This show was produced/written by many of the same team that worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005) and The Legend of Korra (2012).
This is the fourth Voltron TV show.
Weird Al Yankovic appears as a guest voice in one episode. In his video, "The Compleat Al," (1985) there was a sequence where his entourage was getting his hotel room ready. They covered a classical painting with a large photo of Voltron.
The designers looked at the Gundam mecha shows for influence on Voltron's design.