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  1. JB0
    My understanding is they used ONE screenshot from the cartoon, and swapped it out due to legal issues. And Bandai doesn't own any part of the Hanna-Barbera cartoon, as I understand things. If they did, WB would be crediting them on the current DVDs as a legal necessity, and they don't seem to be.
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    Hasbro definitely DOESN'T own the cartoon Go-Bots. Those are Hanna-Barbara's, and their Facebook team actually got in trouble for using some Go-Bots cartoon screenshots at one point.
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    I don't think anyone actually owns the looks, aside from the cartoon versions. Generally speaking you can't patent a look, you can't copyright physical objects, and I'm pretty sure Bandai didn't trademark the designs and then maintain those trademarks to the present day(as opposed to Gundam, where Bandai has every trademark they can think of). The same reason Hasbro can't stop all the "third-party" Transformer toys is the reason Bandai can't stop this. In short, this had to go through Hasbro's legal department, and they know what they're doing.
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    Disagree. The scale of the galactic stupidity is massive.
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    Thoughts, based on the preview pages: 1. The oldschool comic book art is amusing, but it could get old fast. But at least they committed to it completely and colored the between-panel whitespace so the pages appear yellowed. 2. Did they just completely change the Go-Bots origin story like it ain't nothin'? I get that with Hasbro owning both brands and IDW publishing both comics, there's a desire to differentiate them so they aren't both "multimode alien robots from a wrecked machine planet" stories. But they just wrote the Go-Bots as tools without free will. I think this was a concerted effort to see how annoyed they could make people in five pages, in which case MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. 3. Space shuttle exploring a distant galaxy? Dammit, can we get past this whole "galaxies are like planets, and visiting one is a trivial effort" thing? It was stupid even in the 80s.
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    I stand corrected, and am left with new questions.
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    Same diff.
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    Me too. I get that "bootleg" has negative connotations, but... I prefer the term "legally-distinct converting robots"
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    He looked chubbier in the other photos. I retract the complaint. He's still much busier than I prefer.
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    Indeed. Even if one doesn't like it(which I don't), it seems like a cop-out argument, a way to dismiss it without having to make a real critique. Since I opened that can of worms, it is probably only fair that I share my take. Mostly, I think that it is kind of a panel-y mess, especially the backpack. It is a very "CG anime mech" look, and it is also a look I don't care for. (Though it is less of a mess than the Bayformers!) I prefer simpler designs with less-convoluted geometry. I also don't care for the proportions. I feel like the torso goes on past "beefy super-robot" and into the Tetsujin-28 or Getter-1 "iron potato" build. In all fairness, this does seem to be faithful to the original design rather than Flame Toys' interpretation, but given how many other parts veer away from that original design, why NOT make him a bit sleeker?
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    "I'm not dead yet!" *insert Monty Python here*
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    Thaaaaat's some pretty special art.
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    Awww, I thought a new issue was out and we were due another round of laughing at the bad art and writing.
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    Moral of the story: Name your planet "Utopia".
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    Star Saber looks more conventionally anime because Transformers Victory was a more conventional anime show. It is stereotypical super robot fare, and the hero is a stereotypical super robot. This toy takes a bit of a modernized panel-y design, for better or worse, but it still hews pretty close to that original style with the big chunky limbs, bright primary colors everywhere, and the blazing sword weapon. And there's nothing wrong with that, Gundimus Prime looks like a fine toy. No one is being forced to go buy this any more than they are Beast Wars or Pretenders or every combiner set ever. It is an interesting take on the character that can be safely ignored by anyone who isn't feeling it.
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    Standard USB inputs, it looks like. If it gets cracked, you can put arbitrary emulators on it instead of being stuck with Sony's fork of PCSX. So once cracked, it supports arbitrary USB controllers and emulates DualShock, almost by default.
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    Okay, I'll bite. Aside from the rebuttals presented in the article, there's one big one that isn't mentioned: A solar sail would be huge, and been quite visible. It would also have made the entire assemblage visible for longer than we could track it in reality. It is something that can be easily tested for, and was empirically not present. Also, major factual error in the article unrelated to any of their sources: The deep-space asteroid isn't currently outside the solar system. Though faster than the Voyagers, it is only seven times faster, not hundreds of times faster than them. And it took V'Ger 1 thirty-five years to leave. Which means that the extrasolar rock will be in the solar system for another five years, at the minimum(depending on route, and whether we saw it on the inbound or outbound leg). It did not make the entire trip in six months.
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    America is ready for a black God Bomber president! Vote for Divine Erebus!
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    I've only seen episode 1, because I am a peasant that isn't paying any sort of subscription fee to watch a cartoon one week early(and can't be bothered to find a torrent over a one-week delay). But it was pretty darn cool. There was one thing I really liked about the train fight, though... In the past, it has been notable that Qrow's fighting style doesn't look ANYTHING like Ruby's, even though she allegedly learned all her moves from him. This time, their moves actually look related, It was a small, but appreciated, touch.
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    Man, is this third-party Transformers or third-party Go-Bots?
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    It is clearly biased towards "guardian" mode!
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    Hooray for official english translations. Even if those translations are most assuredly intended solely for the satisfaction of japanese viewers and not in any way a direct attempt at marketing 100% Pure Macross to western audience *wink* *nudge*. ... Wasn't there an english dub of Plus released in Japan "for educational purposes" back in the day?
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    On the upside, whenever the PS Mini does get cracked, it is going to be carrying a much more powerful little ARM-in-a-box than the MiNES and Super MiNES did(they had to cut a lot of corners on the Super Nintendo emulation since it used the same hardware as the MiNES and wasn't actually powerful enough to do the job right).
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    On mine the smokestacks didn't actually fit well on the truck mode, so they WANTED to come off. And I cut them a lot of slack on gun styling, partially because it was such a radically different Optibotimus than the usual square truck. Also, I was less invested in Prime's gun than I was in the idea that he was a truck again instead of an overgrown monkey. But there's worse things than Beast Wars, as Micheal Bay stepped up to teach us all. (To be clear, I have no problems with Beast Wars as a show, but I couldn't get into it because I wanted my Transformers to be mighty robots that became mighty vehicles. Transformers: Furry Convention never meshed with me, aesthetically.)
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    That isn't actually a legal option?
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