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    Homage? That's charitable. I'd call it a blatant rip-off. It's even more shameless than their Streets of Fire "homages." Thanks for sharing!
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    It's just a question of semantics. It was written and produced as a Macross sequel, then subsequently relegated to "a parallel world," and "not one that followed the same storyline as the others." By choosing to ignore it in all further Macross works, doesn't that mean it was stricken from canon? I think you misunderstood me. "Poorly-received" and "profitable" are mutually-exclusive... otherwise Batman and Robin could not exist. Macross Delta was poorly received because it disappointed fans, both in Japan and abroad. That's a purely subjective statement, based on my own reading and discussions with other Japanese and English-speaking fans. My opinion has no bearing on the financial success of the series (or its merchandising, which is another issue entirely). Financial success can be measured objectively; perception and reception cannot. There's also way too much opinion misinterpreted as fact.
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    Egan Loo's published works on the issue predate MacrossWorld... How are we quantifying said reception? Television ratings? Home video sales? Merchandising? Published reviews? Online fandom? It's really difficult to qualify such a statement, especially when Japanese are discouraged from expressing criticism (particularly in public).
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    This page consists almost entirely of posts that contradict your statement...
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    Optimus ver.3? Starscream ver.3? Bumblebee ver.2? Is it any wonder they don't sell, when they keep redoing the same characters at higher price points? I don't see any way "Autobot Dino" is an improvement over "Firage." Alien Attack's figure has more accurate proportions, bigger arm blades, much better articulation, and a proper 458 Italia alt. mode...
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    There should be a "never" in there somewhere. In hindsight -- with a Japanese Blu-ray release to appreciate -- its faults may not seem too egregious, but remember all we had for years was the US Renditions dub on VHS... and Robotech had a much better cast by comparison. I actually have a soft spot for Macross II myself ; I'd rather watch the whole series again than suffer through a single episode of Macross 7 or Delta. As poorly as those sequels were received, they were never so reviled as to be stricken from canon entirely.
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    Oh yeah, I remember that. It was called Macross II: Lovers Again. The storyline was so derivative it felt more like a Robotech sequel than a Macross story. Sales dropped off so sharply after the first OAV that you could actually see the budget shrinking episode by episode, and apparently only foreign investment saved it from outright cancellation.
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    I was hugely disappointed to hear they were pushing forward with a fourth season of Discovery. 3rd season was dumb, dumb, dumb, but at least it wrapped everything up in a neat little bow. I have no interest in seeing more. I was even more dismayed to hear they're going to do more Star Trek: Picard. That's a dumpster fire with a much more noxious odor. I couldn't care less whether John DeLancie, Whoopi Goldberg, or William Shatner himself was involved. I won't be watching. But hey, if they were to slingshot Discovery back to the turn of the 25th century, I'd happily watch a season of Burnham vs. Picard.
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    You mean the Probe from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home?
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    Moyai is doing a fantastic fansub, particularly considering what an obscenely difficult job they must've had translating the dialogue: It's at times both extremely idiomatic and ridiculously technical, probably the most challenging script I've ever come across in anime.
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    I've seen worse.
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    The show's not bad so far. It's a manic comedy, for the most part, with flashes of speculative sci-fi and a dash of forgotten lore to provide a mysterious backstory for the protagonists to investigate. The plot concerns the appearance of pterodactyls the locals call "radon" (or as it's subtitled, "rodan"), animated through CGI along the same lines as the Vajra. I really like the artwork and the character designs, although the characters themselves (and the voice actors portraying them) ought to tone it down a notch... Like a great deal of anime these days, it's a little too high-strung for its own good.
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    Thanks for that. I don't begrudge them going with that scale -- the CMs, Toynami, and Sentinel Legioss are all the same size, so that's where the largest demand is likely to be -- but having already sunk thousands of dollars into Moscato Invid kits at that size, I was hoping to have Invid toys that would at least scale with my CMs ride-armor figures (if not the MegaHouse or Sentinel figures)... Even a Scout/Eager at 1:18 would be a big toy (a little bigger than the Matchbox/Playmates, at least), but the size would certainly justify the cost.
