We all believed the HG had access to the animation from Macross TV and BW had access to the designs. Maybe HG is thinking DYRL? has an animated VF-1 and we have animation of a VF-1 in Macross TV so we get to use the DYRL? version as well.
Were any these people part of Tatsunoko?
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Major credits of DYRL according to anime.net/macross
Staff
Project Planning: Yoshimasa Ohnishi, Kenji Yoshida
Story Concept: Studio Nue with cooperation by Artland
Director: Noboru Ishiguro, Shoji Kawamori
Story Supervisor: Shoji Kawamori
Script: Sukehiro Tomita
Character Design: Haruhiko Mikimoto
Production Design/Mechanical Design: Kazutaka Miyatake
Music: Kentaroh Haneda
Production Directors: Haruhiko Mikimoto, Ichiroh Itano, Toshihiro Hirano
Director of Photographhy: Kazunori Hashimoto
Producers: Akira Inoue, Hiroshi Iwata, Tsuneyuki Enomoto
Presented by: Big West, MBS, Shogakukan
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