So true.

Never owned one, then I was already thirty-three when the concept was created.

You know transformers are a reproduction of the eighties toys and cartoons right?

I was born in '51, by the time the '80s came around I had other fish to fry.

Great strip, but last I knew Warhammers didn't transform. [That and you're mixing genres. Battletech was Never a cartoon.]

And you're mixing panel elements. The 'Hammer is a poster on the wall behind him, that's not what he's discussing.

When was BT anything more than a boardgame and computer game?

Naaah. I'll Pass.
I only made my point out because until FASA went belly-up, Battletech was the coolest strategy game around. [I'm still kind of upset that the company went out of business before that book came out. They were going to put a mech I created in their next mech book. {The KNG-7R Kangaroo. Sucker only had 2 Med Lasers for armament, it was a 30 Tonner, but it had a move of 10/15/10.}]

Then why was the WizKids game so different from the original, much better game?

How does this new CGL version of BT play out and where would a person aquire a set of them? I've played BT since I was 14 or 15 and I started with the 3025 rules when Heat was a BIG problem.
If you are as big a BT fan as you sound would you like the specs of the KNG-7R? [That mech was my pride and joy. I went a total of 37 battles with that mech before it was destroyed the first time. My group I gamed with kept track of our kills and my pilot's Piloting and Gunnery skills were as low as they could go by the time he was killed.]

I'd need to get access to a copy of the 2050 Technical Readout to make another copy.
I Can give you the specs for it. It had an XL300 engine, a Med Laser in each side torso, 10 Double Heat Sinks, EndoSteel and Ferro-Fibrous Armor, all 10 Jump-Jets were in the LT/CT/RT, and the ES & FF were placed in every available critical location left. [The Clan version was called the FRG-9G Frog and had ER Smalls instead of the Med Lasers.]

The poster is just ambiance for young Frank's Room. If I was meaning it litterally, he wouldn't be wearing a Spock t-shirt either....

I had some gobots and micromasters when I was little, but I didn't get an official hasbro transformer until the movie came out in 2007, now I love 'em.

I'd redo the comic strip and take out the picture of the Destroid ASAP. Harmony Gold has the rights to that pic and they will sue the pants off of you if they see you using it.

Back in 1990, Harmony Gold and Palladium Books sued a high school kid for a million dollars in Oregon because he was using Robotech images for mimeographed BattleTech fanzine that had only a circulation of 99 people.

So you know.

Yeash...

For the record, Palladium is well known for superfluous lawsuits against imagined IP copyright slights (Have you seen some of their posts? They trademark and copyright just about every second word, which by law is not correct. You can copyright ideas and names attached to those ideas, but not the actual words.) If i recall correctly, that case was a scare tactic that worked, not that it actually went to court.

Also, I believe the Destroid poster would have fallen under the 'Fair Use' clause, as Style is not claiming to own the idea, nor the mech. Also, he could put a copyright statement below, claiming that it's the property of Harmony Gold, and that too would be legally acceptable.

But there's nothing wrong with being cautious.

No, it did go to court and the poor kid had to pay. The editor of Pyramid magazine told me himself about this case because I wanted to write a few articles Robotech.

Palladium really needs to be put out of business.

The real beauty about this 'argument' is where the image originally came from -- one of the "original" promotional posters FASA gave out of a Warhammer 'Mech for their BattleTech game...

... and I should know, I used to work for BattleTechnology back in the early '90s.

I first saw that image on the BattleTech boxed set I bought in the mid 80's at Creation Con in Anaheim.

And guess who examined the box contents with me?

Carl Macek.

Robotech wasn't even halfway through it's first run on TV, and here he's at Creation Con sitting at this little table all by himself (One year later, they gave him the biggest room they had and it still wasn't big enough for all the fans who came to see him). But this year, I was the only one who knew who he was and I was able to ask him all the questions any Robotech fan could hope to ask. And as we chatted, we played with my BattleTech boxed set.

And guess what he told me?

Harmony Gold was looking around for a company to do a Robotech game, and Carl wanted to go with FASA because their game system was better!

Wait, I thought they came with instructions...

yah, but whoever bothered with instructions? Ask anyone with a dad who bought a a BBQ and started to put it together without bothering to read the pamphlet that came with the box

EWS should see this =^.^=