NEW IN 2025! 40 Films in Robotech
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| Logo by Chris Mich. Photos (and toys) by Eugene Abano. |
While I’ve written several Robotech-themed posts over the past 15 years, Digging Star Wars is kicking it up in 2025 with 40 posts over 40 weeks – all inspired by Robotech.
For those unfamiliar with Robotech, you can acquaint yourself with the series by listening to this 3-minute Robotech synopsis I gave at the Sixth Annual PASSHE Graduate Research Symposium in 2012. However, you don’t need to know Robotech to enjoy our 2025 series. This video should cue up at the 4:40 mark, if it doesn't scrub there for my 3-minute synopsis...
Like our write-up on High Noon (1952) from earlier this year, we’re going to explore movies that were featured or mentioned in Robotech. To be more precise, we’re exploring films that are directly mentioned in Robotech television episodes, novelizations, and comic books. Of course, a film "in Robotech" needs to have been released prior to Robotech's debut in America on March 4, 1985.
For a film to be on the list, it has to be mentioned by title or directly quoted/referenced. While many Robotech scenes, characters and locales seem inspired by many different films, we wanted to be very literal in the films that are “in” Robotech. And, yes, in some cases, we took some liberties in a title that is awfully close but not exactly referenced verbatim.
Gathering this list over the past year has been a lot of fun and produced a list with a wide array of movies from varied markets and genres. A good chunk of these films I never saw before this project and I’m quite excited to share my findings and reviews.
It promises to be a lot of fun and, hopefully, educational. So, please join us in January as we kick off 40 weeks of posting about the 40 Films in Robotech!
If you are interested in learning more about Robotech, here’s a plucky 3-minute trailer I found with oodles of clips, music, and visuals from the show:
About the Photographer
Eugene Abano watched Robotech when it first aired in the U.S. and has been a fan of big robots ever since. He collects Macross and Robotech toys. Currently, he has a Doctor Who podcast called Who Knew Podcast.
About the Blogger
Chris Mich watched Robotech when it first aired in the U.S., too, and has been mentioned in Titan Comic's Robotech comic Issue #4 (November 2017) and the Super Dimensional Analysis website for his academic article on Robotech published in Museum of Science Fiction's Journal of Science Fiction. Chris started the Digging Star Wars blog on Halloween 2010.
Looking forward to the rest!
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