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Protoculture particles would work much better than where they were trying to get it from. Just think, then we'll have Protoculture swords, Protoculture beam guns, Protoculture beam sabers, Protoculture missiles, Protoculture fields, Protoculture drives, etc... the Protoculture possibilities are endless. At that point, why didn't they just say "Comic-con" in all their answers....But if they're not ready to announce anything, chances of SDCC being somewhat the same as AX2010 are fairly high.

Hold on... big news...big news...big big news...rt.com changed their sc-logo to coming soon.... ...naw, coffee ain't working.

I don't think they were trying to put themselves in the dub-v-sub debate, more like making commentary on dubs in general. While dubs have some inaccuracies due to matching words to lips, they still try to maintain some accuracy to the original dialog, especially with anime released these days. Kramer seems to have leaned toward the argument of why match what the Japanese want and just use your own dialog. Just make it all English. At which point, the thought comes to mind, "Well why not just animate your own damn show if you're gonna go through the trouble of coming up with your own dialog." Look at Power Rangers. Of the few more recent episodes I've seen of compared to their Sentai origins (Whatever they used from Gekirangers, Dekaranger, Hurricanger), Power Rangers have in actually thrown out most of the suit-action, retaining only the mech combat. They re-did their own henshins, their own stunt sequences, on top of their own non-action sequences. That's an example of a current popular franchise which seems to not fit Kramer's idea of a good show. After a certain point, Power Rangers stopped using the Sentai villains and plots so that also puts holes into the idea of keeping the story and throwing out the dialog.

Chuck Norris might take offense to that...*ducks roundhouse kick* Anyways now onto some meat. (My thoughts in bold,italics) BTW, using Youtube's vuvuzela switch works great for drowning out nonsense questions. Part 2: -More memories and Carl nostalgia about the rush job that is Robotech... -more Carl's-vision talk, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz -Kramer-Keep the story, throw out the dialog. He says many companies have been militant on keeping the dubbing the dialog directly from Japanese instead of coming up with new dialog. Says their (the RT) way is better. He also said he's heard some of the Japanese say "How dare you..." Well how about we take RT and make in into a D-rated comedy and see how you feel. If you poured blood, sweat, time, money and your own creative mind making a something, you'd want it to be treated with respect and RETAIN the same or as-close-to-same dialog and not have people mooch it to death. -More zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz questions -"I can't talk about the live-action at this time". -HG use to own an audio-recording studio, which is where they got the cast and crew. -They labored making the dialog match the mouth movements. -Will there be a Carl-successor? Kramer paraphrase-"You can't find a successor to a creative mind like Carl." -Will there ever be any more RT on TV? There gonna re-release the Macross-side of the story again or something along those lines in December. No new material scheduled at this time. -More nostalgia talk.... -More voice-actor praise and yadda yadda yadda... *hits vuvuzela button* -How would Carl save the anime industry today? Wife says Carl would have wanted to go to the Japanese side of the business to do a multi-cultural orignal thing. That doesn't work all the time unfortunately cuz some things are so foreign between cultures that it just doesn't work. Period. Jeez, Danny Choo is at AX this year and he's originally from Britain, who now lives in Japan, and was dumbfounded by some of the local lingo he's been hearing.

2nd half of the panel is up. I'll listen to it later and post my thoughts.

If it was asked in the first 40 minutes of the panel, then I'm sure it was in there, but I wasn't listening. They said it aired in Vietnam, Laos, and one other place. It was at the beginning of Part 4.

Only half of the panel was uploaded, so there's more. Thoughts so far: -Room was decently packed. There was arm room for sure. And pockets of empty seats. -1st 25-30 minutes was devoted to intros and Carl and Carl's RT documentary. ZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz... (I skipped most of this) Part 3/4 started the Q&A: -#1 at launch on Hulu and Youtube....Probably because people wanted to know what it was all about and didn't want to spend money for it. Welcome to a recession... -RT:SC has aired in Southeast Asia...Yeah...the poorer parts of Southeast Asia. Probably helps that HG does loads of 3rd-party licensing worldwide... -Spanish fans must be happy for RT:SC. They're getting it on TV soon. -No Southern Cross merchandise coming soon. Macross stuff 1st, Mospeada stuff 2nd. -Expanding RT with some kinda series/idea/gimmick...kinda, sorta, maybe. It was Carl's idea. Blame him if it fails. -RT MMORPG...WB's zone. Wait for them to do something with it. -More Q&A about Carl and self-praise. *More thoughts when the 2nd half of the panel gets uploaded*

Was the upstairs open to ticket holders?

