Thread: Any other fans of the orginial Voltron tv show "Sqeeee!" when seeing the 3.2 trailer?

Originally Posted by Zumi

Voltron is way older then power rangers. Voltron is the English dubbed version of a Japanese cartoon called Go Lion.

The Go Lion anime was 1981, but Goranger (what is now considered the first Super Sentai series, aka Power Rangers in the US) was 1975. They didn't use the "giant robo" in Super Sentai until 1979 though, and the first multi-robo transformation wasn't until 1988. Still, it was the same company (Toei) that was involved in both the GoLion anime and the GoRanger / Super Sentai live action series, so you might as well consider the "5 people joining forces to use a giant robot to fight baddies" to be a product of the same people at the same general time period. There were just limits to live action tv shows that didn't pose a problem for anime.

"Power Rangers" is a lot older than people think, it just didn't get a Western adaptation until Saban thought he could capitalize on the Ninja Turtle craze of the early 90s.

Originally Posted by Ashkendor

Except Voltron is about a decade older. It's like Power Rangers' awesome older brother. :3

Fun fact: I'm wearing a Voltron T-shirt. I think this makes me old. And a nerd. I'm an old nerd.

Who's the more nerdish, the nerd, or the nerd who corrects him?

On a side trivia note, the live action giant robot battle shows that Toei does ACTUALLY started with the live action Spiderman series Toei did in 1978. Spiderman was given a giant robot for some odd reason, and that idea was reused for the 3rd Super Sentai series that aired in 1979. So thank Spiderman-sempai for your childhood Power Rangers.