Keith

You have to understand, despite the hype, Robotech is way off the radar as far as anyone but us, and the remainder of the robotech fanbase are concerned. It only ran in syndicated slots, never had network marketing behind it, and the original toyline was epic failure. In all likelyhood, the only reason it got licensed for a live action movie at all was becasue for some reason Toby Mcguirre remembered it during post Transformers 1 nostalgic licensing blitz. Let's look at this in comparable terms. Transformers: Hugely successfuly toyline, 98 episodes + a movie. Followed by Beast Wars, Car Robots, Cybertron, Animated, Prime, etc. G.I. Joe: Hugely successful toyline + 95 episode series + movie, G.I. Joe Extreme, Sigma Six, Resolute, whatever the current thing is called Thundercats: Moderately active toyline, 135 episodes produced Smurfs: A ton of crap that was a marketting success initially, TV series + movie, etc Voltron: Probably had decent sales for its 15 minutes, but more importantly, it was popular enough to actually produce 20+ episodes of new animation + a shitty movie. Do you see where this is going? All of the above actually made enough to warrent paying for a substancial amount of animation to be produced. What happened to Robotech? Barely 3 episodes of original animation were produced before funding was pulled. Trying to market Megazone 23 to kids turned out to be an obvious mistep and was pulled before release. Nothing of Robotech showed that it made enough money to prove its relevance. You can talk about comics until you're blue in the face, but the fact there is that it was cheaply produced toilet paper in an already niche market. Hell, HG can't eve pay to upgrade their website to bring it itno the current decade, Robotech is obviously not profitable. Niche broken toys, a movie that uses vastly out of date technology in its production, and a repackage of the same old DVD;s only prove the shortsightedness of those running the franchise. At this piont, I can't help but wonder if Tatsunoko is paying HG to sit on the license and file dubius trademarks in order to piss off Big West. But let's put this into pop culture relevance. Robot Chicken? No Roboteck Family Guy/Cleveland Show? No Robotech Simpsons? No Robotech Talk shoes? a surprising (though still small) amount, music on Lettermand, and a reference from Pierre Bernard Movies? An arguable Macross/SDF-1 reference in Spaceballs Again, it's off the radar. The biggest acknowedgement Robotech has had in the past 20 years was the obvious nod, and vast improvement that Exosquad was. But then, where's that now?

What would be the point in approaching? Again, Steve Yune refuses to give up creatie control, unfortunately, he also refuses to excorcise it. If Warner really wanted to effectly use their license, they'd renegotiate it from a LAM, to a 2-3 animated movie series, and let Bruce Timm's gang handle it. Start off with a 2-3 movie reboot of the Macross portion that's different enough to distinguish it from Macross = Only chance of franchise necromancy.

Oh, then call them up, get your $30, and take that new slim. My 60 gig is still kicking, and it has quite a bit of milleage on it. I can't help but wonder if replacing the HDD helped, but I hope I won't have to worry about replacing it. I don't even care about the backwards compatability at this point, I just love my fat model.

HG got exactly what they deserved with Toynami. Don't forget, it's that unholy allliance that's responsable for no Yammies in the U.S.

Probably a little from column A & B. Standard practice would be to ship you a comparable model that's already been repaired, but since there are likely fewer left in their hands, you have to wait until they get around to fixing yours before you'll get it back. Why does that take so long? Because they stopped manufacturing parts on the older models, and have to order up special. Instead of charging you an extra $99, they should fess up and say it's not cost effective for them to fix it, and just send you the slim for the $129 you've already paid. May want to bring that up if you have to contact customer service.

I didn't say it wasn't stupid, nor was it rational. What I'm saying is the fact that it happened didn't even remotely seem to change Yune's thoughts on how he handles things. If anything, it's just made him do the same things harder.

WTF, since when were there aliens in battleship? That's like making a movie about Twister, and making it about a tornado....oh wait...

Are we still not talking about the robotech fan who pied Steve? Because that synched up the fanbase situation right there.

Oh hell no. Comics are badly drawn and throw away any sense of canon like it's going out of style. Art aside, if they actually stuck to one, maybe two versions of the same story, and then let it end forever/kept characters dead/made new ones & freakin' moved on, that'd be another thing. But when there are 6 dozen different takes on superman/spiderman/batman/every super hero under the sun, they lose all credability in my book.

Unfortunately, that HDD now also belongs to HG. If you do not fedex it to them by 9:00 AM tomorrow, legal action will be taken against you.

This movie needs two more things. Bruce Campbell AND Mclovin.

No, they'd rename it something far more predictable, "Adam."

Why? Because they have no clue on how to make a new show, including writing a new story. And refuse to pay someone who "could" be creative, because that would take the power away from the Yunes.

To be fair, most of the actual robotech fan forums have been stamped/burned out. What was a suedo active fanbase 10+ years ago has pretty much dried up. For the most part, ex fans wind up here, and active fans wind up being driven away by their fascist "official forum" policies. What I'm saying is, where else would they go to read about the franchise? Speaking of which, whatever happened to the zealot DOZ fan group. What little I've been able to find of their forum remains seem to be super dead.

I'd actually think it would be more of an issue of downloading an HD version of something you only purchased in SD, rather than subtitles in general.

"It Looks Gooood!" Yeah, 3D needs to stop. As for the American Flag, you didn't exactly see that in every scene of Private Ryan, Tora Tora Tora, or many actual WWII era movies either, so I wouldn't necessarily take that as a knock against.

This topic is stupid, and will be locked!

Be mindful of the dangers.

It's not confirmed, but considering she tries to "sacrifice" herself at least once a season, things aren't looking in her favor.

As long as it's better than Green Lantern, which by all indications it seems to be.

OMFG, Eddie Murphy as Gollum = AWESOME!

No, pretty sure those rights only extend through the U.S.

Nope, not in the miniseries, and at the rate she's going, she'll be deader than Data in Nemesis, with just as telegraphed a death.

If you've seen Frontier, you should have a general idea of the story. If you've seen a decent amount of subtitled anime, you should be able to pick up a bit on what's going on in the dialogue. Never be afraid of raw anime, especially when it won't be licensed in the forseeable future, and comes with an awesome game demo.

ARRGGHHH! I was in there, made it two songs in, then home booted me out, and I couldn't get back. Is it up on youtube yet? After the second song, a red Vajra appeared, and kicked me out of the concert. BASTARDS!