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  1. JB0
    I think you might mean boldly going where quite a few men have gone before.
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    My Target did their annual stocking of the Transformer section. There was a crapton of stuff there. Whole shelfload of Coronation Starscreams(If, you know, you WANT to pay fifty bucks for what is essentially Classics Starscream in a cape...), shelfload of Bulkheads(all with their heads folded down for some reason), a single Laser Prime(not really my jam, especially not with the trailer being so sad).... And a single Galvatron and Blaster. Got both of 'em. Blaster is fun, but with a couple missed notes. I don't understand how they thought the buttons should push IN to eject instead of DOWN. The speakers on his legs flip in to make DIFFERENT speakers on the sides of boombox mode, when they could easily form solid panels instead. And if his gun's barrel were simpler, it could make a great "antenna"(which is how I'm using it, pegged into the back of his shoulder and pointed upwards). He's still pretty great, though. Galvatron's a really nice incarnation of the character, though he desperately needs some stickers. I tried to make him do an embarrassed anime girl pose, because I enjoy character assassination. He's now standing like he's about to muay-thai kick the crap outta someone because he absolutely refuses to be demeaned like that. The transformation's involved, but not fiddly, and that genuinely impresses me. The "blatantly a spaceship for Unicron to eat" guns don't bug me very much. BUT the engine pods and arch are a second piece of plastic. It'd be trivial to remove them if Hasbro hadn't sprung for glue, and that DOES bug me. I'll probably cut the arch off one to see how it looks without before I go whole-hog.
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    Funny, two of those perked up due to a change in creative control. NextGen took off after Roddenberry no longer had control and the crew could stretch their legs, DS9 took off after Berman and Bragga were focusing on then-new Voyager and the DS9 crew could stretch their legs. ... And Voyager took off after they added a pair of boobs in a catsuit. I don't think that's a ratings silver bullet that works in the modern era.
  4. JB0
    OPEN THE FLOODGATES!
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    I feel like that's a bad idea. It is a powerful statement about who Pike is that he would dive into an extremely dangerous situation to save others, and it is more powerful if he does so with full knowledge of what it will condemn him to. Throwing a "get out of jail free" card onto the pile afterwards undermines that statement.
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    At least it didn't scream itself to death.
  7. JB0
    It's clearly meant for the digital battlefield. It was designed to fight for the users in the battle against the MCP.
  8. JB0
    I mean, the Eugenics Wars ended in 1996. I think we're clearly off the Star Trek timeline at this point either way. This is probably for the best, as World War 3 is scheduled for 2026.
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    If they actually do holograms, that'll be cool. If they just do shiny foil then pbbbbth. If I recall, most of the titular masks were reworked. Toy safety laws had just changed, and all the masks were not in compliance with new choking hazard rules. They remolded them to be some combination of larger(so they were harder to get in there) and well-ventilated(so they didn't block airflow completely if they did get in there).
  10. JB0
    Nope and nope, in that order.
  11. JB0
    Man, that Moderoid Mega Force stuff's got a real XPanders vibe to it. Speaking of toy lines that need a relaunch...
  12. JB0
    True story, I'm still using that old hotmail account. I enjoy the look on people's faces when I say "at hotmail dot com"
  13. JB0
    Same. Refit Constitution is my favorite Star Trek ship.
  14. JB0
    And they had to redo all the new CG from scratch because they never got the original files from the company they hired to render the scenes, just final video at 480p. And then the company went out of business, so they COULDN'T get the original files and had to reconstruct the scenes from scratch.
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    Also, things that pop on a picture tube look drab on an LCD. I've had to stop viewing and change screens before because some old anime DVD was just flat and lifeless. The same should apply here, with the 2001 DVD being mastered for picture tubes.
  16. JB0
    That neck is awful. No two ways about it. Toy supremacists don't just want a clear neck, they want smokey plastic over random mechanical bits. This is the wrong color and lacks the innards. I don't know how they came to the conclusion anyone wanted it.
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    Pretty sure it will bear precious little resemblence to Voltron or Golion anyways.
  18. JB0
    It really seems like this is just a decade too late. The 80s nostalgiabomb market's been pushed aside for other things at this point.
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    I like it! Blitzwing having bits of the other modes hanging off in every mode is one of those signature things where I don't want a cleaner vehicle. And this looks designed to have them hang in vaguely useful places.
  20. JB0
    Daaaaang. Like, I appreciate that they wrote ends for everyone, but there seems a penchant for bleakness there. At least Archer dodges some miserable fate and dies of simple old age?
  21. JB0
    They do make surprisingly good cars. Better than some that actually look like they should transform. Can't much hold the backpack against 'em when every RC-ish packs large swaths of car shell into a backpack. At this point it's a signature feature of the character.
  22. JB0
    I'm looking at the car, and it looks oddly familiar... Mocha's almost a sexy version of the Go-Bot Psycho.
  23. JB0
    I mean, my Targets never had crap either. But Target had less chain-exclusive robots.
  24. JB0
    A sample of a sample, at that!
  25. JB0
    Best kinda dog.
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