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Robotech was HUGE in Chile when I was growing up. I don't remember much about it, except that the dudes were hot.

Actually, emo or at least angst-ridden, is pretty much the stock in trade for the first Robotech series. The story is pretty deep though and I wonder about the sanity that goes into not using a Kasdan script.

It will suck.

Good to see Vermillion checking ID's at the door. Keep the riff-raff out.

It will suck.

HARD.

Good to see Vermillion checking ID's at the door. Keep the riff-raff out.

Hells yeah. Who runs this bitch?

You want your mecha emo, watch Gundam. One of the good ones, not that awful SD shit.

Serious and halfway realistic Robotech = Gundam.

Emo Robotech = Evangelion. Or Gundam Wing. Damn that was hard to take.

Okay, Maguire. You managed to turn Spidey into a wuss (instead of a wisecrack-slinging nerd with occasional bouts of whining whenever sales got low), and I left it be. But now you gotta fucks with dis, and I gotta cut ya.

Aw godtopus dammit! I always watched Robotech before I went to school when I was young. Then it got replaced with Astroboy and I still miss it. But Maguire,Gough and Millar are a vortex of emo & suck so nothing good can come of this.

Robotech was awesome. It was the first cartoon I remember that had a long, on-going story and where characters were actually killed. It was like a animated soap opera for kids with a bunch of super cool robots fighting each other. And Minmei.

I am no real fan of anime - outside a few limited exceptions - and I love Robotech.

I loved this show. I watched over and over and even had a ton of episodes recorded on VHS. I loved the "Macross Saga" and the "Invid Invasion", but wasn't a huge fan of "Southern Cross" (who was really?)

I don't see the need for a live action movie of this. It was great for what it was, but that's it. I doubt it's aged all that well.

It was like a animated soap opera for kids with a bunch of super cool robots fighting each other. And Minmei.

I am no real fan of anime - outside a few limited exceptions - and I love Robotech.

Too right, as they say.

Sofia it was HUGE here too! I remember my brothers going insane over it, but I didn't like all that robot shit. We used to watch like 5 japanese robot shows in the 80s. What was up with that?

I remember I'd sit through this while waiting for Candy to come on. Or Heidi. Or Lady Oscar! Did you get those over there?

I used to LOVE Robotech when I was a kid. I remember it well, my middle-school years.

Then I watched Macross and realized what a shitty amalgamation Robotech was. And I cried for my childhood.

Also, nothing beats the confusion of an 11-year-old going to the video rental store and getting a Macross movie thinking it was Robotech, and being wicked confused.

Aww, I guess Robotech wasn't so bad, thinking back on it. I lurved that show so much I made my dad buy me a guidebook for the Robotech roleplaying game. I didn't even know what roleplaying was at the time, I just loved the VF-1 so god damned much.

I still do. *sniff*

I'll never forget you, Roy and Ben!

I watched Macross a few times. A friend of mine had it on video. Unfortunately, it was in Japanese, so I really couldn't make any sense of it.

The series was great. At least the first and second "seasons". Some great stories, good drama, good action, cool characters. It had it all.

I was always a big Max Sterling fan. How can you not love the fact that the skinny, geeky looking guy with glasses and blue hair was one of the best pilots.

I still have a bunch of the toys in my basement. Some of them are from Japan and some from the U.S. I have a couple of Valkyres, a few destroids, an Alpha Fighter, a Cyclone, and an Invid warrior.

The roleplaying game was a lot fun. In fact, a friend of mine works for Palladium and is currently in the process of writing some new ones.

I never liked mecha anime (the only giant robots I cared about were Transformers), but I have some memories of this series. Now that the Dragonball movie is on the way, it seems Hollywood isn't happy enough with comic book and videogame based movies, don't they know geeks like me don't care about ther crappy "adaptations"? (tough, I won't get mad until they try to "adapt" a series I actually care about)

Robotech is epic and awesome and, like most anything, deserves more respect than these 2 will likely afford it. But it's like being angry at Michael Bay for ruining Transformers. You knew it was never going to end well.

