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Camera-headed evil scientist with a penchant for purple and brain transplants, Arnim Zola or Shockwave? Why not both? Some minor modding of the head, plus added a sheet of styrene on the chest for a better surface for painting the upper face. ---Dave

Oh, I did play through the tutorial and a couple of missions, very quickly bored by the stock footage and annoyed by the constant, "No, you can't do that either." ---Dave

I know, right? Dove face-first into that cliche. ---Dave

Two seasons and that side series where they seem to have tried to do a Schoolhouse Rock homage, not too bad. ---Dave

Moon Girl is not in the MCU, she lives in a universe that is similar in the large scale things but divergent in a lot of others. As Devil Girl put it, "We live in a multiverse!" Even if Moon Girl shows up in a live action movie, it won't be exactly the version from the cartoon. If you want a...

Yah, the Walmart I hit yesterday also had an untouched case of TFOne Blokees. I'd have grabbed it, except I already have that set. ---Dave

The beasts don't have identical cores, but very similar cores with similar transformations, and they all seem to have the heads pegged on. The elephant and trike are the closest to being just color and head swaps. ---Dave

I doubt the Moon Girl Beyonder has any particular connection to the "half of a Cosmic Cube" original Beyonder. Sounds like the comics have retconned his origins a few times since the original revelation that he and Molecule Man were halves of a failed Cosmic Cube. ---Dave

I watched part of the first new ep (ended up skipping most of it) and the second, and haven't really felt compelled to continue. I'd thought the whole "grounded from being a superhero" impending cliche was prevented at the end of S2E14, but nope. ---Dave

Huh, totally missed that they dropped the last ones. Guess I'll need to catch up this week. ---Dave

What does or doesn't go in BOT Talk is kinda hazy. Heck, a lot of stuff posted in the Knockoff thread isn't even remotely a knockoff...or it might be a knockoff of something that was never a Transformer. I do think BOT Talk is the right place for threads about transforming toys that aren't...

Sigh, they're not even remotely nunchucks. It's a multi-section staff, based on the real "three section staff" flail weapon but with more pieces. Well, it's not like they'll have the word "nunchucks" embossed on them. ---Dave

I think Grimlock and MegaHound are meant to be nods to the line about alliances shifting. It'll start as vehicles versus beasts, but Armored Megatron and Grimlock will change sides, Skybyte will try to infiltrate the Autobots as a car, etc. ---Dave

Yeah, Grimlock looks like a similar transformation to Rescue Bots Dino Optimus, but they somehow made it worse. Other than the adorably stupid Skybytemobile, I'm thinking I might skip this line entirely. It's certainly not worth dealing with flaky distribution or buying iffy toys sight-unseen...

Sounds like the season arc will include figuring out what Really Happened and exonerating Korra. (Rampant industrialization and rich people will probably be the real villains.) ---Dave

Roman Starscream could be the eagle from their military standard. SPQRscream. ---Dave

Admitting that "Yes, we're putting out these four characters forever." (Bumblebee is the only 3P HoS I have, although I've been tempted by the clearanced evil Knight Commander train set on occasion.) ---Dave

Any pictures out there of Deathcobra actually replacing 'Ellbat as an arm, or just the shoulder cannon mode? ---Dave

DHL is reportedly still shipping, but you gotta pay the tariff before they'll deliver it to you, which is hitting people who had tightly budgeted their Chinese toy purchases and don't have room to drop an extra 10% on short notice. ---Dave

I won't get it for a month or so, probably (mail order), but yeah...the need for a prequel to explain too much at once is one of the things I've long considered "paid fanfic." This goes way back to the two Pern novels that told the story of the original colonists, and by the end of the duology...