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    Almost certainly Deathstroke. No reason to go Marvel when they already have DC rights and it is a character that wasn't referenced in the book anyways. I would love to see the Power Glove as a piece of in-game equipment. But it doesn't belong in a "real-world" VR setup of the 21st century.
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    I don't think we have a case of WB not WANTING to pay. There's several VERY expensive licenses in the book that they can't realistically afford, assuming they are licensable at all. Spiderman and Godzilla are the two that really stick out as being highly problematic, though Robotech could also be difficult to secure what with Sony making that live-action movie(any day now, right?). That said.... they had me at powersliding Back to the Future DeLorean.
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    The ban on Stealth was half in jest, I don't think anyone was ACTUALLY banned over it. But around the time it came out everyone got REALLY tired of a new "teh hollwoodz bootlegged macross" thread every three days and discussion of Stealth was, in fact, briefly against the rules.
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    Gipsy Danger comes with the ship-club!?!? SOLD!!!!
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    Which, while interesting wrinkles in the setting, are still completely irrelevant to any story being told in their vicinity. That the pages could be excised completely and it was years before anyone even noticed is telling of their importance, as is the author's willingness to help in their excision. ... Okay, the major's sexuality is ALMOST completely unimportant, but the extent to which it DOES matter is "cop boyfriend". The girls involved in the excised pages never appear again, and are never mentioned again, despite the dialog implying they have a reasonably long relationship with the major. They don't matter. Same reason you hear basically nothing of anyone's personal life except Togusa, and that only barely. His wife and kids affect his actions and motivations within the story, but beyond that are completely irrelevant. No one else has anybody in their lives that matters to the stories told, and that includes the major. Her friends made it in the first time because Shirow wanted to draw some sexytimes, not because they mattered. . The worst part is that actual application of the technology to the porn industry is left EXTREMELY vague, to the extent that we know they're making porn but not really a whole lot else. I think we could've guessed cyberbrains were used for porn without it being explicitly stated(no pun intended). That complete lack of detail renders the interlude grossly disappointing to me, since I WANTED to know exactly how this works. The vignette would have been better-served by appearing in one of the "sidebar" chapters that were all about world-building, where there WASN'T an ongoing mission and they COULD indulge in a sidebar about the development and deployment of cyberbrain-pornography and what kind of drugs they were using and how frequent a thing this was.
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    Guys, guys... I think we're all missing the important point here: that Robotech has been flailing about for years and HG keeps claiming Big Things are Coming Soon™ but nothing ever happens. This is just more of the same, and they deserve our mockery and scorn. Also that the Robotech Academy kickstarter was a failure of truly epic scope. Not that that's actually directly relevant to anything, but I wanted to remind everyone it happened.
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    Ditto. Nintendo didn't release the Power Glove, that was a Mattel product. Something something third-party controllers. Hey, Stealth was awesome, even if mentioning it WAS a bannable offense for a while.
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    Someone I was watching Delta with said "The show died with Messer", and I'm inclined to agree. They basically move into a holding pattern immediately after the funeral, and then suddenly remember three episodes before the end of the show "Oh, right, we had an ongoing plot we haven't done anything with! Better resolve that!"
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    I like that there's a version homaging the classic woodgrain-style VCS and a second version homaging the later "Vader" revision(the first one to actually be called a 2600).
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    Pity the Atari Box is actually, well, ugly. The initial design goal was decent, I see what they were going for with modernizing the original look, but... they dropped the ball hard and decided to emphasize the ugliest part of the original design and make it dominate in a way it was never intended to.
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    What's a Macross? Is that one of those japanese Gundam games?
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    Too bad they got the gravity of a black hole wrong...
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    A "Robotech" F-14 is actually kind of a cool homage.
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    The licensing thing cut both ways, it is worth noting. The 1/55 Valkyrie toy was never in the Robotech line, even though it rapidly wound up on the most-wanted list. Matchbox couldn't get the rights to the mold because of Hasbro, and had to make do with the Joke Machines. Best guess on the renaming is that Hasbro intended to make a new toy based on Skyfire, and didn't want to explain how two completely different toys could be the same character. I mean, they forced Bumblebee to take a new name when he was upgraded to Goldbug later, so they seemed to have been on a strong "one name, one design" mentality at the time. (Which kinda makes sense as the company viewed them as toys first, characters second at the time.) Anyways, I would like a Phoenix, but can't really justify paying that much for one. I always thought Skyfire looked pretty rad.
