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16 hours ago, mikeszekely said:
sorry, JB0, maybe Hasbro will make a Gen Selects version later with a toy-style visor, mouth plate, and claws.
One day I shall rule the toy brand!
Also, is original toy Brawn just sporting a Cylon head?
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6 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:
Of course, Humanity's saving grace when facing the Queadluun series in Zentradi hands is that they're quite rare due to the complexity and cost of their manufacture.
And also a certain blue-haired pilot with
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4 minutes ago, Chronocidal said:
Yeah, that's insanely depressing to see.. but I guess it's too much to expect a store with such lenient return policies to bother to check whether the thing returned is the same as what was purchased.
At least to check before they restock it vs throw it in the trash.
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12 hours ago, mikeszekely said:
I guess what I'm saying is that the G1 Optimus toy is very iconic as a toy, but not necessarily the character.
That's fair. But personally, I had the toys a lot longer than the cartoon was on the air(and also some of the catalogs weirdly continued to exist in my possession as time capsules), so my image of many characters is shaped a lot more by the toy than the cartoon.
Going off the rails a bit here...
I think the cartoon designs veered too far into "a human wearing some cardboard boxes" territory. What's proportional for a human is... well, proportional for a human. I say this while readily acknowledging that Ratchet/Ironhide was, ummm, special. Even where the cartoon designs are preferred, I wish they had more of the toy "imperfections."
And my favorites are things like Warpath and Shockwave, where there are some very-clearly inhuman things going on. My childhood robot design checklist was basically "mouthplates are better than mouths, visors are better than eyes, weird claws are better than hands, built-in weapons are better than handheld ones, and robot dinosaurs can break all the rules", and my tastes haven't changed much since then... except that somewhere along the line, I added "sexy girl robots can break all the rules"...
Generally-speaking I like my robots a little less human and a little more alien. Obviously, Shockwave was basically the coolest dang thing ever. If he'd had a claw for his remaining hand, he'd be perfect. While I never had Whirl as a kid, the picture in the catalog was love at first sight.
If I had my way, there'd be a lot more "weird" robots in the line today. Goofy limb proportions, claws where fingers should be, too many limbs(shout-out to the four-armed toasterbot!), wheels and treads and thrusters on the feet(Rollerskating carbots versus rocket-skating jetbots!)... you get the idea.
But my tastes seem to be a bit unusual for the fanbase, and definitely don't align well with where the brand has gone. Which isn't to say I don't still find some of what comes out really cool, just that it's... less cool than it could be?
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3 hours ago, M'Kyuun said:
the OG toy looks a little wonky compared to the likes of ER Prime.
I like the purity of the original design. There's no bits to fill gaps, no fake grills, no disappearing wheels and bumpers. What you see is what you get. The resulting wonkiness is charming.
I'm not saying Earthrise Prime is bad. I just miss having an Optimus where his pelvis is the truck's bumper and his abs are the truck's radiator, ya know?
It feels sometimes like modern Transformers designs are backwards. They aren't robots in disguise anymore, they're vehicles in disguise. They make a cool-looking robot, then try to figure out how to turn it into a vehicle without compromising that robot. In extreme cases, it seems like any evidence the robot HAS a vehicle mode is considered a design failure.
So I am all for an extreme throwback design, and admittedly shocked that I'm apparently not the only one.
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I'm wondering if this is an "MP Skids did better than we expected" thing. Because it had a similar "just make the original toy more detailed and articulated" design ethos, and if it showed there's actually a maket for that... obviously the next retro mold would be Yet Another Prime.
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36 minutes ago, Big s said:
Hopefully something odd doesn’t happen and the magnets end up launching it to the floor. But it is a cool idea all joking aside.
Yeah, there's a thin but important line between magnetic levitation and magnetic catapults.
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19 minutes ago, Black Valkyrie said:
The original toy, only with modern articulation? Hot.
Though I note the original toy actually has pretty good arm articulation.
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3 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:
The low rent knockoff versions of the VF-19F
That's supposed to be a -19? I'm squinting but I still don't see it.
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2 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:
Or in slightly more honest terms...
"Gather 'round gather 'round... Step right up to see the freak show."
Well, yes. But at the time they died, they were being kind of interesting.
2 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:They gave up and are starting over with a more traditional Robotech comic.
My disappointment is immeasurable.
4 hours ago, Old_Nash_II said:At moment, a new saga in between the main series and Remix
I hope that's temporary.
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8 hours ago, M'Kyuun said:
In that vein, Tron could be a fighter for programs' rights and freedom for infinity,
Programs' rights? I thought Tron fought for the users?!
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2 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:
Sorry, I am screwing up in... *checks notes*... four different languages today.
Busy man.
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Titan's back?!?!
Sweet!
Are they resuming the epic saga of Sad Dana, or is this a new continuity?
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14 hours ago, Raikkonen said:
Rumoured:
- Set in real world as a evil program breaks out of the grid that attempts to take over ours.
I hope not, because that's stupid.
