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  1. JB0
    The Lancer size strikes me as odd. Wasn't that designed as a space fighter? I'd've expected some big fuel tanks in it.
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    Also it makes for a great way to launder money.
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    I like how much inspiration Flame Toys seems to have drawn from TF: Animated for this incarnation.
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    Well, the original Enterprise could cross it, and modern ships are tougher. One might fairly assume that the reapers ALSO have advanced their technology and a barrier engineered to keep them out eons ago might now pose less of an impediment now. Who sets these barriers up, anyways? Cocooning false gods at the core, walling out terminators at the rim?
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    Obviously they wouldn't cancel a hot title like this that everyone can't stop talking about. It is delayed by the khrona virus.
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    It is never a bad time to watch it again.
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    I grant that making it a name is weird, but I think of the character as "Major Kusanagi" most of the time. In the original comics, brains are one of the few pieces of anatomy that can't really be completely replaced by artificial hardware. Cyberbrains AUGMENT people's wet, meaty OEM CPUs. And friggin' SLAVES indentured servants? In the original, the major shows up with a combat-spec body well before she's ever hired by the government, and I can't see someone as "free-spirited" as her agreeing to sign on with an agency that would literally own her afterwards.
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    I realize that it is probably accidental continuity, but could these beings be the reason for the galactic barrier that the USS Enterprise(no bloody A, B, C, or D) crossed WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY back in "Where No Man Has Gone Before"? Usually, yes. But we can always look to "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" and it's bi-color aliens for symbolism and metaphor delivered with all the subtlety of a brick of nitroglycerin to the face.
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    I am also playing Doom, just like all the other cool kids. (The SC-88 VL just came in yesterday, and prompted some crisis debugging when my DOS box started exhibiting weird behavior, then not POSTing at all. Root cause: sound card wasn't seated firmly. And here I was worrying about a friggin' motherboard failure.)
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    Nope. In space, there's really no substitute for having more stuff to throw out the back. Throwing it faster helps, but not as much as having twice as much stuff to throw.
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    No! I need my laughs, now more than ever!
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    While I'm admittedly here because of Robotech, my ideal Macross DOES exist. The original series is pretty darn good.
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    I'd watch that too. "Captain, we're being accelerated past warp ten!" "We d*mn well aren't, do you not understand the f*cking concept of infinite speed?"
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    I've read this fanfic! ... Oh, wait, you're not talking about a fanfic. Never mind.
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    Speak for yourself. This trainwreck is hilarious.
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    Oh, the article has all kinds of problems. Just pleased to see someone NOT fawning over Bad Adaptation of Self-Insert Fanfic. (The Yuki avatar goes back to the days of rampant net-wide Haruhi-ism, but I've grown fond of it. )
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    Remember the omnidirectional barrier incident? Not too hard to imagine an upgraded barrier that allows the excess stored energy to be siphoned off for use in other systems(instead of being released in a devastating unfocused wave).
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    In fairness, they at least call out Sword Art for sucking. Sort of.
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    Ohhhhh yeah. Most of Combiner Wars kinda sucked since everything was built around the big, chunky combiner joint('s why I didn't get much of the line, I think Sky Lynx was it). Which, come to think of it, also cut deeply into Hasbro's notoriously tight materials budget(torso's not hollow).
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    I think part of that was that between Combiner Wars and the line immediately before it, most of the big-name characters already had a very recent toy in the current style. There was little compelling reason to do yet another Bumblebee or Trailbreaker or Mirage at that particular point in time. (While they did an Optimus, it was based on the G2 tanker truck instead of the usual Prime)
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    He did. I got both of 'em in stores, somehow. Pleased to have 'em, as I thought the originals looked really cool(possibly just because one was a drilltank). My only complaint about the modern ones is that I wish Topspin had larger wings, or they deployed farther back. But hey, the original doesn't look credible as a jet either.
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    I actually tried to do a family reunion photo set with G2 Optimus, Powermaster Optimus, Cybertron Optimus, and Power Baser. Four 'bots united across space-time by turning into big red trucks with firebase trailers. It fell through when I couldn't find Cybertron's pistol or PM's rifles, then had a significant amount of difficulty getting Baser into combined mode. By the end, I was just done with the whole idea.
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    I'd say if you want to, do it. But let's be honest, there's a lot less to say about most of them. The transformation is simpler, the articulation is virtually non-existent, and they're very much a "what you see is what you get" thing in most cases. I'm not really sure they NEED a review at this point. It'd be interesting to compare them to their modern remakes, though
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    Space donut. Yummy!
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    Hey, Harmony Gold worked really hard to gain that reputation. It would be disrespectful of us to NOT get angry.
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