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    Man, I remember StarCom. I never had any of the toys, but they were right up my alley, as was the cartoon(what little I remember of it). Zoids is one of those franchises that for years I was just completely unsure how it failed to land on me. Learning more of the history in the last couple of years, I know how I missed it entirely... and it turns out I actually didn't, but only barely. For a very brief time, the line was available in the US under the name RoboStrux. And I lusted after the RoboStrux toys, but never owned any(few in America did). But I definitely SAW them, and they stuck in the back of my mind for years and years. Every so often I'd see these toys in my head again and I would try to find out what they were, but "robot dinosaur toy" is NOT a useful search term. When I started seeing Zoids stuff it looked weirdly familiar for some reason I couldn't place. This ALSO bugged me until I was looking at the series history for some unrelated reason and saw the variety of attempts made to sell it internationally and when I saw the RoboStrux name it pulled some truly ancient memories back out of the mental coffin they'd been consigned to in a huge "holy crap" moment.
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    I'd probably describe the original Gundam as "transitional". It wanted to not be a super robot show, but couldn't fully escape the genre trappings, and landed in what would now be considered a gray area.
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    Yeah, I typed, refined, and deleted an entire side-jaunt about the iconic and genre-defining Nostromo from Alien. If someole wants therr sci-fi hardware to look believable and lived-in, they're still referencing the Nostromo today.
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    Yeah, I don't think there's been any mass-market Gunstar. No toys, models, or statues. Just resin kits, 3D-printer files, and people selling the output from those 3D printer files.
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    I am quite fond of Ron Cobb's Gunstar, from Last Starfighter. it is a distinctive design that feels very believable. And also, those missile bays! Betcha the Starfury can't do a death blossom!
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    It's for Windows, yeah. I distrust 8bitdo. The couple of their controllers I've used had kinda awful d-pads, though I acknowledge these are much older controllers(an NES30 Pro and FC30 Pro that I got more because they were cute than because they were practical). I actually like a wired controller just for the simplicity of not caring about the battery, and the one I've been using is a ... PowerA Advantage Plus? Enhanced Advantage? Something like that. Aside from having a very pretty iridescent plastic face, it has two programmable back buttons and low-friction plastic inserts on the analog sticks. I actually really like it. But the left stick doesn't center strongly anymore so i get a lot of movement from it being slightly off-center these days, the left stick's low-friction ring is now worn and feels gritty, and the right rumble motor is dead(probably because I dropped it). The loose stick is the biggest issue. Anyways... High Score 100 disliked this post. Says he's all the controller I need, but he's just too small.
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    Understandable. The stores are terrible right now, the roads around them even worse. I was in a Target yesterday for non-robot-related reasons, and was surprised the sea of empty pegs and shelves had a full load of Hot Wheels Transformers. I now own a Twin Mill. Not a Boneshaker though, I think he's ugly. ... I do NOT own a working XBawks controller, which was most of why I was actually there. I have a half-working controller, and the new controller I bought to replace it is just non-working, so not really a viable replacement. And my assortment of other controllers are not of the standard layout and feature set, making them poor general-purpose devices.
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    Maybe the DRAM shortage will see the return of bubble memories!
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    The nice thing about the combaticons is the toys are even less detailed than the cartoon, so I don't have to feel too cheated by the current hyper-toon-accuracy focus. The OG Brawl toy in particular looks like he just got in from Battlezone(which would actually be a cool repaint now that I think about it). And man, Swindle's animation model was just made from whole cloth, wasn't it? They didn't even look at the toy... which is no great loss, there's not a lot to take FROM the toy even when it's fully-stickered(and I KNOW some of the animation models are based on unstickered toys). These guys are impressive as heck for what they're doing, even if they aren't really my jam. And I do appreciate that they use the vehicle windshield for Swindle's chest instead of stashing it and using a fake-windshield, moreso given how many fake parts ARE on the robot.
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    I just hope Atari somehow winds up with WB's video game division once everything shakes out. I hope they're trying to figure out a bid. Mostly I want this because the current wearers of Atari's skin actually care about gaming history and the multiple legacies WB currently holds within their storage shed. When WB purchased Midway back in 2010, they didn't just attain the Williams-Bally-Midway video game library, which is significant in its own right(and not just because Mortal Kombat). At that time Midway was the owner of Atari Games, the arcade division of Atari, which had been split out into its own company in the 80s. Atari history's a complicated mess (that flows into and out of Warner multiple times!), but the point is there are two Ataris and one's entombed within WB while the other is active in the documentation and preservation of video game history(part of which is selling old video games). It is not an exaggeration to say WB's game division is neglecting a legacy that goes back to Pong, and neither Netflix nor Paramount actually wants anything to do with it. ... And it will be funny to see Atari buying Atari.
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    Honestly, it's amazing Mylene DOESN'T get violent with Basara.
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    I've wondered about that before too. The general presentation seems like they're disposable "parts", and extensive medical treatment is worse than popping a new clone out of the tubes. But Britai's cybernetic eye seems to contradict that. My best guess is that the rank&file are disposable, but the accumulated experience of the leaders makes them is considered important enough for serious medical treatment to keep them going.
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    Oh yeah, that was really cool. Even if I have thematic gripes. I've said before I don't see Megatron as a STEALTH bomber. He wants you to know he's coming, and know there's not a dang thing you can do to stop him. Less B-2, more B-1. ... I'd make him an XB-70, but that's reserved because I still want the Valkyrie to be Silverbolt some day.
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    And also to save lost puppies!
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    I feel a lot the same. My preferences don't necessarily call for realistic alt modes, so much as realistic transformations. I dislike some of the parts-origami that exists in modern Transformers where they try to make the robot not look like the car, I want robots where the chest is made of car roof and the feet are obviously the trunk.
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