Ninja Division Prepare to Take Robotech to Kickstarter
March 26, 2013 by dracs
Ninja Division, one of the collaborating companies working to bring the game of Robotech RPG Tactics to reality, have published some new previews on their Facebook.
Made in conjunction with Cipher Studios and Palladium Books, the Robotech RPG Tactics game is set to appear on kickstarter at the beginning of April and should make for an interesting gaming experience.
The miniatures look pretty cool too. I mean who doesn't love the massive mechanical mayhem of big robots?
Do you guys think this could be a worthy investment?
The only thing I care about: Are these scaled such that they could fit on a Battletech hex base? Because I wouldn’t mind having a real Warhammer mini again. #UnseenNoMore
Those are pretty darn awesome! And so my love/hate relationship with Kickstarter continues to blossom.
Looks good and all but the first preview pic. The pose looks really static. Kinda boring
Won’t the japanese sue the studio for ripping off the Macross designs wholesale?
Aside from that, pretty nifty and nice models, true to the source designs.
Actually, FASA licensed the designs and paid to use them (licensed through TCI, the original company to negotiate the US rights to those images from Studio Nue). Harmony Gold also licensed those same toy rights years later and they probably never would have noticed FASA if their US business partner, Playmates, hadn’t tried to ripoff an original Clan mech design (the Mad Cat) after a business deal with FASA fell through. When FASA did the right thing and sued Playmates, Harmony Gold turned around and filed a retaliatory suit against FASA for copyright violations because they claimed the rights that… Read more »
Now those bring back memories but not from Robotech. I have never seen that one. Instead I have watched lot of Macross franchise and I also know these from Battletech as unseen mechs.
Robotech is sort of a mixup of various bits of the Macross franchise, from what I recall my friend saying. While it is technically Macross, it’s not as good. Unfortunately we can’t get Macross in the UK (dunno about US) because we have Robotech.
Robotech is mostly the first Macross series, combined with some Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross and some Genesis Climber MOSPEADA. The story is pretty wildly divergent from the source material having been re-edited and rewritten. Personally, I think the mech and motorcycle/powerarmor designs from mospeada were the best part of the Robotech series, but everybody goes nuts for Macross. Animeigo very briefly had the license for the original Macross series in the US, and they produced a totally restored and remastered DVD box set of the entire series which was sold to pre-orders only (in a manner very similar to… Read more »
This looks good, what a shame it’s based on that bastard that was robotech, and not the original macross
I watched this in Oz as a kid will def be getting this I loved Robotech and still do!