On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Big Bore wrote:

A while ago, I posted a teaser about a Ranma/Robotech crossover.  I haven't
finished the fic, but I did get a fair amount of C&C on the teaser.  The
biggest thing that sticks in my mind was Richard Lawson's comment to dump
the way I have Ranma and Ryouga end up in the Robotech universe.  He said
that the Washu method of dimensional crossovers was overused and cliched.
That got me to thinking (a rare occurence) that maybe there were others
besides me that have trouble coming up with good ideas for how to get
characters from one universe into another, particularly when (like in a
Robotech/Ranma crossover) you want to use the original characters in a
universe that would completley contradict the characters existing in the
first place!

If you're going to have Ryouga there, there's a simple solution: have him
get *really* lost.  Of course, that idea's been used a few times too, but
not nearly as much.