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    Have I complained about NASA's naming sense recently? Because I think Perseverance is a TERRIBLE name for a probe. The thing about the older probes is a lot of them were named like they were DOING something. Explorer, Pioneer, Voyager, Pathfinder. They read as an active participant, an ally in our quest for knowledge, and they capture the imagination. The modern naming scheme lacks that evocative nature. They're all just named for an abstract concept or virtue, they don't even make a halfhearted grab at the imagination. Perseverance is a fine trait to have, but it isn't a good name. Naming aside, I'm excited about this. We learn more amazing things from every ally we send to Mars so far, and I expect great things from Percy.
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    I'm sold. Let's see if Disney steals ideas from us like they do everyone else!
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    Oooops. Maleficent Gaiden: The New Evil?
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    I shared this with my sister. Her response was "What? What?! ... Of all the villains they could choose, they went with the one whose entire character is 'wants to murder puppies'?!?" She then started running down the list of better options for "Maleficent 2". Jafar, Scar, and Snow White's Queen made her short list. She genuinely WANTS to see Scar. BUT NOPE! WE GET PUPPY MURDERER DEVILLE!
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    Is this something anyone wanted? Anyone at all?
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    If I recall, it is basically "nuclear fusion, only the trigger mechanism is a small amount of heavy quantum instead of a tiny fission bomb" Which makes sense, really. It creates an area of significantly boosted gravity in the heart of the bomb to keep the fusibles in one place longer once the reaction starts* AND gives you a simpler detonator(probably), without going whole-hog into REALLY exotic technology. *This is apparently a major hurdle in actual nuclear weapon development. Once the chain reaction starts, the things you are trying to react are flung violently apart by the explosion, and the reaction stops well before all the fuel is consumed. Every additional microsecond that everything stays together results in a larger yield for the same amount of fuel, or less fuel to get the same yield. Edit: Oh. Literally everyone already said this. Didn't realize I was a page behind.
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    Yeah, I'm not sure how I thought Black Wing was going to make a stable attachment with an unmodified Big Moth. Well, at least I don't have a Black Wing preorder out. I considered getting one to dock to my original issue Dancouga, but decided not to in the end. Woulda been upset if I had found out it won't dock the hard way.
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    On the one hand, it is great to see them putting more units of a toy out there to meet the demand. Some of these were heavily underproduced in their original runs. On the other... it should be alongside new releases, not in place of them.
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    That is disappointing to know.
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    Bodol's 1.4 megameter flagship and the 3-megameter factory satellite were both capable of space folds on reasonably short time scales, so it seems the technology exists. And I'd just like to note that science-fiction is missing out on a grand thing by typing phrases like "three thousand kilometers" when they could be saying "three megameters" instead. Even ignoring all the other issues, shrinking giant soldiers to human size to save space doesn't really work out, since your ship still has to be large enough to accommodate all those soldiers and their equipment at full size once the operation begins. You need space for the troops to be upsized, space for the equipment to be assembled, space for gearing up, boarding vehicles, et cetera. You can't just make a couple of them bigger, assemble a couple mechs, send them out, then repeat to limit your staging area space. You need the capability to rapidly launch large forces for both offensive and defensive purposes, so you need to be able to accommodate a large force of men and armament in their operational state.
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    Then giant-size soldiers might not be for you.
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    I was under the impression that R was mostly just a new head and paint, and no mold changes were made.
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    That is quite fair. My thought was "if we're gonna put 'em on pegs, they may as well be Weaponizer limbs", not that weaponizing Kup should've been their first goal. I do agree with your durability concern, and the feature probably should've been implemented a diffrent way. That they chose the way most likely to cause problems down the line and also didn't choose the way that enables off-label silliness disappoints me, though.
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    I am genuinely disappointed by this, for some reason.
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    And great-uncle Basara is shouting "LISTEN TO MY SONG!!!" at some poor innocent geological featured
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    I miss my Shield Jazz. It was within reach of a new puppy, who apparently wanted to make it more screen-accurate, but had only seen Bay's work. ... Yeah. Ripped in two. I found the top half and bottom half in diffrent places.
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    I suspect they have problems that can best be solved by a certain space trucker with a uniquely-customized VF-19... I also suspect everyone in the galaxy is trying to keep said space trucker ignorant of events, because of HOW he solves problems.
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    I actually didn't realize Bombshell had an Action Master version. That explains that. Really, they shoulda gone all-in and just Action Master'ed the whole line. No half-measures.
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    Why does Bombshell's package have the late-gen logo like Banzai-tron? He should have the same logo style as Starscream. I thought it was cool that they were using the period-appropriate logos for the characters until I got to him.
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    I am TOTALLY okay with Albegas Gladiator Voltron getting the SOC treatment too. (I actually remember seeing that toy in stores and being excited there was a THIRD Voltron. Then disappointed when I never saw him in the cartoons.)
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    And a Voltron Force Voltron while we're at it. Get every Voltron the SoC treatment, and Force its first toy robot ever!
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    Or, since it is a limited edition, "Who cares, we'll sell out before they can arm the lawyers." Wouldn't be the first time they pulled that move.
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    We can dream, indeed.
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    No, Voltron 3D Stealth Voltron isn't to be announced until NEXT month. No mercy for the wallet! (I kid. To my knowledge, there are no further Voltron SOC releases planned.)
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    I mean, the same thing applies to Godzilla. He's way too big to be a functional biological organism as shown. But it is fun, so we don't care.
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