From: bammerla@cs.ruu.nl (Boris Ammerlaan)
Subject: Re: Robotech tapes wanted
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 10:54:20 GMT
Organization: Utrecht University, Dept. of Computer Science

In <1992Dec14.080613.2169@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> z_beddoerj@ccsvax.sfasu.edu writes:

>In article <1992Dec7.114250.6890@cs.ruu.nl>, bammerla@cs.ruu.nl (Boris Ammerlaan) writes:
>> In <1992Dec04.194302.123039@zeus.calpoly.edu> dgong@zeus.calpoly.edu (Invid) writes:
>> 
>>>I'm looking for VHS tapes of all the robotech episodes.
>>>Can someone help me with where or how to find them?
>
>Hmm.....I understand that Palladium books has released the Masters and 
>Invid (Southern Cross and New Generation, respectively) segments on tape.
>Seen them at Nan's Comics in Houston.
>
>However, there is something to consider.  After the beginning of 1993, 
>Streamline will get the rights to Robotech, and supposedly there will
>be a release of the Macross segment on tape, with 4 episodes on a tape,
>meaning that the episodes are unedited, as the FHE releases were.

The tapes you're talking about WILL be released about now, and will cost about
$19.99. Also, they're releasing the ENTIRE series on tape under the title
"Perfect Collection" with two dubbed episodes and the two corresponding,
subtitled, unedited, Japanese episodes. (Though I have heard the subtitles
aren't very good.) These tapes will also cost about $19.99 each.

>>>Also, does anyone know if the Sentinel series will ever reach the
>>>animation boards? I've read the books and the storyline is great!
>>>(it helped clear up alot of things from the animated series)
>
>SUPPOSEDLY (activate Rumor Control Modules now!) there are plans in the works
>with Streamline to get the Sentinels back in production.  I want to see this
>real, real bad, but I'm too much too much of a cynic to belive it until
>I see either new cels or watch the first episode on the Sci-Fi Channel. :)
>
>> If you can just forget "The End Of The Circle". I thought that sucked, and
>> was glad to hear another version has been approved (though I know very  
>> little about the new version).
>> 
>> 		Boris Ammerlaan
>
>New version...?  Oh really?  By who?  And who is doing it?  This is real news
>to me.
>
>Although I can't say that I didn't like the End of the Circle.  In fact, I 
>really liked it.  In many ways, it was a fitting end.  You know, I really
>should keep up with the comic more, buy the nearest damn comic store that
>carries it is in HOUSTON, like 120 miles away.....*growl*.

You could probably subscribe...

>(OK, so the guy at the only store in town promises me that he will be getting
>Independents soon....sure, sure.....)
>
>Ja ne,
>"Crusher" Joe.

It is (if my information is correct) just a new version for the RPG, and goes
something like this: the Invid (Regiss' half) do come back to Earth, SDF
travels back in time and Roy Hunter becomes Zor. (Boy, maybe "The End Of The
Circle" wasn't that bad after all...)

The things I didn't like about "TEOTC" were:
a)Lang. He was completely out of character, and I feel he shouldn't have had
  any effect during the Transition (or whatever it was called).
b)All that talk about the people of Earth finally making everything and
  everyone happy.
c)Dana's powers didn't really have _anything_ to do with it.
d)A giant transforming planet that destroys all life? I think I have seen this
  somewhere before...
e)The psychic kids. Well, nobody really liked them, did they?
f)Angelo and whats-her-name.
g)Minmei. I never really liked her, but I really thought her being happy in
  complete isolation was a bit unrealistic.
h)Minmei's baby as Zor.
i)Lancer's death.
j)Sera's death.
k)Scott rejecting Marlene-Ariel at first. I mean, why would he do that? He
  threw his lucky charm away in "Symphony of Light" and said "I'll be back".
  (BTW, does anyone know how he got that lucky charm back? He had it in
  "TEOTC".)
l)The appearance of senator Russo as a symbol that all fighting had ceased.
m)Louie Nichols and his team inside a computer.
n)The Regiss saying something about being forced to leave Earth. If she had
  really wanted to stay, she would have. I mean, she destroyed all nuclear
  missiles in a single moment.
o)Tying the end of the series to the disappearance of the fold drives in "the
  Macross saga".
p)The revelation what Zor's vision had been. Now, there's no more mystery.
q)Captain K'rrk of the N'trprizz. (Actually, this kind of thing was something
  I hated in _ALL_ the books.)

And I could find a lot of other things, but I think you get the point.

		Boris Ammerlaan