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    DC to play bigger role at Warner Bros. Even I said this before an article like this came out. Heck...most people outside of Japan haven't seen the Frontier movie... And by "thrown out", it means stored in a file, then eventually boxed and archived, or in the modern era, backed up and placed on a server some where in cloud space. What happens is, they hire guys like Kasdan or Miller and Gough to write up a treatment (a very long outline, say 30-80 pages). The writer turns in their work and are paid. End of story. Next job please. If the studio finds someone who wants to do this, they'll call back in the writer(s) and then those guys will make a script/screenplay out of the original treatment that was turned in. A good example is Joss Whedon's Wonder Woman work. He wrote something up, turned it in, got paid, WB decided to not move forward with it for now and that's it.
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    You win this round Katoki..... PG Strike Freedom @ Bandai's Hobby Shop site
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    Considering what Hollywood wants out of their "epic" movies.... Avatar was in the $300-million (minus actors' payment, development, marketing, blah blah blah, just straight production) ballpark. And that was just for 1 movie. I've heard it that it was in the $500-million-range and that may be the actual total cost over all those years Cameron was working at it. Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen was in the $200-million range. I think it's more along the lines that WB would rather focus on their DC Comics properties than an untested property like Robotech.
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    The guy in the review sounds like he's gonna make love to the thing as soon as the camera stops rolling...
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    Ummmm, yeah. DNF isn't due out till 2011. Yhatzee was posting a mock review of the game and a commentary over how long it's taken for it to come out. The game just had a release date confirmed at PAX a couple of weeks ago with a live demo.
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    Is it playing with the Gundam 00 movie?
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    They appeared starting in DYRL?.
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    Ya know...if some of you people would use the "Ignore user" function, you'll probably have less of a headache with some people here. My Settings->Profile->Manage Ignored Users
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    Isn't it great what a 28-year improvement in "computer" graphics has done.
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    Yes, we knew that 2 years ago. Whom did you speak to and where did you talk to this person? As I've stated, Harmony Gold's business also involves third-party licensing of movies and TV shows in foreign countries. "Robotech" is like an active hobby to them. We can watch both only because they chose to release Macross/「超時空要塞マクロス」. We can watch Macross II/「超時空要塞マクロスII Lovers Again」 and Macross Plus/「マクロスプラス」 legally in the USA because a different company licensed those shows before HG got the "Macross" name trademarked. But we cannot legally watch Macross 7, Macross Zero, or Macross Frontier because a lot of money would be needed to get around HG's trademark and other issues involving licensing. I'm not sure how or why you would want to introduce Robotech as a "Secondary continuity title" considering that the 3 shows used to produce "Robotech" originally came from Japan. Unless you are referring to using the live-action movie to do it. Do you remember a movie called "Godzilla", starring Matthew Broderick that premiered in 1998? Do you know how Toho, Inc. felt about how their classic monster was portrayed? See "Godzilla Final Wars"/「ゴジラ ファイナルウォーズ」 or the clip below: <object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3s5I1zK2RY?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param'>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3s5I1zK2RY?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3s5I1zK2RY?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object> Tell HG to let go their trademark and then we'll talk.
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    She probably never really understood this thread probably due to machine or broken engrish translations and we couldn't understand her cuz of her engrish. It probably would be easier for her (and us) if she just posted in Japanese instead of trying post broken English. Her knowledge also seem to have stemmed from RDF-HQ or RT.com or whatever RT sites are out there.
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    I gotta say, I would get a Delta Plus just to repaint it... http://www.moeyo.com/2010/09/review_hguc_delta-plus.html (or at Ngee Khiong)
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    Roaring through the English countryside... it's Captain America: Motorbike scenes for comic book film shooting in London (Daily Mail.co.uk) Lovely, he does have wings.
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    I use this one. It's good enough but it's not as over-anal as MVPS. The rest of the time I depend AdBlock and NoScript to handle the rest.
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    AdBlock for Chrome does work. It may load a few ads before removing them, but it does work. Granted it produces that partial speed bump due to the design of Chrome's rendering engine, Webkit, but it does work. It's those other times I rely on having my host file to never even let it contact the outside world. I found it easily by right-clicking on the URL bar and checking off "Menu bar" and "Bookmarks" as soon as I started the Beta. Expect it. Frankly, I just don't understand why there is this need to get rid of the menu bar in programs. I blame Microsoft for that. Ever since IE 7, Vista, and Office 2007 there's been some marketing war against having the menu bar. Which is why I'm glad it's still there in Mac OS. I gave up on Opera. Managing the "Blocked Content" became a chore after a while. I spent more time blocking things then I did actual browsing. It's probably the forum software. I've experienced it in a few spots with vBulletin boards and IPBs. Especially with pictures.
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    Blame the new look on Chrome, Windows 7 Aero desktop and every other modern browser. Everyone is getting rid of the menu bar and making access to browser configuration as sparse as possible. It wasn't hard to show the good olde menu bar though. It's a beta so I expect that there's some debug code in there and still many bugs. I tried Beta 4 but sensed the beta-ness of the release and got rid of it. Consider reporting the secure connection to the addons to Mozilla. You may get a response.
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    Well, you can try with the BW v. Tatsunoko and the Tatsunoko v. Bandai court documents. Those are in Japanese. And yes, I'm well aware that court documents, in any language is an excruciatingly painful labor to understand but hey, it's a start.
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    Anyone of our more fluent members out there wanna explain, probably in PM, to yui1107, in Japanese, the contents of the first post and point of this thread? Please? Unless she's a Robotech fan...in Japan.
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    Well, it would depend on what kinds of goods are being sold with that name. And you'll have to deal with first-usage trademark rights which would belong to HG since BW abandoned the trademark. And first-usage rights trump first registration in US courts. Going to trial is ALWAYS costly which is why you never, ever want to get to that. I don't think yui1107 quite understands what this whole thread is about, period.
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    US Trademark Office - keeping a registration United Kingdom Trademark Office - Managing your trade marks
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    Where did it ever say that in the court documents? The only things I saw mentioned in BW v. Tatsunoko docs pertain to the domestic (Japan) production of SDFM. This is more of a copyright-reasoning than a trademark issue. Because HG has a trademark on the word "Macross" when pertaining to the animation and merchandise, you're not creating a financial burden to them, you're staking claim to something you don't legally own. Bear in mind there are other issues with bringing Macross over, i.e., the music. Also, name/brand recognition would probably be something that would also factor greatly into marketing. Calling it "Frontier" doesn't have as much recognition as calling it "Macross Frontier".
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    We have people who run on Island time...
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    Gonna have to agree with this. The court cases between BW v. Tatsunoko and Tatsunoko v. Bandai/BW focused on domestic (Japan) issues. There was never any issue regarding international issues.
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    Or it could be a Optimus stand-in.
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    BTW, those of you who like to import cheap, like me, and don't care for the PS3 game, the DVD is up for pre-order as well.
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