Robotech Remembrances: Megazone

In my plan to use the time I devote to rewatching anime series this year to an odyssey of revisiting the different series that got put together and called Robotech, I've taken another sort of side trip. When I first got online with some curiosity remaining about one particular Saturday morning cartoon I had seen bits of a decade before and then followed up some of its spinoffs, I managed to turn up a "Robotech FAQ" which, among other things, mentioned there had once been a "Robotech movie" that had glimmered on the edge of release and then vanished. (I had actually seen a few brief, unrevealing references to it in some of the spinoffs before that, but that didn't have much of an effect on me.) It was explained that the "original" footage in the somewhat patchwork "Robotech: The Movie" had been taken from a fourth work of anime, the "Original Video Animation" Megazone 23, and when that OVA got re-released on DVD years later I took the chance to buy it... although aware that a "draw" now advanced at times to catch interest wasn't its brief, tangential connection to Robotech, but resemblances invoked between it and The Matrix. (Of course, those who invoke the resemblances do seem to have been interested in Megazone first...)
( Saying that may be more than enough to give the... )