Let's Voltron: The Official Voltron Podcast

Len Uhley is a writer and story editor, best known for his episodes on Ben 10, X-Men, Thunderbirds Are Go!, Static Shock and many more! Voltron Fans know him as the writer for Voltron Force episodes, Hungry for Voltron and Roots of Evil. Marc and Greg are happy to discuss Len's work with Voltron and his whole body of work over 30 years of animation writing, story editing, and live action and video game writing. Photo Credit: Masayo BenoistIf you are a writing student or you have aspirations of writing for TV or movies, whether it be in live action or animation, you will find a wealth of experience and tons of helpful information from Len Uhley. This podcast can certainly be heard as Len Uhley's Master Class in animation writing, and the whole process from the premise all the way to the completed series you see on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney +, DC Universe and more.Len Uhley is on Twitter at: @LenUhleyJoin us on our next podcast, where we have a special guest that helps us review the first 2 episodes of Ligh

With the world on pause as a global pandemic calls the shots, we thought we would catch up with some of our fellow Voltron fans and see how they are handling this new world of social distancing. We have reports from other Voltron fans that shared emails with us, as well. Thank you to Zilla, Mel, Lexi, and K-Lionheart for joining us!We hope all of you are staying safe at home and are able to still connect with your friends and family, remotely.  We know we will all be able to get together sometime soon again, and that maybe the world we return to will be a better world, where we all look out for each other. Help Rebuild Han Cholo!In the spirit of charity and coming together like Voltron, we are asking for your help for our close friends at Han Cholo. In addition to dealing with their store having to close for the pandemic, and their employees having to stay home, we learned that their LA store had been robbed recently. All of their inventory, as well as high-value collectibles and office equipment, had been st

VoltCon 2020 Organizers visit to make an announcement and give early details for Voltron Fans that want tickets for October. Shannon Muir helps us review Raid of the Red Berets, the 38th episode of Voltron: Defender of the Universe.VoltCon 2020 is set for October 24-25, 2020 at The Marriott East in Indianapolis, Indiana (USA).  Tickets and information  can be found at https://voltcon.orgWe want to thank Kevin Clark, Patrick O'Connor and Savannah O'Connor, the organizers of VoltCon, for joining us to talk about this year's Voltron-themed convention and to make a special announcement. More details will emerge throughout the year, so go to VoltCon.org or listen to Let's Voltron Podcast for the latest.In this podcast, we review Raid of the Red Berets, the 38th episode of Voltron: Defender of the Universe and the Beast King GoLion version, which is titled GoLion Hunting. We want to thank Shannon Muir for joining us once again for this review. Here are some of our favorite screenshots from the episode:As Always, Th

Marc and Greg are honored to have Shannon Muir back as a guest to help review the 37th Lion Force Episode of Voltron: Defender of the Universe, Lotor's New Hit Man. After a few Voltron News items, including VoltCon 2020 news, we hit the ground running.VoltCon 2020 is officially scheduled for October 24-25, 2020 at The Marriott East in Indianapolis, Indiana. Tickets and more details are available at https://voltcon.org/! We can't wait to see more Voltron Fans there this year for the second VoltCon!Voltron Brewing Company in Tuscon, Arizona has just recently opened at 330 S. Toole Ave., Suite 200 next to Rocks and Ropes Trampoline Park. This new brewery has formed from the combining of Sentinel Peak Brewing Company and Borderlands Brewing Company. Their first joint creation is known as Lion Force Lager (6.9% ABV) and it has a 4.15/5 rating on Untappd. We can't wait to try it! Check them out on Instagram here:https://www.instagram.com/voltronbrewing/Marc was recently interviewed for the Engel Jones 12-Minute Con

In this first podcast for 2020, Marc and Greg review Episodes 35 and 36 from Voltron: Defender of the Universe, Doom Boycotts the Space Olympics and Lotor's Clone, respectively. We have some of our favorite screenshots from both episodes here:As always, Thanks for Listening! Let's Voltron!!

