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Originally Posted by Joe Moore

It'll be good to see Voltron toys available outside of a sub service. Wasn't really impressed with Mattel's offering. Hope Toynami can breath life back into the brand.

I doubt it man. Why? These are just re-releases of their existing product. The Jumbo style Voltron had more of a realistic styling that sticks out when compared to old Jumbo Machinders and Shogun Warriors. The only thing in common is size. I can see what they were getting at but it kind of misses the point.

In addition, Toynami's diecast MPC Voltron was the most problematic of all their MPC Voltron releases. Broken tabs, diecast weighing down joints due to being placed in bad areas, et al. The misleadingly labeled "metallic edition"(the only thing metallic was the paint...) was actually all plastic and was the better toy as it was stable due to lack of diecast. I have it and it's decent. Could be better and a Bandai/Tamashii SOC would blow it away, but for a Voltron toy, it's a neat modernized version.

Toynami is better off re-releasing the plastic edition in metallic paint bundled with their canceled display stand with the extra weapons. Charge $100-150 and call it done.

Daisuke Fukuda, who designed MPC Voltron, is no longer with Toynami. So even if Toynami DOES plan actual new product, I doubt it's going to surpass their previous Voltron toys.

Not to say Mattel did any better. Mattel made a toy that could've been awesome back in the early 90's when the show was being rerun on the USA network, and pretty much killed any potential it had by making it an online exclusive. I admit if I saw those things in stores I might be tempted.

Not to mention Mattel barely did anything with the license.