No April Fooling: VOLTRON comes to DVD in North America at last

[Buried Alien]

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[vertigo_phreeze]

its about damn time!

WEP's Voltron.com (http://www.voltron.com), as expected, has just launched their site re-design at 12N Central Time today, and it mentions the DVDs in the "Know" section. Media Blasters has set up their own VoltronDVD.com (http://www.voltrondvd.com) website, which has even more to say:

Voltron: Defender of the Universe has been planned for 8 DVD releases, each one containing three discs, approximately 15 episodes, and as many extras as we can squeeze in. We're preparing premium special edition packaging, an aggressive video restoration process, and remixed 5.1 audio. The goal is to make Voltron look better than it has ever looked before. We'll keep posting updates here about our restoration work, so check back often!

Voltron: Defender of the Universe DVD vol. 1 hits the street Fall

[StoneGold]

And then we can watch it, and be dissapointed that it isn't as good as we remember it.

[JCAll]

And then we can watch it, and be dissapointed that it isn't as good as we remember it.
Since I've seen about a dozen episodes recently, I can say that I still like it at least.

Too bad that those 8 DVD are probably gonna be 50 bucks each :(

[Arune Singh]

And then we can watch it, and be dissapointed that it isn't as good as we remember it.

From the few episodes I've watched, it is BETTER Than I remember.

[StoneGold]

I'll say this much: it's still way better than He-Man.

[DubipR]

This comes out and yet no Beverly Hills Teens boxed set.... facists. :p

[Sean Walsh]

VERY cool news. He-Man has suffered horribly over time, but I think Voltron has held up.

And then we can watch it, and be dissapointed that it isn't as good as we remember it.

Actually, what little I've seen of it over the last 20 years still holds up very well. A lot of that Japanese animation from back in the '80s still does.

[matrix]

This comes out and yet no Beverly Hills Teens boxed set.... facists. :p
:p i'm still waiting for smurfs and snorks

[DubipR]

:p i'm still waiting for smurfs and snorks

And Pirates of Dark Water

[matrix]

And Pirates of Dark Water dude, did they ever finish that show :confused:

[Rob Imes]

I started watching Voltron in the early 1990s when they were rerun on the USA Network, and I taped around 50 episodes of it at the time. I enjoyed it, but to any adult viewer with a critical eye, it was laughably obvious how much the shows had been censored and rewritten for American audiences. I remember one where the Voltron Force visits Pidge's home planet, which has become a smoking ruin. "Where did all the people go?" the group wonders aloud, as tears are streaming down their faces. "They must have left this planet to find another one instead," they say, still crying their eyes out.

Or there was another one where the bad guys attack some innocent people in the countryside, and the bad guys are "scaring" everyone, scaring them away. But it's obvious from the characters' horrified expressions that there is more going on than simply scaring them away. I wonder if the DVD sets will have any recognition of this sort of thing, maybe extra features showing us the uncensored original scenes, or whether it will be considered simply for kids instead.