The following contains spoilers for Voltron: Legendary Defender Season 8, on Netflix now.

Throughout its eight seasons, the creative team behind Voltron: Legendary Defender has thrown in several Easter eggs and nods to the past. The franchise, of course, is decades old and has spanned several iterations of cartoons and comics, so it makes sense this new series would have some fun by tugging at our nostalgic heartstrings.

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In the final season, however, the show kicks these tributes up a notch by paying homage to what came before this Netflix/DreamWorks collaboration, reminding us how glorious the Voltron eras of old really were.

A CHIP OFF THE OLD BLOCK

In the series finale, "The End is the Beginning," galactic peace has finally been achieved. Pidge continues to build technology to help the Coalition, remaining "curious and fearless" as per Allura's dying wish, and one year later, she's seen installing the A.I. on a robot she's created, naming it Chip. It's a fanboy moment for longtime Voltron fans as Chip was Pidge's twin brother in the original cartoon, 1984's Voltron: Defender of the Universe.

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Of course, Pidge was a boy in that series, but nonetheless, Chip is getting a chance to be a defender once more, with Pidge following her ambition to create androids like this to usher in a new era of protectors for the cosmos.

In the original cartoon, Chip was a helicopter pilot on a team called Vehicle Voltron, where 15 vehicles of land, sea and air combined to form a giant robot. Creating Chip brings Pidge's story full-circle as it shows how adept she's gotten at furthering her knowledge of science and magic, which she learned from the Olkari.

VOLTRON GETS META

In the Season 8 premiere, "Launch Date," the Paladins get to spend one last day on Earth before they, as well as the Atlas (Shiro's new warship), head back out to space to stop the witch, Haggar. This episode details the Voltron pilots and their families at home, and we see Pidge watching Voltron: Defender of the Universe episodes on her television. In this reality, this cartoon has been made in honor of the current team, painting a truly meta moment.

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Pidge even makes fun of her voice in the old cartoon (voiced by Neill Ross), which is funny because that Pidge was male. Over the course of the episode, we'd see other people poking fun at Lance as well, comparing him to his cartoon persona. Splicing in this old footage really is a clever way of thanking everyone associated with the original series.

VEHICLE VOLTRON RETURNS

Vehicle Voltron followed the debut season of the show in the '80s, and it's clear Legendary Defender's showrunners are huge fans of the property. In the final battle against Haggar's Robeast, Voltron gets a massive power boost and with Shiro's Atlas bonded to it, the robot turns into a mammoth vessel to push the villain away from a rift in space and time.

It's a throwback to when the air, land and sea vessels in the Vehicle Voltron series would travel in their respective units, combining to form one big ship before breaking off into their individual carriers. This vessel we see here is all-new, but clearly influenced by this old series. The transformation against Haggar is temporary but it certainly leaves diehard fans ready for yet another form of Voltron.

The biggest Vehicle Voltron tease is left for Pidge's ending, though, as we can spot Cliff, Cinda and Hutch from the Land Team in red; Ginger, Wolo, Jeff and Rocky from the Air Team (in white and blue); and Krik and Zandee from the Sea Team (in light blue) -- all in the lower left corner. In the background, we see their vehicles as well, hinting maybe a spinoff could emerge with the Atlas as the main transport for these three teams.

Now streaming on Netflix, Season 8 of Voltron: Legendary Defender stars Tyler Labine as Hunk, Jeremy Shada as Lance, Bex Taylor-Klaus as Pidge, Kimberly Brooks as Allura, Rhys Darby as Coran, Josh Keaton as Shiro, and Steven Yeun as Keith.