{"id":3161,"date":"2009-07-24T07:30:12","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T07:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anymoon.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/24\/day-2-update-the-robotech-panel\/"},"modified":"2012-10-13T00:59:47","modified_gmt":"2012-10-13T00:59:47","slug":"day-2-update-the-robotech-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anymoon.com\/blog\/?p=3161","title":{"rendered":"Day 1 Update: The Robotech Panel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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SDCC09 Coverage: Holy Crap… Tommy Yune stole my photo!<\/p>\n

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I’ll spatter this post with random pictures from the convention but none of them will really be Robotech related.\u00a0 Today’s only Robotech news was the Robotech panel hosted by Tommy Yune (featuring Steve Yun with special guest Carl Macek).\u00a0 The panel begun with some humor about how this was supposed to be the year that the Earth was invaded and how distant this year seemed back in ’85.\u00a0 Clips of other movies set in the “distant” future were shown and juxtaposed with some newer stuff… including a picture from my review of the Maia MPC (strangely lacking my “watermark” but Tommy was cool and said he’d add it back after the panel).<\/p>\n

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From there Tommy introduced Carl Macek who answered a few fan questions about his background and his interest in science and science fiction.\u00a0 Tommy then moved on to a PowerPoint style presentation of all the current and near-future releases of Robotech merchandise.\u00a0 To summarize, Robotech Shadow Chronicles is going international with some new 3D art, Palladium is pumping out more books, and Toynami is putting out a Battlepod toy.\u00a0 So what’s in store for Robotech’s future?\u00a0 There was a quick run down of all the writers who have been involved so far and word that a merchandising agreement had been reached with WB to handle the merchandise that would coincide with a movie release.\u00a0 In one of the more\u00a0awkward moments, Tommy asked the crowd “Hey, how many of you would like an MPC Beta with a Synchro cannon?”\u00a0 There wasn’t a single enthusiastic person in the crowd.\u00a0 “What about Shadow Rising?” a fan asked.\u00a0 Tommy gave a pretty frank answer to that by throwing up a “Westside” finger salute and saying “It’s all about the benjamins bitch!”<\/p>\n

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Okay, that last part didn’t happen.\u00a0 Tommy phrased things a bit better by saying he can get a lot better deal for Shadow Rising if WB can blow the Robotech name up a bit.\u00a0 The signals got a little mixed there as he said he knew the fans wanted fresh content but that any action on WB’s part might be so far away “who knows what the fighter plane of that day will be to serve as the basis of the veritech’s replacement.”\u00a0 Read: don’t hold your breath on Shadow Rising.\u00a0 The Q&A then included some fun stuff from Carl Macek on Robotech: The Movie (AKA The Untold Story).\u00a0 In short, it was supposed to be Do You Remember Love? but with Macross’ popularity the rights were too expensive.\u00a0 Since Megazone 23 was a similar looking anime\u00a0it was grabbed as a suitable replacement but the bigwigs at Cannon insisted on twisting it until it really wasn’t what it was ever intended to be.\u00a0 When asked if it’d ever see light again as a DVD the answer was a pretty resounding “no” but Macek thought it’d make good stuff for a novelization where it wouldn’t just look like a bad mash-up of Megazone.<\/p>\n

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