Marc and Greg celebrate the 6th Anniversary of Let's Voltron: The Official Voltron Podcast by looking back on the last year and sharing emails sent by listeners.Also, we want to thank Susan C from Indiana for sending us this anniversary design:As a special gift to the listeners, we are providing a special 6th Anniversary 30% OFF Discount on our TeePublic Store. It will be available until Midnight on December 25th, so hurry! You can get it by entering the code - celebrate6 - during checkout. You can see that here:You can also get it automatically by using the following link:https://www.teepublic.com/c/DaPrUk48TjmBf3nuppgIMQ?redirect=/stores/let-s-voltron-podcast?ref_id=5313Please listen to Marc and Greg's Interview on Liz Schunn's Social SciFi Podcast at the following links:VoltCon 2019 Part 1: Happy Birthday Voltronhttps://geekinginindiana.com/ssf-y1sp2Voltcon 2019 Part 2: Attendees, Vendors, Sponsors, and Guests. Oh my!https://geekinginindiana.com/ssf-y1sp3Thank you to everyone who contributed your favorite

Marc's son, Lucas, joins the podcast to review the Steam video game, Voltron: Cubes of Olkarion. And, Lucas sticks around to talk about what's on everyone's Christmas Gift List for Voltron Fans.Voltron: Cubes of Olkarion, developed by Switzerland-based independent game studio, Gbanga, was the winning game coming out of the 2018 Universal GameDev Challenge. The game demonstrated the most potential for expansion into a commercial product and beat hundreds of other submissions to win the competition.In case you’re not already aware, the Universal GameDev Challenge was a collaboration between Universal Games and Unity Technologies and sponsored by Intel and Microsoft, that invited developers to submit a design for a PC game that leveraged one of five iconic Universal brands: Back to the Future, Jaws, Battlestar Galactica, DreamWorks Voltron Legendary Defender and Turok Son of Stone. Nearly 550 entries were submitted worldwide. As the grand prize winner, Gbanga received $150,000 and a year-long consulting contract

Our VoltCon coverage continues as we review Day 2 (Sunday) with special guests Dani DeWald, Tara Scully and Kajira. We also review the Shake Ups Concert and the Fleet of Doom screening. As a bonus, we released a new holiday design on our TeePublic store, just in time for Black Friday.If you wanted to know what attending VoltCon was like for the attendees other than Marc and Greg, THIS is the podcast to hear! We have 3 VoltCon attendees joining us, and 1 of them was also an artist vendor in the Space Mall.Returning to the podcast are Dani DeWald and Tara Scully. At VoltCon, while Tara and her "Cova" Team were winning the Voltron Trivia Contest, Dani was recording video of mostly all the panels in the Castle of Lions Main Bridge. We provide clips from our panels on the podcast, but if you want to see FULL panels from VoltCon, Dani will be sharing those on her RipCurl808 YouTube Channel, which you can get to from this link:https://www.youtube.com/user/RipCurl808/videosDani will be releasing those panels soon! Yo

Marc and Greg recap the first day of VoltCon 2019. They go over the event schedule, including 2 panels run by your Let's Voltron Podcast Hosts: Voltron 101 and History of Voltron Toys. Other hot panels included a Franklin Cofod Interview and Jeremy Corray and Bob Koplar, talking about Voltron Force.This was the first EVER convention dedicated solely to Voltron, in honor of the 35th Anniversary of the first episode of Voltron: Defender of the Universe on TV on September 10, 1984.Marc and Greg were happy to kick off the festivities even before the opening ceremonies with a Voltron 101 Panel. Our friend, Dani DeWald was so gracious and recorded the whole panel and posted it on YouTube! Go check it out HERE!After the opening ceremonies, kicked off by VoltCon Organizers Kevin Clark, Patrick and Savannah O'Connor and Ryan Howe, Franklin Cofod (Showrunner/Director for Voltron: Defender of the universe) took the panel stage for an interview, moderated by Patrick.After that, Marc and Greg took the stage again for the

Happy 35th Anniversary, Voltron! Voltron fans around the world are sharing their memories of their first exposure to Voltron, and Marc and Greg get to hear the latest details about VoltCon from the organizers, Kevin, Patrick and Savannah. Pay attention for special surprises, and listen NOW to take advantage of timely discount codes from VoltCon and Han Cholo! We are excited to announce the following panels that Marc and Greg will be hosting at VoltCon in Indianapolis, Indiana, on Saturday, October 19th and Sunday, October 20th: Saturday Voltron 101 A primer for all things Voltron presented by Marc Morrell and Gregory Tyler of Let’s Voltron: The Official Voltron Podcast. If you’re a new introduced to Voltron through Legendary Defender and curious about what came before, then this is the panel for you. If you’re a fan from days of long ago (i.e. 1984) and you’re curious what came after, this panel is for you. If you’re a friend or loved one of a Voltron fan – or if you can’t tell Voltron from Optimus Prime, th

