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**Let’s Voltron: The Official Voltron Podcast**

Let’s Voltron is the Official Voltron Podcast, bringing you exclusive news on Voltron episodes, merchandise, Events, Interviews and more.

Latest Episodes:

**Voltron Force Supervising Director Steven E Gordon** Mar 17, 2016
Show notes

Your hosts, **Marc Morrell** and **Greg Tyler**, welcome special guest **Steven E Gordon** (Supervising Director for Voltron Force), where we learn some things about what could have happened in Season 2 of Voltron Force. Our hosts also talk about the upcoming WonderCon panel for **Voltron: Legendary Defender**, and talk about the showrunners.

**Steven E Gordon**, probably known best for his work on X-Men: Evolution, has a 30-year career of storyboards, character design and Directing to his credit. We talked to Steven about how he started with Ralph Bakshi's Lord of the Rings in high school, with some detailed rotoscoping. His career took him to Disney, Filmation, Warner Bros, DreamWorks, and he is currently working on SpongeBob 3 for Paramount Animation.

Of course, you all want to hear what he has to say about working on Voltron Force, and you'll hear plenty. Fans who submitted questions will get their answers as well. Steven knows more about what might have happened, had there been a second season of Voltron Force, than we have ever heard before. Thank you, Steven, for this wonderful look at the making of Voltron Force!

As you may know, WonderCon in Los Angeles, CA is hosting a panel to introduce the world to **Voltron: Legendary Defender**. Here is a description of the panel, followed by a picture of the showrunners, Lauren Montgomery and Joaquim Dos Santos:

From days of long ago, from uncharted regions of the universe comes the Netflix Original Series from DreamWorks Animation – Voltron: Legendary Defender! Hosted by Nerdist’s Jessica Chobot, join Executive Producer **Joaquim Dos Santos** (The Legend of Korra, Avatar: The Last Airbender), Co-Executive Producer **Lauren Montgomery** (The Legend of Korra), writer **Tim Hedrick** (The Legend of Korra, Avatar: The Last Airbender) and special guests as they unite to form this years can’t-miss panel of WonderCon 2016! Be the first in the galaxy to get a sneak peek of this highly-anticipated event, as DreamWorks Animation unveils never-before-seen artwork and footage of the all-new series. Panel attendees will receive a WonderCon exclusive limited edition Voltron lithograph. **Friday, March 25th, 2016, ROOM 151, 6:00 – 7:00pm**

Marc and Greg also talked about how Pre-Orders are now available on Voltron.com for **Toynami's Ultimate EX Voltron**

You can go to this link to order this now:

http://store.voltron.com/collections/voltron/products/ultimate-voltron-ex-pre-order

If you are going to WonderCon, look for Marc at the **Voltron: Legendary Defender** Panel. He'll be wearing his Voltron Hockey Jersey and a huge smile on his face.

As always, Thanks for Listening!

**Jack Angel and Franklin Cofod** Feb 27, 2016
Show notes

Original Series Voice Actor **Jack Angel** and Director **Franklin Cofod** are Marc and Greg's special guests for a fantastic podcast, where Jack talks about his amazing career, the books he wrote, and tons of stories from both Jack and Franklin about making the Original Voltron series.

**Franklin Cofod** makes a special return engagement to Let's Voltron Podcast, and this time, he brought Original Series Voice Actor **Jack Angel**, who played King Zarkon, Commander Cossack, Hazar, and Commander Yurak in Voltron: Defender of the Universe and Fleet of Doom.

Jack has many stories to tell because he wrote the book on voice acting, titled "How to Succeed in Voice-Overs without Ever Losing", along with his autobiography, titled "The Book of Jack".

You can order both of these, and get them shipped to you in both the US and International, by going to:
http://www.jackangel.com/?page_id=1579

As Jack mentioned near the end of the show, he has his 55th birthday present from Franklin in the picture below (behind him).

We also mentioned the Toynami booth at NY Toy Fair, where we have a link to a video and pics, including the Toynami Ultimate EX Voltron. You can find them on the Let's Voltron Podcast Facebook Page here:
https://www.facebook.com/letsvoltron/posts/10153353524206828

The video is also available on YouTube here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0ZCeaA-2g8

Thanks for listening!

**TRENDMASTERS Prototype Expert Jonathan Shykofsky** Feb 19, 2016
Show notes

**Greg Tyler** officially becomes the new co-host with Marc Morrell, as they welcome **Jonathan Shykofsky** to the podcast to talk about TRENDMASTERS Prototype Toys, especially the ones from Voltron: The Third Dimension.

Before Marc and Greg interview **Jonathan Shykofsky**, they talk about a few current events happening with Voltron.

1 - **Deadpool** is a Voltron Fan!

