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    Personally, I am somewhere in the middle. The original toys looked frickin' awesome, and the cartoon was a serious disappointment in that regard. ON THE OTHER HAND, most of the original toys featured minimal articulation, to put it nicely, and were hard-pressed to do more than stand straight upright and stick their arm out with a gun in, over, or replacing the hand. This is why Shockwave was the best Transformer. He had two legs, with independent hips and knees, shoulders, and two-axis elbows. Also electronic lights and sound you could use to terrorize your dog and antagonize your sister. Jetfire is first runner-up because he has two legs with hips and knees, two-axis shoulders and elbows, but no electronic lights or sounds. I've owned one piece from the Masterpiece line, MP-01. And while it was lovely in robot mode, and pretty okay in truck mode, it was a completely unfun cheating mess of a transformation that I'd rather not have ever had to deal with. It was also top-heavy and did a forward somersault off my shelf and destroyed a leg when it failed to stick the landing. The matrix of leadership now rests in the tiny clawed hands of Classics Grimlock.
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    Basara's the smartest guy in the franchise, in some respects. Lady M is actually Doctor Chiba. His Minmay obsession went too far, he now dresses in a skirt and insists he IS Minmay. Being as he is undeniably brilliant, his staff runs interference and compromises by referring to him as Lady M to maintain some shred of their dignity, if not his. </personal_canon>
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    Definitely the high point of interstellar civilization right there.
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    WHAT?! RAILGUN THREE?!?! MY FROTHING DESIRE FOR THIS CARTOON INCREASES!!!!
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    In the Star Trek universe, facial hair is an almost 100%-reliable indicator that you are evil. Exceptions include Captain Sisko, and possibly Commander Riker.
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    Mirror Spock alert!
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    Ok, Magna Inventa was on the short list of toys I'm buying instead of toys I'm admiring photos of! ... Oh. He's not really out. His BUTT is out. Frickin' two-box sales.
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    Suddenly, VF-4!?
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    Your daughter is a lady of discerning taste. Zero's way better than X.
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    I didn't know we had a RWBY thread. I came in late. Picked the series up a few months before season 5 started. Season 5 was the first I watched as it "aired".
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    I still insist Lady M is a Doctor Chiba whose obsession with Minmay has gone TOO FAR.
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    I can't imagine how it wouldn't, especially with overtech being introduced to the mix in 1999. Computer hardware had a lot of room to get smaller and more efficient back then, even without overtech. You could cram a Pi3 and a camera into the head of a missile from 1998 and greatly increase the amount of processing power available as well as tracking resolution, to say nothing of a low-power x86. (It looks like we need new materials to make things much smaller right now. WHERE'S OUR ASS-1?!)
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    Intel is having supply issues lately.
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    50 states. Puerto Rico's request for statehood hasn't been acted on by Congress, and we haven't conquered Canada YET.
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    I'd honestly expected very little difference, just from how subtle the diffrence is between the unflipped and flipped bar. I did it because it was easy to do, easy to reverse, and couldn't really make things worse. I was surprised how much more pleasant he was to work with afterwards. Also, I popped the thumbs off the "prime armor" and declared it a jetpack, in line with the louvers on the knuckle end. I think the jetpack helps the character concept, since it makes his unused chest not stare everyone in the face. But it is less faithful to the original. I never had Counter/Punch as a kid, but I always loved the concept, and I'm very pleased to have him now. I should dig out Generations Doubledealer and let the two hang out.
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    It wouldn't be the first time the factory got incorrect assembly instructions. Honestly, what sold me on the subtle difference being an assembly error is that once you flip the swing bars, the shoulder assembly actually locks into the car position when you push up.
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    Or Star Trek on the brain.
