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    I think Classics Grimlock is a really cool modernization of the original character. I thought the robot mode, like most of the Classics line, pulled enough from the original toy be recognizable as such while still doing its own cool thing. The "tailwhip" just sucked, though. I'd love to see a larger version. I wish the Classics line, as a whole, had seen a larger budget. My Classics Grimlock is actually still on display. He's standing alongside my non-canon combiner Dino-Soar(which I still absolutely love), opening a Matrix swiped from (a broken) MP-1 Prime at Universe(I think) Unicron's shin while Dino-Soar holds the big orange guy off with an energy sword(that I swiped from something forgotten at present). The takeaways from this scene are: 1. A tyrannosaurus comes up almost to Unicron's knee, and a space shuttle/dinosaur combiner is large enough to engage a planetbot in melee combat. Scale is for chumps. 2. Stealing parts makes scenes more awesome. 3. Him Grimlock have touch! And yeah, I'd like a nicer Unicron, but... not for six hundred bucks.
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    A truly harrowing situation. Glad you made it through.
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    The chef was the best mini-arc in Josuke's series.
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    I can't read any of that, so I have to ask: Is it a complete Unicron, or a replacement head in the old tradition of "we mostly make upgrade parts for Transformers" instead of the modern one of making legally-distinct converting robots that are coincidentally very similar to a certain popular franchise.
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    Ahhhhhh. I'd thought they meant lack of oversight in the "the quality is rubbish and we don't want to be bothered with sorting out a coherent timeline that considers all this crap" sense, not the "holy crap, they pirated from EVERYWHERE to make these, didn't they?" sense.
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    I'd watch it.
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    In all fairness, NEMESIS undid that right away. The final scene of Nemesis grabs the audience by the ears and screams "B4 IS BECOMING DATA" in their face.
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    I'm less upset than when the rumor was "Captain Picard helms Section 31, leader of a band of extra-legal rogues, cutthroats, and murderers". It no longer defiles one of Trek's most beloved characters and tarnishes him with the same edgy sociopathic brush they've swept across the rest of the franchise. This has taken it from pure revulsion to ... well, apathy. It isn't enough to make me want to watch it, but it is enough that I no longer feel an automatic instinctive hatred. And that brings me to the most beautiful thing about this. No one is forcing me to watch it, and I don't actually have to care. This liberating revelation kept me out of theaters for The Last Jedi* and Ghost in the Shell(the most recent one), and it will likely serve me well here. If it is awful, then ... oh well. Not the first awful Star Trek tale(or even entire series). I can just ignore it and get on with life. If it is fantastic, people who DID watch it will tell me, and then I'll seek it out. *And I really must thank JJ Abrams for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. It was a disjointed and unsatisfying mess, and I spent a lot of time contemplating the idea of investing myself in ANOTHER bad trilogy of Star Wars films afterwards. The realization that I didn't actually HAVE to watch The Last Jedi, or any other sequels, prequels, remakes, sidestories, or events... that I wouldn't become some sort of social pariah for not being in the loop on pop culture... it was liberating. I wish I'd been mature enough to accept it after The Phantom Menace, or Transformers: A Micheal Bay Film.
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    Spoilin' my fun, like a big spoiley spoiler. Gotta admit, it is awesome that he actually OWNS AND OPERATES a fighter plane. ... Pity he couldn't get a Tomcat off the Navy when they decommissioned 'em all.
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    In Robotech, she went blonde as she got older.
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    I want a blooper reel of Cruise getting airsick.
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    Either Furman is working under terrible editors, he's phoning in the absolute laziest work he's ever done for the paycheck, or this is all some bizarre blackmail attempt to ruin his name if he doesn't pay them one million dollars MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
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    There's like a negative 300% chance that the US Navy is going to let a civilian pilot one of their fighters alone, even if he DOES have a pilot's license. It was obvious from the start that it wasn't going to be Cruise doing any aviation stunts.
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    The dash angles, the plethora of switches and displays, the electronic instrument cluster... that's exactly what I'd expect a modern version of KITT to look like.
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    They did say his father died under mysterious circumstances.
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    Oh come ON, Hasbro. I'm fairly neutral in the great Frenzy/Rumble color scheme debate, but... this is just trolling. That paint scheme is UNAMBIGUOUSLY Rumble, because you're using the cartoon's light purple instead of the original toy's dark blue and light blue. ... This is why Ravage and Lazerbeak are cooler.
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    Friggin' Symphogear. The original transformation sequences from the first series were fantastic. They were brief, well-matched to the show's overall theme(I loved the LED EQ meter), avoided most of the usual questionable artistic decisions that accompany magical girl transformations, and unique for the genre. Even ignoring Hibiki's first transformation, which is its own special thing. And then they decided to go total fanservice with the sequel, and since then they've been trying to find ways to turn it up. So we've gone from silhouettes against a VU meter to "not sleazy, honest" poledancing. Hooray for progress. I should probably look before I judge, though. Wait... Hibiki's transformation is the best since the original. The camera doesn't stop to stare at her boobs or butt even once(I have low expectations after the previous shows). It is almost tasteful, and FAR nicer than I expected. What's the probl- oh. KIRIKA. And her scythe. Why is Kirika even still around? I thought she was slowly dying from gear incompatibility back when she was first introduced in G. And how did they not do the obvious poledancing sequence back in G when they were blatantly pandering with EVERYONE'S transformation? ... In all fairness, it IS about as classy as a magical girl transformation that involves poledancing can possibly be. I genuinely believe the guys actually responsible for choreographing the new round of transformations wanted them to just be cool and awesome and fighty, but were stuck with a higher power's mandate that the scythe girl do a poledancing routine. Which is, I guess, par for the course. The original series was only even remotely notable because someone decided "we have a shoestring budget to animate this shameless cashgrab of a CD commercial , but dammit we are going to do our best and make something nice ANYWAYS." And now, THE BIGGER ISSUE! The weapon is supposed to be the LAST part of the transformation. Bodysuit goes on, then the armor plates, and THEN the weapon comes out! That's how it was on every symphogear user in every previous show(except Hibiki, since she didn't inherit the Gungnir spear), and it makes logical sense. Why the crap is her scythe even coming out at the beginning of the transformation? Do they not care about implied metacontinuity at ALL? Oh. Wow. That was ENTIRELY too many words about a magical girl transformation sequence. Even ignoring the self-mocking "bigger issue".
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    A. Wrong franchise. B. I believe you mean "make it so."
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    This is terrible, it gets worse every time I look, and I wish the affected families the best.
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    I love Valvrave for how terrible it is. It turned into self-parody somewhere along the way.
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    I'm not. Tooling isn't cheap, and this thing has LOTS of parts with heavy detailing. And there's going to be a minimum order size in the thousands. I'd bet they can't buy less than ten-thousand sets of parts. I'm not saying they won't make any money on this, just that their profit margin is going to be narrower than it seems. The margin on the regular toys is high because the upfront cost of molds is spread across tens of millions of units.
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    As I recall, SDF-2 was added to the scripts to justify there being three mounds in the ship graveyard during the second arc. SDF-1, Khyron's kamikaze, and... I dunno, guess we'll make up a story about there being a second SDF-1. Yeah, let's call it the SDF-2, that's creative. We'll CG it in during post-production... once CG becomes viable in twenty years.
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    It is definitely incredible.
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    Abandoned before the cartoon was localized, in favor of creating more Lion Voltron episodes after it became a runaway hit. I did see the toys as a kid once, and thought they looked cool. But in fairness, I thought ALL toy robots looked cool. The more chrome and sci-fi theming, the better.
  25. JB0
    A man after my own tastes.
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