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the third and final series of comics dealing with the robotech ii: sentinels storyline .
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robotech ii: the sentinels was a movie released in 1988 on vhs by palladium books .
here are the first five minutes of robotech ii: the sentinels. lion force voltron is still cool .
robotech ii: the sentinels roleplaying game is a sourcebook for palladium books' robotech ii: the sentinels line of the robotech roleplaying game. it is set during the sentinels era. along with the mecha and character profiles, it also includes adventure seeds for further play .
sentinels (robotech ii: role playing game) by kevin siembieda * * brand new * * .
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though i know slim to null about robotech ii: the sentinels i’m willing to help out in any way shape or form .
robotech ii: the sentinels was dropped by eternity comics in april 1994 leaving book 3 and the rest of the series in general unfinished .
' robotech ii: the sentinels' was supposed to be a sequel to the original robotech series. unlike the original series, it was intended to feature only original animation .
_ robotech ii: the sentinels _: as above, but for the robotech expeditionary force' s adventures on tirol and other invid - occupied worlds. robotech ii: the role - playing game, the sentinels. copyright 1987, by kevin siembieda. 160 pages, $ 14. 95. cat. no. 557
robotech ii: the sentinels was a planned 65 episodes continuation of the original robotech series, with animation by tatsunoko productions and a brand - new story written by carl macek .
... no contest, macross ii. big west had deeper pockets to fund and organise macross ii with. harmony gold…did not .
robotech ii: the sentinels was divided into
books
, to follow the paperback novels from which the animated series scripts were derived and later adapted into comicbook form .
there were comics and novels spawned, and even an rpg (palladium' s robotech ii: the sentinels). however, the question of what happened during the sentinels' timeline was never fully answered in an official capacity .
well, it seems that macross ii wins by a landslide vote. besides, what was so good about the sentinels movie, anyway ?
palladium also published a separate rpg based on the macross ii anime, but this was entirely unrelated to the robotech continuity .
partially outlined in robotech art 3 and verified at conventions and in interviews. minmei is the mother of zor. the last episode of robotech would have been the first episode so that the series would have no beginning or end. robotech was never completed because robotech ii: the sentinels was cancelled .
forums of megaverse - official forum for megaverse of palladium books (including robotech & macross ii sub - forums) .
the robotech comic series was published by eternity comics and later academy comics and was released based on the tv show. the comics only covered the story through the opening of the fourth book. the comics continued in robotech: prelude to the shadow chronicles, finishing the gap between robotech ii: the sentinels and robotech: the shadow chronicles .
spiritual successor: although shadow chronicles retcons all versions of robotech ii: the sentinels out of existence, the prelude to the shadow chronicles miniseries also functions as a continuation of the eternity / academy comic version; it even begins at the last panel of the last published sentinels comic .
the sentinels story has been pretty well covered in comics and books. now i don’t know how much of the sentinels story will remain canon, but i expect a lot of changes to the sentinels storyline .
the core robotech continuity accepts only the
broad strokes
of the sentinels era, although the finished animation is canon .
second thoughts was the planned fourth episode of robotech ii: the sentinels. as the series was shut - down three episodes into production, only the script has ever been released of the episode. it would have been the first appearances of many of the central sentinels designs, including the revamped destroids .
the history of robotech vol. 1: harmony gold & the birth of robotech
la résistance: scott bernard' s rebellion against the invid; the sentinels .
robotech ii: the sentinels was an attempt by harmony gold usa to continue the original 1985 robotech television series. only three episodes were ultimately animated before the project was canceled in 1986, and a feature - length film was released fr ...
robotech: the shadow chronicles was completed and screened at film festivals in august 2006. it was the first original, animated robotech production since the release of robotech ii: the sentinels in 1988. shadow chronicles was released theatrically in january 2007 and released on region 1 dvd in february 2007 .
there were five sentinels novels published by del rey books. each
book
of the sentinels comic corresponded to a novel in the paperback series .
robotech ii: the sentinels had a special issue between books 3 and 4. feeling that the series was getting long, and wanting to bring in new readers, publisher jean elane wanted us to do a summary issue recapping the events in the sentinels story from book 1 to book 3 .
eventually, shoji kawamori will finally get control of the macross saga and would go on to write his sequels. so robotech ii was planned first, and was the seed for macross ii, macross plus, macross 7, and macross frontier .
