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    I'd say not enough anime magic going on there, actually. Yeesh. Be really interesting to see how this Kickstarter plays out. Smart of MAAS to not simply trust the people telling them there's a rich and vibrant SDC Southern Cross market just sitting there untapped and waiting for them, though I'm surprised HG isn't forbidding Robotech kickstarters outright.
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    CBS: The Final Frontier.
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    You ain't lyin'. Somewhere along the line they went from "title" to "one-sentence summary" and then on into "back-cover paragraph."
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    Duo. Star Trek Beyond wasn't an Abrams film. You're not wrong. It is the most Trek that Trek has been since Next Generation ended. Unfortunately, I absolutely cannot stand Seth MacFarlane's sense of humor, and it brings the entire thing crashing down around me. Every time I've seen Orville, I get into what appears to be a show that can stand with the best Star Trek has to offer... and then someone tries to be funny.
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    I just want you to know that this naming scheme is perfect, and I think I'm going to start referring to EVERY anime this way.
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    Nah. Not everything has to be a slavish perfectly toon-accurate toy, though that is definitely where the money's at. There's plenty of room for reimagined homages. Heck, all this Optimus love lately's had me fishing out Classics Prime. He's still a fun toy, though the arm-shields are no smaller a wrinkle now than when he was new. I still think the exhaust pipe gun is awesome.
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    Exactly. It was a bad time to be a Nintendo game.
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    Every time I see Buster Stealthwing, I think "That is a cool robot", but also "I swear I saw that in Dancouga." Not that this is a bad thing at all. Dancouga had some cool mecha designs. I just can't NOT see it as a buffed-up version of the Eagle Fighter, is all I'm saying.
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    More importantly than yet another headline putting the Switch into something unrelated to the Switch... http://tinycartridge.com/post/181898402967/retro-bit-publishing-new-metal-storm-nes New copies of Metal Storm, the best Nintendo gravity-flipping, escher-scrolling, lusciously-animated run&gun that you never played. Given the insanel y stupid prices that Nintendo cartridges command these days, ESPECIALLY ones with the slightest hint of rarity to them, this is a breath of fresh air. Beats the hell out of two hundred bucks for a naked cart, which seems to be the going price for an original Metal Storm. (I did NOT pay two hundred for my copy, as I got it before a bunch of trust-fund kids with more money than sense blew up the market. )
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    I watched the first episode of Kaguya, and it is everything I could've hoped for, random renaming aside(and renaming it for the english release and cramming honorifics into the new title is a whole new level of dumb anime localization)
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    At least a light-up gunbarrel almost makes sense. The glowing camera in the head thing is silly and just wrong for Macross.
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    In the same sense that Go-Bots are knockoffs of Machine Robo or Transformers are knockoffs of Diaclone et al. In other words, no, not really. They're fully-licensed imports.
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    If the engine isn't there so they can do a Roadbuster repaint, I'll eat my hat. Mark my words.
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    I tell you what I would've done with the accessories if I were doing this thing(assuming I had to work within the current line's gimmicks and limitations). The "barrel extension" would have a purple lens and the plastic would be silver back to the hinge(the "coattails" would still be purple), and I'd probably sculpt the foot plates so they could become an upper and lower face for the barrel extender, giving Shockwave a proper gray barrel. You can see a hint of this idea in the rocket-sled thing's presentation. Most importantly... the rocket booster/arm-blaster things? I'd make them smaller, and pitch them as leg armor(especially given how they're already sculpted to match the original toy's leg profile). And in "ship" mode they could clip together over the conning tower to give a usably-sized pistol grip larger and more imposing conning tower. IDEALLY, I'd want to get rid of the additional bits and put their plastic into the core robot, so Shockwave could be bigger. Not sure how I'd resolve the "purple backpack/silver barrel" issue without a complete redesign. That Shockwave doesn't really HAVE any silver parts in robot mode makes it hard to create a one-piece conversion. But all the extra bits make a lot more sense for Magnus than they do Shockwave, though I do concede that he has always HAD extra bits, even in the original cartoon. (As a very minor aside, it irks me every time I see MP Shockwave described as having a "perfect transformation", since if toon-accuracy is what matters, the original toy was perfect transformation.) I do feel somewhat put out that they managed to ship a toy that HAS extra bits that snap onto the barrel and STILL completely missed the chance at a silver barrel. If nothing else, I'd've put a peg hole farther back and to the side on the barrel surround, so the cable could go in WHERE IT BELONGS instead of stretching to make it to the front or just tucked into nowhere. . It reminds me of Gaogaigar's Mic Sounders the 13th, and I'd be lying if I said this wasn't why I wanted to see Blaster riding the rocket sled.
