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As far as 70s and 80s anime goes, I gather a lot of the licenses were rather broad. Because who cares about the long-term legal ramifications of a distribution license for a stupid cartoon that won't be worth the film it's stored on in 5 years? Spoilers: In about twenty years, EVERYONE will.
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Roy, Isamu, and Micheal had some degree of character development and backstory, too. And only Isamu was a lead character.
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I call shenanigans on that last one. "Get thee hence, oblivion awaits thee!" -Valkyrie Profile
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The answer to that question is yes."Was the game good?" "It better have been, it took ten years to make." -Duke Nukem Forever.
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That's... actually a terrible analogy, since it's EXACTLY what happened with the Apple II, for a very good reason. MOST computers are built using components from more than one vendor. I guarantee that MOS Technology did not supply all, or even MOST, of the chips inside the Apple II, any more than they did to other 6502-based machines like the Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit computer family, and all 3 "classic" Atari consoles. MOS made a great processor, but many of the other necessary parts were not offered by MOS, or were in-house designs offering custom capabilities. In the Apple II's case, Steve Wozniak designed much of the support, most notably the incredibly cheap floppy controller, which used some crazy logic to drive the cost well below what it was believed you could DO a floppy system for. But Apple was, and still is, fabless, so they were MANUFACTURED elsewhere. Even a company like Texas Instruments, that DID own fabs and DID both design and manufacture ALL the necessary silicon for their own computer back in the day, STILL contracted out for the keyboard and monitor on the 99/4a. No one manufactured an entire computer or game console "in-house." And this is true to this day, because it still requires different design and manufacturing specialties for different components. As an example... Despite Apple desigining the iPhone 4's core system-on-a-chip(albeit using subsystems licensed from other companies, including a CPU architecture from ARM), most chips in an iPhone 4 are manufactured by Samsung(for the time being), and the devices are assembled by Foxconn, using LCDs from Toshiba and Sharp.
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Not EVERYTHING. There's always the MAD CAT! But seriously, I played the crap out of the SNES Mechwarrior back in the day. Not Mechwarrior 3050, the OTHER one, the one that tried to be like the PC Mechwarrior games despite only having 12 buttons. There were some pretty slick-looking vehicles in it, though certainly not very anime-looking vehicles. ... And I am greatly saddened. Wikipedia says most of the SNES mechs were created for, and only used in, SNES Mechwarrior. And that's pretty much my only exposure to the franchise, aside from the above MAD CAT! picture.
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And it would be a far more interesting show if the spotlight was on their ride of discovery instead of Basara's aural force of nature.I am still amused by the repeated torture of Gamlin at the hands/vocal cords of Basara, though.
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I thought that was the new Cyclone upgrade for Shadow Rising. With chest-mounted protoculture beam cannons.
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Basara is a NASCAR driver?
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Truly the greatest minds of our time.
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Hey, that's always the best way to solve a problem! If brute force isn't the solution, you aren't using enough of it.
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Basically... Harmony Gold is saving anime, and we need to support them by BUYING ALL THE MERCH!
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Yo, Tommy! Don't let these haters get you down, you keep rockin' those cartoons. You're the best there is at what you do, and all those guys up above this post are just jealous. Shadow Chronicles 2. We want it, we need it, and we want YOUR NAME on the front of the box!
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I... completely forgot about the profanity filter. Yes, it was the sticker said phase shift minus f. I was sorely tempted to buy the model just for the sticker. The internet says it was the first run of master grade Freedom models. And apparently it was ONLY the first run. Bandai continues to disappoint me. That's the kind of mistake you embrace and run with, not the kind you pretend never happened. Actually, I'd like a full sheet of nothing BUT phase shift-f stickers. I could stick them on EVERYTHING!
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Wave bluster... I love it! The best typos are the ones that change the word to another one entirely. Like that Gundam SEED model with the "phase crap" decal...
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My first bet would be that the buttons don't stay in place without electronics under them to hold them in.Beyond that... the circuit board itself could easily be a major structural member. If you have a big stiff piece of fiberglass taking up the majority of your toy's internal volume, it actually makes sense to screw everything through it and use the PCB as a brace. Not that I don't think a plastic plate or two could be substituted for PCBs to minimal ill effect. I think the bigger issue is that there's no way in hell you can make MP3 Soundwave child-safe. He's made pretty much entirely of choking hazards from what I know.
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They're firing off angry letters over browser themes now? Sheesh, I better delete those Macross wallpapers off my hard drive before they send me an angry letter too!
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Thought Takara's official stance was the MP3 player Soundwave was the Masterpiece version? And I still think that was a missed opportunity. CompactFlash cards would've been PERFECT for a Soundwave toy. They're big enough that you can make transforming "cassettes" while still being a functional flash RAM format, and one that fits the aesthetic of the character too. But why do something sane when you can use SD Cards for no good reason? (and fill the overpriced plastic robot with parts from a cheap 5-dollar MP3 player instead of something that works right. But whatever.) ALL HAIL OUR SD OVERLORDS!
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Wait, what? How did I miss this one? That takes some serious testicular fortitude right there. You make it look awesome, and I want to see it happen now.... I feel so dirty.
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Because gray is boring and neutral and lame while white is popping and hip and stylish. Or possibly just because everyone hates us.
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You mean has the option of moving the leg kibble to the hips removed.
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Another Starscream? Really? *shakes head* It's not even worth the effort to make fun of them anymore.
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Can't prove it, but I doubt it. Given it was a main-line children's toy made this decade, I suspect the mold of being thoroughly unsuited to metal. Also, anywhere outside the legs would make it TERRIBLY top-heavy. Heck, the ratchets in the ankles of my Classics Unicron don't even like to carry the weight of the plastic above them. Doesn't take much to make him start leaning backwards.
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If Duke Nukem Forever can make it out of dev hell, anything is possible.
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Was actually my assumption, that this set was borrowed via advanced file-transfer technologies invented by Al Gore.
