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  1. I know for a fact mine was neither Optimus nor Soundwave. My first Optimus was Powermaster Prime, my first "real" Optimus was the Generation 2 reissue. To this day I've never owned an actual transforming cassette player Soundwave(though I DO own a real working tape player shaped like Soundwave!).
  2. Honestly, I'm getting pretty much what I expected from Unlimited Blade Works. It's more or less a straight port of the game, so there's few surprises. I still appreciate that they try to make the servants look super-powered, and don't bust Shirou's theme out every episode(instead saving it for ACTUAL awesome moments). Those were my two biggest gripes with the Fate route series. ... Oh, and I like how That Bastard Shinji keeps gawking with confused slack-jawed wonder at everything. He's ignorant of almost everything involving magic and the Grail War, and they're taking advantage of it to illustrate him as the complete buffoon he is. Like the scene recently where he gapes openly at Kirei's command seal. He's never SEEN a proper command seal before, and is incapable of hiding his confusion and curiosity.
  3. I.... honestly have no idea. My earliest memories involve Transformers, plural. Slag and Shockwave are both contenders. So is Tracks.
  4. Yes, Lost World was a book starring Malcom. Despite that the book Jurassic Park stated in no uncertain terms that Malcom was dead.
  5. In fairness, in Dark of the Moon, The Fallen is dead and Megatron's spirit is broken. Hell, he needs a peptalk from a squishie to even work up the gumption to try and shoot Optimus again. The mighty Megatron, so lost that he's reduced to moping in the corner, a coward lacking the spinal motivators to act on his designs. Even STARSCREAM had more nerve than that! It's kind of a low point for the character. I almost felt bad for the poor guy.
  6. Because it's destiny. The fates of Earth and Cybertron are inextricably linked, and have been since 1984. Clearly, this should've been considered before they imploded Cybertron, as it means the Earth is now doomed in no uncertain terms. I didn't see it a a contradiction. Transformium is what their bodies are made of, but the Allspark is what imbues that shell with life, reason, and soul. Without the ability to infuse machines with a spark, transformium constructions are just that: machines. ... Which makes the sparkless Galvatron problematic, but less so than he may at first appear. I am going to claim he's not, strictly speaking, alive. But there's enough data recorded that Megatron's thought processes can be emulated by the lifeless machine that is Galvatron. It's artificial intelligence. (I still think he's highly problematic. While his sparkless sentience can be worked around and justified, it was a bad narrative decision that causes a lot of trouble with the whole premise.)
  7. I could make a guess or two, but the best explanation is probably to make teenagers feel superior to the nominal parental figure. Those kids sure showed him! Did what they wanted, flaunted his rules, then threw higher rules in his face to shut him down YEAH!
  8. Especially since they use the big complicated explanation instead of just "Dude. Age of consent is 16 here. Now suck me Lucky Charms!"
  9. If I don't get Crazimus Prime headhunting quintessons, I will be deeply disappointed. ... I mean, more disappointed than I usually am with this subfranchise.
  10. The story I heard was it was a dispute with Cartoon Network over money.
  11. I did that with Slag. I mean, he was a robot AND a triceratops(the best dinosaur). Life didn't GET any better. He even followed me into the pool and the bath tub. ... So did Voltron's blue lion(the plastic one the characters sat in), but that was because it was SUPPOSED to get wet. The cartoon showed it underwater ALL THE TIME, it was CLEARLY a water toy!
  12. Not gonna lie, I may make the effort to find this one. I don't rightly care that Trypticon is a plastic brick(like every other toy of the era). He's a giant robot T. Rex You said you've got a T. Rex?! triple-changer that other Transformers can live in. And that's just friggin' awesome.
  13. I wanted a Combat Mode Sari toy. No joke.
  14. YES! We get a likable and interesting squishie character, so they can the show just as her story arc kicks into high gear.
  15. And it's all very funny when you consider initial reception was "omg ugly also why are they fighting crime and not decepticreeps worst show ever"
  16. " They add that this is not just another traditional Chinese knock-off. It's actually the only officially licensed Star Trek building on this planet." What.
  17. You're not alone on the Animated love.
  18. It wouldn't be Fate if everyone didn't talk too much. Nasu desperately needs an editor.
  19. Basically, the tech is so advanced that anything you can think to do IRL is probably done on a Valk?
  20. Well, the VFs have to carry enough consumable thruster fuel for a good engagement, because they operate in space where the thrusters aren't augmenting flaps. And by appearances, they fuel them space-ready even for ground-based airshows.
  21. I understand all the words, but together they make no sense.
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