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You'll be amazed at how quickly you'll come to understand why they're marking things up so much. Once you calculate the costs of rent, overhead, staff, etc. it's pretty easy for the price you charge to escalate rapidly... especially when everyone is desperately seeking out overseas sellers directly online. That's not to say these people are reasonable with the astronomical price tag you saw, I'm just saying that you'll probably view things a bit more sympathetically.

You're crossing streams again. It could not be in Shadow Chronicles because BW owns the intellectual property rights, not the merchandising rights. Like Seto pointed out, HG has sold Southern Cross merchandise before. I have no idea how the Southern Cross rights work though, never cared to look.

This causes a lot of confusion because Tatsunoko didn't win "author's rights" as most people know them. Tatsunoko won "related rights" in regard to the actual production of the series, think of it more as "maker's rights" while SN/BW retained the intellectual property rights that would commonly be associated with an author. This is a blow to SN/BW though because, since Tatsunoko has these related rights Tatsunoko does have a right to the name. This is why Tatsunoko and HG get to continue to block Macross Plus and Macross Frontier merchandise (well, not "Block" but rather demand a cut of").

Can Bandai just use Yamato's favorite excuse, "That's how Kawamori wanted it"?

Occasionally I look for old trophy cases on Craigslist so that some day I can put out my Mospeada collection. That's going to have to wait until I buy a house though In the meantime it's good to see your collection Gilermo.

That argument is definitely true of Robotech games and comics where the mechs can appear and do whatever they want but the Battletech/Mech Warrior series have nothing to do with Robotech or Macross so I wouldn't be surprised if that creates an issue. Also, and again, due to the legally hostile environment HG must be vigilant about asserting its rights lest it open itself to more litigation.

Do you think HG HAS to sue to stop this? Here's my thinking: BW/SN own the intellectual property rights to the mech in question. Tatsunoko/HG own the merchandising rights for the mech in question. Therefore, so long as the mech in question is being used to support ROBOTECH then HG can pimp it however it wants. However, if HG were to say, ask for a cut for this mech showing up in a game that's not directly related to merchandising for ROBOTECH, HG then would be infringing on BW/SN's rights. That said, if HG does NOT sue to stop the game makers then they are not adequately defending their merchandising rights which opens them up to a whole different legal world of hurt on the BW/SN side.

I think that's the Toynami curse. Toynami always floods the market with too much of their product so everyone waits for it to get dropped down in price to buy. I'd be lying if I said I didn't do that too. I always buy the first line of each new product the moment its released (Blue Alpha, Beta, etc) but on the repaints I always buy them like six months later at a drastically reduced price. With the Beagles I don't feel so bad, I bought each Beagle as it was released and then waited a long while before purchasing a Scott Toynami and still haven't bought a Rand Toynami. Toynami has to carry some of the blame for that kind of behavior. With the demise of the MPC Cyclone though I think you have to look at the double-whammy of the sudden Ride Armor competition that was happening and a global recession. That's tough to overcome even without some customers playing the "wait and try to get it for half price a year later" mentality.

http://www.over-drive-inc.com/store/produc...products_id=949 The website isn't overdrive.com... see link above.

I was going to say that it looked like an odd Legioss when I first looked at it. It needs some tweaks but it's still impressive work. If I ever have spare time again in my life I would love to be able to work on stuff like this.

Don't take it too personally HappyPenguins, I'm convinced this is just idle hands over at HG. They've probably got Shadow Rising all figured out. Heck, by this point they probably even have the whole Shadow storyline mapped out and re-mapped out a dozen times. They probably have different versions planned for potential different budgets (both in series length and the sort of things they can show in each episode). Now they're at the point where they're waiting to see if WB will do something to let them use their high budget models. Since there really doesn't seem to be much progress with WB they're just kinda sitting around trying to herd the fanbase. If something appeared on the horizon they'd probably just let the detractors go since the next release would quiet everyone up. Since nothing is on the horizon they're micro-managing their fanbase and trying to eliminate dissent. Oh well HappyPenguins, welcome to the club. EDIT - I saw it quoted and couldn't live with my typos!

So if I want to put Kevin on the spot some time can I do it through Space Station Liberty? I've never checked it out? Is it just an HG lovefest of like-minded people indulging in group masturbation or do they actually say anything worthwhile? PS - I emailed Kevin to find out if my ban is permanent. I'm assuming now it is permanent because it seems like he'd have to admit he was wrong if he lets me back on the boards. As he was wrong, and doesn't seem like the kind of guy who likes admitting that, I'm probably permanently on ice. I'm sure he hopes that I'll make some other screen name and try to log in so he can use that as the basis for my perma-ban but I'm not the type who'd bother with all that. What I am the type to do is keep repeating what Tommy said at Comic-con, that is that Shadow Rising is going to remain in pre-production in the hopes that WB will do something that will give HG more clout. Did they mention that on Space Station Liberty or did they come out with some new spin or say that Tommy was drunk and didn't mean what he said or something like that?

