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  1. JB0
    The internet is naught but smug comments. Anything that seems otherwise is just well-cloaked smug comments.
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    Hey, the kzin are hardcore. They could eat klingons for breakfast... assuming that Paramount was willing to pay Larry Niven to use them(and even less likely, Niven was willing to take the cash). Glad they didn't get a chance to mess that up.
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    I thought the thesis for Enterprise's failure was "crap writing and a stubborn refusal to follow up on promises made". Which was also the problem with Voyager, though Voyager was up-front with its refusal to follow up on promises. One episode in and the half of their crew made up of known terrorists is wearing Starfleet uniforms and happily getting along with the half of the crew sent to arrest them.
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    Wait, they blew up Bumblebee and he just put himself back together? Is he a junkion now? Also, that guy says "alien robot dinosaur" like it is a BAD thing.
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    Panel lines and glue plugs and origami shellforming oh my!
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    Ahhhhh.
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    I think these are fake. Not the least because a Super FamiCom release of Street Fighter II Turbo would have a random apostrophe in the title.
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    That sure is a Street Fighter box.
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    Voltron is the defender of the universe. Power Rangers aren't even the Defenders of the Earth. Defenders of California? Also, the lions can fight on their own instead of just being pants for the giant robot. This is incontrovertible and objective proof that Voltron is better. I won't say Voltron is THE most important thing in my childhood(that was probably Nintendo), but I WAS one of the millions that made it the most successful kid's show of its time, and I spent a lot of time shouting "I'll form the head" or "form blazing sword".
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    Seems like most of them are loyal sycophants instead of backstabbing schemers is the biggest issue.
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    The Megazord is an impressive toy, but it just ain't my super robot. Power Rangers was "a cheap Voltron knockoff" in my head, and while it may be inaccurate it is still how I feel in my heart. That's why I got Voltron.
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    Just rewatched ye olde Armitage III, for the first time in years and years. Still quite enjoyable, though I caught myself repeatedly asking one question that I never really considered in my younger days: How is our heroine getting away with wearing a bra and hot pants as a police uniform?
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    Hooray for easy upgrades!
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    Well, darn. Now I have to hunt for one. Or that.
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    Awww, man, it is a darn shame that the GCreation combiner is such a mess of bonus parts and stupidsword. I wonder if there was a communication breakdown somewhere along the line with that sword. Someone suggested a double-bladed sword, meaning like a tuning-fork(which is dumb but looks awesome), and the guy responsible for making the parts completely misunderstood the concept and stacked the blades like a sandwich instead. You're right about the GCreation torso being pretty lame, too. But those WINGS. Shuraking's wingspan is simply majestic. But the Toyworld torso is spectacular, and I love that tyrannosaur head hanging out of the chest. It is like someone looked at Gaogaigar, I mean Predaking, and went "Nope, lions are for chumps"... though I'm thinking the triceratops frill would make a spectacular chestplate too. ... Pity you can't fit the GCreation wings onto the Toyworld robot. They could give Slag a black humanoid head, like he's SUPPOSED to have! Scoria's cartoon-accurate red head is an instant dealbreaker for me. It is, seriously, the only thing that kept me from ordering one.
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    I have to say that, at this point, I really think GCreation has it down. I know I've said things about complex designs for complexity's sake, which it sounds like is a serious problem with the GCreation dinosaurs, but... they are tickling my nostalgia bone something fierce here. I owned Slag(and he was one of my favorite toys, so he went with me EVERYWHERE), a cousin owned Swoop, another cousin owned Grimlock(and I nearly died playing with him), I got a hand-off Sludge from a friend in the 90s... so I've had a lot of exposure to four the original toys, with pretty much every seam memorized on Slag(as well as some long-absent stickering), and GCreation really hits that toy look. Sure, there's some places where Toyworld is revising things for the better, but overall they just don't tickle my fancy the same way. ... It also means I'm not nearly as "into" Snarl as I am the other four. Sure, I know there WAS a stegosaurus, but he just doesn't have the same physicality in my mind that the others do. Also, let's be honest here. Stegosaurus is the least cool of the four dinosaurs and a pterosaur five dinosaurs present
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    Now THIS is how you do a retro-gaming nostalgia product! No ARM processors, no emulation, no "HDMI, USB, SD only" nonsense. An FPGA programmed to be a perfect recreation of the original hardware(plus some interesting upgrades). Full hardware and software compatibility, original IO is present alongside an SD reader and HDMI output, a new case designed by one of the original designers... it is almost the perfect project. There is only one problem: It's a friggin' Sinclair Spectrum, AKA the worst computer to ever see mass-market success. For those interested in a computer that sucks significantly fewer balls... http://wiki.icomp.de/wiki/Chameleon An FPGA device in a Commodore 64 cartridge. Connect it to a C64 and get all kinds of cool expansion capabilities. Or disconnect it from a C64 and... it reconfigures itself to behave as a C64. A C64 the size of a deck of cards. And yes, you can plug your old C64 floppy drive into it, or anything else that goes into the IEC bus(for obvious reasons, the cartridge doesn't have a cartridge slot).
