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2 unusual facts about Robotech: Love Live Alive


Robotech: Love Live Alive

Scott, Marlene/Ariel, Rand, Rook, Lunk, and Annie all take him out for a campfire dinner and talk about what the REF has been up to in the aftermath of Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles.

The film was initially released in the United States as part of a 2-Movie Collection with Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles on July 23, 2013 by Lionsgate Home Entertainment.


Biorobotics

In 1985 the animated Robotech television series popularized the term when it reused the term from the 1984 Japanese series The Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross.

Buster the Amazing Bear

However, with Yune working on Speed Racer and now Robotech, the date of Buster's return to comics is undetermined.

Claudia Grant

The character of Bowie Grant in Robotech Masters segment), which is the second sage of Robotech, is Claudia's nephew and son of her brother, Vince Grant and his wife, Dr. Jean Grant, both of whom play major roles in Robotech II: The Sentinels, Robotech: Prelude to the Shadow Chronicles and Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles.

Dana Sterling

In the decanonized Jack McKinney novel "Rubicon" (book 17 of the Robotech series), Dana, Louie Nichols, Bowie Grant, Angelo Dante, Sean Phillips, Marie Crystal, Musica and Allegra acquire Jonathan Wolfe's ship, travel to Tirol, and meet up with the Robotech Expeditionary Forces in 2033.

In the original Robotech timeline (on which the Sentinels and the Jack McKinney novels were based), Dana was born in 2013 and the SDF-3 departed in 2020, meaning that Dana was aged 7 years at the time.

However, the decanonized Jack McKinney novel "The Devil's Hand" (book 13 of the Robotech series) states that Dana, as the only child of a Human-Zentraedi union (who had been studied, tested, and evaluated since birth), she was judged by Professor Lazlo Zand as too valuable to risk going with the REF.

Donald Hayes

:For Admiral Donald Hayes of the Robotech series, Donald Hayes (Robotech).

Dub localization

Robotech (from Harmony Gold, English dub of several Japanese anime merged into one)

Exedore

Exedore is presumed to have been killed as in the animated movie Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles, as it is stated that there were no other survivors.

Haydonites

At the end of the Third Robotech War, the Haydonites, known to the Invid as the Children of the Shadow, betrayed their allies and attempted to destroy all races that used Protoculture as a power source as seen in Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles.

It is not clear whether Veidt is one of the Haydonites depicted in the movie Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles as none of them are ever named.

Iona Morris

Her voice work also includes: Medusa in The Fantastic Four series, Claudia Grant in Robotech and Nia/Betty in the short lived Phantom 2040.

Janice Em

As Robotech: The Movie was an English dub of the direct-to-video Japanese feature, Megazone 23, "Janice" was to be the English-language version of the artificial intelligence from that movie, Eve Tokimatsuri.

She would have been a major character in the storyline of the aborted animated sequel series Robotech II: The Sentinels, which was later realized as both a series of a novels and comic books, and went on to play a key role in the animated feature, Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles.

Max Sterling

The canonical status of Aurora Sterling, who is a character in the decanonized Jack McKinney novels, is unknown, although it has been suggested that Maia is meant to replace Aurora in the rebooted Robotech timeline.

Maximillian Sterling, voiced by Cam Clarke (credited as "Jimmy Flinders" at the time), is one of the fictional characters in the Robotech anime television series.

Megazone 23: Aoi Garland

This edition comes bundled with a game setting guidebook with full-color artwork and a DVD, "Megazone 23 INTERNATIONAL PART II" (Region 2) -- the full movie of Part II with the original English dub, using Harmony Gold voice actors, complete with the intro of Part I's alternate (non-canonical) ending with footage used in Robotech: The Movie and a narrated summary of the (canonical) events of Part I.

Michio Okamura

Okamura began his artistic career as a comic book artist on Reggie Byers' Shuriken, as well as Comico's adaptations of Robotech.

