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  1. I have to say... in all the years since Gundam Wing first aired, I have never spent even one second thinking about what Relena's bust looked like until now. You have made my life objectively worse with that statement. I hope you are happy.
  2. Pretty much. They weren't allowed to really pry open Paramount's purse. I mean, when they replaced the Defiant, the replacement got the registry number changed to match the original Defiant so they didn't need to order a new set of CG Defiant clips.
  3. It's space. There is no up or down, you can orient the Death Star however you please. And I'm pretty sure that was basically the point of the shot, as otherwise why shoot it "weird".
  4. It seems to me like it should be economically feasible to build a destroid around an engine similar in spec to an older Valk engine. Build a destroid around a VF-11 engine and it'd be a monster in its field while still being far cheaper than a modern Valk. While the pun was not intended, that seems to be exactly what they did with the Konig Monster. Though the VF-11 was in regular service when the Konig was introduced, so it was not cheap. And the Konig in Frontier was apparently upgraded with VF-25-class energy armor, so it is STILL not cheap. The joys of filling a niche the VFs can't, your machine still gets catered to while all the other destroids are kicked into the gutter. But imagine, say, a Defender or Tomahawk getting the Konig treatment. Not "made into a variable vehicle", but "redesigned using modern technology". They'd be exceptional machines within their respective niches. (Even if one of those niches is "anti-aircraft turret") What they HAVE done is update the Cheyenne to use the same class of power plants as the original SDF Destroids, and then used it as a jack-of-all-trades ground device. It does most of the Tomahawk's job, a bit of the Defender's job, and has adorable little wheels for when you gotta go fast(a feature which would've been very useful on the Defender). ... And since the Cheyenne already HAS a CG model, they will update the Cheyenne again the next time they need a new destroid instead of making a new mech for a minor part. Destroid fans will suffer forever!
  5. Good point. It is a dangerous time to test the hypothesis. But it does get kind of silly when close to half of the SOC lineup is Mazinger Z reissues and modifications.
  6. I was being sarcastic. And I don't see Drift as a luxury car. Whatever he is, it has "Type-R" at the end of the name.
  7. So... is it written somewhere that if Bandai doesn't release a new Mazinger Z toy every year, the Earth will fall into the sun or something?
  8. Galvatron was the name the humans gave to their reverse-engineered combat drone based on Megatron. When Megatron's neural imprint took over, the drone became Megatron again. He was never going to accept a name given to him by weak fleshlings, and he has the might to enforce that opinion. Okay, so he could still get more japanese. Actually, that bugged me in the last movie too. I know japanese cars are few and far between, but surely they could've found at least one worth using.
  9. Enterprise was retconned into a holodeck simulation by the final episode. And that wasn't even the biggest problem with the episode.
  10. Man, did you see that black-helmeted guy in the end? I sure hope we see more of him, he looks awesome! Oh, and bring back Kyle Katarn.
  11. As little sense as it makes, I'm glad to see Barricade back. The evil cop car mode still makes me smile.
  12. The fudge? The trailers are region-locked.
  13. Whoa. Got some Toonami nostalgia goin' on here. The matching Heero sculpture is just kinda hilarious. But less so than if they'd actually put him IN the big fancy coat.
  14. Biology is disgusting. Super space biology is super-disgusting.
  15. So over the space of about twelve hours, the long-anticipated and now-ironically-named Another Metroid 2 Remake* went into release and got DMCA takedown notices rained on it, likely by a lawyer who mistook it for an actual Nintendo-produced game. It is exactly what it set out to be. A remake of Metroid II in the style of Zero Mission. I'd say it is, quality-wise, on par with that game. Even if you, as I, don't particularly care for how Zero Mission did a lot of things, it is still worth a look. I'm sure you can still find it available for download somewhere. Streisand effect and all that. The soundtrack alone is wonderful, and worth the download. Harmony of the Hunter is still my go-to Metroid remix album(s), but the AM2R soundtrack has the advantage of thematic cohesiveness since everything is in a common style and from a common game. *When he started, literally a decade ago, there had been a sudden influx of interest in the long-maligned Metroid II, and he was something like the sixth person to announce he was doing a remake of Metroid II. All the rest of them fizzled out somewhere along the way.
  16. No, no. Megatron died, and they built Galvatron, and then Galvatron turned into Megatron. ... Even though he has no spark.
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