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[honeyspeeches]

NYCC 2018 Poster discrepancies

So, I've been looking at the NYCC 2018 poster a lot lately and I found a lot of... suspicious details.

First thing I noticed was believe it or not Curtis:

Curtis is the only one in the whole poster who isn't facing/walking forward with the others. He is just in a standing pose. He was added and they just used his character design picture.

Next thing I noticed was a bunch of creatures and characters we did not see at all at any point in the show:

Who are they, where did they come from and what is their story? No idea. Voltron never just includes random characters or creatures, they always include characters we've seen before. These characters were most likely in the scenes that were cut from Season 8.

Next we have this:

Where the hell are Rolo and N-7????

and who is Allura looking at?

well... I have a pretty good guess for that once, considering he was completely wiped from the show after his "death".

Anyway, these are some inconsistencies I noticed... I am going to talk about the poster again in the analysis tomorrow so... stay tuned for that ;))

[vldunchartedregions]

Voltron Season 8 Meta Introduction

Hi! Welcome to "Uncharted Regions."

Now that it's been several years since Voltron Season 8 came out, the news of Netflix's removal of the series on December 14th, 2024 shook the fandom and pop culture as a whole.

You may be wondering... 1) Huh?! 2) Why?! It's a Netflix Original! 3) I loved this show, I don't understand! I was the same, too. We were all a little confused. However, licensing rights were ending to Netflix and Netflix doesn't want to renew. Fair play.

As someone who worked in a corporate company who also provides live streaming services + has a degree in television production, I have a better understanding of the executive decisions at play that comes down to it. It was not too hard to decipher why when you know what went on in the trenches of the Voltron fandom from 2016-2018.

The bottom line is that Netflix marketing did not match the source material provided, and there was intensive discourse across multiple facets of the fandom. You can imagine Netflix were not fans of the outcome of the series, and may not have even been told by Dreamworks the outcome of the series when Season 8 dropped; especially when Netflix's global social media accounts openly admitted to shipping Klance on Twitter.

Regardless, we're not looking at who's to blame, but you do have to wonder how such a large international miscommunication between Netflix, Dreamworks, and Voltron's IP holders went down the corporate funnel.

...I digress, let's move on.

As many people did from the news of it's removal (which also surprised the official Voltron accounts), I got back into the Voltron fandom really quickly and tried to rewatch as much as I could before it's inevitable removal from Netflix.

I haven't touched this show in years, friends. Not since 2020. The rewatch showed me one thing: that this show is breathtaking, stunning, and at it's core - it represented change. It's truly one of it's kind. To have the crew from Avatar: the Last Airbender, and Legend of Korra working on it on such a high level? Hell, there was an MFE pilot spin off in the works.

There was a lot of promising stories to tell with new outcomes and twists with a classic IP such as Voltron. It was promising a new future and fresh takes with comics, games, and so much more.

Now, alike to most viewers, I was there when Season 8 dropped. Hell, I was at the NYCC 2018 panel where they gave out these posters (which will be VERY relevant to this meta, I assure you):

The hype of Voltron Season 8 lead to a FULL panel that got closed off mid-way in the line. Many fans flew from across the globe (including myself) to get a glimpse of the showrunners, cast & crew, and a unique slice of the pie into Voltron Season 8's trailer.

The excitement was unlike anything I'd ever experienced before in a fandom. It was extremely thrilling, the trailer was outstanding, and Season 8 wasn't too far away.

First shown at New York City Comic Con 2018, get a look at the #Voltron production team's take on the upcoming final season of Voltron Legendary Defender, streaming on @Netflix tomorrow!

Then Season 8 dropped on Netflix... December 14th, 2018.

It was jarring. There were plot points that made no sense, obvious edits to scenes, censorships like a One Piece 4Kids dub, characters cut and pasted into scenes, and storylines were slapped together like a messy sandwich. And it was incredibly obvious too.

The fandom noticed and reacted accordingly - asking questions and demanding answers left, right, and centre. The showrunners responded through podcasts and statements on various levels.

The answer was clear... their vision wasn't the only vision going into the show:

"You know, as we sort of got through the process of premise, script, it went all the way down the line. It got storyboarded. And then at some point, you know, we received pushback from the studio and you know, we were sort of a little confused, like, “hey, how did it go, like, so far down the line before we received pushback?” And you know, this is not like a, like, a vilifying of DreamWorks or anything, like, every exec that we ever interacted with was, it was like, “hey, we understand why you want to tell this story. We understand where you’re coming from. It’s a little bit bigger than that. You know, there’s-there’s other, sort of, controlling parties with Voltron which makes it unique. It’s not just a DreamWorks-owned property.” And it just–I think logistically it just got really, really weird."

