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    It is a reasonable hypothesis. They have seen the western market wants larger hardware(note we got the New 3DS XL, but not the "regular size" New 3DS), they've long done better in the portable space than the tethered space, and to be honest hardware is at the point where a large portable device can turn in enough performance to be a reasonable console(the same premise behind the nVidia Shield and the Ouya). There is no real POINT to Nintendo releasing another "real" console, unless they decide they want to start punching in the half-grand AAA space where MS and Sony fight. And to be frank, I don't see why they would WANT to. If the DS hadn't been, well, dual-screen, they would've done this years ago. Let's be honest, all we've really wanted from Nintendo for some time is a way to play DS games on a TV. And now we have it. TurboExpressin' it up with hardware that is good enough for a console, but weak enough for battery power.
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    Stunned silence, and then immense confusion. The biggest problem I see is that two lions don't have "flathead screw" legs. This bothers me, as the original diecast toy is "the right Voltron" in my mind. I was hoping the Soul of Chogokin one would come with swappable lion legs, but it doesn't look like it will.
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    I thought this was officially licensed. And the hovertanks are forgotten. No matter how cool the idea is, being saddled with a show no one loves isn't doing them any favors.
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    Hey, the Blackbird looks a lot nicer in jet mode than the last time I saw him. Either paint helps a lot, or they adjusted the tolerances of everything to make it come together.
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    Wish I could say I was surprised. But they were gleefully reusing Bandai's designs and trademarks without even a cursory attempt to pretend they were merely "inspired by". Though to be fair, some of the earliest "unofficial Transformer" were flat-out bootlegs of the Hasbro/Takara products, and I was always surprised they never got the hammer dropped. I guess not using the actual trademarks really does matter.
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    Heart and Soul ++
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    Older than that. The VFX games were PS1. PS2 Macross game was an adaptation of Space War 1. Hyped as the "definitive version" of that war, and then it turned out that meant they had both a TV path and a DYRL path through the game. A trolling masterpiece.
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    See, I think this is a good idea. I've been saying for years they needed to start focusing on portables. The DS unfortunately made it difficult for the home system to be a portable with video output, but breaking compatibility lets them do what they should've done instead of the Wii U, and probably should've done instead of the Wii if I'm being honest. Though... building the GameBoy Player into the GameCube would've moved a lot of 'Cubes, so maybe that is where they should've started converging... anyways... point is that their portables make mad bank and their home consoles clog shelves. All anyone really wanted was a way to play their portable games on the TV, and now they have that. If the system core is a reasonable tablet, then it becomes a compelling device on that angle. It is Nintendo, so I assume otherwise, but on the other hand nVidia has a hand in this, so maybe... Hope springs eternal and all that nonsense. (The system is almost certainly a modification of the cancelled Shield 2 tablet, but that tells us nothing.) All in all, I like the TurboExpress feel. This is a system that is powerful enough for the home, but weak enough for a trip.
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    I've been rewatching 7 myself lately, with some friends. One thing that really struck me is how much care Mylene gets in the animation. She's wearing a different outfit every episode, and I haven't noticed them recycling clothes. The closest Basara gets to a new outfit is an episode where they swapped the shirt and bandanna colors, and I think that was an accident. Which is really bizarre given how readily Basara steals the spotlight every episode. I also noticed the "vampire" plotline just gets dropped without any resolution. They simply stop talking about them shortly after Sivil wakes up. It is actually kinda shocking if you're looking for it. And while I've spent years complaining about how Basara is a brick wall in a spotlight... I grudgingly admit the character has some nuance going on. He is hard to pin down, and widely open to interpretation, but there are strong hints of motivation and definite thoughts deeper than "LISTEN TO MY SONG" running through his head. He's still far closer to "force of nature" than "relatable human", but... like I said, I grudgingly admit there's some human in there.
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    Because Basara needs to STFU and let Mylene sing! In seriousness, I really like Basara's singing, but I also really like Mylene's singing and would love to hear Mylene-as-lead-vocal versions of the big Fire Bomber songs.
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    Hopefully better edited than the last movie compilation. Though really, I don't care for compilation movies. They smack of laziness and cheapery. Go all DYRL-style and remake 7 to fit inside, say, six hours. Seven is popular enough for a trilogy, right?
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    The Lynn Minmay Story wasn't really a DYRL remake, it was just another Space War 1 movie. Think of them like Pearl Harbor and Tora Tora Tora. Two different movies about the same historical subject.
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    BOMBA! Yeah, on the whole 7 is definitely better than Delta, and Dynamite 7 is just good solid fun no matter who you are.
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    I couldn't decide if a Touhou homage to Macross 7 went in the fan works thread or the video games thread. So I flipped a coin and here we are.
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    Yeah. Sometime before... 7 I believe, they stopped using thermonuclear reactions and started using pair-annihilation reactions. In universe, it gets you more bang for your buck, out of universe it lets you avoid people being upset that they just literally nuked someone.
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    Yeah, low-altitude folds are generally not a good idea. The zentradi were shocked by Global's move in SDF, and the crew of Macross 7 considered a surface fold a bad idea even when they ran out of other options. But the catastrophic effects seen in SDF were attributed to the boobytrap as opposed to the unusually low fold altitude or direct operator error. It seems probable that safeties which would have presented such a mishap were disabled in the process of setting up the boobytrap mechanism. And with it being the only fold mechanism humanity had ever seen, they wouldn't know what proper safety mechanisms looked like Particularly as the Supervision Army vessel found during the factory satellite capture operation wasn't there when they sent an investigation team back later. That implies to me that the boobytrap programming is designed to move or eliminate discovered traps. Moving it out of the area would require the fold system to be interfaced with the boobytrap code, and destroying it would be quite easily facilitated by disabling safeties.
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    Oh man, that show is fantastic!
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    Aww, it wasn't the crew's fault. They state in-show the SDF fold accident (and the malfunctioning gravity controllers) was due to side effects of the boobytrap, not proximity to the surface or user error.
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    My mistake. Saves me the trouble of feeling dumb when the group I'm watching it with gets to the finale, I can get my dumb out of the way now.
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    I still say the biggest problem with Rowboat tech's YF-1R is that the head ISN'T the animation error head. The 1A head looks really friggin' good with the extra lasers, but RT's 1R head is an ugly hexagonal mess.
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    I don't recall them ever being strong enough to activate the sound boosters, which was the original goal. Basara wasn't alone in looking down on them, Dr. Chiba said if it was up to him everyone would've failed the audition. They were definitely forced into the field before they were ready, though. No attempt was made to prepare them for the experience of combat, nor were their song energy levels high enough to be relevant. I get the feeling Basara knew it would end up that way.
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    :'(
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    Now you know how I felt when I saw it. THE SUFFERING MUST BE SHARED!
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    And once Sound Force was formalized and he was forced to acknowledge it, he basically gave the military the middle finger and kept doing his own thing. In fairness, his refusal to help set up the Jamming Birds was a combination of him literally not being able to teach music theory like they wanted him to, and the military appointing a group of singers that weren't capable of doing the job. As I rewatch 7, I'm noticing Basara has a bit more nuance than I've tended to give him credit for. Not a LOT more nuance, but... a little bit.
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    I honestly don't remember.
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