Get up and get movin’! It’s Saturday morning, so it’s time for some cartoons!
We’re heading back to 1985 for another cult classic this week – Get ready to check out none other than ROBOTECH – The Macross Saga!
Robotech was one of the first anime televised in the United States that attempted to include most of the complexity and drama of its original Japanese source material. Produced by Harmony Gold USA, Inc. in association with Tatsunoko Productions Co. Ltd., Robotech is a story adapted with edited content and revised dialogue from the animation of three different mecha anime series: The Super Dimension Fortress Macross from 1982, Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross from 1984, and Genesis Climber Mospeada from 1983. Harmony Gold’s cited reasoning for combining these unrelated series was its decision to market Macross for US-American weekday syndication television, which required a minimum of 65 episodes at the time (thirteen weeks at five episodes per week). Macross and the two other series each had fewer episodes than required since they originally aired in Japan as a weekly series.
I can’t even begin to describe how excited I used to get to wake up on a Saturday morning and kick off my cartoon watching spree with this gem right here. I hope you enjoyed it as well!
SURVEILLANCE PORT 
Favorite. Series. Ever.
I stumbled onto Robotech after it aired, sometime in 1987. I found the comic first, then I found the show at Blockbuster. Man, I was hooked! I followed the Sentinels series all the way through high school (when it was definitely NOT cool to enjoy such things) and into college. I can remember that in my senior year Sci-Fi Channel showed Robotech weekday mornings on their Cartoon Quest program. This allowed me to view all of it for the first time.
Robotech was of course a gateway drug for other space opera anime like Star Blazers, Gundam and Captain Harlock. My interest in those other series would wax and wane over the years, but my love for Robotech has never wavered.
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You know, I could tell that you were good people, but this here just solidifies it.
It’s fascinating how things have come full circle. You aren’t kidding about S.O.’s being a little less than, let’s say, accepted.
There was a store in NYC called “Love saves the day”. Sold a bit of everything, but it’s where I would go to check out vintage toys. They had an original Rick Hunter Mech for $100..a fortune back in those days. Wow, thanks for the flashback, I still wish I would’ve bought that damn toy then, instead of regretting it and buying it multiple times since. =/
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