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    All of them were licensed at a time when their long-term value was dubious at best. Yamato and Macross were licensed before home video was really a thing, so they were expected to have short lives regardless, and the licenses were made fairly simply because of it. (See also: Tetsuwan Atom/Astro Boy, Tetsujin 28/Gigantor. And for something less influential, Mach Go Go Go/Speed Racer. The real surprise here is actually that Mazinger Z DIDN'T get trapped in licensing hell after Tranzor Z happened.) Only excuse with Evangelion is that no one had any way of knowing it was gonna be a huge iconic thing instead of just another show, or that the US anime market was about to blow wide open. That license rapidly got a LOT more valuable than anyone on either side of it expected.
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    Plastic Memories is a good show. In the end, I think it comes out more bittersweet than depressing, though your mileage may vary.
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    Well, in fairness... a LOT of units were completely wiped out in Space War 1. Like, almost all of them. If you retire all those numbers, you start getting some really awkward unit designations. No one wants to be part of the 10,541st when they could be the 41st, and a lot of traditions die fast when 99 percent of humanity is vaporized in an eyeblink.
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    So... Super Robot Wars V got an english release, albeit published in Asia instead of North America. Real anime crossover SRW, none of that OG stuff. No Macross this time, to our eternal disappointment. I am less excited about this than I would've been a decade ago, but it is still pretty awesome news.
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    That is a pretty studly-looking "boxy red truck robot". While not accurate to a "real" Optimus Prime/Ginrai, I think the stacks bracketing the chest actually look pretty good. ... But yeah... that crotch thrust... I mean, surely he isn't in full boner-power mode all the time, but those are some really unfortunate promo shots.
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    Funny, because that is what I was most afraid of for quite a while, especially when the shot-for-shot recreations of the "original" animated movie scenes were released as teasers. Now it looks like they're doing their own thing with liberal homages to the first adaptation, which is far better than simply copying someone else's work wholesale. It still looks like they're Doing It Wrong, but at least now it looks like they are making different mistakes than the crew of '95. ... Except for the distinct lack of fuchikoma. They seem to be propagating that grievous mistake forward unrepentantly. On an unrelated note, I am taking bets for how many younguns are gonna see the think tank and accuse it of being a shameless Metal Gear ripoff.
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    Still wrong, though. It should say "The only way to enjoy Macross is to argue about it on the internet."
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    That's odd, I don't SEE Gubaba in that picture...
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    Very nice!
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    Eh, guy with a big gun turns into a big gun worked for Megatron and Shockwave. What's one more member of the club? ... Actually, , now that I think about it a sniper rifle would be a very good match for Shockwave's non-cartoon personality. Calm, collected, calculating, and just waiting for the perfect moment to pull the trigger. MAKE IT HAPPEN, SOMEONE!
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    Well, crap. Guess I did well to put off sticking the stickers on, because that was pretty much exactly what I was worried about(on the yellow lion. A healthy fear of cockeyed stickers on the rest).
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    The white lion muzzles seem to be consistent across almost all incarnations(a few very cheap toys have lion-colored jaws), though sometimes illustrated with a metallic sheen. Those should definitely be white, and it is one of the few dings I have against this version. Voltron's face varies, but was white in the cartoon and silver in the original toy. It is debatable which way it "should" be, particularly given how much other media has favored the toy over the cartoon.
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    Aren't people always pissed at Hasbro anyways?
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    But Nintendo doesn't have Blast Processing! It should be fundamentally incompatible! No, seriously, I was just having a laugh at the idea of a Nintendo running Sega games. Made the same crack at the Wii's Virtual Console, and at Sonic on the Gameboy Advance. Also, the NES and Genesis controllers both have four buttons. They are just better arranged on a Genesis pad. But they are probably using a Wii Classic Controller.
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    Third try's the charm. A competent design that actually looks like a Power Rangers poster! NOW we can complain that "it's morphin time" needs another apostrophe.
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    How is that possible? I thought Genesis did what Nintendon't, and they would be fundamentally incompatible! My mind is blown!
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    Well, that new poster is better than the other one. It feels like there's a coherent design in it, though it has an air of contemplation and fantasy questing I don't typically associate with giant robot shows. But given what I've seen in the trailers, the fantasy quest feel is oddly appropriate. I'm still feeling more and more like a black poster that just says "It's morphin' time" is the direction they should be going for these things. It worked well enough for DC. (Throw a Superman or Batman logo and a movie title on a sheet of paper and you're golden). I was the other direction. I thought the Power Rangers were a cheap Voltron knockoff.
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    Also how they lost Raleigh's brother. As I understand it, the official reason is that the neural interface hardware is very sensitive to radiation from the jaegars' reactors, and thus mounted very far from the core and stored separately from the rest of the jaegar when not in use. Of course, with the implication that newer jaegars aren't nuclear-powered, I dunno.
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    I too have an affinity for the original, but acknowledge it was going to be a hard design to sell to modern children. Thankfully, they didn't reinvent it as a big ball of bayformers-inspired scrap. And there is one thing I feel is a legitimate improvement. The red across the chest of the original lion Voltron tends to flow into the red lion and make it appear more important than the rest. I feel like removing that red from the chest removes that emphasis and makes them appear more equal.
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    That... that is a lot of steel. And a useful frame of reference.
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    That sounds right. Honestly, I think I like the new head unit(can I call it a pilder? Please?). It is appealing to a more modern anime aesthetic than the curvy Gypsy 1.0 head, but it works. And the straight "wings" work better for me than the old "over the shoulder" pieces.
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    So are you saying Isamu's presence CAUSES wars to break out? Because I would totally believe that.
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    Yes, it is.
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    Me too. I'm that jerk that always preferred Vehicle Voltron.
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    That is kind of how I feel about the Madking one, which really answers your question. I'd argue(and I believe I have previously) that the SoC doesn't make the Madking obsolete because they cater to completely different subsets of the market. One is for people that want the original toy, just with better proportions, more detail, and maybe some poseability if it isn't too much to ask. The other is for people that want a more stylized and modern re-imagining of the iconic robot. The Madking one will be obsoleted by a SoC of Legendary Defender Voltron.
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