Oh i love this thread! My love affair with Macross begun when i first watched the original Macross anime when i was a wee lad of 10 years old or so...
What made Macross special for me was the awesome transformable mecha which was revolutionary and unheard of back in the 80s.... and i can still remember the sense of awe when i first watched it....
Now that i am older, i feel that if Gundam pioneered the moving, scrolling change of perspective for aerial dogfights in animation trying to impress upon the audience a sense of spatial awareness and distance by superimposing different frames within an animation frame...then Macross took that to another level by adding mid-flight transformation of the mecha and adding ever more body count to create a sense of enormity and vastness which is inter-galactic space combat.
Add the wonderful character development of its major characters and the music...and you have the Classic which is Macross...Beloved by the 1970s babies....and mind you, it is not just a local or japanese phenomenon...even my friend who is from the Philippines who is in his 30s LOVED Macross as they showed it over there as well.
Alright, enough with the long speeches, since this is a "pose" thread...does this count?