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  1. JB0
    But the size of the potoculture empire in Macross was almost the entire galaxy. Five million ships is a drop in the bucket.
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    I'm actually surprised that the creators are willing to sign Robotech stuff(even if they do append corrections to the title and copyright alongside their signature).
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    Point conceded. I did get the impression that Optimus 2 was the beginning of a conscious effort to set a definitive MP scale, instead of the more traditional approach to scale(or lack thereof) within a line of Transformers.
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    Not sudden. I've never liked MP-36. He's a big mess of hundreds of panels, and the transformation is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too complex. That alone makes him awful in my book. And after all that work, he doesn't even make a good gun, which is just icing on the cake. A transformation that complex, at least if both modes are good you have a REASON for the complexity. But if one mode is terrible, you just have to ask what it gained. I don't really like Optimus 3's engineering, but I see where the payoff is and can understand why they went in the direction they did. Megatron 2 is just complex for the sake of being complex. I DID forget that the MPs all got smaller with Optimus 2, so "MP scale" excludes the first few MPs.
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    Robotech comics: Not caring about your "copyrights" since 1985.
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    Aren't you forgetting something? MP Megatron first came out over a decade ago, though it might be a bit TOO original-inspired with those legs. Maybe in a few more years we'll have a third MP Megatron and we can forget that MP-36 ever happened, too. (And the sooner, the better.)
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    Awww... no Go-Bots Stacks action, then. What's even the point of removable exhausts if you can't use them as guns? Possibly.
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    Is there a way he can hold the smokestacks like guns? I'm assuming they missed that possibility. 'S a real shame that the molded details are so soft. He just looks kinda melty. (But still way better than Hybrid Convoy in truck mode. That design was always a completely irredeemable mess as a truck.)
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    (emphasis mine) Luckier than you realized.
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    Does this mean the FAST packs they tested in Macross Plus(including the cool forearm cannon on the -19) didn't make it to mass-production?
  11. JB0
    You are not the only one. I noticed it immediately.
  12. JB0
    Your toys should be very well-protected. If they survive the freezing process, that is.
  13. JB0
    I think he was teasing.
  14. JB0
    Naw, 's just Voltron: Third Dimension's Stealth Voltron.
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    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.
  20. JB0
    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.
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    Dogs were too adorable to waste away in test tubes. Even heartless machines couldn't bear to watch that.
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