Einherjar

Frontier probably brought new people to Robotech too because of its, now-denied, association with Macross. Who knows what the numbers are besides what you hear from the website and convention reports if people cared to write about it. However, the story behind the making of Robotech could be the make or break moment for new fans.

Space Cowboys?

They did the same thing in the Robotech movie when they used Southern Cross footage with Dana.

I said the English theme song, and probably the dub, in the U.S. edition is decent, not terrible.

I think so, but as a business I don't think HG even cares what they're doing now. Despite talking about Protoculture flowers, grand space opera stories, and that "We Will Win" attitude they push forward, their big concern is to make money in any way possible. Unfortunately, their methods of getting it is pretty underhanded and frugal, but in economics money is money. It's fair game if they turn Robotech into a Macross/Battlestar Galactica/Gundam/Transformers/etc. clone, carefully avoiding legal issues, and it helps Robotech become profitable with the times. It helps that Robotech is defined by a vaguely detailed mythology explained in another media, but passed off or even ignored entirely with creative narrative/animation "techniques." Also, we've seen fans will buy anything they say at this point, maybe since the beginning too, so another huge advantage for them. They're just going along for the ride, which most likely will end down a huge cliff in the future. On that note, it's hard to find info on what happened at recent Robotech convention panels even from the official site and their twitter. Even if you get to meet staff from the show and free stuff, it's a moot point to go to a $15-$50 convention and have a history lesson about Robotech rather than get useful news about where it's going every time.

Do a lot of people still play the RPG version of Robotech? If the gaming system doesn't work well and such, the fandom's making it worse if they buy it out of misplaced loyalty. I don't know how table top RPGs work, but at least it should be fun even with those statistics and dice rolling. So, who bought the Southern Cross reissued book and how was it?

Tatsunoko vs Capcom, possibly on the way to the U.S.: http://kotaku.com/5257869/nintendo-power-t...om-coming-to-us

Starship Troopers 3 almost sounds like a rip-off of Tremors or something. EDIT: Btw, from your podcast, Passions had Chad who is NOT gay.

Was there even a department that used to work on material like stories and designs for new projects before everything went silent? I'm not talking about marketing or legal areas, but one where they were brainstorming what to do next with the series story wise; perhaps the department that came up with the Shadow Rising leaked script, unless it was all Tommy's work. They did want to continue the franchise before, so there had to be other people besides him planning that part of the operation. That is unless all of the work for stuff like Shadow Chronicles were left entirely with DR Movie and Wildstorm, then that pool of talent disappeared leaving them with Tommy, Palladium, and fans again.

I meant staff in the creative process of new Robotech material that's not merchandising... if they still made "new" Robotech material. Those three gotta have underlings doing something that people never get to hear because they're treated as insignificant in the whole thing. But I guess they could be outsourcing those positions as well, leaving the only person in-house who's at least creative is Tommy by default. EDIT: There's Palladium, but who knows if they really care what they're doing to Robotech.

People keep talking about just Tommy, Steve and Kevin, but there must be other "talented" people in the HG crew still working on Robotech besides the office staff.

Maybe they're bankrupt in general, but they somehow have the money to keep a brave face.

When you have 90 to 150 minutes to tell a story, never waste a huge chunk of it with technobabble or exposition only die-hards will ever understand, especially when you're attracting new audiences to watch it. If it gets people to watch the other material then mission accomplished.

Still, it looks like a better deal than what the Manga Entertainment releases had. http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?...mp;#entry630954

They were probably going to if they made more money from the comics and RPG books. Either that or they were venturing into "new," crazy areas like this one. Robotech Adventure: Lancer's Rockers Fans give us a hard time for stuff like Macross 7, but then they get something like this? Any Mospeada fans know if this was based on something planned for the show, maybe from Love Live Alive?

Maybe it's somewhere in the new Southern Cross RPG book they released a couple of months ago. Those seem to get much of what was left out of the comics and novels.

Is there anything from the Southern Cross and Mospeada linear notes, artbooks, etc. that HG hasn't used in Robotech yet? By now I thought they've abused everything that was ever made and planned for in each show.

I wished they released the version with David Hayter (Solid Snake) as Isamu internationally. It has better quality and stuff.

Fans sure had a fit about it when Shadow Chronicles was in the works, but it was probably going to happen with a future animated production in the works anyway. Besides legal issues, I don't even think they could animate the novels without causing controversy with its content. A Star Wars novel example; the way they killed off Chewie and deaths depicted in the books in general. Some of them were pretty gruesome even for Star Wars. In fact, I thought the brutality in Robotech II: The Sentinels was more over the top than even Macross, Southern Cross, and Mospeada put together.

Does anyone remember the Star Fleet Universe variant of the franchise. Maybe they incorporated stuff from there into the new reboot, especially with the Enterprise's weapons.

I tried looking that up for a while now, it seems like a hassle with the unstacking and ongoing unofficial updates needed to get it to work forever. Plus, I got one of the old PSPs. Guess I'm just lazy. I can do that or find burn ISO for the PSX version. But like when they brought Star Ocean: The Second Story to the U.S., I don't know if I can play it without getting pissed off with the dubbing choices. Anyone remember the English theme song? It's decent, but it sounds like Robotech Minmei sang it. There's also the bosses that adapted to your current level. Sucks if you need to level grind.

Before the retcon, can they be considered only tie-in novels for Robotech? Sure, they followed the original series to an extent, vaguely at some points, but went in a completely different direction when they couldn't animate it near the middle to end of it. Even with all the positive and negative elements in them, for a time it was considered the best version of the entire series for at least people who liked them.

Maybe any director involved in a Sci-Fi channel original movie, although you technically don't have to pay money for them like the others here. They're just stupid to watch when you're flipping channels.

I'm definitely looking forward to more quality games for my PSP. I had a hard time finding any of the Lunar games for the PSX, limited run and $60-$80 prices before ebay, and hopefully this is worth it. There is a Gameboy version but how's the quality of that port?

I saw X3: Terran Conflict 2.0 at Wal-Mart yesterday. If anybody here has played it, have they fixed the bugs and issues that the game had when it was first released?