What is the Legend of Voltron exactly? Well, if you grew up watching this awesome cartoon, then you know what I’m referring to. The five lions by the Voltron Force forming into the mighty Voltron: Defender of the Universe.

At this point, you’re probably wondering what the heck a nostalgic cartoon made over two decades ago has to do with sports and music? Absolutely positively zilch! What I do know is that Voltron was a phenomenon which was fun to watch as a kid. There was something about those five lions teaming up to become the mighty Voltron fending off evil King Zarkon and his Planet Doom cronies attempts to invade Planet Arus. 

Zarkon’s main advisor the ugly Witch Haggar always seemed to devise schemes creating Robeasts in attempts to destroy Voltron. Though she’s clever using her witchcraft as much as possible to even trick Planet Arus ruler Princess Allura during one episode, the Voltron force comprising of leader Keith (Black Lion), Lance (Red Lion), Hunk (Yellow Lion), Pitch (Green Lion) and Sven (Blue Lion) always came to the rescue patrolling the five lions to reform Voltron. Ironically enough, it was the beautiful Allura who would replace Sven learning to occupy the Blue Lion so they could still form Voltron after the Norwegian was injured by Haggar during an episode.

Such courage allowed her to successfully defend Planet Arus and be a true leader despite being sort of young. I always figured she was 17 or 18. It turns out I was in the right area code. Has there ever been a prettier female cartoon character? Yeah. That always worked against the evil Prince Lotor (son of Zarkon), who was quite taken with her. 

The Princess had her own mental strain where her dead and buried father King Alfor’s ghost often visited to help Allura out in time of need when it looked like the empire might crumble. It was his image which helped her rediscover where four of the five keys to the lions were. She and Keith were able to find the final key from her friendly mouses who were hiding it. Once that key to the blue lion was discovered, Voltron could finally once again defend the universe in a cool world where good prevailed over evil.

If you’ve ever watched it, you could see the appeal. At the time, it was pretty advanced. Who would’ve ever thought to create such a high tech superpower which could be formed by a team of five to fight all combatants and protect their world? Sheer genius no doubt.

So, what brought this entry up? It was just something I punched in on YouTube out of curiosity. Remarkably, a bunch of mini episodes came up from the original series including the cool intro which gives the viewer an idea of what they were going up against. Plus the cool transformation into Voltron.

Amazingly, there’s still an official site as well. All in all, pretty cool to say the least. Voltron still lives.