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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 , 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. By the 2000 San Diego Comic-Con, it was revealed that the CG project had been 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.
The protracted development and release of Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles has generated frequent comparisons with Robotech 3000 along with Robotech II: The Sentinels, another problematic project that had been cancelled in 1986, with the fear that The Shadow Chronicles may meet the same fate.
Robotech 3000
| | Name | Robotech 3000 | | image |  | | Director | Carl Macek | | Producer | Jason Netter | | Writer | Carl Macek | | Released | 2000 (proposed) | | Runtime | 3 minutes (http://www.robotech.com/gallery/mm... | | Language | English |
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