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  1. JB0
    Personally, I'd like a Missing Link Tracks, as he's one of my few childhood Transformers that didn't survive and also one that turns into an awesome flying car.
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    Oh, yeah, it was definitely a dumb thing in a dumb cartoon. One might say it was less coronation and more bad comedy. But really, the entire franchise is dumb and goofy, so I just embrace it for what it is. The fact that half the Constructicons don't even have mouths makes the trumpets that much funnier to me.
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    I don't usually care much for "that one thing from that one episode" goes, but I love that they included his trumpet. And even chromed it! God yes. I love that on every toy it exists on, going back to when I was a wee laddie taking Slag into the bathtub with me(there's reasons my childhood Slag looks rough today).
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    I gotta say, "forged in the heart of a supernova" is about as credible an origin as you get for an exotic material with extraspatial properties. Everything else about them beggars the imagination, I'm willing to accept they twist spacetime itself into knots and drill holes through it.
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    Is Mylene truly the strongest character in the franchise? Signs point to yes!
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    It kinda gives me Marvel #1 Cover vibes. I saw someone saying it's based on some of the Studio Ox illustrations.
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    Man, I really like this Optibotimus. I probably won't get him, but I dig him nonetheless. ... Mmmm, but that metal axe body may push me over the edge.
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    I mean... honestly, the splash of gold on the legs goes a long way towards making them look finished. (I did notice they're the wrong legs entirely, but they look so much better!) The torso's still just completely devoid of any detail at all, though. It really does look to me like someone forgot to put the stickers on. Unrelatedly, it isn't anyone's fault or any sort of actual deficiency, but I can't see that head as anything other than Leader-One with a fake tan.
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    Some of them. I will say that the brand's current obsession with toon-accuracy saves me a lot of money, because they're putting out a lot of toys that to me are hideously deformed or just straight-up unfinished. Maybe Slingshot's robot mode will look good after the stickers are applied. I can't imagine something that barren is actually the final appearance anyone wants.
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    Siege Shockwave was actually really good. But as a Studio 86 design he's got far too much molded detail.
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    Some of it is because Macross is a much bigger deal than Gatchaman, Mach GoGo, or Golion(Voltron being my favored example of a contemporary that dodged the wrath). MOST of it is the way they aggressively blocked importation of new merchandise and media that everyone knew were outside of their wheelhouse, and actively antagonized the Macross fanbase either through talking down or lawsuits. Especially as some of the importers they went after were more "active fan with a side hustle" than the "major business" HG implied they were.
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    Those few milliliters of fuel aren't all that gets thrown out. It's like a jet engine, the fuel is being used to heat air and the superheated air is doing the work. Except in space, where extra tanks of reaction mass are installed to replace the air.
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    Good, super-toon-accurate is a hideous-looking trend that has produced the least-interesting toys in the line's history! I don't think you're wrong, but I think it is a fool's errand with Transformers. The brand's had precious little consistency over the ages, often failing to remain consistent even within a single year's lineup. That said, I really don't understand the difference between MP and MPG. Maybe they just thought the series numbers were getting too big and wanted to reset the counter.
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    There were attempts made "back in the day". By most accounts, Robotech II: The Sentinels failed not or quality reasons, but economic ones. The japanese economy was on an upswing the US was in a slump, and it suddenly wasn't cheap to hire Japan to draw cartoons for America, so the show was cancelled after three episodes had been drawn. Their biggest mis-step was when the 90s anime boom hit and they suddenly decided they owned Macross, sued everyone, and declared war on their own fanbase. No one told them that a small real estate company with a side hustle in tax fraud TV production can't act like the friggin' Walt Disney Company, and they scored a bunch of own-goals while pissing off the anime fans they were supposed to be courting.
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    Are you suggesting "Lunar Cruiser Prime" is actually Prima Prime and not Optimus Prime? Too late! Headcanon accepted!
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    And lo did the shippers rejoice as at last Megatron has the trophy wife he deserves! A Slipstream repaint of this would be interesting, but probably ain't happenin'.
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    Said ally-killer is also shown sacrificing one of his guys because he was ordered to fire a warning shot but he wanted to launch a direct attack. Was just "You know, we've got an old hand up here on the turret, and sometimes old hands can slip". And then after the shot, the zentradi gunnery station explodes like they're in Star Trek. No witnesses.
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    This is actually REALLY WEIRD, given the ASS-1 crashes before the X-35's first flight, and Space War 1 ends before the F-35 enters service IRL. The sudden introduction of overtechnology should've flipped the table on the entire Joint Strike Fighter program, with everyone involved heading back to the drawing board with their suddenly-obsolete designs. The idea of the F-35 actually being greenlit kinda strains credulity. Am I crazy, or did the VF-4 used to be the Lightning II?
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    Military service was not the only road to citizenship, and that tends to get forgotten(in part because the book follows a soldier in a war).
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    Anyone can make a thread. That's why 90% of the threads here are random movie promotions now.
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    They're probably wondering why Captain Jenius keeps vetoing proposals to cut the illegally-docked slum loose from City 7.
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    I thought the thread was about a computer game on floppy disks.
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    I can't say that in good faith. I didn't finish Delta. It sounds like a mess.
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    Please, no! Every time I manage to forget End of the Circle, you people pick that wound open again!
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    I have very little information. Wasn't particularly interested in the Robotech DVDs, was even less interested in the so-called remastered version, and know nothing of australian anime distributors.
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