Until the Japanese companies decide to get involved and lay down their authority it's just going to stay that way because it makes HG the defacto owner since no one challenges it legally. ![]() Harmony Gold goes on a rampage anytime anyone even remotely uses anything from Robotech/Macross throwing out cease and desist orders when it's original licenses only cover the very basic items and that from a company that could only give those very basic licenses. They are VERY different as Harmony Gold made Robotech by changing up things from Macross and then tacking two other animes on the end of it and calling it a series where the Macross universe diverged significantly after the original show (which was heavily edited to make Robotech.) They claim they have the rights to everything related to Robotech and Macross in the US (which they do not, only distribution rights and merchandise rights outside of Japan,) which they received from Tatsunoko Productions who did the animation work for Macross and only had the rights to the physical animation but nothing else (no characters, story, designs, etc.) Studio Nue owns the rights to the characters, story, art/etc and Big West was the financial partner that helped make it happen. Harmony Gold USA is the company that produces Robotech, the American version of Macross. Ok guys, fill me in.who the hell is "Harmony Gold"? The old Marauder just frustrates the hell out of me.Įdited by Nathan Foxbane, 11 September 2015 - 01:58 PM. I know there is a lot of nostalgia for both BT and Macross tied up in those looks, but those looks only really fit in the latter not the former. Where to even begin on how messed up the waist and hips are? The turret mechanism is too small to pass the ammo through, is the ammo stored with the weapon up there? Does to pilot lay down to look through the viewport or do they actually have to sit so far back in the 'Mech as to make it superfluous? What possible purpose do those ground facing tubes serve? It's a 'Mech not a catfish! Is that a weapon barrel or a sensor boom below the viewport and why is it consuming space the pilot could be sitting in? The truncated cone on the bottom, what purpose does it serve if it is not a jump jet and if it is why mount it there? Was this thing designed in an asylum for insane Battlemech engineers? Those arms are not going to take an AC/20 or PPC without snapping like rotten twigs (a feature that actually bugged me in the art for certain very popular Clan heavies as well). The following are not things to be feared, they are things to be mocked. The newer ones, even the reseen, are at least 'Mechs I can fear by appearance and not just loadout rather than laugh at how absurd the proportions are. The look never inspired the fear its description in the books did. I was never very attached to the original Marauder, but while I had MW2 back when MS DOS was a thing I did not get into BT proper until the late '90's and by then the Marauder looked very out of pace stylistically. That doesn't mean I have to be happy about it. I accepted some time ago we weren't getting the Marauder as I know it, though. ![]() Every reseen version I've seen just looks weird to me. ![]() I might change my mind when I see it in game, but I'm not holding my breath.
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