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    Is anyone besides me bugged by the transparent red Castlevania cartridge? Even accepting that it is not representing the video game(the marginally-legible label DOES carry a Netflix rather than Konami logo), it is still goofy. The NESflix interface was cute, though I really wish they had updated it from the 2015 version of the software. The Nintendo can do better, and to be frank, this DESERVED better than quarter-screen cyan and white(what is this, IBM CGA?). ... Am I focusing on the wrong things here?
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    I'd watch Stealth 2.
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    I just started watching Tiger & Bunny again. Because superheroes.
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    Spock: I examined the problem from all angles and it was plainly hopeless. Logic informed me that under the circumstances the only possible action would have to be one of desperation. A logical decision, logically arrived at. Kirk: You reasoned it was time for an emotional outburst.
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    Pretty much. Aside from the same old novelizations, RPG rulebooks, and Toynami figures we've all seen a decade ago, it is a big pile of cafepress-style "print this graphic on these products" crap. ... Or whoever the cool "print this graphic on these products for me" webstorefront person is these days. I haven't actually heard the cafepress name in a few years now.
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    If I did see it, it was when I was very young and forgiving. I know OF it, and of the color palette issues. But I am pretty sure they would have legal troubles if they took a single episode as carte blanche to start writing stories about the kzin. They paid Niven for a story, not full rights to what we would now call his intellectual property. Even if the script deal COULD be interpreted as carte blanche, it invites legal headaches while all this is sorted out. Were I Paramount's legal team, I would "strongly urge" the writers to create a new, legally distinct race of felinoid belligerents just because no one wants to open that can of worms. The end result is basically the same, only they aren't using Niven's names for things(see also: kilrathi). Apparently previous attempts to re-introduce the kzinti have ended up featuring the legally-distinct "mirak" or "ferasen" instead. Though... while the Trek kzinti comported themselves poorly, I feel obliged to note that the salad thing is a valid response to a Known Space kzin psychic too. The psychic doesn't get "Oh, he ate a salad", he gets the sensations and experience of eating a salad. The end result is an effect somewhat analogous to force-feeding your interrogator raw turds, because vegetables are utterly disgusting to the kzinti.
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    It wasn't really a complete non sequitur. The kilrathi basically ARE the kzin(at best, they were "heavily inspired by"), and Chris Roberts is almost certainly more amenable to licensing them than Larry Niven, so they WOULD be a natural substitute. (assuming Roberts and not EA owns the kilrathi) ... But it would still cost more to license someone else's alien than to make up your own. There's no way the writers would've ever gotten approval to use the kzin or substitute the kilrathi. It also costs more to do an angry Tony the Tiger than it does to make a human with bits stuck to his forehead. So end result: Enterprise would've taken another crap on the lore and figured out a way to bring the hirogen in from the delta quadrant (and rewrite their society) instead of creating a legally distinct race of felinoid belligerents.
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    The internet is naught but smug comments. Anything that seems otherwise is just well-cloaked smug comments.
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    Hey, the kzin are hardcore. They could eat klingons for breakfast... assuming that Paramount was willing to pay Larry Niven to use them(and even less likely, Niven was willing to take the cash). Glad they didn't get a chance to mess that up.
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    I thought the thesis for Enterprise's failure was "crap writing and a stubborn refusal to follow up on promises made". Which was also the problem with Voyager, though Voyager was up-front with its refusal to follow up on promises. One episode in and the half of their crew made up of known terrorists is wearing Starfleet uniforms and happily getting along with the half of the crew sent to arrest them.
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    Wait, they blew up Bumblebee and he just put himself back together? Is he a junkion now? Also, that guy says "alien robot dinosaur" like it is a BAD thing.
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    Panel lines and glue plugs and origami shellforming oh my!
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    Ahhhhh.
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    I think these are fake. Not the least because a Super FamiCom release of Street Fighter II Turbo would have a random apostrophe in the title.
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    That sure is a Street Fighter box.
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    Voltron is the defender of the universe. Power Rangers aren't even the Defenders of the Earth. Defenders of California? Also, the lions can fight on their own instead of just being pants for the giant robot. This is incontrovertible and objective proof that Voltron is better. I won't say Voltron is THE most important thing in my childhood(that was probably Nintendo), but I WAS one of the millions that made it the most successful kid's show of its time, and I spent a lot of time shouting "I'll form the head" or "form blazing sword".
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    Seems like most of them are loyal sycophants instead of backstabbing schemers is the biggest issue.
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    The Megazord is an impressive toy, but it just ain't my super robot. Power Rangers was "a cheap Voltron knockoff" in my head, and while it may be inaccurate it is still how I feel in my heart. That's why I got Voltron.
