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6 hours ago, Alex GS said:

maybe in person and holding it  you can feel its quality not sure, but as for now with those pictures that looks like very plasticky and toyish (not desirable for collecting at least for me) not to mention that nonsense price it doesn't make any sense, I would rather look and spend for a blitzway voltron than  this. 

or maybe I will look for one of this instead  

 

That IS the ultimate Voltron. Hard to make something better than that.

I guess it's time to cook some popcorn again.

41 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

... ok, I might have to look that one up later because that actually sounds kinda funny.

The book was called Darksaber, and Wookiepedia says I misremember how badly it malfunctioned(though the end result was the same)

6 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

  I know it's probably from some expanded universe novel from the 90's or something, but wow does "The Darksaber" not hold up as the amazingly cool artifact it's supposed to be. 

Confusingly, there WAS a Darksaber in ao expanded universe novel from the 90s, but it was completely unrelated(and also a bit of a joke, as it was a bootleg Death Star that self-exploded due to shoddy craftsmanship)

For a triple-changer, that's damned impressive. Off-hand, I don't see any evidence of jet on the car or Not-Ravage. And the pile of garbage under the plane is more forgivable in a three-mode toy(and frankly, more effort was expended on the jet's underside than most TWO-MODE jet-robos.)

2 hours ago, Raikkonen said:

Well relates to it as personal preferences are being mentioned. 🤷‍♂️

Which I started when saying Delta isn't memorable while liking Zero, something like that, to others feeling the opposite. 

I just don't know which Macross has the Fiero music.

16 hours ago, Raikkonen said:

Feel the exact same about 7. 

Some like redheads, others blondes. Some want a Porsche, others a Ferrari. One of those things. 😅

Some people want a minty clean Pontiac Fiero, while acknowledging it is objectively a trash car.

I don't know how that relates to the topic at hand, but now you know my "suddenly rich" plan.

3 hours ago, jenius said:

ALL of my friends owned at least one Robotech product, or Jetfire.

I, on the other hand, was the only kid I knew with any connection to Robotech. I knew a person or two with Jetfire, but they had it as a Transformer, not a Robotech proxy.

10 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Ghostbusters

This one's funny to me, because I was just talking with someone about that show. And the trademark collision with the show you MEANT, creatively titled "The Real Ghostbusters"...  because Filmation beat the movie tie-in cartoon to the punch with an animated resurrection of a live-action TV show from the 70s titled simply Ghostbusters.

4 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

As an engineer, I can honestly say that exploding violently has always been an unintended and undesirable operating mode for any of the propulsion and power systems I have worked on.

This doesn't stop the explosions from happening, it just means we get upset and have to add notes to the FMEA when they do.

So you're saying you DO know how to make them explode, thus proving my point!

1 hour ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Humans in Macross basically did exactly the same thing the aliens in the pilot episode of Strange New Worlds did... "Hmmm... FTL power system.  What if we made this into a huge bomb?"  Humanity discovered an alien technology for limitless clean power and the first thing they did was make it into an unreasonably powerful bomb.

I mean, do you REALLY know how it works if you haven't made it explode?

6 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Wrong franchise for that in-joke... but the level of scientific irresponsibility's about the same.

 

So you're saying the Federation is actually the Protoculture?

4 hours ago, Master Dex said:

The tip of the iceberg really! These were gonna be used, along with other crazy but physically possible weapons on the USAF's Orion based space battleship. Which is a real design that would have had enough nuclear ordnance to basically kill the planet in one ship. Story goes it was Kennedy who axed it after reading the details and getting thoroughly freaked out by the concept. https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacewarshipart.php#id--Orion_Battleship

I agree it was likely too dangerous to make but at the same time it would have been pretty impressive as a spacecraft. I'm not willing to risk MAD over it though.

Considering however that the UN Spacy basically has clean versions of all that tech and more they likely would appreciate it. 

The REALLY fun one was the USAF's OTHER Orion battlewagon. It DIDN'T have crew, or weapons. They just filled the entire craft with a SINGLE FUSION BOMB. Yield was estimated to be a hundred gigatons. No one's ENTIRELY sure what the effects of a blast that large would be, other than "very bad"

Given modern handling of Megatron, a triple-changer makes sense. He's almost always a tank or a jet, why not both?

