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  1. JB0
    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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    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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