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  1. JB0
    I don't know that this is really the right place, but it was brought to my attention that the modern Diaclone line has homages to some non-Diaclone toys... and that one of them is Machine Robo's Bike Robo. I'm going to make the argument that Diaclone Trirambler is an unlicensed third-party Cy-Kill, and this is appropriate for the thread. Mine is the "D-Caliber" repaint. The original seems to have had black where mine has blue, and blue where mine has red on the legs. It's a very teched-up sci-fi reimagining, but in bike mode it's very clearly Cy-Killing it. (There is an alternate transformation where the shoulders hinge down and the arms extend straight forward, but why would you want to do that?) Robot mode is much less directly evocative, but that seems par for the course(find pics of the new Battle Convoy for a weird mirror-universe Optimus Prime). Lots of features that homage the original, but still doing its own thing. The amber visor on the head is inspired by the original's headlight, the wheel-jetpack is a more "practical" version of wheeled shoulders, there's two small yellow bits next to a larger yellow bit in the chest(albeit the larger bit's a cockpit)... and so on. There's also a lot of alternate configurations that I do TakaraTomy a disservice by not mentioning, but they're irrelevant to my thesis.
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    As someone who only ever had (parts of) G2 Devastator, Tonkanator really speaks to me.
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    That's funny, tell another one!
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    It is perfect for the captain who wants to boldly go into the danger zone.
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    But how are we supposed to figure out how many invid it takes to scuttle an Imperial Star Destroyer if we can't argue about it?!
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    I mean, at least some thought was put into the, errr, facilities. How often is there just straight-up nowhere to poop and people simply don't produce waste?
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    But never figured out to just drop the things into a black hole for relativistic shredding. Oh well...
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    In fairness, mankind in Macross has learned one important lesson: if the protoculture left some dangerous ruins around, you NUKE IT FROM ORBIT instead of studying it to figure out how it works and if you can adapt it to your purposes.
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    Because just like "unlimited data" means "25 gigabytes" and "digital" means "on the internet", "original" now means "regional exclusive" instead of "content developed by or for a specific network/service".
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    Fantastic! They did the other fighting game too.
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    My mistake. I knew this was Marvel, didn't know it was under the Spiderman license.
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    Because clearly we need to be punished for not giving Disney our money.
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    Like they originally did with Darkwing Duck? That show was ahead of its time.
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    Or making Bumblebee turn into a real Volkswagen instead of a puffy chibi one. Except that toy was as wrong as it was official.
  16. JB0
    Is it "call Blade"? Because it should be "call Blade".
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    True enough.
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    I stand corrected.
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    I mean, in fairness, the first movie had a lot of problems that had nothing to do with Roddenberry. The studio made all kinds of poor decisions(and was all too eager to beef right back at Roddenberry). I'm not saying Roddenberry was blameless, just... maybe only 20% of the mess was his fault?
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    And they flew the Enterprise shooting model across the V'Ger model in the original film. For all the movie's failings, going big was not one of them.
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    SEAK PEEK on the thumbnail. That is all.
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    This is a VERY high-effort troll of DisneyCo, and I respect it on that alone.
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    I think they should've made it look like a Zaku!
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    Apparently, he had so much fun in Top Gun that he went and got a pilot's license shortly afterwards.
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    My understanding of the new Enterprise has always been that it was a re-designation of a new-construction Constitution, built to the "refit" specifications. They took one that was approaching completion when Kirk and company blew up the no-bloody-A-B-C-or-D, and immediately before it was officially designated the USS Whatever, NCC 90210, they rushed out and repainted it to be NCC-1701-A. The refit specification replaced every system, bringing the Constitution up to then-modern specs, and the hull seemed to not be a limiting factor, so there was no reason not to build more of them. Maybe they weren't the finest ships in the fleet after the Excelsior-class came online, but they were still fine ships. At least one served well into Picard's era, being destroyed in the battle of Wolf-359. ... Well, they were mostly fine ships. The 1701-A seems to have been a lemon, with it having to be brought back for a near-total overhaul after it's shakedown cruise because the warp core was the only thing that DID work right, and she was unceremoniously retired after less than a decade in service. But we know this wasn't the fate of the entire class.
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