Awesome news. Can't say as I'm totally sold on the collector's tin art-style yet (though there is something tantalizingly stark, subtle, and stripped-down about it that I find appealing), but just gimme the episodes themselves, and I'll be happier than Keith Richards with a brand new bag of smack.

I also noticed in the sales-blurb that the numbering of the first VV collection continues the original LV sequence, rather than starting anew ("Voltron: Defender of the Universe Boxset 6").

Any word yet on potential special features?

I guess it's safe to assume that Media Blasters will continue discriminating against those of us with hearing problems by not including captions?

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Originally posted by FlameStrike:
I guess it's safe to assume that Media Blasters will continue discriminating against those of us with hearing problems by not including captions?

Unfortunately that seems likely.

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Originally posted by samwiseb:
Definitely about time.

Much as I've enjoyed finally getting to see Golion, I was really hoping VV would at least get priority over that. It wouldn't be so insulting to see VV getting deprioritized, if it didn't seem that the companies involved were always so consistent about it.

Ayup. Though this IS Vehicle Voltron we're talking about, here. The show that's been stuck holding LV's jockstrap for decades, now.

Trying to convince the suits to put it out sooner than GoLion? I mean, you know what you're up against! You might as well be trying to eat Teflon-coated Jello with chopsticks.

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maybe I can even convince Coldwin to watch it too!

Best of luck with that.

Find Larry Drake; give him a Santa suit, a hatchet, and an address book. Problem solved.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by The Bandsaw Vigilante:
Vehicle Voltron we're talking about, here. The show that's been stuck holding LV's jockstrap for decades, now.

Trying to convince the suits to put it out sooner than GoLion? I mean, you know what you're up against! You might as well be trying to eat Teflon-coated Jello with chopsticks.


BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!! OMG HILARIOUS!!

In a sense, maybe it'll be a good thing that they're putting out Golion before Vehicle Voltron. I'm guessing that they'll have Golion volume 3 out before Vehicle Voltron vol. 2. At least once that's done with, everyone will have to focus on the vehicle team and give it a little more attention. (unless you're itching for Voltron 3d to come out).


For me, I don't remember much about Vehicle Voltron, aside from the toys, way back as a kid. So in many way, this show is like a blank slate to me. I'm definitely looking to seeing this for the "first" time, and later Dairugger XV.

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In a sense, maybe it'll be a good thing that they're putting out Golion before Vehicle Voltron. I'm guessing that they'll have Golion volume 3 out before Vehicle Voltron vol. 2. At least once that's done with, everyone will have to focus on the vehicle team and give it a little more attention. (unless you're itching for Voltron 3d to come out).

That, and by this point -- owing to all the delays we've experienced to date -- they should be close to finished with remastering all the episodes, with authoring the DVDs being about the only other major task at hand.

(Still...not trying to jinx anything here, of course. After all this time, we're lucky these are coming out when they are; this was a completely unexpected, out-of-the-blue announcement for me.)

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Originally posted by Aaron:
For me, I don't remember much about Vehicle Voltron, aside from the toys, way back as a kid. So in many way, this show is like a blank slate to me. I'm definitely looking to seeing this for the "first" time, and later Dairugger XV.

You're in for a treat, then -- VV has a slightly different vibe than LV, owing to the setting and the milieu (aboard a starship, traveling from planet to planet, as opposed to a single environment like Planet Arus), and a much larger supporting cast of characters.

You get to see things more from Galaxy Garrison's and Earth's perspective, which was somewhat muted (by necessity) in the Lion episodes. By the middle/end of the series, it starts feeling far less "episodic" than LV, and much more epic in its scope (dealing with a galactic war, the impending destruction of the enemy's homeworld, et al).

You can tell I don't post much here anymore but I couldn't help placing this macro.

For Coldwin....

Reminds me of a joke:

Q: Why do Scotsmen wear kilts?
A: Because sheep can hear zippers.

Seriously, though, I'm curious as to how many episodes this first VV set contains -- the total running-time estimate in the blurb reads "450 minutes," and if they're spreading the episodes as a 18/17/17 split across the three sets, then this would come out to approximately 25 minutes per episode.

Which, IIRC, is the ballpark running-length of most of the Lion episodes, too. So, say either 17-18, then?

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Ayup. Though this IS Vehicle Voltron we're talking about, here. The show that's been stuck holding LV's jockstrap for decades, now. Trying to convince the suits to put it out sooner than GoLion? I mean, you know what you're up against!

Absolutely! I actually had the gall, the nerve, the arrogance, the audacity to expect VV first.

Ohhhh the arrogance! Ohhhh that sweat, smelly audacity that just gets under your skin, makes your face burning red, and makes you just want to punch my lights out like I'm the ugly, fat tar baby -with the retarded grin- who just rolls right back up, too arrogant and stupid too even realize he's just been hit. That sick, smelly audacity! What gives me the right?

Sorry, couldn't help myself. I don't actually mean anything by it; it was just really fun to write.

Seriously though, it's not the wait but the principle of the thing. It's petty, but sometimes you just feel the need to be arrogant and petty about certain things. VV is always last, so it was already a given that it would come out after LV. The peasant steps aside for the royal horse and carriage. Does the nobleman really need to stop the horse, come out and step on the peasant while he's at it? They started putting out Voltron before its Japanese parents, therefore they should put out... well, Voltron, before its Japanese parents. And Voltron is Voltron, with the same music and title cards regardless of which season.

On a more relevant note (yeah right, you're probably thinking about now), deciding that even Golion should get priority just seems like a really cynical marketing decision, almost a vote of no confidence. It really does make me wonder if we'll still get Dairrugger XV if enough people did not buy Golion and VV.

"Holding LV's jockstrap"... Ha. It's a fitting description.

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Originally posted by The Bandsaw Vigilante:
Which, IIRC, is the ballpark running-length of most of the Lion episodes, too. So, say either 17-18, then?

That's about right.

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It really does make me wonder if we'll still get Dairrugger XV if enough people did not buy Golion and VV.

"Holding LV's jockstrap"... Ha. It's a fitting description.

I think MB will release DXV regardless, I mean its not like its going to cost very much to release with it being sub only and all.

I'm telling you now, if they don't release Dairugger I will sell all my Media Blasters DVD'S and never buy a damn thing from them again.

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Originally posted by samwiseb:
It really does make me wonder if we'll still get Dairrugger XV if enough people did not buy Golion and VV.

"Holding LV's jockstrap"... Ha. It's a fitting description.

I think MB will release DXV regardless, I mean its not like its going to cost very much to release with it being sub only and all.

Exactly -- it's taking them more work to alter the original uncut Dairugger footage, shot-by-shot and frame-by-frame, for the Voltron DVDs than it will for them to simply go back to that original footage and put subtitles on it. As we've seen with the GoLion DVDs, it'll be the same restoration, but different languages (and fundamentally different storylines).

That said, I definitely plan to pick up both versions; one for the Voltron mythos, the other for the different, Japanese one. Never have seen it yet, and all the Dairugger stuff over on SGB's site has me tantalized.

So...uh...figured that with only about six weeks to go before release, there'd be some official word by now on the DVD's special features and such...maybe?

...Anyone? (Bueller?)

Just thought I'd put it out there, considering we're coming right down to it.