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Your examples are things the franchise has done a lot to distance itself from over the years. While they may not adhere to strict mass requirements nowadays, they DO try to make the robots "more or less" in scale with their alt modes. Then there was Beast Wars, where they just made the alt modes out of scale. Doesn't work well for "robots in disguise" though. That's my big problem. The primary draw at this point is character design, and the designs I've seen, to put it bluntly, suck. If you acknowledge the internals of the boom box, you get back into mass-shifting. They're mostly empty space. ... Actually, a 4-foot robot with the mass of a boom box will blow away with a light breeze wind ANYWAYS. You can't make a viable humanoid of any real size without going significantly over 10 pounds. So odds are quite good that Frenzy DOES have mass-shifting. He just uses it to change his density, not volume. I'm not sure which would be sadder, a frenzy blowing away every time he passes an AC vent or the movie ACCIDENTALLY including the banned mass-shifting because no one thought about how heavy a boom box was.

How exactly does a lack of mass-shifting improve things? Don't say it adds realism. The entire license is completely devoid of that, and mass-shifting has very little to do with it. All I see it doing is creating some ugly Transformers, even by movie standards.

HAHA!

Real-world fighters get upgrades, why should fictional ones be any different?

The SDF design of the SDF-1 is canon. For the time period, anyways. The Macross is refit after the end of the TV series, and the ARMDs are attached to the location they were intended to be in the first place. Docked with the ARMDs was the design as originally conceived(in-continuity), and as it existed post-refit. But docking with the ARMDs at launch failed due to zentradi interference, as seen on TV. Hence the Prometheus and Daedalus still get jury-rigged on after the space fold accident. You can't remove the Prometheus and Daedalus without removing chunks of the TV story, which is the current official story. Besides, the official story is that DYRL is a movie created within the Macross universe, and the VFs in it are a later revision of the VF-1 that wasn't actually available during the Space War, making them wrong. (And in that context, the Macross used would be the refit version, because the audience is familiar with that design and not the historically accurate one).

Only game system I've had actually fail on me is my PS1. Other decks with issues: My XBox doesn't always eject, but it was bought used. My NES is finicky. But you knew that... it's an NES, after all. I've blown a 2600 power supply or 3. Also had to solder down a loose power connector once. Really lousy choice of connector. One of my Virtual Boy stands is cracked badly. Original brick GameBoy lost several screen columns. Done a LOT of 5200 controller cleaning. Modded sticks seem more or less worry-free, but I HAD to mod them. Had to clean out a PS2 pad once, too. Fortunately it's not Atari 5200 Part 2, but the fact that I had to open the gamepad is... unimpressive. ... I think that's it. Admittedly, I don't own a 360 ... yet. Planning to change that this weekend. Seems I've successfully failed to wait for the new chips to enter production.

If I had the money I'd go for DYRL. Because I love a challenge.

The question is.... is it Uncle Gadget?

I dunno about cable, but my DSL provider supplies subscribers with a free dial-up connection too. I used it once as intended(emergency back-up) and once to take my Dreamcast online just for the hell of it.

We have a winner!

Apparently, since mine is gold too.

Seconded.

"OBJECTION!"

Spidermech, spidermech! What the heck? It's a spidermech! Can't spin webs or catch flys. Can run down badguys if it tries. Look out! Here comes the spidermech!

Neither game ever had more than a Japanese release.

Yeah. And it was AWESOME!. It is nice that they're considering a transformation that doesn't require rocket boosters. Or origami, since a lot of times in the cartoon they just sort of morphed without leaping up. Wait a second...

The REAL question is... when does Rodimus get a Masterpiece? And will he have the trailer?

But... Bugbite was yellow. Yeah, I know... it's an homage to the eHobby Transformers BugBite, not the original GoBots toy. Either way, though... that's just nasty.

As I understand things, Duke's problem is more that 3D Realms is run by programmers, not businessmen. George Broussard owns the company, and he's head of the Duke Forever team. So he can do whatever the hell he wants as long as the company doesn't go bankrupt. And what he wants is to integrate every feature under the sun(I'm sure he calls it making Duke Nukem Forever the best game possible, or something similar). Basically, Duke has a REALLY bad case of feature creep, and won't make it out until Broussard freezes the feature set.

I had a Battle Beasts coloring book... And one beast, sans sticker, that I found on the sidewalk.

Or WB's handling of Cardcaptor Sakura. ... What?

VP1. Not even the slightest hesitation.

That is one extremely fugly Bayformer?

They should roll all the work into a new game called "Duke Nukem Now" and begin development of the sequel to that under the title of Duke Nukem Forever, thereby keeping Duke Forever as vaporware.

The fact that they killed the Classics line. As for why Dirge didn't get new wings but Thrust did... I would guess that they put all the wings on the original mold set, and they didn't have room for all 4 wing sets. Starscream had to have accurate wings. He's Starscream. And it cascades out to Skywarp and Thundercracker, so it gets half the set right, including the most important. Thrust needed his wings, because they're too distinctive. At which point, it's either Ramjet or Dirge. And they went with Ramjet.