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[Red October911]

Basically a mech show in the veins of that cheesy MechWarrior 4 Vengeance intro

or Mechcommander



Does such a show even exist? I've been searching without any luck so far, it would be a damn shame if such a show didn't exist...

Edited by Red October911, 01 April 2016 - 05:22 PM.

[Dirty Starfish]

I know you don't want anime, but Gundam 08th ms team is very very good for that kind of serious stompy robot fighting.

[Aleksandr Sergeyevich Kerensky]

Edited by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Kerensky, 01 April 2016 - 07:10 PM.

[Aleksandr Sergeyevich Kerensky]

Marack Drock the Unicorn Wizard, on 01 April 2016 - 09:09 PM, said:

He said NOT a cartoon

That isnt a cartoon! Its a historically accurate documentary. It might look like a cartoon, but its just that the video cameras they used are really old and out dated. Thats the problem with you youngsters... Everything thats not in 4k ultra hd looks like a cartoon to you.

[Nightshade24]

Marack Drock the Unicorn Wizard, on 01 April 2016 - 09:09 PM, said:

He said NOT a cartoon

HD cameras are lostech

[Red October911]

Dirty Starfish, on 01 April 2016 - 05:49 PM, said:

I know you don't want anime, but Gundam 08th ms team is very very good for that kind of serious stompy robot fighting.

Thx I guess I'll check it out nonetheless

Marack Drock the Unicorn Wizard, on 01 April 2016 - 06:35 PM, said:

Well to bad you are out of luck. Anime practically made the Mecha genre (FASA stole designs from the anime Robotech). There aren't (to my knowledge) any none anime/cartoon mech shows.

That's unfortunate, I'd love to see a Battletech TV series perhaps something like Battlestar Galactica, but instead of being chased by Cylons, being chased by the Clans.

Or just a reboot of the animated series, except make it less animated and add more drama and violence.

[Mechteric]

Cross your fingers that maybe Netflix could pick it up as an original series

[Rushin Roulette]

Robojox and Pacific Rim anyone?

[Hit the Deck]

Rushin Roulette, on 04 April 2016 - 05:30 AM, said:

Robojox and Pacific Rim anyone?

I thought about those but then he said "show" as in "tv show/series" I suppose. One more thing I as a non native speaker don't instantly get!

[Rushin Roulette]

Hit the Deck, on 04 April 2016 - 06:21 AM, said:

I thought about those but then he said "show" as in "tv show/series" I suppose. One more thing I as a non native speaker don't instantly get!

Well... I didnt want to go quite that low... but as even Robojox has been refused....

Enter at your own peril but be prepared to feel really, really sick afterwards though..

Spoiler

You have been warned

Spoiler

its the original Ginyu force (or however that is spellt)

Edited by Rushin Roulette, 04 April 2016 - 06:44 AM.

[TheArisen]

Marack Drock the Unicorn Wizard, on 01 April 2016 - 06:35 PM, said:

Well to bad you are out of luck. Anime practically made the Mecha genre (FASA stole designs from the anime Robotech). There aren't (to my knowledge) any none anime/cartoon mech shows.

Technically they didn't steal em from Robotech, but thats a longer story.

[SnagaDance]

They operated in good faith under the assumption the party they had an agreement with actually did have the rights to license the designs, so that's not really theft. It's not like they got them from some shady guy in an alley that offered them cheap designs that had fallen of some truck.

[Metus regem]

Marack Drock the Unicorn Wizard, on 05 April 2016 - 09:45 PM, said:

Well... they did and they didn't. They got "rights" to the designs from people who didn't actually have official rights to the designs, and then they ended up being Harmony Gold's sue happy spank toy if I recall. Either way it wasn't completely legal for them to use the designs.

They used them and they weren't theirs to use. So... kinda theftish? oh well.

HG never got the rights from the actual IP holder either...

[Richard Hazen]

Could try Heavy Gear, dunno if it's still going I remember seeing it when I was younger.

Edited by Will Hawker, 06 April 2016 - 07:09 AM.

[Metus regem]

Marack Drock the Unicorn Wizard, on 07 April 2016 - 05:04 PM, said:

No. They got it from the International distributor of the series that had ALL rights to the Robotech images outside of Japan. So legally they have the sole rights to those images outside of Japan. FASA did not have any legal rights to have those images. Harmony Gold does.

FASA bought the rights from a distributor for the art work, so they were good as well. HG got 'international' rights from a company that had Japanese distribution rights, Big West / Studio Nu took HG to task over. Ever notice how you never hear about Zentradi or Maltrani after the Macross arc? That was due to the actual owners of the rights telling HG to stuff it, and that they could not use those races any more. Also part of the reason Robotech II; the Sentinels got canned.