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    No one has anything to say about letting the micronians "reap the whirlwind"? We've got a much-requested furmanism!
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    Definitely a robot in disguise. A VERY good disguise.
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    The problems were on Game Arts' side, not Working Designs. Studio Alex no longer existed(because Game Arts screwed them over), and they completely rewrote The Silver Star, in a way that misses almost every point the original had. Eternal Blue fared better(thankfully, as it is one of my all-time favorite games), but it plays a lot rougher, and there's no world in which a 3-disk Playstation game should have fewer and lower-quality video clips than a one-disk SegaCD game.
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    SegaCD is definitely the way to go with Lunar. Those games get worse with every remake.
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    Man, if the Fast and the Furious movies haven't killed the Fast and the Furious franchise, a spinoff film sure won't. Full disclosure: I've only seen the first movie, and it was bad enough that I never followed up.
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    Wasn't that a glowing skull more than a glowing visor? My recollection is the plastic wasn't anywhere near opaque enough.
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    MP line in 07 was the admittedly awe-inspiring first Prime mold, the much-maligned first seeker mold(which was admittedly still better than the abysmal Classics seeker mold), and the first Megatron with the skeleton legs. I'd've probably gone for a few hinges in the wings and try to make a cape or something out of them. I guess that would be a Transformers 3 reference now, but we'd yet to have the scourge of Bayformers visited upon us back then. Alternatively, fold them out into skeletal wings. Which isn't very Megatron, but IS super-cool. I feel either of those could've been done without much of a cost increase, but I do know the designer was already pushing the limits of what Hasbro expected to be a sellable toy(Prime had already been through at least two rounds of cost-reduction before he shipped). ... Of course, once the wings are made of hinged panels, why NOT just fold them into a backpack?
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    Classics Hot Rod's batmobile exhaust is the awesomest thing, especially with the flame effect "missile" plugged in. It is even cooler than the filp-out buzzsaw in his wrist. I do wish my Classics Hot Rod hadn't been a victim of a factory error. There's some notable damage on his pelvis from where they tried to jam the pin in at the wrong place. Which is something Classics gets a lot of grief for, but I always enjoyed. They were an interesting variation on the original characters. Even Classics Megatron was an interesting concept, though the execution certainly left something to be desired.
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    Well, it can plug into any hole, but the hole on top is actually located such that the "armor" rests in roughly the same place as the powermaster engine would insert on the original toys in jet mode, though it is clearly the wrong size. It really is the only reason to mention the armor at all, but it is also one of the very few times* in the line I thought the armor was more than an annoyance to be ignored and forgotten. *The other two instances were Moonracer's vehicle mode, where the armor module actually looks like an integral part, and Counter/Punch, who in my world wears a fist-shaped jetpack on his back/spare chest to complete the disguise. And I guess Jazz, who was just so abysmal that the footfist was the best part of the package.
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    There's one important detail you missed. The prime armor module that came with them is molded to resemble their powermaster engines, and can plug into the hole on top of the jet using the wrist/ankle peg. Other than that, I'm kinda glad I skipped the CW aerialbots since it made the blatant mold reuse far less obvious. I kinda like the two, for no really good reason.
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    "You can still write when you're drunk!" - Roy Focker, author
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    Had like two lines before he was murdered, too. My dog would later re-enact the scene, using a "Reveal the Shield"* Jazz that was apparently on display too low. *Why can't I just call it Classics Jazz like I want to?
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    I'm of two minds about that. On the one hand, yeah, it could use some paint. On the other... it IS canon. Also, he wasn't sold standalone. He's an accessory bundled with Trypticon.
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    I didn't mind the two parts having robot modes, I just felt they were too small for the concept. Ideally they would've been larger toys, but at the size I'd've preferred two modes.
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    I've got Battletrap. That he was two small toys forced to be triple-changers made for an unenjoyable transformation full of small fiddly bits. It doesn't make me any less pleased to own him, just... unlikely to ever decombine him.
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    As someone who always thought the Duocons looked like an awesome idea when I saw them in the catalog... I'll buy these.
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    What? But that's completely insane! I mean, if that was all it took to be a toy designer, then I've got some old notebooks from when I was little... BRB, applying to MAAS.
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    I think it is a blackmail attempt. They wrote their own mess, and told Furman they'd put his name on it unless he paid up.
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    Oh ye of little faith.
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    Man, you ain't lyin'. I'm not even always on the right side of "WE". I just want another show as dedicated to believable characterization and growth as SDF was. A show about people, rather than events and merchandise. Characterization and growth fueled by angry-but-misguided space aliens, empowered by transforming robojets, and underscored by a nice soundtrack, of course.
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    So did I. That is very much a graduate of the "robot laying on its face" school of transformation. Certainly, the toy could use a little magic too.
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    Isn't that gonna be like the size of a GI Joe?
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    Hooray!
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    I've noticed that before. In this case... they shoulda cheated just a little bit.
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    If nothing else, it will do better than Ghost in the Shell's farce of a movie did. One reason: James Cameron is a long-time fan of Alita. It's going to bypass a lot of the usual design-by-committee that ruins MOST Hollywood movies(Ghost included), just because it's a passion project and he's using his name to force it through the studio's gauntlet unmolested. This is a movie that's being made because Cameron wants to watch it and has the clout to make it happen. I'm not saying it will be GREAT, just that it will try to stay faithful instead of taking the first right turn into crazytown like Bayformers, or Ghost In Name Only, or Doom, or Godzilla Takes New York, or... you get the idea.
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