TRANZOR Z vs. Voltron

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Anyone remember these cheap robots from the 80's?

http://www.toonarific.com/t/tranzorzlogo.jpg

vs.

http://www.toonarific.com/v/voltronlions3.gif

― bryan, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Nope.

― Mark C, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Surely Voltron has an army of mechanical dogs, and therefore wins.

― Matt, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Voltron is an army of mechanical *lions*! And he was anything but cheap. It cost me around a hundred bucks to complete the set when I was a young whipper-snapper. Tranzor can eat it, whoever that is.

― bnw, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

still not as bad as gobots

ps transformers was so supreme they called their voltron rip-offs GESTALTS! of course!

― Bob Zemko, Monday, 5 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

five months pass...

TranzoreZ was my fav. cartoon growing up. He indestructible so therefore he cannot lose, meaning he would be Voltron

― jeff, Tuesday, 14 January 2003 01:01 (twenty-two years ago)

http://side7.gundam.com/models/cels/images/Gundam0083GP01.jpg
blao.

― Tom Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 01:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Get Your War On...

― Al Ewing (Al Ewing), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 01:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Tranzor Z had round feet and fists. The plots were geared toward a younger crowd, like Speed Racer or something...

Voltron wins hands down. He was the coolest. I actually liked the version with a whole bunch of spaceships better. The lions were cool, but I didn't get to see the spaceships version as much, so it left me wanting more.

Robotech was kinda cool, but for a baby crowd, too.

― Scaredy Cat, Tuesday, 14 January 2003 03:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Eh, actually now that I see the vehicle Voltron again, he looks like a penis-head. The lion Voltron is definitely cooler in the head-region. Still, the vehicle Voltron shows had 15 air, land and sea vehicles rather than just 5 lions (and yes that does mean there's a greater chance one of the vehicles could be destroyed and yes that makes it harder to get familiar with the good guys who drive the 15 ships). I think it made for more advanced plot lines? I don't know.

http://www.cet.com/~crtoys/voltron2.jpg
http://www.voltronforce.com/images/VVsword.jpg

― Scaredy Cat, Tuesday, 14 January 2003 13:40 (twenty-two years ago)

'i form like voltron and blast you with my shoulder missiles...'

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Was anyone aware that there was a ROBOT VOLTRON (made up of 3 robots)? Because I sure wasn't!

It has 4 or 6 arms like an Indian deity!

http://www.angelfire.com/de3/toys/bluevoltron.jpg

― Scaredy Cat, Tuesday, 14 January 2003 17:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Robotech was kinda cool, but for a baby crowd, too.

a-HEM! As I recall several characters actually DIED in the Robotech storylines, whereas Voltron was very, very kidstyle, lots of goofy magic-robot chanting and no death. Robotech had shifting allegiances, politics, and robots that somehow transformed in a reasonably well-drafted fashion without five or a dozen people shouting in unison.

Robotech was descended from GUNDAM and the latter-day ideal of technically conceivable giant robots that fell closer to science fiction than fantasy.

I recall seeing the toys for the 3-robot Voltron but I watched and watched all Saturday morning for weeks and weeks and never saw an episode of the TV series.

Lance, Keith, Pidge, Hunk, and that Princess Whatshername who replaced the original foot-lion pilot early in the series.

I also remember the name of the pilot of the red aircraft that adorns Voltron 3's (vehicle Voltron) chest. It was Ginger. She was (duh) a redhead and boy did she cry a lot. She was a damn trouble magnet.

― Tom Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 23:17 (twenty-two years ago)

defender of the universe!!

(includes flexible knees)

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 23:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry, Tom, I never watched Robotech. It reminded me of Gobots. I guess people dying does make it the most adult of 'em all.

Why does everyone order the Voltrons differently? I saw most of the official sites today refer to Voltron I as the Vehicle Voltron and the Lions as III, but then fansites seem to have it switched around or in the total wrong order.

There is now a Voltron 3D that I've apparantly already missed, as it was aired in 1999...

