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  1. JB0
    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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    Oooooooh. Very nice.
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    Even the VF-1 is wildly durable by modern standards. I think the original Valkyrie's armor is supposed to be superior to a modern main battle tank. And Britai kinda tore through it like cardboard. That's sorta like beating the crap out of an Abrams with a crowbar, and ACTUALLY destroying it. ... And then the VF self-destructed in Britai's face, and he just got up and dusted himself off. He's PRETTY DARN TOUGH.
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    Except for the fact that Golion was worthless. Remember, it bombed horribly in Japan. Golion really only has commercial value as Voltron, and the only reason to hold onto it would have been so Toei could shake WEP down for money every so often. It probably wasn't worth the effort.* As I understand things, every time WEP did something with Voltron, Toei popped up and went "You know, your license doesn't actually allow that." and WEP went "Crap, sorry, thought it did. Can we buy an exemption?". And finally, both parties were sick of it. WEP just called one day and went "Look, we're both sick of paying our lawyers to renegotiate. What does it cost to just BUY Golion off of you? No sublicenses, no limited extensions. We want everything. Lock, stock, and barrel. The whole kit and caboodle. Work with us here. " and Toei just went "Wait, you actually WANT Golion? We thought you were messing with us all these years. Why would anyone... never mind. Yeah, sure, by all means. Make us an offer." And now WEP owns Golion, and they can make as many sequels, adaptations, and remixes of lion Voltron as they want. And they can negotiate with Bandai to make Soul of Chogokin Goliontrons. Toei, meanwhile, cashed a nice check, and probably made more off of Golion in one shot than they've earned to date since it originally aired. Even considering the long-running WEP license. *This is not dissimilar to Tatsunoko's response every time HG asks about renewing the Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross license, except Toei pays better attention. Apparently, every time they talk HG has to remind Tatsunoko that yes, you guys DO actually own Southern Cross and yes, we really want to extend our license. One wonders what it would cost HG to buy Southern Cross outright, but THEY don't really want it either. The existing Robotech: Masters Saga episodes are more of a necessary evil thing.
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    If I recall, that was how Hayate got his jetbot in episode 1 of Delta. Injured pilot was removed, and he climbed in through the still-open hatch.
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    Meanwhile, I'm always trying to NOT embed a video despite auto-detection scripts attempting to "help" me waste bandwidth and overburden lower-end systems.
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    I just thought I'd put it out there because it is the sort of crazy engineering that makes life better for the knowing of. According to Wikipedia, the ultimate arbiters of truth(if not actually fact), it was last messed with in the 90s by NASA, who retrofit it to the F16XL prototypes. Which brings us kicking and screaming back to the ACTUUAL topic, since I believe the F-16XL was an inspiration for the VF-11MAXL.
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    Actually, some experimental aircraft have done it IRL using large airpumps and an array of tiny ports on the wing. It turns out that dirt in the air is a not-insignificant issue, and plugged nozzles are a serious impediment to deployment.
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    Nice. I gotta say, the new chest fixes my biggest complaint with King of Beast.
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    I thought WEP bought those rights a good while back, but can't swear to it.
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    ENTIRELY understandable after the Sharon Apple "incident". Actually, it seems like Plus has had as much influence on the background setting, but very little visible influence on the foreground story.
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    You mean "besides Prowl and Soundwave"?
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    You know what? An awesome Jaegar Voltron will allow me to forgive most of the film's flaws.
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    Also the headlight/chestplate assembly.
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    You don't have to have the nicest blag, just... not the worst blag. Also, please keep posting them here as well.
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    What? This has been going on for a decade now. Nintendo is just super-late to the party and no one wants to admit it. MSX has already HAD "the Mini treatment". Twice.
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    Right. That was my main thing. Not that it looks high-tech instead of run-down, just that it doesn't look like it has actually ever been USED. (Star Trek usually has a similar issue. Though at the rate they suffer plasma leaks, there may be a very good justification for the lack of grease stains in engineering. ) Oh well... it is more or less what I expected from a sequel, as disappointing as that actually is. Giant Robots: Uprising, whoo..
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    "Hey, Neumann, buddy! Wanna commit treason with me, for old time's sake?" "How about no."
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    Okay, I have concerns. I am going to ignore these concerns when the movie comes out, but with neither Del Toro nor Beacham being involved, I am just going to see giant robots. Based on the trailer, it is Pacific Rim fanfic. Point 1: Why is everything so freaking CLEAN? Pacific Rim's hardware and bases all looked like they were where work happens. They were grungy and greasy and scuffed and scraped, on top of just being very utilitarian. This trailer presents a world where everyone has just barely had time to unload the Apple truck and MAYBE remove the shipping protectors. They are not where work happens, they are where coffee is drank. Pont 2: WHY ARE THE JAEGARS SMALLER? Seriously, there's two possibilities here. A. they thought the kaiju were coming back, in which case the jaegars shoudl be built to, at a minimum, solo a category 5. That requires a lot more mass and leverage than these things have. If you are eye-level with a kaiju's crotch, you are not built to fight a kaiju. B. they didn't think the kaiju were coming back at all, in which case there's no reason whatsoever to build jaegars of any size because they are horrifically expensive, difficult to maintain, require very specialized pilot teams, and they have no purpose. They are specialized tools, and simply not practical for regular warfare. A single fighter jet could take out a jaegar at a fraction of the cost. Point 3: Boyega just isn't as good at dramatic speechifying as Elba. This isn't really a slight on him, Elba just has a really powerful and commanding voice. Boyega has his strengths, Elba has different strengths, and they are asking Boyega to play to Elba's strengths instead of writing a part that works with Boyega. Point 4: Are they using infantry with assault rifles? SERIOUSLY? And not even in biohazard suits?
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    Because it looks awesome.
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    In seriousness, I think that the "choked by not-Megatron" head is a brilliant accessory... which makes it more a pity that Howling Meteor is so bereft of detail that he looks like a vinyl statue instead of a "proper toy".
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    Does this mean that Howling Meteor and Despotron are now a combiner?
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    I'm just amused by the "glowing eye" effect. As always, it bears pointing out that Valk eyes DO NOT GLOW. Not canonically, and not in any stylized animation shots. And while it can look cool anyways... there's not enough light diffusion here to make it look like the entire lens is glowing. It is very obviously a single LED. Seriously, put those LEDs in the thrusters so those big thrust effects glow instead. Right now, we have the odd situation where parts that AREN'T supposed to glow do, and parts that ARE supposed to glow(because they are literally fire) don't. ... Oh well. At least they made sure the entire head doesn't light up.
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    But if the Stampede's writeup is correct, it wasn't meant for dogfighting. It was meant to be a shipbuster, without resorting to reaction weapons. A Strike Valkyrie doing the Stampede's job wouldn't carry the UUM-7, it would carry RMS-1 reaction warheads. (Which is largely why I assume the Stampede has a more powerful beam cannon than the Strike).
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    I'mma gonna guess it is some kind of development TESTbed. More seriously, probably a FAST pack prototype.
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