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Thew posted this video today, which seems on point. Keep in mind the Kabaya kits are meant to be cheap and tiny and don't try to replicate the transforming and poseability of mainline toys. Now, admittedly, a wing does fall off when transforming, but you'll note that's not the kind of joint...

Frankly there is a joy to assembling a model kit, but as I noted earlier one of the best thing about the Classics Seeker mold is that you can mix and match to make customs, and with a model kit it'd be even easier. So we get an action figure model kit that transforms, but because of the...

I only saw Zoids Wild on clearance @ Ross and bit on the whole set, why not? But when CN was running Zoids and Hasbro was releasing them alongside the 2.5 anime they dubbed for it (including half a season of the craptacular, other studio to cut money, Zoids fuzors) Zoids were right alongside...

Hasbro's been making some iffy decisions of late. What I am saying, though, is that TakaraTomy is in a good position to do this if they want, and I'd love for Hasbro to do it. If Hasbro would like to continue to not produce toys and license their stuff out to other manufacturers... that's on...

I have a hard time imagining a transforming model kit is harder to do than, say, a motorized model kit, and TakaraTomy does Zoids, so... it seems possible. I'm sympathetic to worries that joints could be a problem, but it's after the 1990s, so Hasbro knows how to do ball joints, and practically...

That might be an issue, but that might also be one of the reasons Zoids moved to not having sprues? In any case, if they can release Zoids Wild in the US (even if they did it poorly), I think they can do it for models. Does it though? Remember, these would be designed to be assembled by...

For better or worse, I think we have to accept that a Deluxe-scale/quality model might go for like $30; MAYBE $25 if it's at mass retail alongside deluxes (which are also ~$25). This would be comparable to similar size TakaraTomy Zoids & Bandai Gundam models. Of course there's also a question...

One of my favorite transformers molds of all time is Classics Starscream. It's excellent in both robot and vehicle mode (Legacy Seekers have really cumbersome arms, a much more pronounced chest gap, and those terrible break-waiting-to-happen chest hooks... ugh...). But what pushes this mold...

On your view, what work is "gender" doing besides preconceived notions? For example, what's the difference between la biblioteca and el biblioteca? Libraries don't have human genders (regardless of whether "gender" is meant to pick out biological sex or social gender). It's not clear I could...

Of course there will be divisions of labor and organization, but for the most part I think it's best to leave this off screen. Every minute your story spends explaining who Sideswipe's commander is is a moment you don't see Sideswipe doing things. I do think that once things get settled on...

I like Lugnut. I'm not sure he'd be in my Revised Nemesis Crew (Given contemporary animation and voice acting limitations, I think it's best to be able to break characters down into 5-man teams with some straggers, so we're talking ~15 autobots total and maybe ~10 decepticons (not counting...

Slipstream & Roadrage seem like inspired choices. I like the comic origins of the Dinobots, but I think we need something to get people excited about transformers and doing a Dinobot prequel would be better. Modify the IDW origin, with the Dinobots leaving cybertron to chase some villain or...

Suppose that you were tasked with doing a rebooted Transforms cartoon largely based on the G1 property. What concepts, characters, and character arcs would you adopt from other iterations of the story and why? For example, here's some things I'd want to fold in from Armada: 1. Demolisher -...

Seems like a missed opportunity not to have a toyline associated with this.

Oh, I know - they're robots, they're in disguise... so it's some kind of Cyberverse!

This was the story in S1-2. But Quintessons have transforming Cybertronians working for them, so inference to the best explanation suggests they could always transform. MAYBE they forgot (... uh... like the G2 Swarm/Budding forgetting?), but like all longstorm, multiauthor storytelling, either...

If we assume the Quintessons conquered them, it's likely that they used shell programs to significantly restrict autonomous transformers. On your theory, it would be like dogs gaining sentience and/or an overt Skynet thing; neither of which is how I'd want to present our race of aliens. Early...

I don't think that's fair; his quote is "Peace through tyranny" not "Let's be colonizers, brah!"

I think Star Trek DS9 does a good job of explaining what I'm talking about. The Bajorans think of the wormhole aliens as gods and worship them. Starfleet knows they're wormhole aliens and know they've interacted with the Bajoran society in the past; but they're not gods. Similarly the...