Great. Now I want a borg cube unicron...

We still need Transformers x Star Trek toy.

I saw most of them at retail at TRU, but that's not an option in the US anymore.

Dibs on naming the Ark robot Arkonus.

The only Titan figure I ever saw at retail was Trypticon at Ollie's

Robosen Prime has market crossover with not just the toy collectors, but robotics enthusiasts quite willing to pay that price for a product like this.

One of my two local TRUs will stock exactly ONE titan at a time. It usually ends up "clearanced" for about 20 bucks off cause no one is willing to pay for at full price OR discounted.

Most stores don't seem to want to stock Commanders or Titans, never mind Unicron.

I wonder if Unicron going to crowdfuning wasn't just a price issue but also stores not wanting to stock and transport something so huge.

It is, although this thing could also be considered a STEM educational tool

Doesn't change the fact that, for most people, $700 is a pretty hefty investment for a toy.

I dunno, $700 doesn't seem that bad for what it does. Some of those Masterpiece figures seem to go for at least half that price, and they don't have any actual robots or even electronics.

Not to mention wallet-shattering.

It's a jargon-shattering figure.

The licensed Optimus Prime that transforms itself is the appropriate usage of the term "Third Party"

That Optimus isn't built by Hasbro, only licensed. The company that makes it has been making similar robots for years, so no crowdfundng required.

Apparently they're selling one for 74 and a half thousand dollars.

We could write boston dynamics and ask?

Granted, I'm not sure how much robots with elaborate movement tend to go for.

I think with actual robotics it was easier to justify selling it at a high cost, compared to an unusually large action figure.

It is a very impressive display of robotics though.

What were they thinking with that self transforming Optimus? should have been another crowd funder for that price.

I wish they'd rerelease Earthrise Ramjet and Dirge.

Yay! optimus primal just arrived. So now there's... nothing for me to look forward to till scorponok drops... hmmm, I didn't think this through properly...

It's an older title which recently got a remake so...

Ah yes- I think I've heard of that game before. I may be thinking about something else though.

It's a video game. You get hired to revive and restore a series of derelict space stations.

I've got no idea what that is but yes.

so... literally the plot to startopia.

Maybe if the Interstellar Alliance collapsed after the big burn and a 'benefactor' repurposed a space station as a commerce one. Oh wait...

Babylon 6?

I'd rather have a Toilet Seat: TNG sequel series than an actual reboot. If something was done well the first time, don't give us the same-thing-but-worse, just give us something new on that bowl..

Context: my parents had the bathroom redone about a year ago (actually, almost exactly a year ago, as the project was about 4 days from complete and was interrupted by the first pandemic lockdown.). The ridiculous, fancy toilet seat they purchased has since develloped cracks in it and needs to be returned. Dad simply could not get the seat off himself... and see previous shout.

How to ruin somesones day with one question: Let someone work on a problem for about an hour and a half on their own, come to the realization they need an extra set of hands, ask for help, show you the problem and outright difficulty of it: then ask them "Hey, what does this button do?" and literally solve the two man dilema without doing any work.

As far as the TNT move, all of Season 5 was basically epilogue, which didn't help - when it looked like things were ending at Season 4 JMS tried to cram all the major plot threads for his original Season 4 and 5 plan into Season 4, which didn't leave them as much to work with for Season 5. Then TNT totally screwed with Crusade and got it killed before it got a chance to hit the real plot and nothing else really resonated enough to get a series push. A Crusade revival would be the best "B5:TNG" option IMO.

Peak B5 was the first six episodes of season 4. EVERYTHING CAME TO A HEAD.

Generally, I think once B5 moved to TNT things went downhill. The sets didn't look as good (maybe due to ill use of better lighting) and I wasn't always as impressed with casting (Sheridan's new 2nd just didn't work). The movies had decent ideas, but I felt there was something off in the execution. Wonder if TNT pushed for different directors that weren't as familar with B5.

Did the follow up movies do that badly, or does the creator simply feel like his story was told and refuses to allow more content?

I'd rather have a B5: TNG sequel series than an actual reboot. If something was done well the first time, don't give us the same-thing-but-worse, just give us something new in that world.

A reboot would probably be ruined by meddling and different visions anyway. 

JMS wrote about half of the first season, a little over half of the second, all of the third and fourth, and all but one episode from the fifth. Given he was also the creator and executive producer, him having so much creative control was likely a condition for getting the show made. Shame he didn't have it for Crusade.

They also had JMS write every single script bar maybe 2 or 3? That was another big part of how well it hangs together. Do you think any studio would do that nowadays?

Let it be the first all AI acted series.

Yeah, but would the reboot be as good as the original? B5 had a damn good cast, and they can't replicate that easily.

One day they'll let a streaminbg service reboot B5 and let the stories be told without the sword of Damocles hanging over them at all times.

It's aged in the set piece areas.

I don't remember much of B5... I take it we're not talking about cathode ray tubes...

Babylon 5 CRT tech.

Bloody hell, thanks for the heads up.

be careful with her. someone on tfw2005 broke her wing taking her out of the packaging.