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  1. I just got back from seeing it.

    Couldn't they have used a mutant with time powers instead of Shadowcat? It doesn't even make sense in the movie canon.

    Won't find out for sure until the commentary, but I have a theory about her tethered time travel ability. Her mutant power is intangibility. My guess is she achieves this by spreading her physical form over several moments while maintaining her focus on the "present". Through physical contact, she allows others to piggyback along on her time shift. So now, through experience and age, she's able to do all the kooky stuff in DoFP.

  2. Kaneda, good points about the theme.

    But I continue to have an issue, with some aspects of the films. The X-men has always been symbolic of a multicultural, religious, and sexual acceptance. But looking at theses films with a critical eye it astounds me how they continue to whitewash and underrepresent women and minorities in these films. It has taken them literally five films before they had a female character that was on par with the male leads. I too was worried that they were going to devote way too much time with Hugh Hackman. I'm glad that I was wrong on that account as McAvoy Lawrence and Fassbender really shined. I want more of them going forward. The X-men have been extremely popular with many young women as there are so many empowering female characters for young women to relate to. I also have a issue with the fact that the only real minority characters in the film are the X-men of the future and they are all brutally killed!! Not trying to bag on the film too heavily, as I loved it and it's easily the best film I've seen this year. And it has attempted to tackle some of the issues I mentioned in a summertime blockbuster which takes guts. Singer is a talented filmmaker and DOFP reminded me how awesome the comic world can be translated to film when you have directors that are heavily vested in story and character development. Word has it that the next film might include Gambit and Nightcrawler, and younger recast versions of the X1 cast. Not digging Channing Tatum as Gambit though. Guy can't act and I really liked Taylor Kitske as Gambit. Tatum is too frat boy for my liking. I hope we also get Archangel.

    Where there is Apocolypse, the Angel of Death can't be far behind. Or ahead, rather, since he's supposed to be a harbinger.

  3. wait, no...the gakken is smaller than a 1/60 valk? maybe the larger valks lik ean sv-51 but not the 1/60 vf-1 (that i meant but i guess dien't specify) from waht i remember. i have an old gakken somewhere at my parents place and i can't imagine it's smaller than a 1/60 vf-1

    Just checked. I actually meant the VF-1, but I stand corrected. The Gakken is much bigger than a 1/60 VF-1. Fighter mode is a bit longer and it has more overall mass. I'll attribute that mistake to having kept the Legioss in Gerwalk mode as it takes up less shelf space.

  4. the legioss in current scale of 1/55-1/48 (depending hwo you believe) is TINY. i don't think we need something like the original gakken in size but something like the 1/60 valks in size (i'm not sure what scale that puts them at...somehwere in the mid to upper 30s i guess)

    I believe the old Gakken is 1/35. Nice hefty size, but still a bit smaller than a 1/60 Valk.

  5. I was asking out of curiosity.

    I got a scalper Whirl a few weeks ago during the time it was out of stock at HTS. Who knew Hasbro actually restocks their online store? I did manage to get Rhinox cheap from HTS, though.

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