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<blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 7754963" data-attributes="member: 37579">No. Okay, buckle up for a real quick deep dive. In the ‘80s there was a popular anime named Macross. Following in the success of other anime ported into English, a company bought the rights to Macross to dub. But found they couldn’t sell it as there were too few episodes (you needed 100 for syndication). So they took two other completely unrelated anime whose only common element was transforming vehicles, and mashed them together with Macross. And called it Robotech. It was popular and repeated attempts to relaunch and produce sequels have been attempted, but all have failed save a direct-to-DVD movie. Meanwhile, Macross and related anime licensed the rights to their mecha designs to other companies. Battletech filled out the designs of its mechs with those, during its early days. As did Transformers (the original Jetfire was one), as the G1 toys were a hodgepodge of Japanese transforming toys mashed together. The company that owns Robotech, Harmony Gold, has sued over their designs a few times. They hilariously sued Hasbro over a SanDiego Comic Con promotional Jetfire, demanding everyone who bought the toys return them. So it’s an RPG based on an ‘80s Frankenstein TV-show owned by a litigious company that now has a phenomenally cheesy dub. I think it’s currently on Netflix.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jester David, post: 7754963, member: 37579"] No. Okay, buckle up for a real quick deep dive. In the ‘80s there was a popular anime named [I]Macross[/I]. Following in the success of other anime ported into English, a company bought the rights to [I]Macross[/I] to dub. But found they couldn’t sell it as there were too few episodes (you needed 100 for syndication). So they took two other completely unrelated anime whose only common element was transforming vehicles, and mashed them together with [I]Macross[/I]. And called it [I]Robotech[/I]. It was popular and repeated attempts to relaunch and produce sequels have been attempted, but all have failed save a direct-to-DVD movie. Meanwhile, [I]Macross[/I] and related anime licensed the rights to their mecha designs to other companies. [I]Battletech[/I] filled out the designs of its mechs with those, during its early days. As did [I]Transformers[/I] (the original Jetfire was one), as the G1 toys were a hodgepodge of Japanese transforming toys mashed together. The company that owns [I]Robotech[/I], Harmony Gold, has sued over their designs a few times. They hilariously sued Hasbro over a SanDiego Comic Con promotional Jetfire, demanding everyone who bought the toys return them. So it’s an RPG based on an ‘80s Frankenstein TV-show owned by a litigious company that now has a phenomenally cheesy dub. I think it’s currently on Netflix. [/QUOTE]

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