DreamWorks Animation rebuilds the lionhearted robot as you like to remember him
Form feet and legs!
Form hands and body!
And Ill form …the head!
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If you know what that means, congratulations, 1980s cartoon fanatic youre a step ahead.
The show kicks off June 10 on Netflix with an hour-long premiere, followed by ten 22-minute episodes.
The nostalgia for the original show is what has carried it through to this point, Dos Santos says.
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People still reference it and people still talk about teaming up like Voltron.
They were making the best of what they had, Dos Santos says.
But whatwasthere was a sense of teamwork and this amazing imagery.
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And our child brains filled in the gaps.
But the producers were even more surprised by the R-rated nature of the source material.
We rewatched the original, and went back and watchedGoLion.
It almost hews a little closer toGame of Thrones.
Theres some crazy stuff that happens, and its pretty dark.
There were men slapping women, people being beheaded.
It was crazy-times, adds Dos Santos.
But it also had higher stakes as far as drama, Montgomery says.
In the newVoltron Legendary Defender, theres a bit more explanation and backstory.
Our characters are as unfamiliar as a new viewer would be to Voltron, Dos Santos says.
He crash lands back on Earth babbling about an ancient super-warrior named Voltron.
Our characters respond to the notion that this is an absolutely crazy idea.