3. 3. 1: the comico robotech adaptations 3. 3. 2: the comico graphic novel 3. 3. 3: robotech ii: the sentinels 3. 3. 4: robotech ii: the malcontent uprisings 3. 3. 5: robotech: the legend of zor 3. 3. 6: robotech: cyberpirates 3. 3. 7: robotech: return to macross 3. 3. 8: robotech: invid war 3. 3. 9: robotech: invid war aftermath 3. 3. 10: how many of these titles are still in print ?
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in one corner, we have robotech ii: the sentinels - harmony gold’s first attempt at expanding the robotech universe. the series was to have been 65 episodes long, but only three episodes worth of footage were made, in which hg combined into one movie .
i think so too, i know some of the robotech fans are not interested in robotech ii: the sentienels at all. but some of the fans including ourselfs are. in my opinion, it deserved to be either remastered or remake. even better why don’t they do both (remastered & remake) robotech ii: the sentienels ?
macross ii. while i dont watch it as much as…say…macross: do you remember love? , i do watch it more then robotech ii: the sentinels (mainly because i had to have my copy imported, and can no - longer play the regional - coded disc, so y’know, a waste of $ 80) .
ragtag bunch of misfits: scott bernard' s rebellion against the invid; the sentinels .
the robotech franchise officially disowned the continuity of the novels in 2005 with the creation of robotech: the shadow chronicles .
robotech ii: the sentinels was picked up by academy comics in the summer of 1994. publisher jean elane wanted to continue the series right where eternity comics had left off, so the first issue of sentinels from academy comics would be book 3 # 9, published in september 1994. this is also when we started coloring the covers ourselves !
i already mentioned that macross ii was not produced by studio nue. it was animated by aic and oniro .
i think this would be a perfect way to put the sentinels to rest after all these years, and a nice treat to all of us who actually liked the sentinels .
robotech ii: the sentinels is a robotech comic series released by eternity comics and academy comics in between 1988 to 1996. 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 comic was ended in 1996 when academy comics lost their license to print robotech comics .
since the faltering robotech ii: the sentinels series in 1987, several projects have emerged under the robotech banner, with mixed success. released in 2006, robotech: shadow chronicles followed on from the end of the 1985 series. robotech: shadow rising is a planned sequel which has so far failed to materialise. robotech: love live alive came out on dvd in 2013. a series called robotech: academy was put on kickstarter in 2014, but failed to raise the requisite funding .
it' s obvious that the initial designs were copied verbatim with very few changes, most in terms of clothing. even the poses haven' t been altered. the similarities prove beyond doubt that harmony gold' s original plan was to make
robotech the movie
directly continue on to
robotech ii: the sentinels
through these characters. in my opinion the original concepts that harmony gold devised for
robotech the movie
and
robotech ii: the sentinels
were far more interesting than the final products that finally reached audiences. it’s a shame that outside interference and financial problems got in the way of what could have been excellent continuations of the “robotech” franchise .
7) _ ref field guide _: an illustrated reference work for the _ sentinels _ book. robotech ii: ref field guide. copyright 1989, by kevin siembieda. 144 pages, $ 14. 95. cat. no. 558
harmony gold attempted to produce several follow ups (see robotech: animated sequels and spinoffs) to the original series, most notably robotech ii: the sentinels. the project fell through due to problems with toy licensing and changes in the japanese yen - us dollar exchange rate, among other reasons. the sentinels saga continued to be chronicled in the novelizations by jack mckinney and comic book adaptations by the waltrip brothers .
in the end, antarctic wound up publishing a series entitled sentinels: rubicon with a different creative team, but it was set in the post - new generation era and had nothing to do with the novel of the same name, nor did it have much of anything to do with the original robotech ii: the sentinels property outside of a few side references .
the “sentinels” animation is bittersweet, for sure. that small sample of what might’ve been .
robotech ii: the sentinels was originally planned to be a cartoon series on television, but that production was never fully realized. harmony gold, the owners of robotech, decided to have the sentinels produced as a comic book series instead. eternity comics, a division of malibu graphics, purchased the rights where it was adapted by editor - in - chief chris ulm and creative director tom mason .
