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    You ask, I respond! My Grassor came in, and I've had a chance to mess with him. My first impression: Holy crap, this thing's big. Second impression: No, really, this guy is HUGE! I knew he was tall, but I forgot how bulky Slag is. I was going to get my original Slag out for some comparison photos, but... I think his entire body is roughly the size of one of Grassor's "boots." I have very little to complain about. I wish the dino head could come forward a little so the frill could slant back more is really about it(and the frill is going to get in the way no matter what, really, though Scoria's frill looks fantastic and I'd love Scoria's dinohead on THIS robot.). Proportions are really good in both forms, the transformation is largely straightforward, all the extra techno-detailing on the humanoid torso looks sweet, and was kind of necessary at the new size. I also really like that the backside of the boots is used for the dinosaur hindquarters instead of the traditional frontside. It lets them have a good boot and a good dinobutt both, without any ridiculous origami shells to make up the difference. Basically, this is my default Slag now. Nice touch on the rocket launchers, that is also kind of annoying: the mounting peg can fold down, which makes them a pain to connect. BUT the good thing is it gives Grassor a side-aimable rocket launcher, like the original Slag had, instead of one that is locked to straight-forward firepower. Get about 45 degrees out when pegged to the dino-hip, which isn't bad at all for something snugged right up against the body. I don't understand for the life of me why there isn't a hardpoint for them on the shoulders where they belong, but they look pretty good on the dino-hip even in robot mode. Big problem, though: I turned him to a triceratops, and when taking him back to robot, I... can't get the hands back out. The fingers seem to have unfolded inside his forearms and locked the hands in place. I had to disassemble the forearms to liberate the fingers. The instructions were modern-Hasbro levels of vague, with a lot of hand-waving and omitted steps, and it seems like there is a single "safe" orientation to fold them in. Really, guys, copy the GOOD parts of the franchise and leave the bad parts in the trash.
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    Two great tastes that don't taste great togethere
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    PELVIC THRUSTS FOR EVERYONE! Seriously, there is a point where it stops being dynamic posing and becomes "Everyone check out my crotch". Daitarn and Daimos are both well past that point. ... Hey, someone had to say it.
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    NASA's been getting stiffed by Congress for decades. The space shuttle itself was a massive compromise. Don't misunderstand, I love what they do and think we NEED a science-focused non-business space organization, but... they can't get the funds to do serious long-term exploration, nor guarantee their stability. They do a lot with the funds they get, but those funds are just so very limited. They had plans for an array of rockets with different purposes, and were told "You can have ONE rocket and it has to do everything". Attempts to do that led to cost overruns, delays(which killed Skylab), and a very expensive lifter that struggled to reach any of its goals. Their plans to follow up from Apollo with permanent moonbases and space stations and men on Mars were all completely* cancelled because we'd beat the Russians and Nixon didn't care for furthering a program that continued to put feathers in Kennedy's posthumous cap. *Okay, we got a space station out of Skylab, but it was kind of a hackjob. "What we gonna do with these leftover Saturn Vs, now that Apollo's dead?" "I dunno. Gut one and put a habitat inside it. 'S big enough. Call it a space station. Hang our leftover lunar lander on the end as a telescope mount."
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    Gosh darnit! One left, and I can't swing it right this very second!
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    You want "Macross in the weirdest places" http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/topic/27558-macross-in-the-weirdest-places/ Also, that's pretty fantastic.
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    Ethereum, technically. But yes.
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    Thanks for the warning. And yeah, I remember your initial "I need a Predaking, but that's all I'm doing" quest.
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    I actually stumbled upon a chrome Grassor, new, while dicking about last night. I deemed it fate and ordered it. It was apparently the last one they had. I'll have my take in a few days. Hopefully this doesn't become an addiction that bankrupts me.
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    It has been a while since I've seen this line. But hey, new molds! It isn't the same Vader -TIE mold!
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    Well, since Apollo-era nostalgia was specifically requested, we're sitting on the 47th anniversary of the Apollo 14 landing, where Alan Shepard became the first man to play golf on an extraterrestrial body.
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    What about the movie? That's coming out any day now!
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    They redesigned Breetai AND killed him off!
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    I'm just thinking back and trying to remember the Sentinels novels. I haven't seen them in years, and it is probably for the best, but... I would swear Lang died in End of the Circle by "becoming one with the protoculture" to save everybody. (And having to remember End of the Circle is a punishment in itself)
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    I'm honestly thinking about it. Usually, I just put it in the "too expensive" category and content myself with photos, but this is SLAG. If I do, I'll be using the filler plugs for the legs. Slag looks wrong to me without the dino-legs hanging off his ankles. My impression is that Cesium does its best to look as much like the cartoon as possible. Which is A LOT of the problem, as my preferece on the dinobots is VERY toy-biased. I think it also left them with some difficult dino proportions to engineer around.
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    Grassor looks to be an almost-perfect Slag. If his robot wings were broader, the dinosaur radiator boxes on the shoulders were square(which would really be automatic with broader robowings since there's a space issue there right now), the missile launchers pegged into his shoulders instead of hips(fixable with a small drillbit and a couple minutes?), and HIS DINO JAW WAS SILVER SERIOUSLY WTF?!?!... he'd be the perfect Slag. But he's got a lot of good points. Comes with translucent dinobits and a proper black robot head as well as the bare-gold/red head nonsense, so he can be toy-accurate OR wrong, and everyone's happy(except for the whole tail transformation issue). His frill isn't so wrong as to be an instant dealbreaker. Not top-tier, but not awful. It is a pretty good frill. The problems he has aren't dealbreakers, and they are smaller issues than the problems every OTHER Slag has. This is the first I've seen and thought "I want this on my shelf".
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    I voted for Kakizaki!
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    Unfortunately, Genesis scrolling shooters are a dime a dozen. The pool of candidates is pretty deep, and last boss isn't something that can be checked swiftly.
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    Voltron has Pidge, the space mice, and the robot lions! That's kids and animals! ... Thundercats? It is SORT OF like anime.
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    Do they have Robotech? That's what I watched when I was three. (That and Voltron.)
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    Shockingly, neither of the ones near me is. One of them is dang near impossible to get to, and I don't know why it still exists even before this.
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    I take back the thing about it starting to look like Pacific Rim. Mechs doin' somersault backflips like it ain't nothin'. There is NO sense of mass there, which was really the most defining thing about Pacific Rim's monsters and mecha. And the kaiju are back because HUMANS INVITED THEM? That is the dumbest possible plot they could have gone with. I would be a lot more upset if I hadn't already decided to treat this like Pacific Rim fanfic. I miss Beacham and Del Toro already.
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    And the TV series, and the cartoon, and the WCW wrestling match, and the fried chicken ad... Robocop was EVERYWHERE for a few years.
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    Exactly. And humanity put that cheat sheet to excellent use. They rapidly came to grips with tech thousands of years past anything they'd ever seen before, and started refining and adapting it almost as fast as they learned it, often taking it in unexpected directions. Like, say, turning a busted fold drive and a box of spare parts into a shield generator. (Yes, I know the protoculture invented shields. But the ASS-1 didn't have 'em, and the zentradi didn't know what to make of 'em, so the point stands. ). By the time of Frontier and Delta, the standard state of technology is well above that used by the zentradi or found on the ASS-1, though still not on the level of the known protoculture relics(give 'em another five years).
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    I was thinking it looks more like Pacific Rim than the last trailer did. Still gonna treat the new movie as fanfic. Maybe I'll be surprised and it will be good, but... not holdin' my breath.
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