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  1. JB0
    I loved them because they were mighty robots that turned into mighty vehicles. More importantly, the toys were cheap. I had a LOT more Gobots than Transformers because of that. Ironically, having looked up pictures, I think the original Blackbird toy had a better vehicle mode than this new one. At least from the top.
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    It's only in robot mode. I dug for some stuff about this because I heard Blackbird and didn't see it. The one with cones sticking out of it's shoulders and no vehicle mode sitting next to it. So yes, we got plastic jet blueballed here. Apparently, in Machine Robo, it's named Blackbird. Because they were hella creative naming the line. In GoBots, it was named Snoop.
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    You guys are right. I shouldn't imply things like that. I should state them clearly. Moe is a far bigger stain on anime than Harmony Gold ever was.
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    Ah, this makes it fun! So, the universe is a dangerous place. Humanity was rather rudely awakened to that fact when an alien gunship crashed on the Earth and then the planet was on the receiving end of an orbital bombardment. Suffice to say, there's a lot of folks out there who do not come in peace, and they cruise in some really nasty spaceboats. Otherwise, we wouldn't have variable fighters. Just considering known risks... Some colony fleets may be taking courses that pass near known zentradi patrol ranges. Some may have inadvertently stumbled upon a zentradi fleet(as the Macross 7 fleet did, if Fleet of the Strongest Women is canon) and are currently engaged in a reeneactment of Space War 1. Some settled colonies may've had problems with space pirates(one of the oldest of genre traditions) that have well-armored raiding ships. All of these situations would make a colonial government interested in a fighter designed to break battleships without resorting to tightly-controlled reaction weapons and their associated risks and drawbacks. Which, as it happens, is exactly what the SDP-1 is designed to do. Though the VF-1 base makes the Stampede a gravely dated vehicle, there's still nothing quite like it. And even if there was a viable modern replacement, these colonies have already invested extensively in their Stampede forces. Not just in terms of raw materials needed to make the fighter, but in support equipment and training. A refit to bring the Stampede up to modern performance levels would keep it a viable anti-ship weapon for a fraction of the full-on replacement cost, to say nothing of retraining and equipment replacement. Better yet, much of the necessary work has already been done for the VF-1X upgrade program. While changes would be desired to play to it's unique role and unusually heavy armament loadout, this still makes the Stampede Plus a relatively cheap upgrade to develop. Some colonies may have already gone ahead and taken the stock VF-1X upgrade as-is and applied it to their Stampede squadrons with the ingenuity frontiersmen have alwatys been known for, while others wait for a modified upgrade scheme that better suits their Stampedes.
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    JB for Doc Ock!
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    They named the new system the New Nintendo 3DS, you expect SANITY?
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    Delta wing also gives it more tank space for reaction mass. It makes great sense for a space fighter.
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    Has to be the SDP-1 Stampede Valkyrie. I have an unhealthy love of that abomination.
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    If I owned a completely original robotic toy company, I would name it Flattery. Because imitation is the sincerest form of. All my releases would be called Flatteries(or possibly "Masterpiece Slag", but never by me).
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    A worthless hang-gliding piece of crap?
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    What can I say? I was on a roll and couldn't find the brakes. i also find the whole situation with the Transformers and completely original robotic toys interesting. They work so hard to toe that line between homage and trademark infringement. I wind up putting more thought into it than I rightly ought to.
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    Apparently it's from Action Toys, under lioense from Bandai.
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    How is HG connected to moe?
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    A licensed third party is still a third party. It's just that almost all of the third-party Transformers merchandise happens to be unlicensed, and I think the licensed stuff excludes transforming toys. I do grant the GoBots/Machine Robo distinction, though one could argue it is both a licensed third-party Machine Robo toy and an unlicensed third-party GoBots toy. The shared designs of the original toy lines makes that an inevitable outcome. TECHNICALLY, what we're calling third-party Transformers aren't actually Transformers, similar to how those Machine Robo toys aren't GoBots. The manufacturers don't use any Hasbro or TakaraTomy trademarks, and in some cases create their own fiction. They are making completely unrelated toy lines that HAPPEN to bear a strong resemblance to a certain popular long-running franchise, for SOME reason. We're just calling a spade a spade all very confused. If the craftsmanship was less, we'd call these totally-not-Transformers-honest toys "knock-offs". But since that has significant negative connotations, it seems unfair to be COMPLETELY honest even if it's true. I mean, they DO put an awful lot of work into their completely original robotic toys. I probably would've settled on "unlicensed" as the adjective of choice, but no one asked me. It's honest, while avoiding the negative connotations of the more traditional terms for unlicensed Transformers merchandise. I kind of suspect "third-party" was intentionally pushed to give them a false air of legitimacy, but I can't prove it.
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    Canonically, the GoBots are part of the Transformers multiverse these days, so this seems totally justifiable and on-topic. Also, I betcha a GoBot thread would get buried and forgotten, then the next piece of news would get posted in a Tranny thread anyways. So embrace the harsh, bitter reality of the also-rans and start threadjacking!
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    The first movie almost falls into "so bad it's good" territory. I still laugh at the collapsing underwater ice cave. It also has power suits. Those are always awesome. The second movie, though... it's enjoyable without the "so bad it's good" edge. I still laugh at the prologue where the narrator just goes "All that stuff we set up at the end of the first movie? That stupid crap you told us you didn't want to see? Yeah, we resolved it all off-camera between the movies. Except the fake president thing. We're takin' care of that today, 'cuz it sounds fun."
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    Oh, be fair. You had to plug his gun into his back too.
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    Like I said in the other thread, those Go-Bots are delicious and I want the drilltank and SpayC and the SR-71, for sure. The tank guy is hot too, I hope they're doing Pathfinder.
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    So I guess this is technology-related. Former electronics superstore and PC manufacturer turned flea market trash bin Radio Shack filed for bankruptcy. I can't say I'm even remotely surprised, they've been in a downward spiral for a decade at least. I'm only surprised it's taken them this long. But I also can't say it doesn't make me sad. They used to be such a great place, with so much neat stuff packed into such a small space.
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    And the drill-tank guy, whose name escapes me. Drilltanks are always awesome. Spay-C looks, at first glance, like a pretty solid shuttle.Stubby tailfin, but whatcha gonna do? Now where's Pathfinder? The Gobots had a WAY better UFO than Transformers.
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    It definitely gets into the weirder side of embracing parallel universes, though, since Space Brick is a very different character in the two different sources, but they're both still the canon Space Brick.
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    Summary of any Robotech thread for the forseeable future: "LOL"
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    Discotek also also has Mazinger Z. And (some installments of) Fist of the North Star. Looks like the situation is getting to be where if it's awesome, to the left of mainstream, and Not-ADV didn't snipe the license out of spite, Discotek has it.
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    I actaully hope this goes somewhere. I kinda want to see what Hollywood's take on the transforming jet is. i have no real hope for the writing.
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    Eh, I'm probably just disappointed that Tobikage didn't make it. Because that show was hilarious. But yeah, they did change their targets after the first round of failures.
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