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    Yeah, I picked up Sludge and Snarl today too. Wasn't expecting too, it's just been a couple pegs full of Dreadwind for ages now. Never picked up Grimlock, never going to. He's sad in tyrannosaur mode, he's sad in humanoid mode, and he's sad in black lion mode(though there's some neat concepts there). Far as I'm concerned, these four are teamed with Classics Grimlock. No, I'm not particularly bothered by the fact that he's a much more modern take on the concept than his buddies. He was involved in a nucleon spill or something, that's why he's different. But hell, I was buying them mainly to attach to Combiner Wars Sky Lynx*. The scale problem is a lot smaller there, given that Sky Lynx is SUPPOSED to be bigger than the dinobots. Expect pictures of Dino-Soar™ soon as I figure out which bot is which limb. ... When you think about it, dinobot scale works very strangely. We want a brontosaurus, a triceratops, a stegosaurus, a pterodactyl, and a tyrannosaurus to all be the same size. And if one is larger, it should be the tyrannosaur, not the brontosaur. *Except Slash. I bought her because she's about 90% awesome.
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    Oh, NintendoLife... we've known about Hayter and Belgrade since 2015.
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    Keijo! Is pretty fantastic.
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    It'd be nice if the success of Nier: Automata led to a refresh of the original Nier, but... it seems unlikely.
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    The BEST version of Mazinger Z.
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    It is popular enough that they can always sell another one. Like Optimus Prime. That said some versions of Mazinger have been pretty good.
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    Anime ja nai! Anime ja nai! Hontou no koto sa.
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    Releasing the Bismarck means NOT releasing yet another revision of Mazinger Z.
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    That's good. The trailer CG is kind of... not good? I'm still gonna wait until this is at the dollar movies, or "on Netflix", but there's actually a chance I'll watch it. I don't go to the movies very often anyways, and full price movie tickets are even rarer. There's only one movie I've ever watched twice at full-price, but Pacific Rim was worth it. This doesn't look like it is.
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    NOT MY PRIME. Seriously, they may be popular, but there's no room on my shelf for ugly robots, unless I REALLY like them. And if I really dislike them, all the cool-looking in the world won't overcome that.
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    I disagree that a sequel should do the opposite of the first movie. If the first movie didn't have something to it, you wouldn't be making a sequel. (I also disagree about how good or bad Pacific Rim was, but that isn't really material to my argument.) If you don't want to make something kind of like the first movie, then why are you doing a sequel at all? Do your own thing, not beholden to any prior expectations. Don't slap the name of something else onto your thing while completely ignoring everything that original thing did. It just makes people mad. It is like making another Fast and the Furious movie, but this time it is about building model cars, or racing boats. Not that I advocate making another F&F movie. The first was an act of cinematic terrorism, and I remain baffled that it did well enough for a second, much less however many there are now. But I'm clearly missing something, since the damn things keep raking in the cash. A common problem with big-budget sequels. The first movie does something interesting, and does really well for it. The sequel gets more corporate attention, and as the higher-ups attempt to polish it to perfect mainstream appeal, they buff out every facet of the original that ever endeared it to anyone. I noticed a very long time ago that Hollywood doesn't actually understand WHY movies are successful, and their attempts to make them better tend to backfire horribly. The two examples that really made me notice it... After The Matrix came out, everything had a "bullet-time" sequence, no matter what was actually going on. Often very awkwardly. Because that was what Hollywood took from The Matrix's success, that slow-mo action shots are a guaranteed get-rich-quick scheme(which I guess they were, if you' happened to be selling cameras...). After Spiderman came out and broke records, alongside a bunch of movies with R ratings that bombed because they were absolute dreck, the suits in charge concluded that people didn't want to see R-rated movies, and they wanted kid-friendly affairs instead. Never mind that Spidey was not kid-friendly. The rule went from "force in some gore and nudity to get an R, no matter what" to "cut stuff out to make sure you don't get an R, no matter what." It never even registered for a moment that quality of a production might matter more than the rating, or what kind of camera shots were involved. And that brings us back to the present. We have Pacific Rim, a movie that did very well in spite of all expectations, so they made a sequel. And the sequel is nothing like the movie whose name it bears, because the original movie doesn't do a whole bunch of things that a successful movie "has" to do. I guarantee that somewhere in a board room, the Pacific Rim 2 conversation started with "What if we made it more like Transformers? A robot movie can't be successful if it isn't full of hyper-caffeinated jumpcuts and a complete lack of momenteum. Also, the cast needs to be teens. No one old enough to drink on our cast!"
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    Who DOESN'T?
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    The hate is coming from people that DIDN'T give it those reviews. The people that liked the movie, and appreciated its unique take on the theme. The people that made it a surprise hit. Faster and shinier is not the same thing as better. In some respects, faster and shinier are antithetical to what Pacific Rim is. We're talking about a movie with a dedication to Ray Harryhausen and Ishiro Honda in the credits, that has "could be implemented as a rubber suit" as a key point in the monster design. It is a love letter to old-school monster movies, in all their melodramatic plodding. This movie is throwing everything we loved away to make it check a bunch of bullet points. It is a slap in the face. I have no interest in seeing something I love being screwed up by people that want it to be something different. They may both be "dumb fun", but this is NOT a sequel to Pacific Rim and it shouldn't be branded as such.
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    I wanted a five-star movie, not a three-star.
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    I blame Tommy Yune.
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    Yeah. The VF-11 was pretty cool, but we only ever saw it in the same three stock animation clips.
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    Wasn't that Children's Palace?
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    I was just being cheeky and dragging it onto a side route. Though I do remember back in the days when they DID redub songs. It usually didn't go well, which strikes me as the main reason that redoing the songs isn't an option these days.
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    I'm going into withdrawal!
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    In fairness, half of that music is Planet Dance. Dub it once, and you're set for twenty or so episodes.
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    Well... nuts. On the other hand, he was told he had two years to live back in the sixties. That was a REALLY LONG two years.
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    No way to tell. The translation community is capricious at best. The guy who was translating it stopped because he decided he was encouraging piracy and didn't want to be an enabler. Something like that. Honestly, the fact that no one picked it up after he quit is probably a good sign of what will happen with Macross the Second.
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    It was adapted into Tranzor Z for the US. Mazinger Z is somewhat important to anime history, though. It was the first piloted giant robot(following in the massive footsteps of the remote-controlled Tetsujin 28), and its runaway success inspired numerous sequels and copycats, birthing an entire genre of super robot stories virtually overnight. The trappings of the super robot genre would eventually give way to tales with more realistic settings, like Gundam and some show called Muh-cross. So in a sense, we're all here because Go Nagai drew a giant robot.
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    This is so much more hilarious than anything I could've made up.
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