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  1. azrael
    ComicCon preview issue is out: This week's cover: Meet the new boss in Marvel's 'Avengers: Age of Ultron' It's not listed on the agenda but you know something will show up at SDCC.
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    I'd wait till after SDCC before making predictions about its funding status. And lots of people may be holding off till the end. Sidekick is predicting a 82% success rate. http://sidekick.epfl.ch/campaign/249359572-robotech-academy
  3. azrael
    So when is #82 coming?
  4. azrael
    If sales are good, they won't kill her off when Thor goes back to being a guy when the next movie comes out.
  5. azrael
    So how long till Thor goes back to being a guy? What? Look at that Superior Spiderman-title's shelf-life. Ok, when is the next Thor-film due out?
  6. azrael
    They use to be Buy.com, until they were bought up 2010. Haven't shopped there for ages. I still get email ads from them.
  7. azrael
    So if Bateman is a lying, then Shadow Chronicles did poorly and doing this Kickstarter is such a great idea especially because it comes from the same group that did the unsuccessful Shadow Chronicles. What about LLA? Was that a failure as well? What about those collector sets and boxsets? Those a failure as well? And now they expect people to get it right the 3rd, or 4th time around? See how easy I can do this? That's all donors have to do. They don't need to yell or use harsh language.
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    Here's a question a donor can bring to SDCC: Tom Bateman mentions a couple of times that Shadow Chronicles did successfully, IHHO. Enough to warrant a sequel. http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=33067&p=886898 http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=33067&p=909996 Yet, nothing was produced. Love, Live, Alive was pretty much bought and paid for via the Mospeada license. Now factor in DVD boxset sales over the years, you would would think they have enough money. Yet here we are on Kickstarter. As a donor, you can ask that question. Did all those funds go into releasing DVD boxsets or other merchandise? Where did those funds go? How were they invested since you got them? Now, I know the peanut gallery here will try to answer that, to which I say, DON'T. Don't even think about posting your answer cuz that's not who donors should be hearing from and you don't have the answer. You only have a theory. One that can be easily brushed off coming from this forum. The project creators are the ones that should be answering this question. And by signing onto Kickstarter, they have opened themselves to this scrutiny. Kickstarter encourages project creators to be open about their projects to encourage donors. I consider it fair game to ask about their previous works.
  9. azrael
    Memo and Mav are fans-turned RT.com moderators. Kevin is Kevin Mckeever, the marketing guy at RT.com. As for how bad they are? Dunno. Never met anyone of them in real-life. But we had to ban all 3 cuz the trolling from them was annoying enough. Look at the pinned Licensing thread. You'll find their posts in the archives.
  10. azrael
    Oh wait, now I remember where I've seen the cone-engines on normal engine designs and not magical engines like the GN-drives, Gundam SEED. The METEORs. We won't hate you cuz you donated. Honestly, most of the project funds donated on KS are from people, like yourself, that put in at the <$100-mark. More people donate at that range anyways. I'm more curious about those who donated at the >=$5,000-mark.
  11. azrael
    What did Duke say? Everything these days is ripping off something that came before. I maintain my "Meh".
  12. azrael
    Meh. The cone-engine nozzle has been done. Gundam 00 is an example that comes to mind. Been there. Done that. Next?
  13. azrael
    Which is why there's no point in bringing up Macross in this conversation. The last 2 HG-funded projects were "so successful" that they resort to KS to fund their next one. Just keep pointing to their current works. Look how those turned out with the current staff. Point to what HG does with just the RT fanbase. We keep telling folks to stop lurking over there. Even that will hurt your brain.
  14. azrael
    I questioned their seriousness when this thing started. But if I knew nothing at all and saw that, I'd question this whole project. You want people to donate to you just to troll you. So they're not focused on the project. If that wasn't another red-flag to the numerous other red-flags, I don't know what would be. You would think they would act differently when they're beggin' for money but nope. And how could a $5,000-tier be full? You don't want people to drop a wad of cash on you? So they're saying they don't need the money? I guess everyone should pull back their money then cuz they reached their goal.
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    So is HG serious about "troll tier"? You're on KS cuz you're asking for money. You don't see PBS making a tier for people that contribute <$20. They're happy if you contribute anything. This gives me the impression that HG is not serious about this project. I'm serious when it comes to my money. I would expect them to be serious about this as well. And I'm not seeing that with this "troll tier". I expect a certain level of professionalism if you're asking for money.
  16. azrael
    I'm sure people will throw money at this. Geez, people funded the potato salad-KS. It's just a guy making potato salad and he got more than enough money. At least with the potato salad, we know he's going to buy the ingredients from his local supermarket.
  17. azrael
    Bendo? Mav? Some other diehard?
  18. azrael
    That's why people should be looking at other KS-projects and ask why are those groups asking for less. Most of those projects are going up on Youtube with DVD/Blu-ray as the afterthought if they get get more money and it turns out well. People should be asking what other distribution methods they are looking at. Let's see what happens at SDCC. This project probably started around May/June. This is something that people should be asking. When Chris Roberts opened up Star Citizen, we had screenshots already. Now we have alpha videos of gameplay and it's looking good and on-track. If HG is going to give the audience another Powerpoint slideshow with the same slides from AX2014, donors better say something.
  19. azrael
    Nah. This is all on Palladium. They should have tested the workflow for this project when they started.
  20. azrael
    It's a new EX-Gear. Customized for Basara. BOMBA!
  21. azrael
    You want an itemized breakdown of the costs? That's going to be rough as much of it is considered labor. There's no monetary amount for designing mecha. You pay a guy to draw, edit, or compose noise for stuff. They're suppose to work on that project. That doesn't count additional costs (like you paid me for this, but I have additional fees that I'm charging to you because that stuff went toward your work, etc.) Also, I'd throw a contract at HG if I donated, like a research grant. Cuz KS funds just say that I'm donating to your project, how you spend that money on your project is up to you. They're suppose to be honest and use it toward the project but it's like a discretionary fund. I could say X-amount went to administrative costs. I needed a new car which I used to drive my ass to the post office to FedEx a letter for this project.
  22. azrael
    So they're assuming the show will get picked up for an entire series? I can't begin to site the numerous examples where that thought can go wrong. Hell, every show that we see on TV is constantly on a sink-or-swim cycle. Shows have been cancelled because the network didn't want it. Jeebus, look at Community. A couple of years ago I was watching Green Lantern: The Animated Series and it was a pretty good show. Cartoon Network killed it after a season (1 season split into 2 parts, 26 episodes total). And what distribution model are they going for? Netflix? iTunes? Dear god, Youtube? Some method for other countries that we don't use in the USA? You donors should be poking at them for info to be sure they have a solid plan for the what-if.
  23. azrael
    i.e., You, the fans, get to fund our risk because we didn't want to spend on Carl's idea. So it's Carl's fault if it fails and the fans fault for trying it. Oh and here's one of many cautionary tales: Kickstarter project spent $3.5M to finish a working prototype—and ended in disaster ~ A login-managing USB key won awards, was covered everywhere, never materialized.(Ars Technica)
  24. azrael
    They are saying July 2015. Most KS projects have a "When we're done" due date. Look at that potato-salad-KS. Well, good for Creavision. They're getting money for their fanart now. Go from no-one to being hired by the people that almost-sued you. And it looks like this KS got a boost from South America.
  25. azrael
    And that's suppose to get donors how?
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