Einherjar

This part of the season is full of nyoro~n.

That's what Robotech fans have always wanted; fighting aliens to extinction with no remorse, taking their women, preserving the MacGuffin(s), and blowing Earth the hell up every few years. The moral? The only good alien is a dead or an allied domesticated one. Also explains why the only aliens/hybrids that get much attention these days are the last or rare female humanoids of their kind. But of course, pure humans like T.R Edwards was always trustworthy. Well, at least Rick Hunter always survives. I keep forgetting if there's an overarching theme besides that that doesn't get shoved away by the next generation. Does Protoculture even matter anymore? But hey, why think hard on stuff like a message or plot when you're getting a lot of action and intrigue everywhere. Basically, a Macross-really-really-light. Oh crap, this really is a Michael Bay film waiting to happen.

That's what I said a couple of pages ago, in addition to paying people like Kawamori and Mari Iijima to endorse the film there.

The thing I want to know is who's going to buy this when the DVDs come out?

But there is a similar thread where I see you're making the fan spokesperson actually work hard for the title. That's some crazy unwavering trust people have.

Endless Eight, 7 out of 8 done.

I also heard a rumor that they wanted to release the LAMR and Shadow Rising near the same time as some collaborative effort. Wouldn't that be confusing for the audience? You see Rick Hunter as a real strapping hotshot pilot in one but then see a gray old man possibly near death in another, with the story going somewhere else. Someone spoiled something for the new audience. It's not official unless Warner Bros., the real people spending the money and resources for the movie, says it. And if any of it is accurate and news worthy, I would expect it reported by the usual news sites. Until then, everything else are pep talks by fans for fans or by the crew to restless fans. Guess that's what sums up the Comic-Con panel this year, a pep talk. So far I'm surprised no one but the fansites reported what happened there this year. The year long waiting game has started again.

Anything involving a blue or black hedgehog by Sega for the last couple of years.

9. Let all of the above continue to vindicate your reputation when, every few years, something comes around to challenge the story you made all those years ago. None of it changes the fact that you showed your version to the viewers that mattered first and it will always be readily available compared to the competition.

Fans and money make all of that possible. 1. Create a demographics openly willing to listen to whatever crazy ideas you have after your initial success. It does not have to last forever, but it helps. 2. Start a merchandising frenzy with the goal of getting all the money you can from said demographics, now called the fandom. 3. Let your ego go so high as to make you break into a position with so many responsibilities, but having little real knowledge of how to handle it, and flop spectacularly. 4. Quietly walk away from the disaster(s) you've created with the money and enduring respect of your diehard fans. 5. Let nostalgia and old laurels turn you into a legend in storytelling, despite the industry you helped create generally frowning down on your legendary methods. 6. Let the company you help succeed preserve your legacy by taking advantage of the origins of your creation legally, ultimately leading to a Catch-22 in your career's favor. 7. Sell out when a new crew derails all the crazy ideas you previously had for more money and fame, especially when they're following dangerously close to the the same methods you took to get where you are in a different thinking world. 8. Let the fans preserve your legacy when the comparisons between old and new crews start.

In fact, she made an appearance on Mythbusters when they busted the myth.

Advent Rising. All of it. Can anyone believe that was supposed to be the start of a trilogy or franchise? True story: When I was living in a dorm during one of my college days, an eccentric friend of my roommates was swearing the whole time he played it because of so many bad design decisions. Choppy frame rate, bad controls, cheap difficulty, etc. I never played it, but seeing him, a decent gamer, getting frustrated while watching the production values and difficulty he had to work with on the screen, it was clear the game was crap. Then, after leaving him alone for a few minutes, he suddenly stormed out of dorm room with a potty mouth because he died during a tutorial sequence!

I would have had to look for the Robotech Art book 3 or something if I didn't use the wiki page. There's also rt.com, but how reliable is that? Oust Papa Bear himself? Like he and anyone in HG would have the guts to do that.

Is that what really happened back then? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotech:_The_Movie

It's 2 months worth of TV broadcasts showing the same exact thing. In DVD terms, it's 2-3 discs worth of content they want you to buy.

I heard a rumor that the more they give out free giveaways at panels, the more the value of free Robotech II: The Sentinels animation cells depreciates. Maybe they should upgrade to fanservice Shadow Chronicles cells. If that's all they have to say to get people pumped up for Robotech for another year, I'm not impressed. WB had people and maybe a panel at Comic-Con, right? And they still didn't say anything significant to support HG's position? Oh well, I guess better off next year Robotech fans, again! I honestly don't get why this is still fun for people. At this point it's more of a money trap.

They let fans make one? I'd like to see how a battle with that Angel would turn out.

True, the series was designed to be crazy, but how crazy can it get before people get really irritated? Hopefully, all of this doesn't have a negative impact on what the end of the novels turn out to be.

Since this is going to be a joint venture between both companies, or something WB agreed to do with HG's approval, I'd like to hear more from someone in WB for a change. Get their perspective on the project. They could have at least had a representative from WB at the panel to say some generic lines about the LAM progress rather than have the regular people say it. There would be no better place for positive publicity. Just like the issues between Tatsunoko and BW/Studio Nue, HG seems like the only party who cares about talking about the situation with the movie regularly. Then again, the future of the franchise is riding on it. Also, they haven't done much these days to show or talk about besides it.

At least for that film people know why a sequel is being made. Greed is good, remember?

Damn, I thought this was an adaptation of the light gun game from Namco.

I think that's what the Angel was supposed to look like.

It's hard to see Kyoani or Haruhi recovering from this when it's not even over yet. They really don't want to have a season 3, do they?

Man, now that's corruption all for a TV show.

It doesn't help when companies like Toynami deliberately do stuff like this to make it stay that way. Non-canon toys are fine, a la different color schemes, but here not only is this a non-canon toy, to a point it's also non-relevant to Robotech, a design never seen before in it. But hey, these days Robotech can't help but be only merchandise driven, right? Slap the Robotech/Macross label on it and it will be a guaranteed seller.