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  1. JB0
    A. Wrong franchise. B. I believe you mean "make it so."
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    This is terrible, it gets worse every time I look, and I wish the affected families the best.
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    I love Valvrave for how terrible it is. It turned into self-parody somewhere along the way.
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    I'm not. Tooling isn't cheap, and this thing has LOTS of parts with heavy detailing. And there's going to be a minimum order size in the thousands. I'd bet they can't buy less than ten-thousand sets of parts. I'm not saying they won't make any money on this, just that their profit margin is going to be narrower than it seems. The margin on the regular toys is high because the upfront cost of molds is spread across tens of millions of units.
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    As I recall, SDF-2 was added to the scripts to justify there being three mounds in the ship graveyard during the second arc. SDF-1, Khyron's kamikaze, and... I dunno, guess we'll make up a story about there being a second SDF-1. Yeah, let's call it the SDF-2, that's creative. We'll CG it in during post-production... once CG becomes viable in twenty years.
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    It is definitely incredible.
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    Abandoned before the cartoon was localized, in favor of creating more Lion Voltron episodes after it became a runaway hit. I did see the toys as a kid once, and thought they looked cool. But in fairness, I thought ALL toy robots looked cool. The more chrome and sci-fi theming, the better.
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    A man after my own tastes.
  9. JB0
    What I've gathered from the last page of this thread is that everyone wants the -D.
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    Sounds plausible. I know that was a persistent problem with Binaltech/Alternators. They felt that seams in the panels made the cars look "broken".
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    I still wish the add-on bits clipped to the "bridge tower" so he had a proper pistol grip.
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    It'd be typical HG to act like a dead project is full steam ahead.
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    Good way to lose a race #88: challenge a time machine.
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    And a couple of Bucks Roger, one of whom is just shaking his head and going "Not this again.".
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    It went off the rails ages ago. At this point, it fell into a river, and got washed so far out to see that they can't even SEE the rails. They aren't even sure which direction they'd have to go to find the rails again. And then they floated into a hurricane, and that's where we join them today.
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    They were all balancing out Micheal J Fox's perpetual childhood.
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    The music of Wyld Stallyns' first observed impact on the course of history was when we didn't move forward into the grim dystopian future of Robocop. That's the connection. Robocop's a "bad end" alternate future where they failed their history class.
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    I will assume that they aren't lying outright about the 35-year license extension. Because that could get them in REAL trouble as opposed to just laughed off the internet while people petition Kickstarter for a refund(and Kickstarter laughs at everyone). I will also assume they are being less than completely honest, because when have they ever been? I further assume that the omitted parts are bad news for Robotech, because when have they not been? Obviously, I am not a lawyer and have no access to The Document. But this ain't my first rodeo, if you know what I'm sayin'. I have basic pattern recognition skills, I wasn't born yesterday. Therefore, I conclude the new license is more restrictive than the original one was, and that Tatsunoko likely has an escape clause in it so they can terminate it early if Harmony Gold continues acting like Harmony Gold. I'd like to think this is a blanket prohibition against making false copyright claims, upsetting Big West enough to sue Tatsunoko, and outright lying about the franchise's current activity and future prospects(or at least against lying to Tatsunoko). This likely bodes ill for a company that has no real interest in the license beyond creating the illusion of a functional animation division instead of an office of tax fraud that they use mostly to launder real estate profits. ... More likely and less dreams of puppies and rainbows, any future legal costs Tatsunoko incurs because of Harmony Gold's foolishness are going to be on Harmony Gold's head, no arbitration or lawsuits required.
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    Starship Troopers CONTAINS some fascist material, but isn't ABOUT fascism. It certainly isn't fascist propaganda, as Heinlein's own political leanings are fairly well-documented and he kind of hated fascism. He almost certainly wouldn't publish a book intended to incite a rise in fascism. Much the same way that Star Wars isn't ABOUT kicking Space Hitler's arse, though the Galactic Empire is very clearly evocative of the Third Reich.
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    I'm hoping they remember they own Fox Animation. Anastasia remake(yawn) and then Titan AE gets another chance.
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    Ooops. Sorry, man. </Darth Vader is Luke's father>
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    I remember seeing the Yamato YF-19 and -21 in Suncoast Video ages ago. The thing that started all this legal mess in the first place, if I'm not mistaken. There USED to be a market for this stuff. It might be fair to say KG killed it.
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    That's what I mean. I was invested in his first death. It had WEIGHT. I sorta felt cheated when he came back, and never really got over it. And bringing him back just to kill him again was narratively stupid.
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    Not really. There's a point at which so much of your footage is just computer-animated effects that you don't have a live-action show. You have a CG cartoon with the occasional real-world face pasted onto it. What I'm saying is that Disney isn't doing live-action remakes, they're doing new cartoons. ... And possibly that the Marvel movies are cartoons.
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    They'll have to call "The Macross Saga" something else in the UK. That's pretty much the extent of the issue, since they aren't actually interested in selling SDF Macross to anyone inside OR outside the UK. * "Foundation Saga" has a nice ring to it, I think. It also strikes me as on-brand for the Robotech franchise. If I were HG, that's what I'd start rebranding the tale of Rick Hunter, Lisa Hayes, and Lynn Minmei to. ... Or they could be boring and call it "First Generation" like they did for the novelizations. Less stomping on toes, less stolen greatness, more BORING. *This is, incidentally, why HG initially trademarked the Macross title. It was simply to prevent anyone from releasing anything with the word Macross in the title in the west unless they paid the ransom licensing fee to HG first.
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