What some people might call a blatant billboard for Voltron toys, I call a great cartoon that packs plenty of thrills, laughs and poignancy into each 24-minute episode.

The Voltron: Legendary Defender series finale put controversy and fan outrage behind it as it ended the stories of Shiro, Lance, Allura, Hunk, Pidge. Voice actors have reported receiving death ...

That’s not a knock to the legacy of Voltron by the by, its just when you think of reboots of ’80s cartoon shows, you don’t think breathtaking TV that utterly crushes all of its competition.

Voltron: Legendary Defender follows five space pilots — Shiro, Keith, Lance, Pidge, and Hunk — who get caught up in the war against Emperor Zarkon in the Galran War.

Note: Spoilers ahead if you have not finished the second season of “Voltron: Legendary Defender” on Netflix. The second season of Netflix’s “Voltron,” based on the classic ’80s cartoon ...

It follows five pilots (Keith, Lance, Pidge, Hunk, and Princess Allura), each of whom controls a giant mechanical lion; the lions can combine to form the giant robot warrior Voltron.

Sure, everyone on Team Voltron looks the same: Keith with his long, dark hair; Lance and his comedic arrogance; Hunk and his girth; Pidge, the youngest and tiniest of the bunch.

For a lot of us, that might have included watching Voltron. Then the Saturday morning cartoon blocks of yore died. Jettisoned from network TV in 2014, kids’ shows are now in a kind of televisual ...

The mechanized lions of Voltron are roaring back to life. The popular 1980s cartoon fantasy franchise with one really cool giant robot is being introduced to a new generation with the Netflix's ...

The upcoming Voltron VR experience from DreamWorks and Digital Domain is breathtaking. Also, you get to play as Lance. Skip to main content ... so that they would still look like cartoons.

Look, I was there in the 80s with the rest of you. I loved the Voltron cartoons. ... Lance is specifically described as being “black” and he’s a mechanic of some sort.