It's near on impossible that the movie will ever see release again. Harmony Gold let the rights go and it's doubtful they'll go after them again. Besides, MEGAZONE 23 has been out for a while now and it's popular, even considered a classic, while the ROBOTECH movie is considered the opposite.
Never saw MEGAZONE 23, but think I shouldn't, cause I really like the ROBOTECH version.
Carl did say once he doesn't mind if another studio released it right? But fat chance of that happening, the movie is probably too forgotten and there's obviously a lot of rights issues. I wish Cannon had made a deal with MGM to secure a DVD release.
And as for the original cut of the flick, it's been rumored that it doesn't exist anymore. Which is a shame really.
That You Tube clip must be all that's left.
It's was kind of forced upon them, Carl Macek especially. Macek didn't even want to do it. Now had they been given the time and money to actually make a movie rather then resort to dubbing a pre-existing OAV and trying to fit it into the ROBOTECH universe, then I think things would be different.
Why did he then? I hear Cannon wanted to make one, as they wanted to cash in on films like TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE. 1986 seemed to be a big year for cartoons being made into movies.
If they had the time and money to make a movie, what do you think they would've made? Someone on the ROBOTECH board mentioned Carl wanted MACROSS: DO YOU REMEMBER LOVE to be the movie. I wouldn't have wanted that as it's just a squashed version of the series, even with better animation, I would've wanted something new.
Perhaps THE SENTINELS was their idea for a new sequel. Or maybe, just maybe they would've come up with the SHADOW CHRONICLES idea.
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Shockblaster
15 years ago
Well I suggest giving MEGAZONE 23 Part I a look into to see the OAV that helped make ROBOTECH: The Movie. Although if you are going to view it and insist on an English dub, I suggest viewing the Streamline Pictures dub (done by Macek and several others who worked on ROBOTECH) instead of the recent ADV dub, which I found horrid.
I think that clip is all that exists. Some have claimed they've seen the original cut and just say it's MEGAZONE 23 fit into the ROBOTECH universe, but then THAT'S what was planned for it to begin with. Saying they've seen it is one thing, but proving they have is another. I'd do anything to see the original cut since I'm a avid fan of alternate cuts (owning 100+ workprints and such) and the original cut of the ROBOTECH movie is in top 3 to gets, but again, if it still exists.
Well had they been able to make their own movie, there's a vast number of probabilities that could of been done. A prequel to the series is one, or a movie set between the gaps in the show (much like how SENTINELS was planned) or go the Shadow Chronicles way and set it after the series. I think the last would have been a better choice and who knows how it would have gone if Macek had written it.
They wouldn't have come up with the Shadow Chronicles idea 20 years ago because the crew who worked on The Shadow Chronicles is a totally different crew that worked on the series 20 years ago. Macek had his own plans of a ROBOTECH III TV series once he had finished The Sentinels (some even claim it could have gone as far as ROBOTECH IV and ROBOTECH V) but as we know, Sentinels died. Since Sentinels was kind of a sequel series to the original arc of characters, ROBOTECH III would have picked up after the last episode of the original series.
And the original idea of the movie (set during the MACROSS era) would have characters carry over to The Sentinels. Mark Laundry was actually Rick Hunter's cousin and in The Sentinels, the character of Jack Baker was originally meant to be Mark. Same with B.D. Andrews, that character was originally T.R. Edwards in The Sentinels, but when the movie's timeline was changed, the Sentinel character designs and names needed a change too.
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wallacesawyer
15 years ago
Mark Laundry was actually Rick Hunter's cousin and in The Sentinels, the character of Jack Baker was originally meant to be Mark.
Cool, I didn't know that.
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wallacesawyer
14 years ago
Mark Laundry was actually Rick Hunter's cousin and in The Sentinels, the character of Jack Baker was originally meant to be Mark.
Voices do sound similar honestly. Kerrigan Mahan probably voiced Jack Baker, but he denies anything Robotech related, unless its his MASTERS character.
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