the_abberration wrote:
Never said ADV released them. Just pointed out how like Dragonball they came out on VHS first but were discountinued before compeletion. There are still a few of us old fossils who still use a VCR.
Fair enough but your statment acted like ADV was behind all the releases and such, you even later make a similar comment. ADV was a licensor here. If you want someone to look at its Harmony Gold. Heck HG through FUNimation released Shadow Chronicles recently, continuing robotech - ADV isnt the robotech grand masters just the current distributors (sort of like Pioneer and Kidmark were to DBZ and DB back in the day).
the_abberration wrote:
True, but it was announced that the Legacy Collection was going to be it and nothing else was coming afterward. So I can see a few people being upset when the Remastered versions came out.
And at that time they were quite correct, there was no reason to expect that harmony gold would find material they thought lost to a hurricane, and order them to recreate the show for a "more proper link up" to Shadow chronicles.
the_abberration wrote:Not to nit pick but if the extras came from the Legacy Collection, then the Protoculture Collection was a combination of Remastered and Legacy discs, which is what I was trying to say.
You worded poorly. The protoculture collection is the remix discs boxed setted with bonus discs, but not the original version of the show. This is a decently priced boxed set at that, and as EX said, those who buy earlier pay the premium of having it sooner, it was a good year to a year and a half between the remix releases and protoculture collection. Believe me I know, because I was constantly trying to save up to rebuy the show via rematsered all at once. But by the time I did have the fundage, the protoculture collection came out.
the_abberration wrote:Okay, Robotech's been out since 1985. Since it's release on the home media front in the U.S., fans have been clamoring for the ENG dubbed / JP subbed version of the series (Macross, Southern Cross, Mospeada) instead of the edited spliced together version to meet the 65 episode requirement of broadcast television of that time. It's 2007 and we are now just getting that. There have been many times up to this point were ADV could have said we already have various versions of this product out there. Hell, they even announced the were not going to do anything after Legacy...but they did. They could have waited until they got the completed version...but they didn't. Now while it is true that they at least completed the series at each run and are trying to meet fans demand, it took 12 years to finally get what we wanted. And with the new VA's on the English dub, some people are still not satisfied.
Here you go hammering on ADV. Uh ADV never released ANYTHING BEFORE Legacy collection. And the subbed as mentioned earlier for all three shows has been out, for a long, long time. As for the Macross dub, THAT one you can pin on ADV as they begged HG to let them do such in a desperate move to make money (at the time ADV was looming very close to a bankruptcy, they later survived due to partially being bought by a Japanese company which helped them pay their bills). If you want to saddle the past robotech many releases it's Harmony Gold you're after, ADV hasnt been releasing it more then twice. If its about Macross then its ADV. So ultimatly the comparison just falls flat, sorry.
the_abberration wrote:
Dragon Ball Z has been out since 2000. Since it's release on the home media front in the U.S., fans have been clamoring for the true ENG dubbed / JP subbed version of the series instead of the edited version to meet the censor board's requirement of broadcast television of that time. It's 2007 and we are now just getting that. There have been many times up to this point were could have said we already have various versions of this product out there let's pick one direction and go with it. Hell, they even announced the UUC was supposed to be it and that they were not going to re-release the whole series...but they did. They could have at least finished season 1 of the UUC's...but they didn't. Now while it is true that they have been trying to meet the fans demand, it took 7 years to finally get what we wanted. And with the widscreen, some people are still not satisfied.
I truly understand your points. It's nice to know there are some Robotech fans here as well, which is why I was hoping some would see some of the parallels I was going with.
Actually, it's even worse then that. 2000 is when the first DBZ DVDs came out, but thats when they first started doing subtitled uncut releases. No the wait for uncut releases has been from 1996 when they first aired DBZ in syndication, or at the very latest 1998 when the cut VHS's were making their rounds, and Cartoon Network picked up the show. I'm not trying to be mean nitpicking ya, but your reffrence here just doesn't work. Robotech has been handled far better then DBZ has in terms of releases.
So now, after waiting so long, I can finally go all-out and purchase any remastered sets I choose.
