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Summary: Two movies for the price of one?!?!
Comment: This direct-to-video release feels like two separate movies. Our heroes (the characters from the Robotech Macross saga) prepare to start a grand space expedition. In another part of the galaxy, an old scientist and his assistant fight for survival while giant space bugs (the Invid) invade their planet. The two separate stories never meet.
This is four episodes of completed animation for a series that was canned during development. The footage is edited to make the two separate movies that alternate. There's alot of synthesizer music and recycled footage from all three Robotech sagas - another sign of the aborted production. If you want "the sentinels" story, pick up the "Jack Mckinney" novels. They go into more detail - and more importantly, they finish what they started.
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Summary: The wedding of Lisa Hayes and Rick Hunter-an anime "event"
Comment: This animated feature (75 minutes) spun off from the "Robotech" series is actually four strung-together partially completed episodes from a proposed continuation of "Robotech" designed as a U.S.-Japanese co-production. It's too bad it never got off the ground, because we get a tantalizing glimpse here of what could have been a superior animated sci-fi cartoon series, filled with action, suspense, science fiction themes, and a group of compelling characters whose dramatic interactions would keep the audience engaged from beginning to end.
Two plot threads fuel this production: in one, the alien Invid race invades a moon in another solar system that was the home of the Robotech Masters. An elderly scientist and his young assistant try to come up with ways to stop the invading "organics," an army of killing machines sent by the Invid. It's pretty suspenseful throughout and offers well-staged action and destruction. The design of the machines is quite imaginative.
The other plotline follows all our old friends from the first stage of "Robotech" (the "Macross" section) as they prepare for an intergalactic mission that could prove very dangerous. In the midst of the preparations, the hero and heroine of "Robotech," Rick Hunter, now a general, and Lisa Hayes, now an admiral, prepare their wedding and, in a wonderfully sweet and touching scene, carry it out before a spaceship full of invited guests. Even Rick's old flame, Lynn Minmei, shows up, swallowing her pride and even joining her gorgeous friend Janice on stage to sing a song for Lisa and Rick's first dance. In attendance at the wedding are a pair of children, Dana and Bowie, offspring of other crew members, who would both turn up, as adults, as leading characters in the second stage of the "Robotech" series (the "Southern Cross" section).
I would have thought that a "Robotech" production with the wedding of Lisa and Rick would have been big news among anime fans, particularly those for whom "Robotech" served as their entry into the world of anime. Yet nothing I've ever read about this production ever mentioned the wedding. If you were a fan of the original series and you've never seen this, it's certainly recommended. It's an enjoyable 75 minutes under any circumstances, but for fans who once followed these characters, the wedding scene is pure joy.
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Summary: It's Just like the Original Robotech Series But Different
Comment: An acction filled tale about the origin of the SDF-1. You will join Rick Hunter, Lisa Hayes, and all the old crew on their quest to confront the Robotech masters but along the way there will be many exiting and thrilling surprises such as the introduction of the Invid and their robot hordes known as the Organics. If you are a fan of the original Robotech becauses of the mecha you will be exited to know that the SDF-3 is eqiped with a whole new line of Robotech weaponry that will make your mouth water. Such as the Logans and the formidable Cyclones, there is even two upgradeds of the original Veritech known as the Alpha and Beta. They can Combine together to make a nearly invivcible mecha combo. All together Robotech II: The Sentinals will keep even the most loyal original Robotech fan on the edge of their seat.
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Summary: The Epic Saga of Robotech
Comment: This book is well written just like the animation. It is unfortunate that the animation does not continue on to part two. Having read this book, I felt that the author gets you into the robotech theme. It is next bext thing to the animation series. However, I wouldn't recommend reading this book not unless you have read or see the Part 1 series. This book is read written but is not for the small reader. However, this book is just written in a way that its brings back the good old memories of the animation series. All I can say is that read the series on this book and pick up the animation series of part 1 and you will never go back to watching Saturday morning cartoon. END
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