Supposedly, FASA originally approached a company called Twentieth Century Imports in order to sub-licence the rights to the "Unseen". I don't know if there is much of a market for BT (or for Alpha Strike) in Japan nowadays - but if there is, they'd likely get the same "in-house" art and miniatures being developed for use in the West. More than 60 additional record sheetsfrom vehicles to battle armor, ProtoMechs to aerospace fighters and DropShipsbring the excitement of combined-arms game play to any table top. Ironically enough, CGL's policy of avoiding the use of any third-party 'Mech art - from Macross or elsewhere - seemingly extends to the Japanese BattleTech designs which Studio Nue had produced for the early release of the game system over there. Record Sheets: Prototypes contains 30 pre-printed ’Mech record sheets that will have players firing autocannons, missiles and PPCs at each other in no time. But at this point, even if Studio Nue and Big West were to cross the Pacific and take things up with HG directly, the result would no longer affect the "Unseen" - as those designs are being retconned out of the BT universe to make way for the new "classic" re-models. (As it happened, this issue sprang up at the same time another company wanted to add a very Timber Wolf-looking 'Mech to the Exo Squad toy lineup.)Īccording to recent Japanese court rulings on the matter, Tatsunoko themselves may not have been in a position to offer such a all-inclusive deal to HG in the first place, as the individual unit designs from Macross belong to Studio Nue and Big West over in Japan. However, it later became unclear as to whether TCI themselves had the legal right to licence said designs, or if they were all covered under Harmony Gold's licence with Tatsunoko.
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