Einherjar

Here's a review for it:

http://anymoon.com/blog/2007/01/17/toynami...terpiece-yf-1r/

I thought I saw this ranging between $60-$200 online. It's selling for $60 on ebay, but there are only 2 auctions with no bids.

Isn't it a regular Valkyrie with only a different head design and color?

When I saw this article about Sega's new portable device, I kinda felt sorry for them. Almost thought they were coming back to the console war.

Up Close With SEGA's New Portable Hardware

But this part boggles the mind:

Currently the SEGA VISION is not sold in stores, but only available as prizes in SEGA's UFO Catcher arcade crane machines. SEGA Amsusements Europe is looking to possible sell the device online.

Wow, guess it's true then.

"In Soviet Russia, (ﾉゝ∀･)~キラ☆ does you!"

I still count the "death" of the bridge crew as one of the biggest mindfracks committed by RT.

Guess the staff no longer had a use for them, but it's still a tragic way to end their roles in the series. I thought a bigger mindfrack was Rick becoming an admiral in the military, which I hope wasn't the reason why they all got killed off. He looked like a guy who would've been content staying a CAG or flyboy for the rest of his life. Lisa would've fit the role better.

The concept of a control device like a "thinking cap" wasn't a new idea to SF though was it, I can think of at least one film (Firefox) that used the concept. Just being a nerd in pointing that out.

Funnily enough of course, they used a similar device in Macross Plus as well, but we all know that.

Taksraven

The "thinking cap" probably stands out as a unique poor man's excuse regarding the concept, but very original. It's something only Macek magic can make possible even if your show blatantly contradicts it. You can control a mecha with only a helmet, unless you're Rick, Lisa, or anyone who flies well without one. They're just badass.

The thinking cap could count as original, or at least their crazy explanation of how it works could. I also came across something called the VM-9 Silverback, a dune buggy veritech (seriously? ). Would it count as original?

Here's a question for long time members/fans, is there a list of all the original concepts, characters, etc. the Harmony Gold staff created specifically for Robotech that wasn't derived from Macross, Southern Cross, Mospeada, and Megazone 23 material? Of course, character names count, just not the designs, but anything else from the comics and novels that were Robotech original, perhaps things that won't be affected from legal troubles regarding the series?

I find it funny that so many people say such bad things about Macek, but a lot of the stuff that they complain about wasn't even done the way he wanted it done.

Then again, you have people complaining about the novels and how the original cartoon stuff is true to Robotech, because that's how Macek wanted it, without realizing that most of those changes were put in by the "McKinney" authors based on what Macek had originally wanted in Robotech, but the animation wouldn't allow for it.

Macek can only do so much with other people's work. But when he's given more control on a project, like the Sentinels, Robotech 3000, and the novels, you start to realize where the talent has been all these years. He's probably a decent director, as Robotech proved to people, but when managing original animation/material to match the quality that's come before, or having more responsibilities with a project, not so much. Even if legal issues were cleared, it may not help much.

My friend is right about those ads. They did sell out.

Actually, it kind of makes sense because the last time we saw MacGruber he got broke investing in the stock market.

These ads made my day during the Super Bowl:

MACGRUBER!

Gotta commend them for keeping track of continuity this week since I forgot some of the details.

Like everyone else here,

Some nerd humor for this season:

"Wow, Kid Icarus finally grew a pair."

Just out of interest. How many of us here would pay to go and see an RT movie in the cinema? (even if its just to mock it)

I would go.

Taksraven

With this economy, I need my $6-$10. Paying to watch it just for mocking would still help the crew make a profit little by little. It's like watching a bad movie, in the end you hated it but unless you demand your money back from the theater it counts as a sale. Enough random sales like that may turn up a sequel. I'd wait for the reviews first and let critics do all the work/suffering.

The second pilot wouldn't be Max or Roy, it would be a new character called Poochy.

Taksraven

Perhaps Rick Hunter and Ridge Forester?

Maybe a Bernard or an orange shirt since Rick already uses red.

Looks good enough for a matinee showing so far.

