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    Real laughter was my response too.
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    If it makes you feel better, it is almost certainly a a Prius lookalike with absolutely nothing of the original powertrain preserved. Just retro styling.
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    Star Trek: This Time Everyone is Patrick Stewart? ... I'd watch it.
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    Iczer-1 is such a fun show. One of those things that ought to be awful, but gets by on sheer style. Dangaioh remains on my "to-watch" list. I keep meaning to dig it out and something else keeps coming up.
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    Re: real VWs... There is a lot of variation from year to year, and later Bugs DID have passenger mirrors. And though there were many externally visible changes over the decades it was in production, I THINK Takara's MP Bumblebee is based on the larger Super Beetle rather than the regular one. This is, to my mind, a mistake. It may just be based on "the wrong year", in which case ... I still think it looks funny.
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    It makes it look like a Federation vessel, at least. As I said last time the link showed up" It is a snazzy-looking ship, and why isn't CBS doing that?
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    I kinda like the parts going into the dumper. From the side, it looks like a dump truck full of stuff.
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    ... costs a lot more, and I don't care for his looks overall. I can always knock the nosecone off my Classic Titan Galvatron. I lose the jet mode, but gain a better robot and artillery mode in the process. And free up a pin where I could hypothetically attach a better nosecone, or a gun handle.
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    Mike, I can report that he very much can hold his gun up and stand unassisted. I still really dislike his nosecone, though.
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    I thought that was a YF-1R. Either way, I meant the 2036 plane(s). (I still like the animation error, and the thing I hate most about The Other Show's use of it is that they subsequently chose to redesign the head into something uglier.)
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    100% accu0rate is pretty much impossible, since everyone has a different idea what the "real" version is. Movies, SAC, Arise, comics if you want to be right... (As a dirty comics purist, I am bothered that they have cast the major's mom. I like my major with no backstory. But I'll get over it.)
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    Aramaki looks too... well, cuddly. Batou's bugeyes are sorely missed. Togusa looks, like... WAY too old to be the team rookie. On the upside, I can immediately tell who is supposed to be who. Pirate-eye Saito looks pretty good, even if is hair IS a half-inch too long. I honestly have no complaints whatsoever there. Bug-eyes or not, Batou is fairly on-target. He gets the general appearance very well. Didn't really expect them to find someone that bulky for the role. Anmd in all fairness to old man Togusa, I always found it dubious that someone so apparently green could make it into the team.
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    The orbital period is REALLY short. Just a hair over eleven terran days. And tidal-locking IS a possibility, but the terminator could still be a nice place to live, depending(on if there's air and water there in the first place). There's also a possibility that it locks to a resonance other than 1:1, in which case it would still have day/night cycles. In fact, our own Mercury is in such resonance, giving it one Mecurian day every two Mecurian years... which probably makes things worse instead of better. Slow enough for the vicious day/night extremes to set in, fast enough that the terminator isn't a stable safe space. On the upside, if there's no atmosphere, by the time we can go there we will PROBABLY have figured out how to tow a few million tons of comets from the oort cloud with us. Terraforming au natural.
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    I don't know where else one would put a tail fin. I was, however, led to believe Girls und Panzer was about girls driving tanks, and am unsure how this ties in AT ALL.
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    Holy wow. Proxima Centauri(the red dwarf orbiting the better-known Alpha Centauri binary) has a planet. But not just any planet, no. The Centauri system doesn't do things by half measures. This planet's at the right distance that it is possible to have liquid water. If it has water, it can have life. So to summarize The nearest known exoplanet is also the nearest POSSIBLE exoplanet, since it is orbiting the nearest star, and it is in the friggin' habitable zone! Not that four light-years is exactly a sunday drive. But it is so tantalizingly close...
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    It has been pretty variable, but overall a fairly solid program. Many of the complaints people had with the first episode have not carried forward to the rest of the series. And then the last couple episodes they gave up and just crapped the bed.
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    Okay, after due consideration, I decided my previous list was inadequate. SDP-1 YF-21 VF-1J VF-1R VF-11 MAXL Custom
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    Ditto. The concept was great, the execution was lacking. It was a fiddly mess of bits, some of which had no purpose(because it was designed to be a voyager-class), the right arm had almost no articulation... just transforming it was a chore. But oh, for a world where they'd been given clearance to ship him as a voyager instead of a slapdash downscale.
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    He has longer forearms and lower legs than is usual, I think. Gives him a lankier appearance.
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    Classics Galvatron tank... jesus, havin' some PTSD flashbacks here. I will probably buy Super Ginrai, just for the arms. I like the STYLE of Hasbro's arms, but those gaping voids are inexcusable. Especially as it is a two-part arm. If the voids faced down, they'd be covered by the bottom half. I also like Japan's powermaster engine and truck cab better. Spacetruck is not my Prime. But the gaping skeletal arms are just an eyesore. ... Dammit, why is the one I feel a desire to import the leader-class?
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    I thought the cannon was fine as-is, personally. I was particularly impressed with the clearances being adjusted just right so he can hold his arm straight out without it hitting the shoulder pads. Of course, I didn't pay import costs. At fifty bucks, I would've expected a more coherent fighter mode, and been outraged at the situation with the nosecone and leg backs.
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    In that case, I may have to check mine. We at least have TWO columns of pegs for Trannies.
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    As teh internetz would say: EPIC LOLZ I knew this was worth watching.
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    Ditto. Do the responsible thing. Buy them all and then put them on eBay.
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    Yeah. This is a tale of excitement and suspense, no matter how it turns out.
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