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This is the final weekend of Robotech sales by Palladium Books. This happened once before. My first ever RPG book was Invid Invasion, so I have been a Palladium fan for a great many years. Do any of you remember when Palladium lost the Robotech license last time? Was it 1998? We're these forums even around back then?

The forums where still available after the first loss of license.

it was about 99 or so yeah. The last thing they produced iirc was the revised Return of the Masters book with an extra 30 pages or so in it including new mecha.

Considering the name of the forum still includes Macross II I would imagine the forum won't go anywhere.

If it DOES, PM me. I can give a couple of options for Robotech discussions elsewhere.

It took me a long time to realize there was a longer verision of Return of the Masters. That was one of my favorite Robotech Books.

How long was the license lost back then and why was it lost? Does anyone know?

4-5 years

I believe the first license expired after 20 years and there was not much interest in Robotech at the time. There were not even DVDs for Robotech at the time.

DocTom wrote:I believe the first license expired after 20 years and there was not much interest in Robotech at the time. There were not even DVDs for Robotech at the time.

And the licensed comic lines were all over the place story- and quality-wise. They'd gone from the grittiness that was Malcontent Uprisings to the horror that was Robotech: Mordecai.

taalismn wrote:

DocTom wrote:I believe the first license expired after 20 years and there was not much interest in Robotech at the time. There were not even DVDs for Robotech at the time.

And the licensed comic lines were all over the place story- and quality-wise. They'd gone from the grittiness that was Malcontent Uprisings to the horror that was Robotech: Mordecai.

and HG at that point were still in their 'rubberstamping" period where as long as it was vaguely connected, they were allowing it.

note that this lack of any attempt to curate their own setting was part of the reason there was such a big backlash when HG finally got around to clearing house of the old stuff, creating an actual canon policy, and rebooting the comic spinoffs to fit into a coherent setting. they basically invalidated over a decade of fan group think based off the novels and comics as much if not more than the show, which till that point was the closest you had to 'canon'.

R.I.P. Lobotech... may Tommy Yung (sp?) take a dip in raw lye and shampooo with hydrofluroric-acid.
https://youtu.be/X3EA2cXhA_M

DhAkael wrote:R.I.P. Lobotech... may Tommy Yung (sp?) take a dip in raw lye and shampooo with hydrofluroric-acid.
https://youtu.be/X3EA2cXhA_M

Come now DhAk, how do you REALLY feel?

jaymz wrote:

DhAkael wrote:R.I.P. Lobotech... may Tommy Yung (sp?) take a dip in raw lye and shampooo with hydrofluroric-acid.
https://youtu.be/X3EA2cXhA_M

Come now DhAk, how do you REALLY feel?

Much as I hate having the possibility of Robotech (tm) RPG going to some hack-job corporate monster like Bastiches of the Coast or *shudder* an 'Indie' company... I am actually happy that in just a couple of years time, we might actually get some PROPER Macross anime from over the pond (legal stuff too; not the "perfectly legitimate DVD's" you have to order from... 'places')/ I'm not saying we will... but who knows *shrug*

I'll just be happy to see HG choke on it.

Pity that Palladium (and all the backers for RT:T) and the people who enjoyed the RPG have to take the short end.

Well...DhAk, it won't stop me from enjoying Robotech or Macross regardless.

You are welcome to join me in enjoying despite the folly and such