Has anyone heard or watched this old anime?

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There was this show I watched like last week on this program called Boomerang and it was called Voltron: Defender of the Universe. I thought it was an old anime, but I wasn't sure. I looked it up on google, and sure enough, it was an anime. I was just wondering if anyone else has heard of it. Because all the websites I go on doesn't have a lot of Voltron stuff on. By the way, Happy Halloween.
 
I heard the US Voltron was heavily edited, so it's not really a pure anime.
 
Not sure, I do know that Robotech was three non-related shows mashed together.
 
I know that that there were two different Voltron series that used two unrelated shows. The first one, which is the one people will most likely get nostalgic over (the one with the robot lions), was made using Go-Lion. The other one, often referred to as Vehicle Voltron, used Dairugger XV for it.

That should answer the question. Hey, Robotech wasn't the only one using different unrelated anime for their show.
 
There was also "Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years", a combination of Captain Harlock and Millennia Queen. It's... painful. Very much so (a shame, too, since Captain Harlock is awesome. Stupid Americans).
 
Robotech was 3 shows slightly altered for continuity. Southern Cross, Genesis Climber Mospeada, and the most infamous of them, the original Macross series.

The first two weren't that great to begin with, and some even argue the RT versions were actually better than the originals. Macross however was good and that's the RT arc that gets the most flames.
 
Voltron is not a classic. It is actually quite a terrible show that for some reason continues to enjoy a great reputation. The storylines are stale and repetitive, the execution is beyond stultified and terrible, and the English voice acting is reprehensible. The princess and everyone's awkward and inordinate affection for her is the worst part of all.
 
Classic doesn't necessarily mean good. Sometimes just old.
 
–adjective
1. of the first or highest quality, class, or rank: a classic piece of work.
2. serving as a standard, model, or guide: the classic method of teaching arithmetic.

It means something exceedingly good. Voltron is a standard for how to make a bad robot anime but get mindless views, I guess. If you want to interpret it negatively by using its meaning to make a strange double negative, then I can buy that, but otherwise, it remains a positive word.
 
But that's your opinion. Some of us grew up with it and loved it. Besides, you left out SEVERAL definitions of classic, including:

of enduring interest, quality, or style
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Something that could be said of practically ANYthing that people still find interesting after a certain period of time.
 
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