou!!!! Someone who's speaking my language!! This is show is dope to me! And yes it's very loyal to the original Voltron!!!!

  • @Eian117 No problem. Unlike these "it sucks because it's not anime" idiots, I give a show a chance before deciding it's unwatchable or not. True a lot of North American made crap these days is awful, but this show isn't one of them.

  • @Eian117

    Old Voltron or New Voltron. It doesn't matter to me!! I grew up watching reruns on USA Network and Cartoon Network and got in to it!! I loved Voltron then, I loved Voltron now!! No matter what he looks like in the new show!!!

  • @Flegan777 since when was Voltron a original story? Just watch Golion people, it saves you the trouble of watching this.

  • to all the haters out there... i grew up watching voltron, and THIS is by far, much better compared to the old version. At least here they gave the guys weapons and skills. Back then it was all crap. so fuck you haters! you obviously never tasted pussy before.

  • this looks bad, the older version looks much better

  • Looks cheap as fck. WTH? Even the CG is crap. Another remake that falls flat.

  • This looks cheap and lame, so kids will probably like it.

  • the show isn't that bad you guys. give it a chance. So far the first four episodes seem to be a pretty decent.

  • @chinbunny1 See, at least you get it.

  • @Flegan777 yeah i think the show is good. I loved the episode with lance and the blazing guns!

  • @Flegan777 I enjoyed lance and the blazing guns. :P 

  • @Flegan777 Oh jesus just checked back and they are still bitching about how awful it is. Its not. i think its pretty good, and I am fan of the original series too. I think thundercats looks like its going to suck. I don't care for the new look at all. but we shall see.

  • @chinbunny1 Well haters gonna hate. Those of us who are giving it a chance at least like it.

  • @Flegan777 Maybe the'd change their minds, if they watched the episode with lance and his blazing guns. ;)