The FAILURE of VOLTRON: The Third Dimension 

Immensely disappointed Dan didn't wear the Voltron costume throughout the entire video. COMMIT TO IT, DAN!

Tim Curry somehow being even more ubiquitous as a 90's cartoon character than anyone ever realized....

Honestly I was disappoint Dan didn't do the entire thing dressed as Dan Lartron ... Informer of the Secret Galaxy

My brother has bought literally every Voltron figure he could get his hands on, particularly from Japanese sources, and still asks for them as gifts for his birthday and Christmas. He's 51. I respect the hell out of that.

The main thing I remember from this show is that the Voltron Force members' colors finally matched the colors of their lions.

I remember working on this show as my first animation job in LA. Yes, it did look pretty bad, even by 90s standards. But doing each episode in 2 weeks with 6 animators using 90s tech and having little to no control over the motion capture that we were given, it was a battle just to get each episode complete

As a 90s kid, this was actually my first introduction to Voltron. I still have my 3 inch Voltron figure.

the patreon money must be going crazy to afford that voltron suit 😂😂

I remember working at the theater when the first Transformers movie. It had the teaser trailer for the first Cloverfield, but a lot of people swore it was the long rumored Voltron movie.

This was my first Voltron series, and I loved it as a kid. I revisited it when the dreamworks series came out, and its aged horrendously. You never know which will be a persons first entrance into a fandom.

Holy shit! That outfit! 🤩🥰 "Hi I'm Dan Lartron..." Really amazing and appreciate the work you put in even for the intros!

My main gripe with Voltron toys was always that you got plenty of Voltrons, but not a lot for them to fight. I had the big transforming Voltron that all the pilots sat in, and I loved merging all the lions into the big robot but once I did I always had a moment of, "... now what?" I never really had any other toys the same size for it to fight. It's just one of my legacy issues with the toys of my childhood. If the whole shtick of a property is, "giant robot fights 'X'," why aren't you giving us any toys of 'X' for them to fight? It's luke toylines for series where the enemies use minions. Toys of the minions should never be singles! Packs of 5 minions at the least!

Ready to form Dan Lartron! Activate interlocks! Dyna-therms connected. Infra-cells up. mega-thrusters are go!

Would be crazy if they ever did a Voltron/Thundercats/He-Man cross over animated series!

my wife is a huge voltron fan and I got her the stealth version for her as a christmas gift, she hated it and thought it was so ugly (I agreed) that she ended up garage sailing it

Man, I was totally there for Voltron - End with Timothy Omundson as Red Lion's Lance. I grew up with all the Voltrons and I even liked the vehicle one . . . just not near as much as the Lion one.

Trendmasters tried to make a new Voltron called "Voltrex", which was made out of dinosaurs. It never appeared in the show, though.

I remember the animation was so bad compared to Beast Wars and Reboot. But I was super grateful for the opportunity to pick up the reissued die cast Voltron toy, complete with accessories that were never included before in the 1980s US Voltron release.

Oh gosh i remember a couple years when all kids shows where this low-ish budget 3d animation lol

Wait this show existed, I thought it was just a fever dream of me getting it from the library.

Speaking of Voltron, did you hear the anime that was GOING to be the third one, Albegas, is getting a US release at the end of May thanks to Discotek?

Just take my money for that costume. You have legendary status Dan.

I didn't know you were the actor that played Voltron.

I never got to saw the 3D Voltron. I remember seeing something about it back in the 90s but never saw it on any of the stations I got on antenna. The Live action Voltron needs to be based on the 80s.

I barely remember Voltron: The Third Dimension. I was a huge fan of the original 84 Voltron and yes even vehicle Voltron. Voltron holds a very special place in my heart because several years ago a podcast my fiance and I hosted we had none other than King Zarkon, Jack Angel as our special guest. Yeah that was awesome (RIP Jack). To be honest I've always felt reboots/remakes take away from the original. It's why I never accepted any variant of The TransFormers, ThunderCats or Voltron. I'm just one of the lucky ones who got to grow up with the best original 80s cartoons!

Speaking of CGI / cartoons, with the upcoming Beattlejuice sequel coming out, It would be cool if you covered the cartoon. I remember there were Neitherworld commercials with a CG skeleton guy and am wondering if that was the first implementation of CGI in cartoons. Edit: Nevermind. You guys did cover it and I watched it prior. Still, I loved that show growing up.

