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    And that was shortly after Volkswagen bought them. I'd wager that their owners are pressuring them to make reasonable sports cars that can easily be mass-produced, and follow trends(there's a friggin' Lambo TRUCK), and hit a target for new model introduction. They won't let them just be crazy kids doing awesome things.
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    Expected, but disappointing.
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    I hope it is a worthy successor to the original.
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    So you're saying that the one from Deformation Space isn't deformed?
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    So here's a random thought. Thanks to the other thread, I was thinking about the Omnibots. And all three of them were differentiated from the "Autobot Cars" by one thing: being mail-order exclusives... okay, they were differentiated by TWO things: that AND having a "combat vehicle" mode where they turn into cars with guns like they just broke out of MASK. And I realized something: there's ONE Transformer from that initial group that made it into the mainline, but has the same "not a triple-changer, but has a battle car" mode. I believe that if the Omnibots had been part of the mainline and in the cartoon and the catalog instead of trapped in "fake transformer" mail-order hell with a bunch of other losers(and Reflector, the little sneaks!), that the Omnibots subgroup would've been made of Downshift, Overdrive, Camshaft, and Tracks. Seriously, the only reasons I can see Tracks not being an Omnibot are that he wasn't trapped in the mail-order promotion, and his weapons weren't chromed.. wait, maybe he WAS an Omnibot, and got kicked off the team because his guns weren't shiny! That's my headcanon going forward. You may applaud my profound insight at your leisure. Thank you for coming to my TED talk your time.
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    Just saw a render turn up, courtesy of one of the toy retailers spamming me. I am genuinely impressed that they made the doors both open like car doors AND fold out like wings.
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    I did a few years ago, last time it was in theaters. Still have the folded miniposter they gave out with it. Don't think I'll be doing it again this year, though it WAS a pleasing experience.
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    Yup. They were mail-order only, and unlike Reflector didn't manage to squeeze under the wire into the fiction and thus remained untainted by ugly cartoon redesigns. They all looked pretty rad to me looking in the catalog, though. They had the same sorta deal Tracks has going on, where they turned into weaponized cars like they forgot this isn't MASK. Lasers flip outta bumpers, missiles pop up from trunks and doors... one even turned into a flying car "just like Tracks". But how's a young boy supposed to get his parents to buy him a Transformer that isn't even on the shelf at the store?
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    I'd call it a station wagon, if it had more windows. A perfect fit for the mature, responsible 80s grownup that Rodimus is (trying hard to be). I'm impressed overall, though. Rodimus doesn't normally do much for me, but if I happen to see this one on shelves through some miracle, I'll probably pick him up. (I also like the beefy proportions of Primes Rodimus, though they aren't accurate to anything. I did not pick that one up, however, as the engineering was a mess.)
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    A. That's hot. B. No one's gonna try and reduce THIS guy to bland and weirdly puffy toon accuracy! For once, my preferences are unarguably the right way to do it! C. A white 80s Toyota is gonna trigger all kinds of Initial D crossover jokes(and yes, I know he's the wrong Toyota).
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    It is irrelevant to anything, but I really like the opaque wheels behind the transparent chest, and am a little sad that the release version won't be like that.
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    I hope it exceeds expectations.
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    Studio Series 86 Rumble... well, no arguments this time if it should be red, black, blue, or purple since this one's explicitly based on the good movie. (Will the japanese import be "Frenzy" or "US Rumble"?) I actually like the design of Armada Starscream, so that's pretty cool.
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    We are borg. Resistance is futile. Your technological and biological diversity will be added to our own.
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    I mean, I wouldn't want Bay in charge of a Robotech movie either, and I came to Macross through Robotech. It really feels like people are just looking for a big name and are "Oh, Bay did a sci-fi movie with aliens and robots!"... which I GUESS is typical of the Robotech Movie Hype Machine. HG's unilaterally attached a BUNCH of big names to that over the years.
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    At least we're supporting some folks that are good at their job and seem to enjoy it.
