Keith

You seem to be Gori Gori grasping, but that's cool bra. Batman & Robin would be akin to Macross II, it exists, but that branch was not continued. The definition of "poorly received." Delta on the other hand 5 years after release is still actively supported.

So you believe a pocket (and that's being gemerous) of old men on the internet who complain about A LOT (that's an understatement) outstrips the merch, blue-ray, movie ticket, CD & toy sales that have followed each release (7, Frontier, Delta, and to a lessor extent II, Plus & Zero)? You think money would still be thrown into these productions if they weren't profitable? Plenty of unsuccessful anime series have had their episode count slashed mid production due to low ratings, Macross has never been in that boat (save for the original series before it aired). 7 hit 49 episodes, a movie (be it a short) & OVA. Frontier & Delta both have multiple movies (with new animation, not pure recaps like most Gundam follow ups), live concerts, etc You honestly think these thinga would happen without a large supportive fanbase? II Finished it's run, is still referenced by Bandai & Big West, but never hit on the popularity scale that most other Macross series & OVA's share. But I agree, there's way too much personal hate that is passed off as fact.

I love that "poorly received" mythos that Macross sequels keep getting. While I haven't seen Delta nearly as many times as 7, every sequel (except II) has been quite popular.

Macross II may have many faults, but "never" stooped so low as to be "quasi-Robotech."

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As long as that new time-line is highly derivative of 0079 & Zeta (like 9/10 AU series) I'm fine with that.

Long story short, right before the YF-19 release the head of Toycom jumped ship & abandoned the existing staff with the reveal that he was starting up Toynami with a shiny new Robotech license.

Considering Toynami came into existence by slitting Toycoms throat & letting them drown, this is long overdue karma.

Why wasn't firing Yune part of the negotiation? It blows my mind that he's still employed there when he's done nothing but burn any piles of money hr"s been put in charge of.

Or, this is all just a huge troll for Netflix streaming ZZ.

What are you talking about, there was never not a love arc between Char and Amuro.

During Frontier's first run I got excited when I misread a fansub and thought Grace had connected the Macross II fleet as part of the fold network (immediately realized it was the cursed Macross 11 fleet that has Kaifun & Fire Bomber American). So yeah, with Developments like Windemere, the SDF Global & fold faults, it'd be easy enough to have a scenario where one of the colony fleets for some reason thought their Macross was the original, their planet was Earth, and stumbled into an equally delusional Marduk fleet.

You haven't missed much, we've just been keeping the forum warm for this prophesied time. If you stick around stay out of the Star Trek topics, it's like a wild west bar fight in there.

Yeah, none of that will be happening, you'll be waiting a while there.

I don't even think they'd have to hijack it, it's highly likely Sony's involvement in the resolution came about because they thought they bought a "Macross" movie from HG, only to realize they were locked into the non-Macross dregs of "Robotech."

This whole development sent me down a rabbit hole. While no Macross soundtracks are available on apple music or amazon music yet, 1 Mospeada Soundtrack, the whole Votoms soundtrack, Megazone 23 Part 1 & Vocal Best, Casey Rankin's Orguss Op & End & the Gunbuster soundtrack are (Noriko Sakai's tracks on her own release). The Nostalgia train is at full steam.

Yeah, but...

It means future productions I suppose, said the guy who already owns all the recent Japanese blu-rays of the whole franchise (including Delta) + "other" releases.

Definitely worse. Aside from being incredibly redundant, it's highly juvenile to "Robo" everything.

Well, I mean more in terms of content than name. Using terms like "Robotechnology" & "Robotech Masters" probably isn't the best approach for a big Hollywood release.

I still say they just traced Archer for those designs.

This will most likely come down to what movie Sony truly wants to make. If Sony wants to make a "Robotech" movie, then at some point new animations may go into production. If Sony went through the trouble of resolving a nearly 30 legal shitfest to make the "Macross" movie they thought they bought in the first place, Robotech may finally "officially" put to bed & quietly phased out while everyone cashes in on the Macross train. My 2 cents? I suspect Funi is in the works to dub Frontier & get it a Toonami broadcast, but time will tell.

Yup, any fan worth their salt already has sooo many copies. Hell, I wonder if I've still got my VCD.

It plays like someone looked at screenshots of the DYRL shooter, but didn't play it to meaningfully copy it. For instance, in the DYRL game Gerwalk has a lock on gunpod option, batroid does as well (with more of q 360° range), and you could Itano Circus to your hearts content. The RT game on the otherhand gives you the same straight ahead firing gunpod in fighter/gerwalk, and more firing angles (no lock on) in battroid. The missiles are generic kinda follow an enemy single shot missiles, and the rest of the game is a badly balanced bullet hell game mixed with super clunky top/dowm Destroid missions. Story is minimal, jumping around rapidly through the series. So yeah, even at $10 it's pretty disappointing.

Actual footage of the deal being made.