''Robotech 3000'' was Harmony Gold's attempt to revive the ''

Robotech ''Robotech'' is a science fiction franchise that began with an 85-episode anime television series produced by Harmony Gold USA in association with Tatsunoko Production and first released in the United States in 1985. The show was adapted from t ...

'' franchise before the turn of the millennium. After the relative success of '' Voltron: The Third Dimension'' and '' Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles'', a new ''Robotech'' sequel was proposed that would use 3D CG visuals, with producer Jason Netter and writer

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at the helm.

Story and development

The story was based during an era of peace under an interplanetary federation a thousand years in the future, to avoid conflicts with ''Robotechs complex continuity. Some of the new concepts presented were Veritech Excavators, Proteus-group starships, but none of the trademark anime-look and transformable mecha of the earlier series were seen. The response to the ''Robotech 3000'' promotional trailer at the 2000

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anime convention was disastrous. Much of the negative feedback concerned the distinctive artistic style of the original anime series were going to be replaced by generic CGI characters in a style that resembled ''

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''. By the 2000

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, it was revealed that the CG project had been cancelled, not only due to negative feedback from fans but also because American animation studio

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, which had been hired to produce the project, had gone bankrupt earlier that year. An attempt was made to salvage the series as an

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-style production at

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(the studio that animated the original three unrelated TV series that were edited together by Carl Macek to create Robotech) and some pre-production art was produced, but this too was cancelled as a new regime of staffers joined Harmony Gold to once again reboot the Robotech franchise and begin development on '' Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles''.

Home video

The ''Robotech 3000'' trailer was released as part of a collector's edition DVD of '' Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles'' on November 20, 2007.

References

External links

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Universe 3000
- Archived home for Robotech 3000 fandom.
''Robotech 3000'' Trailer
- The CG trailer seen at Comic-Con.
Robotech.com FAQ
- The official "line" about abandoned projects such as the Sentinels and RT3000. {{Robotech Robotech Unaired television shows ja:ロボテック#Robotech 3000