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  1. JB0
    At least they aren't letting Toynami make them anymore!
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    That's what struck me as weird. As near as I can tell, the companies involved with the GameBoy game are all dead(Take 2 bought publisher TDK Mediactive, and developer Lucky Chicken seems to have just died and vanished). ... Ah. Digging further, the company responsible for the Switch port is founded by the founders of Lucky Chicken. That explains that. I guess they took the assets with them, and then called HG up and asked for a license to re-release the game. And HG being HG, they just rubberstamped it once they were assured it was going on, like, actual game consoles and not as a freeware download on a fansite.
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    They make licensing papers. But point taken. They shoulda paid someone to port Battlecry instead of paying someone to port... Robotech: The Macross Saga, I guess was the title.
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    Grimlock: He didn't have a sword in the movie, so he gets no sword. Who cares if it is an iconic part of the character? Hot Rod: Yeah, this guy definitely needs a sword. Better make it a fancy two-piece one.
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    I note that, while the game was pretty blah, "most disappointing" and "worst" aren't the same thing. But still, it was a poor clone of the console DYRL game, and they shoulda ported Battlecry to the Switch.
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    The dual-threaded narrative was confusing as heck going as far back as the original web novel.
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    Makes sense to me. The Combiner Wars peg is (relatively speaking) large and complex, as well as requiring somewhat tighter tolerances than most Transformers pieces. ... It was also the biggest problem with CW and Primes combiners, as it took up a significant chunk of the space available to the limbs, necessitating major sacrifices to the designs. While it would be fine in the larger volume of Voyager-class limbs(and still sturdy enough to do the job)... I'm not particularly sorry to see it go.
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    LD, LP... basically the same thing, right?
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    That Terradive was a pretty fun toy. As a personal preference, I also liked how his engines became his arms, because you could have an engine exhaust out instead of a fist. My Terradive wvs always in megabuster mode.
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    I laughed, at least.
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    But imagine it was named Perseverer instead. Though in hindsight, THAT name should've been given to Opportunity. Planned mission of three months, ran for over a decade. But we had no way of knowing in advance how much of an overachiever Oppy was.
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    Holy crap that's a lot of joints! That they got that much Bendimus into him without compromising aesthetics or solidity of either mode is just amazing.
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    Have I complained about NASA's naming sense recently? Because I think Perseverance is a TERRIBLE name for a probe. The thing about the older probes is a lot of them were named like they were DOING something. Explorer, Pioneer, Voyager, Pathfinder. They read as an active participant, an ally in our quest for knowledge, and they capture the imagination. The modern naming scheme lacks that evocative nature. They're all just named for an abstract concept or virtue, they don't even make a halfhearted grab at the imagination. Perseverance is a fine trait to have, but it isn't a good name. Naming aside, I'm excited about this. We learn more amazing things from every ally we send to Mars so far, and I expect great things from Percy.
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    I'm sold. Let's see if Disney steals ideas from us like they do everyone else!
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    Oooops. Maleficent Gaiden: The New Evil?
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    I shared this with my sister. Her response was "What? What?! ... Of all the villains they could choose, they went with the one whose entire character is 'wants to murder puppies'?!?" She then started running down the list of better options for "Maleficent 2". Jafar, Scar, and Snow White's Queen made her short list. She genuinely WANTS to see Scar. BUT NOPE! WE GET PUPPY MURDERER DEVILLE!
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    Is this something anyone wanted? Anyone at all?
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    If I recall, it is basically "nuclear fusion, only the trigger mechanism is a small amount of heavy quantum instead of a tiny fission bomb" Which makes sense, really. It creates an area of significantly boosted gravity in the heart of the bomb to keep the fusibles in one place longer once the reaction starts* AND gives you a simpler detonator(probably), without going whole-hog into REALLY exotic technology. *This is apparently a major hurdle in actual nuclear weapon development. Once the chain reaction starts, the things you are trying to react are flung violently apart by the explosion, and the reaction stops well before all the fuel is consumed. Every additional microsecond that everything stays together results in a larger yield for the same amount of fuel, or less fuel to get the same yield. Edit: Oh. Literally everyone already said this. Didn't realize I was a page behind.
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    Yeah, I'm not sure how I thought Black Wing was going to make a stable attachment with an unmodified Big Moth. Well, at least I don't have a Black Wing preorder out. I considered getting one to dock to my original issue Dancouga, but decided not to in the end. Woulda been upset if I had found out it won't dock the hard way.
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    On the one hand, it is great to see them putting more units of a toy out there to meet the demand. Some of these were heavily underproduced in their original runs. On the other... it should be alongside new releases, not in place of them.
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    That is disappointing to know.
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    Bodol's 1.4 megameter flagship and the 3-megameter factory satellite were both capable of space folds on reasonably short time scales, so it seems the technology exists. And I'd just like to note that science-fiction is missing out on a grand thing by typing phrases like "three thousand kilometers" when they could be saying "three megameters" instead. Even ignoring all the other issues, shrinking giant soldiers to human size to save space doesn't really work out, since your ship still has to be large enough to accommodate all those soldiers and their equipment at full size once the operation begins. You need space for the troops to be upsized, space for the equipment to be assembled, space for gearing up, boarding vehicles, et cetera. You can't just make a couple of them bigger, assemble a couple mechs, send them out, then repeat to limit your staging area space. You need the capability to rapidly launch large forces for both offensive and defensive purposes, so you need to be able to accommodate a large force of men and armament in their operational state.
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    Then giant-size soldiers might not be for you.
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    I was under the impression that R was mostly just a new head and paint, and no mold changes were made.
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    That is quite fair. My thought was "if we're gonna put 'em on pegs, they may as well be Weaponizer limbs", not that weaponizing Kup should've been their first goal. I do agree with your durability concern, and the feature probably should've been implemented a diffrent way. That they chose the way most likely to cause problems down the line and also didn't choose the way that enables off-label silliness disappoints me, though.
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