animeigo macross box set

[do not disturb]

okay, kind of newbie question but....

whats the difference between the 1st robotech series and the animeigo release of the macross series?

is the animation the same?

is the story the same?

whats real the difference?

i've seen the mac movie which i thought was kind of strange since i grew up watching robotech. it was kind of all over the place and hard to follow.

anyhow, let me know fella's.

[tom64ss]

You should post this in Newbie Questions

Read Lebhead's Protocuture story page for answers:

http://protoculture.lebhead.com/story/

[tetsujin]

The Macross episodes used for Robotech were altered to fit the deranged Robotech compilation strategy. Basically, if you watch Robotech you're not getting the real story. The animation's the same, but the folks at Animeigo did a full restoration from an old 16mm print, so it looks a lot better than the Robotech version.

As for the movie, it is different from the TV series. It's an alternate version of the story, and told in a couple hours instead of the 12-13 hours the TV series had. It's a very well-done movie, though. It's become one of my favorite anime mecha movies.

[ewilen]

Also see http://macross.anime.net/fallacies/errata/...a/robotech_faq/

But note that it's correcting errors in an old version of the RT FAQ, located at http://www.foundonline.com/robotech/misc/faq.html (no longer at the place listed on macross.anime.net)

A lot of the corrections have been incorporated in versions 2.0 and 2.0.1A, found in these locations:

http://www.angelfire.com/on/AODES/FAQ/faq0en.html

http://members.aol.com/BruceG6069/RoboTech...botech_faq.html