Miriya Parina Sterling

Unlike the rest of Robotech's surviving first generation characters, there is no mention of Miriya in the comic series Robotech: Prelude to the Shadow Chronicles or the film Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles and her fate is presently unknown.

Robotech 3000

After the relative success of Voltron: The Third Dimension and Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles, a new Robotech sequel was proposed that would use 3D CG visuals, with producer Jason Netter and writer Carl Macek at the helm.

Robotech Armed Forces

Although the Jack McKinney novels (books 13-17) details the exploits of the REF, they have been reduced to Secondary continuity in the Robotech Saga in 2002 and are no longer considered reliable in the rebooted Robotech timeline.

The Robotech: Prelude to the Shadow Chronicles comic series and the movie Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles introduced the Shimakaze class (a battlecruiser slightly larger than the Tristar class), the Crusade-class dropship, and the Ark Angel-class colony ships.

The exploits of the REF were briefly chronicled in the third Robotech Saga but were greatly expanded on in Robotech: Prelude to the Shadow Chronicles and Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles.

Robotech art books

Robotech Art 1 through Robotech Art 3: The Sentinels were published by Starblaze Graphics, an imprint of The Donning Company until it went out of business.

Robotech Defenders

Contrary to what their name seems to imply, the "'Robotech Defenders'" are not part of the Robotech Anime Universe adapted by Carl Macek and released by Harmony Gold USA, however they did adopt the same moniker and logo.

Robotech: Battlecry

The latter came in a silver box with the game and included a packet of 3" X 5" cards of character concept art from the game drawn by Tommy Yune, a lenticular card depicting a Veritech fighter in action, a Battlecry t-shirt vacuum packed into a disc-shaped tin with card RDF logo on top, the game's soundtrack on CD and a specially numbered Jack Archer dogtag.

Robotech: Crystal Dreams

Unfinished Nintendo 64 ROM images are available to download via the Crystal Dreams developers website.

Robotech: The Macross Saga

Ironically, the Destroids served as the basis for some of the early Battlemechs of Battletech fame, and the Destroid missions adopt an isometric view very similar to the MechWarrior 3050 game for the SNES.

S. Craig Zahler

On September 7, 2007 THR reported that Warner Bros. has acquired the film rights to the anime Robotech with Tobey Maguire attached to star and produce the film, while Zahler was set to write the script for the film.

Scott Bernard

In the latest installment of the Robotech series, Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles, Ariel, after having a premonition, seeks out Scott on Moon Base ALUCE to warn him that the Robotech Expeditionary Force (REF) and humanity face a new alien threat.

He is promoted to the rank of Commander in Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles and is one of the most dangerous Robotech warriors in Robotech history, having defeated Corg, Prince of the Invid, in mecha combat.

The Super Dimension Fortress Macross

In 1985, Harmony Gold edited and rewrote the series with The Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross and Genesis Climber Mospeada into Robotech, to syndicate on weekday television and to promote a Revell model line.

Tommy Yune

In 2001, he left Wildstorm to become creative director at Harmony Gold USA for the relaunch of Robotech.

USA Cartoon Express

By the end of the 1980s, a more diverse lineup of cartoons aired on the Cartoon Express, including G.I. Joe, Transformers, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, The Real Ghostbusters, Jem, Robotech, and Alvin and the Chipmunks.

VF-84

The markings of Roy Focker's VF-1S Valkyrie (which was itself inspired by the F-14 Tomcat) in The Super Dimension Fortress Macross is obviously inspired by the squadron insignia of VF-84, and his "Skull Squadron" is considered the equivalent of VF-84; in the Americanized version, Robotech, the squadron was also considered to be elite.

VF1

VF-1 Valkyrie, a fictional aircraft in the Macross and Robotech series

Waltrip brothers

In 2005, the Waltrips picked up from where they left off with Robotech: Prelude to the Shadow Chronicles, a 5-part comic book miniseries which bridged their work on The Sentinels with the new animated film Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles.


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