I'm with you here, DR. Way too nerdy for me. I'll be sitting this comment section out.

I am not what people ever assume to be a geek (note: that by no means implies I am cool). I don't like sci-fi or anime and I have never seen BSG. I avidly follow sports and reject much of geek culture. I never thought anything of this stuff until just now when a wave of realization hit me. When I was pre-teen, I watched every episode of Robotech cartoon series, read every Robotech novel (24 books or so; i don't know what came first but the story line followed pretty close), and played the Robotech role playing game. This entire ubergeek period of my life was glossed over in my conscious mind. This realization makes my life feel like the movie "Identity" and I just found out I'm really a big disappointment.

Does anyone else remember Star Blazers?

*crickets?*

Damn! I must have imagined that show.

I was a HUGE fan, thanks to my Japanese best friend, and I can assure you: There was emo a-plenty.

Hasn't there been a trailer floating around for a while? Seems like I saw one a while back and was disappointed because it looked so different.

OOOUUUUUURRRRRR STARRRRRRR BLAZERRRRRRRSSS!!!!

That Star Blazers, Greer? Fuck yes I do.

"Bright lights, Flashing,
The feeling's smashing..
This is my time to be a Staaarrrr!"

Holy crap, Handel, I haven't seen that show in almost(gulp) 20 years, but that damn song was one of the first to pop in my head.

I loved the hell out of this show, but that was as a kid. I've never re-viewed it to see how it would hold up. I remember it being very soapy, but that the mechs were wicked cool. Wasn't there a whole opening segment where the ship (SDF-1?)tries to take off, but they don't understand the alien technology so the anti-gravity engines rip through the hull and float away?

And didn't Minmei have some kind of weird thing going on with her uncle/cousin, who wanted to date her and hated Rick?

It's all coming back to me. They're re-writing a Kasdan script?

Hollywood is like the drunk ass friend you keep on inviting to parties, hoping that this time they don't puke on your couch or make a pass at another guest's wife. But they always do. And then you just sigh and shake your head and do a shot.

Here's all you need to know about Robotech: massive human-piloted robots battling in the middle of cities (like downtown Tokyo or NYC).

Gigantic CGI destruction = huge summer hit.

I have the.....vaaaaaaaaaaaaguest of memories of this show...like...one or two fleeting images...

But honestly it sounds like a combination of stupid being made into a film by a greater combination of stupid

Her creepy uncle/cousin was Lyn Kyle, a pacifist from Tokyo. He hated violence and sneered at the veritech fighter pilots. I vaguely remember him fighting though, being awesome at it, and then having a weird breakdown after cause he hated violence. As alot of people have noted, it had some real adult issues for a kids show. Suck it, GI Joe.

No matter what kind of emo nerd it makes me, I still really, really, really love Evangelion.

Nothing beats Cowboy Bebop, though.

When is Hollywood gonna realize that you can't remake everything?

This is so dumb. I loved Robotech as a kid. I mean, people died in this cartoon. Like in the first episode and semi-regularly after that. Some of this stuff is impossible to remake. It'll look stupid. Just like motherfucking Transformers and X-Men. It's more forgivable with things like The Matrix as we'd never seen a Matrix series in our formative years and Keanu already acts like a drawn character(That and the Animatrix was very well done). Not that I'm suggesting it, but things like the Maxx, the Tick, Read or Die, Dragonball Z the Sandman, the X-men, the Avengers, etc.. can not be made live-action.

Or if a remake must be done, why the hell can't you make it a animated remake? I'm tired of seeing action stars about as tough as your average physical trainer. Who else is greatly disappointed with how The Comedian looks? Not even Crudup is going to be able to pull it off.

Live-action the live-action stuff like Ghost World or Y: The Last Man or V For Vendetta and leave the rest of our shit alone.

uggh.

Don't worry Chugga, it's been mentioned as being emo.

Watched every episode of ROBOTECH in 1985. This was one hell of a sci-fi space-opera that was years ahead of it's cartoonish brotheren in both maturity and animation technique!
I for one hope to see a kickass live action movie.