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    To boldly dress like no man has dressed before.
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    I still have trouble grasping the completionist mindset. I've always gone for the toy robots that I thought looked cool, or had a nostalgic fondness for. I've never felt that owning one part of a specific line committed me to buying a swath of related toys, or that other toys in that line by necessity belonged in the same display. Consequently, I've had TF:Animated toys fighting Bayformers across my shelves at times, Alternators taking potshots at Cybertronies, and so on. The crowning glory of this mess is probably still Classics Grimlock opening the matrix in front of Cybertron Unicron("Me Grimlock have touch!").
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    Then my perspective is likely skewed by years with a taped-off-the-air collection of Robotech episodes that started with "Exedore" visiting the "SDF-1" for peace negotiations, and ran through a good portion of the post-war arc. Which means the "final battle" and "factory satellite" episodes were frequently watched, and had the M&M 1Js being awesome.
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    Don't worry about which one's most important. Get the J because it is the the best version of the VF-1. Also it gives you an excuse to do Millia's red 1J alongside it. You could do an M&M display! I'm helping! In seriousness... Without timing appearances, my gut instinct is that Max spends most of his screen time in a 1A, but the 1J is more iconic. If you just say "Max's Valk", it'll be the blue 1J that people think of. And if you do the TV 1A, you need to make a zentradi trenchcoat for it.
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    I swear, it won't be long before they start selling tickets to the trailers, BluRays of the trailers, exclusively on Netflix trailers...
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    In SDF he flies a VF-1A with white body and blue limbs, then later a 1J in blue with white trim and a thin red band on the legs. In DYRL he flies a 1A in Skull Squadron colors with a blue stripe across the chest and blue heatshield. Then a 1S in Skull colors with a blue chest stripe.(And he finishes the movie in a blue QRau, but that's outside the scope of the question.)
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    Juno is entering Jupiter orbit in 16 hours, ridiculous giant solar cells and all. And if all goes well, we will spend the next two years seeing what lies beneath Jupiter's ugly brown cloudtops.Maybe we'll finally learn why the great red spot is red.
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    That would be quite nice, yes. It seems evil of them to drop that teaser image a full month before they "announce" the toy and leave us with all these unanswered questions. Ordinarily, I'd just roll my eyes and move on, but this is a friggin' SOC Voltron. WE NEED TO KNOW.
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    Because the original Popy DX toy was perfect aside from articulation! No dissent shall be tolerated! In all seriousness, given that most of the merchandise took the aesthetic of that toy and adapted it to whatever product they were making(even molding and painting lion legs on parts that could never become lions), as did the CG sequel, a solid argument could be made that the "canon" version is the DX toy and the original cartoon is WRONG. It could be worse. Everyone COULD be copying the chubby plastic one with cockpits for the figures. Every Lion Voltron I've ever seen has matched legs on all four limbs. Almost always flathead screw legs(though YouTube sampling shows both in use in the anime, varying quite a bit from scene to scene). Seeing the red lion without the flathead screws looks inherently wrong to me. I am HOPING they are hinting at swappable lion legs and it isn't really that red lion's legs don't match green lion's.
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    Looks like ten to twelve inches. I'd expect Voltron to skew high, because he is simpler to implement than some of the others they have done. There's a more limited engineering and assembly cost associated with the guy than, say, Gunbuster or Gaogaigar Also, I find the preview picture interesting in that the green lion has the traditional "flathead screw" lion leg joints, but the red lion eschews them in favor of a sort of dinner plate look. I'm gonna have to see the full unveil shots to know how I feel about that change... oh, who am I kidding, it is a freakin' Soul of Chogokin Voltron. I will happily accept whatever Bandai decides to dump on us just because it is a modern combiner toy that looks like Voltron and isn't from Toonami/won't crumble to dust just sitting on the shelf .
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    I suspect it is mainly for us. My understanding is Japan pretty much NEVER cared about Golion. The San Diego Comic Convention unveil is another clue. Though even ignoring the high US demand, I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be the first "obscure mech no one wanted" in the lineup.
