Seems they have no trouble releasing and selling a bagillion versions of the RX-78-2 without remaking the show.Turn-A Binker wrote:I would imagine that Bandai would want to sell some more model kits, including the RX-78-2 which everyone will buy a HG or MG Origin version.
The purpose of most remakes is to bring in a new audience who never experienced the original. But the AUs already do that: they draw in new fans who might potentially seek out the other installments of the franchise. For the already established fans, they don't need a remake since they're already familiar with the original. Instead we get new content like this aimed at those fans that they can appreciate fully precisely because they know the original series.