pengbuzz Posted March 10 Posted March 10 8 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said: Big "If"... trying to be different is the one thing Robotech won't do, and for good reason. Robotech fans are kept around by nostalgia for the '85 TV series, and they have a history of aggressively rejecting anything that deviates from the "original 85" too much. They want new Robotech to be just like 80's Robotech in every way. It's why the 90's comics and novels were a source of so much contention, why Robotech 3000 was rejected, and why HG's efforts to reboot Robotech in '01 met with so much resistance. The only way they're gonna do something different is if they're burning the franchise down to start over. In other words: they want American Macross. Quote
Seto Kaiba Posted March 10 Posted March 10 (edited) 4 hours ago, pengbuzz said: In other words: they want American Macross. In general terms, yes. More specifically, what they've often said that they want is The Continuing Adventures of the original Macross series characters... and they want it to look as much like the original 80's art style as possible. As wants go, it makes perfect sense from a nostalgia standpoint. They want more of what they loved in '85. It's just not a realistic wish, for various practical reasons on HG's end. 🤷♂️ From HG's standpoint, it's easier to deliver nothing for the anniversary because it has the smallest chance of them getting chewed out for it.😵💫 Edited March 10 by Seto Kaiba Quote
pengbuzz Posted March 10 Posted March 10 2 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said: In general terms, yes. More specifically, what they've often said that they want is The Continuing Adventures of the original Macross series characters... and they want it to look as much like the original 80's art style as possible. As wants go, it makes perfect sense from a nostalgia standpoint. They want more of what they loved in '85. It's just not a realistic wish, for various practical reasons on HG's end. 🤷♂️ From HG's standpoint, it's easier to deliver nothing for the anniversary because it has the smallest chance of them getting chewed out for it.😵💫 Ah... so The Sentinels using SDFM designs and voices then? Or just the same thing continuing from where the last episode of the Macross Saga ended? Quote
Old_Nash_II Posted March 10 Author Posted March 10 7 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said: In general terms, yes. More specifically, what they've often said that they want is The Continuing Adventures of the original Macross series characters... and they want it to look as much like the original 80's art style as possible. As wants go, it makes perfect sense from a nostalgia standpoint. They want more of what they loved in '85. It's just not a realistic wish, for various practical reasons on HG's end. 🤷♂️ From HG's standpoint, it's easier to deliver nothing for the anniversary because it has the smallest chance of them getting chewed out for it.😵💫 In my opinion, HG should do what Voltron did, revitalizing the old material, but putting several easter eggs from the old series during its seasons. Unlike what it did in the most recent comic series, which was not revitalized, it was the death of the original universe for something very... Strange. But apparently, it refuses to do this because it is "afraid to try". By the way, Robotech 3000 had a wrong concept, which I am surprised that it was done in CGI. Quote
Seto Kaiba Posted March 10 Posted March 10 56 minutes ago, Old_Nash_II said: In my opinion, HG should do what Voltron did, revitalizing the old material, but putting several easter eggs from the old series during its seasons. Unlike what it did in the most recent comic series, which was not revitalized, it was the death of the original universe for something very... Strange. But apparently, it refuses to do this because it is "afraid to try". It's not that they're afraid to try... it's that they legally can't. (In animated form, anyway...) Quote
Big s Posted March 10 Posted March 10 5 hours ago, Old_Nash_II said: In my opinion, HG should do what Voltron did, revitalizing the old material, but putting several easter eggs from the old series during its seasons. Unlike what it did in the most recent comic series, which was not revitalized, it was the death of the original universe for something very... Strange. But apparently, it refuses to do this because it is "afraid to try". By the way, Robotech 3000 had a wrong concept, which I am surprised that it was done in CGI. That’s kinda what I was thinking. Something similar, yet different enough for them to say it’s still Robotech. I’m not saying it would be good, but at least it would be different enough to separate the Japanese originals and the American project. Quote
Old_Nash_II Posted March 18 Author Posted March 18 Posted yeasterday in his Facebook page. Will HG finally show something new in Robotech? OR will we just get more of the same? Having affection for the franchise is an eternal suffering. Similar to what Warner does with DC Quote
Big s Posted March 18 Posted March 18 15 minutes ago, Old_Nash_II said: Posted yeasterday in his Facebook page. Will HG finally show something new in Robotech? OR will we just get more of the same? Having affection for the franchise is an eternal suffering. Similar to what Warner does with DC Probably nothing new, but might talk about streaming on crunchy roll or something else kinda basic. Might be lucky and see some prototype upcoming toys Quote
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