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2 hours ago, Chronocidal said:

Man, I would love so much to see a masterpiece-level Dreadwing pair someday, either official or third party.

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.

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.

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! ARMORED CORE IS BACK!

1 hour ago, Big s said:

I don’t have the right streaming service to be able to verify myself, I think it’s on Paramount + but could be wrong. I didn’t see it on D+ or Hulu. Either way I’ve been hearing that they removed old Indy from all the episodes, so unfortunately they may not be referencing that version of him. 

https://screenrant.com/young-indiana-jones-chronicles-old-indy-cut-reason-canon/

Apparently that goes back to George Lucas being George Lucas.

6 hours ago, Chunky001 said:

It's been present in most of the recent moves with time travel. Avengers Endgame for example.

Here is what it is and how in theory it's the only way that can work:

https://theconversation.com/time-travel-could-be-possible-but-only-with-parallel-timelines-178776

The "Back To The Future" type of time travel is now a dead concept in the scientific community.

In the words of Spider-Man(PS1): "Sure it breaks the laws of physics, but so does everything else I do."

I enjoyed Crystal Skull... right up to the final scene where aliens warp in and steal the loot.

18 minutes ago, M'Kyuun said:

Are you talking about Wingblade Prime, or another figure? Wingblade was released, but only in the Japanese market.

I did not know that!

...

Or once knew and forgot. 

I know it is too much to hope Hasbro will just use the toy they already have designs and molds for. Aggressive cost reductions, whoo!

16 hours ago, Old_Nash_II said:

But Optimus always had a mouth XD

 

And this is why original toy accuracy is important.

31 minutes ago, M'Kyuun said:

I'm interested in the Animated Prime, but I'm fearful that they're going to G1-ify it like the Prime stuff, and for all intents and purposes, Bulkhead, who had far more in common with the Animated version than Prime.

Same. Maybe even get that armored Prime they had in the finale. Toy was designed but never produced, and it still stings.

4 hours ago, mikeszekely said:

Anyways... I leave this under a spoiler tag, so if you want to be surprised a bit over a year from now you can be.  Suffice to say, it's an eclectic mix.

The only thing that will surprise me is seeing any of them in stores.

22 minutes ago, Big s said:

Earlier I think I accidentally posted the title as wheel of destiny, when it’s actually dial of destiny. I was probably confusing it with Wheel of time. I have a feeling that that’s probably the title they would’ve chosen if it hadn’t already been taken 

Indiana Jones and the Wheel of Fortune, maybe?

I think it has a nice ring to it.

Imagine Weird Al in the Macrossverse.

"Sir, he's broadcasting on all genres! We don't know how to stop him!"

3 hours ago, pengbuzz said:

Yeah; he usually watched Chuck Norris roundhouse kick someone off the planet in Walker, Texas Ranger.

Better to watch the roundhouse than receive the roundhouse.

3 minutes ago, Bolt said:

Thanks for the clarity. It makes sense to have physical countermeasures, I believe. I do recall it being prominently used in Zero, at the beginning, when Shin is dogfights in his F-14. But could not remember much else. With all the Itano circus going on in Macross, the absence of physical countermeasures is quite noticeable..

Zero also showed the more direct countermeasures with the VF-0's head turret gunning down incoming missiles.

6 minutes ago, mikeszekely said:

Let's talk about the name, for a minute.  Does Hasbro think they're side-stepping the whole Rumble-is-blue-Frenzy-is-red argument? 

I think they're retiring the Frenzy name. There's just Rumble (Red) and Rumble (Blue) going forward. 

Honestly, I was already thinking Galactic Empire sounds more accurate just based on how many superweapons they made.

34 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Nobody even really knows what the Stellar Republic's actual system of government was.  Can't very well recreate a government you know nothing about.

So they just call it a republic because it sounds good?

Or is it a case of not knowing if it was a republic or a "democratic people's republic"? Truth in advertising is admittedly hard to find at times.

3 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Oh, they had guts... the problem is they completely ruined the impact of the film's one big character moment by foreshadowing it SO heavily and SO often that throughout the film's runtime that when the blow finally landed it had no impact whatsoever.

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If you're going to kill off the most likeable and important character on the cast in the film's ending, don't ****ing telegraph it.  Not even once, and especially not in almost every single conversation the character has throughout a two hour runtime! 

With so many death flags being raised every goddamn time Hayate and Freyja talk or people talk about them, the only way to save the ending would have been to reveal it was all trolling like Ozma's pineapple moment in Frontier and have her live.

 

I mean, in fairness, that particular twist has been telegraphed so heavily for so long that the only thing actually surprising about it is that it didn't happen in the final episode of the TV series.

Jesus Christ....

May the greatest power ranger(I recognized his awesomeness when I didn't even like the show) find the peace that escaped him in life.

7 minutes ago, cheemingwan1234 said:

Drat, guess that rocket ejection for canopy is the only option for ejecting from a VF.

Or ejecting the cockpit as a module(seen frequently on the VF-11 in Macross 7), or the entire nose as a module(seen once in SDF Macross)

57 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

"Toned down" and "more controllable" are relative statements, to be sure.

It probably didn't help matters any that Shinsei Industry seemed to be working at cross purposes with itself when it came to improving the VF-19.  Efforts to improve stability and ease of control via aerodynamic refinements and flight control program updates for the airframe control AI were deployed to models that were adopting new, more powerful engines which almost certainly exacerbated the very g-load problem they were trying to fix.  Somehow, it seems like it never occurred to Shinsei Industry's engineers to dial the engine power back to make the VF-19 more controllable.

(And as a result, General Galaxy were able to steal a march on them with the VF-171 in the mid-2040s by rolling out a much less extreme 4th Generation VF that didn't have a thrust-to-weight ratio of over 10 and therefore lacked the control issues plaguing the VF-19 and VF-22.)

Makes you wonder if maybe they needed one more meeting than they had.

"Hey, you hear anything about the new VF-19?"

"The guys I ran into said they're working on big avionics changes to make it more pilot-friendly."

"Huh. Wonder why no one told us a new revision was coming. Let's see if we can't get another thousand kilos of thrust in there, so the pilots can make the most of this new friendlier OS!"

6 hours ago, pengbuzz said:

I know they dialed it down for the VF-19 series, but it still ended up making the EX-Gear necessary for future craft.

Also, the delay before the toned-down, more-controllable VF-19 variants came out left an opening for the VF-171 to exploit. Particularly as even after the VF-19 stopped killing pilots, it still had to overcome a reputation and was still pretty expensive.

Hopefully this goes well. The idea that we might see a return to the moon in my lifetime is suddenly looking real again.

Godzilla in that picture's just going "Bro, seriously? I gotta drop you to the floor AGAIN?"

They definitely weren't planning on coming back for the protodevlin, but the rest? Maybe.

"You know, this is wildly and irresponsibly dangerous, but it hasn't actually tried to kill us yet. Let's think about it for a bit before we do anything we can't take back."