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Paladin Side and Dark Side Voltron T-Shirts


I've been neglecting tees for a while here. Life is just too busy. Every minute I'm not sleeping, I'm working. I work while I eat. I work while I'm watching TV. I work on other work while I work my regular job. I come up with ideas, write to-do lists, and edit posts while I play games. And if I think about it, I'd probably discover that I even work while I'm sleeping; my dreams and nightmares have been just as busy.
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Avengetron? Voltengers?

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Oh, damn it! An Avengers/Voltron t-shirt? I never would have thought of that, even though I've said before if I were as rich as Tony Stark I would build myself some awesome lions that form together to fight evil. I mean, look how adorable the Hulk lion is, and the Blazing Sword is Thor's hammer! Voltron was my childhood dream and favorite cartoon. Yes, they used the same sequence every single time when Keith, Lance, Pidge, Hunk, and Allura realized they couldn't take on whatever was threatening the universe separately. But "form feet and legs, form arms and torso...and I'll form the head" was always the best bit. I was simple. ;)

Unfortunately, I suffer from T-shirt Instabuy Syndrome. If it's too good to pass up, it's a struggle not to get it. That puts a strain on the wallet, especially when my first job has been so light for so long that it's like I'm not employed there anymore, and I've been working for two months at my second job and won't get paid until the middle of September. And I already bought two shirts recently - Groovin Through the Galaxy with baby Groot and Better Call Hutz - so I have to agonizingly pass on Assembled. Hopefully it will be put on RedBubble later and kept there for a while.

Assembled is available starting at $10 today, and it's also available on hoodies, coasters, posters, and more if you have too many tees. If you miss it today, you'll have a second chance to buy it tomorrow for $15, e.g., RiptApparel had three great Doctor Who t-shirts yesterday that I was too busy to blog about. I'll have to put Who Loves Rose, The Crack in the Wall, and The Monolith on my ever-growing wish list, T-Shirt Obsession.
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Voltron Live Action Short

Can you guess what my favorite cartoon was as a kid spanning the mid '80s to late '90s? I'll give you five tries. Care Bears? They were adorable, and I *am* Grumpy Bear (also Grumpy dwarf and Oscar the Grouch), but no. Inspector Gadget? I was already old enough by then for him to annoy the living crap out of me. He-Man or She-Ra? Cool tiger and horse, but that's not enough. That counts as two, cheater. Transformers? Close. Probably number three on the list. I will always love a big sentient robot that can turn into a car. Okay, then it's gotta be Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Getting warmer. Donatello is my guy. And that damn Nintendo game was freakin' hard for a 10-year-old! Okay, so how about Voltron? Finally! Seriously, the answer was in the post title. By the way, you didn't win. I said five guesses not seven.

To me, Voltron was the best. It's the only one I ever dreamed about, and, strangely enough, I dreamed about it not in cartoon form but live action. It wasn't so much the stories or characters that I gravitated towards; it was the lions, which is how I assume it was for most. I was hooked as soon as I saw them form Voltron for the first time. They were so cool that if I were suddenly rich enough today, a life-sized red lion replica would be the first thing that I spent money on, and it just so happens that Timothy Omundson (Carlton Lassiter, also fondly known as Lassie, the hilarious no nonsense cop on Psych) is playing the red lion pilot in this. It's only a couple minutes long, but packs in tension, emotion, and the isolation of being dead in the water. There's a lot of heart in this tiny gem.

I would get out of the pool on a hot summer day just to watch Voltron. No time to change, I'd sit on a few towels and let the air conditioner freeze me. For that half hour I was immovable. So, when I see something like this, something that's not a parody and actually takes the material seriously enough to be believable and quite damn good, that's impressive. I just want to give a big hug to all involved.
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