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  1. JB0
    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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    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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