Originally Posted by dramiscram

We must about the same age because I remember this vividly, at the time I didn't speak English so I didn't understand what they were saying but I Watched it regularly. There was also this TV program with 5 people that were each riding a robot wolf/dog (or beast of some kind) and to defeat the vilain at the end of the program they would join together to form a giant robot. I don't remember the name but one Christmas I got the 5 of them and I was a very happy kid.

EDIT: I remembered, it's VOLTRON Voltron Opener - YouTube