I think everything mentioned on this page has been mentioned either in #anime or actually covered in #animeclub, so you are a liar liar pants on fire.

Yeah, but you guys have talked a lot in those threads. It's a bit much. I figure starting a thread with a blank slate would be easier to digest.

I remember the hell out of Transformers growing up. The cartoons, the toys, even the marvel comics. My parents wouldn't let me watch G.I. Joe cause human on human violence (though that seemed to be the only show they objected to), robots beating the crapplication out of each other though was fair game. I don't think I ever saw a bit of Robotech though, toys or show. Similarly, I heard about Voltron and Speed Racer, but I never saw them and it wasn't until later that I learned they were Japanese too.

I think I saw Macross on Hulu, so I'm gonna check that out. Do you know, when these shows were Americanized for syndication, if they also changed the story a bit to be more palatable for American culture? Or were they kept pretty true to the source?