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  2. Seto Kaiba
    I was just about to start when I saw this post. One of my friends watched it earlier, and could only manage damning it by faint praise as "more fun than Discovery". EDIT: The initial batch of reviews and review scores are NOT promising. This sucker's sitting at a 35% audience score. That's enough to put it in Trek's bottom 10 titles right off the bat.
  3. Seto Kaiba
    That hasn't really been the case for a long time. Star Wars is a merchandising empire that goes far, far beyond the movies. That's what made George Lucas a billionaire. If anything, it would be more accurate to say the movies and TV shows are a way to milk more money out of merchandising because they're launchpads for toys, for games, for novels, for comics, and all manner of other goods. Does the studio's president deserve some of the blame when the work her subordinates do doesn't produce the intended result? Yes, absolutely. Most of it belongs to the project's creative team who dropped the ball. But that's not what Star Wars's crybaby culture warriors are complaining about. In their desperate delusion, they imagine her to be chiefly if not solely responsible for every single thing they don't like about the franchise (which is ridiculous) and conveniently overlook that those projects were still financially successful and that she presided over a number of extremely well-regarded Star Wars projects like The Mandalorian, Rogue One and Andor as well. The hilarious irony is her anointed successor has a far better claim to being responsible for what ails Star Wars than she ever will. 😆
  4. Big s
    That was half a decade or so ago
  5. Dynaman
    So, has anyone watched this yet (and will admit to having done so)? I'm not inclined to watch it but if someone here says it was great I'll give it a look. Not saying it is bad, but 90210 was all the rage and I had no interest in it. Same for Survivor or America's Got Talent (when everyone at work was shocked I'd never seen it and to this day I never have)
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  7. Thom
    Have to agree. She's been president there long enough, and seeing one movie go bomb, and then another, and not change anything in response? She deserves her share.
  8. JB0
    I believe my Optimus Prime did. I'd have to fish box contents out to be certain.
  9. grogall
    Yes. noticed that lots of toy/model companies do that not just in Japan, When Yamato introduced their V.O.T.O.M.'s line they first released the basic version then a month later the RSC version and another month later the RSC with pilot though Toys R Us, then again later the side armaments as an add on pack. Kind of glad that Bandai did a complete RSC with the parts to convert it to a regular Scopedog right from the beginning and only later the basic Scopedog, At least the 1/35 wave kits aren't ultra expensive... Unlike the Hi-Metal R Kumman arc...
  10. Yesterday
  11. Dynaman
    Going to disagree. Star Wars IS the movies. The other stuff was a way to milk money out of the movies. The president of the studio very much deserves the blame when the product does so poorly (at the end) that the studio has to stop producing movies completely for years. Does she get the blame for any particular thing that went wrong, no, but any president of a company that had a product mishandled so badly gets the blame for who they kept in charge during that time frame.
  12. Roy Focker
    I'm about ready to mark all AI trailers as spam. It is bad enough that people have to post every single official image for every single movie. Here's the same official image was already posted here last week but here it is again with a different font. The same images repackaged is not new information. AI trailers are even worst. They are garbage that no-talent thieves spam on YouTube to steal views from actual official creators and actual fan creators.
  13. Papa Rat
    @tekering That blue!!!! This is going to look amazing bookending that previous build. Love it.
  14. Big s
    🤞Gambit has been waiting for his lady love for quite a while
  15. PNW_Sweetie
    Pre-ordered Max yesterday also from BBTS. I’d kick myself if I didn’t pick one up, as I only have the blue -1J from the Hi-metal line.
  16. rsvictor1976
    Finally got my Miriya Veritech today.
  17. davidwhangchoi
    do these missing link packages comes with the red decoder for the tech specs? i miss those and without them it's hard to see Grimlock's intelligence rating.
  18. davidwhangchoi
    i hope they make a new anime and interest in these toys take off.
  19. Scyla
    I know but we are already half way there and no new delay is announced so I want to keep a positive mood and hope that Rogue will be (finally) released this month.
  20. Big s
    There’s definitely room for some cool stuff. The Fallout series is surprisingly good and wouldn’t mind some of the ones mentioned above. Maybe go wild and a Jak and Daxter project for funsies or maybe get the testosterone going with Duke Nukem
  21. Big s
    Had to preorder this one the other night. One of the things that really makes me mad with Wave is that they always do a basic version and then many months later the one with all the cool stuff that should have been in the initial release. Anyway, just glad to have more for my jungle war
  22. Big s
    I’m sure they’re already working on a Super Smash Bros movie
  23. Mog
    I actually liked Tales of the Jedi. They gave some nice depth to Dooku and Ahsoka. It showed that there were some festering flaws in the Republic and with the Jedi that disillusioned Dooku. And the Ahsoka stuff explained why she was able to survive Order 66 and gave us a little glimpse of why she went back into the fight after the Empire rose. The other two sets of Tales were very meh and underwhelming. The stories could have been so much more interesting, but they were too formulatic and “safe.” . . . And did everyone somehow forget how Mando Season 2 ended? That’s probably one of the high points of the Disney era.
  24. Big s
    Whenever a month is listed, it usually means end of month if the item isn’t pushed back
  25. Big s
    I kinda liked Skeleton Crew, but the ending was a bit of a let down. Unfortunately for a streaming service that ran on having Marvel and Star Wars content, there’s been an extreme lack of content from either brand or any brand for that matter. D+ is probably the worst of the streaming services due to that lack of content and then there’s no guarantee that a show will even be good. I think the last show they even had was Iron Heart and not only did it blow, but it seems like several months ago
  26. jenius

    DX Chogokin VF-17S

    jenius replied to GGemini's topic in Toys

    Can you elaborate on this? I haven't handled my VF-25 revivals but did they drop an improvement we saw on Max's YF-29?
  27. Seto Kaiba
    IMO, Rebels was pretty good. Its main problem is that, like The Bad Batch, it's basically a direct continuation of The Clone Wars and puts at least as much effort into picking up and running with plot threads from that series as it does coming up with its own story. Ahsoka and The Mandalorian are basically spinoffs of it with Ahsoka literally picking up right where Rebels ended. My guess would be that Filoni is going to run the Disney+ Star Wars originals and future movies like the Expanded Universe. It's going to be "continuing adventures" and continuity porn, because that's what he does. His idea of a good time is origin stories for one-dimensional villains from the 2000s (e.g. the Tales series).
  28. JB0
    Oh yeah. The original Dinobots are peak sexy robot toy.
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