jaymz wrote:In the meantime we get the awesome news that The Shadow Chronicles as getting another re-release.....in Spanish.....isn't that AWESOME?..........wait, nope same mediocre crap my bad.
What, that news didn't blow your mind and shake up the cosmic order?
Nightmask wrote:A sad truth about things, that if the executives aren't interested it doesn't matter how much market demand there is for something the market won't get it.
True enough... and sometimes those same executives can't help but meddle in what would have been a good thing, and consequentially turn it into complete garbage. (One show the executives really screwed the pooch on was
Star Trek: Voyager... reading the "series plan" and comparing it against what actually aired is kind of scary in its own right. The two versions of the story are like night and day.
Selling the senior management on ideas seems to be an insurmountable obstacle where the
Robotech franchise is concerned. Tommy Yune and Kevin McKeever have both said a fair bit about how their bosses view the brand's prospects, and it's not encouraging. Their specific anecdotes point to the more general problem that Harmony Gold doesn't think that it's worth the investment of time and money to do more than the bare minimum to keep RT limping along. (Looking back at the franchise's track record, it's not hard to see why they don't want to throw more resources into it.)
Dewitt667 wrote:So these little twigs (sans the berries) would rather made a little money, than make real money by running with a good thing. If this is so, then why do these oafs still have jobs.
Yes and no... they'd rather risk a little (or nothing at all) in exchange for a little return than sink real money into it and risk losing it if the project has a catastrophic meltdown like every other time they've tried. Every time they've gotten serious about it, they've gotten burned when things inevitably fell apart. It's not like it's even their main line of work, it's more of a side business or a hobby. Their main deal is real estate and rental properties in Cali.
Dewitt667 wrote:If HG doesn't want to put out anything new then why don't they sale the IP off to rid themselves of something that they aren't really making anything off of? (this seem to be the way they are handling the fans demands for new stuff)
Why doesn't HG sale the IP to Big West or Bandai since they seem to know how to keep a IP productive over the long run. But that is just my to cent
Well... at present, Harmony Gold seems to be content to sit back and rake in a little bit of cash here and there with various re-releases of finished work whose production costs have already been recouped. They made a sort of halfhearted attempt to get people to pay the franchise some attention by getting the series on SPACE and getting Part 1 of the planned RTSC OVA out, but neither really panned out.
Personally, I'm inclined to suspect that they've given up on trying to revive
Robotech and get people to take it seriously as anime and they're keeping things in a holding pattern while they wait and hope that someone (probably WB) offers to buy it.
If you're at all keen on the idea of having more of
Robotech, suggesting that they sell the rights to Big West or Bandai is probably the worst suggestion you could make. Bandai's in bed with Big West and has been for a long time, so the most likely outcome of a sale like that would be that
Robotech would be shelved and dismantled in favor of bringing the rest of the much more successful
Macross franchise to the US.
I think I've heard this one before? You make something with someone else' money, make it a flop, and walk way with the money. Didn't Mel Broocks write this scenario?
