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    That would be an... exceedingly bad idea. They're being watched right now, if any more toys show up "in the wild", or any hint that they're TRYING to get these toys out there, they're in serious legal trouble. I'd hope for an official license like that (adorable) SD Voltron. It'd really be a case where everyone wins. Mad Toys get to actually CALL the thing Voltron, and gain access to a significantly more powerful marketing force, WEP gets to not look like big mean stinkyheads, and the fans get their merch. Odds seem slim since it would be in direct competition with the Toynami re-release, but... here's hoping.
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    It's impressive, but I wouldn't say it's comparable to Apollo. Apollo put MEN on the moon, not a remote-control lander. And brought them back at the end of the mission. That's FAR harder, and it's why we celebrate Apollo 11 while Luna 9 is forgotten. THAT SAID... that the lander managed a successful landing on effectively unknown terrain, with BOTH initial anchor mechanisms offline(top thruster to thrust down, harpoon gun to kill the whale tether the lander), ON AUTOPILOT(by necessity due to the several minutes of light lag) is VERY impressive. I mean not to belittle the ESA's efforts. Especially their coders, because that's an impressive little bundle of logic there. Now let's put a man on that comet!111 (Actually, a manned mission to Ceres would be awesome. But let's get back to the Moon and get to Mars before we start raiding asteroids.)
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    Successful?! The harpoon didn't even fire, much less kill the dang thing! Captain Ahab is FURIOUS! Seriously, though. Good job, ESA. Got the first, second, AND third cometary landings in one drop. That's impressive on multiple counts, especially as the landing was fully automated on unknown terrain. (Landings 2 and 3 are believed to be because the comet was softer than expected, and thus the anchors on the landing gear failed to secure purchase initially. And without either the top thruster to press it down or the Ahab Gambit to tether it, it bounced back off the comet twice before gaining a toehold.).
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    Sadly, GunCon 1 is fundamentally incompatible with non-CRT displays. To my understanding, it actually watches for the flare as the electron beam refreshes the display, and uses that to determines shot location. No beam scan = no flare = shot offscren.
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    Ugh. Man, Nintendo dropped the ball on that one. It's a rare thing for me to say, but Sony did it right with the PS2. Overload the RGB pins, with an option to toggle between component and RGB mode. ... Ah well. Can use a Wii for component out on GC games. Works for everything but the GameBoy Player, as far as I know.
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    Ah, but... read the FAQ. This doesn't cover GameCube (right now). There's no RGB on a US 'Cube, so Super Nintendo cables don't work. And they haven't reverse-engineered the digital AV port (yet). ... And my GC doesn't have a DAV port( )
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    I'm just wondering if the person that posted was a naive and well-intentioned fan that just wanted to spread the word, or a troll that wanted to see this happen. Honestly just out of curiosity. Oh, I don't defend Toynami in the least. Just WEP. ... Does Shadow Chronicles really count as a plus? Honestly, I did consider it, but... two complete TV series vs an OVA produced on a shoestring budget(that was allegedly the first in a cancelled series)? It's like a full meal at a five-star restaurant vs a bowl of store-brand Froot Loops(™ Kellogs Cereal please don't sue) with no milk. Anyhow, my main point was that WEP actually has a leg to stand on, and HG is just crapping on fans for fun because no one's going to stop them. But I also give them a bit of moral high ground because they ARE actually doing something other than making a complete fool of themselves. They've just made some poor licensing decisions. But... WEP DID try to bring something new to the table for fans. I haven't seen enough of the follow-up shows to know if they SUCCEEDED, but... they at least tried. I'm reasonably certain they knew about this thing for quite a while and WERE turning a blind eye to it. But... you can't turn a blind eye when someone paints it on your face.
