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Automorph was the best Movie gimmick when it worked. Even when it wasn't particularly spectacular it still forced the designs to have some genuine layering of parts instead of just sculpting it. 2007 Movie toys sometimes capture that aspect of the aesthetic better than some later theoretically...

The ratchets don't break, but the plastic surrounding the springs does break. So instead of just compressing and extending, the springs are free to wobble from side to side. The teeth aren't forced to engage.

It never gets old. She is adorable.

Kudos to TYT for not being too proud of it. They put in an extra detail, and they hoped we'd notice rather than shoving it in our faces.

I like the original. That poor old toy. The first well articulated Optimus Prime in history, and it was largely forgotten a year later.

We're in denial about how long ago 2005 was, okay?

Siege is just sad. There is a good idea at the core of it, giving the design a normal robot mode that isn't just a boring version of the super mode. But very little about the execution is good.

Jazz's hooves are different in every episode. This show isn't lazy.

SatAM isn't bad. It suffers from how forced the hype got, but you have to remember the context. The hype was deliberately forced, because there was absolutely no way to watch the show except to bully someone into releasing it on DVD, and we were in this weird situation where for some reason they...

Oh I know that one. My sister eats it. *googles* Oh God. 2790 mg of sodium.

Everyone thought this was dead. I wonder if they made a decision to let Fans Hobby's UT Primes be the guinea pigs before committing to tooling on this one. It looks weird. Maybe I'm just too used to the old toy's proportions, but they elongated a bot that already gains boots in super mode. It's...

I didn't hate it... But it did benefit from time. The franchise was still figuring out its identity, with the games not giving us any dialog as a blueprint. AoStH got it right, but we needed to see the franchise try other directions to realize just how right it was.

Nothing got done today. I'm hoping the hospital's lack of urgency is due to a, well, lack of urgency. It is very different from the way they acted last year. Last year they were scrambling, doing tests and retests trying to find the result they expected. But they really should take the day off...

It doesn't need to be magic. They could make a powerful light with just chemistry, which I could see unicorns gravitating to.

Where's my Grandus then, Hasbro?

We used to have manually cranked film projectors too. It works. The hard part is producing light to project the movie, but there are non-electric ways to do that too. I wouldn't have expected Bridlewood to have movies, but it is totally doable. Come to think of it, back in A New Generation...

The Sanibel Causeway has reopened. Incredible.

Agreed. I didn't realize how much I like super modes and combinations until Primes stopped doing that. I just expected it.

I'm going to try to find that one now. I don't think I've seen one that bad. Did it taste good though?

That's fair. It's worth noting that G4 isn't known to have gotten Pez dispensers until a few years into its run. It's not something that automatically happens when Hasbro launches a new gen, and it's still not something they do every year. It does take some status to make this happen, however it...