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Why would you compliment it like that? It's probably artwork from the new "movie"

That news about Kickstart and all is fine and all, but it's sad that the need to validate Robotech's existence even when it's just a one word mention, is so prevailant. And, like this Alchu guy said, yeah, what is the point? Is it gonna make the story any better? Is Robotech gonna be some bigger name now? Does it mean that Roboteh's story is now deeper and more complex? Is Marvel now quaking in their boots cause there's some other worldly remote chance that a new Robotech comic may come? As far as the updated news, it's not anything different than what was at AX, just more filler crap to keep detractors at bay...Whatever.

I always thought it was kinda funny that the secondary characters all get the Boba Fett treatment. Not only that, but then, they make all the characters have some close degree of seperation from everyone else. It's like everyone that has a hero complex all drank the same cool-aid, or all attended the same leadership conference. Maybe, they should realize ("creative team") that the Rich Hunter treatment doesn't work for every damn character. Then again, these are people that think that the fans don't even know what they want. Word to the wise, if you're working on anything that already has an established fan group, big or small, don't assume they're a bunch of idiots and don't know what they want (some of them prove they are just that, but then again general assumptions usually lead to the dark side, LOL).

The cover is saying that Protoculture leads to free Robotech Trading Cards, geez, is it that hard? And they're cards made by a nude Zor Prime. They're gonna do a new side story on it due out next year. They're working on it, but they can't say anything about it.

Yeah, but I wouldn't expect RT specific fans to look anywhere outside of this thread.

I think the only people who'd have any real sort of hurdles, would be the brick and mortar retailers who would want these products. Even then, it hasn't stopped them, if they want it over here. I can name several places I can walk into and find Macross specific items for purchase. With the explosion of e-tailers in the last decade or so, getting access to almost anything that is Asia, Euro, or any other geographic specific product is a matter of a few clicks from a laptop. And let's face it, we've all gone the way of getting bootlegs because most of the Macross spinoffs aren't distributed here. It just really opened my eyes, seeing young/new anime fans dressing up as Macross Frontier characters at a convention, and it made me think of this. All of those fans have seen the series somehow, and at least 9 to 9.5 out of 10 watched it by downloading it, or by buying a bootleg. Even if say 10% of all Macross fans bought a DVD or BD with subs from the U.S. and from Europe, that's a decent amount of money that wouldn't have been there before. But logistics and possibilities aside, would you buy them or not?

Awesome news, Bee, thanks for the news. We'll get onto adding that to the flyers. On a sidenote, for any fans people on facebook lurking, and may want to join this event, you can find the event now on facebook, which will have added info as it comes in. You can click here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=143231935689372 of while on Facebook, type in the search MacrossWorld convention 10.

Got a question for you guys...If they made BD and put english subs on them (here's to a long hope), would that cause some of you to buy the discs? I know some here don't buy them, and while I have a few, I don't have them all. For those that just get the DLs from wherever, would you decide to invest in the product if they made that change? I saw this question pop up before but can't remember exactly where. Forget wether or not it would or wouldn't be done. After AX2010, it really started to dawn on me that Macross has a revived interest in the anime world after Frontier, and after seeing so many concert attendees and cosplayers in L.A., I wonder how that would translate to buying the Discs if they had eng. subs. Obviously, most of those people, if not, all of them saw Macross Frontier from somewhere.

I think ever since Shadow Chronicles, they've been ultra sensitive to criticism and scared of what the general populace would think of the franchise, and what they've done with it. I think that's why you see them more introverted now, than ever before, and very sensitive to having info come out. It's like they want it to come out, but only to those that won't look at it with a critical eye. Most professional companies, when they make announcements to the public, want it to be known everywhere, and be it criticism or praise, they take that in and learn from it. But I doubt you can call the staff of Robotech "professional" and you're either following the crap, or you're an outcast. No secret there, but that leads to the issues that we've all noticed, like no accountability to the fans, and a staff that is really out of touch with the people that support the franchise.