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    As Slag was the Dinobot I owned (because triceratops was the best dinosaur ever) I can verify he had two sliver chunks in his wings/dino shoulders. Large trapezoidal lumps with techno-detailing on them. GCreation has the lumps molded in, they just aren't painted. I also note that while GCreation has the right dinosaur HEAD, their frill is wrongwrongwrongWRONG to the point of distraction, given how closely they echo the toy in so mnany other places north of the tail. Toyworld's frill is almost lifted straight off the original toy with the flat design and striations across the plates(though it should be slanted backwards and with more panels of varying sizese, and the lack of slant really messes with the Toyworld dino head). On the other hand, Toyworld gave him silver-chromed horns and ribs. And I can forgive GCreation the gray tail. It is better than chromed gold, mostly because it actually looks like it belongs where it is in a way the original tail honestly never did. Though given the drawing board myself, I would've done an original-style tail that detached and turned into a weapon. The chrome spine running through the tail always looked like it should be a weapon to me. (In my head, his tail shot lasers) Favorite touch on the GCreation one: The teal detailing on the shoulders. At first I thought they really went overboard with it(the original stickers had a lot less color there due to the V shape), but the more I look at it, the better it looks. Toyworld's, I like the RGB rectangles on the shins, as inauthentic as they are. Also the smaller gold lumps in dino mode. The original Slag toes that GCreation apes honestly stick out way far.
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    You're right, of course. And the missiles were metallic, not clear red. I can just see where they might have considered it an homage anyways, and the barrel DOES wind up looking like a separate thing that isn't really PART of the gun. Holy wow, Thunderous has some huge guns. Interesting. Just from looks, I have to agree that it's a pretty tough call. Mostly, I like Muddy's design better. The humanoid torso on Thunderous is nicer with all it's blocky angularness, though. But the actual look of individual parts, I prever Thunderous. Lot of extra detailing, a "shrouded" dino head, and ... just in general, that extra mile to make it prettier. With the exception of those lovely metallic dino toes on Muddy.
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    Just to be clear, the remark about Centurions rejects wasn't as malicious as it came across. I genuinely liked the concept behind the Centurions, and I like how many options Warbotron left on their not-Technobots. It is just an odd thing to see that many peg holes on a pseudo-Transformer. Just a hypothesis here, but I think the red-barrelled gun is a compromise homage. Since they don't include a missile launcher, the gun barrel is molded so it can be treated as such. If that is what they are going for, they made the wrong call. Muddy looks pretty darn nice. Though I really miss the smoked-plastic-over-chrome dinosaur heads of the original Dinobot toys. I always thought it was a neat effect, and I'm kinda sad that it looks like no one else does.
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    I'll say. If he had any more peg holes on him, I'd think he was a Centurions reject.
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    Well, he's a lot better sized than the first MP Megs, I'll give him that.
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    I can only assume this is a misguided effort at protecting the Virtual Console sales. I've... still never seen a MiNES.
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    True. I wasn't blaming either side, just noting that for someone shopping from both sides of the pacific, it has the potential to cause confusion. ... But I still think they should call the Legends toys "Micromasters" instead. No burning here, different strokes for different folks and all. But transformation is my biggest complaint about the new Megatron, particularly after reviewers said his color looks much healthier in-person. It is a ridiculously convoluted transformation that results in a terrible altmode AND seemingly unavoidably damages the toy's paint in the process. Convoluted and terrible altmode should be an either/or proposition, not both. And inherently unavoidably damages toy is an automatic nonstarter. I'm wondering if some parts tolerances weren't changed between the prototype and final production run, because surely their engineers weren't thinking "Okay, these parts scrape against each other and will NEVER hold paint, but it is okay since only a fool will experience our engineering anyways!". I do respect the engineering that went into the transformation on a technical level, but question whether it was wise. Particularly given the end result is proving so problematic. Personal preference, though? Even without the issues, I prefer simpler transformations. FAR simpler. I like being able to grab a toy and just idly transform it while thinking about something else, and excessively complex transformations annoy me.
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    It does not help that Hasbro uses the term legends for something different than Takara, which is only going to sow confusion. On a US toy, "legend" would mean something like "micromaster"(albeit with MUCH better engineering). On a japanese toy, it is as everyone else has already said.
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