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    DRAAAAAAMA!
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    Actually, Sludge's mouth DOES open. It is just REALLY REALLY stiff.
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    "Fascinating. A harmonic subcarrier in the dinosaur transform static seems to have caused a gestalt resonance in the-" "Dino-Soar does not care WHY it happened, you pontificating poindexter! Can you FIX IT?" "Really? That's the name you're going with? Dino-Soar?" "Shut up. Just... stop talking." So yeah. This actually looks pretty darn good, all things considered. The dinobot colors mesh surprisingly well with CW Sky Lynx. One sword is Sky Lynx's tail blades. The other is stolen from... Cybertron Vector Prime, I think. Of course, one may reasonably ask... what would Dino-Soar fight? And what the heck is Grimlock doing during all this? "Me Grimlock have touch! What me called now? Lockimus Prime? Primemus Grim? Grimlockimus Rex?" "Dino-Soar would kindly request you cease your inane banter and lend a modicum of assistance! We can have a coronation later if it would please you! I've heard that you Grimlock kick butt, so PROVE IT!" Slag and Sludge are arms because they both make terrible legs. Slag just looks like he sat down on his rear and DARED them to make him a leg. He's not the worst leg, but he's the LAZIEST leg. In fact, this is my canon. He refused to put any effort into being something that didn't wield a weapon. Sludge has a big brontosaurus neck sticking out of the kneecap. It just isn't ignorable. And since they share shins/haunches, they both put some dainty girly ankles on the legs as they taper inward to make a tail. With both of them as arms, the triceratops head balances the brontosaur head(also, Slag's head doesn't look upside-down this way). Snarl... Oh, Snarl. You try so hard, but you don't make a good ANYTHING. But at least I'm not staring at your insides this way, and you're mostly solid. I don't hate the stego-tail running up the thigh as much as I expected, either. Seriously though, as an arm he has an open wrist, and the hole the hand pegs into is a tiny piece of plastic that hinges out. It is completely unacceptable. Sky Lynx? I expected better of you. Your joints are all so loose that it is a miracle I got you to hold any pose at all. Swoop, you are the champion here. You make a good arm AND a good leg, and do it without any complaints or wobbliness. You're a good guy, Swoop. All that said, I really like this combination. In conclusion: Dino-Soar. About seventy times smarter than Volcanicus, and twelve times more dashing. And yeah, I know these aren't the best photos. I didn't have a clear place to photograph, and I was kind of just playing around. I mean, you guys have seen plenty of photos of Primes Dinobots and CW Sky Lynx already, you don't need a clean documentary of my fan-character.
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    Sure can't. Shuraking's limbs are better limbs, and he wears Swoop's wings on his back for maximum awesome. Also chrome. So much chrome. And Swoop is red, which helps the color cohesion. Makes Swoop feel like part of the team instead of "that one weird dinobot." On the other hand, I am a cheap mofo. Shuraking is like a bajillion dollars.
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    Hot damn. If Volcanicus looked like that out of box, I might would've bought Grimlock.
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    Sometimes you just gotta show off the lugnuts, ya know?
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    If the scale was intentional, than I tip my hat to you, good sir.
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    I think Sky Lynx is actually the only Combiner Wars toy I saw that didn't leave me terribly underwhelmed. Anyways, I know I promised pics of Dino-Soar, but aside from a lack of motivation, I've run into a huge problem... Swoop. As near as I can tell, Swoop's the only one that makes a good leg. And everything else looks worse for being next to Swoop, but he makes such a good leg I don't want to move him to an arm slot. Sky Lynx's joints are all REALLY loose too, but that is such a distant second-place issue that it is only barely worth mentioning.
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    Amusingly, that's almost in scale.
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    Oh, definitely. Especially once wars start breaking out and there's significant pressure to have the latest and greatest fighter again. But if there's no cost disparity... why settle for already-obsolete garbage when you can have giant robots? If there IS a major cost disparity, it can be tempting to settle for second place(though Raptor vs Valkyrie would inevitably be "second place is the first loser").
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    I was just poking a bit of fun at that misalignment between the fiction and reality for a time period that's supposed to closely match the real world. But you have to admit, it DOES make the "abandon the Raptor in favor of Valkyries" decision easier if the real-world fighter costs showed up in the Macrossverse.
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    Understandable, given the VF-1 turned out cheaper than the F-22 as well as far superior.
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    Oh ye of little faith.
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    Lemme look that up real quick... Oh man, that is gorgeous. This is the first time I've wished Enterprise had gotten another season.
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    Well-played.
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    They should combine the two. Japan needs a Statue of Liberty Cannon.
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    I don't actually know how long that commercial was aired for. I assumed it was pulled relatively swiftly.
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    They forgot to tell the ad team. Jetfire was animated toy-accurately for his TV commercial.
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    Hard to believe Squeenix actually wants to do something with Xenogears. I'm pleasantly surprised. The fans are winning!
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    As I understand things, Bandai is much more aggressive about policing the knookoffs, making it an uncomfortable market to enter. On the other hand, the Not-Gundam manufacturers spend very little effort making their offerings legally-distinct, which might be part of their problem.
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    Yes.
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    A list of nuclear tests would also be a good inspiration. Travis Beacham cited tests like Castle Bravo and Starfish Prime as his main naming inspiration. Also, you can try shuffling this up. Alchemic Genesis, Excel Drive, and even Neon Saga aren't terrible jaegar names. Trufax: Paladin Zeta took half its name from a much older machine. If you shuffle the anime right, no one notices.
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    Stardust Vagabond sounds like a Jojo stand.
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    'S all about finding the right words. Spend a few minutes asking a search engine for random words, stick the coolest ones next to each other. If in doubt, add a greek letter or military alphabet word to the end.
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    Crunchyroll? With their "never subtitle a song ever" rule? I sure hope they aren't interested in Macross.
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