Einherjar

Also S&M, but yeah, he's was never supposed to be that appealing at all.

Wouldn't Rebuild of Evangelion interfere with this film?

But Nanase makes sense, unlike Leonard. What's so appealing about a big, bald bureaucrat/fascist, the extreme patriotism?

I do not see the rationale for something like the Disciples of Leonard, Zor, or whatnot. It's taking something a person really likes to an extreme where it just gets really strange and uncomfortable. This is the Internet and all, but it's still just a cartoon edited from another cartoon, no matter how much filler people put to make it more alive.

The Garland picture on his MySpace/Facebook/Talkshoe pages is not his. It was a picture taken directly from collectiondx.com. The site's logo can be found on the bottom right. Also, if you're talking about the Xenoforce mod for C&C Generals, he did not work on it. He did, however, talk about working on another mod in the same spirit for C&C 4, Xenoforce Reborn. Unfortunately, it turns out it stole unit skins from another mod group without their permission, and the group confronted him during a live show demanding he take them out. The user Star Dragon knows more about it.

Haydonites, you mean the Sharon Apple look alikes, right? Their franchise already had a lot of violence for a cartoon even before the secondary material. However, I did not know the influence of horny animators working on Shadow Chronicles was family friendly.

So, perhaps, it's really been them who have been quaking in their boots for years on end. Shadow Chronicles was the "Birth of a Lawyer-Friendly Sequel."

When you think about it, every person from HG who has ever promoted Robotech in the past share this quality. It either sounds sophisticated, overly optimistic, or strictly defensive about the franchise when their actions say otherwise. But it's really for the benefit of the fans still listening to their rhetoric so they can eventually profit from them. Considering the mood the novels were trying to make, that description would fit. It was trying to be a amalgamation of a lot of sci-fi shows/concepts rolled into one. Although, just like the 25th anniversary, it loses its effect when you find out that the shows you've been watching and glorifying since childhood had been available almost two years before you even knew about it in a different language and by different people (original creators).

See, like I said a couple of months ago, that's definitely what a politician would do. Even MEMO's attempts would count, since he shifts between being just a fan to wanting to be something more.

Just to put things into perspective, he is currently the only person on the Internet making the entire thing that happened in AOD a big deal. Talk is cheap, people want results.

Yeah, it was a mediocre attempt and very much unnecessary. Not like Robotech where they don't have to release anything for years at a time because they have standards and it's timeless. Less is more works for them, but you know what's better than less? None.

But people already celebrated the 25th anniversary of the franchise with the elements people have always been interested in.

So I guess that means Shadow Rising is going to be delayed even further with this diva on board. Without the work done on Macross, Southern Cross, and Mospeada, Carl Macek would be a nobody. His career in Robotech relies heavily on taking credit for concepts he directly took from or re-engineered from the source material for his story. Once the originals were done and he expanded the story, the huge contrast between talents was very clear, as seen by the various sections of the Robotech fandom that either hate or like things made after the original 85 episodes (novels, comics, original works, etc.). Bringing him back to the franchise in any capacity offers no guarantees except bringing back fans who were disillusioned by Tommy Yune's tenure as Creative Director. Besides what potential resources that could be available to the LAM, HG still does not have the facilities to do anything with Robotech alone. So yes, now they have at least two people with a lot of big ideas in-house, with one who can actually draw. But it's difficult to turn them into results without an access to something that can turn it into media, a comic book publisher, an animation studio, or writers who can turn their words into professional novels.

Oh, Carl Macek is back on board Robotech in an unspecified role for the franchise. I don't see what the big deal is; what can he actually bring to it after all these years?

This has probably been answered a dozen times here, but what has all of that really got them, especially now? They threat that as an ace in their cards, but it's only led to merchandise, stalled projects and little to no innovation at all. They don't have the drive or sense to do anything meaningful with it except make money off old stuff. They may "own" that stuff, but they didn't really make any of it.

Very unexpected, since usually all important things entertainment-wise in the state happen in Southern California rather than Northern California. And as someone who has taken the drive from north to south too many times in his life, going here or there all to hear an old man talk about his glory days back in the 80's, and some Asian dude about his first incomplete animated film that's tries to complement it, it's definitely not worth it. I have to disagree; PTH is only becoming more irritated with the current leadership for the franchise, Tommy Yune and wants Carl Macek back to bring it back to the glory days. He's turning into another dougbendo.

So this event turned out to be the same as the rest of the convention tour stops that aren't Anime Expo and Comic-Con. What a waste, especially for MEMO. Why would he go all the way to San Francisco for the first stop of the Robotech Convention Tour? Was he really hoping that anything would come out of this because of the 25th anniversary? Of course, he can spin it around saying he met Carl Macek and etc. and a lot of the fandom there, but the whole event didn't reveal anything.

It's basically the same thing they've always been saying with Robotech; that they're entitled to use all of Macross despite never actually doing anything involving it for years. Also, defending Robotech's right to exist. Add some fluff about it's origins and its connection to the history of anime, and the whole thing sounds like a trip down memory lane that may or may not be true. S.S.D.D.

Fire Emblem figures would be nice.

Would he? He has a lot on his plate already to be articulate enough for that purpose; conventions, fan films, fan books, etc. I smell a Robotech Art 4/5/etc. coming out to clear that little mess up.

But this is MEMO talking from memory, how accurate can it be? I'll wait for the youtube video he'll promote eventually to make judgments.

So you can say that HG sold out to make an empire out of it.

It would be a large improvement to what's there now and how Robotech has been doing recently. However, that would mean all the personalities who were ever involved in Robotech would have to openly acknowledge the work done in the original shows, which together may be more than was involved in Yamato, rather than refer to all the people and what they created for Robotech as Tatsunoko. Instead, they only acknowledge them in a good light when HG can benefit from it, like selling the original anime series billed as the inspiration for Robotech or created by X which became part of Robotech. Everything has to revolve around Robotech. Quick story; in the Playstation Store, Manga Entertainment sells digital downloads of some of their anime. Curiously, last I checked they offered the entire Robotech series, Macross II, and Macross Plus, and by the descriptions for all three you could swear that the writers were trying to make a direct connection between them. A la Robotech either inspired the other two or they are billed as sequels to it. Of course, to the average person I would sound too technical and just anal, since the belief that Robotech and Macross are the same thing still strongly exists. EDIT: Sorry to Seto for sounding pissed off a while back.

Yeah, Xena and Hercules were better quality-wise back then. Plus this was on UPN on the weekends, with a lot of shows that really didn't work.