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  1. 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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    Seriously? They already cancelled it?!
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    As a kid, I wanted Sky Lynx so bad. Not because of the character but because he was a robot dinosaur space shuttle, which was most of my buttons in one toy. He's always been a favorite. Speaking of pushing my buttons... I want that Windblade!
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    One can only hope.
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    It IS fantastic, isn't it?
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    Not if I can help it.
  10. JB0
    Speaking of magnificience... the shuttle mode has an 80s NASA logo and orbiter name painted on it. Sky Lynx transforms into the STS Magnificience.
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    Makes sense.
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    Truer words have never been spoken.
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    Yeah, they missed that trend by a decade. They shoulda gone with twelve-year-olds in their underwear to get anime fans when Shadow Chronicles came out. ... So Robotech did one thing right.
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    Bomba!
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    Awww, be fair. It isn't awful because of any political agenda. It is awful because it is written and illustrated by the cheapest "talents" available. ... Or possibly just because it is Robotech.
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    Sorta somewhere inbetween, really. Attempts at inclusiveness/diversity/whatever tended to be rather blatant, with the cast becoming a checklist. But the writing wasn't equally hamhanded. Arguably, the diversity was only superficial, as the writing didn't reflect the implied backgrounds of the casting. But it is also arguable that they were all written as just people, rather than "the black one", "the female one", and "the mexican one". (Unarguably, Power Rangers wasn't thinking AT ALL when they made the black kid the Black Ranger and the asian kid the Yellow Ranger.)
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    All we need now is who, where, and when.
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    Let it lie fallow and never come back at all. I'm becoming more certain with every sequel and remake that turns up that the greatest honor that can be bestowed upon a beloved show is letting it die without flogging it for every cent it is worth, each new installment increasingly caricature-ish and tone-deaf, less aware of what made the original great in the first place.
  19. JB0
    ROBOTECH TO THE RESCUE!
  20. JB0
    That's gonna be so awesome!
  21. JB0
    Stop being such a lying Macross purist. Harmony Gold OWNS Macross, and can do whatever they want with it. The only reason the live-action movie hasn't already come out and made BILLIONS is that they refuse to be responsible for a mediocre film, even if it would sell well. They're waiting for a script and director that can actually do the saga justice. Big West has to license Macross from HG to make their low-budget, creatively-bankrupt cashgrab sequels. Pity they lack the integrity and passion that Harmony Gold carries.
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    That is some monumentally awful luck right there.
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    Honestly, if they didn't see a problem with Bumblebee 2, I'm pretty sure they're going to push forward with Arcee. At least she's not a complete mess in both modes, and the backpack is on a character that is SUPPOSED to have one. And she's a new MP instead of a redesign of a previously-visited character(a character with notoriously poor reputation in the line, at that). Hmmm... I wonder if MPRC wasn't rushed in after TakaraTomy saw a bunch of legally-distinct converting robots that turned into pink cars come out and sell well. She doesn't really align with the current state of the line(not season one), and she doesn't show the attention to detail one would expect from the current MP line's humanoid modes(which are all designed to look EXACTLY like the cartoon from a specific angle). I think they decided she was a "now or never" option, and banged something together to get some of that sweet sweet Arcee money before the well dried up.
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    You're not wrong. I actually laughed when I saw that "car".
  25. JB0
    Big Firebird's Nicee or GTFO. I am a man with some specific interests, and everyone's just gonna have to deal with it. In all seriousness, Takara has a distinct advantage in vehicle mode since their designers are leaning hard into the "alt mode is a cocoon around the humanoid mode" approach. Once you remove the need for the vehicle parts to even be a part of the robot(and just throw them all into a giant backpack), it makes life a lot easier. Doubly so for a character like Arcee, who was designed for animation instead of based on an existing toy.
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