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  1. JB0
    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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    I'd pr'ly call it a Bandai issue(which company is likely to be complaining about toys imported to Japan?), but it is almost certainly due to "the Robotech problem".
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    Oh, it is a Trigger show? Adding it to my list now. (Dear Trigger, Inferno Cop 2. Make it happen. Sincerely, everyone)
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    I've honestly never figured out why so little effort is expended to hide the robot in jet mode. Particularly as the effort usually IS expended in toys that turn into land vehicles where no one is looking at the bottom.
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    At the time, it wasn't really lazy engineering. I think it is forgotten that having toys that undergo major structural changes was an innovation in and of itself. That was CUTTING EDGE TECHNOLOGY. ... Except Starscream and his cousins. THAT was lazy engineering.
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    See also: Aegis Focker... maybe.
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    One can only assume Wheeljack's paleontology credentials were, shall we say, exaggerated.
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    Triceratops was my jam, and not a lot's changed there. Lucky me. Do they still not really know how the stegosaurus plates go on or what they're for?
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    I sort of feel like the VF-0 is close enough to a VF-1 that HG could make a reasonable argument that they have a license. I know this is a sacrilegious stance to take, but... it is REALLY hard to argue the VF-0 is anything other than a "VF-1 Katoki version", and they DO have a license to use the VF-1. They might have an uphill fight, and certainly the entire internet would be against them, but... it is pretty much the only place where their classic "we own all of Macross" stance could even potentially be justified.
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    It isn't even being made by people who have any interest in or familiarity with human anatomy. ... I'm sorry, did I go too far? But seriously, the planes aren't even in the top ten things wrong with that last set of pages(or any prior set, for that matter)
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    Welcome to video game news.
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    That sucks all the balls.
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    Geez. I hope the replacement does better.
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    I'm watching Killing Bites. It is trash, but hilariously awful trash. ONLY GOD CAN JUDGE ME!
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    VMU protocol is definitely doable. Given they could also be used for VMU-VMU connections, the protocol had to be both computing-light and power-efficient. And yeah, I don't think anyone has ever figured out what happened between the Saturn controllers and the Dreamcast controller. They coulda just stuck a new cable on the Saturn analog pad and no one would've minded. Instead they re-engineered it, cut some buttons off, ruined the d-pad, and made the cable come out the bottom instead of the top.
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    If I remember right, laser blade is the official name for the lion's mouth-dagger things. The toy definitely has a "Form blazing sword!" or two in it. I know because I hopped on YouTube earlier to see what noises occur when you start combining it. Turns out it does the whole speech, from "activate interlocks" to "I'll form the head", which made me smile.
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    Is there a reason we ignore the explanation in Global Report that they did everything right but the drive was wonky because of the boobytrap?
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    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Me_262 Apparently.
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    I'd buy most of them.
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    Every time I see a Cosmos-inspired toy, several thoughts run through my head in rapid succession. First I think "Oh, neat, Cosmos was kinda cool. Spaceships are awesome." Then I think "Wow, that is SUPER ugly. What exactly were they thinking?!" Then I remember this is pretty much spot-on for Cosmos and I wasn't thinking of Cosmos in the first place. My flying saucer quota was filled with the Go-Bot Pathfinder, and, well, she was just BETTER in every regard and my childhood games were more enjoyable for her substitution. And then I'm sad that no one is EVER going to make a high-end Pathfinder. Except NASA, but their's wasn't toy- OR cartoon-accurate, and the production run was incredibly low.
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