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Post by triumshockwave on Jun 18, 2018 9:26:15 GMT -5
Apparently this game was an unmitigated shit show, but I kind of want to buy it just to paint up the little Valkyrie minis. Since the game is dead and the license isn't renewed, I don't have to worry that I'm giving money to Harmony Gold. Their trademark trolling asses need to hurry up and go bankrupt.
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Post by machsabre on Jun 18, 2018 23:16:31 GMT -5
Well, good news. They're already near bankruptcy. There was a Mediatrade scheme, which four companies (Harmony Gold being one of them) were found guilty and it caused some serious financial burdens on them. This lead them to that failed Kickstarter for Robotech Academy. (They couldn't afford the $500K for it.) Right now, their only hope is that the Robotech movie takes off and happens. However the deal is through Sony, and while they've been talking about it since 2014, as of last month, the deal to make the movie with Sony has yet to be finalized. Mainly because Sony themselves have had some serious problems over the last few years with financial failures on the live-action movie fronts. So they're not in a huge hurry to sign anything.
So unless someone is willing to give Harmony Gold money to make something financially viable before December 26, 2022 for the Macross Trademark... Future don't look too bright for them.
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Post by triumshockwave on Jun 19, 2018 13:35:34 GMT -5
I'm amazed they've hung in this long. I can only assume they're actually a very small company that for the most part just deals with the Robotech licensing. Probably only a couple people. Hell, Carl Macek died years ago, so he's not even around.
It's not even about shitting on Robotech. It just drives me insane that HG has been desperately clinging on trying to profit off this one property. This one property they didn't even create, it's somebody else's work. And further, preventing the original creators from being able to sell the sequels and spinoffs to their own damn property for 30 years because they went and filed a trademark on one fucking word. God, that makes me angry, and thanks to them no foreign fan under 30 probably has the slightest idea what Macross even is, so the franchise is effectively dead outside Asia. Oh, couldn't drum up 500k for a Kickstarter? Wonder fuckin why.
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Post by machsabre on Jun 19, 2018 15:19:19 GMT -5
Well, see... That's part of the embarrassing thing about it all. Sony owns Funimation, and apparently... They wanted to bring over the various Macross series for a while now. They were really hardcore into trying to get Macross Zero some years back. HG killed that when they made that shitty made for video movie in the 00s. (The Shadow Chronicles or some shit.) Unfortunately, no one gives a shit. Robotech/Macross, while a great show, just doesn't have the international punch that Gundam has. And unfortunately, as far as 1980s properties goes... It's not one of the more dominate ones either. It's not Transformers, or Thundercats or He-Man or GiJoe... And the infamous 20-30 nostalgia cycle has already passed. Anyone who gives a shit about Macross in the States are either hardcore mecha fans or are over 40. (Or both!) Newer fans aren't going to give a shit. They not only got the newer Gundams, but more newer anime as well, like Darling in the Franxx and weird ass shit like Space Battleship Tiramisu.
At least with Space Battleship Yamato, Claster Entertainment... Now owned by Hasbro of all people... Said just make what you gotta, we'll throw the Prefix title on it, making it Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2199 and leave it untouched otherwise.
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Post by triumshockwave on Jun 19, 2018 17:08:15 GMT -5
That's the way to do it. Act as the publisher or whatever, take a little off the top, and be happy with what you get. This obstructionist nonsense has made it so nobody gets anything.
I honestly think a release of Macross Frontier or Macross Delta could have found a new audience worldwide on streaming, even without the context of the previous shows. It's got moe, it's got mecha, the songs are catchy as fuck. A new viewer would probably take them at face value, where a fan of the original Robotech/Macross might be confused about how we got from "culture shock" to "literally weaponized music" if they haven't seen Macross 7 and Macross Zero to bridge that gap.
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