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    Dangit, that is bullcrap. The dude deserves to be paid.
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    Micky-D got bought by Boeing years ago. And Boeing's looking pretty bad these days. They may very well be rubberstamping it to avoid a reputation as a difficult licensor(which would reduce licensing income). ... Or simply not care as long as they get paid.
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    I just want to hear more about the plagiarism lawsuit.
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    What else were they supposed to do. They did v3s of Optimus and Megatron already, they pretty much HAD to redesign Starscream. The only other option was do a toy that hasn't already been done twice in the line. And ttat's clearly impossible.
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    Lasers. The Blowsperior swords. Wait, that's not alien tech... That one rifle Hikaru used as improvised artillery during the jailbreak. LASERS.
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    I salute you, you glorious madmen.
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    Ah. Thanks for the correction. Yeah, it always seemed to me like HG did Animeigo very wrong.
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    I'd wager it's also three times faster than a normal bioroid.
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    If it makes you feel better, I sighed at the fake hood on his chest. But the rest of the design seems sane enough that I'm reserving judgement. He looks competent in both modes, and the dynamic posing makes me think that robot mode isn't an "only good from head-on" deal. If nothing else, at least it isn't a complete mess of panel lines and hinges(but then, budget prevents the sort of plastic origami that some of the recent MPs have reveled in). I prefer Hasui's design sense and wish he was still running Masterpiece, though obviously I'm in the minority.
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    It really does. Good jet and good robot. The vehicle-first design seems like a must to get a good transforming jet. The six-winged backpack is a bit much, though.
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    I'm excited! Are you excited? ... Yes, I enjoy legal drama far too much. That's what Macross has done to me.
  12. JB0
    And yet when Cartoon Network was running Robotech, they opted to omit Mospeada instead of Southern Cross. Did we ever find out why?
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    See, DLSS bugs me because it is a feature created to justify otherwise-useless silicon. Most people don't need hardware-accelerated AI, but nVidia wants to sell the same chip to AI researchers and game players(albeit at very diffrent prices). So nVidia had to create a graphics feature that would run on AI hardware accelerators, and chose fuzzy logic anti-aliasing.
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    Both had prototypes created. I think the editorial decision was Unicron was too expensive and Arcee had cooties.
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    I suspected there was something wrong with the arms, but wasn't sure what. That'd do it.
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    They're upside-down and backwards is what's up. Left hand on right arm and vice-versa, then flipped so they open the right way around.
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    But at least after a decade and twenty pages of posts, we can conclusively answer the thread's original question. "No Love for Southern Cross?" There's definitely some love. Not much, but it clearly exists.
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    Turns out Steeljaw is the cybertronian equivalent of Spot or Rover, and is just the generic dog name for the uninspired pet owner.
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    That's just silly. A time-travelling Porthos was Scotty's doing, not Archer's.
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    Or Commander Riker's holodeck adventure... No, I'm not still mad about how Enterprise ended. What makes you think that?
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    I can just hear KITT when I look at this.
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    Yay! More comedy goldmines! Though this article seems to think that people enjoy this as something other than unintentional parody. Which is odd, since it is terrible.
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    Holy cow. Rest in peace, mister Boseman.
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    So... I actually put in an online order for the new Sky Lynx. And while waiting for someone to ship it, I actually found one in stores. I was stunned, I have literally never seen anything in this size bracket show up on retail shelves in any store in my area, when they stock anything at all. Last I was through, they didn't even have a space on the shelf FOR this bracket. Once I recovered from my confusion and disbelief, I realized I could cancel my online preorder and actually buy Sky Lynx off the shelf like a normal person(for definitions of normal that include thirty-something men buying children's toys). It was a good day for the local Target, as in addition to one Sky Lynx, they also had a bunch of Earthrise Starscreams snuggled in with the lone Grapple and pile of Astrotrains. The leftover Siege stuff was only about two thirds of their stock instead of 90%. I'm actually impressed with the amount of articulation Hasbro and TakaraTomy packed into this Sky Lynx. I expected no side-to-side joints in the neck and got two. But boy do I wish Sky's tail had even one side-to-side hinge in it. In some respects Sky Lynx is objectively better than Magna Inventa. The legs on Sky are much larger and thoroughly ratcheted. The armature that lets you raise the wing forward and up from its shuttle location is a very nice touch(Magna avoids the weird-looking wings by flipping them 180 and then folding out HUGE blue panels... devoid of any molded detail). And I adore the full-length cargo bay doors(which aren't really possible on Magna Inventa since part of the shuttle body folds away during transformation, allowing a larger neck). Hasbro's tolerances have let me down, though. Sky Lynx has a few joints that just can't hold their weight, and one's in a wing armature. But all his ratchets are nice and firm, and every joint of the Lynx legs is ratcheted. (No CW collapsing under his own weight nonsense) Scale-wise, Earthrise Sky Lynx looks like Magna Inventa's kid brother. And this thought makes me smile.
  25. JB0
    With dark magics, gumption, and sheer dedication to wisecracking.
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