EXPLORERS 1985 ALIEN VOICE SERIES

Because the World Events producers greatly preferred GoLion to Daltanious, the GoLion episodes were adapted instead, going on to become the most popular portion of the original Voltron run. When requesting master tapes from Toei Animation for translation purposes, the World Events Productions producers requested ' ones with the lion.' Mistakenly, Toei then proceeded to ship World Events copies of Beast King GoLion, another 'combining-robot' cartoon which featured lion-shaped fighting robot starships.

EXPLORERS 1985 ALIEN VOICE SERIES

The Japanese Future Robot Daltanious series from 1979-1980 was originally planned to be adapted by World Events Productions as part of Voltron. The series was an immediate hit in the United States, topping the syndication market for children's programs in the mid-1980s. But since they had no means of translating the Japanese series into English, Keefe and Teichman surmised the plots, commissioned writer Jameson Brewer to write all-new dialogue, edited out the more violent scenes, and remixed the audio into stereo format. Voltron was created by Peter Keefe and John Teichmann, founding partners of World Events Productions, in 1984 using material that they had licensed from the Japanese animated series Beast King GoLion and Armored Fleet Dairugger XV.

Explorers 1985 alien voice