'Voltron: Legendary Defender' reassembles on Netflix riding a wave of nostalgia

Like scads of kids in the mid-'80s, producer Joaquim Dos Santos was drawn to his local toy store by "Voltron: Defender of the Universe," imploring his favorite uncle to buy him the giant title robot. "He thought he was going to buy me this little Transformer toy when we went to the store, but it was this 100 diecast Voltron, and I could see him just cringing taking it up to the register." Lauren Montgomery is a bit too young to remember everything about the anime series, but she knew that she liked it and is excited to be collaborating as co-executive producer with Dos Santos on a new version for Netflix premiering June 10 dubbed "Voltron: Legendary Defender." "There was no YouTube, so it was hard to go back to as I grew up," says Montgomery. "Once it came out on DVD, and now you can even watch it on [anime website] Crunchyroll, I re-familiarized myself with it." Though a hit, the original lion-based "Voltron," created by Peter Keefe and John Teichmann in 1984, only ran for one year.