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  1. JB0
    Pretty sure it will bear precious little resemblence to Voltron or Golion anyways.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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?
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    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.
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    I'm looking at the car, and it looks oddly familiar... Mocha's almost a sexy version of the Go-Bot Psycho.
  7. JB0
    I mean, my Targets never had crap either. But Target had less chain-exclusive robots.
  8. JB0
    A sample of a sample, at that!
  9. JB0
    Best kinda dog.
  10. JB0
    Shadow's the most important team member!
  11. JB0
    My Toys R Us never had crap in plastic robots. A TRU exclusive just meant it wasn't shipping here.
  12. JB0
    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.
  13. JB0
    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".
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    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.
  15. JB0
    You said the same thing twice.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    Honestly? This might make me break my rule about not watching DC movies.
  20. JB0
    I think that's a Go-Bot!
  21. JB0
    1:1 scale, with integrated electronic lights and sounds!
  22. JB0
    It is beautiful that we can complain that there's too many Voltrons these days.
  23. JB0
    I feel like part of that isn't unique to the Abramsverse, though it was certainly exacerbated by the show's desire to be an action film and origin story*. The original Trek understood a lot of military concepts very well because several WW2 veterans were on staff. Later shows tend not to have a staff that knows how the military works, and that reflects in their writing. Their military background is simply "imitating what we saw in Star Trek". The Abramsverse movies aren't a break, they're just the endgame. *Speaking of origin stories... I give Abrams credit for handling what I'm sure was a decree from on high that his first film be one. There was a clear desire to hit fast-forward through that aspect as much as possible and get to the bridge of the Enterprise.
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    Again, I'm not sure you've actually watched Star Trek if that's something you think was EVER endorsed by the show's creator.
  25. JB0
    It says a lot about the state of the franchise that I think this sounds like a really good idea.
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