Rating: 
Summary: Best pic & sound quality yet; bonus stuff is okay
Review: This latest Robotech Legacy box set, which includes the first half of the 'New Generation' series, has the best presentation I've seen so far in the way of picture & sound quality. Although not absolutely top-notch, it blows the preceding 'Southern Cross' releases, a virtual plethora of mediocre-to-muddy visual resolution, away in the arena of video sharpness and clarity. And the sound-well, it was never top-notch to start with, but it is an improvement over what I used to hear when I watched the show on VHS. Hopefully they'll maintain or surpass this level of quality in the next Legacy box set.The bonus disc, however, isn't among the best that have been released thus far, although it does have a couple of things in it that I found interesting. Like just about all of the previous box-set-exclusive discs, this one includes several character & mecha design sketches, and various scenes from the show dubbed in several different European languages. Also thrown in is the English dub rendition of 'Genesis Climber Mospeada's first episode, which was obviously mastered directly from video tape, and a fairly old one at that, which is evidenced by the tracking and occasional scan line. The voice-over work here was also rather poor, although the guy doing 'Stick' Bernard would be called on to do the 'Robotech' version of the same character. Fortunately, his voice-acting skills improved significantly in the interim! Also included are a few toy promotion videos put out by Matchbox to help push the Robotech toy line. The main presentation is 40 minutes long, and covers just about every little Robotech plaything that was ever made or proposed back then: various die-cast mecha, super-deformed transforming veritechs, a big transformable SDF-1 (I always wanted one of those!), action figures, the SDF-1 playset, Barbie-esque fashion dolls of Rick Hunter & Minmei and more are shown here either in prototype form or in concept sketches. Another eight-minute promo makes its move to drive things home for the potential retailer, and includes a couple of toy commercials. One interesting thing about this particular piece was its reflection of optimism for the future of 'Robotech'. In one part, the narrator states that the show will eventually span 130 episodes (85 plus the never-produced 65 'Sentinels' eppies), and that a movie was in the works (which saw only a limited release in the Dallas area and has rarely been seen since outside of the bootleg video scene). But aside from this presentation's review of things that just weren't to be, this and the prototype demo video gives the fan a small glimpse into the merchandising aspect of the show. 'Late
Rating:
Summary: Best pic & sound quality yet; bonus stuff is okay
Review: This latest Robotech Legacy box set, which includes the first half of the `New Generation' series, has the best presentation I've seen so far in the way of picture & sound quality. Although not absolutely top-notch, it blows the preceding `Southern Cross' releases, a virtual plethora of mediocre-to-muddy visual resolution, away in the arena of video sharpness and clarity. And the sound-well, it was never top-notch to start with, but it is an improvement over what I used to hear when I watched the show on VHS. Hopefully they'll maintain or surpass this level of quality in the next Legacy box set. The bonus disc, however, isn't among the best that have been released thus far, although it does have a couple of things in it that I found interesting. Like just about all of the previous box-set-exclusive discs, this one includes several character & mecha design sketches, and various scenes from the show dubbed in several different European languages. Also thrown in is the English dub rendition of `Genesis Climber Mospeada's first episode, which was obviously mastered directly from video tape, and a fairly old one at that, which is evidenced by the tracking and occasional scan line. The voice-over work here was also rather poor, although the guy doing `Stick' Bernard would be called on to do the `Robotech' version of the same character. Fortunately, his voice-acting skills improved significantly in the interim! Also included are a few toy promotion videos put out by Matchbox to help push the Robotech toy line. The main presentation is 40 minutes long, and covers just about every little Robotech plaything that was ever made or proposed back then: various die-cast mecha, super-deformed transforming veritechs, a big transformable SDF-1 (I always wanted one of those!), action figures, the SDF-1 playset, Barbie-esque fashion dolls of Rick Hunter & Minmei and more are shown here either in prototype form or in concept sketches. Another eight-minute promo makes its move to drive things home for the potential retailer, and includes a couple of toy commercials. One interesting thing about this particular piece was its reflection of optimism for the future of `Robotech'. In one part, the narrator states that the show will eventually span 130 episodes (85 plus the never-produced 65 `Sentinels' eppies), and that a movie was in the works (which saw only a limited release in the Dallas area and has rarely been seen since outside of the bootleg video scene). But aside from this presentation's review of things that just weren't to be, this and the prototype demo video gives the fan a small glimpse into the merchandising aspect of the show. `Late
| 
