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Robotech 3000 was Harmony Gold's attempt to cash in on Y2K-themed entertainment right before the turn of the millennium. After the relative success of Voltron: The Third Dimension and Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles, a new Robotech sequel was proposed to jump on the 3D CG bandwagon with producer Jason Netter and writer Carl Macek at the helm. The story was based during an era of peace under an interplanetary federation a thousand years in the future, supposedly to avoid conflicts with Robotech's convoluted continuity.

Some of the new concepts presented were Veritech Excavators, Proteus-group starships, but none of the trademark anime-look and transformable mecha of the earlier series were ever seen. The response to the Robotech 3000 promotional trailer at the 2000 FanimeCon anime convention was disastrous, and the project was canceled as American animation studio Netter Digital hit hard times. An attempt was made to salvage the series as an anime-style production at Tatsunoko Productions (the original Japanese studio that animated Robotech) and some pre-production art was produced, but this too was cancelled as a new regime of staffers joined Harmony Gold to once again reboot the Robotech franchise.

History is repeating itself as Harmony Gold has recently presented trailer footage for Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles, but has yet to confirm whether the project will ever even be released.

External links

Universe 3000 - The home for Robotech 3000 fandom.
Robotech 3000 Trailer - The CG trailer seen at Comic-Con.
Robotech.com FAQ - The official "line" about abandoned projects such as the Sentinels and RT3000.

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 '''Robotech 3000''' was Harmony Gold's attempt to cash in on Y2K-themed entertainment right before the turn of the millennium. After the relative success of ''[[Voltron]]: The Third Dimension'' and ''[[Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles]]'', a new [[Robotech]] sequel was proposed to jump on the 3D CG bandwagon with producer Jason Netter and writer [[Carl Macek]] at the helm. The story was based during an era of peace under an interplanetary federation a thousand years in the future, supposedly to avoid conflicts with Robotech's convoluted continuity.
-Some of the new concepts presented were Veritech Excavators, Proteus-group starships, but none of the trademark anime-look and transformable mecha of the earlier series were ever seen. The response to the ''Robotech 3000'' promotional trailer at the 2000 San Diego Comic-Con was disastrous and the project was canceled as American animation studio Netter Digital hit hard times. An attempt was made to salvage the series as an [[anime]]-style production at [[Tatsunoko Productions]] (the original Japanese studio that animated Robotech) and some pre-production art was produced, but this too was cancelled as a new regime of staffers joined Harmony Gold to once again reboot the Robotech franchise.
+Some of the new concepts presented were Veritech Excavators, Proteus-group starships, but none of the trademark anime-look and transformable mecha of the earlier series were ever seen. The response to the ''Robotech 3000'' promotional trailer at the 2000 [[FanimeCon]] anime convention was disastrous, and the project was canceled as American animation studio Netter Digital hit hard times. An attempt was made to salvage the series as an [[anime]]-style production at [[Tatsunoko Productions]] (the original Japanese studio that animated Robotech) and some pre-production art was produced, but this too was cancelled as a new regime of staffers joined Harmony Gold to once again reboot the Robotech franchise.
 History is repeating itself as Harmony Gold has recently presented trailer footage for ''[[Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles]]'', but has yet to confirm whether the project will ever even be released.