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Ninja Division Prepare to Take Robotech to Kickstarter
March 26, 2013 by dracs
Ninja Division, one of the collaborating companies working to bring the game of Robotech RPG Tactics to reality, have published some new previews on their Facebook.
Made in conjunction with Cipher Studios and Palladium Books, the Robotech RPG Tactics game is set to appear on kickstarter at the beginning of April and should make for an interesting gaming experience.
The miniatures look pretty cool too. I mean who doesn't love the massive mechanical mayhem of big robots?
Do you guys think this could be a worthy investment?
The only thing I care about: Are these scaled such that they could fit on a Battletech hex base? Because I wouldn’t mind having a real Warhammer mini again. #UnseenNoMore
Those are pretty darn awesome! And so my love/hate relationship with Kickstarter continues to blossom.
Looks good and all but the first preview pic. The pose looks really static. Kinda boring
Won’t the japanese sue the studio for ripping off the Macross designs wholesale?
Aside from that, pretty nifty and nice models, true to the source designs.
Actually, FASA licensed the designs and paid to use them (licensed through TCI, the original company to negotiate the US rights to those images from Studio Nue). Harmony Gold also licensed those same toy rights years later and they probably never would have noticed FASA if their US business partner, Playmates, hadn’t tried to ripoff an original Clan mech design (the Mad Cat) after a business deal with FASA fell through. When FASA did the right thing and sued Playmates, Harmony Gold turned around and filed a retaliatory suit against FASA for copyright violations because they claimed the rights that were sold to FASA under good faith were invalid because TCI didn’t have import derivatives rights (a claim that has been hotly debated over the years and is often used as a study subject for law students studying copyright–the whole FASA/Harmony Gold case is literally a textbook case in how not to handle international licensing). Playmates has never paid their court-ordered debts to FASA, and Harmony Gold never found a way to turn their victory against FASA into a profitable revenue stream.
So I guess the only people who definitively ripped anything off were Playmates (as determined in a court of law). FASA could be accused, at worst, of not doing their homework when first licensing the images from TCI, but there is a still a lot of debate over whether TCI actually had import derivatives rights. Their contract with Studio Nue seems to imply that they do, but Harmony Gold’s lawyers managed to convince the court otherwise. But hey, it’s good you looked into the story before making a hyperbolic statement about it.
Now those bring back memories but not from Robotech. I have never seen that one. Instead I have watched lot of Macross franchise and I also know these from Battletech as unseen mechs.
Robotech is sort of a mixup of various bits of the Macross franchise, from what I recall my friend saying. While it is technically Macross, it’s not as good. Unfortunately we can’t get Macross in the UK (dunno about US) because we have Robotech.
Robotech is mostly the first Macross series, combined with some Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross and some Genesis Climber MOSPEADA. The story is pretty wildly divergent from the source material having been re-edited and rewritten. Personally, I think the mech and motorcycle/powerarmor designs from mospeada were the best part of the Robotech series, but everybody goes nuts for Macross.
Animeigo very briefly had the license for the original Macross series in the US, and they produced a totally restored and remastered DVD box set of the entire series which was sold to pre-orders only (in a manner very similar to Kickstarter, but before there was a kickstarter.com). If I’m not mistaken, Harmony Gold screwed up that deal too. I had that set, but honestly, the series hasn’t held up very well. (I eventually ebayed it.) The production values on the original Macross are embarrassingly low. Most of the animation was farmed out to contractors, and about a third of the total frames from the series are reused over and over again.
When you look back at the stuff from that era it’s easy to see why Studio Nue licensed the property to just about anybody who asked. They were squeezing every last drop of revenue out of what they had (and they got a lot out of Macross). I don’t think they imagined at the time that it would have the long-term value it ended up having.
This looks good, what a shame it’s based on that bastard that was robotech, and not the original macross
I watched this in Oz as a kid will def be getting this I loved Robotech and still do!