Anyway, Tom, the reason you seem to like Robotech is why I prefered Vehicle Voltron to the Lion Voltron: the plots were decidedly more adult.

― Scaredy Cat, Wednesday, 15 January 2003 02:55 (twenty-two years ago)

gza just happens to be the head

― boxcubed (boxcubed), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 03:17 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

Was anyone aware that there was a ROBOT VOLTRON (made up of 3 robots)? Because I sure wasn't!

Nostalgia causes revivals...

When the Voltron trailer first aired where I loved in Florida, they billed it as a trilogy, and showed clips from all three Voltrons.

When the Lions' series ended and the Vehicles' series started, I was enjoying it, although all my friends hated the Vehicles. I said "no, no, wait. There's another Voltron coming." It never came.

I decided to look this up about a year ago and found some really nerdy info.

In Japan, it was more than a trilogy - it was a series of like 10 robots. When the US market decided to make the Voltron series, they just pulled almost at random from this pool of robot cartoons.

When the promotional materials was sent to the TV stations went out, they pictured only two robots - the Vehicles, and another robot that ended up not even being part of the Voltron series (Daltanious, I believe his name was).

For whatever reason, they aired the Lions first, followed by the poorly rated Vehicles, so the US company requested the Japanese company construct some new episodes of the Lions...thus, squashing the third Voltron.

But yeah, early on, the US animators had already inked a deal with Matchbox to do toys for all three Voltrons.

― pappawheelie II, Friday, 19 August 2005 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

When the promotional materials was sent to the TV stations went out

I swear English is my first language.

― pappawheelie II, Friday, 19 August 2005 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

Most people tend to forget that if you watch the cartoons closely, VOLTRON IS ABOUT THE SIZE OF A SKYSCRAPER, so he would easily kick Tranzor's mechanized whatever.

― 57 7th (calstars), Friday, 19 August 2005 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

b-b-b-but Transor Z is made of Alloy Z, which is indestructible!

― pappawheelie II, Friday, 19 August 2005 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

You have both forgotten to factor in that THEY ARE NOT REAL.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 19 August 2005 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

I used to pretend play Voltron in my backyard ALL GODDAMN DAY.
But that was when i was much younger.
Like 26.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 19 August 2005 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

Um, besides, the name of the pilot of the Blue Lion in the first episodes was SVEN. Here's to cross-continental cultural pollenation, spread the Scandivian / Nippon love.

― 57 7th (calstars), Friday, 19 August 2005 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

That's Scandinavian, thank you.

― 57 7th (calstars), Friday, 19 August 2005 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

Back when I was a schoolkid and Voltron was first syndicated in the US, I used to watch these two shows before school, back to back. My friends and I all thought that Voltron was the coolest, and we DESPISED Tranzor Z. Every episode we would watch the fight scenes hoping that he would at last be destroyed by the enemy robots-- he was so uncool in comparison to Voltron that we hoped for his death every second we watched the program. But, in retrospect, Tranzor Z was actually the cooler of the two shows. It was from an older generation of giant robot cartoons, and was therefore much funkier. Watching it now, it has this great creepy atmosphere in all the robot scenes, and it just features more absurd Japanese shit than Voltron ever did, like the half-man half-woman evil lieutenant, and the totally useless girl robot with the rocket tits that were her ONLY weapon. I wish some US company would come out with the whole series on DVD. I'd totally rent it all, if not buy the set outright.

― Chris F. (servoret), Saturday, 20 August 2005 06:15 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

...and I guess I should point out that Tranzor Z (Mazinger Z) came well before Voltron (GoLion):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tranzor_Z
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoLion

― PappaWheelie V, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 00:50 (sixteen years ago)

Gigantor 1956 OG
http://www.toytokyo.com/productImages/1198_1.jpg

― PappaWheelie V, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 00:52 (sixteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Robot

f a bunch of super magic bullshit

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 00:55 (sixteen years ago)

i had volton thats right

― jhøshea, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 00:55 (sixteen years ago)