Robotech Kickstarter Funded at $1.44 Million!

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**Swabby**

The saddest part of all of this is that they may be telling the truth. That may have been a crowd for them.

**Alpharius**

It is more sad that they feel the need to embelish - just let it go and move on!

**Albertorius**

Man, the longer this goes on, the more I just want it to end already and never hear about it again :(

**Swabby**

Oh I am sure that the elder neckbeard council will retell this saga for decades to come. The end will be much farther off than the fulfillment of the kickstarter

**fruitlewps**

Same here, the big table had a game Thursday, then nothing fri. and sat. and the smaller tables were full only one day.. I loitered for a while, no one offered a demo. I stood at one for like 10 minutes until one of the MA's or whoever was like "You need something?" .... not with that attitude.. I just said nope and gave up, walked off.

**Triple9**

Funny, I thought maybe when I walked past it was just during quiet time, but also noticed how dead the booth was the 3 or 4 times I walked by. Especially considering how I could barely walk through the aisles due to traffic until passing the palladium booth.

**Sining**

Didn't see any crowd while I was at gencon for them either. FFG demos were insane though, barely any empty spots at all all the time

**Merijeek**

Swabby wrote:
The saddest part of all of this is that they may be telling the truth. That may have been a crowd for them.

You just aren't familiar with the Simbiedabible: And yea, despair not, for while the doubters may see only a dozen customers, the righteous know that a fan-friend counts as a hundred in the eyes of the Simbienlightened.

**PallyDrone**

stanman wrote:

Update #154

I had several players come to the Palladium booth the next day specifically to tell me how much fun they had in his games...

...(From your mouths to God’s ears.)

Somebody thinks rather highly of himself.

Yeah God, who's he to think he can even come close to being as awesome as Kevin Siembieda.

**Cypher-xv**

fruitlewps wrote:
Same here, the big table had a game Thursday, then nothing fri. and sat. and the smaller tables were full only one day.. I loitered for a while, no one offered a demo. I stood at one for like 10 minutes until one of the MA's or whoever was like "You need something?" .... not with that attitude.. I just said nope and gave up, walked off.

Funny you mention that. One of the MA's was asked to step down as the head coordinater for PB. He was asked to step down and then quit. From what I was told from one side this person didn't communicate well about GC and there were complaints about how he ran the demos and he didn't have the proper materials as well as not being where he should be.

**warboss**

Come now... don't tease us and just tell us who. NMI, Ingex, and Zyan are the three that I found looking through their thread.

**Swabby**

It wasn't NMI, I know that much.

**PallyDrone**

Wouldn't the obvious guess be, Carmen 'Thrown Under the Mega-Bus in Update 154 ' Bellaire?

Kevin did make Mr. Bellaire's 'troubles' and 'issues' public knowledge in stunning mouth watering detail, in that last update.

Kev's always got his bros' backs..

**Albertorius**

...wait. Carmen is a guy? Huh.

**Cypher-xv**

warboss wrote:
Come now... don't tease us and just tell us who. NMI, Ingex, and Zyan are the three that I found looking through their thread.

It was Ingex.

https://m.facebook.com/groups/109218555808079?view=permalink&id=821232034606724

**Merijeek**

Cypher-xv wrote:
warboss wrote:
Come now... don't tease us and just tell us who. NMI, Ingex, and Zyan are the three that I found looking through their thread.

It was Ingex.

https://m.facebook.com/groups/109218555808079?view=permalink&id=821232034606724

Is there a way to actually get in to look at these things without logging into Facebook? I've gone years without doing so, and would like to continue my streak.

**Swabby**

Yep you make someone else suffer the same to satisfy your curiosity.

Gary Miller, aka ingexthefuryhunter1, just resigned as a MA coordinator as well as a MA in general. Here is his farewell post

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Hello all and good bye,

As many of you have heard I was formally asked to step down from the MA Cordinator spot, due to my lack of communication concerning Gen Con, I find this a distasteful and slandering remark, but will discuss this with any person who wishes to know the truth of the matter via email.

As it stands I will be taking a hiatus from running, organizing or promoting this companies games on the west coast, and have made this known to my convention friends. As it stands I feel I am no longer appreciated or really cared for if ever by this company or its golden umbrella people.

