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  1. tekering
    I've briefly turned my living room into a parking lot...
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    I think it's important to maintain a sense of perspective here. With all the action and comedy elements in contemporary sci-fi, "bleak and dreary" is hardly commonplace, and could only be applied to Picard or Discovery in relation to earlier incarnations of Star Trek. These are still fun and entertaining shows, due to their commercial nature, and will never challenge the limitations of the medium in the same way that 1984 or THX-1138 did. That's what real bleak sci-fi looks like.
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    Whoah, hold the phone! Where can I order that "Old Man" Logan and Xavier two-pack?
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    That's a substantial difference. Did you re-evaluate the scale?
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    I have no problem with TakaraTomy trying to reproduce the Sunbow designs as closely as possible, nor do I condescend to those who buy them. What I take objection to is another Masterpiece Bumblebee, a third Masterpiece Optimus, or a fourth Masterpiece Starscream, when prominent characters like Mirage, Cliffjumper, Jazz, Skyfire, Trailbreaker, Gears, Brawn, Hoist, Windcharger, Huffer, Blaster, Perceptor, Seaspray, Warpath, Cosmos, Powerglide, Beachcomber, Reflector, the Insecticons, every combiner team member, every third-season Decepticon, most third-season Autobots, every single triple-changer, and every Dinobot (but one) have yet to get a Masterpiece figure. Is it any wonder the third-party scene has lasted over a decade now?
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    Well, it was exactly what I expected: nerdy in-jokes are everywhere, Tawny Newsome is as obnoxious as the trailers suggested, and the humor and pacing follows the same pattern as every primetime animated sitcom has since The Simpsons established the formula three decades ago. It was better Star Trek than Picard, funnier than The Orville, and... oh, look at that. It seems I'm damning with faint praise again.
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    I was lucky to score one of these shirts on the secondary market at its original ¥3500 retail price...
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    That's because it basically is. Most of the same staff produced Combiner Wars in 2016, Titans Return in 2017, and Power of the Primes in 2018... Unfortunately, they were most assuredly not. Well, since it's all recycled from other Transformers media, most of it had already been shown... particularly in IDW comics like Megatron Origin.
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    What could be more G1-accurate than that?
  10. tekering
    Oh God, you've given me flashbacks...
  11. tekering
    The pandemic has yet to affect domestic shipping rates or services in Japan. It's only the dearth of international flights that have made it impossible to ship anything out of the country.
  12. tekering
    The domestic shipping cost often depends on the relative distance between seller and buyer, as well as what specific service is requested by the buyer. Shipping is commonly calculated after the auction is concluded.
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    Already suggested
  14. tekering
    Maj. Pain Gen. Admission Prv. Plane
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    Yes, that's correct. Yes, that's correct. Although, just to clarify for fans that don't actually watch the show (like @jenius), my issue isn't with Sentinel's Legioss; it's with those nonsensical "official" measurements, that are inconsistent with both practical real-world physics and the animation itself. See Yellow run under the Legioss nosecone... without even needing to duck: Most manufacturers (including our own Captain America) have taken steps to rectify these inconsistencies, which is why pilot sizes vary so wildly from one company's products to the next... and by giving us a perfectly-scaled 1:48 Stig Bernard pilot who barely fits into his Legioss cockpit, Sentinel has produced a mecha that would be impossible for a tall pilot like Yellow to fly (much less Jim "Lunk" Cooper). Jim and Mint fit into that cockpit, but neither would fit in this one: If Sentinel does end up producing a Tread, mark my words, it's gonna have a much smaller pilot figure... or a disproportionally large cockpit module. Note how the animation itself features a pratically-scaled Yellow, whereas the animation model sheet depicts an impossibly large Houquet.
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    A properly-scaled pilot makes a big difference, too... ...especially when it comes pre-painted.
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    Honestly, Bumblebee is a much better movie. In terms of structure, characterization, plot and dialogue -- everything a functional story relies on -- Michael Bay's films aren't any better than The Transformers: The Movie, but Travis Knight has proven he knows how to construct a cohesive narrative. The '86 film has some great vocal performances, and a driving soundtrack, but it's virtually incomprehensible without prior familiarity with the TV series (despite how inconsistent with the TV show it really is)... and the plot is a disjointed mess, to put it mildly. Without the benefit of nostalgia glasses, it would be difficult to appreciate as an adult. Oh, and I agree both Animated and Prime are superior to Sunbow's original series, both in writing and execution.
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    You know I'm down!
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    Not at all! Filoni and Favreau kept Hasbro in the dark about "the child" until The Mandalorian was released. Lucasfilm was more concerned with spoilers than merchandising sales, bless their hearts... To Hasbro's credit, they've gotten the Baby Yoda merch out pretty quickly (especially compared to other Star Wars licensees equally blindsided by the premiere). However, now that Siege is finally streaming, anyone looking to pick up the toys the show was explicitly designed to advertise will find they've long since been phased out: Studio Scale, Cyberverse, even Movie Masterpiece figures are easier to find than Siege products.
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    Watch Bumblebee. The opening sequence on Cybertron looks like a photo-realistic version of Siege, but with much more dynamic action... and far better voice acting. And Ultra Magnus, even more so... as if approaching the Decepticons with his face obscured by a hood did anything to hide his distinctive shoulder pylons...! Just a word of warning, then: As a post-war Transformers story set on a starship in deep space, More Than Meets the Eye features almost no transformations whatsoever. They've been pretty on-the-ball when it comes to Star Wars and MCU releases (as opposed to Bandai, MAFEX or Hot Toys)... but Transformers seems to be their Achilles' heel.
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    More Than Meets the Eye, by James Roberts. Nothing else in Transformers fiction will ever compare (except perhaps Roberts' debut mini-series, Last Stand of the Wreckers).
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    So, it turns out those rather amateurish voice actors were all non-union; Netflix didn't want to pay out for the real voice talent, despite their enthusiasm for the roles.
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    Fantastic interview! Thanks for sharing.
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    I hesitate to do the same to mine, knowing its aftermarket value... but damn, you really demonstrate the potential there! You could probably turn around and sell it for a lot more, too.
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    Nor was I, until I transformed mine for the first time... That's precisely why I love it.
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