Programs in Tron may exhibit superhuman abilities, but they aren't actually superhuman. It is because they aren't in the real world that they can do the things they do(and why humans, once digitized, can engage in superhuman acts).
Once subject to reality and pesky details like the laws of physics, they can't take over the world. Hell, they probably can't take over a school bus.
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Other way around. HG said, in their San Diego Comic-Con panel, that THEY are prohibited from using DYRL or any future Macross sequels as part of Robotech.
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8 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:
Their beef with Macross has always been about merchandising. The overwhelming majority of Robotech's merchandise is based on Super Dimension Fortress Macross. Without it, they don't really have much of a merchandise line. So they're very keen on protecting what they have from having to compete with the higher quality toys coming out of Japan. It was that desire to avoid competition that prompted the whole licensing embargo in the first place back in 1999-2001 because their partner Toynami was launching a line of VF-1 toys as a part of their effort to reboot the franchise. It's also why they picked up the merchandising rights to DYRL?, so that nobody could do an end run around their rights under license by importing DYRL? toys based on the same designs as the SDF toys they were making.
I think that's a bit kind to HG, really. That turn-of-the-century mess may have started as legitimate license protection, but kinda rapidly escalated to "we literally own the copyright to the entire franchise outside of Japan... except Plus and Two because we were asleep, but it won't happen again".
My recollection is they didn't pick up the DYRL merch license until after Big West sued Tatsunoko and the japanese courts came back with "Tatsunoko doesn't own any rights to most of the franchise... and never actually claimed otherwise?"
At that point, with it being very clear they had no LEGAL base to block anything other than SDF, HG ran out and registered trademarks on every Macross-related thing they could think of, and THEN started releasing DYRL merchandise to justify a bunch of trademarks.
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Trademarks they COULD have used on SDF merch, but didn't want to. I assume they figured that selling SDF merchandise under the Macross brand would cannibalize the sales of Robotech merchandise... which must've been moving in massive volumes at that point. Why, I bet they were selling HUNDREDS of units annually!
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2 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:
They've literally never been able to, so I'm not sure why that would be phrased that way.
Because they want to pretend they made concessions and it is thanks solely to their magnanimous heart that anyone can do anything. They used to own the entire franchise outside Japan. We know this because they told us so, and they wouldn't lie to us. But they gave SO MUCH back to Big West just out of courtesy and a desire to get along.
1 hour ago, jvmacross said:At the moment, I am not exactly sure why HG went out of their way to single out DYRL as a "sequel" to SDFM, but I am hoping that turns into some positive developments for that film and it's potential release status outside of Japan.
I'm assuming people were asserting that as a remake of SDF Macross, it was covered under the SDF license. Waters made muddier by them picking up a merchandise license for DYRL from Tatsunoko.
I personally believe it was so they could put a thin veneer of legitimacy on their Macross trademarks by selling Macross merchandise, and make it look like they actually had the rights they claimed(rather than the rights the japanese courts confirmed Tatsunoko had).
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29 minutes ago, jvmacross said:
Might explain why the latest crop of "HG" licensed merch (such as the KC VF-1 line) no longer portrays the DYRL schemes and DYRL characters like they did before?
More likely they no longer need to legitimize their trademark on the Macross name. They do, or did, have a legitimate DYRL merchandise license from Tatsunoko. But they've never had a license to the DYRL animation.
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35 minutes ago, jvmacross said:
Not sure if this is true....I have not seen any video of the Robotech panel at SDCC 2023, so who knows...but if it is true...then any hopes of getting a US/World release of DYRL is not looking good for the immediate future....
My hope is that the rights for an international release of DYRL can at some point be undisputedly wrested away from HG once and for all...I need to see DYRL at my local AMC IMAX now!
What I've heard is the slide in question is being presented out of context, and in context it is actually a prohibition on HG, not everyone else. They're saying that HG is prohibited from using DYRL or a hypothetical future sequel in Robotech.
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I'm disappointed that the other cassette-bot that partners with Rumble(Blue) isn't named Rumble(Red).
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56 minutes ago, seti88 said:
I see...fuselage, nose proportions on the DX are sleeker...neater(?)/detailed tampo's on the DX(?), Legs more proportional to body on the DX(?)
Bandai's -1J head is actuallly faceted like it is supposed to be instead of round.
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1 hour ago, azrael said:
"I want Macross but without all the Macross-y stuff"
"So you want Gundam?"
"No. I want Macross. But without the stuff that makes it Macross."
"So you want Gundam?"
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🤦♂️ Every time we get a new Macross, this exact conversation comes up. Every. Damn. Time.We don't want Gundam. We need transforming jets.
We want ZETA GUNDAM. Huge difference.
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Honestly, if they'd taken a few more liberties with this so that the back cleaned up into something respectable, I'd be interested.
If they sold the cab robot without the trailer, I'd be sold. Because frankly I like the little guy a lot more than the big guy even without the random flaps hanging off the back.
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Doc Hell is the odd one out. The other 3 are clearly human, but Hell's skin color exposes him as a zentradi spy.