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    I think you copied the wrong link. That's not Darkwing Duck. Still pretty awesome, though.
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    There needs to be some chance of actually turning a profit, or you go out of business. Virtually no one makes products they believe they can't sell. Maybe you can sell a few hundred instead of a few thousand, but...the smaller your production run, the higher your cost per unit. And then you're charging more per unit to recoup those costs. And your limited market got more limited because you just priced someone out of a purchase. Especially since the general attitude is that the less-popular product should cost LESS. That works well if you don't actually want to sign licensing agreements. If I were a manufacturer, I would walk out the instant they told me I was REQUIRED to manufacture products I had no hope of ever selling. Honestly, with the state Robotech is in currently, I wouldn't sign a contract that required me to do follow-up products within Macross Saga, much less a lead balloon like Southern Cross.
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    Very no.
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    I'm not either, but I must admit that "living in an underground lair and/or on a volcanic island" is one of my life goals. Say what you will about the bad guys, but they have STYLE.
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    And sometimes it goes wrong in reverse. As I understand things, Samuell Jackson fired his agent over Snakes on a Plane, and not for the reasons you'd think. His agent was insisting they make changes to the movie, up to and including the title, because someone like Samuell Jackson doesn't appear in films with titles like 'Snakes on a Plane'. Jackson thought the title was amazing and damn well wanted a film called 'Snakes on a Plane' on his resume. Hollywood book-keeping, man. Remember, David Prowse gets a letter every year explaining that he isn't getting a royalty check because Return of the Freakin' Jedi still hasn't turned a profit, and this chain continued unbroken from release through at least 2012(date of the interview I saw mention it). The numbers say what they want to say, and if they want to say Chris Pine needs to step back in line because his last two movies both bombed, then by god accounting will get them the evidence they need.
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    I'd be okay with that.
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    I think he meant that Wright forgot to read it. That said, the additional detail is hilarious, and much appreciated. "Hi, guys! I am one of you and have sparkly runes, look how they shine!" "(His runes... they're so fake. Weirdo.) Haha, that's nice! Good for you!"
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    In seriousness, I don't want to see Macross going that route. I watched half of the original Strike Witches OVA back when it was new, and I still feel dirty a decade later. And, well, I like Macross's vehicles at least SEEMING realistic. ( Sky Girls is on my "far better than it has a right to be" list. Which is the only reason I will admit to having watched it. )
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    At the time they did the first Bayformers movie, Hasbro was insisting there was a new strict continuity policy going forward and everything was going to be in a coherent shared universe(a statement clearly intended for adult fans, since they're the only ones that CARE about the continuity of plastic robots). It was a far cry from the 80s cartoon's policy of "Make sure your writing is dumb enough to be followed by 5-year-old boys that are high on meth." Said policy lasted about two media releases. As soon as they COULD contradict themselves, they did. Doctor Who, on the other hand, can always claim it is a result of changes to the past affecting the present. ... Maybe Transformers can too. I BLAME THE PORTAL ON DINOBOT ISLAND FOR ALL CONTINUITY GAFFES!
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    I prefer Sky Girls, personally. Can we get Konami on-board with this?
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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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