WHAT IN THE DAMN HELL IS HAPPENING ON THE VOLTRON INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT
Lauren liking posts??? Teasing some big reveal???? ACKNOWLEDGING AND CELEBRATING LOTOR?!
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Dare I hope
Please God can 2026 be a win yet again
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WHAT IN THE DAMN HELL IS HAPPENING ON THE VOLTRON INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT
Lauren liking posts??? Teasing some big reveal???? ACKNOWLEDGING AND CELEBRATING LOTOR?!
Could it be
Dare I hope
Please God can 2026 be a win yet again

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Lotor in a Komar Robeast - a Speculative Meta
Listen, I said I wasnât going to write any more VLD metas, but this one is borderline fanfic, so I have an excuse. My theory is a bit stretched, like a thin rubber band ready to snap, but hey, itâs always fun to theorize. Iâm just throwing it out here for funsies.
So, first off, what are the easiest and fastest ways to change the course of an already animated story?
â Static images are easy to alter - Lotorâs cOrpSe comes to mind. Easy to draw a bunch of purple spaghetti over his body.
â If there are changes in the script, calling voice actors back to record new dialogue is also cheaper (and faster) than applying major changes to the animation itself (re-recording dialogue is called ADR and itâs used in the industry on a regular basis).
With that in mind, hereâs where Iâm applying my theory:
DID HE. DID HE JUST CONFIRM THAT LOTOR WAS TRACED OVER.
I Have Beezer Questions
Iâm not the best at spatial thinking in art, but a particular scene in VLD intrigued me since the first time watching it.
During the Allurance kiss moment, Beezer zooms towards the center of the park and we clearly see the robot slowing down right next to them - in the center, facing the big old tree. Notice the surrounding landscape: a brown fence all around the small park. Purple tulips behind the fence. The very large tree in the middle, circled by a small blue flower garden, bordered by a curb. Smaller trees all around the park, in the background.
Also, notice: Allura is on the right side, Lance is on the left.
Immediately after that frame, comes this one (whooshing sound of moving robot still on):
Beezer enters the scene from the right side of the screen, and we can clearly see, behind the robot:
- the fence (lower-right corner)
- the big old tree (I adjusted the brightness and contrast so you can see the thick branches better). No other tree in the scene is this voluminous.
So Beezer is now facing the purple tulips, back against the big tree and against Allura & Lance, squealing a robotic âWooowâ in reaction to their kiss, but Beezerâs not really looking at them, itâs admiring the purple flowers (purple, huh?).
How⊠did that happen? A millisecond ago it was slowing down right in front of them.
Going past this awkward cinematic moment, hereâs the scene right after:
Allura and Lance interrupt their kiss to look at the noisy intruder, Beezer. Notice the tree bark pattern behind them.
Allura is now on the left and Lance is on the right. How⊠did that happen?
On to the very next screenshot:
We see Beezer for a very split-second retracting its mechanical hands, after collecting a purple tulip. So now you can clearly notice the spatial relationship to Lance and Allura. Beezer obviously did not stop in front of them, it went to one of the yard sides to collect a flower (for Holtâs lab? LOL, working so late at night?).
From the angle of the shot, it looks like we (the audience) are watching from somewhere in the old treeâs vicinity.
After this, Beezer walks over to them and offers to take a picture. Here it goes:
So Allura and Lanceâs positions correspond to the previous frames - but not to the initial scene (check out the very first screenshot - Allura was on the right, now sheâs on the left).
Bizarre, isnât it, Beezer?
- Is this just a random succession of animation errors or⊠did this scene look differently in the #realS8?
- Why purple tulips?
- Which side of the park did Beezer go to? Did it really go to the middle? To the left? To the right? đ
- Who was Beezer âwowâ-ing to?
- Why was Beezer collecting purple plants at night, when kids should be in bed at that time? đ
Wait. What happened with Bob Koplar and Voltron? There were reasons as to why it was so bad?!
