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We (my brother and I) used to have one (Jetfire) and we were huge Robotech fans at the time. Putting him into “Guardian mode” was fairly common practice 
. The toy was actually closest to being the “Super Veritech”; it had the “booster-rockets” and the jettisonable-armour-plating (in the Robotech-lore, it could not shift out of battleoid mode without ditching the plating).
A lot of the Destroids were pretty damn cool too, though. There is at least one of them that has the same model as a Mechwarrior (Vulture?)… twin-gun arms, rocket-pods for “pecs”, radar “blade” for a “head”… the Robotech version was described as being primarily used as an AA-Mech (anti-air).
Is it me, or did we somehow miss the grandfather of all mech/pilot-able transforming robots?? Mazinger Z set the standard.Best mech ever!:groucho:
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In Battletech the Marauder mech is an exact copy of the command mech in robotech. FASA the company that published the game was sued. Many if not all the designs for the game came from Japanese anime. That’s why they came out with the clans. They had to create new designs for the game and books. I know I was playing the game when it was popular in the 80’s. (Sidenote: I got to play in a game with one of the creators. Lets just say with more people on our side. He still wiped the floor with us.)
Oh and Jetfire was a exact copy of the Super Veritech in the anime. Difference here was Hasbro is a huge company with the resources to get away with it. Granted they probably paid them well for it.
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