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  1. JB0
    I think he was teasing.
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    Naw, 's just Voltron: Third Dimension's Stealth Voltron.
  3. JB0
    The cartoon designs were based on the toys. Also, any anime mecha designer that would choose that transformation is actively making fun of something.
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    It really didn't help that PM Prime made zero attempt to do anything at all with the truck front, so he wore a windshield and radiator on both sides of humanoid mode.
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    Just a smidge. His belt-buckle star gets in the way. The price we pay to be Texas-fashionable.
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    Didn't we used to call that kind of transformation a "shell-former"? I miss the days when the different modes were expected to share parts.
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    My understanding is HG has a merchandise license for DYRL, so it isn't IMPOSSIBLE, but it seems unlikely. They're on a big Robotech kick right now, and I think they really only got the DYRL license to shore up their "blocking imported Yamatos" argument.
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    It wasn't a plot hole, just an undetailed bit of background. And it wasn't even undetailed until Disney ejected everything from the established merchandise. BRING BACK KYLE KATARN!
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    Also, you know, it was a prequel to Star Wars. We knew going in that the jedi were all dead, Anakin was the walking embodiment of evil, and the Republic was washed away by a dictatorial empire that built planetkillers to keep the populace in line. There was no possibility for a happy ending. They shoulda just done a movie about Darth Vader hunting jedi. Two points. A. Tron was brought in from outside. The producers created the concept, began production, and started shopping for a studio to publish it and Disney was the one willing to bankroll it. It is only nominally a Disney film, definitely not Disney's idea, and saw a lot of resistance from within the company after they bought it. To quote Wikipedia... At the time, Disney rarely hired outsiders to make films for them, and Kushner found that he and his group were given a chilly reception because they "tackled the nerve center – the animation department. They saw us as the germ from outside. We tried to enlist several Disney animators, but none came. Disney is a closed group." As a result, they hired Wang Film Productions for the animation. When your Disney-published animated film is using a different company's animators instead of the in-house best in the business, something has gone very wrong. B. Tron was... kinda awful. It is a lot of neat pictures with no sense of pacing, narrative, or tone. It is the Star Trek: The Motion Picture of computer movies. Sorry, but it had to be said.
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    American anti-trust laws are weak as heck. They can totally buy Sony Pictures. There will be a token objection, they'll have to give up some minor division they didn't want anyways, but it'll go through.
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    I don't get this whole Disney/Sony feud. If I was Disney, I would just walk up to Sony and ask them straight-up "What will it cost to buy Spiderman back from you outright? No profit-sharing, no cross-licensing, just return the movie rights to Marvel. We will pay any number you write down. We're Disney, we can afford it." The alternative, it seems to me, is Disney swinging in to buy Sony Pictures in a few years, JUST to get the spider-rights.
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    You mean organic floppies. It was 1999, the flash drive wasn't going to come out for another year(and wouldn't be generally relevant for a few more). I understand the studio's attitude. In the context of the time, computers were only just barely starting to become mainstream. Expecting anyone but nerds to understand the original concept was a dicey proposition. It is only in hindsight that the decision looks incredibly stupid.
  13. JB0
    Dogs were too adorable to waste away in test tubes. Even heartless machines couldn't bear to watch that.
  14. JB0
    The Titan Power one looks really nice, and is a modernized take on Lion Voltron that still actually looks like Voltron(unlike some others). But it is A Voltron, not THE Voltron. (I also find the symmetrical arms and legs a little off-putting, but not as much as I would in a design that took fewer liberties in other places. It is different enough to get away with shared lion molds.)
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    It figures that even Picard's mirror would be a fastidiously moral bastion of integrity and decency.
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    Perfect! Don't have to see him to know he's there. I bet he drinks decaf, too.
  17. JB0
    That MONSTER!
  18. JB0
    Important question: does the mirror universe Picard still drink "tea, earl gray, hot"?
  19. JB0
    Apparently, that was the original explanation given in early drafts. It was changed to "batteries" in the final revision because it was confusing and audiences wouldn't understand.
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    That's fantastic. Headcanon accepted.
  21. JB0
    Makes sense to me. Toilets are just replicators in reverse. It's the circle of life.
  22. JB0
    So here's a random question: do we know what happened to Petit-Cola after Space War 1?
  23. JB0
    Use the transporters to plop it into the nearest star.
  24. JB0
    If you need to go bad enough, any room is a bathroom. Especially airlocks.
  25. JB0
    What if you have a box in the wall that makes exceptional creole at the press of a button? Spoilers: chefs are gonna swear it tastes terrible, even if it is identical to their own work. And they will genuinely believe it, too. Which was kinda my point. Whether the replicators make good food or not is irrelevant, because psychology.
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