There absolutely are.Â
And before I go any further, I have no clue if you already know who Bob Koplar is, but if you do, then this little explanation will just be for anyone reading this who doesnât: Bob Koplar is the current head of WEP (World Events Productions), the company that made the original show in the 80s and owns the Voltron brand. Dreamworks at the time of the Netflix Voltron seriesâ production only had the rights to adapt the existing Voltron material and did not own the brand outright. All scripts/episodes for VLD had to go through Bob for approval (by his own admission, although the video where he acknowledges this has sadly been deleted from Youtube).Â
So with that explanation out of the way, the reason the final season of Voltron is so bad was because the showrunners and writers at Dreamworks had a very specific story they were trying to tell, while based on comments made by cast, crew, and Koplar himself over the years, Bob wanted 1) a glorified toy commercial to sell toys to 6 year old boys, and 2) a successor to the previous Voltron series, Voltron Force.Â
Based on all the evidence found in and around Seasons 7 and 8, the crewâs plans for the final seasons would have involved revealing that Lotor was still alive in the Rift, that he was innocent of the crimes he had been condemned for, and that he would reconcile with Allura and Team Voltron before joining them in the final battle against Honerva.Â
Bob found out about this while the crew was making Season 7 and ordered them to change it. Based on interview comments and the history of the Voltron brand, the most likely reason was because he wanted Lotor to remain a villain so he could be reused as the antagonist of a sequel series. The crew complied and removed much of the content surrounding this plotline from Season 7, but then reworked it into Season 8 and tried to push for their planned ending anyway, banking on the hope that by the time Bob found out theyâd defied him it would be too late for him to do anything. Instead, the showrunners were forced to cut out multiple episodesâ worth of footage and then rearrange what was left in order to have the number of episodes their contract with Netflix obligated them to release. (A summary of the most notable evidence of changes within the season itself, along with a rough outline of what the final season shouldâve looked like based on what was removed, can be found here)
And this all happened after production was already completed, as even the animators and most of the voice actors were surprised by the version of the final season we got.Â
Bob has also been implicated by multiple interviews with cast and crew as pushing back against the crewâs desire to include queer characters and relationships in the show, and prevented them from including any same-gender romance between the paladins.Â
If youâre interested, the group of fans behind much of the research into the Bob-mandated editing of Voltron Season 8 has put together a few reconstruction videos depicting an approximation of what the unedited versions of certain episodes would have looked like.Â

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THE TWO ALLURAS
So, hereâs a little detective work I did on some (suspected) altered scenes in the last episode of Voltron Legendary Defender. Iâm very new to this show (yep, years later⊠I know⊠facepalms, better later than never) - I watched it for the first time a couple of months ago and since then Iâm obsessed with finding out more about the true finale of the show.
Before I start doing a little slideshow proof of altered animation in S8 last episode, Iâd like to give a little intro into my journey here.
- I come from being a fan of an 80âs anime called Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs (my avatar name here pays tribute to one of its characters), to being an even bigger fan of VLD. Not by pure coincidence. SRatSS is owned by WEP, and going down the Netflix âsuggestedâ shows, DotU sent me to VLD. It grew on me really fast. Like binge-watch fast. Unfortunately, the ending completely clipped my wings.
- The first reason why I started feeling (first it was a feeling) that something was wrong was the complete mismatch between the tragic finale of Allura, a goddess leaving the show with the saddest drawn face (and a missing in action Lotor, for that matter) and the super-cheesy optimistic, last minute slapped ending slides showing the âsuccessfulâ future lives of the Paladins, completely at odds with their previous careers (Keith, a rebellious half-Galra now running a humanitarian relief organization? Lance the sharpshooter with a rake in his hand?? What the heck, man? Shiro, the larger than life figure in the show, marrying some random guy we never learned about before? Seriously, I kept saying at the end: âIs this a joke??â It felt insulting on so many levels, rushed, like âletâs end this and get over with itâ )
- Another big reason why I felt this was not supposed to be the real finale was my absolute gut feeling that a kidsâ show needs a different kind of moral closure, based on classic arcs that would fit stories Iâve been used to reading in my childhood. After all, itâs rated 7+ . In my opinion, from the perspective of a 7 year old kid, S8 is a horror story, glossed over with a âhappyâ ending. Thus, it should not be rated 7+. But hey, maybe Iâm just too old-fashioned.
- In my frantic googling about VLD, I stumbled upon TeamPurpleLionâs website, which completely opened a new level of information and confirmation for me. The first article I read was the one about the The Dark Youth and Heroineâs Arc, which went straight to my pain point, confirming my intuitions about how a well-written story for children and teens should look like. Then, the âSeek Truthâ article about all the animation edits totally solidified my beliefs. Then followed the analysis about the Feud episode, the Clear Day episode and the âmeta within a metaâ stuff going on there⊠All the foreshadowing, the purple lion toys, the parallels between different heroesâ arcs⊠The VLD staff tweets and instagram posts in total contradiction with the release of the season⊠The last nails that hit the coffin were the interviews with LM and JDS and their own âfeudâ with the inter-dimensional beings at the top of the ladder, which were absolutely eye-opening. It made total sense now, and I immensely appreciate the work that TPL has done unearthing all these facts. I feel like the EPâs need so much more recognition for the work and love they poured into this show. Not to mention the animation, which is a work. of. art. Studio Mir forever.
