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    It is kind of crazy how much articulation they managed to hide in there. The design SHOULDN'T allow all those joints to work, just because it is all large bricks jammed against each other. That is some dark magic.
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    The obvious conclusion here is that extended use of the force makes you stupid. It wasn't the prequel jedis' fault everything went horribly wrong, their powers made them inherently incapable of dealing with it and they lacked the adult supervision required to see it. ... That or the movie writers just sucked.
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    Well, it WAS pretty forgettable. I guess I imagined a better film to fill that void(and it was still bad).
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    I could do without a monchrome Shockwave until you got to this part. The purple barrel on Siege Shockwave bugged me from the start.
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    Hey, I didn't even care enough to WATCH Last Jedi and I'm in here.
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    Well, the "rebellion" in Force Awakens was literally a state-sponsored terrorist organization. As I recall the film, the New Republic and Empire signed a peace treaty, and then high-ranking Republic officials started supplying the new Rebellion with funds and equipment to continue the war against the Empire in defiance of the treaty. Meanwhile, the Empire built a combination Death Star/Sun Crusher so they could wreck multiple Republic planets with every shot. Neither side had any respect for the treaty.
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    "A space wizard did it" is half of the actual plot of the films.
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    Honestly? Their whole spiel about how they design the toys, but leave it to the factory to figure out where hinges and tabs and screw holes go left me unsympathetic to them. I'm kind of glad they're gone, just because they WEREN'T toy designers but claimed they were. They were illustrators taking credit, and filing the actual designers as "factory workers". ... Hmmm, taking credit for the work of others... they were a perfect match for Robotech.
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    Why? Is this truly what the world has been crying out for? I thought we were through rehashing the 80s and were on to rehashing the 90s by now. Not really. It doesn't have to get very far from Earth before the Sun's gravity takes it away from us. It still has to get pretty far before Mars can get hold of it, though. And it needs a good kick to give it the energy it needs to rise out to the martian orbit. But you're forgetting to factor in the Death Star's hypermatter core. The explosion CLEARLY sent large portions of the debris cloud into hyperspace along the axis of the visible discharge ring, so they blahblah et cetera. Ah, yes, the good ol' Endor Holocaust. http://www.theforce.net/swtc/holocaust.html The official Lucasfilm explanation has always been "That didn't happen", with little explanation as to WHY that didn't happen. I think they need to man up and work out a feasible explanation, or canonize the massive ecological disaster. Can't make an omelette without destroying a few inhabitable worlds. This always reminds me of that scene in one of the X-Wing novels where our heroes stumble upon an Imperial Museum exhibit explaining how the rebels basically extinctified a sentient race with their terrorist activities and they get very upset because "that's not what happened". Surely the emperor would have a throne room on the first Death Star too, not just on Death Star Two. ... I think it is actually Skeletor's throne from the He-Man movie, though. How's THAT for a plot twist?
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    That was the best I could say about Force Awakens, it was "okay".
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    IMDB lists something like SIX Universal Soldier movies. Surprisingly, none is actually titled "Universal Soldier 2.0"
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    I think the belief is that once the ATM shuts down, everything else grinds to a halt.
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    Eh, why not? There's humans, and apparently falcons. May as well be horses too. I'd be singing a different tune if I were invested in this trainwreck of a franchise, mind you. The Force Awakens dealt nicely with any lingering brand loyalty. Edit: Ah. Combat ON horseback. My response is the same. Eh, why not?
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    That can't be right. HG owns the entire Macross franchise, so they can't infringe on anything. And even if they didn't, Macross has been ripping Robotech off shamelessly for the last thirty years. Really HG should be suing Big West for copyright infringement, but they're just so darn magnanimous that they keep letting it slide. ... I mean, the Robotechies wouldn't LIE to us, right?
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    In fairness, we ARE keeping up with it. He just keeps posting his spoilers a month after we all read them.
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    "Well, yes, we should've checked the mirrors, but he WAS a serial killer with time-travel powers." "Oh, right. MORIOH. Ugh. Case dismissed, because I don't want to hear about another friggin' stupid stand user!"
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    Worst or BEST?
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    "You're right. But the third season of Macross was the best. The transforming motorcycles were awesome."
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    That's no fun at all, though.
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    I enjoyed the heck out of it, but it was definitely different.
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    And the episode with the chef running the restaurant. That crap was fantastic.
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    The Ent-B accidentally warped into a temporal rift, landed in the far future, and her and her crew now serve with the Starfleet Office of Temporal Investigations as undercover agents with an easily-disguisable vessel(since they apparently made HUNDREDS of Excelsiors). That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.
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    I think the Bayverse aesthetics are at the heart of why they don't work. In that the alt modes are all licensed real-world vehicles, and there are lots of vehicle parts on the humanoid modes. Due to licensing, you can't fudge the vehicles to make it work(in TOS, even "real" vehicle triple-changers like Astrotrain and Blitzwing bent their vehicles to the breaking point). And the robot mode carrying obvious vehicle parts makes it harder to fudge THERE, too. So they mostly chose to match two modes, and the third mode is just made up from nothing. And THAT makes the toys impossible to do as triple-changers, because the robot only has parts for one mode. Which leads to THIS Drift having a humanoid form with a lot of car parts, and turning into a helicopter. And other versions of the character just turning into a car, because at least the character HAS car parts on him.
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    Gotta admit, I was NOT expecting a Land Before Time reference in a Transformers review. Also, why did anyone ever think triple-changers were a good idea for these films?
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    Money was definitely de-emphasized. At one point in the "two years later" episodes, Minmay and Kaifun are shown being paid for her performance in soap and food. (Kaifun is unappreciative, to absolutely no one's surprise. And also drunk. He's a real winner here.)
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