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    I'd say if you win, it becomes a big concern. If you don't win, who really cares if the acid in the paper is burning it away every moment it exists? That's someone else's problem.
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    "Nobody understands cricket. " -Raphael (the turtle, not the painter)
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    In the other corner, with characters that aren't spoiled for choice... Behold, Big Bird! This came in the mail monday, and I'm pleased as punch. I kinda think it was appropriate to sell this as two different toys, even though no one really wanted one without the other. It really feels like Magna(the lynx), and Inventa(the shuttle) were built by two different teams. Lynx is built of thick plastics, and all four feet are big chunks of metal(with some toe articulation I'm not using right there). Shuttle is made of thinner plastics, with almost no metal to speak of. In fact, Lynx actually weights more than Shuttle, despite being significantly smaller. Granted, the shuttle actually needs to be lighter, because it is a lot more likely to be held overhead as the owner swings their arm through the air making whooshing sounds, no matter how many people claim they don't do that. You don't buy Transformers™ converting robot toys because you are a mature adult, all I'm saying. ... But it also seems like the team working on Inventa got 90% done and called it a day. I have OPINIONS about the engineering around the rocket motor cluster. Especially how the area the tail has to fold through isn't actually wide enough to do this, and they knew it. So they put a note in the instructions that says "take care to wiggle tail past thruster assembly", which seems to translate to "yeah, this panel is going to flex a good bit while you're snaking the tail out so have fun with that". The pack-in comic bears mentioning for a single blooper. I assume MMC publishes these to further the thin illusion that their toys are original creations and any resemblance to any trademarked Hasbro/TakaraTomy properties is purely coincidental. This falls flat on its face when they accidentally call the legally-distinct robots' homeworld "Cybertron" in the first panel on the first page. I laughed. I'll try to get some more pictures, and maybe a "proper review", in the next couple days.
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    I think he was playing Valkyrie Bingo, and he retired once he cleared his board.
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    At last, Spiderman faces his greatest foe... a guy with his head stuck in a goldfish bowl. Look, I know he's a famous character, but how has Mysterio completely evaded any major redesigns ever? He's a few decades overdue, Disney.
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    They watched a lot of war movies.
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    It wasn't a mass-market television series, or a tie-in to one. That limits appeal for a japanese popularity poll. Outside Japan, things are different since ALL of this is hobbyist viewing that has to be actively sought. You can infer from the age brackets that people are voting for the show that was on when they were kids. SDF's votes come almost exclusively from people over forty. 7's votes are centered around the 30-39 band, and almost a third of Delta's votes are from the "under 20" bracket.
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    It is interesting to me that the Daedalus makes the list at all, instead of just being "the right arm of the Macross"
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    None I recall, and I'm staking my reputation on them being unsingable.
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    Breetai whining "are we there yet?" like a petulant child is my new favorite Robotechism.
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    It is baffling that they'd be surprised fans are upset by the trailer since they've been upset for months. The trailer is just... worse than most of us imagined, skinny Robotnik and all.
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    And not changing the newspaper that lined the bottom. Really nasty cage.
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    I still maintain they should adopt a Motormaster-style transformation for Optimus Prime. No one wants to ship him with a trailer, the trailer is viewed as a giant waste of space for people displaying him in humanoid mode, but the truck without the trailer is just fundamentally WRONG. Ironically, they keep doing this with Magnus, and sometimes with Powermaster Prime, both of whom really SHOULD have a separate trailer, but never with regular Optimus. They're just too hung up on the legs HAVING to become the trailer hitch just like the original toy, while happily making the rest of the truck a ball of plastic shrapnel that turns inside out, with separate grills and windshields for both modes. When the only part of the truck that actually exists on the robot mode IS the trailer hitch legs, you start wondering why they're making this stand.
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    No results found for "mk11 is deader than a door knob". It is near the top of the Steam bestseller list right now, so... that's something.
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    I want a movie-accurate grill sticker. Truck looks better with Thrust's face on it.
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    Yeah. They can be operated by one person... until something breaks or they need refueling.
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    My problem is really mostly about where one finds a starship in servicable condition. I mean, it basically has to be functional already, since a handful of teenagers won't exactly be rebuilding the Enterprise. And few would consider it a good idea to just leave a fully-functional Defiant or Intrepid just laying around without removing the warp core, shields, phasers, and computer, at the minimum. I'd ask where one finds the big pile of antimatter and dilithium you need to make one work, but that's really a question of scale. Civilian space flight is a thing in the setting, after all. Federation starships just need more of it because they're bigger and badder. I'm just going to ignore the "crew size" and "specialized training" issues. God knows previous Treks have had enough trouble with that concept. I'm also just assuming they find a "real" starship with warship armaments and not some boring freighter or oversized shuttle you'd expect to see in civilian service, which would invalidate a lot of questions. It'd actually be kind of cool if they get the Trek equivalent of an old Microbus and restore it before going off on their space road trip.
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    I feel obliged to note that is the modern real world. In the pre-NASA days, every branch of the US armed forces had a space program, with all of them rushing in a competition to be the first with the best so that they would become THE space force. But, of course, the real-world space service seems like a pretty sad joke next to most fictional space forces(unless the air force is hiding an awful lot more under the black bars than we think, and somehow doing it at reasonable costs for once). Just a bunch of boring satellites. Get back to me when they have a manned presence. From a fictional standpoint, the naval force makes the most sense to base your fictional space force off of. Most fictional space forces have space battleships and space carriers and space destroyers. The real navy has pre-existing analogs for all of that and the associated support mechanisms, so no one has to re-invent the wheel. In that regard, it is rather odd that Macross chose to follow army tradition rather than naval or air force. Perhaps the titular ship's roomy interior and large civilian populace made the writers feel they had more leeway to reinvent things. The city especially gives them less of a "carrier life" vibe and more of a "coastal base" one, so the nautical analogy is less useful. ... It is also possible they were just avoiding unwanted comparisons to Star Trek.
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    It sounds all kinds of stupid to me, but I don't have it in me to get mad anymore. I'll just assume the entire series is actually Riker's holodeck simulation.
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    It is that or we watch Shadow Chronicles. And no one deserves that.
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    I haven't seen it*, but... you'd have to dig PRETTY HARD to find the worst Star Wars anything. I'm not even convinced the infamous holiday special is the worst Star Wars anything. *Not because of any press it received. I was thoroughly unimpressed with The Force Awakens, did some thinking, and decided I didn't want to invest myself in another bad Star Wars trilogy. I realized I don't HAVE to watch a movie just because it is called Star Wars. It was liberating.
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    I thought it failed because we were trash-talking it without backing at the "enemy spy" level.
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    Hooray! I wvs gonna link it if you hadn't, because that trainwreck was hilarious.
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    In fairness, while JC Staff is no Madhouse, they do seem to be striving for a bit higher quality than they usually do. I think they're stretching so they don't look as bad by comparison. Story-wise, this is an arc that a lot of people were disappointed Madhouse didn't get to on their run. Personally, I don't really like it as much as I did the Sea King and alien invasion arcs. Not saying it is bad, though.
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