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  1. I don't actually know WHO the RT comic is supposed to appeal to. What I've seen makes me think it is at best a product created to keep the trademarks involved in use, and at worst a Producers-esque scam.
  2. What? No it isn't. The original didn't have GREAT elbows, but it HAD elbows. With two axes of motion, even. A hinge on the edge of the arm is just all kinds of sad, ESPECIALLY on a premium toy.
  3. She's taken, man. ... Actually, that's another argument for "the one we never heard about because it was uneventful". The Girl isn't already engaged to a photogenic pilot that somehow winds up instrumental to saving the ship/fleet/galaxy/species on a weekly basis. It just ain't fair, how do you compete with that?
  4. I know, I just really hate that scorpion-tail armature. It is ugly, and it makes the problem it is trying to solve WORSE instead of better. There better be a REALLY good reason there's not a simple flap in the hood that rotates around. (Even if there's a good reason, I still think the armature is no different than a loose headpiece that snaps on. Were I buying this one, I'd probably take out a screwdriver and remove the entire armature mechanism, assuming the head snaps into place when done instead of just floating on the end of the scorpion tail. )
  5. Well, they forgot to put the sound box in Shockwave, so they had to use it SOMEWHERE. My opinion of MP Hound is thus: If the head is on a scorpion tail, it is still partswapping. Just a more annoying style of partswapping. That neck armature is all I had to see. Hound isn't supposed to be a headmaster. You aren't fooling anyone, TakaraTomy. Go back to the drawing board. ... And give me a perfect transformation Shockwave with soundbox while you're at it. The scorpion-tail on the barrel isn't perfect transformation in any universe. Shockwave's barrel flies offscreen in the cartoon, just like Prime's trailer, so you aren't even "anime-accurate". You're selling an ugly and unimaginative hack at a premium price.
  6. There is more than one way to go wrong. And the RT comic has found several of them.
  7. Not so much the "rehash the old things again" angle, but I've flat-out said that I'm less of a Macross fan and more an SDF Macross fan. The things I like most about Macross are things that weren't even present in DYRL, much less the shows that came after. It was a remarkably grounded show for what it was, with characters that felt like real people instead of, well, characters. That said, I don't HATE 7, though I think it has some deep flaws. I enjoyed Frontier, and my complaints with Delta are less "OMG MAGICAL GIRLS IN MY SERIOUS WAR STORY WTF" and more "this entire plot collapsed under its own weight at the halfway point, and they've shuffled every interesting subplot into the background and forgotten about it along the way."
  8. Naw, man, that ain't flame-worthy. Flame-worthy is something like "The Go-Bot Staks was a better transforming truck than ANY Optibotimus!"
  9. Scale counts, though. She wrecked a few dozen planets, maybe a star system or seven. But she didn't even take out a quadrant, much less the whole galaxy. And she left witnesses! Tangentally, the "Janeway is Space-Hitler in the history books, also the doctor's backup is online in the future" episode is one of my favorites in the admittedly slim pickings Voyager offers. I wouldn't mind finding out what happened to Doctor Two.
  10. Odd, I thought Ultraman's license was tied up in some extremely weird shenanigans. TO THE INTERNET! ... Okay, the appeals on the last round of lawsuits were ended in April 2018, ruling that for US copyright purposes original production company Tsubaraya owns the entire franchise unambiguously. Like everyone else's courts, the US courts determined the contract transferring some and/or all rights to Chaiyo Productions is, to use a bit of legalese, a complete fake and totally bogus. So as of a couple months ago, there's no license confusion in America. And this production is licensed by Tsubaraya, the ACTUAL owners of the franchise.
  11. I was okay witht he first one, though it REALLY felt like Abrams would rather be doing Star Wars(and he got his chance, and it was bad). The second one, though... what in Primus' name did they think they were DOING? That was a failure at every possible turn. And yeah, I gather NO ONE watched Beyond because Into Darkness was so freaking bad. I've also heard Beyond was actually... kinda good? Doesn't it take three officers to engage a self-destruct? I watched Search for Spock(several times).
  12. Robotech tosy with a QA process? What a brave new world this is!
  13. http://www.galciv2.com/ It is definitely straight off of Stardock's own page, and not a case of Kotaku being Kotaku and putting up a fan-mockup as a game screenshot. Either Stardock are demonstrating a unit editor and enjoy tickling the dragon's tail, or they REALLY enjoy tickling the dragon's tail.
  14. That's... surprisingly appropriate.
  15. Okay, yeah. Pike DEFINITELY needs to dump the entire crew in the mirror universe and just call it a wash. The Terran Empire will doubtless be glad to see them.
  16. Man, Fate is one of those franchises that seems like it just prints money. They are putting all sorts of nonsense out. Between /Prototype, /Apocrypha, /Extra, /Grand Order, and /Kaleid Liner, there's gotta be a parallel universe for just about anyone now. ... Is Fate/Mecha a thing yet?
  17. Having just recently had a minor fit about how prevalent bad Transformer gun design is(one too many rifles with the handgrip coming out of the shoulder stock), I REALLY appreciate that not-Swindle's bazooka actually goes over his shoulder instead of being more like from his elbow to "somewhere a mile north of his fist".
  18. Maybe Starfleet is aware of the problem and he was assigned to turn the ship around(or dump it in the mirror universe so the crew can feel at home)
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