ABetterTimeandPlace

"All" meaning, well, "all." I was responding to the statement, "All of the original people who were involved with it still are." I was pointing out, in the case of the writers, that's not true.

Not yet, but it also means that all of the original people aren't involved anymore.

Are they? The first writer, Craig Zahler, hasn't been mentioned again since he was revealed over a year ago. The recent draft you're thinking of is actually not being written by the first writer pick, Zahler. http://movies.ign.com/articles/818/818558p1.html

If their original agreement with Tatsunoko gave them all those rights, why did they have to announce a new agreement for Do You Remember Love rights? And even if that new agreement covered all DYRL rights and not just some of them, why hasn't the movie itself been released? The converse is true as well. Why hasn't Harmony Gold itself been releasing entirely new Japanese Macross products thus far? Even when it comes to the upcoming reissues of old 1/55 toys, why did it talk about this development as if it was a big breakthrough? The key seems to be Harmony Gold has some rights, but not all, and not enough to create entirely new Macross material. Yes. Try getting any Macross anime in English--legally--that was created after Harmony Gold started sending out letters.

Revell provided the name and the Macross models, but it didn't decide to tie Southern Cross and Mospeada into it. Remember, Revell sold models from Macross, but not Southern Cross and Mospeada models. Is it an impressive feat? Not as much compared to the people who actually wrote and voiced the anime in the first place. And, by the way, animated it. At a breakneck pace. And, as you pointed out, there were many companies that were writing and dubbing daily animated series--and animating them too--before and after Robotech. People forget that non-Robotech Macross was being released in English before Robotech, while Robotech was in the air, and after Robotech. Robotech brought in many, many fans on its own, but's let not oversell it by saying something wouldn't exist without it. Saying that Macrossworld wouldn't exist if Robotech didn't put Macross on television in the 1980s is like saying: too bad there are no English Gundam websites now, because Gundam wasn't put on American television in the 1980s.

EDIT: Nevermind, it's been updated! Now, we just have to figure out WHEN in 2008. :-)

Sorry, double post.

It's sweeeet, but slow right now. ANN has the direct link to the promo-video if you don't know Japanese: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2007-...al-video-posted