Mr March

I thought you were going to say "cowbell." 353870[/snapback] Hahahaha. Good ole' Walken on SNL

Oh yeah. I saw the adverts on Cinescape and IMDB. Dec 20th for Serenity. I just hope it's a decent release. If they put out a bare bones edition with nothing on it, there's no way I'm going to buy a copy. They'll just release a special edition 4 months later and I'll be pissed (Sin City anyone? )

LOL To each their own I suppose.

HAHAHAHAA! Of all the things requiring digital editing

No, but you have to admit it's a hilarious show. To see geeks attempt to quantify who is more geeky, as if anyone cares to distinguish between them

Well, this certainly didn't turn out good

Up to $30k. This is so fun to watch this thing grow. It's crazy. Obviously a lot of people with a lot of expendable income

How sad. But I'll always have my novels to read and enjoy. I'm not sure if Dark Sun was the shortest campaign world, but it may have been. It ran from 1991 to 1996 (this does not include the Wizards of the Coast online content published starting in 2000). Dark Sun did have a 2nd Edition of the primary Campaing set released. I think some of the later worlds like Birthright and such were the shortest.

Wow, an animated Conan film. Could be good. Could be lousy. Somehow I just can't see the awesome b&w comics making it faithfully translated to the screen in a NA animation production. I can always hope though...

Thankfully this is an adaptation of the Dark Elf Trilogy and not the other books. IMO, Homeland, Exile, and Sojourn were the only decent novels of the 9 Drizzt books I read. In fact, I'd go so far to say that of all the licensed fantasy books I used to read (gawd, what a waste of time so many of those books were) the Dark Elf Trilogy was the one of the few decent series based upon a liscense, along side stuff like Weiss and Hickman's Chronicles/Legends series. I'm going to be very critical of the graphic novel format, particularly for a character driven tale like the Dark Elf trilogy. Sure it has it's fair share of magic and monsters, but it is the character deconstruction/study that remains the central and most compelling part of the three books. Graphic novel adaptations are well known to sacrifice such deep character/story elements for more action-centric panels. The diary interludes at the beginning of each part of the books is central to the overall narrative and would be difficult to adapt properly in a graphic format while maintaining coherence. It's certainly doable, just difficult and will require effort, something I hope the adaptors do. The one review I was able to find (on IGN) doesn't sound thrilling. IGN Reviews Forgotten Realms: Legend of Drizzt: Vol. 1 Homeland Suppose I'd have to read it myself to be sure, but it sound somewhat mediocre. Maybe worth a try.

And so shows up the other fella I had in my mind for Admin

At the risk of stating the obvious, you won't find me disagreeing. Out of all the anime I own, there are only two dubs I can watch. The rest is subtitled only. But that doesn't mean I can't demand better and vote with my dollars by not purchasing crap.

Whoa, that's harsh. Good thing I'm not a next-door neighbour

Aaahhh, a very interesting bit of anime trivia I did not know. These anime series no doubt benefitted from his influence. I like a tumultuous close range brawl as well, but like you said, so many such close range engagements are static affairs, ridiculously simplified to the point of being asinine. Revolutionary War (there's a nice misnomer) is a very appropriate analogy for some of these space battles in science fiction. Damn, I gotta make an epic space film with some great battles in it

A mistaken assumption, no problem. Everything in this thread is under control. Nothing to see here, move along, these aren't the droids you're looking for...

Bizarre list. This would never hold up on a real film site, but it's a curiosity nonetheless.

My gawd, I can't wait to see this auction finish. It's gonna go insane!

You're trying hard Sundown, but we're staying on topic. The enthusiasm is appreciated though

I'm curious about the number of custom parts. When I was a kid playing with LEGO, there were so few customized parts, so much of the LEGO was generic blocks, panels, and windows. Sure there was the space LEGO that had quite a few odd parts and I did love the sleek designs (the pieces made great helicopter and jet parts), but for the most part the pieces could be utilized outside their original design. So many of the parts here look custom made to suit. I'd be interested to know more. The number of pieces and time to build (not design) would also be interesting.

hahaha, that's great

an-al-o-gy, think hard

It appears we'll have no choice but to do so

Beautiful! Another job well done!

One of the things I've always loved about Macross was the depiction of space combat between capital ships. So much of it was actually far beyond visual range, with distances sometimes measured in light seconds (300,000 km). When you get to a point in science fiction where the high-energy weapons of capital space ships are firing at light or near-light speeds, it makes no sense to actually see your enemy when you fire upon him - special circumstances not withstanding. Macross created dramatically and visually interesting space battles outside visual ranges with the scenes remaining coherent. So many directors don't even try to do this, simply opting to show both friend and foe within line-of-sight because they can't imagine how to create compelling and coherent combat drama any other way.

$15k! With still over a week to go, I'm really curious to see how high this thing gets