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Probably not enough cash flow to make it worth the law fees. I was in a meeting with Jim Lee in his Wildstorm LaJolla Studios just before I did RoboDojo for them. One of his guys came in with that day’s haul of merchandise that was ripping off his various copyrighted material. Toys and kid sandals and such . He laughed at the odd usage of most of it and gave me some dinosaur head puppets to take back to my nephew who loved Jurassic Park. Point being that there was only so much they could pursue.

Leaned more towards free for all I suppose. Like I said, I had no idea Rubicon, Gibraltar, etc were in production at the same time. I had actually pitched a Mars Base Squadron book but they wanted to use the popular characters to monetize the license (understandable), so I reworked it accordingly. I believe in the main title Ben had introduced a new Zentran baddie and their battles with him caused the voyage home delay that Covert Ops is to resolve. I’ve always liked DYRL designs over the tv versions. I saw they had let a DYRL flight suit appear on a cover already so I just went with it and no one complained.

They paid well for an independent publisher of that era. Probably better than some current ones do and it would actually make it to print. When I was working on Class Reunion and news came that the license was being lost and production timelines were impacted, they let me switch to the 1 shot 48 page format to save the title. I appreciated that. Even though I got the bad inkers in the mix. It was the last Robotech comic out the door for them.

Covert Ops is a complete story in Two issues by design. Class Reunion was supposed to be 2 regular sized issues but they learned of the license loss during production and I had to release it as a 48 page single issue instead. So neither were cancelled and in fact were among the best print runs they had among their various Robotech books. Post some interior pics from Covert Ops and I think the artwork holds up. The original art pages sell for big money, wish I’d kept some. On Class Reunion, the shortened production time led to them hiring out various inkers to do pages here and there and most destroyed my pencils. It was pretty infuriating. Like the first 5 pages are good because the inker was competent and then 4 pages of trashed art and so on. As I recall there was a main Robotech title that was Ben Dun’s baby and various limited series like mine to cash flow the license. There was zero coordination among us , that’s on their editorial staff. I had no idea that Wings of Gebraltar series existed for example. But that was fine. I was getting a good rate to draw Macross. They had already used a DYRL flight suit on the cover of a main title issue. So to me that meant I could too. I ran the first pages by the editor and no one objected. Anyway, that’s some history. Feel free to ask specifics. I also did issues 9-12 of Eternity Comics Robotech II: Malcontent Uprisings before the Antarctic stuff.

I wrote and Illustrated Robotech: Covert Ops and Robotech: Class Reunion so if you want to know what was going on around that time just ask.

I don’t understand this. Tommy Yune is an excellent artist. He could produce a much better in-universe line art design and, as licensor, make the comic company use it. I don’t know why he would allow this train wreck design to be used.

Ah, I see now, thanks @sketchley.

How does the “5000” nomenclature jive with the rest of the variable fighter sequence numbering? I mean it is in the same timeframe as the VF-19 and 22 then it jumps all the way to 5000? Just wondering.

Any pics of the Orguss or the Megazone Garland?

Would be awesome if that Sol opened to accept a pilot figure.

I bought a set exactly like this from I believe Pony Toy Go Round in the late 80s. It was either them or the Robot Store that used to advertise in the Comico Robotech comics (and also sold the Joons 1/55 Space Fighter knock offs). They had a whole stock of Elintseekers but did not mention they came with the Jetfire armor. So this really did happen .

I’ve got Figuarts and Medicom armors but they pale in comparison to the quality of these DLX releases. Also if you get the Legends Infinity Saga Iron Man/ Thanos 2-pack with the oversized Tony heads, they scale well with this line. The bruised up head would look good on that battle damaged mk43.

Agreed, that fight scene is like the Vader scene in Rogue One - It made the movie.

My bad, and I agree.

Don’t you have a Lamborghini - or am I thinking of someone else?

Yeah, they gave me that olympics bunk before as well.

Have to say JVmacross was right on this one. After his had shipped and he suggested I lodge a refund threat with them, I gave them a few more days and still no change. So on Sunday I replied to their last response to me, so that it had the full thread history, and said just refund me and I ’ll buy it elsewhere. Got a quick response and today my tracking shows it departed Nagoya. So on the one hand, yay it shipped and I’m not taking another Nippon Yasan up the backside. On the other, I also preordered the GBP through Luna so may have to go through this dance again.

So far my tracking is unchanged saying only label created. But hopefully this means movement is imminent.

Please post here once your tracking actually shows movement.

WB wrote Gal Gadot and Patty Jenkins $20 million dollar checks each when they sent Wonder Woman 2 to HBO Max to avoid exactly this situation. Even though that movie was possibly even a bigger turd. Disney should have done the same to avoid the knock on their image by screwing over the first female Avenger. Especially when they were marketing Black Widow as a MeToo movie.

I’m in the same boat as you. Please post back here with whatever they tell you.

My Luna Park tracking is the same with the same dates. Still not handed over to DHL after 4 days.

I’d like to see a Batou figure stuffed into that same cockpit, lol. He gets inside one in the show too, if I remember correctly. I think in real life most people would lose their crap stuffed into a confined space like that. But that figure is damn cool.

Yeah, it’s the Bandai mold used for Matchbox. They just ground the Bandai name and any copyright info off the bottom of the feet on the molding. You can see and feel the unevenness on that area of the feet where the mold was altered. Otherwise it’s actually of similar quality to the original. Much better than their valk bootleg. Added pics of the box top, sides, back, and the feet bottoms.

I think this awesome new bootleg that Alex has uncovered was made by the same factory that did this VF-1S Strike knockoff. Which is also a boot of a gift set that should include armor, they just didn’t include the armor! The box opens from the side just in the same way and it’s the same red-shoulders valkyries inside - just white vs grey. Also, I actually have that SDF-1 that’s in the video along with it and it’s definitely a bootleg. So now I know who made it as well! Great work on another awesome box variant discovery!