Why even work on anything new? Robotech has real life drama better than anything they have come up with since 86. Hmmm, I was thinking of this just now, since this seems to be the only site remotely related to RT that has this pic up, I guess that means the real news is here (or proof that it's been here).

Yeah, that's pretty damn large. I like the work. Great job.

Wanna know what's really sad, is that the people who probably banned him are the same moderators who posted the link on rtx.com. Of course, the link to the pic is now graciously edited out since Tommy called and made a big deal about it. Still, WTF? Instead of opening the flood gates of announcements, and getting the fans interacting with product announcements, they're playing the "secret news is better news" as always. Pretty Effin' stupid. That said, as far as "Martha Focker" or whoever he is, he's probably better off not going there. It's the last place for news anyways. I think that pink triangle is her attempting to learn to wear hot pink panties. Don't you know,,,guns, fire, and explosions is Robotech these days, and when you add in the pink undies, you really got designs from those young Korean animators (disclaimer: This is a referrence to a similar excuse Tommy used, I'm not racist) Hahaha, first time I had to use a disclaimer. Wow.

I wanna see pics of the Britai as well. Would love to see how that's coming along.

Save, if you are going, you are one lucky guy. I so wanna go, too. Sent you a pm

Hahaha, $10 buy in for each series. Everyone not in the industry is welcome, and winner goes to the person who selects the closest date for each series. 1st and 2nd place winners (j/k)

Thanks for posting that up. Slowly, I've been getting piece by piece of the entire concert. Still missing the piano work of Yoko Kanno.

That's a cool cell, and to be honest, she's one of the main characters that we're missing from our collection. I'd like to get one of Milia, Max, and Myun, but I'm not in a rush.

Don't really get the restaurant part, but other than that, you're on the right track. As far as AX this year, most of the guys still part of rt.com are still friends. It's just one or two, and then the staff, that were pretty much shunned.

So, it seems like the 4 is all we'll ever see of the 21/22s, correct? I don't remember ever seeing any other variants.

Man, you're the 2nd Robotech fan in 2 days I've talked with that has expressed to me and others their displeasure with the franchise. I had to wonder what the heck they are doing over there besides coming up with excuses for why they don't do anything. I mean, they didn't even really have anything different or big on the website, unless you count the cut and paste 25 year alpha pic. Who knows, maybe if they've still got the same employees and the same website, they'll draw another picture for the 50 year anniversary??? OK, maybe not, maybe for 30 years? I understand how you feel as well. Being a fan of it from back in the day, it really does suck to see little to no attention paid to the original series. That said, I really have no interest or even care for anything from the start of the Wildstorm comics on. But as a few will often say here, what type of gripping story do you expect from HG with the staff they have now?

There will be a custom contest, and if you guys are feeling gutsy, karaoke. I know the team working for this year have been doing a lot of planning, and it's looking to be one heck of an event.

Sounds like a great time. One of these days, we're gonna make it out there and hang with all of you, if only to do the crazy shopping all day and drinking at night. thanks for posting up the happenings of the day. With you guys in spirit, no doubt.

Hahaha, I'd say meeting girls at clubs and bars was pretty easy for me, but then again, a pretty face is sometimes all you get, and the hassle of weeding through girls that are worth your time vs. the high maintenance girls that have other agendas can be time consuming. I tell this of all my friends out there...It's easy to find what you want. Your wants probably match about 90% of every other guys wants. What's more important is discovering for yourself what you don't want. Find those out, and all the other things simply fall into place. It did for me.

Even if said conflict occurred, I don't think HG would go that far. They've given WB their game license, as well as a good number of their merchandising licenses. I think they wanna sell the franchise to WB, and engaging in a legal battle would not only cost them a lot of money, but it'd probably ruin HG's chances of getting rid of a franchise they've probably been wanting to pawn off to someone else.

I still don't see it being a movie in the sense that we all would consider a standard movie. Then again, who knows. I'm ready to see the boob missiles fire away. Oh, and to add, here's a crappy copy of the image that was at the panel. Judge for yourself. http://www.flickr.com/photos/51879234@N07/4776673457/