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    Genetic defect would be exceptionally odd for a genetically-engineered man, though. "Bad eye, needs cybernetics" doesn't seem like something that would've lasted long in the zentradi's genetic lines before the protoculture fixed it.
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    OMG! OH MY OMG! I want this, I need this, I MUST HAVE THIS NO MATTER THE COST!
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    You know, I never actually considered the "new body heals old wounds" aspect of the micloning process. That is a TOTALLY REASONABLE assumption. (And raises the possibility that Britai's prosthetic was not due to injury, but for enhancement, since a quick trip through the miclone chambers logically should have restored a damaged face. Which I guess fits with the DYRL-style organic prosthetic... )
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    If I had to choose between them, it's a no-brainer. My point is that they don't actually HAVE to choose between them. New Tron had a lot of potential left on the table, far more than I expected Tron 2 to produce. They have CHOSEN to put all their eggs in one basket instead of having two sci-fi franchises running at the same time.
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    They probably figure the market isn't big enough to support two science-fiction franchises, and are throwing their money behind the bigger one rather than split the market and kill both. It is a stupid mindset, but also a common one.
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    Sure. It means odds are so low that it is now actually unmaking the movie in parallel universes where it has already been released.
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    I'mma offer up a free retcon excuse, and say they use electromagnetic hardpoints. Kawamori can thank me later.
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    Huge nostalgia boner... the part where Starscream reaches over to "cock" his arm laser is an adorable touch... And then gameplay comes up and what Primus-forsaken mess is this? My heart. It is broken. You have slain me with this trailer.
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    What? A Voltron cartoon that lacks serious drama and targets children? THIS IS AN OUTRAGE! SEND IN THE ROBOT SPACEMOUSE! But honestly... why would anyone expect anything else? Voltron was very rarely a show full of gripping narrative drama.
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    I used to own that lunchbox in blue. I THINK it finally made it to the trash. Can't swear to it, though.
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    Oh, it was worse than that. After the initial lawsuit/settlement where they agreed to stay out of each others' markets, Apple the record company sued because the Apple IIgs had a synthesizer chip in it, meaning it could be programmed to play then-quality computer music, of a sort entirely unrelated to the kind Apple Records sold. Apple-the-music felt it was a breach of the prior settlement. Apple Records sued AGAIN because the Mac had a system sound that was a short sequence of chimes, and thus a very short musical composition. Apple-the-transistors was PUBLISHING MUSIC and this was COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE. This provoked a detailed settlement that outlined who had what rights to use the Apple trademark so they wouldn't keep getting into legal throwdowns. The reason Apple-the-record-company lost to Apple-the-computer-company over iTunes is that being 1991, when specifying who got what parts, they specified physical media carrying prerecorded content. So even though Apple-the-computers was trampling ALL OVER Apple-the-records, their own legal settlement had ceded those rights to the computer company. The one with the hardware later bought the music trademarks off of the one with the CDs for an alleged half-billion dollars and now licenses the music trademarks to the one with the records. So after some thirty years of bickering, that particular hatchet is now firmly buried. It is, perhaps, even messier than the current english DYRL standoff where three or four companies think they have rights, but no one is sure so they're all waiting to see a release so they can sue over it and sort things out in court.
  23. JB0
    Because Ishtar has incredible fashion sense.
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    Scarfish will be okay. He is unkillable, the scar is actually from where a luckless harpoonfisher lanced him many years ago. I'm more worried about his ladycatfish.
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    It was indirectly stated in SDF. They explicitly call out the gravity controller malfunction as a side effect of the booby trap(in ye olde clip episode, Global Report) as opposed to a fault of the design or a mistake in the restoration. And that implies that there's no problem with them if you don't have a millenia-old computer virus in your system. Otherwise, Global wouldn't have DARED sit there buzzing cities knowing his gravity controllers could rip out at any moment and send everyone plummeting to their death.
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