Omg Dan Is cosplaying Lion force Voltron ! XD let's go Voltron force third dimension 🖤❤️💚💛💙

The funny thing about the original plan for Voltron is that they were trying to take three unrelated anime series and make them into a metaseries. The irony being that with series like Gundam, Pretty Cure and Digimon, anime has a number of real metaseries. I wonder if modern kids would be more accepting of it now that anime is more established in the U.S.

I about choked to death when I saw Dan in the Voltron costume 😂😂

I loved Voltron when I was a kid, I even sent the USA network a letter, suggesting Voltron fight an evil copy of Voltron, or many ro-beasts at once. I got back a letter, thanking me for the suggestion, and enrolling me in the USA kids club, it came with a fanny pack, and a baseball with their logo on them. Imagine my excitement when I was watching Voltron and realized they used my ideas in actual episodes. Then as an adult, I learned it was a dubbed show of a Japanese series, and that my letter did nothing, it was just coincidence. Then even later I learned that additional episodes were commissioned so... did my letter actually have an influence? Did some writer keep it by their desk for inspiration or was it really still just a coincidence. I'll probably never know

I was able to meet the producer and got a tour of the studio back in 1999. I really like that show. I just wish they kept the helmet and costume for the pilot the same as the original commercial for it.

Saw the original Voltron (the lion one) as re-runs in the early 90s, and in the late 90s I saw the Third Dimension. Funny thing is, I never knew about those other Voltron shows. I guess their plan to bury those other shows worked, because by the time I started watching TV, they were nowhere to be found.

Channel membership has been really great. For such a low price I get to support one of my favorite channels and get extra videos!

In Argentina, we had "Lion Voltron" on TV and the "Vehicle Voltron" was released as a "video movie" so many never heard of it. Voltron was made of lions, period. Alvegas or Arvegas was released on its own here, never had anything to do with Voltron and had some success. Arvegas its one of my favourite robot animes.

This one was well after me, but I gotta say…. I shook my head every time LIONS was mentioned, as I was the kid that preferred the vehicle Voltron. Always wondered why it disappeared.

If I hadn't been subbed for years, I would have subbed the moment Dan put on the Voltron costume. Great video as always

...kinda sad he didn't wear the getup for the whole vid.

This was my intro to Voltron. I really liked it as a kid since 3d animation was still a novelty back then. i even used my first holy communion money to buy the full Voltron toy set. One of the coolest toys I've ever had. Too bad it wasn't long before I lost some of the parts.

Excellent. As a kid, I called Vehicle Voltron by the moniker "Car Voltron"

When I was a kid, I loved Voltron, both the lion one and the Vehicle one. Obviously, I loved Voltron best, the lion one. I really wanted Voltron for Christmas, either one. For Christmas I got Voltron! The gladiator one. 😢 I was optimistic that I'd be the first to have the new one for the new season, which never happened.

Voltron was one of my favorite shows as a kid. I had the Black Lion toy produced by Panosh Place (and was super jealous of my friend who had the whole set), my brother had two of the three Vehicle Teams (Water and Land), and my other brother had the Alpha Gladiator from Voltron II. The three of us together formed... an argument over which Voltron toys we should have chosen to beg our parents for. I was super-excited when Third Dimension first aired, even though I was not particularly awed by the visuals. It was impressive, however, that there were even some of the original actors in it, because even back then it felt like the animation industry didn't care much about voice actors. That said, it was odd that they recast the part of Pidge even though they had Neil Ross right there to do it (unless he was no longer able to squeeze his vocal chords like that).

I was a huge fan of all voltrons. So was excited about this. Loved what i seen sadly the airing schedule in my area wasn't consistent. Then it was pulled.

When the first Cloverfield movie came out and 'Cloverfield' seemed like a code name or a placeholder name when the first trailer there was a small group of people who thought it might have REALLY been a live action Voltron movie.

I still have the five separate lions released during Voltron The Third Dimension's initial airing. I remember asking for them from a local Zellers (a now defunct Canadian store chain) as the "reward" from my parents for doing well in school. They're still complete (somehow!) but the paint on the lions has been battered by years of hot/cold cycles in an attic that wasn't temperature controlled. They've been moved into the basement where the now collect dust instead.

Oh, wow, I haven’t thought about Hypernauts in decades…

This is going to be silly but I misread the title as ‘the failure of volition’. (The game studio) I was getting hyped for some Freespace talk.

I completely forgot Billy West did voicework for this. Now I can write my own fanfic where the Jackie Puppet pilots one of the Voltron lions, and it won't sound completely insane.

