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    Speak for yourself. This trainwreck is hilarious.
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    Oh, the article has all kinds of problems. Just pleased to see someone NOT fawning over Bad Adaptation of Self-Insert Fanfic. (The Yuki avatar goes back to the days of rampant net-wide Haruhi-ism, but I've grown fond of it. )
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    Remember the omnidirectional barrier incident? Not too hard to imagine an upgraded barrier that allows the excess stored energy to be siphoned off for use in other systems(instead of being released in a devastating unfocused wave).
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    In fairness, they at least call out Sword Art for sucking. Sort of.
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    Ohhhhh yeah. Most of Combiner Wars kinda sucked since everything was built around the big, chunky combiner joint('s why I didn't get much of the line, I think Sky Lynx was it). Which, come to think of it, also cut deeply into Hasbro's notoriously tight materials budget(torso's not hollow).
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    I think part of that was that between Combiner Wars and the line immediately before it, most of the big-name characters already had a very recent toy in the current style. There was little compelling reason to do yet another Bumblebee or Trailbreaker or Mirage at that particular point in time. (While they did an Optimus, it was based on the G2 tanker truck instead of the usual Prime)
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    He did. I got both of 'em in stores, somehow. Pleased to have 'em, as I thought the originals looked really cool(possibly just because one was a drilltank). My only complaint about the modern ones is that I wish Topspin had larger wings, or they deployed farther back. But hey, the original doesn't look credible as a jet either.
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    I actually tried to do a family reunion photo set with G2 Optimus, Powermaster Optimus, Cybertron Optimus, and Power Baser. Four 'bots united across space-time by turning into big red trucks with firebase trailers. It fell through when I couldn't find Cybertron's pistol or PM's rifles, then had a significant amount of difficulty getting Baser into combined mode. By the end, I was just done with the whole idea.
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    I'd say if you want to, do it. But let's be honest, there's a lot less to say about most of them. The transformation is simpler, the articulation is virtually non-existent, and they're very much a "what you see is what you get" thing in most cases. I'm not really sure they NEED a review at this point. It'd be interesting to compare them to their modern remakes, though
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    Space donut. Yummy!
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    Hey, Harmony Gold worked really hard to gain that reputation. It would be disrespectful of us to NOT get angry.
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    I went to a MalWart earlier and saw a shelf clogged full to the brim of Siege Cybertron toys. And a couple Astrotrain reissues. ... And a pile of Soundwave reissues. This is actually the first original-mold Soundwave I've ever owned. No review, because it is OG Soundwave. I think everyone knows what to expect. Fair notice, though. If you are in the market for a Soundwave reissue, be advised that SOME, but not all of the stickers are pre-applied. Notably, Buzzsaw is packaged with the tape side face-down, because they are the hardest stickers to apply correctly and you don't need to know how little the guy in China slapping them on as fast as possible for fifty cents an hour actually cares. I mean, seriously, this is the quality I would've done for myself when I was five. And if you're including a sticker sheet anyways, let me do the important ones!
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    My guess is that it wasn't really thought out farther than "wouldn't this look cool?", which is kind of surprising for the franchise with an essay on overtechnology screws and bolts.
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    That too!
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    Using old Star Trek scenes as stock footage ensures you know that this is real Star Trek, just like you used to watch, and that you should love it because it gives you the nostalgia feels.
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    My local Target had a shitton of Siege stuff, and (micromasters excepted) TWO Earthrise figures. One was Astrotrain, who is a crappy shuttle which is an instant kill for me. The other was Optimus, who is MUCH nicer. But I have roughly four million, six hundred and three Optimii already. One more red square-cab truck doesn't exactly tickle my fancy. Behind the two was an entire shelf load of Shockwave.
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    What I read is that part was going to be over people expressing anti-klingon sentiment, not militarism. He felt people in Trek were beyond judging others by their genetic heritage. Especially James "I have never trusted klingons, and I never will" Kirk. The Undiscovered Country is a good movie, though. And a good Trek story, too.
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    Or build a 1:1 and go on a campaign of global conquest.
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    Hooray, humans!
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    The first law compelled them to exterminate humanity before it bore witness to the show, as death was the lesser harm.
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    I like the way you think!
  22. JB0
    Can we call it "Crasher" again? You misunderstand. It isn't a show spoiler. It is a wing you attach to Ultra Magnus to make him go faster.
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    Everything is Al Gore's fault!11 I am with you on a potential Kuro version. I really like Windblade, and I'd like to see more done with her. Especially on the high end.
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    Apparently some folks found the plastic robot offensive, some folks found the offense offensive, names were called, both sides declared themselves the gatekeepers of the hobby and that the others aren't even really Transformers fans... The last statement is probably even true. I'd bet most of the commotion on both sides is coming from people that just want to start trouble and think only children should play with toy robots. And once it got going on Twitter, everyone registered all the accounts they needed to get it going everywhere. Because no one can have nice things anymore. We built this internet, now we have to live with the consequences.
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    *looks things up* Oh. Well. That seems to have gotten out of hand rather rapidly. Some thermonuclear drama bombs went off over there.
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