Marc and Greg are joined by Shannon Muir to continue our reviews of Voltron: Defender of the Universe episodes. In this podcast, we review and compare the Voltron and GoLion versions of Episodes 33 and 34, Attack of the Fierce Frogs and Lotor Traps Pidge. Here are the listings of the 2 Robeasts from this podcast, taken from the Robeast Catalog in Voltron: From Days of Long Ago, A Thirtieth Anniversary Celebration Book from Viz Media children's imprint publisher, Perfect Square, published in 2014: Episode 33: Voltron title = Attack of the Fierce Frogs Episode 33: Beast King GoLion title = Terror of the Space Frogs Episode 34 Voltron title = Lotor Traps Pidge Episode 34 Beast King GoLion title = Underground Operation Here are some screenshots from both episodes: Our next podcast will be our celebration of the 35th Anniversary of Voltron: Defender of the Universe, which first appeared on September 10, 1984. We will need your help and participation to make this podcast a success! Please email us at

Marc and Greg review every volume of the Trade Paperbacks released for Voltron Legendary Defender Comics from Lion Forge Comics. If you go out to The Voltron Store at: https://store.voltron.com/collections/voltron/products/voltron-legendary-defender-volume-1-2-3-trade-paperbacks You can use the code SCHOOL20 at checkout to save 20% on your entire order! As Always, Thanks for Listening! Let's Voltron!!

Mitch Iverson is our special guest to to talk about Voltron Legendary Defender Comics from Lion Forge Comics. We talk about the comics, the Netflix show and much more! Mitch Iverson is a film, television and comic book writer. He loves giant robots, explosions and all things science fiction. He's also a huge Dungeons and Dragons fan! Mitch's credits include the upcoming Fast & Furious: Spy Racers on Netflix, as well as Voltron Legendary Defender, the Netflix Series, Comics, and Motion Comics. You can follow Mitch on Twitter (@mitch_iverson) at: https://twitter.com/mitch_iverson Breaking News!!! This special Voltron news came in too late for the podcast, but we're able to tell you about it in the notes page (because Mitch Iverson will want to play this, too!). Voltron: Cubes of Olkarion will be released on Steam on July 25th! If you recall, Voltron: Cubes of Olkarion was the winner of the Universal GameDev Challenge 2018 where indie studios could create prototypes for iconic Universal franchises. Since

Marc and Greg are joined by expert prop-makers Makoto and Billy The Brick Cosplay to talk about the process of making Voltron Props for collectibles or cosplay. Makoto Kamui is a former senior game/graphics programmer who decided to try out prop making as a career path of sorts, mixing in coding and robots to see what happens. Makoto enjoys cosplay, anime, Marvel movies, and puns. Lots of puns. He hails from Oklahoma and has turned his love for props into a small business. Here is the link for Makoto's StoreEnvy Shop: http://mkprops.storenvy.com MK Props Just a small business doing what I love - making props from anime and cartoons, movies, and custom designs for cosplay and photoshoots. You can also follow Makoto (@MakotoKamui) on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/MakotoKamui Billy the Brick Cosplay (a.k.a. Will) has been cosplaying and making his own props for about six years, and decided to trying to make this hobby of his that he's very passionate about into something a lot more. He does everything hims

Marc and Greg are joined by Mel and Sean Z to review the 78th and final episode of Voltron Legendary Defender on Netflix: The End is the Beginning. In this episode: Voltron and Honerva come together at the source of all realities in the ultimate battle between good and evil for the survival of the universe. Mel has recently completed another Voltron Legendary Defender design that we talk about in this podcast. Here is her newest design: You can follow Mel (@melmeiko) on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/melmeiko You can follow Mel (@thatmeikogirl) on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/thatmeikogirl Sean Z is a staff writer for GeekDad and one of his latest articles, that we talk about on this podcast, was the announcement by Lion Forge Comics that their Voltron Legendary Defender Comics Series license would not be renewed. https://geekdad.com/2019/05/lionforge-does-not-renew-voltron-license-ends-comic-series/ You can follow Sean Z (Sean_Z_Writes) on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/Sean_Z_Writes While our