robotech ii: the sentinels is the black and white comic book adaptation of the failed film of the same name, and the longest - running robotech spinoff to date. artists jason and john waltrip adapted the original jack mckinney novels into comic books, though they diverged from the novels as the story progressed. the sentinels comics were originally published by eternity comics, then academy comics. the storyline abruptly ended when academy was unable to renew their license with the rights holders. the comics license passed to antarctic press in the late 90' s, who published the sentinels: rubicon, which draws its name from the title of the fifth sentinels novel. however, the rubicon comic, instead of completing the sentinels story, is set years after the end of the sentinels campaign, and was not illustrated by the waltrips. it was not popular with fans, due to the poor artwork and the lack of connection to the sentinels. it was cancelled after only two issues .
it’s agred that we need somthing to fill the gaps in robotech, much as i loved sentinels the problems with it ae fare too great .
this one is obvious, with studio nue spending much more money on animation style than sentinels. however this may have been fauted by the financial isues that plagued the production of sentinels .
sentinels featured bizarre aliens, including big - breasted amazons known as
praxians
.
palladium books, past and current publishers of the robotech role - playing game, was the first company to release southern cross, new generation, and robotech ii: the sentinels on vhs home video. these vhs videos were available via mail - order, as well as some direct - market game and hobby shops .
yeah i expect there to be some alterations if there will be a sentinels. wonder what janice em’s role will be in shadow chronicles…because she is a major character in the sentinels .
in my opinion, macross ii was designed in an anime style, based off characters and mecha designs or the original macross designer .
bo ok 4 # 13 was the last issue of robotech ii: the sentinels published by academy comics in december 1996. due to falling sales and licensing issues with harmony gold, jean elane was forced to discontinue the series, leaving the story unfinished and the readers on a cliff - hanger ending .
core books one through five covered the three segments of robotech as aired; robotech ii covered the sentinels pilot movie and the source material that never ended up being developed. book six and lancer' s rockers took place after the series ended, and books seven, eight, and the rest of the adventure books took place during or shortly after the macross segment .
end of the circle is a new story designed to tie up all the loose ends in the robotech universe post - sentinels. it is a creation of jack mckinney' s and is not related to the robotech iii: the odyssey concept mentioned in robotech art 3 .
does robotech ii: the sentinels stand up on its own? absolutely not. but for fans that lived and breathed robotech like i did, this does not disappoint. it' s included on one of the bonus discs in the dvd box set collections of the show recently released by adv films - - make sure to watch for it .
here is some general information about the robotech universe, the role - playing game, and my robotech campaigns .
well, this one kinda isnt fair, as the production value of the sentinels plummeted as the financial woes affected the production .
gotta go with sentinels. while macross ii was set 80 years in the future, and really didnt have much direct connection to macross other than a rebuilt sdf - 1, sentinels had all of the surviving characters, a story that connects directly to the original macross series, and even has characters and story elements from macross and next generation…
as the robotech expeditionary force prepares to confront the robotech masters at their home planet, the invid are already ravaging it .
the sentinels rpg also diverged in some respects from the story covered in the sentinels novels and comic books, having been developed independently based on the same incomplete source material provided by harmony gold. the two primary differences are the idea that the sdf - 3 left with an entire fleet of ref ships accompanying them, and that the ref and the sentinels joined in a protracted war against the invid regent. the game also suggested that members of the sentinels' races would openly join the ref .
to get the story produced, harmony gold went over to japan and started planning robotech ii. this was before macross ii and macross plus was ever even planned. as a result, the series was produced in secret in japan. if word got out that robotech ii was a sequel to sdf: macross, the japanese fans of macross would be tickled. pink. however, we will never know the real reason why the project flopped after 3 episodes were made. carl blamed it on the dollar, but i wonder what the japanese would say ?
the rest will have to be done by the fans, as hg has no intention of bringing back the sentinels series .
however, it has been stated by the staff (steve, tommy, etc) that robotech ii: the sentinels is no longer canon. they didnt assign it to an alternate universe status, they just removed it completely from the canon (actually, technically, they use the words “secondary continuity” in the sentinels faq section. however, this was done mostly because the basic premise remained…that the sdf - 3 left on the pioneer mission for the rm homeworld, but aside from that fact, nothing of the sentinels story is applicable in their view) .
for the fool who said let sentinels die (thele) shut your trap! !! ! i’m sick of the idiots who hate sentinels. forget them! !! ! if they truly understood robotech they would know that if the sentinels (and possibly the oddyssey saga) were completed (according to carl macek’s original vision) there probably wouldn’t be these continuity problems .
palladium books, which had produced a table - top role - playing game based on the robotech series, also produced a role - playing game for the sentinels .