- Anyways, hereâs me, 4 years later, rocking a boat that has long sailed away⊠Being so late (I usually am late to a lot of new things haha) I feel like Iâm sort of lonely in my quest.
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But recently, I found out that the FreeVLDS8 party is still alive and kicking, so Iâm emboldened to throw in some of my own discoveries as well. If this stuff has already been unearthed, disregard my little detective work that I did here. But if itâs useful new stuff, I hope it will benefit somehow in the grand puzzle you guys have set about to solve.
In the past couple of months, Iâve read tons of articles and metas, interviews, videos. Pros and cons about the EPâs, about the animation, interviews with actors, tweets, etc etc. All the good stuff piled up in the past 4 years that I completely missed. My head is spinning right now.
So rewatching the last episode and being aware of all the edits discovered so far, I stumbled upon some animation flaws that I believe Studio Mir would not let out their door. Disclaimer: I am a professional artist myself. I do not work in animation, but I did illustrate kids books for a while, and being a graduate of an Art School, I believe I have a bit of knowledge about the laws of perspective, proportions and character design. Keep a pin in each of these three, because there are flaws about every one of them in the next two screencaps. Plus more flaws on top of these three. Whew!
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Letâs look at a couple of screen shots I did from S8 final episode, when Allura and the Palladins talk to Honerva. Go to the scene where Allura starts saying âthere is beauty in their flawsâ (first screenshot below - I will call it Screenshot A)
And now take a look, a minute later, when she is doing her mind meld with Honerva (Screenshot B). Itâs supposed to be the same scene, but the image is terribly zoomed in, with Lance almost completely cropped out. There is a slight camera tilt effect, but the image remains zoomed with a piece of Lance on the left. Who would do that in cinematography?
So I tried to see what will happen if I âun-zoomâ and add Lance back into the picture. I approximated where the original shot was relative to the whole image by keeping Honerva in the center line of the image, to make sense compositionally. And voila (Screenshot B zoomed out below)
Hereâs Screenshot A, also zoomed out, below:
Now, in both recreations, Honerva is right in the center. Before, the center of the image was somewhere between Allura and Honerva. Doesnât it make more sense now, with Honerva in the middle? It makes sense compositionally, but also from a storytelling point of view. We, the watchers are positioned right behind Honerva, at her eye level, seeing the Paladins âthrough her perspectiveâ. A very empathetic way of making the viewer feel closer to her character.
And now, of course, youâve all noticed the big red âelephantâ in the room, in the newly created space to the right. I am not making any speculations who it might be, because things are actually more complicated than they seem. Wait, Hunk wants to say something:
âUh, guys, did you notice Pidge next to me looks shorter in B than in A? And whatâs up with her not standing up straight in A? Draw a line from her nose to her belt clip. Since sheâs facing you full front, it should be vertical, right? Um, well, itâs not.â
Hunk is right. Pidge tilts towards right, she looks like a crooked sticker, plastered on a wall.
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OK, letâs move on to the next issue. The âAllurasâ. Hereâs where proportions, character design and perspective come into play. I will call them Allura A and Allura B, from their corresponding screencaptures.
Letâs start with proportions. First, scroll back up to the first two image captures, take a look at them, and then come back and look at this:
I juxtaposed the two Alluras, rescaled so that both of them have the same shoulder width, so X is equal to Y. The desaturated Allura is B, and the colorful one is A.
I placed both of them with their belts at the same horizontal line. Behold, what do we have here? Z is not equal to T, so Allura B has a longer upper body than Allura A. Also, look at the hips, and where the crotch starts.
Now, some of you might argue that this is a perspective distortion, because Allura B is the one that just walked forward a few steps, toward the viewer, so she should grow taller and the proportions might get warped a bit. Well, if it were a forced perspective, from a very close angle, Iâd partially agree. But this is not the case. There are tons of forced perspective shots in VLD (especially fight scenes), but this is not one of them. So in this case, if Allura comes forward, she does indeed grow taller, but she should keep her proportions, so X/Z =Y/T (Pidge just confirmed, my math is solid). (and no, please donât tell me that Allura shapeshifted, just because sheâs Altean and decided to do that, without reason).
