Secret Galaxy

We've covered the history of Robotech on this channel before. A LOT. This is a compilation video of all of those Robotech videos remastered and re-edited into 1 long saga, and even this is basically incomplete. This video does cover Robotech, Battletech, Exo-Squad and has an additional 2024 update at the end. Enjoy!

Digimon or Digital Monsters is a long running media franchise that started life as the "male" version of Tamagotchi and grew to encompass cartoons, comics, card games, toys and movies. But there's one thing that Digimon could never shake and that's it reputation as a Pokémon clone or rip off, especially here in the United States.

TEDDY RUXPIN was a talking animatronic... NOT bear introduced in the mid 1980's that quickly became the hottest toy on the market. Buoyed by that success WORLDS OF WONDER, the makers of Teddy Ruxpin, went all in on tech with Lazer Tag and a host of other tech driven toylines. And then the Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES, came along and changed everything for both World of Wonder and Teddy Ruxpin.

In the early to mid 1980's, during the burger wars, Wendy's, Burger King and McDonalds all realized they needed to shake thing up. Wendy's had "Where's The Beef" and McDonalds, partly inspired by Max Headroom, introduced Mac Tonight, a singing moon-headed mascot intended to alert customers that anytime was the right time for McDonalds. Mac Tonight blew up in popularity, rolled out nationally and went on to become a cult icon who was fondly remembered. But the internet eventually got hold of him and tarnished all of that. This is the story of Mac Tonight.

Did you know that at the absolute height of their popularity the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles became a rock band and went on tour? The called it the "Coming Out of Their Shells" Tour and it traveled all over the US and even went international a little bit. They released an album of songs that included "Count on Us", "Pizza Power" and "Cowabunga" that was sold in Pizza Hut. And, of course, there was that stop at the Oprah Winfrey show.

Nintendo was big. The biggest! And Super Mario Bros was the marquee name. So the time was perfect to turn the Super Mario Bros Nintendo game into Super Mario Bros: The Movie (1993). Hire some writers, hire the people who created Max Headroom. How hard can it be? Super Mario Bros The Movie didn't turn out how anyone that worked on it hoped it would. This is the story of chaos. This is the crazy story of The Super Mario Bros (1993) failure.

When Todd McFarlane left Marvel Comics to form Image Comics his first title was Spawn and it was huge. Naturally that drew the attention of toy companies, tv and movie studios and everyone else. But Todd had a very particular style he wanted if he was going to do a Spawn cartoon and along came HBO at just the right time with the right answers to his questions. Premiering in 1997 and lasting for 3 seasons this is the story of Todd McFarlane's Spawn: The Animated Series

In 2001 the Transformers franchise was at a crossroads. Beast Wars was coming to an end an the next version of Transformers (Armada) was not ready. But Hasbro didn't want to have NO Transformers on TV. So what to do? Look to Japan, where they had an entirely different continuity going, pinch one of their shows, put the Power Rangers guys on it and transform it into Transformers: Robots in Disguise! Easy money!

Back in 2018 we release episode 1 of The History of Robotech and in that video we alluded to all kinds of behind the scenes drama that led to the creation of The Super Dimension Fortress Macross animated series that led to the creation of the Robotech animated series. This is that story of all the behind the scenes drama that led to the creation of The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, the Macross franchise at large, Robotech and how and when you can watch Macross in the United States.

ore than anything GI Joe exists as a series of reboots and nowhere in it's history is that more illustrated than in the time between GI Joe: A Real American Hero and the first GI Joe live action movie where it seemed like Hasbro was rebooting GI Joe every few years. One of those reboots was called GI Joe: Sigma 6 and it was an attempt to move away from war as entertainment and go in a more anime direction with a smaller team. Did GI Joe: Sigma 6 succeed? What do you think...