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  1. danth
    Bonus clip from the greatest Rescue Rangers episode of all time. You're welcome.
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    I saw it, and admittedly fell asleep at parts, but it was basically a mockumentary that references your childhood, but doesn't really satisfy as either a Chip and Dale or Rescue Rangers film for fans of either. Definitely wouldn't call it a love letter. I would love to see an actual Rescue Rangers movie. With way more Monty and Gadget. Actually, since Disney is all in on the "Universe" strategy of movie making, can we do that for 80's cartoons? I wanna see Rescue Rangers, Gummi Bears, Ducktales, and Tailspin movies with crossover cameos in each. And all the other cartoons I'm forgetting.
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    Nice trick regardless! AFOLs helping AFOLs. You love to see it. Maybe I should ask for more Lego advice on this thread!
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    I believe that torso has been around for a bit and came with a past CMF figure.
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    I was thinking Starscream would be a good pick vs Megatron (literally a gun) for the next G1 Lego TF, but you're right, an F-15 Eagle is a weapon, isn't it. And not only is it still in use, it's apparently still in production (!) according to wikipedia. So it's even a "modern" weapon. Then again Lego seems okay with bending the rules to make money, especially for licensed products. Maybe they'll decide an F-15 is fine for an +18 sci-fi set. I hope they come up with some rationale because I really want a Lego Starscream.
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    I actually watched Tremors for the first time since childhood a couple weeks ago. I really enjoyed Fred's character. He was incredibly likeable. You don't often see a gruff, country, blue collar worker type played without any sort of toxicity. He was tough, but willing to show fear, and had no problem asking a woman/scientist for help when he needed it and taking her seriously. Maybe credit is due to the writer/director for that but Fred made it work.
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    Hot damn. I hope it's easy to Bricklink those hinge parts for reasonable prices. Prime is basically a must-buy for me.
  8. danth
    I don't admit MP-56 is an improvement. Terraegis looks better to me in every aspect, especially in the legs.
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    Wow, I hate MP-56. It's overly cartoony to the point of being comical. It looks like a soft toy that was squeezed around the waist and hasn't decompressed yet. The exaggerated proportions make it look like a toy from the Robots in Disguise line. The weird chubby smirk creeps me out. I'm kinda surprised more people haven't ridiculed it already... If other people love it, fine, but I reserve the right to make fun of it. Personally when I look at the legs all I see is this:
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    I think this clinches it for me. I'm a toy first TF fan. I want TFs that look like the original toys, with better proportions and articulation. Really don't like the cartoon look. The tiny waist/underwear-shaped hips/skinny thigh/bell bottom pants thing, I just don't like it. I believe the cartoons were drawn that way to give the impression of height, since TFs were giant robots. There was some foreshortening when "looking up" at them. I don't think it works as part of the toy sculpt though. It just looks silly, IMO.
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    Any time someone says "if you don't like it don't buy it", it means shut up and don't complain. Always has, always will. You can pretend that's not what it means, but we all know what it means. Or did you really think we are so dumb that we didn't realize that not buying something was an option? 🤣 And it's funny how literally one sentence later you say this: Thus admitting that your problem is with hearing critical opinions. Anyway, try sharing what you like about the toy instead of shutting down criticism. I guarantee you it's more fun and effective.
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    It's an internet forum for mecha anime fans, of course we're going to critique mecha toys. I'd like to point out the absolute hypocrisy of your take, too. If you don't like critical comments, you don't have to read them. And if you don't like hearing the opinions of mecha toy fans, you don't have to hang out here.
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    Someone is going to use those transparent tracks as part of a huge spaceship or space base. I got two copies of the Lightyear XL-15. Honestly I probably should have just bricklinked the canopies but I felt like buying an actual set. In other colored canopy news, there's a pink airplane windscreen in the Ninjago Crystal King mech set, and an orange Speed Champions windscreen in another Ninjago vehicle set, and some large Trans Neon Green (?) panel pieces in the Friends Roller Disco. The Mission sets look cool. Lots of good prints. I'll probably snag a few. Trying to decide whether to buy some mech sets or just the new joint parts...
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    I once had to wait in a virtual line to enter the Lego website. Seriously. This was like a year ago. I've never seen that on any other website. It felt pretty ridiculous.
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    Hmm, maybe in space it has a yellow force field/heat shield or something? I guess we'll know when we see the movie.
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    I wonder why the Chogokin XL-15 doesn't have the bronze/yellow canopy that some of the other toys do.
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    Wow @that trailer. Getting definite Appleseed vibes from those armor suits. The helmet looks like the Guges head: And the knobs on the shoulder armor remind me of the knobs you frequently see on shoulder/knee pads in manga: The enemy space ship looked a lot like the big ship from Gall Force:
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    Dang...those minis look pretty neato. Doubt I'd ever play the game though.
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    I think I like the proportions of the old Zillion toy better than this new one. In the new Tricharger's vehicle mode, the shield doesn't even begin to hide the arms. And the wheels seem to stick out more in robot/armor mode.
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    Truth! But hope springs eternal.
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    I love how instead of Lego actually releasing something new, they're just releasing more licensed stuff in different scales. Already released 23 different X-wing sets? No problem, release a mini scale trench run! Already produced 50+ different Star Wars pilot minifigs? No problem, make a large scale X Wing pilot helmet! Already released 38 different Harry Potter sets with the title character included as a minifig? No problem, release a large-scale buildable Harry Potter "minifig"! Like JHC can I get just one effin' non-NASA Space set?
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    Also they need to hurry up and do '85 Snake Eyes.
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    These are just unbelievably good. Better than anything Hasbro has done in the last 20 years, by far. Too bad they're $50 a pop!
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    That would make a cool SNOT wing edge on a UCS-style Classic Space set.
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    Yep, it really sucks. I was thinking about this, and I think the Classic Space issue is a lot simpler than people realize. Disney has a licensing agreement with Lego for Star Wars, obviously. They get money for each SW Lego set sold. If Lego sold regular Space sets, that would obviously compete directly with SW, so each Space set, to Disney, would be money lost. Obviously you can't have a license agreement like that. Space is simply forbidden while Lego has Star Wars, as part of the licensing agreement. That's the only way the licensing agreement could possibly work. And it's even worse now that there's Lightyear. There's undoubtedly a very detailed contract outlining what Lego can and cannot do in terms of competition with Disney sets, and NASA sets are obviously exempt, while sci-fi Space is not.
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