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    I can believe it. Car companies are a lot more watchful about their trademarks(or anything remotely related). It sucks, though.
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    The only of the original carbots I ever had was Tracks. And his legs snapped off at the hip during transformation. RIP.
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    Liberated from his cardboard prison, he now breathes the air of a free 'bot. Or something.
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    Oh yeah, the Lancer would've been a great choice at the time. It might've been TOO new for the designers, though? The Diaclone Scramble City toys had been intended to be hitting shelves IN 1985, before Hasbro's success with Transformers completely sidelined Takara's original plans and they moved to reissuing the previous year's toys as Transformers. Not that that "the plane isn't out yet" ever stopped people from making toys and models based on it, but... By contrast, at the time the B-70 had already been cancelled for being technologically obsolete, the prototypes relegated to experimental status, and the plane seemingly destined to obscurity. I will admit that In the mid-80s, the Valkyrie would've been a poor choice. (But making a war machine out of the Concorde wasn't?) Pushing for a Valkyrie now is partially a compromise, to keep a similar(but by no means identical) profile to the Concorde. ... And partially just a shameless attempt to badger someone into making a transforming Valkyrie(no, not THAT one!), because I want to see one. Not that anyone's listening, but if they are... I'd also like an X-29 robot please?
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    Playmates: Because our quality control is more consistent than Eaglemoss.
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    I still don't understand why they don't just make Silverbolt an XB-70 Valkyrie. It is a long narrow plane that is SUPPOSED to have a big box on the underside. But yeah,. they could do a LOT better with the Concorde than they are.
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    Action Masters is the term. 😛 Yeah, the lack of actual transformation is a huge downer. I'm getting Action Master Windblade because it ticks a specific aesthetic I like.
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    I'm really surprised to see Flame Toys is doing Arcee. After the Windblade drama bomb, I expected them to just go "nope, no more girlformers" rather than risk another landmine.
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    Tequila Gundam's a gunslinger too!
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    No G or Wing, no sale!
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    That depends entirely on whether he gives his monkey face to Crazimus after he takes it off.
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    Optimus Primal makes no sense because he transfoms from one primate form to another. Humanoid to gorilla isn't a transformation, it's just standing up straight.
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    I think there's actually a small chance for an andorian.
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    Yeah... I'm not really convinced StrikerS was a show that needed to be made. A's was always going to be a tough act to follow, and they shouldn't have tried if they weren't going to bring their A game(no pun intended). While it has its moments, and there's some interesting stuff in it, ultimately the show they made wasn't really the show anybody wanted.
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    For that price it should be the dual-screen version. I say this as someone who can't see the price because "see price in cart" and "presold out", but has seen enough of the Arcade 1-Up product line to venture a guess.
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    Tempting. Not for Volcanicus, but my Sky Lynx-cored "Dino-Soar". ... Sky Lynx and four Swoops! Genius!
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    You absolutely shouldn't accept QC issues with the MP line. When you start paying three hundred dollars for a toy robot, you start expecting to receive a product with no obvious issues. If they can't supply high-quality products with premium finish, they shouldn't price them like they are.
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    Haha! I can imagine the follow-up too. "After due consideration, we've determined your fighter to be sketchy as hell. But it doesn't involve recently-uncovered lost protoculture technology, so it can't be THAT bad. Fighter approved."
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    Hell yes, Fangry! ... Man, that's a sticker, though.
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    I thought Silverhawks was awesome as a kid. Never had any of the toys, though. I hope this is a really good bootmake.
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    Heck yeah.
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    I'm replying to this because you specifically speak for all the fans. As a fan, you do not speak for me, and present a vision I abhor. I don't want toys that closely resemble the "original" animation, because it isn't the original. Even as a kid I recognized the animation was pretty crappy, and a pale imitation of the toys it was based on. In the majority of cases, I see those original toys when I envision these characters. I'm a filthy toy supremacist, and if we're doing slavish G1 remakes forever instead of something new, then I want much more of that original detail represented. And I want modern engineering to take over where the 80s failed us and give us articulation, and plane modes that look as clean as car modes do. THAT'S what the fans want. Some subset of the fans, anyways. I'd also really like to see some alternate takes. Give me MP Classics Prime, that was a really cool interpretation of Optibotimus that was held back by size and budget. That's exactly the point or maybe that's the point people still don't understand - MP-52 was intended to do that from the get go. I don't know how or where this notion came from that it was supposed to ever emulate a F-15 as realistic as possible. Probably from Takara bragging how this was the first time ever that Starscream transformed into an actual licensed F-15.
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    "Bumblebee! Stop lubricating!"
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    Also, the Transformers line is well past the point where you can design the toys to be vehicles that turn into robots. They pretty much HAVE to be robots that turn into vehicles, because that's how the franchise has been sold and they've steered hard down the road of preserving the old cartoon designs instead of robots that can actually turn into these vehicles. The humanoid form will almost always take precedence over the car, truck, or plane, and that is an unfortunate situation for people who want more of a focus on the vehicles and greater parts reuse between modes. This is an even bigger problem with the F-15 robots, because the original toy that the cartoon was based off of made a pretty crappy jet to start with, with most of the robot just hanging off the underside of the plane(setting the very low standard by which all future jetformers would be judged). We'd be a lot better off today if the original Diaclone F-15 was designed more like Leader-1, which actually looked kinda like an F-15 from the bottom. Edit: Riiight, I didn't actually think those were all going to embed like that. I was trying to illustrate the point less obtrusively.
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    Ratchet and Ironhide's derigns make sense... as the human-operated maintenance vehicles they were designed as. More than anything else in the line, they did not fit the Transformers conceit of "intelligent" self-operating alien robots. I think the concept behind them is really cool, but an absolutely terrible fit for Transformers. I do hope the new Diaclone line revisits them in the same way it has redone Convoy.
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