16 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

the ALP-125 is a more aggressive version that uses a miniaturized explosive based on reaction warhead technology to produce a single incredibly powerful laser blast that also results in the destruction of the missile in a substantial explosion

So Macross gets a little hard sci-fi with a bomb-pumped X-ray laser? Awesome!

1 hour ago, Big s said:

Or shot in the crotch 

¿Por que no los dos?

13 minutes ago, Big s said:

It might be fun if they throw in a mode where you play a thug trying to get away from Robocop. It would almost be like a horror game since he’s practically unstoppable 

You make Robocop sound like the Terminator.

He can't be bargained with, can't be reasoned with, and he absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are in handcuffs.

5 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

It's like fans can't remember that there were only ever seven Evil-series, that four of them died in Macross 7, and the other three ****ed off to parts unknown at the end of the series.

That's just what a protodeviln trying to avoid detetction on a message board would say!

14 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

They were basically useless on the ground, since the Zentradi didn't do ground warfare, but they found some utility as a long-ranged anti-capital ship turret able to deliver low yield thermonuclear reaction warheads.

I'm guessing they win out over missiles because the lack of a rocket engine makes them harder to detect and counter while in-flight. Hence the continued service of the Metal Gear Monster.

I readily admit I'll buy from the first company to make a Stampede Valk, regardless of who it is. It's stupid, but stupidly awesome.

6 hours ago, M'Kyuun said:

Along with Knight Rider, Airwolf, Blue Thunder, the '89 Batmobile, the Tumbler, and BA's van would also be nice crossovers.

KITT seems the most obvious, as he's ALREADY a sentient robot car.

I also wanna see 'em do Dukes of Hazard, but... yeah. Ain't no way that's happening.

52 minutes ago, mikeszekely said:

When Kilauea erupted a few years ago I remember watching a Youtube video of slowly engulfing a 4th-gen Mustang.  To me, those Infernac dudes remind me of that Mustang, like if instead of catching fire and melting it somehow busted out with cooled lava still stuck to it.

Which sounds AWESOME!

53 minutes ago, mikeszekely said:

And boo, if you're going to bring back Rock Lords, man up and bring back actual Rock Lords.  Nuggit's my boy.

You know what? That's fair.

53 minutes ago, mikeszekely said:

In any case, I keep hearing people (like you two) expressing interest in these Infernac guys, so while I stand by my belief that Hasbro should stop doing these gimmicky original characters you gave me FOMO and I wound up preordering both Bouldercrash and Magneous.😩

Haha!

Well, I hope they live up to the accidental hype. I just think they're neat plastic robots, and if Transformers is going to be the entire plastic robot space then they can stretch their legs.

I've been served enough red semis and yellow subcompacts/sports cars to last a lifetime, honestly. But I've never had an SUV made out of obsidian before!

Also: Transformers x Knight Rider when, Hasbro?

The neo-Rocklords(I guess they're called Infernac)... I'm kinda diggin' 'em. The vehicles have sort of a Flintstones vibe, and I'm here for it.

2 hours ago, pengbuzz said:

1) I think the visor is too small compared to the rest of the head. Also, there's too much space between the visor and the "mouth" area, which is throwing it off for me.

I've said my piece before, but the reason everything looks off is that their 1J head is just fundamentally the wrong shape. It goes up from the visor and curves back, when it should have a flat slope going back from the visor instead.

As someone whose only G1 combiner was Monstructor, he deserves to be six voyagers!

Actually, I think all the combiners deserve this kind of lavish treatment. Shelf-dominators, sure but it gets them an oversized hulking presence that I feel fits them.

Obvious problem*: I know the "Scramble City" designs need a larger torso-bot... bring back ultra?

Or sell the combiners as a box set in commander or titan, so compromises can be distributed where they most make sense instead of each bot being held to a strict parts & paints budget? I think this is a genuinely good idea. I know they did this with Devastator and people were unhappy with the individual bots, but frankly anything vaguely modern is a huge improvement over G1 Monstructor, no matter how badly done. And since there aren't any interim versions to point at and say "Siege of Generations: Primus Rising had a better Bristleback than this forty-seven years ago", it'll just be "the best Pretender Monsters ever released"

*aside from basically dedicating an entire line's Voyager assortment to a single team, but that's basically trivial!