I was shocked,surprised and flabbergasted by the negativity I heard on Keyframe.com; I've watched this show, and frankly I find it AWESOME! and as I said I am a huge anime fan. It's too bad the original Japanese Voltron (known as Hyakujūō Golion), has been lost over the years; it would have appeared on the box-sets, and like other anime box-sets they would be bilingual.

I love Princess Allura,watching her,she's like two of my favorite Disney Princesses - Cinderella (because she made friends with mice),and Sleeping Beauty's Aurora (because she is a blond and her dress is almost like the dress Aurora wore); and I think her and Keith are a cute match.

Ah yes, the early to mid 80's. The era of re-written anime and other junk turned into toy commericlals. Into this melee of My Little Ponies, Transformers and Rainbow Brites someone dumped 'Voltron: implausible idiot of Idaho' or whatever it was called.

Here's how it goes. This guy sends 'robo-beasts' to defeat the Lions who collectively make up the giant robot Voltron. They allow themselves to have the bejeejus knocked out of them, until someone says "let's form 'Flaming Sword'', whereupon they totally knock the hell out of the robobeasts.

Those with an IQ over 80 might be moved to ask, "why didn't they just do this to begin with?", and the answer is, "because then the show would only go for 5 minutes".

Here's a true story. When this came out I was in my late teens. I remember dropping it an a friend's pad, and two guys I didn't know were getting stoned and watching this (or was it 'Starblazers' One of the two), and they were going on about how great it was. And I thought, this is just so sad. What drugs do to people. You guys are going to end up licking toads in Byron Bay by the time you're 25.

I'm giving this trash 1 star, because the criteria for 1 star is supposed to be 'poor, not worth seeing'. Well, IMO it's poor and it's not worth seeing.

So there.

I never considered this show to be a "big cartoon" like G.I. Joe, but it's still amazing this show lasted all those episodes. It's obviously inspired by Gatchaman, and shows like this went on to inspire crud like The Power Rangers. In its defense, it's still better than when Voltron got remade into a CGI series and the lesser known Vehicle Voltron. While not quite as campy as Thundercats, Voltron is still an exercise in repetitiveness. Ugly supervillain tries to make trouble. Five heroes try to take on trouble with their lion robots. Five lions fail to do the job. Form Voltron. Save the day. Rinse and repeat. The highlight of the show is the fake techno-geek speak the main character utters when they form Voltron.