the _ macross ii rpg _ is based on the japanese video series macross ii, which was based on the movie macross: do you remember love? , which was based on the macross tv series, from which robotech was derived. in other words, the scenarios are not related, though they use similar game mechanics and mecha (being both published by palladium and written by siembeda) tv shows, this is not surprising). the plot of the macross ii video series is detailed elsewhere in this faq .
robotech pen - and - paper role - playing games, based on the robotech and sentinels series, were published by palladium books from 1986 to 2001. a new revised line began in 2008 with a role - playing game based on robotech: the shadow chronicles .
actually, no. it was their only animated attempt at expanding the macross universe without kawamori. they released a series of games which, between them and the original release ost’s of macross ii, tell the history between macross do you remember love? and super dimension fortress macross ii: lovers again .
a couple of licensed video games were also created around the turn of the millennium: robotech battlecry and robotech: invasion .
spear counterpart: the sentinels introduced the invid regent, the estranged mate of the regess from
new generation
who served as the big bad .
while the sentinels anime shows the pollinators are not immune to captivity, in the novelization the robotech masters know that trying to simply shoot polly is a waste of their now very precious time .
tie in novels: jack mckinney' s adaptation of the unproduced sentinels sequel, and several other original stories .
c’mon now, let the sentinels die. it was a horrible filler to begin with, and very boring .
comic book version of the robotech sentinels cartoon series, a sequel to the robotech macross series, that was planned but never fully made. in this issue, 10 years after the events in the robotech macross saga occurred, as rick hunter and lisa hayes prepare for their wedding, the robotech expeditionary force prepares to launch the sdf - 3 and journey to the robotech masters homeworld, not knowing that a new and powerful foe has attacked that homeworld – the invid in
a new threat .
script by tom mason & chris ulm and art by jason waltrip. issue also has a rick hunter & lisa hayes pinup and a guide to
who' s who in robotech ii: the sentinels .
cover price $ 1. 95 .
the 1st cd, has all the bgm music played during the tv show. the 2nd cd, hass all the vocal songs played during the tv show, the sentinels and the movie, this cd also has 7 bgm played only in the sentinels, and includes an 8 page booklet .
in response to fan - rage over what happened, harmony gold planned a sequel series. robotech ii: the sentinels. the show expanded greatly doctor lang' s role in the overall story and provided two antagonists - - the vengeful invid regent, and the megalomaniacal t. r. edwards. of the two, t. r. edwards was the worst .
palladium, 1987. paperback. condition: very good +. pal 557. vg + condition. crisp, glossy cover. very nice. ~ this roleplaying supplement is based on the plots, conceptual art and models sheets for the never completed and little seen robotech ii: the sentinels animated television series. ~ 160 pages .
this article is about robotech role - playing games. for other uses, see robotech (disambiguation) .
lonely soldier boy ii ~ an acoustic album (2008) - this is the follow up album to the original lonely soldier boy cd. classic robotech tracks are performed in a minimalist, acoustic production. (mbm )
after many years of keeping them in storage, we are proud to announce all the original pages used in the printing of the robotech sentinels comic book series are being put up for auction. now you can own a piece of robotech history !
for all its faults, and they are many, the finished robotech ii: the sentinels animation is something that makes me smile: a taste of what could have been, an opportunity to check in on some old friends who’ve gone and grown up on me, and a brief but tantalizing look at that wider robotech cosmos that was only hinted at in the original eighty - five episodes .
but having read the mckinney novelizations and the waltrip sentinels comics, i do feel that there is a bigger, richer world to robotech than just what we see in the original tv series .
one gender race: the praxians from the sentinels. the male and female zentraedi were segregated by gender, and effectively fulfilled this trope .
the game adds additional mecha and character profiles for the sentinels era. this includes the various sentinel races. the game also creates new ref mecha .
macek’s attempt at a new series to immediately follow the macross saga was robotech ii: the sentinels. with only three episodes produced before the project’s cancellation, the completed programs were reformatted into a 75 minute movie that was released in 1992 and re - released in this dvd set. like the movie, the sentinels is interesting, but feels remarkably incomplete and ends, as one would expect, with the impression that the producers ran out of money (which, in essence, is what happened) .
subscribe to lord karnage & cgr at urltoken cgr comics playlist: urltoken classic game room presents a cgr comics review of robotech ii: the sentinels issue # 1 from november 1988 published by eternity comics. nine years after the defeat of the zentradi, admiral rick hunter is about to marry (finally) list hayes, the sdf - 3 is going to launch and the invid attack and crush the robotech masters, good times in this average but entertaining read that continues the westernized saga of robotech !
