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    I'm still undecided on the mecha designs too, but am willing to give them a chance - I remember the Flat from "Turn-A Gundam" which makes a lot more sense once you actually see it in action - but enjoyed the first episode and would like to see where its going. Even if my brain kind of exploded in the first thirty seconds after a certain very famous... er... object appeared on screen...
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    Just going to stick my hand up and say, yes, I also remember "Automan"!
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    https://gizmodo.com/doctor-whos-eurovision-episode-may-not-make-it-to-uk-tv-because-of-eurovision-2000584462 Doctor Whos oldest enemy returns, and its not the Daleks, its... the foot-the-ball. [1] [1] Look, if you didn't grow up as an awkward science-fiction fan in 80s Britain, this pain may take some explaining. There was no streaming back then (there was barely any recordable media format even), so if you wanted to watch Peter Davison nearly get melted in a cave by the agents of the Cybermen you had to be in front of the TV at the broadcast time. But Saturday afternoon TV in the UK then was almost entirely given over to sport. And "Doctor Who" usually came after in the schedule. Assuming that any particular sporting event finished on time, which - and especially in the case of football and its inability to stop at the end of the allocated 90 minutes due to the fiendish concepts of "Injury" and "Extra Time" - it seemingly never did. So you had to sit in front of the telly, watching every minute of on pitch action drag painfully by, hoping never to hear the dread sentence "...and for those of you waiting for this weeks episode of 'Doctor Who', this will now be shown at a later date.". It still hurts.
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    Yes, thats kind of what I thought. Though I remember reading Macek received death threats back in the day, which suggests that some of the vitriol was about the adaptation itself; I don't know the exact time frame but it may have been while the series was broadcast but before the legal implications became apparent. It does suggest that the fandom had matured a bit and had a greater awareness of the source material. (just to give an idea of how difficult it could be to obtain information in the pre-internet days, I laboured for many years under the impression that "Star Fleet", aka "X-Bomber" was a Gerry Anderson production - after all, who else made puppet-based SF shows? - and couldn't understand why it never appeared in biographies of his work. I didn't learn the truth until somewhat later. I didn't have a similarly interested peer group that I could discuss these things with at the time).
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    I can't hate "Robotech", as it was one of the "gateway drugs" into anime for me, but it does feel like it served its purpose some time ago. I am curious, though - and I'm really trying not to retread old fights, its a genuine question - why it seems to attract the majority of the ire directed towards "Westernised" anime as opposed to things like "Battle of the Planets" or "Speed Racer"; the former in particular being messed around with to arguably an equal degree. My guesses would be the following 1) the legal situation surrounding it, which affected not just "Macross" but other franchises and 2) that the audience was a bit older (in the UK, at least, "Battle of the Planets" would have been seen as a childrens show) and a bit more aware of its origins and even some of the trouble it was causing rights wise.
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    Some people call the current version another relaunch, so thats three...!
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    You know your franchise has been a long runner when the relaunched version has a 20th anniversary!
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    US Navy may be about to select its next-generation fighter: https://www.twz.com/air/navy-f-a-xx-stealth-fighter-selection-this-week-report The most important thing we need to know about this one: Does it go up to... three? 😉
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    So is it just me or is there a hint in one scene there that a certain old foe is making an appearance this season?
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    Basically, the worlds dumbest detective tries to catch three suspiciously familiar to him art thieves and fails every time. Sometimes with roller skates!
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    Lego have got the "Pokemon" licence now, because apparently having enough money to put solid gold bricks in every set if they wanted wasn't enough. 😄
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    It's not G1 Brawn, but it is G1 Brawn's Australian cousin, Outback! (missing his weapon sadly, and I also forgot to extend the chrome parts of his arms when taking these).
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    Thanks for mentioning the 2019 Dinosaur Fossil set, if it can still be acquired it does look like a more space friendly alternative!
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    https://gizmodo.com/lego-jurassic-park-t-rex-skeleton-price-release-date-2000568111 I have nowhere to put it, but T. rex is - and I know its a cliche - my favourite dinosaur so this is, to say the least, tempting...
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    Just as heads up, you can't download your books if your Kindle was bought in 2024 or late apparently. 😬 I love physical books but sadly don't have the space for a librarys worth, so the Kindle has been a matter of practicality for me. Its not a great move on their part.
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    Now I think about it though, I suppose an argument could be made that the MSX did succeed in the US, but through a sideways route - that is the various titles that originated elsewhere on the platform but got converted to the NES.
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    Not sure how the MSX did in the US (I'm guessing not well); here in the UK it was one of the "following the pack" systems behind the Spectrum, Commodore 64, BBC, and Amstrad CPC. My uncle had one though I only ever saw it once. I always liked the look of the many varieties of the hardware configuration you could get.
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    I think I have to add note here that as much as I've made fun of British holiday camps in my previous post, the arcades they had allowed me to encounter a lot of machines I probably never would have otherwise - from electromechanical games, to very early arcade machines to "the ones that got away", like Ataris "Firefox" - I know its not a great game, but every time I saw it it was broken (not unusual I understand) and I never got the chance to actually find out for myself.
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    Its a devil of a job getting the seawater out of the keyboards... 😅 It always intrigues me just how certain machines wound up in the places they did. I mean, one of the more limited 80s arcade releases somehow wound up in a Butlins [1] in South West England. How does that happen? [2] [1] I don't know if the US ever really had an equivalent to "holiday camps", of which "Butlins" is probably the most well known - think a World War II prisoner of war camp but with fairground rides that you paid to stay in. In fact, I think some of the early ones actually used to be military camps... [2] Well, one explanation is that Atari for a while had a production line in the Republic of Ireland, but I find it hard to believe that "I, Robot" was a priority run for them...
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    I had the rare privilege of playing the original in an actual arcade back in the day, and now its returning in the very good hands of some bloke in some obviously made up fantasy land called Wales:
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    Perhaps they need to think a little bigger? Over here we could send them tips on how to build an aircraft carrier out of sawdust and ice... 😅 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Habakkuk
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    Thanks, managed to work things out in the end!
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    Apologies, sent it from my phone. I'm not 100% how to resize it, so may have to just delete it for now... Edit: hope second try is correct size now...!
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    (Ver 2.0): The only thing a Dalek fears more than stairs and Sophie Aldred with a baseball bat is Sophie Aldred with a rocket launcher!
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    Blue skies in videogames may be coming back...!: [1] https://www.eurogamer.net/sega-files-new-skies-of-arcadia-eternal-arcadia-trademarks-sending-fans-hopes-soaring Please don't be just a mobile game or gatcha game. Please don't be just a mobile game or gatcha game. Please don't be... [1] http://www.ukresistance.co.uk/2005/11/blue-sky-in-games-campaign-launched.html (yeah, its old, but still... )
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