Einherjar

http://www.robotech.com/community/forum/re...mp;pagenumber=2 Well, there you go. According to Tommy Yune, or just a user named "Tommy," the budget for Shadow Chronicles was about twice the cost they spent making the Robotech 3000 promo. They stretched the money used to make a 5 minute 3D clip into a 90 minute movie. Also, consider the production time in completing the movie. Way to start a revival! Remember to take into account the change in value of money between both productions.

Sweet, maybe I won't have to rely on that tunneling software I was going to use. I'll finally be able to play Final Fantasy Tactics with someone.

2013, in any form.

What are the first three kinds?

It's easier to just say Robotech will always be riding the coat tails of Macross indefinately. They can't or refuse to move past it and would rather remember the good old days forever. What else can you expect from a show that had as much innovation as the animation and premade material the creators paid for allowed them to be with very little effort? And they can keep doing this thanks to a minor technicality, and enough people willing to spend money on the same damn thing.

Better download it for reference before he possibly gets a C&D or something. I know there's better sources for the novels, but this feels more official.

If anyone else wants to hear excerpts from the Robotech novels, dougbendo is posting individual chapters on one of his shows. But he's not reading it, I think Microsoft Narrator is. http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkC...amp;pageSize=15

The expanded universe (novels, comics) gave off that feeling and more to fans, maybe. The Captain a while back sounded like it worked. At the moment, though, all/most of it no longer represents Robotech the way the crew wants it to be anymore, so the comparison may no longer apply. But HG, or at least Carl Macek and Jack McKinney, opened Pandora's Box by interpreting it that way in the first place, raising people's expectations incredibly high towards a story and universe similar to it when they can't deliver. I don't know, the fact that back in the 80's HG was free to interpret material in any way they wanted and people still believe them while making their own assumptions is a bad sign for Robotech's future. It gives them free reign to BS people to believe anything and leave people with inflated expectations. I'm starting to make this sound like an ongoing comic book. I now know how being intentionally vague about everything can be an advantage.

Remember G-Saviour? It's the closest Gundam fans ever got so far. I want to say Gundam is possible, but I agree with you about the roadblocks for that. Also, because Tomino doesn't want to get screwed around with. Votoms would be nice, but because of how mature it is there's the risk that it'll get watered down somewhat. Better for no one to touch either of them until someone comes along who really treats them with respect. One thing I'd like to say is that both those shows have creators who may or may not be sensitive about how their material is going to be used. In fact, they still have creators. Robotech is more corporately owned now (It might be the same with Gundam in a sense, though). Its "creator" is no longer directly affiliated with HG anymore, and was totally fine with new people derailing the story he officially created.

But those numbers could represent sales made only in Amazon.com. That may not even be accurate enough to make any real conclusions.

Says a guy who has been enthusiastic about empty promises for YEARS and always plagued by a conflict of interest. Seriously, his just reward these days should be more waiting for anything with uncertainty. And buying a lot of crap that totally means nothing. Stay whipped. And Paramount was so scared about a potential movie by a rival company that has no progress at all that how Transformers 2 turned out is totally not Michael Bay's fault.

Frontier did take place in what could be called space San Francisco.

Yeah, it's funny knowing they're now entering year 3-4 of waiting for a sequel, Shadow Rising or other.

When Hollywood is at the point where people think it's a good idea to make a Pong and Asteroids movie, they're throwing all the rules out the window. ANYTHING can become a movie now, and Robotech will be thriving on that until the film actually comes out, if ever. Until that time comes, will HG be able to last long enough to see a movie that determines the future of the franchise? Besides a lot of undisclosed business transactions, Robotech is all they have. And they REALLY have no new plans for it at the moment except reissues. It doesn't even look like they have anything special planned for the 25th anniversary except extra perks in the Robotech Convention Tour, which they do every year anyway.

Does that only affect U.S. sales? Manga Entertainment was able to bring the show online because of the rights they had to release it in Europe. They could take it over, though their distribution rights probably came from ADV as well. In fact, what could HG gain anymore if someone got the rights to sell them when it's freely available online at the moment? It's the same show they've shamelessly been pimping out for 25 years.

And then a macronized Zentradi will have a picture of Rick Hunter kept secret in the end. Fooled fans yet again!

I know there was news of Prelude to the Shadow Chronicles being reprinted as a graphic novel bundle, but is HG's strategy for the 25th Anniversary of Robotech to sell a lot of reissued old stuff at a premium? There's a lot of people willing to buy this crap again, but really? A lot of that stuff even isn't canon anymore, just merchandise for nostalgia.

Cool, I just learned about this. That's the Value Added Tax, where the government requires companies to pay extra fees during each stage a product is assembled.

And not just once, at least twice starting with the novels to make a darker and edgier version of Robotech. It's the definitive vision of those crazy Japanese stories with more pretentious fluff.

Holy crap, that's all.

Forget flash, just loop a picture of Rick Hunter for 15 minutes.

I disagree, there was probably no "original" version of anything Robotech. Carl Macek and HG wanted to bring Macross to the U.S. one way or another in the beginning, and have been greedy about it ever since. Whoever talks about it officially are very good with fluff. Robotech exists today because of greed, there's nothing noble about it. They don't care about the high regard fans still have about it, HG just wants your money for whatever they make that has the precious Robotech logo, regardless of quality.

I really miss this show, I haven't watched Sci-Fi channel ever since it ended.

These fans definitely need something to tide them over for a while, anything. People aren't even talking about anything new for the unresolved story multi-verse.

2012 has a theme song, "Time For Miracles" by Adam Lambert? http://io9.com/5396567/there-is-an-america...eo-no-seriously