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    You know, in hindsight it is hard to say why it took so LONG for someone to do a Rampage movie. Good call, Warner. You're getting the mileage you ought out of the Midway purchase. This is a way better idea than Asteroids: The Movie was.
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    Given Max and Millia raised a family of seven while holding down major jobs... I think there was a significant effort to ensure the infrastructure for childcare assistance was there. I mean, it makes sense if you're trying to repopulate the planet AND man a bunch of colony fleets. You have to arrange some sort of mechanism to reduce the burden of childcare so parents can afford to have a bunch of them. Oh man, so there could be DOZENS of Hikarus out there, all ineptly bumbling their way through romantic minefields while listening to Minmay CDs and leading fighter squadrons?
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    Well, yes, but Disney already bought Star Wars.
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    AtGames pulled it off! ... Is this compatible with their SD card reader, I wonder... Yeah, but the Symphony port wasn't very good, as I recall.
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    That is pretty darn cool.
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    The best part of the PSP remake was that it included the original as an unlockable bonus feature. That was most of what my PSP disk was used for.
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    That is fantastic. True story: The first time I saw ROCK ON instead of LOCK ON was in a Megaman game. Rockman in Japan. To this day I am unsure if it was intentional or not.
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    It kind of is. I am mostly AMUSED by the lighting situation in the statue, not UPSET by it. The second pic is, admittedly, the first thing that came to mind, though. And the statue still needs a diffuser so you aren't obviously staring at an LED behind a window. Even lighting is important for this effect, and this is most of the actual problem with it, as well as what prompted me to comment on the whole thing in the first place. The Bandai one appears much better diffused. And they still should've prioritized lighting the fire effects over the visor. If Bandai's effort is as weak as either of the Robotech ones, I'll go ahead and laugh at it too.
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    Castlevania X is a pretty sweet game. I say this as someone who doesn't usually get along with the pre-Symphony Castlevanias. 'S got style in spades, and the controls are fluid enough that you aren't fighting your character while still rigid enough to lend everything a sense of momenteum.
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    Meanwhile Hasbro went the other direction and turned Sky Lynx into a pseudo-Concorde.
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    Waitwaitwait.... "vacuum tube digital sound system"? Really? REALLY?! They're actually going to cram one of those dumb-nuts hipster retrotech vacuum tube amps into the base so it has to be plugged into a wall to make sounds? Why not go whole hog and store the sound clips on an 8-track too? Is that the point at which things become "too hard"? You can't check ONE MORE bullet point and use a crappy storage mechanism to go with your crappy amp? Heck, even ompact casstte wold get that pseudo-nostalga cachet.
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    The lack of cannon swivel on the jet backpack is the one big disappointment I have with SoC Dancouga. It is something I would hope is fixed in a V2(but it seems unlikely).
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    That's a shame. Not that he's a bad toy, mind you, but the state of the art is a bit more advanced than it was when he came out a decade or so ago. It'd be nice to see a fresh take.
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    Only because they were asleep at the wheel and no one was minding the store.
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    I think you've confused Chiba sound units with sound boosters. The latter was a hardware upgrade not entirely dissimilar from the traditional FAST packs, while the former was a unit of measurement for song energy. CSUs existed primarily to put a number on Basara's singing so everyone knew PRICISELY how good it was. (And occasionally Mylene's, usually to remind us that Basara was better.)
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    Regarding the "powering up" of music, I think M7 could have gotten away with it by being just slightly more ambiguous. Basically, just get rid of the visual song energy effects. No other change. Personally, I'd also get rid of the Chiba Sound Units. I dislike making explicit quantitative measures of song energy, and would rather they were vaguer about the actual power levels. But I think striking the visual effects alone is probably "good enough".
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    Mazinger is INSANELY popular in Japan, as one might expect the founder of a genre to be. Apparently it still holds the highest viewership ratings any anime TV series has ever pulled. I honestly just can't see a market for the Orbots, no matter how hard I squint. There's no japanese presence at all(a major factor for this line, with most installments not marketed outside Japan), and only a minimal fanbase in America. I think if it was a simple repaint of the existing Godmars mold, it would be just barely within the bounds of plausibility, given the low cost of a niche repaint. But with the original design being a MODIFIED Godmars... new tooling just ruins the plans. Molds are expensive to make.
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    He's not a twit, he's a CHILD. There's a difference.
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    I think those are what I was thinking of with "at least the whole head doesn't glow", actually.
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    I really love the B2 Megatron. I have the Classics one, and every time I look at him, I pick him up and start trying to transform him. Then I remember why I never try to transform him. Hopefully this one is a lot more fun to play with.
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    I would've SWORN they already did the Bismark/Ramrod, but I'm apparently crazy. Orbots ain't happening. They are JUST different enough from Godmars to require new molds, and there's just not enough interest to make it a profitable venture. That... may be true for Bismark/Ramrod as well, but some of the things that HAVE made the list are niche enough that I have to believe this one's a viable product idea. Either way, Bandai doesn't need to reissue Voltron for more money. Aside from being Bandai, they've found that revisions, repaints, and reissues of Mazinger Z are a free ticket to profitville, so there's something like twelve of them in the line. Any time they need a new infusion of cash, BAM, Black Mazinger! Mazinger with chrome legs! Mazinger with longer legs! Mazinger with a new waist piece! Et cetera et cetera. (Not that there hasn't been new engineering done, too. Just... that engineering could've been spent on a NEW robot instead..)
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    No, it isn't fun. I read End of the Circle. EVERY generation is full of pricks. It is a miracle we've survived as long as we have, as a species.
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    Oh, yeah, taking Gunther along was a dick move, assuming there was anything of the original man left inside after he was turned into a meatpuppet. I actually forgot about that. I assume the EVIL series that drew them into the dimension in the first place ALSO had brains before becoming the protodeviln. They took those bodies with them when they left, too. Perhaps not STOLEN bodies, given they were forced into them, but... definitely loaners.
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    Thing I don't get about Star Citizen hype is how many OTHER space sims have come and gone since the hype train started that went completely ignored. And not just Elite: Dangerous. Hell, Starwraith has started, completed, and shipped Evochron Legacy since the Star Citizen kickstarter, and he is ONE PERSON. There's even a new Wing Commander in WC Saga(and how they managed to not get sued by EA I will never know).
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    Apparently. Personally, I think it is a conspiracy. HG is using their real estate money to buy the comic books to make it LOOK like someone is reading it.
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