So, ignoring whatever is going on at Kickstart right now, if you were given a chance to re-do the Voltron series, how would you do it?

-Would you re-start from the beginning or make it a sequel to the classic series?
-Would you include VV in the picture?
-Would you re-design Voltron, or the robot lions?

Throw around any ideas you got...it's all theoretical anyway. Let it all out and lay it out on the table!

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-Would you re-start from the beginning or make it a sequel to the classic series?

A re-start, but keep it respectful of the original series.

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-Would you include VV in the picture?

Abso-frickin'-lutely.

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-Would you re-design Voltron, or the robot lions?

Hell no. A redesign of Voltron and Lions is unnecessary, and would just piss off everyone if that happened. V3D is evidence of this.

Same here as SGB! Have the new show be respectful of the original series, include VV, and never, ever redesign Voltron and the lions.....and never, ever redesign the Voltron force either!

I wouldn't be against a faithful re-do, especially if you add more romance to the plot (sorry, can't help my shoujo tendencies). And if Allura is paired with anyone it HAS to be Keith.

I see a re-do as being the most likely for a TV series. Sadly I don't think the original plot line could be milked enough to support that many episodes.

Now, what I would personally really like is a continuation of the original story. The Voltron movie opened some new windows on the Allura/Keith romance. I always wanted a little more there. Something close to a conclusion would have been good... you know... "and they lived happily ever after".

I can dream can't I??

But seriously, be it a romantic plot line or the standard beating up the bad guys, I really would love a few more episodes. It doesn't have to be made for TV either. That's why they have OVAs.

I'm with momiji-k on this one. I'd kind of like to see a continuation, kind of like what V3D tried to do but with some changes.

I will always agrue for being true to the original series as far as the characters go in both personality and appearance, etc, but more depth would be great for all of them. I'm also a huge K and A fan, so I'd like to see that developed further. But I'd also like to see a story of revenge. Lotor comes back, hatches some dark, evil plot, and all Hell breaks loose. Votlron is needed once again. And I'd like a big confrontational scene between Lotor and Keith, face to face, one on one, for Arus, Voltron, and the Princess.

Just my two cents. Whatever they end up coming out with, I'll watch. It's Voltron. Wild horses or robeasts couldn't keep me away.

Continue from the Season 2- Episode #72, where it left off.

From a commeral stand point it would be best to just do a retelling of the original series. Continuing from where the show left off would just be an uphill battle for WEP, in my humble opinion. The show has been dead for around 20 years and very few people in the show's target demographic, kids ages 6 to 12, have seen the original series. A continuation of the original show might end up confusing them.

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Originally posted by SuperRobot Warrior:
So, ignoring whatever is going on at Kickstart right now, if you were given a chance to re-do the Voltron series, how would you do it?

-Would you re-start from the beginning or make it a sequel to the classic series?

I would start with the original story.

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Originally posted by SuperRobot Warrior:
-Would you include VV in the picture?

Only if I could come up with a really good reason to justify his existance. Just for the sake of having VV involved isn't good enough for me.

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Originally posted by SuperRobot Warrior:
-Would you re-design Voltron, or the robot lions?

I would make the cartoon designs closer to the comic book version than the original. The comics made them much more rich, mystical, and just totally bad @ss from a mechanical design standpoint. V3D's lions sucked.

I'm already doing it. =P


I would rewrite it from the beginning.

I would include VV if it makes sense (and I have good ways of including him)

The design of the robot lions would remain the same, maybe with a little polish on them. The uniforms might change a little, too, but not much. They'd certainly wear different 'street clothes'..hehe

And those of you reading my fanfic know what I did to Pidge....LOL

Hmm...I need to get my next chapter finished and uploaded. I had to rewrite it from scratch..=/

I would agree that a full reboot probably makes the most sense. I would recommend hiring the authors of the Devil’s Due comic book to come in and write the show. Just because they’ve proven they can apply an ‘epic’ mentality to the story rather than just thinking in Saturday morning ‘microcosm’ mode (as even the 1st season of the original series was often guilty of doing, if you try to take every spoken word at face value).

