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Tweaking the outline, some

1980's - Robotech on the air
1. Fans of the show
-Kids
-Teenagers
-College age
-original Robotech Fan Club

2. Fans of:
-Comic books
-Novels
-RPG
-Animation Canon
-OSM

3. Failed projects
-Movie
-Sentinels

4. Protoculture Addicts
This started around 1988, and was actually near the end of its Robotech fan run in 1990-1991

1990's - The dry years

1. Early Internet/BBS/other
-The Robotech Echo on Fidonet
-The gatech Robotech ML under Dave Dietrich
-Attempt to start up a new Robotech Fan Club as a APA/snail-mail group (Mike Choi, Basara, and others were in this group) - I think I still have some of the stuff in a drawer somewhere.


3. the WWW era internet
- the explosion of net fanfics
- Macross Mecha Files for the RPG, by Dave Dietrich
-alt.fan.fobotech newsgroup
- the Ratinox/Walker robotech ML, and mismanagement of...
=RTF Fanfic database(by the RRG) / debate over where official material and dialogue trumps OSM descriptions of mecha, and rampant abuse of "Oh, this site is canon" by its members.
=Timeline controversies / Early return (based on the TV show & all official statements and licensed material before 2000) vs. Late Return (primarily based on the fanfics of the RTF and 1 line of narrator dialogue contradicted by multiple characters' lines in the series)
=mass bannings from the RML to stifle free discussion that countered the RTF leads to the Robotech Cantina ML & the Disciples of Zor web page
-The Robotech Cantina ML
-The Disciples of Zor
=message boards, weekly java chats & weekly email list
=issues with software and with hackers
=attempts to become official Robotech fan group stifled by the RTF/RRG group's connections to HG through Tom Bateman, leads to robotech.com
=The Robotech Page comes into being after one too many failures of the DoZ board to host a message board.
=The RDF-HQ (originally a splinter site for CavScout's creations) takes over forums from the Robotech Page after too many hacks of the RPMB, goes through a couple incarnations before landing on ezBoard (now Yuku).

4. Robotech.com Beta (1999-2000)
-Deliberate misrepresentations of the intent of HG by its employees
-RP/RRG hired to "consult", sucked for ideas, then cast aside - with most of their advice ignored.
-The "new series from Japan" poll given to some beta testers. Was it really referring to a project that wasn't going to be even DISCUSSED for a couple more years (importing Macross OSM) or a veiled attempt at gauging the market value of importing a heavily edited Macross 7 as the new Robotech, instead of Robotech 3000 (note that several concepts from Macross 7, that were not in Robotech, appear to have made it into The Shadow Chronicles, such as the pink-haired daughter of Max & Miriya)
-Companies with legitimate uses of Macross licenses other than through HG attacked, prevented from selling their wares.

5. OSM
-Macross II
=Macross II RPG from Palladium
-Macross Plus
-Macross 7

6. Failed projects
-Robotech 3000
-Robocon 99/00


2000's - Robotech in the Robotech.com era
1. Robotech.com opens as a fan community

2. Ebay

3. Toynami

4. OSM
-Yamato Toys - originally going to be Toycom releases in the US, with Wal-mart sales even, at a price point 1/3 that of Toynami and much higher quality. One of the many US licenses shut down by HG's "legal" moves.
-HG Claims ownership of ALL MACROSS in US Market, based on contract with Tatsunoko. Triggers Japanese lawsuits between Tatsunoko and Big West (the REAL owner of all Macross after the original series), resulting in the rights to the original series getting split, and HG having to make agreements with both over certain things.
-Macross Zero
-Macross Frontier

5. Shadow Chronicles
=developmental process
=what actually ended up in the finished product


Anyone want to add more?