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    Not super surprising, they can't sell it at a loss and make it up with licensing fees the way consoles do. Also, what even is console pricing anymore? Used to be they'd go down in price as they aged. Five years ago both the Series X and PS5 were $500, today they're S650 and $550, respectively. My money's on $600 for the 512GB Steam Machine.
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    I'd love to see Hasbro explore lots of designs for lots of characters, but they seem fixated on Timelines doing endless versions of Optimus vs Starscream and Bumblebee vs. Megatron. And sadly, at a sort of "Deluxe+" price. I'd personally love a version of the IDW stealth bomber Megatron that scales with the SS86 toy.
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    G2 Swoop & Sludge as well as Timelines samurai Optimus & Starscream are available to preorder on Pulse.
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    As I understand it, the impending ban prevents the sale of DJI's stuff in the US, but doesn't prohibit you from owning or using DJI drones in the States. Maybe my in-laws can get one for me...
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    Sludge isn't my favorite... but he's not my favorite in G1 colors, either. I unironically love blue-and-green Swoop. My second-favorite deco after yellow Grimlock.
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    It's a shame, too. I'm imagining a hot pink Snarl and Jazz's Doritos color would cook on Slag.
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    Because that's essentially the case. When G2 launched (very late '92 and ’93) changes from G1 were pretty minimal. Make Prime's trailer black, use metallic paint on some mini bots, flip Sideswipe's colors, release Jazz in normal colors but change the stickers, etc. Blue Grimlock and the red and green Snarl and Slag are from that '93 wave (after releasing in their G1 colors in '92). I feel like the more garish colors started to appear in '94, when they started releasing the G2 versions of the Scramble City combiners (along with more original molds like the Laser Rods). The G2 colors for Sludge and Swoop, as well as yellow Grimlock, are based on concept art for toys that were planned for ’94 or '95 but never released. FWIW, I always liked yellow Grimlock better than the blue one. That concept art is also where we got delightfully hideous stuff like Doritos Jazz and Watermelon Mirage from that Walmart-exclusive G2 collection a few years back, BTW.
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    Coming in 2026, I can try not think about how I'll have spent over $500 on dinobots...
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    My beef with the recent Walmart reissues isn't that they're reissuing 40+ year old toys when there are new better ones... after all, the new better ones aren't what I had as a kid. My issue with them is the new "movie" decos that are also not what I had as a kid. If you're gonna reissue a toy, make it as close to the original as possible so that I don't have to spend a small fortune on one made in the '80s with fingers crossed that it's still in good condition. But if you're going to get a toy with a new, more cartoon-accurate deco, it might as also have a new, more cartoon-accurate sculpt and new, more cartoon-accurate articulation while we're at it.
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    I mean, I've done it before... But yeah, I don't think I'd do it now. It's far enough away that I'd have to charge my Taycan at least twice to make the round trip, and that's assuming that I just went to Microcenter and back. EDIT: Oh, sweet, I just looked and it looks like they opened one closer. Now I'd only have to drive two and a half hours.
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    I want one so I can walk around in it, see good deals, and buy them on the spot. Definitely appreciate the offer, but short of seeing something cool and buying it on a whim I think I'm actually good.
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    I wish I had a microcenter. Closest one for me is like a 4 hour drive.
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    NGL, I'd consider it anyway, update the UEFI, and cross my fingers. Same GPU but a better CPU and more RAM than the Asus G700 I spent like $400 more on at the beginning of the year.
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    I've got a desktop with an RTX 5080 and a laptop with an RTX 5070ti, plus a non-Xbox ROG Ally X. Not sure I really need a Steam Machine, but I'm absolutely in love with the idea. Could be the sort of competition for PlayStation that Microsoft just doesn't want to be anymore. I wonder if it can finally win over my console friends? I mean, yeah, it's really a PC in disguise, but with SteamOS, sleep/resume, and cloud saves it's going to deliver a familiar console experience for them. Depending on the price, I might buy one just to support it. The new Steam Controller is looking like an improvement over the original (which I still have!). Again, price is probably going to be a deciding factor. I could see getting it to use with the Steam Machine, but on my desktop I'm pretty content with my 8bitdo Ultimate 2. I'm more interested in the Steam Frame than I thought I'd be. I have a Meta Quest 3 and I dig it, and I could just hook it up to one of my PCs to play Steam VR, but the freedom of playing untethered is why the Quest has been my go-to for VR.
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    I know I'm in the minority on this, but I've honestly never cared for any of Rockstar's games, and the GTA 6 delay doesn't Burger me because I was never interested in it in the first place.🤷‍♂️
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    Hmm... I can't be sure, but the WSQK van does look to be some kind of custom Vandura... but Freakwency would need some serious remolding to resemble the one from the A-Team. Which absolutely should still be done. And be named Mohawk.
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    Partially because they don't have to be budgeted the way the mainline does. It's not a Voyager, it's not a leader, it just is. And it doesn't have to sacrifice paint apps because a wave mate needed a higher-than-usual parts count. Partially, I suspect, because it's advertising. Hasbro's gonna charge you whatever they will after Netflix subsidizes it.
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    New Stranger Things collab.
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    Same. Wife drives an EV9 until the lease is up next summer. Then I didn't want to drive my Porsche in the crappy western PA winters, so I looked for something cheap with AWD and somehow landed on a Dodge Charger Daytona.😄
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    I think I like this head better than the Sunbow one...
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    Oh yeah, I bought a Porsche! ...wait, I think you meant the kid. Who is definitely something to live for... even if she will NOT be driving the Porsche when she turns 16.
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    They need to ditch the monkey.
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    I didn't, but I built a Batocera system for my friend maybe a year and a half ago. I loved it, been meaning to build one for myself but I wanted enough power to play PS2.
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    Good, thanks for asking. My daughter's at a point where I have to watch YouTube videos about how to do math just to help her with her homework...😆
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