![]() ![]() For those of us who had seen the show, that this was called “BattleTech” and not “RoboTech” didn’t matter. Maybe they had some battlefield value after all.Ī few years later I wandered into a toy store and found some sort of big box board game with those same big military bots I had seen from Robotech/Macross. ![]() It was an epic win moment that made me see these awesome-looking machines as more than cannon fodder. The piece that made up the arm had been an amphibious assault ship with a prow that opened into a landing ramp to reveal row after row of ‘Warhammers’ backed up with ‘Archers’ and ‘Longbows’, which practically nuked the cruiser from the inside out. There was one scene where the signature spacecraft of the show, the SDF-1 Macross transforms into a roughly human looking configuration and actually PUNCHES straight through the prow of an enemy cruiser. They were horrible.Īnd yet they just looked… MEAN. They towered over just about anything the human race could field, and the slow-as-mollasses destroids (which would one day be known as the Rifleman, Archer, Longbow and Warhammer) were destroyed so regularly, if one shot had them in the frame you could almost ALWAYS count on them to spontaneously explode. ![]() The enemy, called the Zentradi, were roughly forty foot tall humans wearing battle armor or driving the mecha the Otsol, Otscout, and Marauder was derived from. Three variant Valkyrie variable fighters originally used as the Wasp, Stinger, and Phoenix Hawk ‘mechs. But they had it easy compared to the thrashings the poor Destroids received. They, at least the tan-colored ones popped like zits throughout the show. The VF-1 Valkyrie in all its flavors (which became the Wasp, Stinger,Phoenix Hawk and their LAM equivalents), was NOT a nae indestructible machine like the Transformers were (until half of them got spawn-fragged in the animated movie the following year). Transformers (of the aforementioned Hasbro adverts) had a very strong effect on me for getting turned on to big stompy bots.Īnd then Robotech showed up which took the transformable robot thing and showed that “hey- people can drive these things dammit!”. Anime was and would continue to be very sparse (though much of it was animated in Japanese studios). I was eight years old, and until then Saturday morning cartoons consisted mainly of an assortment of Hasbro toy advertisements and video game tie-ins. I have since developed a bit of ‘flowery’ disdain for the bastard chimera that is the Robotech saga, but I am at least nostalgic that it was the vehicle with which I first was introduced to Supredimensional Fortress Macross. Even though it was decades ago, I’ll never forget the Saturday morning where I became forevermore helplessly, HOPELESSLY addicted to large military robots. ![]()
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