Voltron: Overview
Voltron is a popular action figure from the 1980s. It arrived around in the world at the same time as a slew of other similar characters, but it somehow managed to hold its own. Like the other popular action figures of the period it was tied in with an animated television series. Voltron action figures followed the same type of idea as Transformers and they were able to change into vehicles. The unique selling point of the Voltron action figures was that they could combine together to create one huge robot.
The original Voltron television series ran from 1984 until 1985; it was based on two popular Japanese shows. The original series had a team of five heroes who were charged with the job of protecting a planet called Arus. These five pilots have robot lions and when these are combined together it creates Voltron. There have been other series since that time and there is apparently one more series that is still waiting for a release date.
The idea behind the shows worked well with toys and children enjoyed combining the different figures to form space ships. The availability of the toys dried up at the start of the nineties and it looked like they might be finished forever. They made a comeback with a line new though after the success of the 1998 series Voltron; The Third Dimension. These toys still continued to be made right up until today. There are also plans to produce a monsterpocalypse game based on the series.
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 vintage Voltron & Godaiken? figures- green lion with blue figure, + 2 others  US $2.90
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 Voltron Instruction Manual US $5.00
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