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    Yeah, that a MacFarlane parody is more like Trek than the ACTUAL Star Trek show is embarrassing.
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    WalMart picked up the reissues from the Toys R Us firesale? Dammit! My local WalMart has one column of deluxe pegs for Transformers. That's it. I will never see these things.
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    It is, but the shows keep dragging stuff from later on in the real world into it. No one ever considered the implications of the ISS existing in Star Trek, they just declared that it does and to hell with consequences.
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    The eugenics wars are a pretty problematic lump in Star Trek's "timeline", and has been.. well, since the 90s. I'm assuming that some of the time travel shenanigans between Space Seed and now wildly altered the timing and scope of events, since the eugenics wars clearly didn't happen before 2011. Why 2011? If Enterprise's opening is canon, the ISS is a part of Star Trek history. We can safely assume that an ongoing global war would've disrupted construction of the ISS, even assuming that the space shuttles and Soyuz rockets needed to construct it were still usable*. And on the other hand the existence of technology on the level of the Botany Bay would've made the ISS hopelessly antiquated, so clearly the ISS wasn't constructed AFTER the Botany Bay left. THEREFORE, the eugenics wars HAVE to have begun after the ISS was completed. My personal canon benefits from this hypothesis anyways, as my solution to the space shuttle Enterprise existing in Star Trek while being named after Trek's fictional starship, is that in the Trekiverse the test orbiter was named Constitution as originally planned. The space shuttle Enterprise is the Trekiverse name for Challenger's replacement, first flown in 1992 and known as Endeavour in the real world. *Actually, the shuttle mission depicted in Enterprise is from 2010. The Spacehab module only flew to the ISS twice aboard Atlantis. This stupid bit of trivia is brought to you by cross-referencing Memory Alpha with Wikipedia for obsessive levels of detail about real-world events taking place in a fictional universe.
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    Hey, it pays the bills in a way that Firefly never did.
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    And if you do, delete your account every couple of years so no one lynches you for something you said a decade ago.
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    Well, it IS still the Titan Robotech comic. Pretty sure it is impossible for it to not look like some variant of trash.
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    The only person I ever saw translating Macross the First quit because he felt like he was encouraging piracy.
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    Actually, my first thought was their "courtship" in DYRL. One mecha duel, and then they're married.
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    Max knows what we want. But since he can't actually make the comic GOOD, he hopes we'll settle for some fanservice.
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    That's where Peg hid his pocky stash.
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    In fairness, that's not so much "PC gamers" as it is "military roleplayers". Or possibly just "roleplayers".
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    Two-off. Powermaster Doubledealer was supposed to be his Decepticon counterpart. I'm glad they did the obvious with that mold, but sad it was a con-exclusive.
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    Man, I thought Counter/punch was a good idea for the Sunstreaker/Sideswipe mold, but they never realized it. I've always liked the idea of a triplechanger "spy", and never for any good reason.
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    Crowds? It wasn't a terrible show, but it had exactly nothing to do with Gatchaman. I don't really know what was going on with that title.
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    That MMC Sky Lynx looks pretty awesome. Or possibly I just think any Sky Lynx looks pretty awesome. Either way!
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    Yeah, that truck is kinda hilarious. Just takin' the over-cab lightbar off would do wonders for it.
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    What? The Justice Department actually gives a crap about monopolies? Color me pleasantly surprised.
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    I meant to post this at the time and forgot, but I folded the "bottom thumb" up parallel to the wrist on Dino-Soar. It becomes the "back" of the fist that way. I actually think it looks better that way than it does removed. He still has ridiculous dainty ballerina feet, though. I am seriously considering buying some third-party feet and hands just because of that. But that's a lot of money for robot shoes, given I'm okay with the existing hands. If it was hands, feet, and a weapon, I'd have already placed the order, but noooooooo. I can get JUST hands and feet. OR I can get hands and feet and a whole bunch of add-on parts for a robot I don't own. ... I am inordinately fond of my non-canon Sky Lynx/Dinobot mashup.
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    I like Redout, because I can play it in VR. F-Zero GX is pretty darn fun, though. I'd say it is a bit of a different flavor than Wipeout, so it doesn't really feel like an apples-to-apples comparison.
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    That makes a lot of sense, too. ... Or Swoop could turn into the sword!
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    Oh hey, my local Target actually refilled the pegs today. I now own Blackwing, who can combine with Dreadwind to make an awesome superjet! Let's try this out right now! ... Ayup, that looks exactly like it did in the 80s. Two planes rammed together mid-flight. I don't know why I expected anything else. Also acquired, Moonracer. Very simple transformation into a space-hotrod/stretch-limo(the simple transformation results in a rather long car), with one really nice thing that is also super-frustrating. There is JUST enough room on the back to fold the armorfist down on its mounting peg, which makes the back of the car not look like robot arms and a combiner peg, and the engine detailing makes it look like a Powermaster engine. It becomes something that BELONGS THERE. So why frustrating? Because in robot mode, she has a hollow backpack. Completely hollow, big flippin' U-shaped piece of plastic with the open part facing out. And there's a peghole in it for a combiner ankle. And it is just ever-so-slightly too narrow to fit the powermaster engine! IF THE DAMN CAR WERE AN EIGHTH OF AN INCH WIDER, IT WOULD BE PERFECT. ... Actually, speaking of almost-there features. The wrist connector is on her front bumper in car mode. It is angled slightly downward. If it rotated up just a couple of degrees, you could insert the peg on the back of her pistol into it and she'd have a bumpergun. Given that the hood and fenders don't line up(I don't consider this a flaw because it looks really cool in an agular sci-fi car way), and there's an ankle swivel that does nothing(there is zero clearance to wiggle it), I am pretty sure the transformation was intended to be more complex, and then they had to rework it to meet the price point. Which also explains the stretch-limo hotrod design. I mean, it isn't Classics Galvatron levels of obvious, but it is still very clear this was scaled back from the intent. For those in need, she looks like she'll make a pretty good combiner arm or leg.
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    Yeah, Grimlock is the only Power Dinobot I didn't buy. He was crap in all three modes. But on the other hand, I'm quite happy with Dino-Soar. If Grimlock had been decent, I never would've used Sky Lynx's torso mode. I also would've liked all the dinobots in a larger scale, but I understand why they didn't(it would've been a tough sale at mass-market). Though really, if we have to have one large and four small dinos(plus Slash, I really like the little deinonychus), I'd rather see Sludge as the torso and Grimlock as a limb. Becuse brontosauruses are SUPPOSED to be bigger!
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    It can be both! I choose to believe!
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    "Magic Square" is the best bootleg Prime name ever. I just wanted to say that.
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