Hi there. Most media properties fade with time. A few are eternal. Robotech may make a comeback someday. Robotech needs capital investment from wall street. It would be nice if the owners of the Japanese version of Macross could regain all the rights to all their material and all the Robotech material. There are 3 options if this were to occur. They could kill Robotech forever by never licensing it and never manufacturing it. Option 2 is they could expand Robotech using all their intellectual property like mecha designs and character likenesses. Option 3 is begin marketing the original Japanese Macross material to the USA.
I think Robotech is owned by an American company using the likenesses of another property. The Macross owners are not interested in acquiring Robotech. Maybe the Macross owners would be interested in selling their Macross product to Americans. This may motivate the Macross owners to form a master plan of acquiring Robotech to free them from any legal restrictions of selling Macross to Americans.
Personally, I am interested in literary criticism, film theory, and scholarly anime analysis of Robotech. I have posted two essays here. One is on Gender Studies in Robotech and one is on Ecocriticism and Robotech. Robotech is ripe for exploration but I seem to be alone in this interest.
I think it’s all about money. It might be about ego and pride if the creators and owners are being stubborn. It is all a cost benefit analysis. Where is the fast money? Renewing licensing.
Maybe no one wants to risk litigation as the ruling may not be in their favor. The license holders are content with the status quo.
So enjoy Robotech and be thankful we have it. 