No, this is not a website about the recent "Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles" movie, nor the forthcoming live action movie being helmed by Toby McGuire.

This website is about the 1986 film "Robotech the movie", a co-production by Harmony Gold and defunct B-movie producer Cannon Films. You may have never heard of this film, which is quite understandable. The film was only shown for a month in Dallas, Texas beginning on 25 July 1986. Although it never received a home video release in the United States, it did receive English language video releases in the UK, Belgium and the Netherlands in the late 1980's and into the very early 1990's, as well as an English TV broadcast on South African TV in the late 1980's. Despite the resurgence in interest in all things Robotech over the last decade, strangely this film hasn't been released on commercial DVD, nor has it been bootlegged widely, despite original UK VHS copies of the movie fetching prices upwards of US$60.

The film, mostly based on the 1985 Japanese Original Video Animation "Megazone 23", was made to cash in on the success of the "Robotech" TV series and profits of the film were planned to be used as capital to fund the follow up Robotech TV series, "Robotech II: The Sentinels". Although the film remained in Dallas cinemas for a month, it was deemed a failure and plans to release the film across the US were shelved. It was so hated by it's director, Carl Macek, that he disowns the film altogether. He feels the film was a disaster area, mostly due to interference and changes forced upon the film by producers at Cannon Films. This included cutting a lot of the "Megazone 23" footage as well as including footage from "Southern Cross", the series which made up the second arc of the "Robotech" TV series.

One of the most interesting things about the film, is that it had a newly animated ending created by Idol Co Ltd, the Japanese production company who made "Megazone 23", and was commissioned by Harmony Gold, the producers of "Robotech". This ending is completely different to the original ending of "Megazone 23", and was included on video releases of an obscure English dub of "Megazone 23 Part II" that was only released in Japan with Japanese subtitles in 1987.

I created this website because I was really surprised at the lack of information, as well as the great amount of misinformation that was on the web about this film. A lot of sites actually claim that it was never released on home video in English, and this is simply untrue. I've tried as hard as possible to make this website as complete and accurate as possible, but if you find something that's not correct or wish to add some more info, please feel free to email me. Thanks!