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    I stand corrected. Fortunately, the ill effects of video game addiction can be cured by a simple flashlight set to strobe. No worries!
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    Wasn't this originally supposed to be about STDs anyways?
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    Get a third and set 'em up in Charlie's Angels poses.
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    "Acme 0/0 ejection seat! 100% guaranteed! Not for use in Roadrunner accidents"
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    Feels more like Wile E. Coyote.
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    Aaaaand delayed again. Launch windows on September second and fifth, and if they can't make either of those, the rocket's gotta go back to the vehicle assembly building again.
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    Moonshot hype! Don't falter now, we can't keep pushing this launch back. My heart can't take it!
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    Hopefully the inertia storage systems are still online.
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    On the other hand, riding the jet into a mountain is also upsettingly lethal. Goose wasn't any worse off. An ejection seat is a chance at survival. I can't, Mav, I'm dead!
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    Further proof that the B-52 will never retire.
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    He can still build the Ent-D as she appeared in the end of Generations!
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    I know some states require toy guns to be brightly-colored all over, yeah. And no one wants G2-colors Gun Megatron.
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    US toy laws are wildly overprotective because you can get anything passed by saying "think of the children". And I may be the minority, but I want another Nerf Classics Megatron.
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    Oh man, a new Peg? I think I need this. He's gonna munch so munch energon-flavor pocky.
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    Maybe they'll cast someone who looks like Robotnik this time.
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    Like Spy Shot 6?
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    Much nicer than another Optibotimus.
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    I'm mostly disappointed that the Matrix is just there in the lens instead of behind the aperture. That'd be a cool reveal if the aperture iris'ed open and BAM! Matrix!
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    Protoculture: "Let's make this planet into an artificial iceball so it is useless and future generations know to stay away and not mess with it!" Future generations: "Dude, this planet's an artificial iceball! Let's go there and mess with it to find out why!"
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    Good point.
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    I think that's always going to be the big problem with Counter/Punch. The animated appearances of the character are all pretty toy-accurate, and "the market" seems to vastly prefer upgraded rehashes of the original toys and slavish recreations of the cartoons over a less-faithful reimagining. I fudged it a bit with the Primes Counter/Punch. I peg the "prime armor" fist into the peghole on the "inactive" chest and declared it a jetpack, so whichever side isn't currently "live" is partially obscured. It is a suboptimal solution, but it's the best I've got.
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    They could also go the Enterprise route and accidentally frame the entire show as a holodeck simulation.
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    Justified.
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    Everyone looks so sad in those not-really-posters.
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    A few toys have come out under the "Diaclone Universe" subheader. This is, I think, the third that they've done. All have been existing molds homaging G1 characters that were imported from Diaclone, repainted to better match the original Diaclone toy colors. And Transformers fiction has established the previous "Diaclone Universe" repaints as actually BEING Diaclone mechs, complete with ordinary humans for pilots, so DUTT being a Headmaster and "Diaclone Universe" raises questions. ... I do, umm, strongly suspect that Hasbro is not particularly concerned with Diaclone Lore, and that TakaraTomy's Diaclone Reboot team is ignoring whatever Hasbro writes, even if Hasbro says it's from Diaclone. But if Diaclone Twin Twist shows up in a comic, I'm anxious to find out what the canon justification will be. I did a rapid dive into Diaclone history because of Diaclone Reboot. It reminded me that I always wanted to know how the dinobots made sense in a setting overrun with robots disguised as ordinary vehicles. (Spoilers: It turns out it's actually the ordinary vehicles that don't make sense.) It was a light afternoon read because there's not much TO the original Diaclone line. The story only exists to put on backs of boxes and in catalogs packed inside said boxes, and finding it in english is the only hard part. https://www.transformerland.com/blog/tag/diaclone/ This guy went to the effort of translating the catalogs if anyone is curious. But it basically just says "Aliens attack Earth, humans build robots to fight aliens. Aliens get their noses bloodied and adopt guerilla tactics, humans adopt MASK tactics to counter them. Aliens open time warps to bring dinosaurs forward in time, humans build robot dinosaurs to stop actual dinosaurs coming through the time warps*. Diaclone line is cancelled in favor of reverse-importing Transformers." That's... seriously 80% of what they wrote. Diaclone Reboot has appreciably more story, in that it can fill a single sheet of paper instead of a single notecard. The writeups that nostalgic adults expect to see are slightly more robust than when they were five, but it's still toy commercials and not Shakespeare. Dear TakaraTomy: Please make a Diaclone Reboot anime. The CG battle animations you put on YouTube are badass and I want to see an entire season of them. *INTERESTINGLY, some of the details of the dinosaur time warp "plot" seem to have been harvested and reused both by Sunbow for the Dinobot Island two-parter and by Sunrise for King of Braves Gaogaigar, a lavish toy commercial for anime series based on another Takara toy line.
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