Well the long story here:
in 1984, I was watching Transformers and the introduction of Skyfire espisode came on. At that point I wanted to get Skyfire. Later that year did I find out that Skyfire became Jetfire. My parents never bought it. You have to know that I was into GI JOE and transformers. So I had a lot of different toys from both worlds. I played with my friend's jetfire. Now I begged like hell for that toy. Why my parents never bought it, I will never know because they bought plenty of Transformers and GI JOE toys that we wanted. Go figure. One day after school at 3PM, I was flipping channels waiting for GI Joe at 4PM. I saw on Channel 36 (in Atlanta) I saw the commercial for what I will come to know as Robotech. Now I saw all these brown VFs and it immediately clicked in my head that hey, that is Jetfire in differnt colors. I was like WTF without the F or H since I didnt know those words well enough to use. I was youngun'.
Anyways, I saw the show. It showed the episode 2. At that point I was like and . So I started watching it more. It jumped around here and there. When I saw the Masters, I was like WTF and even more WTFH with New Generation. I never knew that these were 3 different series only to be bastardized as one by us stupid Americans. I wanted to get the toys but I was a little late in getting them. At the time I was in 5th and 6th grade. I slowly began to understand the episodes as Robotech. During the Xmas of 1986, (I think) I was in Hong Kong and I saw ads for the DYRL. I went to go watch it dubbed in Chinese with English subtitles. I was like because I was confused about the Robotech series.
I didnt have many toys of Robotech. I slowly bought one here and there especially when I was in college at Georgia Tech. I ran into people who were fans of robotech as I was but that soon went away. Only till 2 yrs ago did the passion of Robotech come up. I was on RT.com. I ordered DVDs. And then the preorders for the MPC #1. Now I bought the DRYL 1/60 yammies. I started understand the difference between Robotech and Macross/Southern Cross/Mospeda. Then the disaapointment of the MPC#1. I kept it because it was fully transformable unlike the 1/60. Now in Sept 2003, I saw this Low vis fighter. I have been to this site but never signed on. I knew about the 1/48s but I thought they were too expensive. I got my MPCs below MSRP via ebay. RT.com pissed me off when I complained about the MPCs. Now I decide to go ahead and buy the Low vis on ebay. When I got it, I was completely enthralled. Only then did I dig deeper on the difference on Macross and Robotech. So I got 2nd Low vis. And then I bought the SDF Macross DVDs. Only did I start watching the DVD did I have a better understanding. I promptly rejected Robotech and became a Macross purist. Of course my 1/48 collection grows. From Sept 03 till now, my 1/48 yammies collection is at 15. This month's plan is gonna be real bad. Ask Tam and Kevin.
And that is my story.