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    Oh, hey. It looks like there might be clearance on those panels to fold lion legs in on top of them or below them. Be nice to have the option of being toon-accurate OR right toy-accurate. Clever bit of engineering on those hinges. Curious how they keep them from being fiddly and fragile.
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    At least LCDs don't flicker, in general. Can't use a computer CRT at 60 Hz, never have been able to. (Far as graphics adapters, I've got a Radeon 480. Was starting to consider an upgrade when buttcoin diggers and plague effects reduced supply to essentially zero. High-res gaming with anything modern is just straight-up off the table. )
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    If it was 1080p, I'd be with you. But, all other things being equal, I think I'd rather have 1440p@170 than 2160p@60.
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    I'm hoping Hasbro's learned to keep a leash handy so they maintain some creative oversight.
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    Honestly, I thought they were questionable as heck until I saw the picture of them snapped together. They make a fairly neat-looking split-barrel cannon. But yeah, they're probably really meant to go with Unicron.
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    Wow. I'm surprised Big West is willing to work with them after the Zero thing. Hmm... I wonder if the change in management is related to this.
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    I'm going the time travel thing too, and watching Sega and Tatsunoko's unrepentantly mediocre Lazer Tag toy commercial "Red Photon Zillion". It's... not great, by any means. But amusing. Sometimes unintentionally so.
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    I think you've uncovered a huge conspiracy here! How deep does this go? Seriously, though. This is pretty amusing.
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    Oh no... that's Brofessor's site.
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    Ohhhhh. I see why the green lion looks so boxy. It's the panels hiding the lion legs that are doing it. ... Can't tell if those panels fold away somehow or if they're additional pieces that just snap on when hiding the legs is desired.
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    I do not disagree with you at all. I just couldn't resist the opportunity to quote the opening. I'm less disappointed by these figures because, frankly, I never expected to see new Silverhawks figures in the first place. I'm pleasantly surprised there's enough demand to justify making figures at all, even if the lack of any sort of metallic effect is a downer.
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    Partly metal. Partly real.
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    I just want it noted that I'm scoring their sound direction 0/10 solely because there wasn't a reverb effect when Adam shouted "I have the power!". But using "I Need a Hero" for the commercial was nice.
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    Seconded. Needs more chrome!
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    The 32x wasn't cancelled. It just shoulda been.
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    I agree wholeheartedly with Podtastic.
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    The wheels of the licensing machine grind slowly, particularly where "back catalog" content is involved.
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    Does anyone else keep seeing this thread and thinking it is about a sequel to that movie where Shaquille O'Neal was a genie?
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    Let's be fair, there's a LOT of reasons that Max putting a zentradi uniform on his Valk doesn't make sense. Scale's just one of them.
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    I stand corrected, then.
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    Yeah, most of Boeing's problems are from eating too much Mickey-D's. The management that had run McD into the ground managed to negotiate control of Boeing in the merger, somehow. And proceeded to do the same things all over again. And at this point I don't think Boeing is healthy enough to turn down the cash, no matter how badly the designers flubbed it.
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    There was a persistent rumor it was a motorcycle accident, and I believe the actual news coverage at the time said "illness", but... yeah.
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    At last, a Bay Prime I'm interested in!
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    The framing, at least, was intentional and Animeigo was very proud of it. It was to ensure the entire intended image landed inside the overscan area of the TVs of the day. The chopped head would still have landed in the overscan area of a picture tube in 2001. The then-new LCD televisions also had generous image crops to emulate overscan, because every source to feed them assumed overscan. I suspect the colors are similarly "mastered for CRT". I've noticed on some recent rewatces that a lot of stuff looks VERY different depending on what display you're using. I've only ever watched the Animeigo DVDs on a picture tube, but some other anime DVDs I was very fond of "back in the day" were completely intolerable on LCD and I had to hook a DVD player to my old CRT to watch them. I guess I should throw my SDF Macross DVDs in the computer and see what they look like.
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    Me too. Now the only converting robot toys on american shelves are Transformers and weird dollar-store things. There's no in-between.
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