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    You need to get a black Spiderman so you can tribute the Marvel series encounter too.
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    Well, Voltron was much bigger than the originals. Also, a lot of the Robotech hate was directly borne of Harmony Gold's anti-Macross statements and maneuvers. Declare war on the fanbase and they turn against you. I think the japanese market can be succinctly summarized as "bombed horribly". And in America, Lion Voltron was MUCH more popular than Vehicle Voltron, to the extent that World Event Productions abandoned plans to adapt Albegas into a Voltron in favor of commissioning an extra twenty episodes of Lion Voltron from Toei that are not part of Golion. ... But Vehicle Voltron is still best Voltron. A robot made out of lions? Ridiculous nonsense! They don't even LOOK like lions!
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    I tell ya, that was my one complaint with Lion Voltron, there wasn't a "form blazing sword" energy piece in the box.
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    Yes, actually. "After several upgrades by Deep Space 9 Operations Chief Miles O'Brien, the ship was deemed worthy of use and more ships of the class were constructed. (DS9: "The Search, Part I", "Call to Arms"; VOY: "Message in a Bottle") " Aapparently O'Brien was COMPLETELY wasted on Ent-D's transporter and Deep Space 9. He's better than all Starfleet's best shipwrights put together. (All credit to Memory Alpha)
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    I am so glad we're talking about the Treadspeeder now. Because it is all KINDS of dumb.
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    Yes. I laughed during Into Darkness, because what else are you supposed to do when Spock is Shatner-ing it up and shouting "KAHHHHHHHHHHN!" at the top of his lungs? A Spock that doesn't even LIKE Kirk, at that.
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    I've not used Index nor Rift S, but I'm glad to see more people getting into VR. I've got an original Rift, and access to a Quest, and think VR is super-awesome and everyone needs it.
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    I came out of the 09 film thinking "Abrams wanted to do Star Wars". Pity he got the chance(though I dunno how much of 7 was his fault vs Disney's).
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    If Prime can't have his trailer, neither can Motormaster. 'S only fair.
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    Into Darkness was awful, on pretty ruch every level. The first of the series was an interesting take on things. I have complaints, but it was noless un-Trek than, say, First Contact. I didn't see Beyond because Into Darkness was so bad.
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    Botheration!
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    I hadn't heard plans, but expected nothing great. Lucas forgets that he had a LOT of very talented help on the original films, and people capable of telling him "no". The big problem the prequels had is that Lucas bought his own hype. He thought he made the original movies, and he didn't need advice from anyone else. But he did. He SO did.
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    Voltron I. Voltron II was Albegas. ... Hey, I'm just the messenger. Take it up with Matchbox. (That Voltron III wound up essentially BEING the franchise is a fact of some amusement to me.)
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    He's already on record as saying Rise of Skywalker is "Great... because I didn't make it so they'll blame someone else!"
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    At last, a bright spot!
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    It survived Phantom Menace, it can survive this.
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    Youtube: A bigger mess than Star Wars, somehow.
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    Oh geez. I mean, I guess it is better that Google auto-flags videos as for children than NOT for children, given the financial liability, but... darned if they don't need something better than "here's yet another inscrutable secret algorithm to screw you over, thanks for contributing your unpaid time to making us billions, see you in banklruptcy"
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    I've seen something about this, from EEVBlog. Most folks on YouTube make money from ads, not your bank account. Google prefers to serve targeted ads, because they are worth much more. Under federal law, it isn't legal to track children online, which makes targeting ads to them harder. Google was recently fined quite a bit for tracking children online, because of course they were. They settled with the FTC. Here's where things get fun. In 2013, the US government recently strengthened the rules about tracking children. Not just the platforms, but individual content providers, can be held responsible for not tracking children. And what constitutes tracking has been expanded from "actively collecting information" to "deploying tracking cookies". Having been fined, Google's reworked things so Youtube now requires content providers to specify if content is meant for children. If you say yes, you get ads that don't use user tracking for demographics targeting, which are worth a lot less. As part of the settlement, Google gets to claim they did due diligence and the FTC will now fine the video uploader instead of Google. If the FTC decides, in their sole discretion, that the uploader lied(which they could easily do accidentally, given the vague standard the FTC lays out), they can be fined 42 grand per offending video. That is not much money to Google, but it is a life-altering sum for most of Google's unpaid videographers. In short, if the videographer checks yes, they lose 90% of their ad revenue. If they check no and the feds decide they were wrong, they are fined several thousands of dollars. THAT is what Doomcock is on about.
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    Mostly Sad Dana, it looks like.
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    They were definitely right to change those two. And I don't think they were bad toys, but they were bad for the sentient humanoid robot angle that Transformers took them in. But some animation models drift far from the toy for no discernable reason, and honestly I'm surprised to see so many obvious toy details in this one(the screw holes in his toes are charming).
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    Seems the most likely answer to me.
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    I'm gonna say one way is objectively right, and it is to mostly ignore the animation model because it is freaking hideous. I can't really push my toy supremacy angle here, because that isn't a lot better, but... that animation model should only be used as inspiration, not the goal. Tangentally, the animation model was clearly based on a Wildrider toy with no stickers. Most obvious with the visible screws in his toes. But hey. At least it was based on the toy it was supposed to represent, unlike SOME characters. *cough*Ratchet and Ironhide*cough*
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    Look on the bright side: At least the "kids in school doing things kids do in school" genre died.
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    CARL'S VISION! HOW DARE WE MOCK IT! Still ridin' that coffin are we, HG? Also, poor Dana's realized exactly the quality of work she's haruhi'ed herself into. Seriously, they used that face six times I think? Ironically, this trash actually looks mildly interesting now, just by virtue of being something other than a desperate Macross clone with the serial numbers filed off, and I'm startled at the boldness in giving the lead to a "Masters Saga" character, and then acknowledging that she's in a really messed-up situation right now. I actually find myself genuinely interested in The Epic Saga Of Sad Dana, though I have no doubt that the comic will only disappoint if I pick it up. And it looks like they're pivoting straight into "attack of the thirty-foot zombies", so ... nope. And not gonna lie here... this feels like a legitimate Millia parental lesson(except for the fact that she was a terrible spy, too), and it makes me smile.
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