So to every one who has any heart in this company I say Game on, for those who are or have been like me, I know what you feel like guys and I am sorry I have rained on your parades for so long.

Well good bye for now or always depending on how vengeful the board gods are.

**Merijeek**

Swabby wrote:
Yep you make someone else suffer the same to satisfy your curiosity.

A plan with no drawbacks!

**warboss**

The plot thickens on Days of our General Megaversal Hospital Turns! I don't exactly recall but is he one of the League of Fan Friends who were going to slave away for free shipping our stuff?

**Merijeek**

warboss wrote:
The plot thickens on Days of our General Megaversal Hospital Turns! I don't exactly recall but is he one of the League of Fan Friends who were going to slave away for free shipping our stuff?

Since they would apparently have had to ship his ass in from the West Coast I seriously doubt it.

Why do that when I think the concentration of Kool-Aid drinkers seems to be located fairly locally? Or so I assume, based on the number that religiously visit open houses.

**Forar**

I'm looking forward to being allowed back on the forums.

So I can report the threads in "All things Palladium" that belong in the RRT subforum.

Apparently 'omg good news!' threads get to ignore that oft repeated declaration.

I expect to be re-banned shortly thereafter. :-P

**warboss**

I wonder if I'll get instantly rebanned for posting the news here that contradicts the official line of massive crowds for the demos.

**Merijeek**

warboss wrote:
I wonder if I'll get instantly rebanned for posting the news here that contradicts the official line of massive crowds for the demos.

You will clearly be a hater troll.

And unless you have 96 hours of video footage to post, a liar as well.

**Platuan4th**

Merijeek wrote:
And unless you have 96 hours of video footage to post, a liar as well.

I almost took pictures of their booth just to post and laugh at their emptiness.

**Merijeek**

Platuan4th wrote:
Merijeek wrote:
And unless you have 96 hours of video footage to post, a liar as well.

I almost took pictures of their booth just to post and laugh at their emptiness.

Clearly that was during a rare lull. Probably before the doors even opened!

**vitae_drinker**

**Manchu**

My buddy asked me to pick up the Max and Miriya figures for him, which I figured might be tough. I didn't get to it until Friday and I was afraid they might be sold out already given the mad rush for other con exclusives, or just to get demos of upcoming FFG and WK games, I had seen in my brief foray into the dealer hall between games on Thursday afternoon.

When I got to the Palladium booth, they had about a dozen Miriya's and a half dozen or so Max's. There was one other guy there, talking to Kevin and somebody else I did not recognize, not being a big time Palladium fan. There were at least three other people manning the booth, one of whom was standing around the demo tables with nothing to do at that moment. The other two, a man and a woman, accepted my money for my buddy's minis.

I let them know I backed the KS and the man said he hoped it would ship soon. I said the miniatures looked really good and he said something I don't even remember. That's about what the booth looked like all of that day and the next. I didn't go back to the dealer hall on Sunday.

**vitae_drinker**

"And yea, verily, a Fan Friend™ purchasing a Max© and Miriya© shall count as a thousand, and the booth shall be swamped for all of the time of Gen Con. So sayeth Sembieda." 2:98 Book of the Fan Friends™.

**Talizvar**

The kind of hater I am, I would have released some 20 crickets or so around their booth just to add to the ambiance.

Then I would have asked what is this "Robotech thing"?
Just getting them to explain it would have been fun.

"So let me get this straight, the main series ended in 1984 (30 years ago) and a movie came out in 2007 (7 years ago) and you are putting out a game now? Is it a boardgame? Is this a novelty item?" "Ah it is a kickstarter launch... when was it funded?" "I heard there was some Ninja Division group involved, what do they do? Are they here?"

Forget it, I will save it for next year if they decide to show up at Anime North again.

I am not a very good troll, but they desperately need more trolling done to them.

I had a VERY bad thought, could you imagine if Fantasy Flight Games made a Robotech game? Like X-wing? My only thought would be: TAKE MY MONEY NOW, WILL $1000 COVER IT???!!!

Scary part is I think I am not joking.

**Manchu**

If you take a look at page 1 of this thread, you will that warboss suggested using the minis for Flight Path style gaming and me emphatically agreeing that is a great use for them.