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    Well, I think a single converter box would be the better option, due to greater versatility, but I don't deny this is far cheaper. I'd like to believe anyone that would spring for one of these has more than one pre-component console, and that versatility will make up the difference. But then, I'd also like to believe they're maintaining a decent CRT, which I know many of them aren't. It's worth noting that the Genesis has a tendency to use composite artifacting to generate colors and effects that the Genesis "can't do", and those are going to be lost this way. It's not going to affect most games, some of the ones it DOES affect will be subtle, and it's going to be such a major improvement over the Genny's composite video output in many* cases that the tradeoff is worth it, but it's something that needs to be mentioned. * The Genesis has a good deal of hardware variation, and some of the TV encoder chips Sega used were... not very good, to be charitable. The good ones are VERY good, but the bad ones are equally bad. RGB, fortunately, is unaffected by the TV encoder. This leads to an amusing situation where the 32x can "upgrade" the graphics of regular Genesis games. Due to the way it works, the 32x is fed raw RGB from the host Genny in all circumstances, and it's encoded into composite video by the 32x's internal TV encoder. All 32xes have the "good" encoder, so on many Genesissies, the installation of a 32x greatly improves image quality for ALL compatible** software. **Which means this doesn't work for Genesis Virtua Racing(the 32x version is better anyways, geez!), and Master System software(this is more problematic, but... buy a Master System. It'll look sexy as hell on your shelf. Everything else works through a 32x just fine... except maybe the Game Genie. Not sure on that one, you dirty cheater. Basically, it's a non-issue in the modern era. ANYWAYS! It's a neat thing, and I do like that they're considering the different output behaviors of the different systems. (Is the Super Nintendo one dual-mode? Because my understanding is there's two very different behaviors for SNES RGB)
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    That's hardly fair to World Event Productions. WEP DOES actually have a case, whereas HG's Robotech C&Ds are just children throwing a hissy fit. To my understanding, WEP purchased Golion outright from Toei. And even if they didn't, they have unambiguous merchandising rights, which is something HG was never willing to prove and the licensing chain doesn't support. Also, you know, they actually produced something in the thirty years since. Half the original lion Voltron episodes, Voltron 3D, and Voltron Force. They ARE actually doing something with it. Which is, again, something HG can't claim EVEN if we accept at face value their (ludicrous) claim that they own all things Macross. So yeah, WEP is not HG's equally thuggish kid brother. Now, I'd argue it would be better for them, from a PR perspective, to turn a blind eye a la Hasbro. But they DO have to defend their trademarks or risk losing them. And this is one they might kind of WANT to keep. I mean, their logo IS lion Voltron. It's like Mickey Mouse is to Disney. He's not just a character, he's the public face of the company. And some digging tells me that someone actually linked a YouTube review in a comment on WEP's facebook page. That'd make it kind of hard to claim ignorance when people have very publicly linked a clone of the company's friggin' mascot on their mother-lovin' facebook page. There's simply no credible way to turn a blind eye after that happens. They know, and everyone knows that they know, you know? So in short: one genius on facebook forced WEP's hand. I kinda wonder if he was a troll that feels empowered now or a well-intentioned fan that's horrified by what he's done.
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    Hence the apocalyptic lizardmen. In the absence of news, we make our own.
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    Except for the chromed lion legs. Infinity Gokin is attempting to present an illusion of hidden legs with the colored thighs and matte gray shins/paws. It works well on the arms, honestly. Far less so on the legs. That said... I was actually surprised when I double-checked the cartoon and realized the lion legs AREN'T visible in the combined Voltron. Heck, even most of the non-combining Voltron merch has the lion legs exposed. The actual show is one of the few places that the legs AREN'T be visible, and that was abandoned for future cartoons, as Third Dimension and Voltron Force both have exposed legs. It's one of those cases where a toy "deficiency" replaced the cartoon as the "real" version. Voltron looks better with lion legs all over him. Also, it makes that childhood mess where I folded the lion legs out of the combined Voltron to give him clawed punches and kicks workable, if not advisable.
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    I've been known to watch this godawful melodrama anime called Makurosu. If that ain't a guilty pleasure, I dunno what is.
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    Because Lion Force Voltron ran twice as long as Golion. True story. Half the lion Voltron episodes were produced for american use only and are not a part of Golion.
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    Of course not. Most of them are sexualizing girls too young to have jiggly parts.... Wait, was I supposed to be defending anime?
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    I far prefer the look of the Toynami, actually. Curvy Voltron just looks WRONG.
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    That... TECHNICALLY counts.
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    True. Ange also has transforming jetbikes. Which is pretty much the only thing cooler than transforming motorcycles. So that's two things going for it. That said, you know the show is bad when even the main character is talking about it.
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    Cross Ange is Valvrave 2.0.
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    Cross Ange is a horrible trainwreck of terrible writing and bad ideas. And I can't look away.
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    I prefer when they turn into weird robot-plane hybrids.
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    He can't be an enemy spy, we never ran a kickstarter.
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    At least they had a REASON for all the boats to be female. And to be honest, I still smile when I think about that scene. Man, is EVERYONE watching that show right now? I may have to move it to next on my list of "things I keep meaning to do".
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    My vote is for Titan.
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    I've got it! The Delta symbolizes THREE hero valks, that combine into a larger robot. And they have three different combinations. ... Wait, no, that was Aquarion. Never mind. ... Or possibly Getter Robo. Macross Aquarion Delta Robo?
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    That MP doesn't have a rubsign. What a gyp.
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