6th March 2012, 8:14 PM
Voltron is exactly like Power Rangers. Unlike something like He-Man, the 5 warriors are "chosen" in Voltron, get color coded suits and different giant lion robots that combine into a humanoid robot that defeats an evil space empire's monster of the week. The big difference is that the 5 characters on their own are basically regular humans. Voltron was an American release (though maybe not originally made here, as I keep finding out about all sorts of 80's shows). Heck I had some of the lion bots as a kid. In something like He-Man or Thundercats the warriors aren't exactly "chosen" except for the main characters Liono and He-Man.
To be honest aside from Thunder Cats I never watched most of those shows. I thought He-Man was dumb. Most of them had faded anyway when Ninja Turtles came along.
Anyway, I didn't think Power Rangers was all that dumb. I mean, yeah kinda but also there's giant robots fighting and ninjas. It had it's moments, even if the color coded chosen ones in that show had colors picked in... questionable ways... Black ranger african, pink ranger girl, yellow ranger asian (because apparently the "asian" part overpowers the "girl" part, blue ranger boy, and red ranger.... I got nothing. I guess red is just always the "leader" color.
To be honest aside from Thunder Cats I never watched most of those shows. I thought He-Man was dumb. Most of them had faded anyway when Ninja Turtles came along.
Anyway, I didn't think Power Rangers was all that dumb. I mean, yeah kinda but also there's giant robots fighting and ninjas. It had it's moments, even if the color coded chosen ones in that show had colors picked in... questionable ways... Black ranger african, pink ranger girl, yellow ranger asian (because apparently the "asian" part overpowers the "girl" part, blue ranger boy, and red ranger.... I got nothing. I guess red is just always the "leader" color.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)