SOLVED! - Help Me Remember a Movie! Robot Cartoon

[J-Money]

I believe this movie is either late 80s or early 90s. It was a cartoon.

Few things I remember:

1. Each robot is controlled by a person and is huge.
2. The "bad guy" kidnaps people that the main good guy beats in a karate / martial arts tournament and creates robots that fight in their style. The two I remember are one was a karate / kungfu robot and one was a sumo robot. The karate guy had blonde hair. No idea how I remember that. I think his robot was green.
3. I believe at some point the main good guys dad is killed. His Dad created the robot. The good guy ends up using the robot to fight the other ones.

I thought it was Voltron originally, but I don't think it is since what i'm thinking isn't controlled by more than 1 person.

Driving me crazy.

SOLVED!! It is called Voltar the Invincible. It is a dubbed version of Robot Taekwon V. Suprisingly from 1976, but brought to the US in 1985. Thought it was newer than that. Figures why I thought it was Voltron too, very close name.

Here is a clip - http://www.veoh.com/watch/v20018310AhSbtntb?h1=Voltar+the++invincible

Can see the blonde dude I was talking about being kidnapped.

 

[tynopik]

no idea about points 2 and 3, but maybe one of the gundam wing series






that or power rangers

 

[Zeze]

Evangelion

 

[Zeze]

or Guraan Lagan.

Nah, I have no fucking clue.

 

[Ancalagon44]

This?

 

[Rhoxed]

Starvengers ?

 

[Ancalagon44]

Some of these?

 

[alareau]

Some of these?

Sounds like Voltes V from Ancalagon's list

 

[Ancalagon44]

Sounds like Voltes V from Ancalagon's list

Except for the fact that the craft that make up the Voltes are not themselves robots. So the lead character does not pilot his own robot, he shares it.

 

[J-Money]

Nope none of those

Damn wish I could remember more. I think there was a pyramid in it and the big fight was in the desert. There may or may not have been a robot dragon, I'm pretty sure there was.

And I don't believe space was involved. All was on earth.

Thanks for the guesses though!

 

[J-Money]

SOLVED! Voltar the Invincible. See First Post.