>>718638713
Macross, perhaps the second most preeminent mecha franchise, well maybe third behind Evangelion, a big one anyway, got cut up, hacked to pieces reformatted combined with completely unrelated shows and rebranded "Robotech" in the west by the company Harmony Gold. Then they've played IP troll over the franchise ever since.

Macross's mechs were featured in Battletech/Mechwarrior, so Harmony Gold sued them and won, essentially killing that franchise for the better part of a decade with legal fees and other bullshit. Harmony Gold refuses to give Macross a proper release and always finds a way to but its stupid head into anything involving Macross like Super Robot Wars or Another Century Episode barring their release in the west because they apparently can't let Macross go and continue to block anything related to it by being litigious IP trolls.