Nothing happened. It's an old
Voltron callback! Form! Blazing!
Sword! Basically, five huge iron
Lions, different bright colors - none
of them robots, more...vehicles for
the inside stars of the show, supposedly?
No. This was no G-Force knckoff. Voltron:
Defender of the Universe.
If the best idea
science ends up coming up
with eons down the road is
holy shit! The universe is in need
of serious help in self-defense! Build
big hard cats, fast!
Not so fast. Kids like me (perhaps
like us) tuned in largely for the part
where the metal cats all locked and
jammed up into an even more metal
huge dude. He/It (no pronoun trouble
in the future one might guess, I digress)
was Voltron. THE Voltron? Oddly, no.
2 others at my last count: what, 12? I don't
know my own age by show back then, but
the Lion one was quintuple best, cat and
dude-wise. Another Voltron was made of
cars...boats...skycraft...a bus? An omnibus
quite large of all vehicular parts. The least
interesting Voltron was just three very much
less metal-looking guys popping together in
one big dude. Sounds gross, but wisely, it
never aired. At least not where I was watching.
The weird thing is, that last, lame-o Voltron
came...I think...third? Why did they try to top
a hot rods and ships good beginning and a great
cat middle with some triple-stooge act? "This will
SLAY KIDS." Well, if you aired it, I could launder
it a little less foul, maybe, but I saw what the thing
looked like. I bought one of the stooge figures.
Only Voltron article I ever purchased, so...must
have been cheery. Bright red one! OK.
He puts his hands together far out and looks at it.
His hands are two lion heads. Lioness heads, if
I'm not mistake on mane!
Metal.
Somebody helpfully announces FORM! BLAZING
you get the idea. Outcomes a swordy surprise
for whoever's trying to fuck with the universe
this afternoon.
Here's this huge metal guy, for ya. Wait, but
look close. It/He is made of lions.
Metal. As a kid, I could stand way more
metal in cartoons than I got to.
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