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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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    Well I'm sold. How can anyone not want "Good The perfect all-time best album"?
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    I mean, they also said it only hit the 5090 and 5070Ti, then almost immediately we saw defective 5080 cards. And that it's a 5% performance difference, when it's more like 12%(and really, different for each chip since they lose a different % of total ROPs). And that it was 0.5% of chips, which I'm skeptical of given how fast defects were found. I don't trust anything nVidia says on the matter.
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    I THINK, but can't swear, that the 6-channel soundtrack is an "uncut" "remastered" feature.
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    The latest is the RTX 5K laptop chips have also been affected. I have doubts that nVidia is anywhere near as in-control of this as they claim.
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    Sure, it alloys with aluminum to form a metal with all the durability of wet tissue paper, but what does it do with hypercarbon? (Apparently gallium is used in nuclear weapon production, because a plutonium-gallium alloy is much easier to work with.)
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    Hey, I was interested in the epic saga of Sad Dana.
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    The 9070 mostly exists to make the 9070XT look like a better deal. This has sort of been part of AMD's Radeon strategy the last few years, and it is frustrating to see them do it every time. Especially since they have a track record of lowering the suggested price within a month of launch.
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