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The Netflix service on June 10.

Executive producer Tim Hedrick — all of whom had worked together on Avatar the Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra — announced the cast at their at WonderCon in Los Angeles in March:

• Steven Yeun (The Walking Dead) as Keith
• Jeremy Shada (Adventure Time) as Lance
• Bex Taylor-Klaus (Arrow) as Pidge
• Josh Keaton (Green Lantern: The Animated Series) as Shiro (formerly "Sven")
• Tyler Labine (Tucker and Dale vs. Evil) as Hunk
• Kimberly Brooks (Mass Effect) as Princess Allura
• Rhys Darby (Flight of the Conchords) as Coran
• Transformers: Robots in Disguise) as King Zarkon

The character known as Sven in the first Voltron television series was originally named Takashi Shirogane in King of Beasts Golion, the original anime series that was adapted as Voltron.

Studio Mir (The Legend of Korra) is animating the new series.

The serialized story will focus on five teenagers named Keith, Lance, Hunk, Pidge, and Shiro. The heroes must defend Arus from King Zarkon's evil alien force. Unlike most of the characters from the original series, the main characters will have backstories and a purpose for going on the mission. The series will also have a Princess Allura, who Montgomery explained will be more realistic and "certainly not fainting at every little thing that overwhelms her."

Montgomery added that, in the story, "Not everything is solved by Voltron alone. Sometimes they need to beat something just as the lions. Sometimes they just do it as themselves fighting as men." Dos Santos indicated at the Wondercon that the Voltron robot will not necessarily appear in all 13 episodes of the first season.

The series is part of an expansion of DreamWorks Animation Television and Netflix's 2013 multi-year deal.

Lion Forge Comics will publish a comic spinoff for the series.

Armored Fleet Dairugger XV. Both Golion and the first Voltron story centered on young pilots who fight against an empire of alien conquerors — with the help of five mechanized lions that combine to form a robot.

Since the first series, the Robotech.

New Regency, a Kazuo Nakamura "may possess rights" related to Golion and thus the first Voltron series.

At the time that New Regency dropped the project in 2008, the Variety entertainment news source Atlus Productions. The companies have announced no further news on live-action plans.

Beast King GoLion anime on DVD in 2008.