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  1. CoryHolmes
    Having just finished the campaign, I have to say wow. Not just wow, but wow. I tip my hat to 343 Industries for not only making a Halo game, but a Halo game with impact. Very enjoyable. Especially the music; it's very obvious that this soundtrack is totally different than anything Marty McDonnel came up with, but it's just as great. It's not as much raw, adrenaline pumping music that makes you want to grab a DMR and blow away some grunts and jackals, but it still makes you feel very heroic as you battle your way through the last levels. And speaking of the last levels...
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    The part that really surprises me is the plot and story. Yeah, it was praised by all the reviews, but I'm honestly blown away by the depth and content in this story, especially Cortana. Very enjoyable.
  3. CoryHolmes
    I much prefer the proportions of MP-10, especially in truck mode. He looks like a seamless truck, not a folded-up robot that looks kinda like a cuboid truck.
  4. CoryHolmes
    I admit, I'm considering doing that for the PS3 just to get Dust 514.
  5. CoryHolmes
    Great, now you tell me. Why wasn't I told this before I used a gazzilion rounds of ammunition? DMR ammo is hard find after all...
  6. CoryHolmes
    Easily. I won't grab his box. I won't walk up to the checkout. I won't wait through endless lines of young mothers and irritating children. I won't pull out my wallet. And I won't pay for it. There, that simple. For the simple reasons that I fail to see how a Masterpiece treatment will result in anything than a larger-scale G1 Soundwave. His transformation is dirt simple and his proportions are great already. The only thing that interests me are the new cassettes and I suspect we'll be paying through the nose for them. All in all, not enough of a new product to warrant my money.
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    I did my twice-weekly pilgramage to my local TRU for an MP Prime and lucked out in getting the last Thundercracker they had. It's wrong that MP-10 and MP-11 were released virtually on top of each other instead of staggred out a bit. I'm going to pass on MP-12 and -13, though. Nothing there insterests me and the review from MP-12 are not encouraging at all.
  8. CoryHolmes
    Ah, my brother! I'm also a fan of Robotech (even moreso than Macross, shhhh!) and it's finally nice to get some backup here
  9. CoryHolmes
    Oh God, now I'm having bad flashbacks to G2 commercials and toys. Bad brain, bad! *scrub scrub scrub*
  10. CoryHolmes
    $$$ is why. From what I'm reading (assuming it's not a total hoax) is that George Lucas will be uttery uninvolved with anything at LucasArts or Star Wars itself. It has to be a metric %(*$ton of money for him to give that up.
  11. CoryHolmes
    I wanted to like Screecher, but the transformation is too simplistic for my liking. It's essentially the robot squatting down onto his legs.
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    So I made my weekly trek to TRU in the scant hopes that someone will have left an MP-10 there for me to snag. As usual, disappointment on that front- but! There was a nice, shiny MP-11 Thundercracker waiting for me, so I snapped him up quickly and ran down a few kids to get to the checkout line before someone tried to take him away from me. First impressions: size. The plane mode is absoultly ginormous. And quite hefty, too. The figure has enough tabs and locking points that despite the size and mass, everything is held together nice and tight. Almost too tight on one of my wings, since once it snaps into place in fighter mode it's a devil to unsnap for transformation again. I really do like the blue they chose for the plastic, but the annoying tampo prints are annoying. However, the instructions I got were from an MP-03 release, which aren't totally accurate for this toy. Is that standard or just really weird for me? All in all, I like him. I don't buy nearly as many TFs as some of you, so I'm quite pleased with this purchase.
  13. CoryHolmes
    Dammit. All the TRU's here in Vancouver get three or four MP-10s and Thundercrackers in at a time and they're sold out usually within hours.
  14. CoryHolmes
    Is looking good. Will see.
  15. CoryHolmes
    ... don't tease me.
  16. CoryHolmes
    The more I see of this suit, the more I'm sold on it. Interest level is rising, though I maintain that my breaking point is the mime artist. Decent mime artist = I'll buy that for a dollar!
  17. CoryHolmes
    Team Knight Rider!!
  18. CoryHolmes
    Um... Unicron's a planet, doncha know...
  19. CoryHolmes
    I wonder if the bare hand is for tactile ability, especially for gun-handling since the sensation of touch is still difficult to replicate with machines. It took me years to understand the cynical nature of that scene. Guy gets blown apart and only Johnson is tangentially concerned with Kenny's death. The Old Man is more concerned with the delay to Delta City's construction and the interest payments incurred. Dick Jones wants to save the ED-209 program for military use, and Bob Morton sees his opening for his own program. So much cynicism in one violent, gory scene.
  20. CoryHolmes
    The more I see it, the more I like it. But I will wait to see him in motion before deciding sold/unsold-ness. A good mime will sell the character.
  21. CoryHolmes
    ... except Western Canada...
  22. CoryHolmes
    I suspect that a lot of the "mechanical-ness" will be sold or unsold by his movements. If they've hired a decent mime artist and put some effort into making him a machine with a man's brain, then the design, however un-Robocopy it may be, will match that. If they just stumbles around like a moron, then no amount of visual effects will cover it up.
  23. CoryHolmes
    Get the feeling my local TRU wants to be rid of their pegwarmers?
  24. CoryHolmes
    Vehicon is about the only that I feel is better in the Prime moulds than the First Edition moulds. I love how the roof folds up to become the legs instead of just hanging off the backpack like so many other transformers. Still no word on MP-10 yet...
  25. CoryHolmes
    Still no news from my local TRUs about MP-10. Some say the warehouse has them, others have no clue... What I do know is that Canadian TRUs seem to be the Transformers Ghetto of the toy world. The TF sections are shrinking and shrinking and all that's left are pegs of FE Bumblebee with the occasional DOTM scout/deluxe to warm the shelves. Maybe I should just bite the bullet and start ordering my toys online...
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