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  2. Seto Kaiba
    To be frank, I'm not sure that's necessarily true. On an individual level, many fans do seem to have a pretty clear idea of what they want from Star Wars. All you have to do is ask and many of them will tell you quite a lot about what precisely they want from it. They just can't manufacture a consensus because the fanbase is so bloody big and so heavily divided against itself. It surely doesn't help that what the die-hard fans want and what is actually marketable are often two very different things. Tales of the Empire is exactly the kind of writing which the franchise has historically used to pander to that die-hard crowd. Their whole "every single background character is the hero or villain of another story" schick is standard expanded universe writing and something that Star Wars frequently indulged in before Disney. So much so that even a filthy casual like me had one or two of the "Tales of ______" books. It might be weak writing to general audiences, but to the die-hard fans it's continuity porn.
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  4. pengbuzz
    Thanks guys! It was a monster, but it got done at last! BTW: can anyone find something missing in that pic?
  5. Big s
    Poor guy got the burnt one. looks like he got the yellow belt and red undies on this one
  6. Big s
    That’s what made the og films so good. I didn’t need a background story to Vader. Everything was laid out just fine as the trilogy went. Then the prequels came out and we were given a character that could barely emote, whined all the time, hated sand and was groomed by an older character that should have known better than to be attracted to children as his motives.
  7. Dynaman
    If a movie was any good to begin with all the background information you "need" to know about a character is what was told in the movie.
  8. network19
    https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-05-06/illustrator-acky-bright-macross-creator-shoji-kawamori-more-attend-anime-expo/.210534 Maybe some big Macross announcements.
  9. azrael
    Yep. Oh, they will do something this stupid again. Gotta feed 'dem hackers with fresh data to mine off the PSN servers.
  10. KOG Water Dragon
    Need a 1/72 battroid and a 1/48 fighter.
  11. captain america
    Whatever a 1/48 Jeanne Francaix is, that's what the pilot will be! Seems the 3D Dana Sterling pilot figure you linked to earlier is a real clusterscrew of a file. So bad in fact, that Carlos abandoned fixing it and is starting completely from scratch.
  12. sh9000
    TBS Amazon Exclusives.
  13. sh9000
    Batman 1/6 resin statue based on artwork by Dan Mora.
  14. 505thAirborne
    All these years later and we still have dedicated BSG fans out there, check out this 1/1 scale Viper MKII.
  15. Thom
    No complaint about a Nu52 costume. I like the look, and hope for a movie version of Nu52 Supergirl in future.
  16. mikeszekely
    In the sense that they're not requiring it for Helldivers, but absolutely requiring it from day one one on PC games released from the moment forward, including Ghost of Tsushima later this month.
  17. MechTech
    @pengbuzz AWESOME BUILD -AND- ORIGINAL stand to go with it!!! Bringing some nostalgia back to life! - MT
  18. MechTech
    Thanks for posting! -MT
  19. Chronocidal
    Yeah, I don't expect anything to be permanent with this, or set any kind of trend going forward. Best case is probably that they just give up on this game, but remember not to do something this stupid with anything else in the future.
  20. Valkyrie Hunter D
    It was such a bonehead move on Sony's part. It never should have happened.
  21. azrael
    So Gunn went with a Nu52-ish costume.
  22. no3Ljm
    https://variety.com/2024/film/news/superman-suit-david-corenswet-costume-james-gunn-1235927192/ https://www.threads.net/@jamesgunn/post/C6ogg_ux1r8
  23. nightmareB4macross
    This was all I could find at the moment.
  24. no3Ljm
    Rebirth Robin (Tim Drake)
  25. Seto Kaiba
    The obvious problem with that idea being that "stupid" is a highly subjective value judgement. A sufficiently skilled spin doctor can make even objectively unsound ideas sound brilliant... and with enough polish, ideas that started out sounding completely imbecilic when they were first proposed can be refined into something genius. Star Wars itself started out as the latter case. George Lucas's original concept for it was a complete trashfire, and with a truly gargantuan amount of patient refinement it was turned into one of the most iconic films ever made. Considering that the usual Star Wars story format is either a simplistic "Good vs. Evil" narrative about the eternal conflict between incorruptible pure pureness and baby-eating complete monster villainy or a side story that takes the form of a string of interstellar fetch quests, I'd reckon Star Wars could do with a bit of complexity in its life like what we got in Andor. Not that I think we'll get that from The Acolyte, since the Jedi and Sith live in a world of moral absolutes and the Dark Side seems to run on motive decay and encourages jumping off the slippery slope. FWIW, it'll be damn pretty to look at and the fight choreography is going to be very solid.
  26. azrael
    The problem is, fans, like this one, keep saying "I want more. I want to see how <X character> got there." As the saying goes: fans don't know what they want. They have no clue what is good or bad; important or fat. We don't need to see everything because, sometimes, it's just not THAT important. It's why we get lots of crap. It's the one thing fandoms, including Star Wars', just doesn't get. Sometimes the most important moment of a character's life is just that moment; that one story. Everything else is filler.
  27. azrael
    For now.
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