Joaquim Dos Santos - Afterbuzz TV interview. Source: https://dragonofyang.tumblr.com/post/183820127648/abtv-mar-4-transcript

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Fans promptly started a petition two days later to release the original Season 8. THAT'S how obvious the editing was and how obvious the deterred, original vision had become.

As a disappointed fan and someone who studied media analysis intrinsically for university, I did try to rewatch back then, and it was painful to watch. What happened? There were layers of context on the cutting room floor and scenes didn't make sense. Hell, each episode title always has a double layered meaning, and even those layers were stripped from the core of the episodes for the most part. This left fans to say, "Whaaaaat is going ON?" The entire fandom was hurt by what had occurred.

The cast & crew that were also unaware of these story changes were also quite hurt, too. To make it more apparent, the showrunners were pretty open on speaking about leaving the project as well on the Buzzfeed Aftershow Podcast, but they simply couldn't:

LM: It’s not-it’s not just like, “Oh I can’t afford my mortgage!” You know, we have a crew that we care about we brought onto this show. If we abandoned them, we-we don’t know what’s in store for them. We don’t know, do they get to stay on? Do they get to keep their jobs? Does someone else come on and then they’re working under someone else that they didn’t sign up for? Or–

JDS: Or they’re working under someone else that’s just gonna be like, “Alright, we’re just gonna finish the show and not really do right by the rest of it.”

Lauren Montgomery & Joaquim Dos Santos - Afterbuzz TV interview. Source: https://dragonofyang.tumblr.com/post/183820127648/abtv-mar-4-transcript

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We all wanted answers, and sure, some members of the team did speak up - but it didn't provide clear answers on what was the go with Season 8 being edited so far into post-production.

Now, this blog isn't dedicated to restoring Season 8 to it's original format (that would be lovely, but we have to be realistic - it has been 7 years and no google drives of the original season 8 have dropped so far). No, no.

That might happen (I've got a positive mindset on it - someone has to have a back up copy on some hard drive somewhere), or maybe it will be released... in a green sock reality.

Rather, this blog is dedicated to all the fans (new & old) whom want a sense of closure to as to why their favourite show on Netflix from 2016-2018 dropped the ball so hard for Season 8.

Not thinking much of it, I had posted a twitter thread detailing how the ending with all the lions flying off looked a little odd.

...And so, I received an anonymous inbox on New Years Day, 2025

This DM... was the start to an unravelling of webs and a rewatch that crumbled immediately. The cracks were all there.

I rewatched Season 8 with this information at hand with a few of my closest online friends, and we were shocked at how much there was to uncover. We were absolutely FLOORED by what was found, including incredible pieces of evidence from the fandom itself.

Now... Why does this matter? It's been YEARS and I'm sure we're not the first to uncover some pieces of information (See the #FreeVLDS8 movement - so, so many good finds there as a foundational point of reference).

Some of what we've uncovered in these Uncharted Regions has NOT been covered by the fandom before, nor does it scratch the surface of what's been found as of yet.

Welcome to the Uncharted Regions of Voltron Season 8.

Our aim for this meta is to acknowledge the following with detailed evidentiary support: 1. The editing of multiple episodes & scenes.

From there, we will look at the alleged changes: 2. Plot points & scenes that may or may not have had cuts. 3. Providing official-style edited shots comparisons to portray how some scenes should've looked in the original Season 8. 4. Piecing each episode / episode orders together (as best as we can) 5. The original ending.

Cheers to the beginning of a new meta, a new hope, and a new perspective on what truly happened to Voltron Season 8.

(Allegedly; for entertainment purposes only)

The one thing I humbly request is PLEASE... No hate towards the showrunners, cast, crew, or the official Voltron IP holders. There's a lot that has changed culturally and intrinsically within the industry over the years and this outcome was not something they could simply control. Let's be adults, look at this open conversation with empathy and love, and respectfully, let's indulge in this topic with grace - your feelings, however, are incredibly valid when it comes to this meta and what we uncover, as there's many alleged finds that may shock the fandom.

Let the journey commence.

Check out my Twitter page for any and all updates in regards to this insanely detailed meta; including teasers and screenshots! Please and thank you.

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NYCC 2024: Welcome to Ignition Press, the new venture from Eric Gitter, Filip Sablik, Jamie S. Rich, and Jeremy Haun

NYCC 2024: Welcome to Ignition Press, the new venture from Eric Gitter, Filip Sablik, Jamie S. Rich, and Jeremy Haun #comics #nycc #nycc2024 #nycc24

In August, Eric Gitter, Filip Sablik, Jamie S. Rich, and Jeremy Haun announced they were teaming up like Voltron to form a new publishing venture. At the time, no name for it was announced. As expected during New York Comic Con, we now have a name. In posts to social media, we now know its name… Ignition Press. The company will lean towards horror, science fiction, crime, and fantasy. An initial…

[dynared]

With the Voltron movie now having begun filming in the land down under (Australia's Gold Coast has become a major hotbed for filming these past few years), the timeline for the movie seems to indicate that they hope to wrap the movie by May. May is particularly notable because that's when Henry Cavill is supposed to begin filming the Highlander remake by Chad Stahelski of John Wick fame.

