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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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    Damn, that's almost ADV-esque levels of backstabery. But whatever. I'm still mad at Funimation for never putting Symphogear on a disk, and waiting until I gave up and bought DVDs to put Railgun on BluRay(and for not including a slipcover with the disk 1+box, so disk 2 didn't match unless I threw out the slipcover... grrrr). Awesome. Hope it does better than AnimeSols has been doing. They seem to have a lot of trouble bringing in cash.
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    HELL YES! Not to detract from the rest of this. Robot Carnival was pretty darn cool, and I'd like to see it again.
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    Waitwaitwait... is he... wait... is he seriously riding with a raptor POSSE like some sort of Flintstones biker gang? I take back every criticism I have made to date, this shiznit's gonna be hilarious.
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    Man, I haven't seen this one since it's theatrical run. Caught it right before it left theaters, too. One other person in the theater with us, and he fell asleep, so it was basically a private screening. Gorgeous film. Crazy, but gorgeous.
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    If I were making an Astrotrain clone, I would include a tiny Devastator figurine in the cargo bay, just so I could answer with an affirmative.
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    Aww yeah!Nothin' says fully-operational theme park like a pack of polar-bear-sized lizardwolves stalking humans through the grass.
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    Does it come with a little heel click "speech bubble" for her foot? Because that would be awesome.
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    MOST of Transformers sounds like bad fanfiction. It's not, generally speaking, a franchise that lends itself to great storytelling. We're here for the spectacle, and that sounds like a helluva spectacle.
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