0x14 Questons: Game 0x89

[DougJoe]

Grimlock, Leader of the Dinobots!

I did say it wasn't a G1 Transformer, didn't I? Not counting this guess.

Anybody else?

[Jamiet99uk]

Voltron: Defender of the Universe

[DougJoe]

Voltron: Defender of the Universe

Activate Interlock!
Dynotherms Connected!
Infracells up!
Megathrusters are GO!

Form feet and legs!
Form arms and body!
And I'll form.. the head!

Voltron, Defender of the Universe is correct! Well done! What finally made you think of it/him?

[Jamiet99uk]

Wow, I got it right?

Coolio, that was a long shot.

I think I originally looked at Voltron but then discounted it / him because I only remember seeing it many years ago, and I had it in my mind that it was set on a future version of Earth, which fell foul of Question 6.

However when I looked on Wikipedia I noticed that in the original TV series it was explicitly not Earth, but some fantasy far-away-across-the-universe planet that he actually came from.

Thanks for a challenging round!

[damo666]

Well done Mr Bond

[DougJoe]

Wow, I got it right?

Coolio, that was a long shot.

I think I originally looked at Voltron but then discounted it / him because I only remember seeing it many years ago, and I had it in my mind that it was set on a future version of Earth, which fell foul of Question 6.

However when I looked on Wikipedia I noticed that in the original TV series it was explicitly not Earth, but some fantasy far-away-across-the-universe planet that he actually came from.

Thanks for a challenging round!

Voltron was a staple of my youth. My brother had all 5 of the bigger plastic versions of the lions, the castle, and some other things if I recall correctly (like the read-along storybook records). When you put the lions together it actually held up pretty well (unlike Transformers' G1 Devastator which fell apart in a stiff wind).

I would have also accepted "Beast King GoLion" which was the original Japanese cartoon. No one asked anything about the tv show other than date and both shows fell within the date range.

I thought it was an interesting pick because there have been 3 U.S. tv series featuring that character, the last on Netflix between 2016 and 2018.

[Jamiet99uk]

The character is less well known in the UK but the first series was definitely shown on children's TV in the UK in the 1990s.

[Jamiet99uk]

I'll start a new round soon.