p. o. v. sequel: the first act of the movie covers the events of the final two episodes of the robotech series from the perspective of the robotech expeditionary force .
as the series progressed to the robotech masters and new generation chapters, a different sound was needed to reflect these changes in the storylines. the musical team of steve wittmack and michael bradley contributed a number of pieces, including the eerie
flower of life
and their very popular songs for yellow dancer. the wittmack / bradley team was reteined to compose the songs for robotech the movie: the untold story, as well as compose the score for the sequel series robotech ii: the sentinels. for various reason, these two projects were never completed .
comic book version of the robotech sentinels cartoon series, a sequel to the robotech macross series, that was planned but never fully made. in this issue, as the invid continue their attack on the robotech masters homeworld, cabell realizes that they are searching for the secrets of the protoculture matrix. and back on earth, as preparations continue for the wedding of rick hunter and lisa hayes and the launch of the sdf - 3, rick and vince have suspicions about general edwards in
a new threat – part 2 .
script by tom mason & chris ulm and art by jason waltrip. issue also has a robotech pinup and a guide to
who' s who in robotech ii: the sentinels .
cover price $ 1. 95 .
well, there' s not much else to tell about robotech sentinels, except perhaps that it would be another nine years before we would work on another robotech book, when in early 2005 we were asked by tommy yune, creative director at harmony gold, to co - write (and contribute some art to) robotech: prelude to the shadow chronicles, a new 5 issue mini - series that would finish the story of the sentinels and bridge the gap to the new incarnation of robotech... the direct to dvd animated movie robotech: shadow chronicles .
what does canon mean? and what changes would be made to the sentinels story? . i haven 't read the comics or books and i don 't intend to either as long as there is the smallest chance of the ressurection of the sentinels. do you guys think that they would remake even the first episodes? and if they finish the sentinels i hope that the characters will look the same. (the mature look )
lisa hayes is this for rick hunter (and vice versa) - they even make it to the altar in sentinels .
streamline pictures, founded by macek after the end of robotech, released robotech ii: the sentinels on vhs and laserdisc after the palladium books releases went out of print. in 1994, streamline pictures also released an incomplete series of
perfect collection
vhs videos. each volume included two episodes of robotech after their corresponding episodes of macross, southern cross, or mospeada, completely uncut but inaccurately subtitled. this series allowed english - speaking viewers to see many of the changes made .
_ robotech iii: not necessarily the sentinels _ is a film that is two parts parody of and one part homage to robotech. it was put together by the fine folks at seishun - shitemasu, through the magic of some very creative editing and dubbing .
i’d rather the people who made robotech write it than one of the fans .
this article is about the 1985 television series. for the franchise, see robotech. for other uses, see robotech (disambiguation) .
in the other corner is macross ii - big west’s first and only attempt at expanding the macross universe without shoji kawamori and studio nue. this series ran for 6 ova episodes .
canon foreigner: most of the cast of the sentinels and shadow chronicles. thomas riley
t. r .
edwards is a particularly significant example since he served as both an evil counterpart of roy fokker in adaptations before becoming a major villain in the sentinels .
subsequent airings: robotech appeared on the sci - fi channel in 1993, and on cartoon network' s toonami in 1998. toonami aired only episodes 1 through 60, finishing the run at the end of the robotech masters story - line. toonami reran 3 selected episodes of robotech as part of the giant robot week in 2003. kteh, a public television station in san jose, california aired the
macross
and
new generation
storylines, as well as the robotech ii: the sentinels feature. robotech formerly aired daily on the anime network. as of january 7, 2007, the show also airs in canada on space and retro. as of 2017, all three sagas of robotech are currently available for streaming on netflix .
a robotech edition of the mospeada oav robotech love live alive was released in 2013 as a sequel, of sorts, to the shadow chronicles .
robotech ii: the sentinels was the comic book sequel to the popular japanese animated television series robotech. it was published by eternity comics from 1988 to 1994 and academy comics from 1994 to 1996. in all, there were 75 issues of sentinels related books over eight years making it robotechs longest running comic book ever. and even though we didn' t finish the series, ending prematurely with book 4 # 13, we are extremely proud of what we were able to accomplish. we express our thanks to all those involved in the production, and our gratitude to all the readers !
