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JB0

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  1. True story, I'm still using that old hotmail account. I enjoy the look on people's faces when I say "at hotmail dot com"
  2. And they had to redo all the new CG from scratch because they never got the original files from the company they hired to render the scenes, just final video at 480p. And then the company went out of business, so they COULDN'T get the original files and had to reconstruct the scenes from scratch.
  3. Also, things that pop on a picture tube look drab on an LCD. I've had to stop viewing and change screens before because some old anime DVD was just flat and lifeless. The same should apply here, with the 2001 DVD being mastered for picture tubes.
  4. That neck is awful. No two ways about it. Toy supremacists don't just want a clear neck, they want smokey plastic over random mechanical bits. This is the wrong color and lacks the innards. I don't know how they came to the conclusion anyone wanted it.
  5. Pretty sure it will bear precious little resemblence to Voltron or Golion anyways.
  6. It really seems like this is just a decade too late. The 80s nostalgiabomb market's been pushed aside for other things at this point.
  7. I like it! Blitzwing having bits of the other modes hanging off in every mode is one of those signature things where I don't want a cleaner vehicle. And this looks designed to have them hang in vaguely useful places.
  8. Daaaaang. Like, I appreciate that they wrote ends for everyone, but there seems a penchant for bleakness there. At least Archer dodges some miserable fate and dies of simple old age?
  9. They do make surprisingly good cars. Better than some that actually look like they should transform. Can't much hold the backpack against 'em when every RC-ish packs large swaths of car shell into a backpack. At this point it's a signature feature of the character.
  10. I mean, my Targets never had crap either. But Target had less chain-exclusive robots.
  11. A sample of a sample, at that!
  12. Best kinda dog.
  13. Shadow's the most important team member!
  14. My Toys R Us never had crap in plastic robots. A TRU exclusive just meant it wasn't shipping here.
  15. Glad they ain't straight-up dead, and that they're trying to make good on old promises instead of just nope'ing off into the sunset.
  16. Oh. It is a really weird position, and I'm not rightly sure how it gets there. I don't really see any way to go from "mounted parallel to the chest" to "perpindicular to the chest and touching right in the center".
  17. Explosive bolts are actually very common in real spacecraft(probably real fighter jets too, though I'm far less familiar). When you need something to separate decisively and immediately, a strong kick is incredibly useful. Especially in space, where gravity isn't going to help out. Without explosives, the separated part drifts along forever at basically the same speed and direction it was moving before separation. Which is to say, it doesn't separate until the thing detached maneuvers away. This is bad if, for instance, you're ejecting heavily-damaged armor that is impeding your fighting robot's operation in active combat.
  18. Not sure where to find some of his rants anymore. He was definitely unhappy with how his character was handled, but I seem to recall him being unhappy with the production as a whole rather than just his part.
  19. Honestly? As a kid, I'm pretty sure I thought he was "Bumblebee but red". I'm probably the reason he has so much trouble getting a new mold these days, and I'm sorry.
  20. He was a very outspoken critic of the show's writing and direction. He's stated(among other things) that after a few seasons he quit reading the scripts because he already knew nothing important was going to happen. He just memorized his lines and his cues and collected his (apparently lavish) paycheck.
  21. Honestly? This might make me break my rule about not watching DC movies.
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