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Exhibitions: What do you want to see?

I'd like to see a Macross exhibition in the major capital cities, even though one happening in Australia at all is unlikely in the near future due to lack of exposure mainly amongst younger otaku (those seedy 15 year old betas who cosplay at Supanova as characters from Naruto and Bleach).

spoiler[Although there's no legal issues with bringing the franchise in Australia except for SDF Macross (that one is murky), the licensing cost for Macross 7 (I'm not sure about Frontier) is prohibitive due to the music being an entirely separate license owned by Victor-JVC, ADV Films saying years ago that it would take all the Anime companies in North America to afford licensing the music for it.

Since there hasn't been an English release from the franchise since Macross Plus, Macross from my point of view has been forgotten and I doubt younger fans of Anime have even heard of Macross before which is why a Macross exhibition of any kind will never happen here in the forseeable future.]

If there was one in Australia, it'd have to coincide with Supanova and have a separate area set aside for Macross merch, large scale models of Valkyries & the various Macross ships (I highly doubt they exist), a separate cosplay and karaoke competition, have special guests for Q&As e.g. production staff, directors, Japanese & US VA's, an area set up for multiplayer competitions with Macross video games, a screening area for some of the Macross titles and an art gallery.