Their release includes many of the special features of advs legacy and protoculture collections as well as new features, including a documentary, carl maceks robotech universe, an edited version of robotech ii. The sentinels which omits the macross flashback scenes and a 29minute version of robotech. Another common complaint is the altered character designs for the returning macross saga characters. They go into more detail and more importantly, they finish what they started. The sentinels was an attempt by harmony gold usa to continue the original 1985 robotech television series. The comic was ended in 1996 when academy comics lost their license to print robotech comics. Make offer robotech southern cross vhs lot of 5 palladium books harmony gold anime 2 4 57 robotech macross saga volume 16 vhs 1989 f. This issue features a timeline and summary of the events that occurred in the entire robotech saga, from zors birth, through the macross, sentinels, masters and new generations sagas to the search for the lost sdf3. It uses footage from the megazone 23 part 1 ova original video animation. The sentinels movie is part 2 as it says in the title. The aborted sentinels series would have followed the ongoing adventures of rick hunter and lisa hayes and the rest of the robotech expeditionary force ref during the events of the robotech masters and the new generation series. While rick hunter and lisa hayes and the ref prepare for their journey to tirol. Just a few months after andy muschietti signed on to direct robotech, the adaptation has a new writer in wonder woman scribe jason fuchs. The comic is a partial adaptation of the novel series and a partial adaptation of the cancelled tv series, taking their own twist on the story.
The sentinels did not reuse animation from another anime other than some flashback footage from macross. Rebecca forstadt credited reba west as lynn minmei. The sentinels this was suppose to be the plot line after the macross story arch was over. In a daring plan to take the destructive war for robotechnology away from the earth, the sdf3 is constructed to lead an expedition to confront the robotech masters on their own ground.
Thanks to depredation and many others for their continued support for the project. Basically rick, lisa, max and breetai plus others create the robotech expeditionary force and begin a quest to find the homeworld of the robotech masters, to learn more. The original twelve novels were written to a tight twelvemonth deadline, so that the books could be released one per month. The sentinels, expands upon the events in genesis climber mospeda, and also fills in story gaps left unplugged in macross and southern cross. Oct 21, 2019 based on the popular series, robotech 2. Sentinels part ii continues the series in a grand way. The sentinels a new beginning mason, tom, ulm, chris, waltrip, jason, waltrip, john on. Academy takes place near the end of the second generation of robotechin the time and setting of the aborted tv series robotech ii. The mission of the robotech defenders unfolds as they near the launch date of their flaghship the sdf3. Theres alot of synthesizer music and recycled footage from all three robotech sagas another sign of the aborted production. I was expecting at least a little continuity with the sentinels series that. Big fan of the entire robotech universe and im glad there are fans with flash skills willing to dedicate the time to make animations. The footage is edited to make the two separate movies that alternate.
The untold story, is a feature film and was the first new robotech adventure created after the premiere of the original series. The sentinels in a daring plan to take the destructive war for robotechnology away from the earth, the sdf3 is constructed to lead an expedition to confront the robotech masters on their own ground. Beware, you are proposing to add brand new pages to the wiki along with your edits. Initially a major success, its relatively adult story content is credited with introducing western audiences to the sophisticated dramatic potential that japanese animation had to offer, or even possible for animation itself. But it got canceled and the masters plot line that we all know about took. Only three episodes were ultimately animated before the project was cancelled in 1986, and a featurelength film was released from footage taken from the completed episodes.
Basically rick, lisa, max and breetai plus others create the robotech expeditionary force and begin a quest to find the homeworld of the robotech masters, to learn more about robotechnology and the people that created it. Only three episodes were ultimately animated before the project was canceled in 1986, and a featurelength film was released from footage taken from the completed episodes. The sentinels did not reuse animation from another anime. The sentinels news and updates at, your home for movie, tv, game, music, and theme park news. The sentinels detailed the production of the series by the creator carl macek covering all levels of production and story, as well as. It is bad for a movie but one must remember that robotech ii the sentinels was produced as a tv series thus resulting in mediocre tv series level animation. Comic book version of the robotech sentinels cartoon series, a sequel to the robotech macross series, that was planned but never fully made.
After a twentyyear absence, robotech returned as a feature film. The sentinels did not reuse animation from another anime other than some flashback footage from. The robotech franchise is joining the funimation family. Maybe if you saw robotech as a kid, have no desire to rewatch it, but want to see what theyve produced since 1988, this would be for you.
Ive not seen the sentinels movie in a long time, it really brought me back. The first 3 episodes were then spliced together into one movie. The sentinels is the enthralling film sequel, where two cultures, the citizens of earth and the planet optera, come together to determine the fate of their two worlds in a compelling story of love, courage and the pursuit of freedom. Keep in mind that this show takes place 8 years after macross saga. Robotech is a cult anime series about three wars fought by earth with alien technology, against alien enemies, over control of a powerful energy source. The shadow chronicles did produce a film that received limited. This directtovideo release feels like two separate movies. Jun 29, 2006 ive not seen the sentinels movie in a long time, it really brought me back. Originally intended to be a continuation of the popular and successful robotech, only three episodes were ultimately animated before the project was canceled in 1986, and a featurelength film was released from footage taken from the completed episodes. Robotech movie gets wonder woman writer sep 12, 2017. All music products are properly licensed and guaranteed authentic.
Robotech is an americanjapanese 85episode adaptation of three unrelated anime television series from three different fictional universes made between 19821984 in japan. The titles will arrive as part of an expansive agreement that includes all rights to the franchise, including home entertainment and merchandising opportunities. The sentinels was an attempt to continue the original 1985 robotech television series. Under this deadline, daley and luceno divided the robotech timeline into twelve segments and worked on different segments simultaneously i. The sdf1 has been destroyed but with he help of exfoes breetai and exadore they have built the sdf3 created with eh left over robotech technology as well as old zentradi ships to. However, the unforeseen threat of the invid regent emerges from across the galaxy. Within the combined and edited story, robotechnology refers to the scientific advances discovered in an alien starship that crashed on a south pacific island. This edit will also create new pages on comic vine for. The sentinels is a robotech comic series released by eternity comics and academy comics in between 1988 to 1996. Daley wrote book 1 while luceno wrote book 2, then traded completed manuscripts for revision and style adjustments.
The sentinels was a movie released in 1988 on vhs by palladium books. Even on the official robotech website, it only lists the sentinels movie with part 2 ii as part of its original title the recent dvd released version only says robotech. Expand your home video library from a huge online selection of movies at. Robotech robotech 2 the sentinels espanol latino facebook. The sentinels had failed to get off the ground in the 80s and robotech 3000, a proposed cgi series set a thousand years in the future from the shows timeline, had received major.
In this issue, on tirol, everyone is preparing for a visit from the invid regent, while back on praxis, the stranded sentinels are still trying to figure out a way to get off of the planet and burak and tesla have formed a partnership in the dance of death. On top of that, love live alive has no extras, those were saved for complete box set which features this movie, the original japanese love alive, and every other piece of robotech ever. In this movie consisting of the first three episodes of the abortive tv sequel series, we rejoin the characters of the first macross portion of the series a couple of. If you want the sentinels story, pick up the jack mckinney novels. Supposedly its been postponed because of the omnipresent threat of a liveaction robotech movie, but who.
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