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  1. JB0
    I thought that was a YF-1R. Either way, I meant the 2036 plane(s). (I still like the animation error, and the thing I hate most about The Other Show's use of it is that they subsequently chose to redesign the head into something uglier.)
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    100% accu0rate is pretty much impossible, since everyone has a different idea what the "real" version is. Movies, SAC, Arise, comics if you want to be right... (As a dirty comics purist, I am bothered that they have cast the major's mom. I like my major with no backstory. But I'll get over it.)
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    Aramaki looks too... well, cuddly. Batou's bugeyes are sorely missed. Togusa looks, like... WAY too old to be the team rookie. On the upside, I can immediately tell who is supposed to be who. Pirate-eye Saito looks pretty good, even if is hair IS a half-inch too long. I honestly have no complaints whatsoever there. Bug-eyes or not, Batou is fairly on-target. He gets the general appearance very well. Didn't really expect them to find someone that bulky for the role. Anmd in all fairness to old man Togusa, I always found it dubious that someone so apparently green could make it into the team.
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    The orbital period is REALLY short. Just a hair over eleven terran days. And tidal-locking IS a possibility, but the terminator could still be a nice place to live, depending(on if there's air and water there in the first place). There's also a possibility that it locks to a resonance other than 1:1, in which case it would still have day/night cycles. In fact, our own Mercury is in such resonance, giving it one Mecurian day every two Mecurian years... which probably makes things worse instead of better. Slow enough for the vicious day/night extremes to set in, fast enough that the terminator isn't a stable safe space. On the upside, if there's no atmosphere, by the time we can go there we will PROBABLY have figured out how to tow a few million tons of comets from the oort cloud with us. Terraforming au natural.
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    I don't know where else one would put a tail fin. I was, however, led to believe Girls und Panzer was about girls driving tanks, and am unsure how this ties in AT ALL.
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    Holy wow. Proxima Centauri(the red dwarf orbiting the better-known Alpha Centauri binary) has a planet. But not just any planet, no. The Centauri system doesn't do things by half measures. This planet's at the right distance that it is possible to have liquid water. If it has water, it can have life. So to summarize The nearest known exoplanet is also the nearest POSSIBLE exoplanet, since it is orbiting the nearest star, and it is in the friggin' habitable zone! Not that four light-years is exactly a sunday drive. But it is so tantalizingly close...
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    It has been pretty variable, but overall a fairly solid program. Many of the complaints people had with the first episode have not carried forward to the rest of the series. And then the last couple episodes they gave up and just crapped the bed.
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    Okay, after due consideration, I decided my previous list was inadequate. SDP-1 YF-21 VF-1J VF-1R VF-11 MAXL Custom
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    Ditto. The concept was great, the execution was lacking. It was a fiddly mess of bits, some of which had no purpose(because it was designed to be a voyager-class), the right arm had almost no articulation... just transforming it was a chore. But oh, for a world where they'd been given clearance to ship him as a voyager instead of a slapdash downscale.
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    He has longer forearms and lower legs than is usual, I think. Gives him a lankier appearance.
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    Classics Galvatron tank... jesus, havin' some PTSD flashbacks here. I will probably buy Super Ginrai, just for the arms. I like the STYLE of Hasbro's arms, but those gaping voids are inexcusable. Especially as it is a two-part arm. If the voids faced down, they'd be covered by the bottom half. I also like Japan's powermaster engine and truck cab better. Spacetruck is not my Prime. But the gaping skeletal arms are just an eyesore. ... Dammit, why is the one I feel a desire to import the leader-class?
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    I thought the cannon was fine as-is, personally. I was particularly impressed with the clearances being adjusted just right so he can hold his arm straight out without it hitting the shoulder pads. Of course, I didn't pay import costs. At fifty bucks, I would've expected a more coherent fighter mode, and been outraged at the situation with the nosecone and leg backs.
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    In that case, I may have to check mine. We at least have TWO columns of pegs for Trannies.
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    As teh internetz would say: EPIC LOLZ I knew this was worth watching.
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    Ditto. Do the responsible thing. Buy them all and then put them on eBay.
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    Yeah. This is a tale of excitement and suspense, no matter how it turns out.
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    As has been previously noted, one of the biggest problems with the Rau is survivability, a trait it shares with most zentradi mecha. The cockpit is a disproportionately large part of the machine(even moreso in the Rau than most) and armor is light, so damage is far more likely to result in severe pilot injury. Also, most of what we've seen with the Rau is not "normal." We've seen Lap'Lamiz's elites go out and curbstomp some noobs. The Lap'Lamiz fleet was identified in the TV series as a uniquely skilled force, and is thus not representative. And we've seen Chlore, but she was Millia's rival, and thus an elite among the elites. She and her wingmates are ALSO not representative. The Rau just doesn't get enough screen time, and when it does it is only shown in the hands of elites. It does wonders for the machine's reputation. It is, of course, possible the meltrandi forces are generally more skilled than their male counterparts. I happen to like this interpretation, but I do not believe there is any canon evidence for it, and the existence of all-female main fleets* would imply the opposite. *Even if DYRL's Lap'Lamiz fleet is "fictional", Chlore's fleet is ALSO all-female and has none of the ambiguity associated with Space War 1.
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    Because it goes from the surface into the air. And those walkers are pretty darn tall.
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    VF-1J YF-21 ... Are there others? I never noticed.
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    Protodevlin video rentals: Please experience the beauty of rewinding before returning.
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    Yeah, either they keep finding more, or payments are failing and they go back to stock. Two left right now.
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    Yeah, I sat down and watched it, and it could really use some follow-up material.
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    As of this moment, the link is active and says "only seven left". I'd poke it, but I never bought an Alpha, and the Tread by itself is just kinda ugly. I think Toynk Toys is probably pleased at the success of their clearance sale, and highly unaware of what they could've gotten for these things on eBay.
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    My understanding was that snowspeeder referred specifically to the modified ones on Hoth, not to the entire family of vehicles. The movie, of course, just calls them speeders. I'd wager the "snow" prefix was added by Kenner to make room for other toy variants, and then the demand dried up after Return of the Jedi and the variants all got cancelled.
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    Meanwhile, the windemereans are probably wondering how humans can stand to look at each other long enough to procreate without a nice shiny rune springing out.
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