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    Not ONCE have I read this title as anything other than someone swearing at an annoying spectre.
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    They actually did replace stickers with paint and molded detail. Of course, the proportions and deco being the same as the original toys is the whole point. I feel like the concept pitch could be "the toys you thought you had as a kid". They could make them look puffy and unpainted toon-accurate. But then they'd just be yet another way to do the same thing as the MP line and Studio Series. I know they DID the toon-color Missing Link, and also the toon-color G1 reissue, but... I don't understand them.
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    Surprised they ran the Unreal Tournament episode after Epic pulled it from all modern stores. I guess that means we're probably still go for Concord in the back half.
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    Well, if they knew what to sink money into, they wouldn't be having those problems.
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    The car is based heavily on the one Sonic drives in the Sonic & All-Stars racing game trilogy. Miles "Tails" Prowers' airplane prop should stick out his butt. I'm just sayin'.
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    It isn't too different from real-world fighter jets in that regard. The countries that develop them keep the best stuff for themselves. Just ask anyone in NATO whose flag has less than 50 stars what it feels like to fly an F-22. And it makes sense, given the transition from "Earth runs the galaxy" to "the colonies are more or less independent states". While the Sol system is still at the forefront of development and has more resources to work with, the colonies are more allied countries than they are part of one big happy expanded Earth. Occasionally the colonies go to war with each other, and someone wants to make darn sure they don't get ideas about trying that nonsense with the motherland.
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    To clarify, the "retro gaming experience" in the US was mostly "computers are for nerds". Most people just didn't have home video games between the time they liquidated the Ataris, Colecos, and Intellivisions and the time Nintendo rose.
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    Other entries in the modern Chogokin line suggest otherwise. They've even released a Rubix Cube that turns into a robot. Heck, they released a toy of the Chogokin logo that turns into a robot.
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    Minor tweaks to greatly improve a toy: So I was kinda ADDing and grabbed a random nearby toy robot to flip parts around on. Laid my hands on a Ratchet van. I couldn't remember which one, the internet says it was from the Bumblebee movie. What I do remember is he's been in the ambulance-esque mode almost since I got him because the humanoid form is kinda short and dumpy. And he came with an eff-off huge cannon that looks like it belongs to Megatron. And that's still true today, though my memory is harsher on these proportions than my eye, but the gun's still ridiculous... but there's this purple car I don't remember the name of with a neato pistol that kinda looks like some sort of cybertronic multitool. Swap the two weapons around and now Ratchet looks like a doctor and random purple Car-tron looks dangerous. Edit: Ehh, my camera didn't pick up the details on the hand-tool. To my eye, it looks like some sorta combination scanner/knife/welding laser. Even if it reads as a gun, it isn't a GIANT gun. It's actually kinda tiny, by the standards of the franchise. So at worst, it looks like an emergency sidearm. Ideally it looks like he's carrying a sci-fi medical tool. Either way, it's more appropriate to a medic.
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    Yeah, I dug up some videos after having similar issues. It just takes a terrifying amount of force. There's a visual tell that the manual TRIES to call out, but without using words it is often hard to tell WTF these illustrations mean. The plate that flips down in his stomach area mates into a cubby in the gray part, and there is tab at the bottom that is supposed to secure that plate. There's a gap along the bottom of that plate that disappears once the chest is fully engaged and the tabs on the black and gray pieces interlock.
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    I'd describe him as "low-budget Alternators", if I had to staple him into a category. The fact that most of the black has a matte finish bothers me, and it is made worse by the car roof being glossy. They forgot KITT's molecular-bonded shell! The Pontiac emblems on the wheels, and bright red tail lights bug me too, but not nearly as much. I can even forgive the tail lights, just pop up the headlights and there's now a good reason for them to be "illuminated". Surprisingly, the chin doesn't bother me, though if I had my way it would pivot up and hide in car mode, and swing down to bulk out the torso in robot mode. But that's probably not compatible with electronic lights and sound.
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    That's kind of actually a canon problem for at least one of them. According to the toy bio, the decepticon Misfire has terrible aim, and is considered more of a threat to his allies than the autobots. What's a short-handed decepticon commander to do? Get him a smart gun that can do the aiming for him! Targetmaster process, GO! ... He was paired with Aimless, who is depressed and doesn't care enough to even try aiming, so now Misfire is EVEN MORE of a threat to everyone around him. Good job, guys!
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    Man, every time I think I've heard the dumbest story out of 90s Sega, someone find a new one. If Sega Japan isn't trying to sabotage Sega America to make Sega Japan look good, Sega America's trying to sabotage Sega America to make Sega Japan look bad.
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    Hopefully the delay is because they're expending some effort packing it for shipment.
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    So I got a shipping notice e-mail from Amazon. Weird, since I hadn't ordered anything recently. I'd just forgotten about that one Knight Rider Transformer. ... If I were a mint in sealed box kinda guy, I'd be absolutely livid. They threw it in an oversized box with a single small piece of brown paper. You can probably guess, but... They only BARELY missed crushing the actual toy, and abrasion on the box window at the point closest to the toy tells me they tried really hard.
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    You're thinking completely the wrong era. DVD writers were pretty rare at the time, and no self-respecting publisher would be caught dead using them anyways. They were pressed disks. Single-layer DVD5, just to emphasize the time frame. The company they were using for production hadn't yet upgraded their equipment for dual-layer disks.
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    Understandable, given the protoculture's hand in seeding all those planets. We haven't seen a civilization that isn't built on the protoculture as a foundation, really. The vajra and space whales aren't descended from the Po, and they're too alien to have a human-recognizable civilization.
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    Clearly the most important accessory. MP quality right there.
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    I think you're right. Micromaster shuttle base or something. But hey, Omega turns into a rocket base, so it isn't a completely random packin.
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    I like how Mixmaster looks as a leg, the cab-as-foot is a nice design feature. But yeah, Scrapper's always looked like they just... forgot to put a foot on down there. And getting Scavenger off the arm is a great change, his bucket arm won't just dangle awkwardly off the shoulder now... it'll dangle awkwardly off the shin instead! (Nah, it'll probably secure flat.)
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    I actually find it interesting that they're shaking up which bot forms which limb, and admit to being very curious what led to that decision. I've made my affection for new takes on old characters known in the past, this is just a surprising change to legally-not-Devastator's basic layout.
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    Man, I expected more of a redesign for Dinoking, not just "dinobots in the wrong colors". I no longer hope for a Monstructor version.
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    Man, every time someone puts out a new "Nintendo 64 controller, but better-designed" I am just reminded that what Nintendo 64 fans want is actually just the Saturn 3D Controller. This 8bitdo one is the most obvious yet. Just accept it, guys. Embrace perfection, and quit pretending you actually want what Nintendidn't.
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    It's only been in development for twenty years. That's basically an eyeblink.
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    Yeah...
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