AnimEigo's kickstater for Macross II gets a 4K upgrade!

[El_Fez]

Hey guys! Probably anyone who might jump on this probably already knows, but I thought I'd mention it here. Long running anime company AnimEigo is doing a kickstarter for Macross II on Blu-Ray. This becomes relevant to the 4K crowd because one of the stretch goals is that a free 4K upgrade is on the table if the campaign hits $351K. As the campaign currently stands at $263,089 with 14 days to go, that seems a likely possibility.

Here's what Bob Woodhead, AnimEigo CEO had to say:

Dear Backers,

The new year is a time for reviewing past decisions and resolving to do better. And based on your input and generous support of the project, we now have the resources to attempt something we've wanted to do for a long time.

We want Macross II to be our first release in UHD 4K!

To support this, we have added two stretch goals to the project:

First, at $250K, we are committing to authoring Macross II in 4K. Backers who want to receive a Blu-ray / UHD combo (2 discs instead of 1) will be able to add-on UHD for $10 post-campaign. In addition, the 4K materials will also be used to author the Blu-ray release.

Second, at $351K, we will celebrate Macross II being our biggest Kickstarter ever by upgrading all backers to a Blu-ray / UHD combo release at no additional cost! That's right -- at $351K, we're going full Oprah.

Wait... what's that, you say? We've already passed $250K?

Well, that first stretch goal wasn't much of a stretch after all. D'Oh!

Finally, in addition to all of this, we are still actively looking at ways to add some extra goodies to the physical package - goodies that every backer will get. Your suggestions in the previous update thread have been very helpful, so keep them coming!

Many thanks to everyone at BIG WEST and Creative Sphere, without whose hard work this wouldn't be possible.

Happy New Year from Robert and Natsumi!

PS: The reason the UHD add-on has to be post-campaign is that once we create an add-on, we can't remove it, and if we hit the second stretch goal, it becomes redundant.

If you guys want to check it out, here's the linky: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...-alus-edition/