Marc and Greg are honored to be able to talk to professional artist Jamie Sullivan, who Marc had met at WonderCon. Jamie has done some amazing prints for Voltron: Defender of the Universe and Voltron Legendary Defender, as well as other '80s cartoons like G.I. Joe, Robotech, Transformers, MASK, and more! We also get caught up on Greg's Vehicle Voltron Project and find out which conventions some of the Voltron voice actors from yesterday and today will be attending this year. Jamie Sullivan has recently created a new professional website, called Jamie Sullivan Illustration & Design and you can go there now: https://www.jsianddesign.com/ It was a real pleasure to talk to Jamie about his process for designing and creating his amazing artwork, which we really love! Here are the Voltron designs Marc and Kim picked up at WonderCon, which we talk about in this podcast: Jamie has done a lot of work for Robotech, which we talk about in the podcast, and here is a sample: You can follow Jamie on Instagram at: ht

Our Special Guests for this podcast are the voice actors for 3 out of 4 of the MFE Pilots from Voltron Legendary Defender, including Anna Graves (Ina Leifsdottir), Zehra Fazal (Nadia Rizavi) and AJ LoCascio (James Griffin). Having all 3 of these wonderful people on the podcast at the same time was a lot of fun! We are so excited to have 3 of the MFE Pilots from Voltron Legendary Defender on with us. We talk about some of their best lines and what it was like to record those lines in the studio. These actors are very supportive of each other and their positivity is very contagious! Anna Graves, who plays Ina Leifsdottir, is on the podcast for the very first time, and she has a lot of credits to her name, including Duchess Satine from Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Princess Leia from Disney Infinity. To follow Anna on social media, follow her on Twitter and Instagram at the links here: https://twitter.com/gravyvoice https://www.instagram.com/gravypic/ Zehra Fazal, who plays Nadia Rizavi, was recently interv

Marc and Greg welcome Lexi Hoffman back to the podcast to help review The Zenith, which is the 12th episode of Season 8 of Voltron Legendary Defender on Netflix. Lexi Hoffman has had an addition to her family since we last talked - her son, Levi. We talk a little about how Levi was named and what Lexi thought about Season 8 and the whole Voltron Legendary Defender series. You can follow Lexi on Twitter @RedLion004 Here are our favorite screenshots from the 12th episode of Season 8 of Voltron Legendary Defender on Netlfix - The Zenith: As Always, Thanks for Listening! Let's Voltron!!

In this podcast, Marc and Greg review the 11th episode of Season 8 of Voltron Legendary Defender on Netflix: Uncharted Regions. Happy Mother's Day! We want to thank all the Mothers in the world who have shared their love of Voltron with their children and other fans, so that the positive message of Voltron can spread to all the uncharted regions of our universe. We are happy to introduce you to the new site design for LetsVoltron.com and we encourage you to try the new RECAST feature, where you can share your favorite 30-90 sec audio clips from our podcast episodes with everyone who follows you on social media. Here are some of our favorite screenshots from Uncharted Regions: As Always, Thanks for Listening! Let's Voltron!!

In this podcast, we welcome Lee and Zachary to help us review Knights of Light, Part 2, from Season 8 of Voltron Legendary Defender on Netflix. Zachary joined us previously on the podcast to review VLD episodes, The Ruins & The Journey Within. Now, he is joined by his friend, Lee, who he met at NYCC. Marc had also met Lee, briefly, at NYCC this past year. Lee is a co-host for The Nerdy Life channel on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3VYHqXvheRk6mE4f4IgP1g Lee is also a co-host for the Warui Anime Girls Podcast: https://sketchfedstudios.com/wagpodcast You can follow Lee on Twitter at: @animejunki71 Zachary is an all life New Yorker who likes cartoons, comics, gaming, Pro Wrestling, specific 80s/90s things, and Tokusatsu. He is a big Voltron fan and Marc and Zach have met at NYCC two years in a row! You can follow Zachary on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/Zacshi130?lang=en Zachary has two write-ups on Facebook that he'd like to share with the listeners. The first one is titled, My Life Wit