BlackRose

Wow. I knew Tommy was an idiot, but that goes above and beyond his usual stupidity. At any other company, he probably would've been fired for saying something like that to an auditorium full of paying customers. Worst idea ever. Made even stupider by the fact that anybody with half a brain knows that as creative director he had to have personally approved each and every one of those character designs. Weren't the character and mecha designs for the Shadow Chronicles movie and comics his designs? I know he did the supplemental character design for that Robotech: Battlecry game. Now there's a lesson we KNOW Tommy learned. His comic book credits include a stint doing art for Superman, and a Danger Girl miniseries. Between his work for DC, Image, and Harmony Gold, it really calls into question whether he even knows what a real woman looks like, because most of the women he draws seem to be missing fairly vital things like the lower half of their ribcages, and most of the abdominal organs.

So that's where Kevin McKeever gets it... I can't help but think that Harmony Gold's business plan is a line from an old Tom Lehrer song: "Plagiarize! Plagiarize! Don't let anyone else's work evade your eyes! So don't shade your eyes! Just plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize! But please be sure to always call it 'research'". Robotech's production process has always been a poorly organized clusterfart. They were just trying to follow tradition.

Gotta be Starship Troopers 3: Marauder.

What's really hilarious about Robotech 3000 is that even by the standards of the day, the show's CGI was embarassingly bad. Didn't they blame the project's cancellation on their animators, Netter Digital? Harmony Gold's really good at passing the blame when something goes wrong. When Robotech II: the Sentinels fell apart, they blamed Matchbox and the exchange rate. When Robotech: the Untold Story went under, they blamed the changes from "Carl Macek's vision for the movie". It's pretty obvious that if when the live-action movie bombs, Maguire Entertainment are the designated fall guys. I wonder who they'll blame if Robotech: Shadow Rising tanks?