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Behind The Scenes

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🗓️ 4 January 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Lauren Montgomery and Joaquim Dos Santos, the team that brought you Avatar: The Last Airbender and Legend of Korra, join us on the podcast to talk about their reboot of the 1980s franchise, Voltron. We’ll talk to them about growing up with the original run of the show, how animated series influenced them as kids, and how that influence inspired them when they were tasked with creating their own rendition of this animated classic.

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0:00.0	Ready to form Voltron.
0:02.0	Mega Thrusters are Go!
0:04.0	Go Voltron Force!
0:10.0	Does hearing that make you think back to a time
0:12.0	when you sat cross-legged in front of the television
0:14.3	with a bowl of cereal or to a moment when you were envious of a classmate who brought a Voltron toy to school?
0:20.3	If so, you're probably a kid of the 80s.
0:23.0	I mean, it was huge, like on the playground for me with all my friends.
0:26.5	Everybody could choose a different pilot and everybody could play along.
0:30.3	That's what Kim Dros Santos, one of the showrunners of Netflix's reboot, Voltron, Legendary Defender.
0:37.0	He was a big fan of the original series back in the day.
0:40.0	Lauren Montgomery, the show's other showrunner, also has childhood memories of the original series.
0:45.2	But not all of them were fond ones.
0:47.2	One episode that traumatized me, which was this episode where Hagar's cat comes with a knife and just like stabs the princess.
0:55.9	And then as a kid I was like, oh my God!
0:59.6	For those who missed the original series, the show follows five pilots, Keith, Hunk, Lance, Pidge, and Sven.
1:08.0	They command robot lions, which when combined form a mega robot called Voltron.
1:13.0	Their mission is to protect the planet Eris and its ruler, Princess Alora,
1:17.0	from the evil warlord King's Arcon and a witch called Hagar.
1:21.0	The series only lasted a little over a year from September 1984 until November 1985, but its impact
1:28.9	on the children who watched has lived on.
1:32.0	And the franchises kept going, not only in the minds of these
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