Since I'm in the middle of my move right now I'm having problems keeping up with the website. When things get a bit settled down I'll update that post and put the un-altered picture in and give you credit. That seems to be the right thing to do to me. Sorry I didn't research a bit more and find the original right off the bat.

Well, there's no guarantee that if you get your parts they will be any better. This is Yamato we're talking about. I just was thinking about putting my replacement VF-1S arms on my 1/60 Strike and I discovered that even one of the replacements is broken already before ever making it onto a toy. It did lead me to a new theory on why the cracks form but it still does boil down to a stupid fragile design. God I hope all my future 1/60s continue to do better. You SV-51 guys are in for a Loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong wait. Yamato is trying hard to ditch existing inventory right now. I have my doubts that they'll ever kick back up SV-51 production again. Not trying to knock you guys, I know how much it sucks, I'm just saying that you're probably going to find someone parting out a broken toy before Overdrive will be able to help you.

The armor looks a little naked (could use some sort of markings) but otherwise she's a beaut

Yep Carl, I added that caption about stealing the picture because I was taking them from robotechcollections.fr without really asking permission. I've spoken with the person so I was pretty sure it'd be fine but I figured to be safe I'd make it clear where I got the pictures from. Apparently that person wasn't so diligent about labeling where he got his pictures from... Ya want me to go ahead and replace that cropped version I stole from robotechcollections.fr with your original which gives you credit?

What I really got banned for was pointing out that Kevin was wrong. Whatever, that place is a den of misinformation at the moment and it's a whole lot less frustrating trying to set them straight than just ignoring the whole scene. I just checked the thread of my banning, Kevin seems to now be implying that I, a master seargent and not nearly enough free time to pull off that rank while loggin in under other names, had multiple accounts and since I didn't quote Tommy word for word exactly as it was spoken at Comic-con I was "putting words in his mouth." Yeah, right, somebody should put up the unedited film from Comic-con so everyone can hear Tommy say loudly and clearly that Shadow Rising will remain in pre-production while they wait to see what kind of roads WB opens up for the Robotech franchise. The man said it there and so it should be something we can say to all Robotech fans... but I think Kevin is still reeling from getting yelled at for calling the extended pre-production a "hiatus". If you ever decide to stand up to all the crap, I think your eventual banning will be good for you. You can only argue in circles with people who feel it is their duty to lie to the members of that forum for so long before you're wasting a ton of time and energy that can be sent on your own projects. It's a shame that nothing will happen to prove how wrong everyone is about the rights issues over there (especially if the movie never happens). If the movie does happens Memo will make up excuses for why the Macross elements were abandoned way before he'll admit he was wrong. That's the kind of people you have to argue with there... not really a worthwhile venture.

I'm fairly certain that's been translated before somewhere. It's a diagram of the longer range militaries joining with Mars Base for an assault but I forget the nuances.

Whoa, watch your tongue! I'm currently enjoying a ban from robotech.com for two reasons: 1) I repeated what Tommy says at conventions (and even Memo heard what I heard and world knows we never agree) and 2) things I said here that Kevin McKeever didn't like. You keep telling the truth and slamming Kevin and you're going to have one less place you can hang out online.

I have a box of these coming, I'll be sure to share my experience.

I knew someone would do that damaged diorama eventually. Amazing, simply amazing!

on the question about yellowing, the 1/48 I have that is yellowing was purchased second hand. In my posession it's be in a cool dark environment with little sunlight (mostly in storage). I have a few other 1/48s that show no signs of yellowing yet including a Hikaru 1J and LV1. The V1 1/60s yellowed pretty bad pretty quick, obviously no problems yet on the V2.

It's just poor writing. Let's face it, HG is pretty much just a staff of fans. Some fans have computer skills, those become the web guys. Some fans have an art background, they become the creative guys. Some fans were just sycophants.. and they're still just sycophants. Honest question here, besides creating Shadow Chronicles, had anyone at HG ever written anything of note before?

It's not just clear, it's rainbow coated like the canopies of the Yamato VF-1 toys (or so I hear). The idea was to really give it the fold effect. I believe I have one on order and will be doing a full review... after it's released and actually in my position... after I have moved

I'm okay with boob play in anime but the female character designs in Shadow Chronicles were actually distracting on my first watching of that movie. It really did look like they took the same body and put different outfits on it to make different people. This wouldn't have been so noticeable if the one body they cut and pasted wasn't that of a banging porn star.