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  1. JB0
    I'm going into withdrawal!
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    In fairness, half of that music is Planet Dance. Dub it once, and you're set for twenty or so episodes.
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    Well... nuts. On the other hand, he was told he had two years to live back in the sixties. That was a REALLY LONG two years.
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    No way to tell. The translation community is capricious at best. The guy who was translating it stopped because he decided he was encouraging piracy and didn't want to be an enabler. Something like that. Honestly, the fact that no one picked it up after he quit is probably a good sign of what will happen with Macross the Second.
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    It was adapted into Tranzor Z for the US. Mazinger Z is somewhat important to anime history, though. It was the first piloted giant robot(following in the massive footsteps of the remote-controlled Tetsujin 28), and its runaway success inspired numerous sequels and copycats, birthing an entire genre of super robot stories virtually overnight. The trappings of the super robot genre would eventually give way to tales with more realistic settings, like Gundam and some show called Muh-cross. So in a sense, we're all here because Go Nagai drew a giant robot.
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    This is so much more hilarious than anything I could've made up.
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    Hey, don't hate. Just because the 99/4a had more bits than your TRaSh-80.
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    Gosh-darn whippersnapper! Get off my e-Lawn! 37 here. You don't KNOW what bad knees are yet, kid.
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    Dino head aside, I find Scoria to look kind of awful. And not just in a "toy supremacy" way. He is mis-shapen and ill-proportioned in dinosaur mode, and the humanoid legs have none of the puffy moon-boot look that Slag should have. He just looks like he has unusually boxy legs. Cesium isn't TECHNICALLY Fanstoys, but everyone knows it really is, so... Cesium is STILL a misshapen lump in dinosaur mode, but robot mode looks fine. Just a bit too "cartoon supremacy" for my tastes, as I'm very biased towards the toys on the dinobots. And it looks like the dino mode's lumpy proportions and awkward legs are to make it more closely match the animation model, so "toon-accurate" is my entire problem with him, I guess. As I said, with the dinobots, I want a new iteration to hew close to the original toy aesthetic.
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    In fairness, I am pretty sure Alpha was based on Robot. Also, we have the entire Titan AE fanbase posting in this thread. I hereby request this thread be renamed "Planet Bob"
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    You forgot "and fiails his arms around wildly while he says it"
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    Having had time to sit on things, and with the novelty of a Slag big enough to judo-flip Unicron having worn off, I think I can offer a real list of things I would change on Grassor. It isn't a long list, honestly. I've ordered it from easiest to hardest changes. 1: Missile launcher holes on the shoulders where they belong instead of dinohip/roboshin. I don't understand why they aren't there already, it is a trivial modification. Only reason I haven't fixed it myself is fear of taking a drill to something this expensive. 2: Make the smoked plastic pieces on the tail permanently affixable instead of just a dino-mode accesory. 3: I'd swap the dino head for the one off Scoria. From pics I've seen, Scoria's dinohead is far closer to the original toy's, with the frill being damn near perfect, and it is the one place I prefer Scoria to Grassor. The frill angle is a significant issue as-is, but with change 4, it isn't. 4: The dinosaur head would be on an extendable neck piece. This would be less toy-accurate, but the added articulation would be worth the deviation, and it'd improve humanoid head and arm posability because you can get the dinohead and frill out of the way more easily. Also makes it more real-triceratops-accurate. 5: Individually-articulated fingers are cool as heck, but these are loose and potentially dangerous to the toy as designed during transformation. The first needs to simply retract into a channel like the original toy(a channel prevents finger snagging), something needs to be done to lock the fingers in place during transformation, or the arm needs to open far enough that the hand can't get stuck inside. Opening the entire forearm seems like the easiest modification, and cosmetically pleasing due to the design, but I may be overlooking some engineering details. 6: Humanoid feet. I'm not sure entirely what to do here(hence why I filed it as the most difficult change), but they are huge even by Slag standards. I've seen a mod to make the dinotail stash inside the feet to reduce the bulk, and it is a trivial engineering change that reduces the boots to G1-Slag proportions. But you lose the ability to hide the dinosaur rear legs in there, and a lot of people like their Slag with the legs hidden(even though it is wrong). This may just be an unavoidable cost of Gigapower offering people the choice of toy-accurate or wrong dino-legs.
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    Surely if there can be only one, it would be Frank Welker playing Jim Cummings playing Poohbear. Except once they let Welker in, suddenly he's the entire cast for some reason.
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    Less SDFM and more SDF1?
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    I am one of like three people on Earth that loved Titan AE, and keep wondering when they're gonna suck it up and do a BluRay release.
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    Yeah, the run to the end gets comically over-the-top. The early episodes are fantastic, though. The first three episodes just build up this tension, a sort of ominous cloud hanging over everything. And when it stops being tension and becomes action, they relish the opportunity to draw the results with a quite astonishing level of detail. I really kind of think it goes to hell with the field trip, but I have zero regrets about watching the thing. ... I just make sure people know not to get too attached to any of the characters when I introduce them to it. (I also make sure not to mention what is special about the umbrella.)
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    I'm going to assume he dislocated it while going toe-to-toe with a giant robot that has armor tougher than an Abrams, "mech vs squishy" style. ... Seriously,it looks like joint just isn't pegged in properly.
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    THE UMBRELLA SHOW! Yes.
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    If not a Transformer, maybe the Brave Robo line? They share a similar aesthetic with TF: Victory from what I've seen(to the degree that some late TFs were reused as Brave Robo toys).
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    It is probably retooled from a Victory mold, if I had to bet. But it has a drilltank, so all is forgiven.
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    Man, there is something SERIOUSLY wrong with that Hikarick sculpt. It looks all macho and confident. Seriously, though... they should get someone that watched the show to pose these things. That pose is more appropriate to Focker than Hikaru.
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    Yeah. Everything I see breaks my heart a little more. This has gone from "Hells yeah Pacific Rim 2!" to "Okay, this is a giant robot movie, but not Pacific Rim 2" and on to "Pacific Rim 2: The Phantom Menace"
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    That was my assumption, actually. I just thought it was hilarious, and was looking for an excuse to share.
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    That can't be right. I saw Amazon listing the 18" Neca toys as "1/4 scale", so 9" should be more like 1/6. Or possibly Amazon has stupid people on it.
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