For a sec, thought the costume was CGI’d in, where Dan has all those ping pong balls to ‘paint’ the costume later :D

You should have worn some blue face paint to go with that Voltron costume and some yellow eye contacts to complete the look.

I’d watched (and taped) the first season of Third Dimension, but the second season either moved to a different time slot or just never aired in my area as I never actually saw it (but saw plenty of the associated merch like “Stealth Voltron”.

I still say my favourite version of Voltron, toy version at least, is the Vehicle Force version, with everything that the set can do.

We had an Albegas as kids and never really knew what it was. I'm sure our parents were like "Hey, it's Voltron (and we didn't have to spend a lot)" and we were like, "Somebody sold you a bill o' goods!"

I never watched Voltron or any of the spinoffs. I am in the same boat, I know what Voltron is but I couldn’t tell you a dang thing about it…until today! Thanks for another great video!!!

I remember buying the Trendmasters Voltron Mighty Lion set 25 years ago.

Hey Dan, I actually bought the 22 inch Voltron back in 1997 you can put the badly articulated figures that hardly fit in the lion cockpits

I remember hearing the possibility of a live action Voltron since the days of v3d. V3D had revitalized my interest in Voltron. I remember reading how the original concept for a live action wasn’t received well by fans as it took place on earth and describe the lions “being made out of junk”

I grew up on reruns of Voltron. And i love Beast Wars, Reboot, Battle Planets, Max Steel, etc. Janky 90s/00s CGI animated TV shows were/are my jam! I watched Voltron The Third Dimension whenever I could. Loved it! I wish a complete series set was available to purchase.

Gosh i loved voltron soooooo much as a kid. The car voltron was always an elusive thing also - some of us kids had seen an episode with it but most hadnt and there was little info on it.

40 years later, I'm still sad we didn't get a translated Lightspeed Electroid Albegas show. I had the toys and liked it more than Dairugger. Fun fact: There's a laserdisc game of Albegas.

I vaguely recall it but the 90s were a bit a blur for me tv-wise, was busy starting to adult and that was hard, also tons of sci-fi shows to watch so was hard to keep up, Earth 2, Seaquest, Flash, Babylon 5, M.A.N.T.I.S., Viper, and then the Xenas and Hercules and all that, was a golden time of too much content I could never remember when it was on. The Netflix series was pretty good though, like how they mixed it up on different lions forming the head.

The REBOOT Voltron just felt too extreme for my liking as a teenager.

“The Lion one” Lol

The problem with Netflix's Voltron? The show runners thoughr they were smarter than the source material. They weren't. Not even sure if they watched Beast King (I sincerely doubt it). But they thought the OG Voltron was dumb. Some people are just worthless.

Voltron has to have one of the strangest histories of any franchise from the 80's, especially this version, which seems to be the most ambitious and somewhat forgotten version of the franchise. The CGI is definitely not on par with Reboot or Beast Wars (which surprisingly still hold up even now), let alone Pixar, which was just getting started at the time.

I had all 3 versions of Voltron from this show when I was a kid. Had the classic version twice, had Stealth Voltron, and I even had the dinosaur themed Voltrex in all of it’s leg chipping paint glory. Lord knows all that paint chipped off easily and I was left confused as a kid.

Voltron the Third Dimension was my first introduction to the franchise. It will always hold a special place in my heart.

Happy 40th Birthday Voltron 🎉🎉🎉

Anyone else catch Roy Harper during the Jurassic Park clip ?

Switching channels I once stumbled upon this show, watched about ten minutes of it, and then noped right out of there regretting the loss of ten minutes of my life.

8:01 Speaking of Jurassic Park...I am watching the film tomorrow since it it Arbor Day (Tree Day) and the DNA for the dinosaurs was taken from tree resin. I am watching the next two Jurassic Park films, one a day, after that.

Make Voltron Ugly and you get the LIONS!

My older brother had a Voltron figure that you can assemble, it's still somewhere in storage in our house. No action figures, so we used other toys like his G.I. Joes, & later on my Power Rangers as the pilots instead. 😁 I have a vague memory of the lion voltron series, & a slightly clearer memory of that crossover movie. Growing up before we got cable, I remember watching the vehicle voltron back to back w/ Saber Rider. I actually liked that version, but I never saw it as the real voltron & kept wondering when the lions would appear. For 3rd dimension, I think it was also aired on local channels, not sure if it was still in English or also dubbed inTagalog like a lot of foreign shows were by that time. Not sure how big voltron was exactly over here, but here in the Philippines the popular robot series was (& probably still is) Voltes V, which had a live action series made last year. Any super robot series would always be compared to that.

