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  1. You know, there's an interesting story to be told there. Optimus is a military leader on a planet so thoroughly wracked by war that everyone who hasn't left is a soldier. And he's a major religious figure on top of it. He is PROFOUNDLY isolated. And were I writing this story, I'd lean into the Transformers' inevitabl association with humans. They offer something Optimus hasn't had much of in a long time, someone he can speak with as an equal.
  2. I think I heard they cast Chris Pratt for everyone.
  3. Oh, yeah, it is EXACTLY what anyone should've expected to happen. It really makes you wonder why he commandeered Millia's VF-1 in the first place. I'll assume he just didn't realize it was roughly analagous to training on a Tomcat and then trying to fly a Mustang.
  4. In fairness, Gamlin was also shown struggling to draw out the full potential of Millia's VF-1, which he got destroyed. Never forget!
  5. Powermaster Prime was my first Optibotimus, and it makes me sad to see him done dirty like this.
  6. I'm readin' 'em. I don't often have much to say, but I read 'em all. I really do want a new Ejector. "Evil toaster that burns your bread and steals your drink when you aren't looking" is such a wonderfully ridiculous concept.
  7. Yeah, I was phrasing it flippantly, but it was a genuinely interesting mess of a thing.
  8. Hopefully it won't move to struggling with bad translations on officially-sanctioned polycarbonate.
  9. It probably isn't. But I was speaking purely about the captioned zentradi scenes. Like TMBounty_Hunter said, the problems they have originated from the original optical compositing. They're inherent to the original production, and can't be "fixed" without leaving the source behind and (at best) reshooting the scene.
  10. I agree, but some of the Powermaster Prime/Ginrai toy features wound up being carried into the cartoon as well, and I think wheels hanging off the toes is one of those things that's actually anime-accurate(as is Ginrai wearing the whole front of the truck on his back).
  11. Enough of this, Titan! Bring back the epic saga of Sad Dana!
  12. So THAT'S why! Thanks, I had wondered about that for a long time.
  13. I mean, remastering isn't reshooting. They're stuck using the original footage, warts and all. I'd personally argue "exactly as it was in theaters" is a reasonable target most of the time, and that editing to eliminate imperfections that have always existed is the first step towards the dark side of Special Edition reworks.
  14. My understanding is chromed plastic breaks easier, and has a tendency to leave sharp edges when it does. Hasbro doesn't want broken toys drawing blood. Buncha babies, I swear. Scars build character! (My preferred dinobot representation is Gigapower's chromed releases, but they're in a very different price class than pretty much anything Hasbro makes, and I never could justify a full set.)
  15. Neither. There's not a single drop of chrome or smoked plastic to be seen. 0/10, garbage dinobots.
  16. Party capital of the universe.
  17. Ayup. No one knows for sure who that license wound up with in the end, or what the exact terms were. Most importantly, no one knows if it has an expiration date in it or not, since a limited license term would render everything else moot.
  18. I'm hoping that Super Ginrai in truck mode is mistransformed. Because even by the standards of Powermaster Prime(the original toy sets a fairly low bar to clear), that's dire. I'm totally shocked if that's the best a "masterpiece" can do with those arms, but the hollow thighs sure imply that MPG continues to set the target low and then miss it anyways.
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