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    It is definitely an extreme reaction, and one that requires a bit of development. But on the other hand, they DO reduce a life-bearing planet to a cratered rock just to make a point when they have Kakizaki, Misa, and Hikaru captured. Dropping the entire fleet in is probably a case of "We want everything turned into glass, then the glass reduced to rubble. And then we want the rubble turned into dust, and then we want the dust turned back into glass. Just in case." Overkill in the extreme, but... sometimes you want to make sure the target is really dead Given at that point in the story, the zentradi had a major subfleet led by an experienced and trusted officer defecting to the enemy, and soldiers mutinying to overthrow the entire zentradi way of life... it was starting to seem like these puny earthlings with their antiquated toys and stolen gunship WERE an unfathomably deep threat to the zentradi, and invoking the Ripley protocol on the earthlings and everyone they'd been in contact with seemed like a good idea. Should the zentradi find Earth again, things will likely escalate faster, as at least some of the events leading up to the Bodol fleet's dissolution are known to other fleets.
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    Anyone on Earth is still going to have a very bad day when enough space pickles defold to blot out the sky, and lasers start flying in from literally every direction. Earth is exceptionally well-defended, but I don't think they can take out five million ships before someone starts firing. The zentradi will take an awful lot of casualties, but it'd still be a good day to be on a vacation to Eden. Or Zola. Or pretty much anywhere else.
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    Yeah, mine had that issue. I was going to chalk it up to poor part tolerances, but then I saw something about the little swingbars. Reversing them made a world of diffrence, even though it doesn't look like it should.
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    Not readily. It is something I remember hearing the last time that missile rack came up. ... Which means my source is somewhere on the forum, but good luck finding it. LIGHT THE SETO SIGNAL!
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    Out of continuity, it isn't an animation error. It is the CORRECTION of an animation error. As I understand things, the episode was initially animated with the Valkyrie one-shotting a ship with a giant beam attack, Gamlin-style. But the VF-1 doesn't HAVE a giant beam attack. They didn't have time to fully rework the scene before airing, so they drew a bunch of missiles onto the tail fins so it could feasibly take down the ship on its own WITHOUT a giant laser beam. Replace the beam layer in the shot with a missile-swarm layer, and the ship is dead without any canon-defying cannonfire. In-continuty? Duck-tape mod. UN Spacey likes to pretend that never happened.
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    The PSP remake, Dracula X Chronicles, actually contained the original Rondo of Blood as a special feature(I believe it had to be unlocked). Also a port of Symphony of the Night(true port, rather than the PS1 emulation that was available as a standalone download). I'd wager Symphony is based on the 360 port rather than an emulation of the PS1 version. Easier to support modern features like achievements, don't have to worry about the slow-witted being confused by references to memory cards, and Maria mode comes in. Emulating the Saturn version gets you Maria mode and removes memory card references, but adds a controller mismatch and it is harder to do than PS1 emulation.
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    In non-Masterpiece news, my Primes Punch & Counterpunch came in today. I think they could've done more with the legs, but all in all, they did a pretty good job. He even has a tab on the underside of his car mode to latch his (single) gun to for storage. And the clear window pieces for the car mode are JUST the windows. The blue frames and panels are actually separate pieces of plastic, not painted. Either they learned from Primes Jazz, or they took just advantage of this being sold at a high price for the size. Since he has to be "prime armor" compatible because that's the current line's entire gimmick, there's little folding plates under his faction symbols. When he's in Punch mode, you can fold down the decepticon logo on his back so it isn't showing, and reverse for Counterpunch's autobot logo. After three decades, they figured out a way to protect his cover from people walking behind him! ... Yes, he does come with a combiner fist. No, he doesn't turn into a limb. You may roll your eyes at Hasbro now. The only thing I REALLY wish they'd done differently... If his gun was larger, the "prime armor" fist could clip onto the gun, enabling him to have different guns for the different robot modes without actually packing a second weapon in. Similar to Classics Sunstreaker and Sideswipe, where the parts that became Sunstreaker's jetpack could fold over Sideswipe's gun. Sadly, Hasbro's engineers either didn't think of it, or couldn't fit a larger gun mold into the budget. And in a case of absolutely hilarious car-cabin crowding, the false windshield that makes up Counterpunch's chest is pressed right against the car mode's windshield.
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    I agree with every word here. But not gonna lie, it is hard to keep my inner child quiet when I see all those real Transformer designs moving around.
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