That Golion Get-Up is just too priceless. I wonder if we'll see more toy costumes in the future.

I had watched a few episodes of the lion Voltron as a kid, but was really confused when I saw an ad for THREE Voltrons! The gladiator one looked dumb, but the 15 vehicle one inspired me to make a "copy" of it out of LEGO! So much fun!

Voltron:LD feels like it came out not too long ago but it was 8 years ago. Almost a decade and ago but feels like it was only 2/3 years

I was in college when the 3rd dimension came out. I would only run into it on my visits back home on the weekends. I gave a couple episodes a shot, but did not catch my attention in between loads of laundry at my mom's house. Those were the days.

I only really remember this one for the fact that they re-released the Die-cast Lions with new accessories, the Lotor figure with the chainsaw arm and the decent Stealth figure they did. Shame we never got the Dracotron figure despite they're being a prototype showcased. But holy cow; I didn't realize it looked this bad! Nostalgia is a powerful thing.

The thing I remember most about 3rd Dimension was their grand idea of blowing up the Lions and rebuilding them as the less colorful, less impressive looking "Stealth Lions" to form the even less impressive looking "Stealth Voltron."

That intro was better than the entirety of Third Dimension

Something about third dimension looked familiar and then it clicked. The humans looks like they are from the Questworld segments from the real adventures of johnny quest.

The Nick Voltron seemed like they added elements of Power Rangers and Super friends tone to the series

I remember waking up one morning and seeing this suddenly -- as a huge Voltron fan in the 80s I thought I was dreaming. Some of the choices were weird (those helmets...wtf...), but it was a real treat, despite the novelty of the CG kind of getting in the way.

This show was like a fever dream that I wasn’t sure I watched as a kid. But I always remembered watching the transformation sequence

3:25 Chiming in to say that I watched Voltron on KBHK Channel 44 in the SF Bay Area. I think they ran episodes on Sunday mornings too. Channel 44 knew their audience and I think was the local station that had Robotech after school and would also have week-long themed movie nights such as the original Planets of the Apes movies or Battlestar Galactica episodes edited and presented as movies.

Hey I used to watch this. There was also some other space show that showed a icon when you were supposed to put on 3D glasses for a outer space fight for a couple minutes every episode that kind of aired around the same time period, or actually on the same Sunday morning.

Sad to say this version of Voltron was my introduction of the series, or rather I missed clicked the remote and saw a 3D colorful mech as a child. What I remember vividly for 20+ years, is that Stealth Voltron. Voltron toys didn't even reached my local malls and wanted that version for so long. It's goofy looking but it lays dormant in my memory.

Came here to enjoy a video about 3rd Dimension Voltron (Which I think I might have seen like two episodes from) but then you hit me with those Hypernauts clips and all sorts of sparks just went off in my brain. Definitely a show I completely forgot about, it was like the cool version of Space Cases... oh shit now I remember that show too

I can tell there were many haha's while Dan was in the costume on this one...its immediatelt in the HoF with the He-Man suit you wore that one time. 😂

Just the other night I spent hours digging around Mechwarrior pages trying to see if anyone remembered the name of "that live-action Mechwarrior show" I saw once as a kid, and this just accidentally answered my question with Hypernauts. Thanks!

that would still be cool if they ever make a live action voltron, i almost forgot about voltron the third dimension

I think this was the version of Voltron that I watched as a child. I got the red and green lion figures from KB Toys, and I probably still have them somewhere, but I never completed the collection.

I don't remember seeing this. I was a huge fan of the 80s version, what little I managed to see of it, but I did buy the toys whenever I found them at flea markets. What I do remember was Voltron toys "weirdly" showing up on shelves in the late 90s, and understanding why.

voltron legendary defender the Netflix series is by far the best that I have seen

I knew I wasn’t dreaming. I remember this show vaguely.

CG cartoons ruled in the beginning days! War Panets, Transformes, and Starship Troopers blew us away with the possibilities that awaited us.

Sick costume, mate!!

Douglas Netter didn't get the nickname Rattlesnake for no reason and was very proud of it. So proud he name his production company Rattlesnake Productions.

I remember this, my older brother had a VHS or is it a DVD of that? Also, could you cover Voltron force?

I remember watching episodes of this show early mornings on The WB Network back in the late 90s or early 2000s. Good times. I even had a few figures including Stealth Voltron. Anybody remember those two episodes where Voltron battled his dragon counterpart Dracotron?

3rd dimension was my first Voltron. And I was hooked