Thundercats and Voltron are back

Doctor DooM

Apparently both getting a new cartoon and toyline next year.

Bizarrely enough, famous sword weilding action figure company Mattel will be making the Voltron figures and famous giant robot sentai team toy company Bandai will be producing the thundercats toys.

There's a certain amount of indication the Voltron toys will be split in to a kids and a collectors classics line.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0RzchCBlxc

monkeyfudge

Wasn't there already a remake series in the 90s? Think it was a rather cruddy CGI effort.

They were great toys though. Had one stuck up friend as a kid who had the whole Voltron set... little fecker...

Also:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOUUH1Lb0I0

oeb

I had vehicle voltron when I was a kid, but I always wanted the metal lion one, you know the one that was big enough that the little action figures fit into the cockpits and all?

monkeyfudge

You know I don't think I ever saw a single Thundercats figure throughout my entire childhood.

STUDIO4°C, the Japanese studio who are working on the new cartoon have made some outstanding stuff in the past though. Could be a good little series.

Doctor DooM

monkeyfudge wrote: »

Wasn't there already a remake series in the 90s? Think it was a rather cruddy CGI effort.

They were great toys though. Had one stuck up friend as a kid who had the whole Voltron set... little fecker...

Also:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOUUH1Lb0I0

Yes there was a CGI series and also there was reissues of Lion Voltron.

Had it as a kid, awesome toy, and interestingly enough you could fit scramble city combiner transformers into his arm sockets

Doctor DooM

oeb wrote: »

I had vehicle voltron when I was a kid, but I always wanted the metal lion one, you know the one that was big enough that the little action figures fit into the cockpits and all?

Lion and Vehicle Voltron originally came from seperate lines, It was just in america they were forced into one storyline

The original Lion Voltron didn't have space for action figures, it's one of those things people think they remember, like the original Optimus Prime being the same size as Masterpiece!

monkeyfudge wrote: »

You know I don't think I ever saw a single Thundercats figure throughout my entire childhood.

STUDIO4°C, the Japanese studio who are working on the new cartoon have made some outstanding stuff in the past though. Could be a good little series.

There's a reason for that- Thundercats was the 80's exception to the rule, it was originally a cartoon without toys. They toys were an afterthought (although good quality for 80's stuff) so the toys were never as populous as say, Masters of the Universe.

K.O.Kiki

Shameless cross-post:

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

It was only with the 90s that anime really started changing to less "realistic" proportions.

I watched loads of American/French/Japanese collaborations as a kid in the 80s/early 90s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUe5Ugg6Iks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=379KSL6YcbA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3EoBl5uBfU

Theeeeeen... *this* happened:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3z8mkdLIJ8

German intro is far superior though:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCC_-1gVE5Q