Quote from: jeff37923;1033399Since the license agreement with Harmony Gold, Macross has become almost as popular as Space Battleship Yamato or Gundam in Japan and across the world - but due to the license, none of the rest of the Macross franchise can be exported legally to the US. They will milk Robotech for all that it is worth, but the profits could be so much greater if they loosened up a little.

Quote from: Ras Algethi;1033412How would HG benefit from other Macross properties? And, again, how does not seeing other Macross derivatives come to the US equate to "doing nothing with it"?

Quote from: jeff37923;1033430I think you are being deliberately obtuse, but I'll play along.

If HG allowed their license agreement to be renegotiated into allowing Macross to split off of Robotech and become a separate line then they would also be placing themselves in the best position to license that line and bring an entire franchise into a new market which could be extremely profitable. Robotech, as a brand and a property, has been played out by now - especially with the lawsuits involved with it because no new material can be made without dealing with the mountain of legal crap that has been dumped on it since the '80s.

Quote from: Ras Algethi;1033434You assume they have the rights to the other Macross series and/or that they somehow could gain those rights. Let's not even get into brand confusion when the same mecha/mech/vehicle might be see in multiple different franchises (Robotech, Macross and Battletech for example).

Maybe you should question Tatsunoko's deals with HG and be pissed at them giving, on multiple occasions, HG the rights to do what they've done.

Quote from: RPGPundit;1033625I love, I fucking love, Robotech.  But I think Harmony Gold is absolute shit. And they've pissed away Robotech's potential while doing all kind of bad practices.