I grew up in the age of Transformers (Remember Gobots lol). I remember the first Transformer I ever got (And one of the best Transformers period), Soundwave. Also that Christmas I got Ravage, Frenzy, Rumble, and Ratbat for him. I used to always have one or more of these little transformable cassettes in my pockets, everywhere I went.
I remember getting Optimus Prime. I got him after about a year of standing my Tonka trucks on end, pretending they were Optimus. I later got Starscream, an insecticon and some others. As I got older Transformers became more of a game of trading. So many traded toys went through my hands. Most beat up and incomplete. I still have most of them in a storage bin.
But Transformers weren't the pinnacle of transforming robots. Just as Transformers put Gobots to shame, there were other robots that put Transformers to shame. And these other robots were spawned from a story that puts every mecha story I've personally encountered to shame. What robots do I speak of? You've probably guessed:
I am not a hardcore Robotech/Macross nerd. I have read the first few novels and seen most of the original cartoons and some of the other, newer ones. Am I an expert in Robotech canon etc? Not even remotely. But I love the parts of the story I know, and the mecha are amazing. You just can't mess with Veritech. Cyclones are cool, the SDF-1 is crrazy. It's all just so good.
Maybe it isn't the pinnacle, there's Gundam out there, Neon Genesis etc. I'm afraid I haven't really seen much of these others - but the models I've seen are pretty dang amazing.
So my robot/mecha love continues.
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