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    Yeah, the sidebar on the video's title screen said "With Tim Rogers" He's been around on and off for years. Most famously, depending on who you are, on either the original incarnation of Insert Credit or... a godawful terrible Something Awful "parody" that took a generic "arrogant japanophile nerd" tone and slapped his name on it for name recognition(even though their parody was nothing like Rogers' style).
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    Man, y'all are all missing the point. I want an MP Omega Supreme in scale with MP-01 because it'd be flippin' huge and you could live in the packaging, not because I have any intent of actually buying it. I ain't made of latinum, you know. ... Vehicle scale, not robot scale.
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    Kickstarter's been actively avoiding any responsibility for years now. They firmly insist they're just a middleman and all issues should be settled between the endpoints. Even in cases of blatant fraud, they refuse to do anything because they're just a middleman. Only fraudulent kickstarter I've been involved with, they disappeared as soon as the money was transferred. I can't really be too mad, though. Once I realized they named themselves after a group of Kamen Rider villains, I got my ten bucks worth of laughter.
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    Then my supreme excitement is equally off-topic. Sky Lynx was one of those love-at-first-sight toys I never actually got to own as a kid. A space shuttle that turned into a robot dinosaur(ish thing)? It ticked a lot of boxes in one shot.
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    OFFICIAL MASTERPIECE OMEGA SUPREME IN SCALE WITH MP-01! ... In seriousness, I'd love to see an MP Sky Lynx to go with that toy-colored MP Shockwave they don't make. Yes, I know I like WEIRD Transformers.
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    Seriously. That would actually get me to buy one, lack of sound and wonky transformation aside. ... I still don't understand how they call the whole Rube Goldberg backpack-to-gunbarrel assemblage "perfect transformation", when it isn't accurate to any source, and doesn't even avoid part-swapping since you still have to put a purple sheath over the gun barrel. Also: MP OMEGA SUPREME WHERE?!?!?
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    I want TakaraTomy to redo every single one of the existing MP toys in MP-1 scale. And none of this toon-accurate crap. Luscious detailing on every single facet. AND A SHOCKWAVE WITH LIGHTS AND SOUNDS!
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    Okay, fine. It is EVEN WORSE because HG is picking on the mentally-handicapped. Still, though. No fanbase deserves this kind of treatment. And it is a treatment that has destroyed most of the Robotech fanbase already. People either moved to 100% Real Macross: Accept no substitutes(like myself), or just decided this anime crap is a bang full of dog turds and gave up on everything. What's left, as far as willing to pay money, is either people that weren't paying attention the last dozen times, or the mentally ill.
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    "With Tim Rogers"? That's a name I've not heard in many years.
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    Man, no fanbase deserves to be treated like the Robotechies are. I mean, yeah, "fool me once, shame on you" and all that, but the conga line of ineptitude, disdain, and active malice being thrown at them from all sides... they deserve better.
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    Certainly more diplomatic than Kirk's solution of 'piss him off and then lob a photon torpedo into his face'. "What does God need with a starship when he could LISTEN TO MY SONG! "
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    Don't forget the storybooks! I'd use "paid for with a stolen card" as the analogy, honestly. "Officer, I didn't know that wasn't my credit card! I don't know HOW it got in my wallet!" Honestly, I'm curious how much executive control, or even investment in the cartoon Hasbro actually had. But it is definitely canon. And since Transformers is explicitly multiversal across all official productions, unswapped toy-accurate colors are canon too(and in more universes!). ... Were I selling the toys, I'd go with the G1 approach. The package would just say "Rumble and Frenzy" and contain both toys. I would never attach a specific name to a color image. Let everyone make of it what they will. Were I given editorial control, Rumble would have toy colors. And Frenzy wouldn't exist, not if I had to use the cartoon palettes for Thing 2 and Thing 1. Because black&red looks super-cool, but lavender-all-over looks super-lame(the Shockwave fan said).
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    Also, for the most part the market segment being targeted by a major motion picture doesn't want to see a movie set in the 80s. They want to see something they can relate to, set in the now.
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    Your tax dollars at work. We coulda built giant robots!
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    Surely those are purple and black. But the toys came first. And in every other 80s outlet except the cartoon(in America, as Japan swaps the names back), Frenzy and Rumble use something approximating their toy colors. Intent seems very clear here. In the end, it just means that Frenzy and Rumble have different colors in different continuities(except that IDW apparently swaps their colors on a regular basis, so good luck figuring THAT universe out). While the cartoon does consistently call the purple one Rumble and I wouldn't call it an animation error, I WOULD call it a production error. Particularly as the show's production bible specifies toy-accurate naming. Honestly, I suspect the show's producers took a practical approach to things. Frenzy was easier to paint, but Rumble was easier to say, so they swapped the palettes. And thus Rumble took the foreground, but wearing Frenzy's paintjob, and Frenzy became an occasional character, but wearing Rumble's more complex color scheme. It is just a dumb toy ad, after all. It isn't like anyone will care thirty years later whether or not they mixed up a pair of plastic robots that were packaged together anyways, right? ... Oh. Well, crap.
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    Okay, so there's not anything super-special written about it that I've just missed. What you see is what you get. Thanks.
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    I think the flying wing is a great design, but it doesn't suit Megatron well. "Stealthy" is not an adjective I would ascribe to the guy. He is someone that makes his presence known. I'd rather see him as a Stratofortress or an XB-71 Valkyrie. You know he's coming, but you still can't do a darn thing to stop him from unleashing ALL THE HURT on top of your head.
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    I think that is prohibited by the Geneva Convention.
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    Okay, this is something that comes to mind every now and then, and I always forget to ask. So today, I break the trend. What exactly IS the Thunder Hammer? It looks an awful lot like a GBP-1 clone, but I assume there's more to it than that.
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    It sounded reasonable to me too. My thought is less "cut the butt some slack", because he IS a butt, and more that if you return it you're back at square one. Finding another nice-looking one will be hard. Just give him a bad review so people know to pester him about details he ought to list.
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    I DID used to own that toy, and the leg joints were my one point of breakage. Spring-tabs stopped locking in, and then the plastic housing broke off one of them later. At the knees, I believe it was? I think it should've definitely been listed in the auction, particularly if it is a common failure, and the seller is a butthole. On the other hand, in every other respect you got a really nice-looking toy, and as a display piece the legs not locking isn't an issue. I'd probably just let it slide.
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    If I ever find the other two Dinobots, they're going onto Combiner Wars Sky Lynx. I have zero interest in Primes Grimlock. The idea ran around long enough in my head to have a plot and combiner name: Dino-soar. Sky Lynx hates the name. He was outvoted 4-1. This is what happens when you let dinobots name a combiner.
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    That does seem to be the implication from the updated article.
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    Don't rain on my dreams, man!
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    To be clear, I wasn't complaining that the jaegars were more agile, I was complaining that they no longer "feel" massive, which is something the first movie put a lot of work into. Physics is a thing, and 2500 tons of awesome is going to carry a lot of momentum. Even if they have the power and meterials to overcome that, sudden sharp movements are going to dump a lot of kinetic energy somewhere. Windows should be shattered by shockwaves, craters smashed in the ground as they land from those big flying leaps, et cetera. What we've seen in the trailers has them carrying all the weight of a plastic toy. It is very frustrating after the first movie took such great pains to make the machines look believable, and feel massive and powerful. Actually, Del Toro said he'd never seen Evangelion. He named Patlabor and Tetsujin 28 as influences.
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