What I would really like to see though is a continuation. But one that’s *not* slavishly devoted to maintaining continuity with the original (for the reasons cited above). I would acknowledge LV (1st season only) and VV as canon, but with the following changes:

-The Drules don’t use robots for their infantry, and they never did. Those are *living* humanoids, kids. They might not bleed to death due to U.S. censorship, but they can still fall like stormtroopers. (The robeasts would remain bio-mechanical constructs, though, since they were clearly ‘robots’ in VV)

-Likewise, those spaceships you see blowing up are manned by actual people (What, you think we’d build spaceships with chairs, manual controls, and life support systems just to have ‘robots’ pilot them?). Doesn’t mean we have to cut inside to see their bodies melting, but make no mistake… wherever ships explode, life is being lost. After all, Robotech still made it past the censors.

-Fix the ‘legend’ of Voltron so that it predates all of modern civilization by at least a few thousand years (Devil’s Due comics handled this nicely). Also, leave the door open for alternate revelations to be made regarding the robot’s origin (should the writers decide to delve into what ancient civilization built the thing). After all, the legend is just that, a legend. It may be carved in stone tablets, but that doesn’t mean whoever carved it actually saw the burning bush.

-Assume that Coran’s cloned son actually DID shoot Nanny, just so we don’t have to put up with her. This can be explained via flashback, *providing* it becomes relevant to whatever story is being told (Otherwise, don’t explain her absence at all).

-Sven actually DID die during the original series… and on BOTH occasions. Now he lives again, but this time with no memory of his two prior incarnations. What is he? How many of him are there? Who created him, and for what purpose? Could the answers to these questions affect his loyalty to his friends? (Don’t worry, I’m sure his integrity will win out in the end regardless. Even if he has to sacrifice himself again ^_^).

-Unlike their GoLion counterparts, Zarkon, Lotor and Hagar all survived season one. But they’re not just going to come back, re-build their castle on Planet Doom and resume bickering at each other. They’ve been chased off the planet for good (don’t undermine that victory). Plus Zarkon and Lotor tried to kill each other, and there’s no going back from that… ever. So they’re all back, but we’re NOT going to push the reset button.

-Both the 2nd Season and V3D I would remove from the canon, however their characters (Queen Merla, Cossack the Terrible… Amalgamus?) could still be “introduced” into the sequel at anytime.

-DON’T change the lions, however ‘updating’ them is acceptable (a la Gundam, Macross). The uniforms should remain exactly the same. Colors CAN be switched so that each pilot wears the color of his lion, if only so the Princess no longer has to wear ******* pink while in battle (too many people already associate Voltron with Power Rangers as it is).

My proposed setting is five years after LV-S1 and VV. The plot concerns the unholy alliance between the remnants of House Zarkon (now lead by ‘King’ Lotor), and Viceroy Throk of the Drule Empire. The show is now mostly set in space (a la Vehicle Voltron), but spans both the ‘near’ and ‘far’ universes (this time with more realism in regards to the distances: you can’t simply zip from Earth to Arus in a matter of hours as they seemed to do in Season 2). Arus, however, will always be Voltron’s resting place whenever he’s not on a mission.

The Voltron force have been recalled to Earth, split up and reassigned. But each of them, through various turns of evens, finds himsalf inexplicably ‘pulled’ back towards Arus and destiny. The universe will soon be needing them again.

Zarkon was captured after escaping from his robeast, and has been a prisoner on Earth ever since. He is now a truly pathetic individual; his days of glory are *forever* passed (think Saddam). Both the Drules and the Denubian Alliance have made separate petitions to Galaxy Garrison to have him turned over to them for trail. But what do you do with him? To GG he is a potentially valuable source of information: his son Lotor is still at large, and *rumored* to be involved in recent Drule activity. Zarkon now hates Lotor even more than he does the Galaxy Alliance, and will do ANYTHING to see his own son forever ruined and humiliated.

Allura is deep into smoothing diplomatic talks between Galaxy Garrison and the Denubian Planetary Alliance regarding where the planet/system formerly known as ‘Doom’ should fall on the proverbial map. GG defeated the Drule Empire, and believes it has earned dibs on any Drule technology left behind. Whereas the Denubian Alliance desires compensation for its members who suffered under Zarkon, doesn’t necessarily recognize House Zarkon as part of the Drule Empire, and wonders where was GG while Zarkon was inflicting harm in the Denubian Quadrant).