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    Authorial decision sounds likely in this case, actually. Shirow was already sick of hearing about the sexytimes pages waaaaaaaaaay back when the first english edition was produced. It's part of why he drew up the new half-page for that release. The spread adds nothing of actual value to the story, is a lightning rod for criticism, and he rapidly got tired of people complaining about it. Also interesting that everyone notes it is a two-page lesbian threesome, but no one ever mentions that they are filming a porno(while on drugs).
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    Jetfire came first, Skyfire was second. Hasbrto licensed the VF-1 toy to release as Jetfire, drew up an animation model, did a toy commercial, and then legal was all "Ummm, you guys know that this toy came from a cartoon, right? Did you buy animation rights too? You should get on that before- oh, never mind, it's too late now." Long story short: Harmony Gold ruins everything.
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    MY FAVORITE CHARACTER IS MESSER, BECAUSE HE ONLY MADE US SUFFER THROUGH 10 EPISODES INSTEAD OF 26 LIKE EVERYONE ELSE.
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    I also liked the varied design influences. I also thought it was interesting how the newest mech was the most "Gundam-y". Gipsy Avenger seems like an attempt to be more modern to me. Drawing more inspiration from the last decade of Gundam and less from the earliest of mech animes. The thing that disappoints me most about the design is that it looks less powerful. Gipsy Danger's bulk and lines gave it a sense of raw strength. It looked like something that couldn't move very fast, but you REALLY didn't want to still be around when it got there. Gipsy Avenger looks faster, more nimble... and weaker. Like it CAN'T punch Godzilla's head clean off his shoulders after shrugging off a burst of firebreath. But again, it also seems a logical evolution of the designs. We saw in the first movie they advanced from tanks with legs(Cherno Alpha, I love you, but lets call a spade a spade here) to the fairly sleek design of Striker Eureka, which to be frank LOOKED a lot less powerful than the rest no matter what it was actually capable of. Edit: Consulting with others, and it was also noted that Gipsy Avenger lacks a lot of the WW2 fighter plane feel of Danger. It feels less worn, and it lacks a lot of the paint details that gave a bit of personality to Danger. There's no pinstriping, no nose art, nothing. I really hope that the final Avenger has paint details we're not seeing yet.
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    Except there was only one cable bill. Now EVERYONE wants to bill you.
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    Right. Gipsy Danger is an old, obsolete model. If form follows function, as it should for something that large and complex, it makes sense that Gipsy 2 would bear little resemblance to the original.
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    Honestly, I think Gipsy 1 is more inspired by the oldschool Tetsujin and Mazinger era of robot design and Gipsy 2 is more modern Gundam style. Canonically, it is appropriate for a new Gipsy to resemble Striker Eureka more than Gipsy 1, but emotionally I really liked Danger and her presence will be missed.
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    Nice! What front-end you usin' in that MAME cab? Liberator's an excellent choice. Doesn't get near as much love as it ought to.
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    I had one of the purple invid too. Trufax: He got my ENTIRE box of Robotech toys thrown out when his arm fell out of its socket. Mom wanted me to throw out the broken toy, I argued it was loose and not broken(because it was awesome and like hell I was giving it up over a single loose arm socket), and a few minutes later she's telling me to throw out ALL my Robotech toys instead of just one and I quit arguing before she escalated things further. Joke's on her, my Max Sterling figure wasn't in the basket because I forgot to put him up and didn't know where he was at the time! We won't focus too hard on the things that WERE properly put away in that basket... I miss my little die-cast Phalanx destroid and those Southern Cross hoverboard things.
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    I think it went something like this.... "Hey, we need to extend the ExoSquad toyline... we got any other plastic robot molds we can reissue?" "We still have those Robotech toys we made back in the 80s... and bizarrely, the license hasn't expired yet." "Do it. Don't care if it makes sense or not. Put the Robotech label on 'em too, see if we can't fan some nostalgia flames."
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    This is, in a nutshell, the problem with subscription services. I could totally see myself paying to watch stuff "a la carte"(the old pay-per-view/Blockbuster model), but that's apparently not profitable enough. Particularly as I don't watch a huge amount of stuff. The binge-viewing model that makes a subscription a reasonable proposition is completely foreign to me.
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