About the RT narrator, I did not like getting spoon fed information, especially when they spoil important information to be revealed naturally later. I wouldn't mind if I was still a kid, but it's awkward watching it as an adult. One big offense I remember recently is at the end of ep. 7, Bye-Bye Mars, we're told that Rick is developing feelings towards Lisa way before that actually happens. He's more likely pissed about risking his life saving her butt in a war zone by the end of the episode. Way to be subtle omnipresent voice over guy.

Either the narrator was an early example of a shipper or Macek really hated Minmay from day one.

Macek may be many things, but a Macross fan isn't one of them. He saw the story as something that needed to be "fixed" to weed out those whacky Japanese culture concepts, seriously, reed or listen to any interview with him. Though to be fair, his megalomania isn't limited to Macross, he does it with everything he touches.

I'm just wondering if the same thing happened to the English dub of Bleach under Macek?

Robotech probably should have ended after the 85 episode series. But I'm guessing Carl Macek got greedy by the end of it and wanted the franchise to be something more timeless. Unfortunately, the work after showed that he knew very little about making original animation and keeping a franchise alive without relying on other people's work for inspiration. The rest had to be done in other media like comics and novels of varying quality afterward. In the end, the best he could do was milk it for all it was worth until he knew it was time to walk away.

I think some people in this thread are being confused. HG, without a doubt, owns all of the rights to everything Robotech. You have to think of Robotech being a unique creation and ignore the fact it is, at its core, and adaptation of three other unique creations. Since Robotech is an adaptation though it becomes it's own intellectual property giving its creators the ability to do whatever they want with it. There are issues caused by having that core though, wherever RT stuck too closely to the original property there would have to be changes. Since this is going to be a live action movie, there were likely going to be HUGE changes to the RT story any way. Now we'll all get to say "Ha, they made that change because they didn't have the rights to Macross" but the truth could just be they made a change because they felt it'd come over to the live action film world better.

They will have to be careful what they change and how they change it for the movie. The whole thing could become unrecognizable to even Robotech fans but crazy awesome to everyone else who don't know, which I assume is the target audience now. They could get past the legal issues this way, but Robotech may never be the same again.

Regarding Ted McKeever...quite a while back, I listened to the podcast where he said they had "the rights to all of Robotech." Since that's all he would say, and since he kept repeating those exact words, it makes me think there's some kind of legal ass-covering going on...

"We have the rights to ALL of Robotech."

There's something important about the wording of that sentence. I don't know what it is, and I doubt anyone could say what it is (except HG's lawyers, who I'm sure crafted it). But the fact that he couldn't say anything else (and apologized for sounding like a broken record) leads me to believe that, even if he wasn't quite walking on legal eggshells, those legal eggshells were present in the room with him.

It sounds more like a PR move rather than credible information. Probably a calculated one since he said it during a Q&A portion of the podcast (Space Station Liberty) with ties to the staff to assure the fandom about the status of the fanchise while at the same time covering his mouth against legal problems. Also, Kevin Mckeever is listed as a marketing coordinator, so he could be a glorified yes man or sly liar for Robotech.

Just checked bandai-ent.com and the hidden messages in the source code are gone. On the site the twitter and blog sites have gone down. It looks like the company got downsized and people got fired or something. The messages may have been a final goodbye from some of the staff.

I'm betting it's something concerning Eureka Seven. There is a movie planned for release in April, so it could be for that. If it's for the complete collection, maybe I'll give it a try.

Though for now, I hope I'm wrong and it does turn out to be something Macross.

If they went that route they may have an easier time doing it like the Chronicles of Narnia or Harry Potter films through the Robotech novels, one for every book. Sure, it would take decades to finish the entire story, either the TV series or novel series, but it would guarantee work and potential profits for years until people got sick of it dragging on. Too bad the books don't count with the current creative team though.

Dewey?

The only connection I found between Bandai and Dewey is Eureka Seven.

I think you missed something:

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I read an interview with him a couple days ago in the back of an old Robotech comic, and he pretty much refused to even discuss Robotech: The Movie, saying it was horrible and he never wanted it made in the first place.

Too bad he didn't have the chance to do a Alan Smithee, which, if I'm reading it right, required him to be a real director/industry man and member of the Guild. He should have known he couldn't do a cut and paste job forever.