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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!

And while destructive interference applies to infrared as well as any other wavelength, it is usually emitted by the plane, which makes it harder to detect, analyze, and counteract. Also, the location of the sensor is unknown, so it can't be targetted.

1 hour ago, Old_Nash_II said:

Remains the worst possible idea, after all, there are a lot of hostile elements, who could launch a kamikaze attack to destroy both since they had no defenses and..

oh.

That's fair.

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But at least they didn't level the city with their shields in the process?

30 minutes ago, Old_Nash_II said:

(Worst idea in the world, building one ship "on the back" of another...)

If I remember the old novels correctly, that was because they were cannibalizing key systems off the SDF-1 to build the SDF-2.

5 hours ago, Spark-O-Matic said:

As for Picard Show what should have been done was Sisco!  he was the better one as DS9 was way more centered around him. Avery Brooks has always been a great actor and the cast of DS9 more interesting Imo. Hollywood's always ignoring Brooks reminds me of what they really think of him, not what they virtue signal.

As I understand things, they've wanted to bring Sisko back, but Avery Brooks doesn't actually want to come back.

25 minutes ago, M'Kyuun said:

Well, too, it was an acquired property by virtue of a rival company buyout, so there may be mixed feelings. Then again, they've had zero qualms with hocking Star Wars stuff ad infinitum, so I'm thinking there's just a general lack of interest on the part of Hasbro.

They've floated the idea of doing something with MASK before. Most notably, they released a Matt Trakker figure in GI Joe back in 2008, complete with MASK logo on the package.

I think they keep poking to see if there's enough market interest, then not seeing it. I'm not saying they're right(personally, I didn't know about the Matt Trakker figure at all until a few years later).

I sort of feel like MASK being "the bastard child of GI Joe and Transformers" makes it a harder sell at Hasbro, where they already HAVE GI Joe and Transformers.

9 hours ago, Stampeed Valkyrie said:

Rest in Peace Shrek song guy..  

Didn't he kind of hate Shrek because of how the band became known as just "the Shrek song guys"?

Cute, but my Fromsoft tastes skew a little harder.

So... plush Nineball when?

5 hours ago, pengbuzz said:

I actually have that on preorder. Been dreaming of this for 40+ years!

Same.

Is some other design probably a better Optimus? Sure, even if your tastes aren't "Sunbow or die". I've been quite fond of a few Optimii over the years. 

Is this the best the original toy will ever be, and the thing I thought was around as a kid? Heck yeah!

22 hours ago, tekering said:

Well, not so much now. 😅

I feel sorry for whoever paid $2000 for a 3D-printed prototype that anyone can make an exact duplicate of now. 😳

You wouldn't download a car hovertank.

Glossy white is the perfect camoflage, because it reflects the surroundings!

21 minutes ago, jvmacross said:

Wrath of Cobra....yet I only see Cobra getting their arses handed to them in the trailer...lol

Looks pretty cool!

That's why they feel wrath.

5 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

There are several books that have claimed Char's custom red is actually just the anti-rust basecoat and that the MS isn't painted at all as the ground crew doesn't like him. 

Char Customs hit different when he's driving around in a bare-primer ride.

3 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

since I've put together a new gaming rig for the first time in quite a few years, how're you all handling cable management?

By not looking under my desk or behind my computer.

6 hours ago, davidwhangchoi said:

is this a good franchise? anyone heard of it?

 

I've definitely heard good things about Macross before.

6 hours ago, davidwhangchoi said:

The English and Japanese official websites for MACROSS: Shooting Insight also opened today. The Japanese website contains a key visual that includes Lynn Minmay from MACROSS: Do You Remember Love?, while the English website’s key visual does not. At this point, it is unclear what this means.

The "featured series" and "characters" sections differ too, with the english site omitting the DYRL logo from the former, and Hikaru and Minmay from the latter.

I don't know for sure what it means other than "Harmony Gold is back on the menu". (If it is their fault, at least it's within the actual scope of their license for once.)

25 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

When all's said and done, given that nothing exciting has happened to it... I'd expect a story set aboard Megaroad-01 to basically be a Macross version of Red Dwarf.  A terminally bored crew trying to find SOMETHING to do to stay sane.

I'm actually very disappointed that Delta saw fit to peek at Megaroad.

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Now that people know where she is, a rescue mission can presumably be mounted?

I feel like there's room for a story about the Megaroad, but it couldn't credibly be about Hikaru, Misa, and Minmay. It would have to be about new people, with the old characters having the occasional cameo.

49 minutes ago, Xenon said:

indeed, he made a real dog's dinner of his first (involuntary) sortie in the VF-1D, hardly telegraphing his future creditable standing as a UN Spacy pilot.

Well, yeah. Amuro read the instruction manual first, Hikaru didn't have one.

5 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

With the exception of the toy-centric Gundam Build series,

And also G Gundam! War can be ended with a suitably-impressive martial arts tournament!

20 hours ago, Bolt said:

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cv0VtsRIeOP/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
 

Didn't know Lee could go Super Saiyan. Not surprised, though.

5 hours ago, Bolt said:

This part of Mazinger Zero's "every mech anime is Mazinger Z" scheme?

"SECRET EMBLEM"

Holy crap, he even has a rubsign!

4 hours ago, azrael said:

No VF-1s. 'Seen that twice already. No need to retread on that.

Three if we count the time Gamlin stole Millia's VF-1 and then wrecked it immediately!

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Wait, you said "whole series". Oh well.

I HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN, GAMLIN.

4 hours ago, mikeszekely said:

Yeah, I wish the Studio Series version were a bit bigger- although height to the head is actually accurate compared to Prime he seems too skinny to actually fight him. 

My recollection is he looked kinda skinny in the game, too. But his animation and voice gave him Megatron's presence. And the new toy manages to look less skiny than the old one, which has a pretty tiny waist.

I'll probably pick this one up if I see it on a shelf, but that's a pretty big if. Better than the rest, though. There wasn't anything necessarily WRONG with the rest, their designs just aren't particularly interesting to me, and the gun-arm gimmick isn't well-implemented(though I appreciate the attempt).