FASA shouldn’t have used Macross designs in the first place.
They should have contracted with Shoji Kawamori for new designs, but that would have cost more than buying designs that they never actually had the rights to. And the 2021 settlement between Harmony Gold and Big West means that actually, HG did have exclusive rights to the original Macross mecha designs in the US the whole time. FASA has their redesigns, which they can legally use as a result of their 2017 settlement (which is predicated on an assumption that HG didnt have exclusive rights which was found too be incorrect in 2021), but FASA cannot use the original Macross designs.
If you ask me, they should have just replaced all of the Macross mecha with completely new ones. When the Robotech Tactics game launched, all the Destroid mech minis got bought up by Battletech people and that left me and many others who looked for them to play with the actual Robotech game unable to get any.
This my favorite mech from the first Mechwarrior game oh so long ago. I miss the Unseen.
FASA shouldn’t have used Macross designs in the first place.
They should have contracted with Shoji Kawamori for new designs, but that would have cost more than buying designs that they never actually had the rights to. And the 2021 settlement between Harmony Gold and Big West means that actually, HG did have exclusive rights to the original Macross mecha designs in the US the whole time. FASA has their redesigns, which they can legally use as a result of their 2017 settlement (which is predicated on an assumption that HG didnt have exclusive rights which was found too be incorrect in 2021), but FASA cannot use the original Macross designs.
If you ask me, they should have just replaced all of the Macross mecha with completely new ones. When the Robotech Tactics game launched, all the Destroid mech minis got bought up by Battletech people and that left me and many others who looked for them to play with the actual Robotech game unable to get any.
It is one of my goals to make a diorama of all 8 with that classic base model and hills. In their original color schemes, of course :)