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Most people who remember the anime series, "Voltron: Defender of the Universe," remember there were at least two super robots: Lion Force Voltron and Vehicle Team Voltron, yet a third robot became connected to the Voltron mythology which was never broadcast in the United Stats (as most would have it). This robot was known in Japan as "Light Speed Lightning God Albegas" or "Kosoku Denjin Albegas". The name of the robot was taken from the symbols depicted on each of the lesser robots that composed it: ALpha, BEta and GAmma. Other spellings include "Albegus" and "Arbegus" (used in some non-English speaking countries other than Japan). A Sega game which featured the robot also went by the name of "Cybernaut."

Albegas may or may not have been intended to be incorporated in the mythos of Voltron. When Voltron was popular as an anime series in the 1980's, the toy company Matchbox marketed a line of Voltron die-cast toys that were essentially repackaged or reproduced versions from Japan. Albegas was labeled "Voltron II" or "Gladiator Voltron", whereas the Vehicle Voltron was labeled "Voltron I" and the Lion robot was "Voltron III". According to the packaging, each robot was a protector of a different realm of space; Albegas gurarded the Middle Universe, while the Vehicle Voltron protected the Near Universe and Lion Force Voltron remained in the Far Universe. As far as we know, World Events Productions only translated and marketed the Vehicle and Lion Voltron cartoons, yet Voltron was consistently refered to by TV listings as "Voltron Trilogies" in it's first year of syndication. Some sources indicate that the ever ellusive "third Voltron" may have been intended to be a robot known as Future Robo Daltanius (see Shannon Muir's writeup on this).

The intention of this site is to bring together as much information about Albegas as possible, since there is scattered information on the web about this "Voltron that never was". Most of the information on this site has been culled from many hours of searching the World Wide Web. A good amount was taken from a very comprehensive website created by David Mark Din, which unfortunately has been either moved or taken down. If anyone has information that they'd like to share or have posted on this site, please email ~~skeeterkub@cox.net~~. Please enjoy this site!