Dr. Core wrote:
Richard Ramos wrote:
It's a general feeling; they could have made some effort to come out
with polls on what gundams to release in western countries, and i don't
see them contacting gundam fan organizations like what they did here in
the Philippines.
Ahh... that's not Anti-Western at all. That's old school arrogance.
Anyway... I think Bandai simply couldn't find any fan organizations in
the US to contact. I've lived in USA for 3 years and have never seen
a poster or anything for a Gundam fan club meeting or model
competition. It's not hard to find posters for anime clubs or
fan-art, cosplay competitions, but not Gundam and Gunpla.
from our experience, I think it would be more like they couldn't find
one organized enough to help them...God knows, we had to organize
ourselves quite a bit after we were contacted.
You can only blame marketing that little bit. Bandai has a successful
track record on other properties, Power Rangers etc. Why should Gundam
be the unique properties that got screwed up by the same marketing
organization as Teen Titans and Naruto?
That's still marketing's fault, because their job is supposed to be
that. However, i chalk part of it up, too, to your thesis that Gundam
"got left behind" because the other franchises were definitely more
kid-centric.
To be fair, it may be that the now-defunct GOUF forum was to be their
polling and information point, but I guess things did not work out
that way.
There were cries and whines of censorship back then, but more likely
it's just sucking up money and man-power without generating sales.
Agreed, though from my experience of being there at that point, the
whole place was one big flame war at times.
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