robotech: the role - playing game - extensive fan - created role - playing game based heavily on palladium' s robotech rpg .
robotech ii the sentinles is a great movie to fill us in on what has happened since the first robotech war. sure it has it' s good and bad moments but in the end i give it a 10 / 10. nobody can say that the marriage scene wasn' t truly one of the most beautiful parts of the robotech series. the marriage scene has an awesome song sung by the duet of minmei and janyce. this is a must see for any and all robotech fans .
without giving too much away, _ not necessarily the sentinels _ has some very funny things to say about robotech and anime fandom in general, but don' t take it too seriously .
took a level in kindness: robotech: the sentinels portrays rick hunter as a much wiser and kinder person than he was in the actual macross saga, which makes sense given that sentinels is set around 10 years later, which seems to have given him enough time to finally grow up and grow more into his responsibilities .
amazonian beauty: bela and gnea, members of a proud warrior race from a lady land planet, as seen in the sentinels .
i have noticed many fans wanting the sentinels to be completed, and wondering what they can do to help get this series going .
i have a close friend who feel instantly in love with robotech, and after she saw the sentinels she was at a loss as to why in this day in age we haven’t seen the series completed .
i enjoyed this
movie
, actually the start of an incomplete series supposed to span 65 episodes. a diehard robotech fan, i couldn' t get enough of this tape, which kept the original voices of the robotech tv series while recreating the feel of the series even with new animators. sadly, the story is very incomplete, since all it takes is the first 4 episodes of what would have been a series. having read the (complete) robotech books, i know that the sentinels are a group of aliens the sdf - 3 is supposed to meet early in the robotech ii story, but despite the
sentinels
present in the name of the movie, you don' t even get a glimpse of them! i hope, probably in vain, eventually someone will pick up and finish the series .
the feature - length cartoon robotech 2: the sentinels, expands upon the events in genesis climber mospeda, and also fills in story gaps left unplugged in macross and southern cross. the heroes and heroines pile into spaceship sdf - 3 to keep the peace in a faraway star system; meanwhile, an alien race destroys the robotech masters. if you want to know the outcome, get robotech 2: the sentinels; the labyrinthine, multicharacter storyline might well blow out our word processor if we were to go into further detail. more
four months had passed without a word from the sentinels, and the members of the expeditionary mission to tirol feared the worst - even as they began truce negotiations with the invid regent himself. far away, the surviving sentinels were hopelessly stranded on praxis, a planet in cataclysm, at the mercy of the invid regis. but deep within that world' s core were answers to the sentinels' prayers - if they could only reach them before praxis tore itself apart .
yes, i agree but this will probably never happen…... sad really…... sentinels will never be finished… .
2017 c. e. first extrasolar colony settled by earthlings. - - vf - 2 valkyrie ii enters service with the robotech expeditionary force. vf - 4 wins the competition, and enters service as the colony protector. - - vf - xx enters service with the robotech expeditionary force for the zentraedi. - - vf - 11 is produced on a limited basis .
c’mon…macross ii. seriously, “banana moon of love”, “love you”, etc… and in all fairness, i found the bgm of m2 much better…probably because it was done by a professional studio .
elsewhere, (in _ the sentinels _) siembeda takes liberties with the number of ships that supposedly departed with the sdf - 3 to tirol. according to all the known sentinels reference material, the sdf - 3 was supposed to be alone. however, siembeda seems to be attempting to address problems in macek' s version of the sentinels; one ship leaves, and hundreds (fully crewed) return. likewise, he has the ref spend an indeterminate time sweeping the galaxy clean of the regent' s invid, where in the outlines for the sentinels tv show, the ref was to have returned not long after the capture of the invid' s home - world .
at least macross ii didn’t have flying unicorns. and how was zor able to pilot an invid shock trooper when those things are biomechanical and don’t have controls that humanoids would understand ?
the zentraedi rebellion is a story that takes place between the end of the macross saga and the beginnings of southern cross and the sentinels. it is based strongly on the eternity comic' s miniseries the malcontent uprisings .
hg decided to retime the scenes digitally using a tele - cine converter. this means that the final master for the sentinels actually exists on one - inch videotape. then of course, macek recut that footage again to make the sentinels feature that we all know it (as opposed to the 3 episodes that were intended )
war of attrition: in the second robotech war, the southern cross continues to suffer horrid losses, but at the same time the robotech master' s power reserves continue to dwindle .
