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    I'd say that is completely missing the point of the franchise, and that the anime was much tamer than the books(which are basically porn with an exceptionally detailed plot). But that would require me admitting I know what you're talking about, and I still have a shred of pride.
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    Man, in spite of my blatant toy-supremacy attitudes towards the Dinobots in general and Slag in specific, that is a nice Slag in humanoid mode. ... The triceratops mode is a chrome potato, though. With an unangled frill at that.
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    It is definitely Titans Chromedome. I also think it is a fan mockup rather than an actual product proposal for a couple of reasons. It is signed with a screen name instead of a legal name, it uses a prime armor variant for a weapon, robot mode has ankle pivots that Chromedome doesn't, and it is too awesome an idea to actually happen.
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    Things you never thought you'd hear said about a Transformer.
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    Based on the action-figure package covers, I'mma say no.
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    The way Takara prices plastic robots these days, I'm not so sure.
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    Headmasters vs the original Headmaster? What's the link about, anyways? An awesome youtube fan video?
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    It probably has to do with the time they raced a russian submarine.* Everyone knows radiation leaks are the key to unlocking super powers. *Just because I didn't watch most of the movies doesn't mean I didn't see the trailers.
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    I got it for ten bucks, and... okay, it was still overpriced, but not so much so that I had regrets.
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    I expected, in true shady chinese fashion, a 4GB card that only holds 256MB. (I have a flash drive like that. I bought it because it turns into a poorly-articulated Ravage with a blue decepticon logo. I threw it out when the leg snapped off. Possibly the worst legally-distinct converting robot toy.)
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    I think the worst part is that it is a pair of SD card holders. Too cheap to even include some ancient 1GB SD cards in the bag.
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    The wider abs and thicker thighs of Fortress Maximus really do help a lot with the proportions. That version of Metroplex is gangly as heck. It is not a design that screams "I judo-flipped a tyrannosaurus the size of a city", if you know what I mean.
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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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