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  1. JB0
    Well, at least we know it won't be in worse shape. If things do manage to actually somehow get WORSE than they are right now price-wise, I think it will just signify that computers are over.
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    That sure is the Mach 5...
  3. JB0
    I think the target market is individuals with a fondness for cool robot toys and a surplus of disposable income. I also suspect the line exists as an award for modern Transformers engineers(having suffered under the tight paint and part restrictions of the TF line, neo-Diaclone allows them to go wild). I don't think Neo-Diaclone would really scratch an itch for original Diaclone homages(some of the old-name designs are fairly far from the originals, and there's a lot of them with no "G1" root at this point), but the few I've picked up are really cool toys and I wish I could just go all-in on the line, drop a friggin' grand on Robot Base, and then spend even more to build a force of Battle Convoys and Big Powereds to march alongside it. I couldn't justify buying Battle Convoy V-Max at the time, and I believe that one sold out unusually fast for neo-Diaclone since everyone knew the Prime connection. I did get the later Powered Convoy set(which honestly seems to owe more to God Ginrai than to the original Powered Convoy that became Ultra Magnus).
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    That's wild. I didn't know whales could program.
  5. JB0
    Yeah. And even if they're still stuck hard on the "no meatsack pilots in Transformers toys", they could've made a Baby Yoda powermaster or something. Tiny cute green guy that folds into a pod-shaped chunk of starship. But yeah, I'm certain they wanted the kiddo in there and it was vetoed late enough that they couldn't redesign the pod to be in-scale or integral.
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    It worked better in the earlier releases, when they included tiny pilot figures, so Darth Vader's TIE Fighter turned into a giant robot Darth Vader that was piloted by Actual Darth Vader. I don't know if it was to cut costs, avoid brand confusion, or choking hazard, but after the first few waves they ditched the not-dianauts and the line got weirder. Looks to me like Amanda Lorian was intended to come with a Baby Yoda figure, and it was cut late in the design cycle.
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    I like the design, but the implementation is sorely lacking. It is a lot more fidgety than it needs to be for what it does(likely a vestige of the original voyager design, there's a few pieces that make no sense unless it was designed as a triple-changer)
  8. JB0
    I dunno, that harpoon gunpod looked pretty lethal to me...
  9. JB0
    Sometimes people just get really lucky. When they found a usable world like right at the very start of their mission, someone was celebrating a speedrunning victory.
  10. JB0
    They eventually made one, as a Frontier crossover. It is somehow even worse-paced.
  11. JB0
    I mean, he's not wrong. They've been acting like an obvious phallus for years now.
  12. JB0
    Honestly, I just roll with it most of the time. It is a silly franchise with a silly premise, so when the cartoon's doing something silly, it is just... on-brand.
  13. JB0
    Some of the Constructicon trumpeteers don't even have mouths! Galvatron was spot-on when he called that scene bad comedy.
  14. JB0
    If I recall, there's also deleted scenes in Aliens where the company sends a message to the colonists to explore the location of the crashed ship.
  15. JB0
    Yes! Blue sky in games!
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