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  1. JB0
    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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    Finders keepers, right? More seriously, wasn't the whole protodeviln thing only ever a problem because they COULDN'T leave? I mean, it isn't like they just woke up one day and said "why don't we go to another dimension and possess some genetically-engineered bioweapons for the lulz".
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    Delta is the new 7. Whatever the conversation, no matter how tangental, some version of "but Delta sucked" has to be worked in somehow. At least they aren't vilifying the people that like Delta. I enjoyed about half of Delta, personally. Unfortunately, the plot threads I was interested in were abandoned rapidly, and the series moved into a holding pattern at about the halfway point that it never really recovered from.
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    Lady M is OBVIOUSLY Doctor Chiba!
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    Hey, people on Mars is important too. I'm embarrassed that it's taken fifty years and a wealthy billionaire to make any meaningful progress towards it since we set foot on the moon, but... progress is progress. 'Sides, there's plenty of cheap cars. None affordable for 99% of the population, mind you. I don't think you CAN get 99% coverage with existing regulations and wages. If you can legally put a new car on the street for a half a grand new, you need to start doing this. You will be rich like Elon Musk.
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    But then people would complain it wasn't cast-off.
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    Thanks!
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    KumaStyle: That is a SUPER-sexy Megatron. Not G1 toon-accurate, obviously, but... it has the FEEL of a Megatron. Powerful, with an air of dignity and aloofness, and a big flippin' arm-gun just in case someone dares to defy him. Which Meg is it?
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    If I recall, it is HIGHLY unclear what, if any, relation the "modern" Sv units have with the Zero machines. And no, they are two completely independent and unrelated anti-UN movements.
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    Fair enough. I retract the complaint.
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    Aaaactually, the Sv-51's fuel issue was because it used jet engines instead of harnessing the power of the atom(just like the VF-0). So the Sv-52 wouldn't have fuel issues.
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    Honestly, my opinion on MP-36 hinges(no pun intended) entirely around how fiddly and complex he is. There is a point where your engineering is too clever, and MP Megatron II is WELL past that point. A less complex toy that is easier to transform would better serve most people. Or a non-transforming articulated figure, if we are honest about what most of us are going to do with him. Everything else is better than MP Meg II by virtue of being less than 50% hinge by volume.
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