Forum - View topicNEWS: Harmony Gold's Macross, Mospeada, Southern Cross Licenses Still Expire in 2021
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reanimator
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Thank you for the correction. I don't know a jack about Battletech so I thought they're from from the same company. |
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Mr Adventure
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Lest we forget, the original Jetfire from Transformers was just a repurposed Valkyrie. Mecha licenses used to be weird. And liberal.
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hikura
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I just hope they lose their license to the series.It time for america to get all of the macross material we want legally.I know we can get the imports but some of us either do not speak japanese well or not at all.I am able to speak some.
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hikura
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I thought jetfire was based on the F-14 tomcat.I know Kawamori based the valkrie on the tomcat. |
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Mr Adventure
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http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Jetfire_(G1)/toys#Generation_1
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I was making a joke at their expense. |
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TymersRealm
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Let's just say that I, and a lot of other Battletech fans, are just waiting for something to really show how much of a troll HG is and want to see the full weight of TOPPS (BT table-top rights) and Microsoft (Electronic gaming rights) and tell HG to f-off once and for all.
As it is, HG's most recent trolling of the companies behind Mechwarrior Online and the new Battletech PC game is affecting Catalyst Game Labs (table-top licenseor) current visual "Classic" redesign project concerning the Macross-inspired Mechs. And I so much wanted to see them in the Succession Wars Tech Readout compilation that was just released. |
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Sergorn
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Honestly I'm not sure. I think there must be a loophole somewhere that makes some of this stuff acceptable in print but not in animated format. Either way Harmony Gold technically has no rights to those designs, which is wh them suing anything that ressembles Macross feels so ridiculous. Bottom line : it's a complete clusterfuck. -Sergorn |
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LaytonPuzzle27
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Speaking of BattleTech and MechWarrior both series are making comeback this year and 2018.
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reanimator
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Here's the HARMONY GOLD, USA, INC. v. TATSUNOKO PRODUCTION CO., LTD. court decision for anyone intersted in details:
https://www.leagle.com/decision/infdco20170830639 |
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jr240483
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OH HELL NO!!!! if they actually do that, especially since that thorn is the side of a company is out of business, even the most die hard tatsunoko fans would scream bloody murder. but whatever their doing to keep this strangle hold, its more or less become a focal point for some companies since 4kids pretty much did similar things to keep the license for YGO. even went so far and declare bankruptcy, got restructured and its remnants got renames as 4k media (how original) just to keep the franchise. though they couldn't have don't it without a little help from konami who have also become irrelevant. unfortunately 4 years is far too long to save the series. by the time that happens, its possible miss mari would be in retirement so the chances of any company doing what ADV did would be out of the question. more importantly , what US company would even take the risk? unless viz media takes the license and gives it the SM treatment, its unlikely it will ever be released in the US and I don't think nor would I blame tatsunoko for ever allowing another US company to license the franchise ever again. its ashame that it didn't go in their favor. but then again, a US court will ALWAYS side with a US company over a foreign company, so they were in a massive lose lose situation and it the fans that pays the price for the greed of crappy ass companies like harmony gold. |
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LaytonPuzzle27
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As much I don't like what Konami is doing right now it like closing up game development but it would be hilarious if they shut down 4K Media.
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Redbeard 101
Oscar the Grouch
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They also had a long line of books as well. The first half under the Battletech name and then the second half under the Mech Warrior name. They actually weren't bad. I used to play the card game as well. |
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Sergorn
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Why would.... you want Macross to be redubed, again, with Mari Ijima, again ? If Macross would get free of Harmony Gold, another company could licence it, could probably licence the dub ADV it and make a Blu Ray release of it. Macross is a 35 year old series, 4 more years won't change anything.
Tatsunoko has no "say" in the franchise.If the trademark issue ever get resolved any interested third party would have to deal with Big West and Bandai. And they they can do it, they'll do it, Kawamoi is legitimately pissed that he can't release his Macross series in the US and have them avaiable through streaming and all as they are aired in Japan. If anything he'll make sure this happens if the rights clusterfuck ever gets resolved -Sergorn |
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NJ_
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By that logic, they would have never licensed out Speed Racer ever again after settling their lawsuit with Speed Racer Enterprises in 2014 but they did to FUNimation 1 year later so Tatsunoko should be fine with licensing out Mospeada, which they do have say over, after this is dealt with while Macross & Southern Cross will have to be through Big West. |
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