Robotech
That's the funny thing I grew up watching it so I enjoy it. Sure I think everyone be knows it's actually three shows merged into a single show. It's funny how things like this seems to become more enjoyable to some then the original versions. Much like your Mario Bros 2, Transformers made form merged toy lines, and what not.
Considering the two or three box sets I am missing go for $10 or less I plan on picking them up sooner or later.
I'd say Robotech is clearly worse. Obviously just my opinion but I didn't like how they changed characters around. Southern Cross just sucks so there is that. I greatly prefer the original versions of Macross and Genesis Climber Mospeada.
But I mean if you do want it you might as well go for it. I have a couple lying around I'll double check to see if they are the ones you need. I could just throw them in with your raffle package for you. For free of course.
I really love the way Macek's dubs sounded. I like those voice actors and the shitty compressed sound of his mixer. I still watch "Robotech" once in a while. I wish the people who made dubs now would learn a few things from the old Streamline dubs, as annoying as the "localizations" could be some times.
However as an overall product I'm really just a Macross fan. I have Mospeada and its cool, but its no Macross and Southern Cross is really lame. Making Southern Cross part of Robotech made Southern Cross *slightly* more interesting, but the same process makes Macross worse. Obviously anything "Robotech" other than the shit licensed from Japan is f*cking garbage and I hope HG goes out of business as soon as possible. They only make things worse for Macross's actual creators and owners.
As an American kid I only had access to the Robotech version of the show but there was never a time I didn't know it was three shows because I was already buying the model kits before the shows aired. A guy I'd get 'zine style catalogs from hand wrote something like "Macross coming to American TV, check your local listings!" or something like that in the lower margin of one catalog. (In the master, before he photocopied it 100 times). The same one had listings for Gundam, Yamato, Super Police, Crusher Joe, and SFin3D, what is now called Maschinen Krueger. Those catalogs were so f*cking exciting! That "Summer '84" logo they used to promote DYRL made me wonder what all that was about but I wouldn't see the movie until my friend joined the army and brought back a pirate VHS of the f*cked up English dubbed version. I later learned that this version had already been released in the US years back, I'm pretty sure before Robotech, with some scenes cut out of it as Clash of the Bionoids. My video store didn't have this even though they had a bunch of other FHE anime releases like Harlock, Phoenix, Revenge of the Ninja (Dagger of Kamui) that predated US Renditions or Animeigo, or any of those companies. What a weird chain of events...
I eventually ran into that guy on Facebook and he's really nice. He's into Star Trek and runs SciFi cruises and stuff. I guess the whole model catalog thing happened because he knew a guy in Japan at the time and when he quit being his source that was when the catalogs stopped.
Back then a Gundam model was like $3, and even that was after a huge markup. It was crazy cheap. Kids these days have it rough with these 3800yen MGs. That's fine for the anoraks but what are the poor kids supposed to play with? Plastic models used to be the vastly cheaper alternative to a Chougokin or whatever and one that kinda did a better job of teaching the kid a thing or two...