2 - **Voltron: Legendary Defender** is the name of the Voltron series on Netflix, coming later this year. Nerdist broke with an exclusive story, including a poster that includes a logo for the show, and a silhouette of Voltron in the background.

3 - It was announced at New York Toy Fair 2016 that **Playmates Toys** would launch the toy line for Voltron: Legendary Defender in Spring 2017.

Jonathan Shykofsky tells us about his background as an animator for Arthur and Caillou, before becoming a TRENDMASTERS Prototype Toy Collector, thanks to Slimer, Godzilla, Osmosis Jones and Iron Giant. Jonathan has great stories to tell about his passion for researching, finding and acquiring the whole TRENDMASTERS line of prototypes, many that came from the original designers themselves.

The Voltron: The Third Dimension show spawned a number of prototypes that never made it into production, including Dracotron and Voltrex Cycles. We'd like to share with you a number of pictures that Jonathan has graciously allowed us to post on this page:

Voltron on Netflix in 2016! Jan 28, 2016

Show notes

With the announcement that Netflix will be releasing a new "re-imagined" Voltron animated series in 2016, made by DreamWorks Animation, we gather together some Voltron superfans to talk about fan reaction to the announcement and try to figure out what would make the best show that would last and appeal to the most people around the world.

Marc brings in Talley LaFlamme, Tara Scully, and Greg Tyler to have a roundtable discussion about how everyone reacted to the announcement of a new Voltron show. We talk about EVERYTHING. What are the best parts of Voltron that should be present in any Voltron show? What are we looking forward to the most that comes with a new show, like merchandise, toys, apps and video games? What will DreamWorks Animation and Netflix have to do to make this show last?

Here is the announcement that was sent in email for subscribers to Voltron.com:

**Today (Jan 5, 2016) our friends at DreamWorks Animation announced an all-new Voltron series coming to Netflix in 2016. This will be the fourth installment of the Lion Force Voltron saga, following Voltron: Defender of the Universe (1984), Voltron: the Third Dimension (1998) and Voltron Force (2011).

We want to thank you, our core fans, for keeping Voltron alive and slaying robeasts for over 30 years, and hope you will join us for the return of the Defender of the Universe. We promise you will not be disappointed!**

We are getting excited for this show! This year will be a fantastic year for Voltron fans! Stay tuned to Let's Voltron Podcast for more Voltron fun!

Thanks for listening!

Mora, Tyrus, Medusa, and an Invisible Robeast Nov 21, 2015

Show notes

We continue our episode reviews of Voltron: Defender of the Universe with Episodes 25 – 28, where Marc and Author Dan Jolley make comparisons with Beast King GoLion.

Marc starts by catching up with Dan as Dan tells us about his current comic books, novels, and video games he's writing. Dan is proud to announce some things he can actually talk about:

For comic books, Dan co-wrote “LARP!” from Dark Horse Comics with Shawn deLoache. The first issue is available here: https://www.darkhorse.com/Books/24-368/LARP-Volume-1-TPB
Dan is writing a 3-novel trilogy, all original, called The Gray Widow Trilogy. The first novel is called "Gray Widow's Walk", a grounded sci-fi horror story centering on an Atlanta-based female vigilante, which has just been accepted at Seventh Star Press and is planned as the first in a trilogy.
Gunfire Games have hired Dan as lead writer to create a rich narrative that chronicles one hero's lifelong quest to save his homeland from an evil force. This unique adventure will allow players to explore a compelling fantasy world in full virtual reality with an incredible level of immersion and detail in an Oculus Rift VR environment game called Chronos. (http://gunfiregames.com/chronos/)

As always, Dan Jolley's website is http://www.danjolley.com and Dan is on Twitter: @_DanJolley

Check out Let's Voltron Podcast Interviews from Episodes 37-39 as an Appendix at the end of the Robotech/Voltron Trade Paperback from Dynamite Entertainment. We have 5 pages at the end of the book, transcribed from our interviews with Tommy Yune, Elmer Damaso and Bill Spangler.

You can purchase the Robotech/Voltron Trade Paperback here:
http://store.voltron.com/collections/voltron/products/voltron-robotech-trade-paperback

Here are the Voltron: DOTU episodes we have reviewed in this podcast:

Episode 25:
Voltron: Defender of the Universe - Short Run of the Centipede Express

Episode 25:
Beast King GoLion - Destroy the Giant Cannon!

Episode 26:
Voltron: Defender of the Universe - The Invisible Robeast

Episode 26:
Beast King GoLion - Defeat the Invisible Enemy

Episode 27:
Voltron: Defender of the Universe - The Green Medusa

Episode 27:
Beast King GoLion - Giant Beastman's Lullaby

Episode 28:
Voltron: Defender of the Universe - Treasure of the Planet Tyrus

Episode 28:
Beast King GoLion - The Demon's Birthday

Thanks for listening!