[004]: The History of Voltron Toys
Let's Voltron: The Official Voltron Podcast
English - January 13, 2014 23:59 - 1 hour - 28.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 103 ratingsTV & Film let's voltron voltron voltron force geek pop culture cartoons anime legendary defender defender of the universe marc morrell Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this first full episode of the Let's Voltron Podcast for 2014, Marc is joined by Mike French once again, and the discussion is a chronological History of Voltron Toys, from the era preceeding the 1984 launch of the Original Voltron Series to The Present.
Mike French is the administrator of the Official Voltron Facebook and Twitter accounts. He also runs the retroblasting.com website, which includes a video channel, where you can see reviews of movies, cartoons, and toys from the 80's.
In this episode, Mike talks about his interactions with the Voltron fans, now that he has been the administrator of the Official Voltron Facebook and Twitter accounts, since the new year began. Marc tells the listeners about the email address for the Let's Voltron Podcast, which is:
Feel free to send us an email, and we'll put you on the list for notifications when we post a new episode, and possibly a future newsletter.
Marc and Mike spent the rest of the episode talking about the History of Voltron Toys, in chronological order, starting in the early 80's, when the first Beast King GoLion and Dairugger toys were available from Popy in Japan.
One of the toys we mentioned was the LJN Giant Voltron Commander Radio Controlled Robot. We talked about a commercial that promoted that toy, and here is a link to that 30-second blast from the past.
If you follow the links from that one, you'll see there is a whole page of old Voltron commercials available to view. I'd say commercials have come a long way since then.
We didn't mention it in the Podcast, but it has just been announced that the 30th Anniversary Voltron Collector's Set from Toynami will be available on April 30. That news broke here.
You can still pre-order that set here.
We also mentioned in the podcast that we would provide you with links for some of the Voltron Toy Archives that have been available on the web for fans of all the toys mentioned in this episode. Here are those links:
http://www.action-figures.ca/voltron.htm
http://www.virtualtoychest.com/voltron/voltron.html
http://www.collectiondx.com/voltrontoys
Thanks for listening!