I wanted to appreciate the ladies of Vehicle Voltron a bit. So, I went about looking at screenshots and redrawing them in the style for my VV/VLD AU. I’m gonna be honest, I really like the Vehicle team. I love how distinct and different the characters are. And I love that the girls all look so different from one another and do their parts to help with the team, even keeping them in line it seems. So! Here’s the the ladies!
I’m going to be honest, I liked the slight changes made to the characters, from uniform design to appearances. I definitely had changes for Cinda. I had the basics, but with changes, especially the ears and hands, showing more like she is from a water planet as is said in the cartoon. And the spot on her forehead, making it a bit different works, too.
Also! I wanted to give a shoutout to @voltronfandomhag. You do wonderful work with providing information on the characters that has helped me so much in my research. You also provide wonderful screenshots. I was gladly able to check the screenshots you shared of these ladies to use for my redraw. Thank you very much.
Anyway! I hope y’all enjoy these. Until next time.
Honestly, I wish more these Voltron remakes were willing to explore characters, lore, and plot lines outside the GoLion based season of the show. Logically, I get why this is. The GoLion based season of DoTU was the big hit; it’s what made Voltron one of the biggest children’s franchises of the 80s. The American produced season isn’t nearly as beloved or widely known. And Vehicle Voltron? Why would these companies take the risk of incorporating parts of a show that flopped the first time around?
But on an emotional level I just hate seeing remake after remake with that leaves all these good characters and potential storylines collecting dust. Like, Lotor will always be my favorite character but Hazar is probably the most developed and complex character in DoTU. But will he ever make it into a Voltron remake? Don’t hold your breath. And VLD wanted to make its universe more complex by developing intergalactic politics and cultures, but didn’t actually do a whole lot of that in practice. The Vehicle Voltron season provides a good base for that with with the workings of the Galaxy Alliance and its relationship with the Drule Empire, something that could potentially be fleshed out more and taken in a number of different directions…but it’s not in the GoLion based season, so who cares.
Sadly, I don’t think that’s going to change when it’s once again time to milk some more money from the old Voltron cash cow. After what happened with VLD, I think we’ll most likely get a very safe, by the numbers Lion Voltron remake. And, hell, that wouldn’t bother me so much if we actually got some producers and writers willing to challenge some of LV’s more toxic aspects. However, even VLD, which took a lot more risks than most other Voltron incarnations actually double downed on some of the Lion Voltron and GoLion’s worst aspects (in my opinion). I mean, I hope I’m wrong…but I’m not getting my hopes up.
It was literally supposed to be 90s art style attempt with Pidge and Matt as rebels. But struggling with a background, @breadstickcat was amazing and suggested a McDonalds background. And you know what? Though I finally figured something out by the time she gave the idea, I had to do it. And with it, I had to ad a second scene of an unfortunate and underpaid (as if that’s not unfortunate enough) employee confused as heck. But. He seems more confused by what a BTS meal is (me too, buddy, me too; the others tell me that BTS is a Kpop group, though) rather than these two orange freckled siblings with pointy ears and calling them “Earthlings”.
Also, who is this fellow? I was trying to draw Vehicle Voltron’s Zandee using @t1koy-roll’s redesign for him. Poor Zandee, the Garrison doesn’t pay enough so he has to work at McDonalds. Also! I realized just as I was finishing that the picture I found and used for the background (both photos found on google, so…) isn’t in English. Huh! Okie dokie!
Anyway, I hope y’all enjoy this one! Until next time!
So, in a discord group, some of us have some RPs going on. And one for Vehicle Voltron, we’ll be dealing with space pirates. So, I had to draw Shannon, one of the pilots, in a different getup. So! Enjoy some space pirate Shannon O’Reilly.
I was looking up Vehicle Voltron, and I can’t believe it has 15 pilots compared to Voltron, which has 5. Imagine combining and you’re someone in one of the cars, and you’re just..