The Drule Empire continues in its centuries-long spiral of decline, as more of its houses continue to turn renegade and secede… a natural result of the Empire trying to expand over too large a region of space to control. The necessary migration from their central homeworld (at the end of VV) has not helped matters. Zeppo and Throk are in an uphill struggle to regain power in the Empire (though the former remains a puppet as always), however this move has thrown the homeworld into a state of civil war. The *symbols* of Voltron and the Alliance hang like a dark cloud over the Drule leaders’ heads. Both Earth and Arus must be destroyed before they can re-unify their Empire and return it to its (supposed) state of glory from centuries past. Enter Lotor.

His kingdom now in ashes, all that’s left for him is to latch himself onto the destiny of the dwindling Drule Empire to reclaim the smallest fraction of his rightful glory. But he will capture the princess, win her love, and be remembered as the conqueror who guided the Empire towards defeating Voltron and the Alliance. In his delusional state, it does not matter that he is somewhat disfigured from the same fall that killed Sven 2.0. Often given to darker moods than ever before seen, he absolutely hates his new allies. And they are generally *terrified* of him in return. But not as terrified as they are of his loyal subject, that cackling old hag who can barely walk anymore but has such dark mystical powers at her disposal. Her species is unknown, but some believe she is almost immortal... and perhaps as old as Voltron itself.

GG had largely turned its back on the Drules, as they no longer seemed a threat to the Galaxy Alliance (politics and economics, what can you say). Where is Hazar? Will he even still accept the Alliance’s help after being left to fend for himself for the last five years?

Though the VV universe is more involved in the action this time around, appearances by VV itself would be kept to a minimum (too many characters, for one thing). I think the robot should appear in maybe the second half of episode 3, while viewers are still (impatiently) awaiting the return of LV in episode 5. You have to *tease* your audience a little, hey! Maybe Keith and Lance are investigating into recent attacks by the Drules, they’re nowhere near Arus, they don’t have the rest of the force with them anyway… so they arrange to have VV shipped out to them and end up filling in as two of its pilots. They score a *partial* victory, but not before realizing the full magnitude of the Drule threat.

But fear not, LV is still the main character, and the theme music now only plays for him. By episode 5, the Princess and the force are all back together again. But it’s not exactly the same. These characters are older, they’ve evolved, and it’s been a while since they’ve all worked together.

Avoid status quo at all costs, and keep the story in full serialized mode. Keep the pacing tight. Don’t *assume* that Voltron needs to be formed in every episode, or that it must happen towards the end of every episode. We might sometimes split the V members up, have them off on separate missions. Plan a cliffhanger for each episode. And if Keith and Allura finally do get it together, make sure it’s at the end of the series… because once you’re there, there’s nowhere left to go.

Finally, it should be animated in Japan. To insure the best quality possible, plan each season for no more than 26 episodes. And try to interest the studio in a Japanese release as well, just to give them added incentive and make it all more worth the budget (The Japanese have probably forgotten Go-Lion by now anyway, so there shouldn’t be a conflict).

Time for me to come back from dreamland. Now let’s see if this will all even fit in one post.

The only issue I have with your thoughts are the color changes for the flight suits.

V3D did that and it didn't feel right. Keith looks better in Red, Lance shoudl remain in Blue, and Allura should stick with pink...albeight a different shade of it.

Maybe a more rose-colored pink, then? Or a lightish cranberry purple?

I thought the lion heads on their helmets were what killed V3D... not to mention what the cheap animation from Netter Digital did for the character's themselves. Then again, I've blocked most of V3D from my memory.

A pink that's a little more towards the darker, purple shade might fit.

I wish the Beast Wars animation studio had done V3D.

DEFINITELY have it animated in Japan. Anyone who knows me knows how rabid I am about that one. As for plot... I wouldn't mind seeing things actually modeled a bit more closely after the Go-Lion storyline. Yes, I know, that's radically different from Voltron itself in a whole slew of ways, but the idea of *how* the lions were split up like they were, I think, is interesting plot fodder. There seems to be some intriguing stuff in the original anime story line that could fix some of the complaints and constant questions we hear in the fandom about the Voltron plot. (Might as well add all the stuff about Lotor's oedipus complex... since so many people can't keep their stories straight and keep thinking that Sincline's sexual preoccupation with Farla based on her looking just like Mommy carries over to his Voltron counterpart...)

And besides, the Japanese made Keith hotter looking in Go Lion then the Season 2's animation.

Oh COME ON!!! I've gone a whole week without mentioning Keith! You knew it was coming!