So if filming on Voltron wraps in May, we could potentially see previews of the film as early as San Diego Comic-Con in July, although given the massive amount of post-production work that will likely need to be done, New York Comic-Con in October will be a more likely target to do a big unveiling of the first trailer.

I am very curious how that trailer reveal and the panel is going to go, mostly because while VLD has finally been banished from Netflix and will likely never be coming back, I don't see the VLD fans, who have proven to not be above violence, doxxing, and in general being disruptive (including at NYCC when a Klancer hijacked a Q&A to loudly and uncomfortably rant about muh representation during a panel where the one time the robot was mentioned by the in-house MC, the showrunners looked FURIOUS, as if how dare you mention a toy robot when discussing our diverse and epic Avatar clone!) fading peacefully into the void. Instead, I see them being their usual disruptive asshole selves when the director and Cavill bring up giant robots.

You're going to get a lot of casual interest from people who didn't know or care about Legendary Defender, but considering that the VLD fandom refuses to accept their show is dead, I'm now curious if that fandom will gracefully accept defeat if the film is targeted more towards male audience members and people who want giant robot fights, or if they're going to try and chase those fans away like they did with VLD, resulting in that show's reputation as being the absolute worst fandom.

[nejiretea]

Voltron Crew Scratch Tracks (sorry about the guy in front of me he’s super tall)

[braveleader]

me: I don’t want them to have the ugly orange garrison uniforms as casual outfits

voltron: they’re not oraaaange

me: ...

me: ...

me: bitch that’s not what I meant

[selineabanto]

new uniforms

[starrychild88]

surprise bitch

I bet you thought you’d seen the last of me

[cielrouge]

Voltron Legendary Defender NYCC Season 8 trailer

[needsdungarees]

NYCC Voltron Poster Allura/Lance analysis

My stupid fandom brain will not let me rest. 

A lot of the VLD fandom have pointed out the placement of the current paladins and how they are positioned in front of the previous paladins: such as Keith standing in front of and in between Shiro and King Alfor (symbolising that Keith has been the pilot of both the black and red lions - same for Lance with the red & blue lions).

SO, from this, we know that character placement in this image is important.

Now to Lance and Allura. Lance is in between Keith & Allura. When reading the image from left to right, Lance is ahead of Allura. Lance's face is similar to when Keith left to fight with the Blade of Marmora (we have seen this previously in the show - when Lance smiles sadly he has slight lines under his eyes - possibly to indicate stress or worry). 

To me this is the face of someone having to say goodbye, be strong and move on. Lance is facing forward, but looking back, perhaps symbolising a regret. You can also see there is hesitation or slowness in Lance's movement, as compared to the other current paladins, who walk with strong strides and purpose (shown by their arms and legs), Lance's legs are closer together and his arms close to his sides. Lance is sadly moving on from Allura, but moving on none the less.

Allura is placed behind Lance (from left to right). She, like the other current paladins is in her new uniform in front of the previous blue paladin, but unlike the others she is holding her helmet. Being at the end of the group and at the far right side of the image puts her almost apart from the others. The fact that she is wearing her new uniform and holding her helmet, while looking in a different direction to the others (apart from Lance who has noticed her gaze) I think symbolises how Allura herself will also be moving on.

She has always been Princess Allura; one day destined to rule & be Queen - her path will lead her to be ruler of a new Altea.

I also think that, as Allura is looking back, there has to be another final piece to this poster, perhaps released after the series has actually aired. If this is to be the final, final season, the final image will show what happens to the team at the very end. At least, I hope so.

Also the cropping on the far right hand side - the end of Allura’s beautiful space hair has been cut off, and it both bugs me and makes me suspicious that there’s another part to the image.

[yuujinchos-remade-blog]

ROMANCE

[notactually-either]

k but for real what is up with the robot kid in the 80s voltron outfit lmao

[demidiangelo]

OH MY GOSH OH MY GOSH

THAT SEASON 8 TRAILER WAS INCREDIBLE

[soaked-doors]

wow vld nycc really has the audacity to just happen this week wow it’s so close wow i can feel the walls closing in wo

[nejiretea]

Lauren and Jo apologizing for the Shiro and Adam storyline

[dynared]

There’s something symbolic about Voltron losing its spot on the main stage this year

To the panel on the Blu-Ray release of Batman the Animated Series.