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    Well, between the two MP Magnuses... one's a white Optibotimus, the other's Ultra Magnus only. Maybe the third time will be the proper two-in-one? Having spent more time messing with Shockwave, I'm finding that I need some pegs. In an attempt to make the "complete" "spaceship" mode not look absurdly back-heavy and dorky, I keep wanting to plug two holes together. I've settled for using them as landing skids for now, but I'm noticing that Shockwave hasn't given himself entirely over to logic, as he's got two small guns across the bow of his ship that will blow the main cannon off if he fires them, and the articulated gun on the right will take out his power cable if fired forward(a problem exacerbated by my landing skid plates). Despite the appearances in these photos the plastic is a consistent deep purple. I found that attaching the booster/cannon modules to the sides of his backpack instead of particularly flamboyant shoulderpads looked decent-ish and gives him kind of a cool rocket pack. I'm not very good at posing, but I'll take a swing anyways. Annoyingly, he can't look up because of the hinge for the backpack swingbar. As much stuff that detaches and clips on elsewhere, you'd think they could've made the barrel do the G1 switcheroo. And My Shockwaves always wind up shaking their fist megalomaniacly for some reason. The "barrel enhancer" used to make "complete spaceship" mode is kind of exasperating. It is very clearly designed for only that purpose, and any other use is an afterthought. The side rails are in two segments, and the back segment doesn't really peg in nicely to anything in rocket-stage mode. In robot mode, it gives Shockwave a pair of tails. It also looks enough like stage equipment that I fully expect to see it again on Soundwave or Blaster.
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    So my Target, to my surprise, had empty pegs where the 10- and 20- dollar Siege toys would go. Lionizer was cute, but I wasn't convinced he was six bucks cute. ... They DID have a slot for the 50-buck toys. Picked up UItra Magnus, looked at him, decided he looked like Magnus... after Magnus had been dragged across the playground(lot's of paint-damage apps right across his chest). That kinda turned me off. Back of box says he turns into a white robot and combines with the trailer to form the real Magnus, so points for that. Seems like the white robot actually turns into a truck cab on its own, too, so... points for successfully matching the original toy's feature set for once? However, while putting Magnus back, I realized the toy behind him wasn't another Magnus. It was SHOCKWAVE. And the battle damage paint is limited to the add-on shoulder armor parts(apparently bodily harm is illogical). The core robot is... well, it's Shockwave. No two ways about it. He's a smaller version of the original toy. I am very pleased. Turns into a space ship of some sort... that looks annoyingly familiar until you flip him upside down and he turns into his G1 raygun form, except the barrel is purple and his feet don't fold away, so they hang off the back and get in the way when you grab the two-inch pistol grip and point him at your dog like you're five again. No flip-up scope plate, but his front landing skid and rear pylons make a good set of pistol sights. ... Annoyingly, despite the surplus of peg holes on him, there's no hole on his gun barrel that's really reachable by the hose . There IS a gap at the elbows you can cram the hose into, and it looks fine once you tilt it to clear the sights, but it isn't as secure as a peg hole would've been. Attaching all the armor to this mode makes a BIGGER space ship, that no longer looks like an upside-down raygun(consequently, it is lame). If you don't want to put his armor on his robot mode(and why WOULD you?), it can be assembled into a flying drone thing. Hasbro helpfully illustrates Shockwave riding atop the drone like some kind of flying sound stage. This is silly, and I'm ignoring that idea.
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    Fortunately, it is far from the first famiclone with a screen. Heck, there's always the Retro Duo Portable, which plays Nintendo AND Super Nintendo carts.
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    That's certainly Intel's story. I still love watching AMD slap Intel around, though. Be nice if they start doing the same to nVidia... if nVidia can take a break from slapping themselves around.
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    Ooooh, what if they made a cyberpunk mecha isekai. "I awoke in another world and everything was neon-lit, then my dying grandfather gave me a giant robot with a huge sword, but I haven't cracked the startup password yet. and the aliens just attacked", or "RoboPass" for short.
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    I believe you mean the short-range flamethrower turrets.
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    That's... unfortunate. It was kind of the worst way to do a clip show.
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    They still make those?!
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    It is better because it offers nVidia a larger profit margin.
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    Well, he's a prominent Camero, it makes sense he'd get a prominent cameo.
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    Man, when you put them all side-by-side like that, the Transform Element and MP v3 both just look cheap.
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