{"id":393,"date":"2007-03-01T20:12:28","date_gmt":"2007-03-02T04:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/robots-of-the-80s-part-3\/"},"modified":"2007-03-01T20:12:28","modified_gmt":"2007-03-02T04:12:28","slug":"robots-of-the-80s-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/robots-of-the-80s-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Robots Of The 80s, Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ah, Robotech. Still an enduring favorite to this day. It was a cartoon series that was way ahead of its time, or perhaps just way too mature for an audience my age when I first discovered the show. I just remember seeing a transforming robot on the first show I saw (episode #5, incidentally entitled “Transformation”) and I was hooked.<\/p>\n

I seem to recall that it wasn’t always easy to find Robotech toys back in the day, or perhaps they were just more expensive or that Transformers took precedence in my discretionary toy budget. Can’t remember. But there were some cool Robotech toys and I didn’t get my hands on even a fraction of them.<\/p>\n

I did amass a complete collection of these adorable chubby Veritech fighters– Miriya’s, Rick’s, and Max’s. These are their guardian configurations, halfway between jet and robot:<\/p>\n


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These are the fighter (jet) forms:<\/p>\n


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These are the 3 Veritechs in battloid (robot) mode:<\/p>\n


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This is the big ship of the first part of Robotech — the SDF-1. In fact, the “transformation” in episode #5 mentioned above was when the entire spaceship transformed into a robot! Rockin’! This small replica did not transform, though I believe there was a larger replica that did.<\/p>\n


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The first part of Robotech (Macross) featured a number of Destroids. This was my favorite, the Excalibur:<\/p>\n


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He is missing his 6-pack of missiles off of his upper right shoulder. If you are familiar with the Battletech RPG series, this might look familiar. For some bizarre reasons that I never understood when I was younger (but could probably look up pretty easily these days if I cared enough), a number of mech designs were shared between Battletech and the anime on which Robotech was based.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ah, Robotech. Still an enduring favorite to this day. It was a cartoon series that was way ahead of its time, or perhaps just way too mature for an audience my age when I first discovered the show. I just remember seeing a transforming robot on the first show I saw (episode #5, incidentally entitled […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robots-of-the-80s"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t