by the fans for the fans

Gubaba wrote:

MEMO1DOMINION wrote:

AND THE PROBLEM WAS READING JAPANESE. ONE OF THE REASONS I DID NOT BUY THEM AFTERWARDS.

That's a good point, and it begs the question...Macross managed to produce a successful, 50-issue biweekly magazine.

Why doesn't Robotech do the same? In English?

I mean...Robotech is more popular than Macross, right? And if they publish it digitally, Mav says it'll be a success, right?

So why don't they?

AND

ps99041 wrote:

That's what I want to know.

AND

Waters7 wrote:

Because the technology required to deliver their product does not exist
You see Gubaba, Kevin and Tommy are such visionaries, that their ideas are way ahead of our time. Everything that they came up with is decades ahead of it's time

WAS ANNOUNCED AT COMIC CON
1.DC PICKED UP RIGHTS TO DIGITAL MEDIA
2.DEL REY TO PRINT SENTINELS BOOKS IN DIGITAL MEDIA.

NOW ITS A WAIT AND SEE.

MEMO1DOMINION wrote:

WAS ANNOUNCED AT COMIC CON
1.DC PICKED UP RIGHTS TO DIGITAL MEDIA
2.DEL REY TO PRINT SENTINELS BOOKS IN DIGITAL MEDIA.

NOW ITS A WAIT AND SEE.

Waiting with 'bated breath.

But, just to be sure...how long should I wait?

Gubaba wrote:

MEMO1DOMINION wrote:

WAS ANNOUNCED AT COMIC CON
1.DC PICKED UP RIGHTS TO DIGITAL MEDIA
2.DEL REY TO PRINT SENTINELS BOOKS IN DIGITAL MEDIA.

NOW ITS A WAIT AND SEE.

Waiting with 'bated breath.

But, just to be sure...how long should I wait?

LOL

WAS ANNOUNCED AT COMIC CON
1.DC PICKED UP RIGHTS TO DIGITAL MEDIA
2.DEL REY TO PRINT SENTINELS BOOKS IN DIGITAL MEDIA.

NOW ITS A WAIT AND SEE.

That is nowhere near the quality or the effort of a weekly magazine like Macross Chronicle... I guess people are happy with peanuts after all

Gubaba wrote:

Waiting with 'bated breath.

But, just to be sure...how long should I wait?

FROM THE PANEL TOMMY SAID THAT DC AND HG STILL WORKING THINGS OUT.
SO NOT SURE.


Waters7 wrote:

That is nowhere near the quality or the effort of a weekly magazine like Macross Chronicle... I guess people are happy with peanuts after all

TO EACH HIS OWN I GUESS.

LIKE I SAID, NOT ABLE TO READ THE MAGAZINE IS WHAT STOPPED ME FROM CONTINUING TO PICK UP THE MAGAZINES. NO MATER THE QUALITY.

MEMO1DOMINION wrote:
Waters7 wrote:

That is nowhere near the quality or the effort of a weekly magazine like Macross Chronicle... I guess people are happy with peanuts after all

TO EACH HIS OWN I GUESS.

LIKE I SAID, NOT ABLE TO READ THE MAGAZINE IS WHAT STOPPED ME FROM CONTINUING TO PICK UP THE MAGAZINES. NO MATER THE QUALITY.[/quote]

As always, you missed the point completely.
Neither Gubaba or I are talking about re-re-releasing old material in a new format. We were talking about HG producing a publication similar to Macross Chronicle.

One can only dream right?

Waters7 wrote;

That is nowhere near the quality or the effort of a weekly magazine like Macross Chronicle... I guess people are happy with peanuts after all

Gubaba wrote;

That it's simply too soon for them to be rereleasing the magazine. The first version wrapped up less than two years before, and the second version was mostly a reprint of it.

also Gubaba wrote;

That's a good point, and it begs the question...Macross managed to produce a successful, 50-issue biweekly magazine.

Waters7 wrote;

Neither Gubaba or I are talking about re-re-releasing old material in a new format. We were talking about HG producing a publication similar to Macross Chronicle.

50 issues of what now, sounds like the first run was 25 issues, with the rest being mostly reprints. Is that what we're talking about here?

Also who's telling the truth, was it weekly or biweekly? Someone needs to check their facts.

And if the magazine was a success Gubaba why did the second run ended abruptly?
Am I guessing the quality just wasn't' there?

I wouldn't' be calling that a success, more like someone looking at the situation with Rose coloured glasses.

Also, Harmony Gold is not in the magazine/book publishing business. Their business partners are however like DC comics, Del Ray, Palladium and so on.

In fact, did you know that digital editions of Protoculture Addicts: volumes 1 to 10 when it was called the official Robotech fanzine are available for purchase at DriveThruRRP?

rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/51602/Pro...ture-Addicts-%231-10

I say, Harmony Gold have their partners whom are involved in the publishing arm are working and have worked in bringing digital copies of past published works to the fans.

Future works? Well listen carefully to what was said at SDCC.

I'd say HG and their partners are on the ball with this one.

Mav...

This post is better than The Young and the Restless!!!

MaverickLSC wrote:

50 issues of what now, sounds like the first run was 25 issues, with the rest being mostly reprints. Is that what we're talking about here?

Okay, Mav...there's this really great site called "Google" ( www.google.com ) that allows you to type in things and search them all over the web.

It's one tool that people can use to do research, and it's quite handy.

If you Google "Macross Chronicle," these are two useful links which come up:

macross.anime.net/wiki/Macross_Chronicle

books.shopro.co.jp/macross/

So yeah...fifty unique issues.


MaverickLSC wrote:

Also who's telling the truth, was it weekly or biweekly? Someone needs to check their facts.

Both of us. The first run of the magazine 2008-2010 was biweekly. The second run (2012) was going to be weekly.

MaverickLSC wrote:

And if the magazine was a success Gubaba why did the second run ended abruptly?

The first, 50-issue run was successful. It was announced at fifty issues, all of them came out. The second run was going to be eighty issues, each one made up mostly of reprinted material from the first run, with some new things thrown in. It ended abruptly because there just releasing a test run and the sales weren't up to snuff. The reason that fw bought it seems to be simply that they were relaunching it too soon. (The same publisher, D'agostini, also made similar Gundam, Evangelion, Yamato and other magazines...but they usually wait three or four years before doing a reprinting).

MaverickLSC wrote:

Am I guessing the quality just wasn't' there?


I wouldn't' be calling that a success, more like someone looking at the situation with Rose coloured glasses.

As Memo might say...

YOU SEEN THE MAG? NO.
YOU KNOW WHAT YOU TALKING ABOUT? NO.
MOVING ON...

MaverickLSC wrote:

Also, Harmony Gold is not in the magazine/book publishing business. Their business partners are however like DC comics, Del Ray, Palladium and so on.

Ahem.

www.robotechx.com/forums/32-macross/1804...it=10&start=10#19179

Why doesn't HG follow your advice and release their own stuff digitally, as you suggest? Why are you advising Bandai to go a certain route and then defend HG for NOT going down that same route...?

Thoth Amon wrote:

This post is better than The Young and the Restless!!!

hahaha, hey mate you made my day with that!

Gubaba wrote:

Why doesn't HG follow your advice and release their own stuff digitally, as you suggest?

Apologies in advanced since i have not read the entire thread here. But according to the SDCC 2012 RT Panel they did. Tommy talked about releasing their stuff digitally in E-Book format.

[url=http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLqkf9MreC4#t=26m05s]SDCC 2012 RT Panel[/url]

@ 26th minute mark