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    Incoming VF-4 pic spam! Take cover!
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    It's cool, see, 'cause it doesn't sound like Japanese (and to Japanese, there's nothing more lame-sounding than Japanese), so Japanese marketing serves another delicious helping of English word salad. I... My... Me... Strawberry... Egg... Fate... Stay... Night... Grand... Order... Kingdom... Hearts... Dream... Drop... Distance... Melty... Blood... Actress... Again... Current... Code... [ ... ] Somebody stop me, before my brain melts.
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    EVERY third-party movieverse figure looks amazing, compared to any official option. Even the straight KOs have more accurate colors, more detailed paint app's, and better prices... The OSKOs have better engineering, more articulation, and more electronics... Most amazing of all are the original figures, designed from scratch at Movie Masterpiece scale and accurate enough to put any previous versions to shame... But what's really amazing is how these enterprising fans keep beating HasTak at their own game, delivering product that's better, cheaper, and often easier to obtain, even. Find me an official Transformer toy that holds up to this level of scrutiny... ...and can actually, y'know, transform.
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    No, she wears it on stage as well, and it gets repurposed as her costume in Shao Pai Long:
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    Of Minmei? I'd rather not pollute this thread any further.
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    What's with the 4:3 aspect ratio?
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    A Robotech-branded product, with questionable artwork? Impossible. Harmony Gold would never stand for it.
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    Seriously? A trailer for a trailer?
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    Guardia has always been one of my favorite combiners... ...so much that I seriously considered picking up the YES-Model OSKO. I sure hope the reissue sells well for them.
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    Master Made a lot more figures that I'd realized! I love their Metroplex, and I've admired their Omega Supreme from afar... but I think I really need that Devastator. Thanks for the heads-up, TJ!
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    I'm happy to say "Optus Pexus" lives up to the hype... Kuma Style's gonna love this one.
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    That's from "Longest Birthday," of course.
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    Terrific detail for such tiny toys.
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    Yeah, with all the usual engineering improvements (ratchets, LEDs, additional articulation, and no rubber parts). I don't follow third-party news much any more, so "Mista" went right under my radar. I never even saw it coming.
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    DX VF-1A Max for $99.99... vintage 1:55 Takatoku GBP armor for $39.99... Free shipping, "almost anywhere in the world..." "Fishy" is putting it politely. I've got extra Strike sets as well. Send me a PM.
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    MP-9 Rodimus, FansToys "Hoodlum," SS'86 Hot Rod... any one of them would've been better than MP-28 for that.
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    TV Supers? I can hook you up.
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    I'm still waiting for the OSKO. Oh, and speaking of which... Holy sh!t, dude. I've been waiting ten years for Bayverse figures like this.
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    I've been waiting ten years for a decent Dark of the Moon Soundwave. Finally. Replied in the appropriate thread.
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    It's a Transformers movie, with all the expectations that come along with that (including ties to the Michael Bay films that proceeded it)... and given that framework, I absolutely stand by my statement. It's a well-made film. The visual effects are as convincing as those in The Last Knight (despite costing only HALF as much), the story has a logical structure and a well-paced plot (unlike any of the previous films), the film is consistent in tone, and the performances are grounded in a rational context absent from pretty much ANY Michael Bay film. I'm not saying it's Citizen Kane, but it's the best we could ever hope to expect from a movie "based on Hasbro's Transformers action figures."
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    Great idea!
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    Sadly, the production values are all the show has going for it. The writing is mature, but derivative; the music is phoned-in, as you say; and worst of all, the vocal cast is uniformly bad. Some actors are trying to imitate the classic voices, some just do their own thing, and some switch halfway-through. Transformers media has been almost uniformly bad, it's true, but there are bright spots, even on television: Animated was clever and witty, and never took itself too seriously, Prime was mature and sophisticated, with an A-list voice cast, and... ...well, I guess that's it. Animated was terrific, Prime was epic, the original series has some iconic performances, and Bumblebee was a well-made film. War For Cybertron: Siege was none of the above... but at least it was better than War For Cybertron: Earthrise. Boy, what a slog that was. And yet, I keep buying the toys like a chump...
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    1:28th, an extremely awkward scale.
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    Ah, but only oldskool Gundam fans remember the variable Mobile Suits from the '80s... a minor footnote in the history of the franchise, unfortunately. The audience for anything sci-fi is surprisingly small in Japan, really. Apart from Doraemon, sci-fi anime is rarely broadcast on network television (other than childish animated toy commercials for whatever Bandai or Takara is hawking to little boys), so only specialized satellite channels or huge video store chains will carry shows like Gundam Unicorn, Macross Delta, or Yamato 2199. Most Japanese people are more likely to have seen Star Wars than Gundam, even (much less Macross). They were never as big here as they were in the US, actually. Hell, Transformers: The Movie never even got theatrical distribution in Japan, and only made its way onto home video THREE YEARS after its North American release. Stop me if you've heard this story already... The city newspaper had sent a reporter and a photographer to my house, and we stood before this wall of Transformers: The reporter turns to me and asks "Are these ALL Gundams?" Well, as I'm sure you've noticed, every available inch is occupied... I'm well-past the saturation point now.
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