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    I just got my import game box with Blaster Master Zero Trilogy today. All three games on one disk, WITH VOICE ACTING. So I spent a couple hours playing Blaster Master Zero 1 AGAIN. Just enough time to get to Eve so I could hear her voice work as well as Jason's. *sigh* I now own THREE copies of BMZ2. The Trilogy version, the Limited Run Games version, and the Windows version... *longer sigh* and FOUR copies of BMZ1, because I got it on 3DS in the first place... then rebought it on Windows when it stopped being a Nintendo exclusive so I could play it on a decent screen... and then bought the LRG two-pack because I wanted the shinies... and then bought Trilogy because voice acting... and I'm sure Inti Creates will manage to find one MORE way to get me to buy a game I already own before Blaster Master/MetaFight returns to slumber.
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    I agree completely that it SHOULD be done. Just like I think a Powermaster Prime/Ginrai core robot that doesn't wear the front of the truck on his back and a second front-of-truck on his chest is possible and should be done. I just don't think it will be done because it isn't "anime-accurate", and that disappoints me greatly.
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    I don't even understand why this is a question anyone would ask.
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    Agreed, but "the way things are" is accurate to the original toy, the american cartoon, and the japanese cartoon. There's little road out without a complete reinvention, and the market for such has proven dreadfully slim. I made do with my Hasbro remake. The "titan armor" fist he came with I use as a jetpack, and that does a passable job of making the back of either bot not look like the front of another bot. Same reason that Powermaster Prime/Ginrai homages have a truck face on both sides of the core robot(unless they're official, then they just omit the core). Even the heavily-stylized Thunder Manus. They could do it right, but it would lose a major feature consistent across all interpretations of the character.
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    Being able to buy anything Transformers-related at all in a physical store is a novelty, in my experience.
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    I find it incredibly ironic that Grassor came with the toy's missile launcher but has no shoulder holes to peg it into, while Studio Slag has the shoulder holes but no missile launcher to peg into them. Studio Slag looks like a pretty solid take on the character, though the transparent plastic of the Primes version is sorely missed(almost as much as the wings were missed on the Primes version).
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    That is a darn shame. If you could, that would make that pretty clean by the standards of aerial transformers.
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    Cybertron 'Bee is, in fact, a darned sight more impressive than I was expecting. Can his head be rotated around so you're seeing the back of it on his underside instead of the face? My local Target had some pegs that weren't empty. They were packed with this guy, and pretty much only this guy. But it scratches an itch I wasn't feeling, so... on the peg it stays. They did, however, have ONE of the four-pack with Fangry and three other losers. I was shocked. The box was a bit crushed, but... I don't buy this crap for the boxes. I gotta admit, the price tag was pretty steep, but... FANGRY! And Bumblebee Hubcap Bumper isn't actually that bad of an option. Nemesis Primal isn't a mold I was interested in, but in-hand he's actually quite pleasing. Fangry's not actually very good, really. He's a reworking of Titans Grotusque(a reworking of Titans Doublecross/Twinferno). His transformation mostly consists of "fold the legs back onto each other and claim they're a tail, then flip the wolf head down over the neck hole". Seriously, the werewolf arms are literally just the robot arms with the fists folded in and wolf fists folded up over the emtpy wrists. Barely even worth mentioning, and I'm surprised they bothered. But to be perfectly fair, the original Fangry wasn't very good either, with a transformation consisting mostly of "flip the robot upside down, then fold the arms over the neck hole and claim they're a tail". My biggest gripe is that reusing the original Twinferno wings means he has a much smaller wingspan than I associated with the character. Though he's also the only one in the box that doesn't come with a weapon. My biggest praise is that IT'S A FANGRY! the wolf jaw feels like it is on a soft ratchet instead of a friction joint. Which means it pivots open when you lift it off his back and flip it down over the neck hole. My biggest point of confusion is that the headmaster was molded ENTIRELY out of black plastic, despite being mostly not black. The green face, purple arms, and purple legs are ALL painted. Rather heavily in the legs' case, giving them a rounded-off melty look. (For those keeping score on accuracy, the original Fangry headmaster had a purple torso and arms with black legs. The Titans Return Fangry head with no robot to attach it to had a purple torso and legs with black arms, and this one has purple arms and legs with a black torso. We've got every possible color combination covered at this point. The Masterforce cartoon was VERY loyal to the toy designs of the era, so black legs with purple torso and arms would be anime-accurate.)
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    True. But they're still based on the illustrations instead of vice-versa. Often the complaints about the first toys not being cartoon-accurate are presented as though those toys were an ineptly-bungled attempt to bring the illustrations to life, which (regardless of preference) isn't fair to the designers. Anyways! The "then and now" display is really friggin' cool.
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