Why was Robotech created instead?
With the guidelines in the 1980’s stating that a show must have at least 65 episodes for a TV program, Harmony Gold decided to put two other Japanese Animated series with Super Dimensional Fortress: Macross. However, their newly hired Producer, Carl Macek, had a better option for them. Instead of running these three shows unrelated to each other, he decided that Harmony Gold should combined their storylines and create a completely new show using their animation. This created Robotech, using three unrelated TV shows, Carl Macek and 8 to 9 writers worked around the clock to rewrite and/or edit the Japanese scripts and create a new universe where they were all interconnected and became one storyline.
