In the interest of generating a new topic, I'm posting about the Voltron DVDs. They're releasing the darn things in color-order of how the lions connect to form Voltron. Merla bought Blue Lion when it first came out and I bought her Yellow Lion as a belated X-Mas gift. Inside each tin is one of those folding DVD cardboard cases. There are three discs and a purty booklet which briefly overviews the content.
Despite having Spanish Voltron here on Telemundo on and off for a couple of years, there is no alternate audio of any kind and no subtitles or closed captions. So all deaf and non-English folk are shit out of luck. It's barebones but it still manages to look way better than Talespin: Volume 1 which had alternate French (but again, no Spanish despite the fact that Toon Disney simulcasted it in Spanish), subtitles and captions, but the world's ugliest menu, packaging, and no chapter stops besides going to the next episode and no extras. Voltron's episodes are divided into four so you can skip around better at least.
There are 15 eps on each, with six on each of the first two discs and the final disc having three episodes and extras.
On Blue Lion's foldout DVD ma-jig, we have Allura and Sven sharing space with the Blue Lion, another picture of Allura in Voltron gear, and Coran and Nanny. Eps of interest include Episode 6 where Sven's killed and Episode 8 where they just hand over the Blue Lion's key to some weirdo prince. The extras are the "original pilot: the voltron trilogy", which is as uninteresting as it sounds; staff interviews, where Peter O'Keefe's determination to keep his blonde hair and black moustache combo over the past twenty years will astound you; and making of the DVDs, which is semi-watchable but about as engaging as a community access show.
On Yellow Lion, Hunk graces the artwork. Interestingly, he has lost weight, possibly dropping some of the excess to a new ginormous package where his penis used to be. Zarkon, Hagar, and her dumb evil cat are also on the DVD packaging. Eps of interest include Eps 16 where everyone except the questionably gay Keith vie to portray Allura's romantic interest in a corny bridge re-enactment; 17, introducing Princess Romelle and her robeast brother who instead of dying swims out to sea to join the other dolphins;
whichever one where the princess loses her bra; and 28, Prince Lotor's birthday party where, like Faye, he gets a giant gold statue of himself as a gift. The extras are the sucktacular Buckethead video, which was probably born and should've died in someone's warped YouTube fantasy; International Voltron Featurette, which is cool but makes me want foreign language Voltron all the more. Japanese theme music is included; More staff interviews, which I didn't bother with and some short about the toys which wasn't all that good.
There's some shows that you see as a kid that just aren't rewatchable years later, but groovy dumb monsters of the week, dudes voicing every other woman in the show, camp value, and weird goofs here and there along the lines of the clearly dead Sven going to "the hospital planet" (but attending the feast in his honor at the end) make it enjoyable.
Proposed drinking games:
Hunk or Pidge clearly change proportion
Lance gets kissed by the princess
Pidge gets kissed by the mice
Micheal "Lance" Bell voicing a woman
A nipple robeast appears
When people are obviously killed; a sip if an explanation is provided, a gulp if it's laughable, two gulps if the person just disappears inexplicably and is never mentioned or seen again.
