There is several reasons why it will never see a release in the EU, US, or anywhere else. The biggest reason though is because Carl Macek disowned the film after it's horrible test run in Texas.
So? It's not like the film is public domain. Carl's dead. It's not up to him anymore.
Other problems consist of taking 16mm film and combining it with 35mm film. which btw on the big screen looks horrendous.
So how does that affect a DVD/Blu-Ray release?
Harmony Gold screwed with the script Macek had worked on and changed to much from what Macek had originally intended which was to do a straight dub of Megazone 23.
That's not a reason.
Harmony Golds storage rooms were flooded and the original negatives were destroyed.
That wasn't actually true. Unless you want to tell me the SOUTHERN CROSS footage of the movie available in the A&E box set was actually made from bootleg material.
Also I don't know who owns the License to Megazone 23 or Southern Cross in Europe, but in the US Harmony Gold kept the license to Southern Cross but dropped the license to Megazone 23.
Yes, now that Carl Macek has passed on, no ownership of MEGAZONE 23 PART 1 is the one reason why there will never be a new release of the full, uncut ROBOTECH: THE MOVIE.
Carl supposedly prevented it from being released with the ADV box set of the series.
Though honestly I don't know why people like this film at all, it was terrible Carl Macek admitted it was terrible and he's the creator of Robotech!, and it doesn't even hold a candle to the movie "Macross: Do you Remember Love?" which was many times better.
There have been far worse movies, with much bigger fanbases. It's a so bad it's good kind of movie. It's sloppily edited, but a fun, entertaining movie with good characters, music, and action. And who cares if Carl Macek hated it? He also wanted ROBOTECH: LOVE LIVE ALIVE to be made, and that film might-as-well have been called
ROBOTECH FLASHBACKS: THE MOVIE.
MACROSS: DO YOU REMEMBER LOVE? is a good film, but is nothing like ROBOTECH: THE MOVIE. It's silly to denounce one film simply because the other is better.
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-Harmony Golds storage rooms were flooded and the original negatives were destroyed.-
That wasn't actually true. Unless you want to tell me the SOUTHERN CROSS footage of the movie available in the A&E box set was actually made from bootleg material.
For all we know the Southern Cross footage could be work that was on broadcast masters that they never used for the show, if the flood story is correct. This would mean they would have other sources for the A&E Box set cut. There could be a complete tape master floating around somewhere, but as mentioned due to licensing problems with the footage it probably will never get an official DVD release.
As for Blu ray, Harmony Gold has stated quite a few times at conventions that they do not even have enough funds/man power to make HD masters of the original 16 mm film masters of Robotech. What makes anyone think they would make a HD master of a film they do not consider cannon anymore? And that is assuming that they still have a film master of the movie in it's entirety.
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