Voltron

Well, it's interesting, and I don't know, Rob, if we've talked about it on the show before, but I don't know, trying to think, like, obviously I was addicted to cartoons when I was a kid.

And I introduced like my oldest to like Transformers and Voltron just to, again, Rob and I talked on a previous episode about how you pass these things along.

And so you can actually have, you know, I can move on, right? I can do adult stuff, but my kid is still into Voltron.

So I can kind of see into watching Voltron without feeling guilty because, oh, I'm just spending time with my kid.

But I don't know if Bluey was maybe one of the first examples where I'd heard about it and my kids were talking about it.

And then one day it was on and I sat down and watched it.

The whole season.

He wanted one of us to say Voltron.

You couldn't even

say it.

So that just happened to intersect, which technically would not happen every time.

I also, it's like forming like Voltron is like gas met dynamite.

I think that, yeah, I didn't even think about that.

Cause these are separate things

cars, and gadgets and toys, right? So this is where companies like Sony and Nintendo and Sega and Toyota and Mitsubishi and Honda and Nissan all found their footing as global corporations.

And also where companies like Hasbro and Mattel sourced molds to create toy lines like the Transformers, Voltron, and the GoBots.

The Japanese also developed a very strong entertainment industry that learned how to operate on a shoestring budget.

And Japanese studios produced a lot of television shows, which were made cheaply but still managed to be impressive due to heavy use of stuntmen in costumes and ingenious practical effects.