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    They could've, but it would've exceeded the budget for the class. I'd've rather they made him a Voyager, but they didn't ask me.
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    I don't know who would win, aside from the audience.
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    "Pretty much empty" is typical here. My Targets finally got rid of Coronation Starscream. I don't know how, because they clearly weren't selling that shelf-load.
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    My Target restocked the Transformers section after the holiday devastation. It now looks almost exactly like it did before. Bunch of Blitzwings, bunch of Jhiaxzus or however it's spelled, handful of Reaction figures(all G2 Grimlock dinosaur mode), a bunch of empty pegs, and a bunch of comic and Power Ranger toys hanging on pegs tagged as containing Transformers. Notably, the Cyberverse stuff has all been replaced with Earthspark stuff. Almost. One peg ful of Cyberverse still. ... And a single lonely Pointblank. I kinda like the radiators on the elbows, even if they're in the way. Makes him look like he has integral weapons. Yes, yes, that's not canon, I know. But it's COOL. Obvious signs of the simplification from the original concept sitting around, though. Most notable Peacemaker having a peg on his ass that would let him peg into a wrist like the japanese cartoon.... if Pointblank's wrists could fold in.
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    Wait a second, wait a second... Before being rebuilt as the Megaroad, the SDF-2 wasn't intended as a colony ship, right? It was meant as another warship? Then why the heck was it being built even bigger than the Macross, which was already so ludicrously oversized they had enough empty space to build a full training camp and functioning city inside it?!
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    Two. Always been a 1J man.
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    Headcanon accepted.
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    Well, Kamjin used one as an excuse to shoot the Macross when he was told to fire a warning shot. Beyond that... *shrug* I assume they do their assigned tasks until they are unable, and then they keel over dead.
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    I really hope the buttcoin market's collapsed for good this time. But I expect another mania-fueled surge to rear it's ugly head again.
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    Also Millia and her private VF-1. That Gamlin stole and wrecked(never forgive, never forget)
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    It really seems like we should leave it at "history diverged at publication", but they've updated the timeline to reflect real-world historical events like the fall of the Soviet Union, so...
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    If that's a part of the retirement plan, hell even if that's the ENTIRE retirement plan, just show me where I need to sign.
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    Because they recognized that making a jet plane that transformed into a robot was so fraught with peril that their test pilots would be heading right into the danger zone. I'll see myself out.
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    That's not much worse than the real F-22 numbers.
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    In this case, I think it's more that this isn't Prowl's head. Not just that it isn't curvy and elongated and 50% chin(actually, he has a surprisingly large chin for the blocky style), but the fin is far too large, the basic optics shape is wrong, the expression is stern... it's like they used G1 Prowl's head and characterization to guide the design. That said, he's recognizably Animated Prowl, which Bulkhead wasn't. I'm also VERY pleased that Hasbro's strict budget constraints didn't prevent them from including the two hubcap shuriken. I won't ignore that there's a lot right here. ... Huh... Legacy Bulkhead's head was the only part that WAS right. Is there a "do the head or the everything-else" rule we don't know about? Or maybe the head's wrong to make sure people have a reason to double-dip when they do samurai armor Prowl.
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    The only immediate complaint I have with Bike Prowl is the head.
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    Also, many had a uranium casing that would undergo fission when the fusion reaction pumped it full of neutrons, making them fission-fusion-fission bombs, which were very powerful for their size and also EXTREMELY dirty.
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    I've been told one of the contractors explained that the reactor vessel didn't really need to be welded shut to prevent radiation leaks. And they asked him what he'd do if it was his son on the ship, and he said "I'd weld it shut". So they did. US naval reactors aren't refuelable, but the seals are as good as can be made. Meanwhile, I saw an anecdote earlier about US intelligence wondering what sort of advanced reactor the soviets were using to get such high speed out of some of their subs. When we finally got the answer, it was "same as the americans, but we made them bigger and lighter by omitting radiation shielding". And that... that's something. Edit: Aaaaaaaaaaand that's apparently a well-known myth. While soviet nuclear vessels had no shortage of issues, there's no actual evidence they skimped on shielding.
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    A fusion reactor can POWER weapons, but is not itself readily weaponizable. It might ENABLE some weapons technology, like various long-suffering railgun projects, if the power density winds up better for a naval fusion reactor than a fission one. Or if they're compact enough to safely install in, say, tanks.
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    It is also worth noting that US naval reactors have a pretty good safety record, but they are also expensive. Crew safety is at the top of the priority list, even when it makes the reactors larger, less efficient, or harder to service. Soviet-designed naval reactors were lighter and cheaper, but there were several, umm, crew safety problems.
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    I mean, yeah. New power sources are always interesting. Nuclear-powered submarines and aircraft carriers are a thing today, of course.
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    Same place it does any other time you toast bread: inside the smoke detector.
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    Did Dreadwing ever show up in the cartoon? There might be a problem if they only do extremely toon-accurate(from a specific viewing angle) versions.
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    One thing I really liked about the original Windblade toy that hasn't carried over to future iterations is the novelty of the robot being predominantly red and the jet being predominantly black. This is, admittedly, possible because most of the jet hangs off her back in robot mode and most of the robot hangs off the bottom in jet mode. But that's just expected of a Transformers plane at this point, sadly. Headmaster Windblade was a waste of a perfectly good opportunity, with it's chunky hard-edged design. The arms especially just make me mad with the massively thick upper arms and the dainty pencil-thin lower arms.
  25. JB0
    YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! ARMORED CORE IS BACK!
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