the bear like kabarrans and the swashbuckling amazons from praxis, the feral natives of garuda and the human robotech heroes - these oddly match champions banded together with yet other species to form the valiant sentinels. but no fighting force could hope to dislodge the invid hordes from haydon iv, ethereal world of superscience, or spheris, crystalline globe of living minerals and murderous resonances. nevertheless, the sentinels launched their attack ...
the few episodes that were made are available on home video and dvd, and novelizations and a comic - book adaptation of the sentinels story are also available .
i don’t care what anyone says, i love the sentinels. always have. i love the designs, i love the music, i love the story, i love the music, did i mention i love the music? still wishing for a complete sentinels soundtrack someday… i don’t care what tom bateman says, i can dream. : )
extremely unlikely. the animated tv version of the sentinels is, in effect, on hold. there is some renewed interest at harmony gold because of the popularity of robotech on the sci - fi network, but no firm plans have been made public .
most likely, the shadow chronicles will replace the sentinels storyline. the whole point of the new series will be to find out what happened to the sdf - 3, and harmony gold can make up whatever story it wants. the shadow chronicles will serve the same function as the sentinels: filling in the gaps between macross, the masters, and the new generation; and establishing a final ending for the entire saga. whatever hg does with the shadow chronicles will be final. they may retain some (or even all) aspects of the sentinels storyline, but they are free to change it in whatever way they want. i personally liked some parts of the sentinels story (the development of the alpha fighters, the character development of jonathan wolff, etc .), but there were some lame parts too (the cute fuzzy talking bears and foxes). i always got the idea that the sentinels storyline was too quickly thrown together after robotech became popular. hopefully after 20 years, hg has come up with a well - thought - out story that will make us all forget about the sentinels. that, of course, remains to be seen…
but, then again, it wasn’t really a stand alone project. about the only thing that was better about sentinels was the voice acting, and the lack of hairdressers .
additionally, elements from the movie were used in the plot of the robotech novel # 20: the masters' gambit .
shortly after robotech 3000 was shelved, a new influx of employees attempted to restart the robotech franchise by actively reaching out to fans through an official robotech websites, seemingly the first time harmony gold had given a shit about fans since the late 1980s .
shortly after the release of the album, fans offered a great deal of favorable comments and constructive criticism. some felt that there should have been more vocal tracks from the robotech characters lynn minmei and yellow dancer. others did not understand the significance of the sentinels medley and how it fit into the robotech universe (the robotech sequel, the sentinels, is now available on home video [ editors note: they mean the one tape. ]) .
together
, the wedding song of rick and lisa, was such a moving composition to some fans that they played it during their own wedding ceremonies. mark
: much of the sentinels and robotech movie & book canon was retconned out of existence by this movie, although several of its elements were incorporated into it. to be clear, the haydonites and getting a huge fleet are evidence that
the sentinels' s story is continued in numerous comics and novels that were based on unused but finished scripts made for the series. however, after the storyline was rebooted, the novels were removed from continuity — the comic being continued on into robotech: prelude to the shadow chronicles .
there are no actual film masters on 16mm for the sentinels (at least not the sentinels as we know it). yes the footage was shot in japan by tatsunoko on 16mm, but when the reels were delivered to hg, macek and his team realised that the “syntax of the film did not take full advantage of the footage” (maceks words from art 3) .
hands down, macross ii. aside from the people big west employed to animate the feature, they also enlisted roughly 75% of the people from macross dyrl? to do the concept art work, and illustrational work (hence the looks of the mardook tech to atlita) .
optera - birthplace of the flower of life and its agents of retribution, the invid - was to be the site of the final confrontation between the sentinels and edwards and his invid allies. edwards, with lynn - minmei prisoner and a handful of invid inorganics under his control, had fled tirol for the distant planet. breetai' s zentraedi were headed there as well - and so were the renegade forces of tesla, mutated by the fruits of the flower. the sentinels themselves were not far behind... and it was a battle the sentinels had to win !
later the robotech defense force announces their plans to form the robotech expeditionary force for the pioneer expedition in order to travel to the robotech masters' s homeworld tirol to avoid a second robotech war on earth, leaving the charge of the defense of earth to anatole leonard' s army of the southern cross, leonard complains about the expeditionary force taking all the available robotech weaponry to the mission as col. edwards watches the press conference from the tv smiling, later leonard complains in his office with rolf emerson about the expeditionary force taking the entire robotech weaponry to a
diplomatic
mission, leaving earth vulnerable to an alien invasion .
