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I meant it in a positive way, as used in Gladiator.

This is fine in it's own way, I guess. One thing though, where's the mecha? http://www.freewebs.com/theatlantechuniverse/

Have you seen the yet? How about Robotech Genesis and all the other fan projects supposedly in progress?

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For the BSG remake they had the luxury of being able to take everything in a different direction with some limitations as they choose. They got the blessing of the original creator and crew to do that. For the LAMR and future animated Robotech projects, they might be forced to work with a lot of restrictions to make them a lawyer friendly experience among other things. For comparison, the closest thing they got to a "creator" is Carl Macek and Tommy Yune, so extreme liberties from the original source, or the real original source(s), are a given.

Among some of the craziness the movie has attracted, I found this lol tidbit from the entry of Judith Witwicky. Can anyone confirm this? I thought would also have the same effect.

If it is just a side story, can they make it with enough emotional baggage to keep fans interested and help everyone else understand what's going on or care? Maybe that's why they got this new writer, to give the script some sort of heart. They've treated this as a second or third coming for Robotech, why reduce it to a side story?

Why waste an hour or two on a repeat performance? It's the hardcore fans that really need such vindication, and they'll probably be satisfied with anything. Let them have that one day of the year.

We must have reverse engineered "The Wheel" the same way too.

Too bad the U.S. is one of the only countries that doesn't clamp down on such issues. HG is free to keep the now limited status quo while BW is free to go pay the expenses and trudge through the bureaucracy of the law to take them to court if it's worth it. Then there are loopholes lawyers would love to exploit.

I might be done with Transformers movies for now. They should stop kidding around and rename the sequel Shia LaBeouf Sam Witwicky and the Transformers right off the bat.

The parts with fighting were good, I just don't see why they bothered to spend time with humans. Aren't the robots the reason we came to see the film, not living eye candy and dirty jokes?

It's not democracy at work here, it's capitalism.

With news of the return of the unseen mechs in Battletech, HG might have found a low risk way to make money for 2009 if they were involved somehow. Because of the fiasco between HG and FASA or whoever runs Battletech years before, news of the deal might be a clue that something has changed the stance of either or both companies towards working together, probably something financially related.

Looking at the LAMR from a different stance, it was probably better that HG take the plunge rather than Big West or any entity directly related to Macross doing it. At this point I wouldn't endorse a live action Macross either. We would probably be in the same situation, criticizing deliberate changes people want or are actually happening in addition to the legal situation, though in a different thread. Heck, by now we'd probably have a trailer at least with everyone here getting pissed off about what exactly you can fit into 60-90 seconds of footage. However, they wouldn't need as much expertise from a suspense thriller novelist or primetime teen sitcom writers because they're free to make it closer to the original as they want. With some minor changes to make the story easier to understand for a movie going audience, do you really need to go that far just to make a script? Hopefully with the LAMR they go through years of preparation and blow off millions of dollars to find out what most of us here already know about it. In this case patience is not always a virtue, especially when the goal is too ambiguous then it makes you look like a chump... repeatedly. Though they'll play it off as a reimagining, the legal situation will force them to take extreme liberties with everything. They want to make it like the original series, but they have to make it in a way that won't get them sued. Now if they could only find a director/producer with the ego and gravitas to keep the act going.

The movie was okay and got me hooked to see what they're planning if it gets picked up. But judging from the reception, FOX screwed another potential series. Virtuality's Audience Is Lost In Space Things might have been better if Sci-Fi Channel got it instead.

Guess they're trying to get people to buy the toys to clear up all the confusion from the movie. I still don't know the name of most of the bots in the film.

I have trouble figuring out of people like that are just the same fans under different names or fans late to the party these days.

In keeping with their hiring qualifications, they have to be somewhere near the bottom of the barrel or someone new who just got recognized. Their name has to appear to be a buzz word in recent years to get people attention, and they need to have been influenced by previous works almost too much. ! Someone call Christopher Paolini! EDIT: Yeah, that was pretty cold, I admit it.

So their think tank for the script has included an old school sci-fi icon, modern primetime teen angst writer(s), and a recent prize winning suspense/thriller novelist. You know who could help balance all of this out? A well verse Tolkenist high fantasy writer who takes too long in describing anything.

About the dialogue, did Micheal Bay take pointers from My Way's Transformers?

Since people from both camps visit this forum and thread, maybe we should start brainstorming questions people might want to ask HG if they're going to the panels (if none has stood out from here so far). I'll start: Without a nostalgic speech or PowerPoint Presentation, what have you really been doing for the past year? Not WB, you guys for Robotech?

Though they didn't need to do it, I thought it was cool that Starscream actually sounded like G1 Starscream this time around.

May not as in might not like it, not won't, but good for you that you did.