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Nicolas Cage, Ghost Rider 2! Nic Cage Wants To "Reconceive" Ghost Rider, Which We Hope Means "Kill" For someone who is supposed to be Knowing what happens Next, he has no idea what a disaster is. And then bees, bear suits, etc.

Oh yeah, Tatsunoko is their pimp for life.

Greed won't stop HG from fighting back all attempts to take away their cash cow. They have more lawyers than creative people in their crew as well as their own interpretation of licensing.

I remember back in the day being excited about Crystal Dreams. The only time I heard about it was a blurb on Nintendo Power and and ads promoting the N64. I think it was supposed to be a launch title or something, but eventually they never spoke of it again (you know what happened). Even for an incomplete game could they really make a good final product with the stuff in the video?

Ok, I get it; everything Beagle does, Toynami will follow.

Did Save spoil the surprise Toynami was saving for Comic Con, another toy from the Mospeada line?

Well, they need something new to talk about for Comic Con besides what was said at Anime Expo. Anything would be fine at this point, but actually making good on promises is a different thing. EDIT: There's also Shadow Chronicles on Hulu, but is that really a big deal? It's only available in the U.S.

Maybe repackage the Protoculture Collection and add a 25th anniversary sticker or something to acknowledge the achievement of just existing that long, that's the improvement. They released a new version of the Macross, Southern Cross, and Mospeada collections recently, maybe to them it's due for another one to make money.

In Mechwarrior 4 is there more to do besides instant action, online matches, and the campaign? The Mercenaries expansion sounds like it's more open-ended, but is there anything else?

That's just Thunderbirds with transforming robots and real people.

It's only HG's interpretation of all the characters being watered down, the original versions of them are still okay I guess.

A quick question, is the Revell still involved in Robotech and do they have a license to release any of the toys and models?

Ok, since the movies are mostly a recap of the original series and them some, I have one question. Forget spoilers and stuff, it's trivial, but I'll still watch it anyway when I get a chance. I got this from The Office: Is Makinami Mari hot?

The forum has gone down between 9:00 A.M. - 12:00 P.M. PST for the last few days.

For Comic-Con, they will sell the Stealth Veritech there exclusively but no other news so far. They also hinted 25th anniversary celebrations for Robotech at various conventions and events throughout the year. Does anyone know what that could mean? Besides toys, I expect another reprint of the series on DVD or Blu-Ray on the way with more "improvements."

Screw you Toad and your little pixels too. Toad Revealed to be Ungrateful A-hole After All

Guess we won't see a Deadpool movie anytime soon.

That's true, it's an animation error that became canon. But they also made a product prominently featuring the YF-1R, Robotech: Battlecry, around the time the toy came out. They even featured it on their website and everywhere else making it and the pilot canon. I thought that was a big selling point by Toynami to tie it in with the game back then. Here, the Stealth Veritech is coming out without anything similar. They're mislabeling it as something Robotech when it's technically coming from a different toy line Toynami has the rights to sell. True, Toynami can do that as a selling ploy, but it's kind of underhanded towards the fandom and customers, isn't it? And doesn't it go against the shift away from Macross either the company, HG but probably not Toynami, or fans wanted the series to go from now on?

Seeing as the site is run by a business (HG) with employees regularly posting on the forums, they have the right to bend their own rules as a Public Relations move. Don't confuse it for a fair and balance place to hang out, everything there is slanted towards them in a positive light. If they see something that is unfavorable to their image, yet not breaking their TOU, they have the right to act with varying degrees to clean it up, including taking you down. At this rate, Seto WILL be banned for the reasons discussed here, but publicly they can and will attribute it to something breaking the TOU. It's even easier to do when someone with leverage has personal issues against him. Sorry Seto, a conflict of interest may take you down soon. EDIT: Getting back on topic, remember that Stealth VF-1S Veritech exclusive for Comic Con? It clearly has the design and Strike Pack from DYRL, but repackaged as a Robotech product. Basically, they took the Roy Focker VF-1S from their Macross 1/100 action figure line, gave it a new color scheme, and put the Robotech logo in the front of the packaging as seen here. Now, I can understand that they want to set themselves apart from all the Macross Valkyries coming out these days, but with a retool like this can it be considered part of Robotech? The design, not only the color scheme, never appeared in Robotech animation to begin with. Not only does it make it non-canon to them, not including appearances in comics, it's an official product that really has nothing to do with Robotech except for vague similarities to the Veritech. There are some people in the Robotech fandom who would be critical about things like that, but if it catches attention and makes them money, why would HG care.

Some concept art for Devastator, though I still wonder from which bot the scrotum came from. Better chuck it to "they just didn't care." http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/7628/dali1.jpg

Like you said, you have better things to do. For instance, the Macross II website. EDIT: I had a well thought out thing to say, but in following azrael's post, fine, I'll stop. HG treat's their fans like poo but everyone on all sides there is still happy about it. And there's nothing new about it.

It's called the Marauder.

As someone who is very informed about it, there might be some benefits to contribute to it, even if it is a small site. If you're lucky, some of the stuff might end up in the Robotech Codices or something. I didn't know the RDF Underground forum was still active. Last I heard, Justy mentioned on the show that someone hacked it leaving it with tons of porn ads.

This might turn out to be another bad year for HG and Robotech after all. The effects of MacF have not disappeared, with projects besides toys definitely coming, lasting at least until next year. They're also modernizing the original series in manga form which could steal some of the LAMR's thunder if they ever get to work on it. Even more so if if it eventually turns into an anime series itself. Mechwarrior surprisingly makes a return to it's roots as well as video games. Kudos to them if it turns out they have lawyer friendly derivatives of familiar mecha and the table top games re surge in popularity. Some of the old standards in sci-fi and such have been brought back relatively well. Even if one of them was powered by one man's awesomeness, both reviews and/or revenues are clear indicators. Meanwhile, Robotech is relatively at the same position it was about a year ago, which in turn was probably the same situation they were the year before it. Heck, like clockwork they get a new writer for the LAMR and never hear anything about Shadow Rising except "we're working on it, trust us," at least once every year. A lot can happen in 6 months, but I couldn't care less with that kind of background. EDIT: Seto, you and all the other fans with extensive knowledge of the Robotech universe should maybe post the updates you want somewhere else where people actually care about it, like Robotechx. Help make that site the new legitimate source for Robotech and stuff since the "official" site can't be bothered to do it themselves.

Maybe there's a connection between the unveiling of Mechwarrior 5 and the planned return of the unseen mecha. They may have cleared the mess prior to the news of both coming out, meaning someone possibly got paid. If that's the case, then who? EDIT: They could still get a C&D from another party who thinks they should get a piece of the pie.