regardless of what some say, the sentinels is a great continuation to the robotech tv series. from rem and cabel' s robotechnology / protoculture discussion' s, to rick and lisa' s wedding and the final battle on tirol between the regent' s forces and the remaining bioroids. the sentinels movie remains to me a great start to the series that should have been. (thank god for the novels and comics) i still continually watch this film as much as the rest of the series. i find this and the robotech masters the best parts of robotech. i hope harmony gold will at some point finish it with a bunch of ova movies like the upcoming shadow chronicles .
subverted with the robotech elders who are said to be the original inhabitant of the planet tirol as they looked ancient .
gunther reinhardt was the lavender haired commander of the returning expedition. he is seen again in robotech the shadow chronicles .
along with ben dunn' s ninja high school, the sentinels became one of the flagship titles of malibu comics' eternity imprint. early on the story remained quite faithful to the original tv scripts, a fact that outsiders can tell only because eternity published two books containing the first eight scripts in 1991 & 1992, but also included all - new ideas from mason and ulm. however, by the beginning of sentinels book ii in mid - 1990, the comic book series had veered more towards the course of the novels - - whether this was due to a lack of access to the remainder of the original tv series material, a desire to present a unified sentinels front, or due to fan demand, nobody' s ever said. still, as the story progressed all - new elements still slipped in, including an entire new subplot revolving around an underground movement within the ref, featuring brand - new characters, at the start of sentinels book iii in mid - 1993 .
north american television debut: robotech originally aired in 1985 in first - run syndication, meaning it was sold directly to local television stations without having been run on a network first—this was part of a trend in animation in the 1980s. previously, local stations would rerun theatrical cartoons like looney tunes or shows that had previously aired on network tv on saturday mornings. this changed after he - man and the masters of the universe introduced a new economic model: shows sold directly for first - run to stations, driving and funded by sales of related toys. [ 5 ] though the original robotech series did well in ratings, the attempt to cash in on toys may have doomed robotech ii: the sentinels as the original series attracted older viewers, not necessarily the children targeted by the toy line. the failure of the matchbox toy line is cited as a primary reason for the cancellation of the sentinels series .
robotech: the movie was an attempt by carl macek to adapt megazone 23: part one for the american market, in cooperation with cannon films. robotech: the movie, also called robotech: the untold story, was a 1986 american - japanese science fiction animated film based on the robotech tv series and robotech franchise. the 1986 theatrical film used footage from part one of megazone 23 spliced with super dimensional cavalry southern cross and had only a tenuous link to the television series .
“if we are to avoid a second robotech war we must make peaceful contact with the robotech masters and establish a relationship of mutual cooperation. that is the mission of the sdf - 3. ”
.... i think some of what made robotech great was its asian style animation, and sentinels had too much american influences. it kinda atered down the imagery, especially the backgrounds. (some of them looked actually scooby doo - ish )
one degree of separation: several of the new characters are family members of characters from the original robotech .
the series continues in the masters (“the second robotech war”), adapted from 1984’s japanese series the super dimension cavalry southern cross and the new generation (“the third robotech war”), adapted from 1983’s japanese series genesis climber mospeada, both of which (with the rewrites and american actor’s dubbing) carry the robotech storyline forward to an exciting end .
comic book version of the robotech sentinels cartoon series, a sequel to the robotech macross series, that was planned but never fully made. in this issue, as rick hunter struggles with the weight of command, minmei appears and on the robotech masters' homeworld, the lord regent invid' s plans to obtain the secrets of the protoculture matrix are not going well in
the inorganics .
script by tom mason & chris ulm and art by jason waltrip. cover price $ 1. 95.
robotech ii : the sentinels was an attempt by harmony gold usa to continue the original 1985 robotech television series . only three episodes were ultimately animated before the project was canceled in 1986 , and a feature-length film was released from footage taken from the completed episodes . the aborted 65-episode 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 . 
robotech ii: the sentinels was an attempt by harmony gold usa to continue the original 1985 robotech television series. only three episodes were ultimately animated before the project was canceled in 1986, and a feature-length film was released from footage taken from the completed episodes. the aborted 65-episode 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.
robotech ii: the sentinels was an attempt by harmony gold usa to continue the original 1985 robotech television series. only three episodes were ultimately animated before the project was canceled in 1986, and a feature-length film was released from footage taken from the completed episodes. the aborted 65-episode 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.