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  1. JB0
    That would be fantastic. I want a second thing, though. I want them to actually release it as "Star Wars: Untitled Boba Fett Movie"
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    Honestly, I like that sword more than I ought to.
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    I love that take on the Sword of Omens. And ditto on Panthro's tattoo.
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    A converting robot that can actually put a finger on a gun trigger?! What madness is this?! Seriously, those hands are fantastic. I'd like to see them ripped off by everyone(though I guess they might be a kinda expensive hand design). Also, am I the only person that ever imagined Skyfire's booster pack as a detachable secondary plane? I really wish the wing situation allowed that, canon or not.
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    /me does a happy dance
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    "Robutt is a registered trademark of Jaybee Enteprises, Ltd. Unauthorized use strictly prohibited, contact for licensing information."
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    That's kinda my take on it. If I can't see the robutt, I don't care where it is. But if they're gonna fill the car cabin with body parts, they shouldn't use clear windows. No one needs to see that.
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    As a manly man of manliness, I watch only the manliest of animes. That is why I just spent two hours watching Cardcaptor Sakura. Because it is super-manly. The original, not Clear Card. I decided it was a good idea to rewatch the original before getting in on the new one, and I've been working on that for a little bit now.
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    I tend to prefer OG toy styling over OG cartoon styling, and I think part of that is because the toys definitely looked like they turned into things. I like door wings and wheels hanging off feet and all those other pieces of "kibble" that don't make for a clean humanoid robot, but DO make for a robot that used to be a car before it stood up. My converting robots are usually displayed in humanoid mode, but I have a bit of an aversion to action-master-esque "non-transformers" because the fact that they CAN transform is one of the major draws. I like them to LOOK like they can, and I want both modes to have effort expended. And I'll accept compromises in the robot mode for the sake of the "in disguise" part. No robutts staring at you from the back of the windshield because the car cabin is just wasted space* to be filled with robot parts, and no bumpers dragging on the ground(I mean, unless it is SUPPOSED to be a dilapidated heap car). *I prefer what looks like a usable car cabin, but will settle for a robutt crammed up against an opaque windshield.
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    That's been my continual experience since Classics and Alternators hit, aside from the "unavailable" sticker.
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    So, I was kinda bored and grabbed a plastic robot off the shelf just to mess with. Specifically, Trailbreaker/blazer/cutter/whatever. The modern one that doesn't combine. Generations, I think it was? He's just fun to mess with. A transformation that's interesting without being frustrating, that doesn't pack complexity in just for complexity's sake, and he cleans up nicely in both modes. I'm particularly fond of the fold-open forearms. The gunshield is still a dubious handheld accessory, and I wish the forcefield projector could hide in his armored truck mode(for that matter, I wish it was a camper truck), but all in all, I think he works really well as a modernized Trailbreaker. The light-piping on his eyes, of course, is basically nonexistent because Hasbro keeps trying to use the trick without sacrificing the look of the head, so light can't ACTUALLY REACH the eye piece. It is even worse than usual here since he's got that big shield emitter rising up behind his head throwing a shadow onto the tiny portal they barely remembered to add(but hey, at least they remembered). That the lightpiping is less than worthless really goes without saying, but I am taking the excuse to gripe at the consistently bad engineering decisions that have gone into mainstream Transformer heads for something like a decade now. But there's one thing I've always wondered about this version of this guy... why does he have as many sockets on him as a Centurions figure? Has anyone ever figured out what the thought process was there? I mean, there's three down his back, both shoulders, both forearms, another pair at his knees, then two more on the back of his shieldgun(which ALSO has three pegs on it). He could equip every gun Cliffjumper owns AT THE SAME TIME. It is a little ridiculous.
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    In that it didn't even pretend to be related to the origin, sure. But in that it crapped all over the names it borrowed, using them only so it could make fun of them, it was exactly alike.
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    He looks like his rear bumper fell off, and he's dragging it on the ground now.
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    And someone who doesn't care about the original Thundercats is going to make the same argument here. They COULD have done a respectful update of Space Ghost, working from the initial premise and making a fantastic sci-fi superhero adventure. Instead they mocked it ruthlessly because it was easy and the rights were cheap, and it sold fantastically. See also: Robot Chicken. We're not really funny, so we'll bank on nostalgia to make people like our jokes anyways. Now where's our Scrooge McDuck pool of gold coins? (Tangentally, I respect Peter Cullen for refusing to voice Optimus in that show. ) The point is that years of rewarding them for doing things like this has led to... this. They've seen the writing on the wall. Respectful updates and tasteful homages don't sell, regardless of quality. But ruthless mockery and ill-concealed contempt with low production values DOES. Less effort, more money, why bother with anything else?
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    So... remember Space Ghost: Coast to Coast? And how you loved it and no one should care it was a vicious mockery because Space Ghost was a low-budget garbage show anyways? Then Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law? Second verse, same as the first? Yeah. This is just more of the same. Abusing something they have the rights to, because making a screwed-up mockery will bring in more views than treating it with respect. What I'm saying is that if you watched Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, this is your fault.
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    I have no words. Just... just no.
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    Because melodrama.
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    Quite so. I'm not saying that no good stories can be told, just that Hollywood won't allow it to happen. They're gonna try to polish it for maximum mainstream appeal, and take off all the facets that make it interesting in the process. Alien, man... that's just a consecutive trainwreck of bad ideas crashing into more bad ideas. I do note that predators aren't exactly immune to military hardware either. Or even non-hardware. Arnie messed the original one up with some logs and mud, after all. Both Alien and Predator were pretty similar in the hook for the initial film, though. One lone, largely unseen creature messin' people up unopposed, taken out by the last survivor through a combination of wit, cunning, and just plain luck. Obviously, they've both travelled in different directions since then, seeking ever-larger spectacle. And both have made occasional attempts to "get back to basics".
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    I said should, not will.
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    Man, Predator is one of those movies that should be allowed to rest, like Alien and Terminator. There was a good film or two, but the modern movie industry rarely allows anything with name recognition to generate a great movie. And with this much name recognition, it is hard to even get a GOOD movie out of it as they desperately try to sanitize it and polish it for maximum mainstream appeal. I mean, if they want to go full-on bananas, I'd watch a cinematic adaptation of the old Capcom AVP arcade brawler, but other than that... leave the aliens-as-mad-scientist plot to someone else. It's called Predator, not Gene Splicer.
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    Well, crap.
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    YEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!
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    So they're flashin' twelve, but it's high noon anyways? Full disclosure: I had one of the bioroid figures as a kid. And his hoverboard platform. I think we got 'em out of a Sears surplus store after the RT toyline was shut down. I thought it was pretty neat, and the hoverboard was just awesome. In hindsight, that was a pretty ugly figure(they all were). I stand by the hoverboard, though. I think it even had ball bearings on the underside instead of wheels so it could roll sideways and diagonally, which was PRETTY COOL.
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    Unless it's digital.
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    I honestly value "all the media in the world not being under the control of a single board of directors" a lot more than I do "slight chance of getting an Fantastic Four movie that doesn't suck." It's a pretty easy call.
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