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    I think of it as two serieses at this point. There's the original film, The Terminator, and all the other films, which are just Terminator with no The. Obviously, Terminator 2 implies something LIKE The Terminator happened, but it equally obviously isn't a direct sequel to The Terminator(John Connor's age isn't even right!) Yes. And it was all because Skynet arranged it. Zor was actually a T-9001 endomorphic cyberorganism.
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    At least put Jim Carrey in a fat suit and refilm his scenes. Skinny Robotnik, WTF?
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    I think it is mostly that Blackarachnia was ALWAYS designed to be sexy, and Arcee wasn't. This take on Arcee is neither toon nor comic accurate. It is what I'm going to call "deviantart accurate".
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    Thanks for asking so I didn't have to, fellow "have better things to do than memorize tvtropes" person.
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    I think it is actually a clone of Picard. Section 31 thought the romulans had a good idea in that last movie, and stole it for themselves.
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    Yeah. The Thronies are in the early stages, where they can be gravely upset by what sounds like their End of the Circle. With Robotech, all you can do is laugh.
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    If we're lucky!
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    Just because it isn't the worst possible thing doesn't mean it isn't still terrible and possibly a betrayal of the fans.
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    In fairness, I just opted for "one of the Sterling girls, because everything in Sentinels revolved around them."
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    Dana or Maya Sterling, I assume.
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    Didn't they also turn around and bring half of it right back in through Rebels?
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    Nope. Just Yui.
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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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