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    Just rewatched ye olde Armitage III, for the first time in years and years. Still quite enjoyable, though I caught myself repeatedly asking one question that I never really considered in my younger days: How is our heroine getting away with wearing a bra and hot pants as a police uniform?
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    Hooray for easy upgrades!
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    Well, darn. Now I have to hunt for one. Or that.
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    Awww, man, it is a darn shame that the GCreation combiner is such a mess of bonus parts and stupidsword. I wonder if there was a communication breakdown somewhere along the line with that sword. Someone suggested a double-bladed sword, meaning like a tuning-fork(which is dumb but looks awesome), and the guy responsible for making the parts completely misunderstood the concept and stacked the blades like a sandwich instead. You're right about the GCreation torso being pretty lame, too. But those WINGS. Shuraking's wingspan is simply majestic. But the Toyworld torso is spectacular, and I love that tyrannosaur head hanging out of the chest. It is like someone looked at Gaogaigar, I mean Predaking, and went "Nope, lions are for chumps"... though I'm thinking the triceratops frill would make a spectacular chestplate too. ... Pity you can't fit the GCreation wings onto the Toyworld robot. They could give Slag a black humanoid head, like he's SUPPOSED to have! Scoria's cartoon-accurate red head is an instant dealbreaker for me. It is, seriously, the only thing that kept me from ordering one.
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    I have to say that, at this point, I really think GCreation has it down. I know I've said things about complex designs for complexity's sake, which it sounds like is a serious problem with the GCreation dinosaurs, but... they are tickling my nostalgia bone something fierce here. I owned Slag(and he was one of my favorite toys, so he went with me EVERYWHERE), a cousin owned Swoop, another cousin owned Grimlock(and I nearly died playing with him), I got a hand-off Sludge from a friend in the 90s... so I've had a lot of exposure to four the original toys, with pretty much every seam memorized on Slag(as well as some long-absent stickering), and GCreation really hits that toy look. Sure, there's some places where Toyworld is revising things for the better, but overall they just don't tickle my fancy the same way. ... It also means I'm not nearly as "into" Snarl as I am the other four. Sure, I know there WAS a stegosaurus, but he just doesn't have the same physicality in my mind that the others do. Also, let's be honest here. Stegosaurus is the least cool of the four dinosaurs and a pterosaur five dinosaurs present
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    Now THIS is how you do a retro-gaming nostalgia product! No ARM processors, no emulation, no "HDMI, USB, SD only" nonsense. An FPGA programmed to be a perfect recreation of the original hardware(plus some interesting upgrades). Full hardware and software compatibility, original IO is present alongside an SD reader and HDMI output, a new case designed by one of the original designers... it is almost the perfect project. There is only one problem: It's a friggin' Sinclair Spectrum, AKA the worst computer to ever see mass-market success. For those interested in a computer that sucks significantly fewer balls... http://wiki.icomp.de/wiki/Chameleon An FPGA device in a Commodore 64 cartridge. Connect it to a C64 and get all kinds of cool expansion capabilities. Or disconnect it from a C64 and... it reconfigures itself to behave as a C64. A C64 the size of a deck of cards. And yes, you can plug your old C64 floppy drive into it, or anything else that goes into the IEC bus(for obvious reasons, the cartridge doesn't have a cartridge slot).
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    As Slag was the Dinobot I owned (because triceratops was the best dinosaur ever) I can verify he had two sliver chunks in his wings/dino shoulders. Large trapezoidal lumps with techno-detailing on them. GCreation has the lumps molded in, they just aren't painted. I also note that while GCreation has the right dinosaur HEAD, their frill is wrongwrongwrongWRONG to the point of distraction, given how closely they echo the toy in so mnany other places north of the tail. Toyworld's frill is almost lifted straight off the original toy with the flat design and striations across the plates(though it should be slanted backwards and with more panels of varying sizese, and the lack of slant really messes with the Toyworld dino head). On the other hand, Toyworld gave him silver-chromed horns and ribs. And I can forgive GCreation the gray tail. It is better than chromed gold, mostly because it actually looks like it belongs where it is in a way the original tail honestly never did. Though given the drawing board myself, I would've done an original-style tail that detached and turned into a weapon. The chrome spine running through the tail always looked like it should be a weapon to me. (In my head, his tail shot lasers) Favorite touch on the GCreation one: The teal detailing on the shoulders. At first I thought they really went overboard with it(the original stickers had a lot less color there due to the V shape), but the more I look at it, the better it looks. Toyworld's, I like the RGB rectangles on the shins, as inauthentic as they are. Also the smaller gold lumps in dino mode. The original Slag toes that GCreation apes honestly stick out way far.
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