Crowds normally appear closer on the weekends or the day of Masquerade. My experience was Day 1)low crowds, no deals unless you are looking for something rare; Day 2) More people, more interesting panels, normally the same deals and now would be a good time to grab something because; Day 3) Crowds gallore, lots of stuff selling and long lines for Masquerade; Day 4) Crowds die off as the day goes on but deals are fairly high since merchants want to get rid of stock. But that was in better times. Money is tighter these days. Now the question I have is, was it a packed house for the concert?

Maybe, someone was imagining it but I don't see anything about a new production on Twitter or the Facebook page. One would think this would light up those 2, but I don't see a thing. Even the AX thread on RT.com hasn't had any activity since Wednesday.

Guess we'll get the confirmation when all the kids head back to their hotel rooms to report in. The panel ended only 40 minutes ago (at time of posting) and most people are probably gonna head to dinner or other convention events. Hmm, didn't know they were having a "Robotech in China"-panel. Shouldn't our Chinese members chime in on that? kresphy!!!! Get your ass over here.

Neither AX nor most conventions have the rights to release any sort of video performance. While they may record or photograph parts of the performance for prosperity, those recordings are never released and normally used for convention promotions, if anything. If they are recorded and released, it will be released by the actual license holder (which would probably Bandai Visual and Victor Entertainment in May'N/Megumi Nakajima's case). If one really wants to go see the performance, go get a ticket. Otherwise, you're outta luck.

They're bootlegs. There are no English subbed official DVDs that are Region 0.

What legal dispute? Any disputes have been resolved for the past 5 years (And yes, we have a thread for the "legal dispute").

No subtitles. They were not able to obtain the Japanese track for the series so no subtitled version was released.

Well, since you're only signed up for 1 day, I suggest heading to the Exhibitors' Hall, and prepare for some free stuff and lots of deals for merchandise (i.e., bring money, lotsa money).

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As I've said, a good portion of the fanbase are the part-timers, the ones who have little to no ties to either HG/Robotech or the Macross-franchise. Correct me if I'm wrong, but in the Maker-distributor-3rd party seller relationship, the maker only gets its numbers from the distributor, correct? There's normally little to no data coming from the 3rd-party group that makes its way to the maker (unless the distributor is the maker) because the maker mass-produces in pallets or some factory packaged quantity which gets sent to a distributor who passes it out in smaller, more seller-centric quantities, right? And the seller normally doesn't report anything back to the distributor since their bottom line is what merchandise they sell on their own, right?

Ahhh duct tape. What can't you be used for...Need more micro missiles? Duct tape!

Enjoy your purchase. And check MW on your iPad. I would love to know if Safari defaults to the normal skin or the Lo-Fi skin.

One wonders how low they'll set the bar to claim success....

OS platform? Lightweight with no moving parts (as opposed to a having a keyboard and hinged LCD screen)? It depends on what you're looking for in your portable computer. What are you looking for?

Absolutely nothing. http://www.facebook.com/terms.php

No. It just means whatever fan-works you post are no longer your property because you gave up that right when you posted it. The whole idea behind the "no-unsolicited-material"-clause is a company is not suppose to accept any materials they didn't ask for or else, it opens them to legal action. Most of the larger companies go through agents or some 3rd party to get material. Basically, Company XYZ puts out a request for an idea. That idea gets posted through some posting agency and then people respond to it. And since they ask for material, they can legally say we own that material since we asked for it and someone submitted it. For smaller groups, ideally, you try to sell them a summary, then they ask for a complete idea. Hence, they ask for something. Now, as Seto mentioned, it's treading a line. HG has the standard "no-unsolicited-material"-clause but at the same time, they have a fan-works section. So in effect, they're asking for material, in a skewed sense. But because they don't use it nor are they directly asking for it, it doesn't belong to them. Which brings up the point, well why bother having a fan-works section in the first place if they're not suppose to be accepting that stuff. That's what I was getting at. So no, they don't own Astro Plan, nor do they own your parodies...Unless for some bizarre reason, they decide to use them. In which case, you could sue them for monetary damages.

Nah, just get the authors of the fanwork to post it in the Fanart section on RT.com. Then, HG will claim copyright. It's kinda funny how they have the standard "no-unsolicited-material"-clause in their TOS, and then have a fanart section on their site at the same time. It's like they're saying we don't want any material while holding out their hands, accepting stuff at the same time.