MIKE TOOLE ON THE EVOLUTION OF VIDEO ROOMS AT ANIME CONVENTIONS

Anime News Network columnist Mike Toole has an interesting column on the evolution of Anime Convention video rooms over the past three decades. Here is an excerpt.

Here's how the anime video room worked in its infancy. A single planner with the convention (or maybe a few people) would dig through their rarefied stack of videotapes and program a schedule. Maybe the anime video room would only be open on Saturday from 10am to midnight, or maybe we'd be really lucky and the thing would run 24 hours for the duration of the con. The schedule would be published (or maybe just posted on the door, if the con couldn't afford space in the program for it), fans would pile in, and they'd crane their necks and strain their eyes to look at something that, generally speaking, was this...

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A READER SPEAKS AND KEV RESPONDS!

 

Robotech Reporter reader "Jon" has a question about the DVD box set from A&E Home Entertainment.  

Hi! Occasional visitor, first-time commenter.

Do you have any add'l info on the "alternate versions of select episodes"? I've noticed a handful of episodes in my Legacy DVD collection are different than my old VHS copies recorded from TV (e.g., scene between Rick and Minmei in Force of Arms is retooled).

Any chance these "alternate versions" include the older edits?

And here is my response. 

Hi Jon,

Yes! The "alternate versions of select episodes" is the original music mix used for Robotech episodes 1-14 (including "Force of Arms") as part of a running fix.. Different music was used in different scenes in eps 1-14 and its how many of us first saw the show.

Since no effort was made the catalog this original mix it took us many years, with the help of several fans private Robotech collections, to find VHS tapes with this alternate mix.

I hope that answers your question.

A FINAL GOODBYE FROM G4TV's "ATTACK OF THE SHOW""

The end of G4TV is near as Matt Mira, Candace Bailey and Candace Bailey open up the studio to thier crew and staff for one final hurrah in the Attack of the Show studio.

ANIMECONS.COM 10 LARGEST ANIME CONVENTIONS

  

                            Crowd at the Robotech Panel At The New York Comic-Con In 2011


AnimeCons.com has posted its list of the 10 largest anime conventions on its website.

In the last 12 months, there were an amazing 449 conventions listed on our site featuring anime programming. That's up from the 396 we listed for 2011 meaning that there was, on average, about one new convention every week! In terms of attendance at conventions, AnimeCons.com has continued collecting attendance figures from anime conventions around the world and we list them on this web site. All numbers reported here and elsewhere on this site were reported by the conventions themselves.

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i09 ON WHY ROBOTECH IS THE GREATEST LOVE STORY OF THE 20TH CENTURY

io9.com has a great essay about how the love stories in Robotech were not only groundbreaking, but the best love stories in modern fiction! 

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FOX NEW LATE NIGHT ANIMATION BLOCK TAKES SHAPE!

From Deadline.com 

Animation Domination High-Def will debut Saturday, July 27 and run from 11 PM-12:30 AM, Fox announced today as part of its portion of the TCA winter tour in Pasadena. The alternative animated programming block will feature quarter-hour series Axe Cop, High School USA! and the untitled Lucas Brothers project.

The more platforms promoting animation in North America is a good thing. Lets hope this really takes off. 

2013 ROBOTECH CALENDARS AND GENESIS PITS RPG NOW SHIPPING

Robotech.com has announced that the  Genesis Pits RPG Sourcebook and the ROBOTECH 2013 CALENDAR are now shipping. The links above will take you to the order page for each item.