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    Wha-a-a... These are barely bigger than Moscato's kits? In that case, they serve no purpose whatsoever for me.
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    Ironically enough, I would've found it much easier to accept Picard as its own thing, if only it hadn't tried so hard to piss all over the legacy of The Next Generation. Without TNG baggage, it's just harmless crap; but bring Picard et.al into it, and it's downright offensive.
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    Well, that's certainly an improvement. It's not nearly as good as their Grub, even, but I'm eager to see what a final production sample will look like.
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    Well, Indiana Jones will never be Logan, but with a little quiet introspection and thematic depth, it could at least equal Mangold's The Wolverine... ...whereas all the old Indy formula would produce is something akin to Dark Phoenix.
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    Yeah, but I think that's precisely the kind of mature direction the series will have to take at this point. Consider belated sequels like Rocky Balboa (that came to terms with aging), and Creed (that focused on the younger generation). They're good films because they acknowledge the passage of time -- and don't try to recreate the '80s formula -- instead using the old films as a rich backstory to build a new legacy on. A '70s China setting, perhaps centered around the discovery of the Terracotta Warriors, could be a good story... ...but not if the Terracotta Army magically came to life or something. Kingdom of the Crystal Skull proved you can't just update the setting and hope the old '80s tropes will still work. A more grounded, realistic tone is necessary.
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    Well, damn. I thought HasTak had outgrown that a decade ago. I mean, the 2010 Reveal the Shield figures (like Wheeljack, Jazz, Tracks, Windcharger, Inferno or "Grappel") didn't have that problem... and since then, third-party figures have avoided it, too. When (and more importantly, why) was the "open hand" look abandoned?
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    Oh, that's much worse than we'd been led to believe. The proportions are laughable, the Matrix is tiny and misshapen, the fists have perfect holes in them, and the arm cannon's practically dragging on the ground!
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    By not identifying the figure, determining the scale, or even providing the name of the manufacturer, were you just hoping somebody was going to ask...? Or is everyone reading this thread already capable of recognizing New Age's "Harry," despite my reservations? After their inaugural Bumblebee release, "Flipper," was very well-received, New Age obviously decided that establishing their own scale was the way to go, ignoring what Iron Factory, DX9's "War in Pocket" figures, Magic Square's "Brobdingnag" series, Generation Toy's GT-model, and the official Legends/Legion/Cyberverse/Core-class had already established. Can you tell I'm still salty about it two years later? Honestly, I stopped buying anything from New Age at that point, fearing it wouldn't scale with any of the existing figures in my collection... but with Hot Soldiers and MechFanToys further muddying the waters, it's become really difficult to determine which figures from any company are likely to be compatible. I just wish there were more reviewers like Mike (or EmGo) buying figures at this size class, so I'd have a better idea of what I should buy.
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    Why didn't you just get the DX? Admittedly, they aren't often found on the secondary market... ...particularly this set.
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    C'mon, guys. We all have our personality quirks, but there's no need for personal attacks. Let's restrict our opinions to Southern Cross, shall we? Here's just a taste of how good the show might look in high-definition...
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    Most of my Japanese friends did as well, which I found a little disconcerting... I mean, "hyperspace skipping" was every bit as stupid as the bright sunlight in Hollow Earth. Yeah, The Last Knight was a special kind of bad. Oh, even I wouldn't go that far. Certainly, the Showa films were the nadir, but the Heisei series has a lot to answer for, too: Whereas the failure of Godzilla vs. Kong is almost entirely at script level*, most of the Japanese films represent cascade failures at every stage of production, be it story, design, dialogue, performance, editing, or visual effects. I find most of them unwatchable, right up to Final Wars. Godzilla vs. Kong pissed me off with its drooling idiocy because I was holding it up to a higher standard, the standard set by the previous films of the MonsterVerse (yes, even King of the Monsters, which is still better than most Japanese monster movies). It reflected poorly on Gareth Edwards' Godzilla and Jordan Vogt-Roberts' Kong: Skull Island, and both of their superlative films are retroactively tainted by Godzilla vs. Kong. Nonetheless, on a production level, it remains superior to most of the Toho films. * Okay, the scale inconsistency issue is a whole 'nother rant. Don't even get me started.
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