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  1. JB0
    I don't understand. I thought we already HAD an America Transformer. He's red, white, and blue, fights for freedom for all people, and turns into a semi truck, the most american vehicle.
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    So someone elsewhere linked a photo of the new Shockwave attaching to Bruticus. And that's all well and good, but I'm looking at the process and just going "So they DID find a way to sneak a gun mode past legal." It isn't a historically accurate pistol grip, and requires you to disarm Bruticus, but... they snuck a gun mode in. Also, in doing so they kinda sorta published instructions for how an aftermarket parts company can mount a more appropriate pistol grip. So that's something to look forward to.
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    So I saw an in-hand picture, which makes judging size a lot easier. And I'm surprised. Blackout is actually notably bigger than Ironhide.
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    I'm surprised he wasn't the first Overgear they announced, and applaud their restraint.
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    For actual scale, I think the answer is "whatever scale you want them to be". Given we seem to have a truck and a helicopter of similar size, the vehicles aren't even in scale with each other. And there's no canon height for these two robots. The holy Sunbow chart holds no power here! As far as actual size, we're gonna have to guesstimate it based on the peg holes, of which they have a metric crap-ton. Most usefully, both of them have 5mm-compatible fists, with articulated fingers. The hands seem beefy, but not outrageously chunky. In mainline Transformers packaging terms, I'd guess the robots to be ... large Voyager, maybe Leader class? As far as what's near me for a reference, I'm guessing Ironhide is comparable to the JAXA crossover Luna Convoy.
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    But it still isn't NY- or CA-compliant. Actually, without a bright orange muzzle, it is not compliant at the federal level, and I personally don't want a Shockwave with a bright orange muzzle. CA law specifically requires a toy gun to be "the entire exterior surface of the device is white, bright red, bright orange, bright yellow, bright green, bright blue, bright pink, or bright purple, either singly or as the predominant color in combination with other colors in any pattern, or where the entire device is constructed of transparent or translucent materials which permits unmistakable observation of the device’s complete contents". Sure, Shockwave is purple, but is he BRIGHT purple? Do they even want to have to check that definition? And this version has a gray barrel. (Which isn't even right! Give me a proper SILVER!) I am reasonably sure they don't want to have to even LOOK at toy gun laws outside Nerf and Super Soaker.
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    One assumes his heavily-modified program has been reinforced and expanded significantly since then. Also, I didn't realize the time frames for Living Witness and Starfleet Academy lined up so closely.
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    Honestly, I dig this Blackout, in large part because he looks nothing like Blackout. He looks like the Bayformers toy-only character Tomahawk.
  9. JB0
    Awwww. : ( I suppose it is inevitable as a near-immortal machine intelligence that he'd have far too much experience with loss, but... frownie-face. I hope they reference the OTHER Doctor at some point. The lost backup EMH has been stuck in my head for years now. I want to know if he made it back to Federation space, and when.
  10. JB0
    Nope. That was, rather infamously, the final page of the G2 comic, and the entire Marvel comics run.
  11. JB0
    Hey, look, it's the Go-Bot Courageous!
  12. JB0
    Nexus Prime is hot as hell, and I want him right now. Edit: What a way to start a new page.
  13. JB0
    I believe Sega's Orguss (for the SG-1000) beats it to that historical footnote by a couple of months, though that wouldn't change that Formation Z is kinda just really bad.
  14. JB0
    We can hope it's good. I mean, if it's good it won't be very much like Formation Z, but at least it will have a reason to exist.
  15. JB0
    I don't understand. Who was clamoring for a Formation Z remake?
  16. JB0
    I've got the Big Mac Bot and the Fry Bot. I think I'm the original owner of the Big Mac(and just the Big Mac), but not sure. Did not expect McDonalds to reintroduce their not-transformers in AD 2026.
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    Ox Cart Prime has a trailer! About frickin' time they remembered to include one! ... I demand Hasbro pay me royalties for stealing my idea to integrate the trailer into the robot.
  18. JB0
    He's got some of the ol' Kirk DNA in him, with a voice that slips right past input validation and into infinite loops. As always, I thank you for hate-watching this so I don't have to.
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    Insert DS9 clip of Worf complaining to Odo about security on DS9 here. ... Actually, I guess I CAN insert that here.
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    I believe my Optimus Prime did. I'd have to fish box contents out to be certain.
  21. JB0
    Oh yeah. The original Dinobots are peak sexy robot toy.
  22. JB0
    Yes, we know. You told us already.
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    I find it funny that for someone whose head is so clearly Shockwave-inspired, Amalgamous's body screams "dinobot". I don't know if Grimlock or Shockvwave is more offended at the idea they might be related.
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    It does. If I recall, some later print sources attribute it to the humans not knowing what they're doing, which is hard to align with the statements in the show. Not just Global Report, though it's the only part that just straight-up has to be cut out. When they switch from anti-grav to rocket thrusters while falling, Global says something like "at least those were made on Earth". Which could easily just be angry snark at the poorly-understood space magic that exited stage up... but then Global Report says the snark was justified and human error wasn't the cause. Meanwhile, the replacement gravity controllers are considered trustworthy when they're hovering over canadain population centers, so clearly the homemade replacements work fine. I think they use them when landing on Mars too. That strongly implies the flaw wasn't with the hardware. It is certainly possible that flaws in the terran-made units or operational procedure were identified and addressed offscreen between Booby Trap and Burst Point. But again, you still have Global Report's explicit root-cause statement denying that as the primary issue.
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    Not rumor, just exaggeration. One vendor has already started offering it as an option, and people missed the "option" part.
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