Bishop76

I think the difference is the product. You know HG is going to put out a garbage product and while Palladium is far from amazing, they've been far more consistent than HG has been and they've been the way everyone has been getting new Robotech stories for over 20 years. They've been making their own with their own friends in the Robotech RPG. There's a lot of "been there, done that" with HG and I don't think anyone can look at that price tag and say "oh yeah, that'll be worth $500k". Couple that with the fact that Macross gamer fans would love to have a Macross minis game and you add a lot to the fan base. Basically, what it says is that the fans of Robotech have exactly the same amount of confidence in this product that Agrama does.

It will be hard to discuss the merits of 2 vs 7 without being slighly bashing, but here goes... Personally, I'm not a huge fan of either, but if I had to pick which one I liked more it would be 2. Because at the very least, 2 didn't make me laugh out loud at the absoute absurdity of some of its plot points. Despite being non-canon, 2 was still a far superior story. Okay, it was basically the same story as the original with a few modifications and the whole Marduk thing just didn't make sense. There were actually a lot of plot points that just didn't make sense, really, but at the very least music wasn't magical and the next time I watch the original Macross and think to myself "You know, it was good, but what it needs are furry flying elves and big goofy looking pentagram shooting monsters" it will be the first time. Basically, 2 was a lot more like the original and it wasn't 49 episodes of mostly the same thing EVERY EPISODE. I know this will be an unpopular opinion, but after 7 and Zero, I'd just as soon NOT have Kawamori work on any more Macross projects. Like George Lucas, he's lost touch with his own creation.