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With private companies investments are often just like loans. A person investing in HG might just expect an annual return of say 8%. If HG is able to consistently pay that 8% the person may continually up the amount invested. Investments can be structured many different ways though and HG may be able to live quite comfortably just having a good year every few years apart. Heck, they may have made enough off Shadow Chronicles and their work with WB to sit pretty for a long time... hence no need to try to push out the next item.

I think you missed the entire context of the conversation. To paraphrase: "It's fun to see how happy the people at RT.com are ignoring the things that should bother them versus how focused we are on MW on those bothersome details." I really wasn't trying to involve your friends in the conversation... unless they're hanging out on the RT.com message board. Here is the original quote again but with emphasis: I love the two sides of it. Go to RT.com for ridiculous complacence in the face of mediocrity, come here for the baseless hate and rampant pessimism. If it requires further explanation feel free to send me a PM.

My comment was in regard to HG/Robotech. I can't think of a reason why anyone would be pessimistic about Macross, things are going great. From the Robotech perspective though some people think things are going great and RT is about to blow up while it's more common on this board for people to expect HG to be shuttering their doors... and of course there are people on both boards who occasionally nail the extremes.

They don't need big checks rolling in, just lots of little ones. Honestly though, a few guys touring conventions and keeping a website going doesn't cost a significant chunk of change in the business world. Sure, there are probably more employees toiling away on other logistical issues but their whole operation is probably very slim. Heck, some companies could keep an operation like that alive just on the return of various investments. HG probably also enjoys having a few private investors but after this many years of creeping along I'm sure they've developed a good cash neutral plan.

Who would be hemorrhaging money? In business, if you're not actually working on anything, you're usually not hemorrhaging money.

I was hoping Alex would have some fun with that pic and photo shop himself in for mallets as hands after Eugimon's last post. Alex, that sucks, did a pin fall out or something. The pic is super tiny.

The worst part about not showing a movie to critics is that it makes all the critics decide the movie will suck, then the critics go to see it and announce that it does, indeed, suck just like they knew it would. Besides that, the movie is friggin' GI Joe, there were very slim odds any critic was going to love it, they'd lose all their critic cred in the critic circles they run in. Of course, most movies that don't screen do indeed suck.

IIRC Michael drops his super parts entering Galia's atmosphere (as super parts don't work well in atmosphere). Later Alto gets stranded after the planet blows up and Michael's parts are still out their floating around. I forget how Michael and Ranka got away though... maybe in the belly of a Vajra ship.

A reboot would be a tremendous failure. It'd have to exclude from "The Macross Saga" all of the plot elements, characters, designs, etc. that legally belong to BW. Talk about shaky legal ground... they'd have to take a story and make it so unrecognizable that the legal owner of the story couldn't claim it still resembled their story... that's pretty hard to do. So basically the entire "first Robotech war" would have to be a totally different story. Imagine how put off all the old fans would be by that. "Who are these aliens? What happened to the Zentraedi? Why isn't this ship called the SDF-1? Where's Minmay and Roy Fokker? Why does the VF-1 look so strange?" If they still have some relationship with ExoSquad they might be able to reboot the franchise and replace the first Robotech war largely with plot elements from ExoSquad. Have a spaceship crash on Earth then have humans create and abuse Neosapiens until the Neosapiens turn on them, that's the first Robotech War. Then the Masters come looking for their crashed ship... then the Invid come.

Harmony Gold does not sell toys, Toynami does. I want to say they were like $19.99 though... Pretty sure I got two for less than $50 (after tax). EDIT - HG does not *currently* sell toys. Yes, they reissued the matchbox toys under their own name at one point. EDIT II - I've been thinking about this more... they must have been more than $19.99 but they couldn't have been more than $29.99. Maybe it was less than $60... everything was a blur.. quite the scene.

It seems you're trolling me. If you've got a problem PM me about it. If you don't have a problem then maybe you should elaborate to make your direction a bit more clear.

Phantasy Star 3: You wanted backgrounds during the fights? Well okay, now you have backgrounds (and all we had to do was eliminate the enemy animations to pull it off).

I love the two sides of it. Go to RT.com for ridiculous complacence in the face of mediocrity, come her for the baseless hate and rampant pessimism. EDIT - Full disclosure, I eagerly participate in both sides to create my own middle ground.

I saw this post and thought that someone must have done some necromancy on like a three year old thread...

Yep, new gun, new scope for existing gun, new intakes, and the cradle was redesigned a hair to bring the two vehicles closer together (although it still didn't look all that great). Edit - my lips are sealed on the Gosu... it's too bad the economy took a dump, maybe some day it will be resurrected. Tommy should throw some Gosus into Shadow Rising...

Poor enemy mecha... why are you so shunned? Sniffle.

The Aoshima versions of all three major paint schemes are due out this month... not sure why they'd be more expensive than the Toynami releases.

We discussed this a bunch in the Licensing thread. Check my site for lots of better pics... the toy is actually blue with black, gray, and gold highlights.

No one even knows who owns the international rights to the film footage of DYRL? so it's fortunate ANY company is claiming to have merchandising rights for it. There are lots of ways it could have happened though... selling the toys might have been where someone thought all the money was so they wanted less money for the film rights than they did the merchandising rights. People balked at the expense of the merchandising rights and got just the film rights. Once they were split from each other the value of the merchandising rights would have dropped. Then when it became unclear who even had the film rights the merchandising rights were probably all but shelved until HG came along and said "Uh, we'll take those." Anyway, that's just a thought for one of the ways this theoretically could happen.

Maybe they use two separate plants with different equipment?

Saturn launch games were a pretty bad blunder... they were so bad they re-released them later once they actually learned how to program for their uber complicated system.

You're being way too picky or you need to turn up the brightness of your monitor. The Toynami is navy blue with black, gray, and gold accents. You can definitely argue that it takes inspiration from Yamato's 25th anniversary scheme, and some other inspiration from Yamato's stealth scheme, but essentially what you're really saying is "any dark valk is a rip off now" and that doesn't really seem fair. All this complaining about the scheme seems silly to me. Is it out years after Yamato's efforts? Yes. Is it dark like Yamato's efforts? Yes. Is it blue like one of Hasegawa's efforts... well, kinda, but darker. There are hundreds of valid reasons to complain about Toynami's toys, whether or not this toy is original enough to make your panties wet wouldn't rank high on my reasons to bash them. I'm fairly confident with all the customs and everything else done with VF-1s just about any new non-canon scheme will have similarities to something someone released before. Seriously, there is almost NO orginality in Yamato's 25th anniversary scheme, it's a rip off of a thousand black with gold trim items before it and the stealth isn't that much more exciting. As to being slow to the party? Can you imagine how much more they would have been bashed if they released this toy concurrently with Yamato's and Hasegawa's darker efforts?

Niiiiiiiiice.

Since they have sold several DYRL? toys now ranging from superposeables to the 1/100 line without any word of them being sued by anyone and with no indication that they're going to stop we're at that point where it's safe to assume they're working legitimately. Even if they originally didn't have legal right to the merchandising rights they've reached that point where whoever did own said rights would have had to have acted to protect their license by now.

Nope, dead serious. That paint scheme doesn't look like anything produced by Yamato. In fact, I really wish Yamato had made that the 25th anniversary paint scheme, it's way better than that retro black and gold they put out. The toys come with all the same accessories as every other release, it would have been silly for them to remove some accessories because they never appeared in The Macross Saga. Maybe Toynami will release all non-canon schemes under the Robotech name and use the Macross name only for canon releases... it seems fitting.