Moving on to the next issue within the same image above: character design. Compare the two Allura faces⊠One is round, one is more elongated. Why this sudden transformation, when this is supposed to be one continuous scene? I doubt the studio animators would do something like this. Which one looks more like Allura? Iâd argue that the Allura A (the colored one) does. She has a more round, feminine face, with a sweetness in her features. Then whoâs that guy in B? Oops, I said guy. Because the whole physical appearance is that of a man. Tall and slim. Wondering who he might be? Iâd humbly guess Lotor, but if you find me a more important tall and slim Galra or Altean character that would get access to the Connected Consciousness, then go ahead and write a fanfic story about it.
A little thing I just noticed: Allura Bâs neck is crooked, not going up straight from the shoulders into the head. Drawn in a rush? Drawn over Lotor in a rush?
The third issue with the Alluras, and with the other Paladins as well, is perspective. Hereâs a little sketch I did over Screenshot B, to understand what Iâm talking about:
The horizontal red line is the horizon line. That is the line where our (the viewerâs) eyes are . At the same level with Honervaâs. The vanishing point should be right in the middle of the line. On the right side, in red, I sketched the paladin suits, with their collars as they should look if properly following the laws of perspective. Anything below the horizon line should look like the collar below, anything above should look like the one above, in perspective. Check out which ones match⊠And then check below if Allura A fairs better:
Indeed she does! And doesnât she look so natural? Coincidentally, she is Allura A, the real one, not the redrawn Lotor. But oh, wait, Lance, Shiro, and Hunk donât have correctly drawn collars. What a mess! (this reminds me of Slav saying: did you wear the right socks today?) Letâs play a game: how many of them are wearing the right âsocksâ in these images?
Again, some of you might say, âcâmon, such a tiny detail, the illustrators and animators probably didnât even think about this kind of stuff.â Oh no, no, no. This is basic skill. Like, the ABC of drawing. You donât mess up basic perspective drawing, if this is your daily job. Again, I am convinced that Studio Mir did not release this version. It was altered post production. If Iâd have to guess, because this is one of the last animated scenes of the show, they were getting very close to the deadline. They were tired, overworked, most likely dissatisfied that they had to butcher a wonderfully crafted show that everyone worked so hard on. I can even imagine some red-eyed employee with a big cup of coffee, at midnight, in an empty office, tracing over Lotorâs drawing.
Whew, are you ready for another weird flaw?
Look at their eyes. Where is each of them looking, both in A and in B? Well, some of them are looking up, some of them at Honerva. What is up there, that Shiro and Keith seem to watch intently in shot A? Another mishap during animation? Or, theyâre just stock images plastered like Pidge? Not sure. Although, at a closer look, Keith in image A is wearing the right socks - his collar is drawn in the right perspective. Iâm just speculating, but it seems theyâre looking at a tall structure. At that point in the plot, itâs probably Honervaâs mech or Voltron. Who knows.
Honestly, this puzzle is missing so many pieces. Are all these Paladin drawings basically reshuffles of a scene that evolved from us looking down at the Paladins from a higher vantage point (probably Honerva in her mech) and then gradually descending until she is on her knees and weâre looking up at the Paladins? Because judging from the perspective of their collars and the fact that their eyes are either looking up or down, it might seem so. And, as per previous analysis articles, someone said the transition from their fight for realities to them all being in the Connected Consciousness plane looks very abrupt, so there must have been some other action going on there. This seems like the most reshuffled muppet show of the S8, down to the last character on the screen.
Also, a few more things and I promise Iâll wrap up.
