In 1984, DC Comics published a Robotech miniseries as a tie-in with the Revell model company. But Rick Hunter, Lisa Hayes, Lynn Minmei, the SDF-1 or anything else we know and love from Robotech was nowhere to be seen. Titled Robotech Defenders, it was a three-part miniseries that became a two-part miniseries and that lack of success meant it faded into obscurity pretty quickly.
So what was Robotech Defenders?
Join me as I take a look at the Revell models, the DC Comics miniseries and what, if any, ties it has to the classic Harmony Gold-produced cartoon.
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Here’s some extras …
The ad on the back of the first issue, for the Robotech models:
A Robotech Defenders model (taken from an eBay auction):
This webpage from the “Warp Zone” at Karradian.net has some information and pictures of the Robotech Defenders line: Robotech Defenders
The Revell model TV commercial:
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The music used in this episode was “Giant Robot” by Go Genre Everything (licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License).
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