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    On the other hand, the prequel novel to Bayformers 1 was completely ignored by the sequels, despite being in that same situation.
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    Wasn't that the plot of End of the Circle?
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    UN Spacey is rebuilding the Pink Pecker squadron!
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    Rule of thumb: If you want to use the same socket for more than one processor, get AMD.
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    I recall parts of a few Next Gen books. But I didn't read a lot of Next Gen books. I was mostly reading books about, in Montgomery Scott's words, "NCC-1701, no bloody A, B, C, or D". And I remember several of those.
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    The first couple were all right, but then he fell in love with himself and started writing what can best be described as Captain Kirk's own self-insert fanfiction. To the extent that after Kirk is resurrected from death by the Borg, he offers to tell someone the secret to winning the Kobayashi Maru only to find that EVERYONE hacks the simulator in the Next Gen era, and it is believed to be the entire point of the test. I'm not sure which part of that was the hardest to buy.
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    The thing I'm wondering is... how can Picard be doing something that matters to the audience? It's been a couple of decades, he shouldn't be in command of a starship anymore. "Admiral Jean-Luc Picard of the federation office desk Ikea" just doesn't have the same kick, you know? ... Or did Picard pull a Kirk and commit treason so he could be busted back down to captain?
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    The Robotech DVD sets don't include japanese audio, far as I know.
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    I think we have a better idea why Megaroad-01 went missing.
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    So there's a 50/50 chance they got married on Minmay's birthday?
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    I don't actually know WHO the RT comic is supposed to appeal to. What I've seen makes me think it is at best a product created to keep the trademarks involved in use, and at worst a Producers-esque scam.
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    That is fantastic and I hope it happens.
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    What? No it isn't. The original didn't have GREAT elbows, but it HAD elbows. With two axes of motion, even. A hinge on the edge of the arm is just all kinds of sad, ESPECIALLY on a premium toy.
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    She's taken, man. ... Actually, that's another argument for "the one we never heard about because it was uneventful". The Girl isn't already engaged to a photogenic pilot that somehow winds up instrumental to saving the ship/fleet/galaxy/species on a weekly basis. It just ain't fair, how do you compete with that?
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    I know, I just really hate that scorpion-tail armature. It is ugly, and it makes the problem it is trying to solve WORSE instead of better. There better be a REALLY good reason there's not a simple flap in the hood that rotates around. (Even if there's a good reason, I still think the armature is no different than a loose headpiece that snaps on. Were I buying this one, I'd probably take out a screwdriver and remove the entire armature mechanism, assuming the head snaps into place when done instead of just floating on the end of the scorpion tail. )
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    Well, they forgot to put the sound box in Shockwave, so they had to use it SOMEWHERE. My opinion of MP Hound is thus: If the head is on a scorpion tail, it is still partswapping. Just a more annoying style of partswapping. That neck armature is all I had to see. Hound isn't supposed to be a headmaster. You aren't fooling anyone, TakaraTomy. Go back to the drawing board. ... And give me a perfect transformation Shockwave with soundbox while you're at it. The scorpion-tail on the barrel isn't perfect transformation in any universe. Shockwave's barrel flies offscreen in the cartoon, just like Prime's trailer, so you aren't even "anime-accurate". You're selling an ugly and unimaginative hack at a premium price.
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    There is more than one way to go wrong. And the RT comic has found several of them.
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    AND LONG EXHAUST PIPES!
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    Not so much the "rehash the old things again" angle, but I've flat-out said that I'm less of a Macross fan and more an SDF Macross fan. The things I like most about Macross are things that weren't even present in DYRL, much less the shows that came after. It was a remarkably grounded show for what it was, with characters that felt like real people instead of, well, characters. That said, I don't HATE 7, though I think it has some deep flaws. I enjoyed Frontier, and my complaints with Delta are less "OMG MAGICAL GIRLS IN MY SERIOUS WAR STORY WTF" and more "this entire plot collapsed under its own weight at the halfway point, and they've shuffled every interesting subplot into the background and forgotten about it along the way."
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    Naw, man, that ain't flame-worthy. Flame-worthy is something like "The Go-Bot Staks was a better transforming truck than ANY Optibotimus!"
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    That would be awesome, actually.
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    Scale counts, though. She wrecked a few dozen planets, maybe a star system or seven. But she didn't even take out a quadrant, much less the whole galaxy. And she left witnesses! Tangentally, the "Janeway is Space-Hitler in the history books, also the doctor's backup is online in the future" episode is one of my favorites in the admittedly slim pickings Voyager offers. I wouldn't mind finding out what happened to Doctor Two.
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    That was my first thought too.
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    Janeway: she's better than the Borg.
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    Odd, I thought Ultraman's license was tied up in some extremely weird shenanigans. TO THE INTERNET! ... Okay, the appeals on the last round of lawsuits were ended in April 2018, ruling that for US copyright purposes original production company Tsubaraya owns the entire franchise unambiguously. Like everyone else's courts, the US courts determined the contract transferring some and/or all rights to Chaiyo Productions is, to use a bit of legalese, a complete fake and totally bogus. So as of a couple months ago, there's no license confusion in America. And this production is licensed by Tsubaraya, the ACTUAL owners of the franchise.
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