Comments on The Protoculture Times: A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE UEG PRODUCTIONS/HG SITUATION...

Come on Maverick? Where are ya? We know your watc...

2010-02-18T21:17:19.800-06:00

Come on Maverick? Where are ya? We know your watching and reading.. so give us your 2 Canadian cents!

You and Memo need to accept a few simple facts. We know about you. We know your deep dark secrets that people that know you have shared and apparently the only value you can find in your lives is the "power" you wield at Robotech.com.

I only learned about UEG and this project recently but i know two things already.

1. Robotech Genesis's production value FAR FAR exceeds the dated crap that is Shadow Chronicles. now THAT is what Shadow Chronicles should have been striving for with their mecha... not passing off that POS.

2. If Harmony Gold allows Memo to continue with his "fan film", then they are hypocrites.. and actually you know what, they are already proving themselves to be hypocrites. On the Official Robotech fan page with the whopping 3,243 fans (as opposed to the fan page with over 90,000 fans) they have a picture of a Southern Cross fan film!!!

So basically... you'll support and allow projects that you don't think are better than what you can make on your own? See now you shouldn't be acting all high and mighty, but rather you should be saying, that's great work, and now we see where the bar is, and we are gonna beat that!

Kevin, you wanna see how to support a fan community? Look at Voltron.com and the fan projects, the fan art, the incredible work they are doing over there! Now THAT is how you support the fans and allow their creativity. And ya know, an even bigger and better example? From a franchise that crushes you?

http://www.theforce.net/fanfilms/

Star Wars... i mean, DAMN another case of fan films that CRUSH the crap that you guys put out. When fans can homebrew better CGI than you guys with a budget? well, that just says something, now don't it?

But ya know, I ain't all loud and one sided and Dogmatic like the fans of HG.. ya I'm looking at you Maverick... I get that fan projects can go either way. Legend of Neil thrives, the Megaman film is on the way and blessed by Capcom, The Hero of Time was sacked by Nintendo. The rights holders of the IP have rights to protect their ability the commercialize a product. The important thing though is to know how to interact with the fan community, because it is these types of fan projects that inspire fans to become more and more involved with an IP, especially when there is NOTHING coming out from the rights holder. (RPG does not count because really, how many people actually buy and play it? And dont get me started on the Blu-Ray of TSC) The void must be filled, and its the Trekkies, the Jedis, the Browncoats that keep a property alive.. not cheap sweatshirts and re-prints of old comics. If the only fans that you can embrace and accept, as is demonstrated on the forums, are the fans that support the company line, then that speaks alot about the state of the company.

Sounds like business as usual to me. HG legal's be...

2010-02-18T01:23:55.115-06:00

Sounds like business as usual to me. HG legal's been pulling dick moves like this for years -- they've done it before, they'll do it again, and again, and again. These are the same people who sent threatening letters to every mom & pop anime store in the country telling them not to sell import Macross merchandise about seven or eight years ago, y'know?

Of course, I've been so out of the loop I didn't even know UEG was still working on Genesis. Thought it'd floated off into the ether, as just one more piece of fan-crafted vaporware. Last I saw it was just cool designs, a slick trailer, big talk -- a demo reel, a showpiece, but no story and no soul. Mind you, a soulless demo piece with some flashy visuals could still have ended as a more professional piece of entertainment than Shadow Chronicles, but it would equally fail at recapturing the essence of what Robotech is ...

Anyway, all under the rug now. Probably better that they're channeling their energies into something they own, something they can make their own mark with. Funny, though, that HG's legal team is so litigious when Transformers owners Hasbro don't go around stomping out fan-professionals making high quality replicas of their own blasted products. Is it just that they're so much smaller and thus more scared of lost revenue, or being unable to enforce their rights over the material? Hmm.

All my best to UEG! HG's cease and desist simply s...

2010-02-17T23:35:26.346-06:00

All my best to UEG! HG's cease and desist simply speaks for the quality of your work. (They feel threatened by you!)

JT - Your commentary is not just ONE fan's opinion. I think there are many who would agree with you. As for Steve putting Memo and Mav up for public ridicule, I would have to adamantly disagree! THEY DO IT THEMSELVES! HE HE HE

From the good days of Robocon 10 to the pinnacle of RT fandom at Robocon20.... to now this... Sad day indeed!

Right on mark JT, right on the mark couldn't have ...

2010-02-17T22:56:55.258-06:00

Right on mark JT, right on the mark
couldn't have said it better myself... well I could have been more vulgar but that's about it =]

A sad day indeed for the fans. Good Luck UEG in yo...

2010-02-17T21:07:18.452-06:00

A sad day indeed for the fans. Good Luck UEG in your future projects