If we assume that Allura B was actually Lotor, then it makes sense that Lotor goes and does the little âmind meldâ with Honerva (forgive my nerdy Star-Trekky reference). He did say, somewhere in S6, that when the time will come, he might have pity on her. This would beautifully close the circle of that arc, but would also mirror Alluraâs mind-meld with Zarkon, when she did her little trip into Honervaâs mind, I canât remember which episode. This would also not look cheap at all, because right before the mind meld, after each Paladin does their own plea, Honerva says: âYou think your words mean anything to me?â No, their words donât, but Lotorâs words and touch DO. And knowing how vitriolic she can be, I bet she wonât accept Allura touching her so easily, but coming from her son⊠I bet she would. She looks surprised and not irritated at all. Would she be like that with Allura, after she just fought them almost to death and told them that their words mean nothing to her? But Lotor touching his mother, it makes more sense, doesnât it? The wayward daughter of Altea heals the father, and the lost son of Daibazaal heals the mother. How beautiful. Psychology at its best. Oh, but these are just my speculationsâŠ
Iâm not sure if Alluraâs VA was called to record more lines back in 2018. If she was, then the lines she said about Lotor who may have been misguided but ultimately wanted to preserve life might be just a way through which the creators left the door a little open to interpretation about Lotor. But if that was the actual original, unaltered line, then Allura is talking about him in the past tense. So then⊠was the Lotor behind Allura B just a ghost, like Zarkon and the old Paladins in the other episodes? So, just a supposition, completely unsupported by any palpable facts, but itâs fun to explore: Lotor lost his body, but Allura rescued and redeemed his consciousness, not from the Sincline, but actually from Honervaâs mind (Iâll explain in just a sec); and then together they fight through all realities and defeat Honerva. And then Allura rejoins him in the afterlife. And this is the end of a coherent story. If I remember correctly from a previous episode, when we saw Honerva standing in front of Lotorâs melted corpse (which makes no sense to throw in there from a narrative standpoint unless something else happens further along), didnât she say something like âsoon, weâll be together, my sonâ. What was that all about? Did she actually trap his consciousness into her own mind like she did with the old paladins? Was that her possessive way of being âtogetherâ with someone? And then Allura goes on and frees him from the trap and THATâS when Honerva goes ballistic looking for another Lotor in another reality, because she lost the object of her obsession. And that would explain why they ended up in the Connected Consciousness in the last episode, to heal her of her vicious possessiveness. Just a weird thought, I might be completely wrong.
If anyone has the patience to untangle who is who and who goes where in these two images, go on, give it a shot. I know Iâm too tired. But nevertheless, have fun!
I noticed these glitches but wasnât convinced that anyone is still out there to read my ramblings, after so many years. Now I believe there are still people that care, so I decided to go forward with my little analysis.
Thank you @leakinghate for relighting the flame of the FreeVLDS8 in 2022. Wishing TeamPurpleLion all the best in their new effort! It means so much to me, especially coming in as a fresh fan of VLD.
Maybe have it be multiple parts instead of one video, just a suggestion
You're not the first to ask if I'll do more than one video, and while I admit it IS a potential solution, it's also a LOT more work than I am prepared to commit to at this time. It's a two-part problem, the first being, making videos is HARD work, like, deceptively hard. And I've got MDD to contend with. It's not a manageable project for me to plan for a multiple-video series.
The second part is that, from a marketing perspective, it's much neater and tidier to have one video that can be sent to people encapsulating the best of our arguments. And I AM hoping that this video catches peoples' eyes. It's still my goal to do what I can to FREEVLDS8 and clear the reputations of the Executive Producers of VLD, regardless of how much time has passed. That said, if by chance I miss covering something important in this video I would do my best to rectify that with a second. It's only the responsible thing to do.
It's likely that I'll be sharing pieces of the production process here on tumblr (and twitter, and various discord servers, etc); the kind of content that you'd usually see on a Patreon. I'll be writing the script first, which will basically be a condensed and updated Seek Truth in Darkness combined with Interdimensional Executive Meddling. So you'll get to see that and can offer suggestions if you'd like to :)
That Darn Voltron Fan Is At It Again
Hello friends, itâs been a while hasnât it? Turns out when Iâm not passionately fighting for a fandom Iâm rather a quiet sort. Ah, but thatâs why Iâm here. Voltron has been in the news again, some more nonsense about the movie thatâs been in development hell for longer than some of you have been alive - donât panic, this happens every year or so. But itâs put a bee in my bonnet to do something Iâve been procrastinating on for a while. I wish to make a video. A video adaptation of our, Team Purple Lionâs, metas and essays. My problem is, I canât squish 30k+ words into one video. So I want to put only the strongest arguments. And itâs hard to know, from the inside looking out, what our most persuasive arguments ARE, you know? Well, you DO know. You followed me, presumably, because something I wrote convinced you of itâs veracity. So can you tell me, what was it? What piece of evidence convinced you that Season 8 of Voltron Legendary Defender was edited? Thank you for your help!