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    The crash of the ASS-1 didn't just leap electronics and fusion powerplants and rocket engines forward. There are also overtechnology MATERIALS, like hypercarbon(which is not carbon). By all appearances, these overmaterials are both stronger and lighter than anything we have, driving the weight of everything down while at the same time making it all far tougher.
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    Quintess-Os... genius!
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    The lion-head attack(I forget what they called it) thing is nice!
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    My thoughts on the trailer were just that it can't decide if it is a sequel to Prometheus or a remake of Alien. Neither of which is a thing I particularly want to see.
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    Yeah, atrocity is a good way to describe the Revenge of the Fallen Arcee. I think that was really the low point for Bayformers design. So many that turned from vehicles to... assemblages of parts that don't really look like much of anything.
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    If it wasn't meant to be a beret, it is close enough for my headcanon. If I'm wrong, I don't want to be right.
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    I have to ask: You're thinking of the one from the first toyline with the beret and the wheels that hang over her shoulders, right? Just making sure we're on the same page, since they did give her a much higher profile redesign(if we can call the TF2 version a design) I admit, the beret amused me more than it should. It is just such an ODD anthropomorphic touch to see a Transformer with a hat. And I seem to be a sucker for robots with crossbows.
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    No lie there. Doing her close to screen-accurate without some partswapping is a serious pain in the exhaust pipe. Animated Arcee was fun as heck. Mine is currently threatening to knife Animated Waspinator in the face. Largely because a transformation joint gave him an "ab crunch" and after I accidentally got him in a "pelvic thrust" pose, I thought it was too hilarious to change. Really, he deserves to get shanked. Really, most of the Animated toys were fun as heck. Which is a LOT different from what I expected when the first promo pics came out. I also liked the Arcee toy from the first Bayformers line. Again, motorcycle and very little to do with the original aside from being female, but it was a fun mold. Very frustrated when they put her in the second movie and her robot mode kinda crapped the bed. 'S like "we spent the effort to design a good Arcee in this aesthetic already, so let's throw it away and start over!"
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    She turns into half a car, with a robo-butt hanging out the rear. There's not really a nice way to put it.
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    They seriously named their company "Lechery"? ... At least they are honest?
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    Wasn't DuelGundam an adamant defender of the entire series? My stance is simple: I'm here first and foremost for the robot-on-robot action. The first movie completely failed to deliver that. A. They are citing actual Texas law created explicitly to protect that kind of relationship from prosecution. (Which surprised me. I still can't figure out how that clause made it through a state legislature that is notably prudish and "tough on crime".) B. Bizarrely, while jumping through those hoops to legalize the relationship with real law, they missed a much simpler clause in the same section of Texas law: the age of consent in Texas is 17, which is exactly how old she is. She could legally sleep with anyone she pleased, and there was no need for any special exemption. C. As I said last time it came up, let protoforms be protoforms. Teens gonna boink.
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    Not Transformers-related, really, but that's also alleged to be why Sega stopped selling After Burner Climax, their jet licenses were expiring. Super Hornet, Strike Eagle, and Super Tomcat. Trademark in the modern world extends a lot farther than it did in the 80s, in all markets.
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    That sounds really uncomfortable. *runs for cover* Compatibility issues aside, that is awesome and more converting robot toys should have gun grips that actually look like gun grips. ... Ah well, at least we're past the days of G1 Prime, where his rifle had a pistol grip... in front of the peg that went into his fist.
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    See, I think the first one was abysmal drek, and each successive movie is incrementally better. Age of Extinction was the first one I wanted to see again, and dangerously close to being a good movie.
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    I think it is done this way because assembly costs are higher than painting costs for small parts. And if you make the window section larger so it is a simple drop-in affair, you wind up paying for the piece twice over. Once in opaque plastic, a second time for the transparent insert. In either situation, instead of paint, now you're applying glue. Put too much of THAT in your transforming robot car and it ceases to transform. Makes paint overspray look trivial. Now, of course, the fact that these are aimed at a higher-end segment of the market DOES cast some doubt on whether "standard" toy construction practices really make sense. I'd be interested to know what sort of profit margin these toys see, and how much of it would be eaten up by higher-end construction.
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    It really has the feel of an authentic G1 bio, too. Honestly, I first noticed it with Broadside, but it was kind of a running theme through a LOT of the G1 bios.
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    Also Gobotron at 1:15, and a Metal Gear at 1:25
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    I can't poke too much fun. I'm a Captain Power fan, after all.
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    Best robo-bio ever. I mean, that is even better than Broadside's classic "Afraid of heights, afraid of water, so he turns into a jet and a boat" bio.
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    They DO exist!Naw, I'm just bein' a smartbutt.
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    God Ginrai needs more chrome.
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    You'd have to find a Jem fan first.
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    USS Iowa sure does pack some big guns. They can't even be confined by the edge of the image in that bottom-right one.
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    You and me both. I mean, how else were we supposed to get those things apart?
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    Funny, I was just thinking how awesome the black lion's wing-jetpack looked and how great it was that the wings weren't just THERE on the lion's back for no real reason.
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