Hey, we haven't even seen Rowboat-tech (luckily...?) on tv in this god forsaken part of the world... And the anime dvd's are just recently getting to grow in numbers. Still not so many of them.
I think they released just a few first vhs's of Yamato in the 80's or something... Swedish dub, I'm pretty sure...
So, the only way to see that series here is to become an anime fan at later age, and then make the discoveries in the past. Then order from abroad or download from net for those who prefer that. (I wonder how many anime fans will at that point buy/watch the Starblazers version of Yamato?) I think pretty much so. Basically it was like that with Macross for me also. Though I happened to had bought the Dyrl? crappy swedish dub version in the 80's, knowing nothing about the whole thing. And that vhs lead to my Macross fandom about five years ago, when I found more decent version of the movie. By accident even then. Still, I might be one of the most hardcore fans of Macross over here...
But hey I'm not angry here, or anything like that, I don't take that kind of things too seriously, and I understand your point of view
Edit: Oh. btw, there is no way to compare something like Star Wars on this. Now THAT thing was/is everywhere