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Just now, Old_Nash_II said:

Yep

Figured as much... "Você me compra" não faz sentido nem em Português.  It's all good, we learn, in part, by being constructively corrected. 

2 minutes ago, Old_Nash_II said:

OK, you buy me

Don't you mean, "you sold me"?..

On 9/7/2024 at 1:19 PM, Bolt said:

Wake me when the VF-5000 is coming. I don't need more VF-1's. 

2 hours ago, sjoebarry said:

AMEN!!!

Well, I would not look askance if they were to reissue the Cavaliers version or decided to finally release an Alaska Base livery one and/or a Low-Viz; as for everything else VF-1, I share your sentiment.

2 hours ago, jenius said:

I stopped preordering from them entirely and am letting my existing ones ride and hoping for the best. They must be very close on the battlepods if some finished ones have tricked out.

Thankfully, everything I preordered with them has been delivered but the humongous wait for the Dana figure soured me to ever paying upfront, partial or full payment, ever again; if/when they announce something of interest to me and I feel the urge to place a preorder, I'll go through BBTS or elsewhere... if it's delayed indefinitely, they completely flake out or just go under, it won't matter.

On 8/29/2024 at 8:00 AM, TangledThorns said:

Reviews are out... oof.

Don't think I have the interest in this series anymore.

Hope PRIME learned its very very expensive lesson.

Judging by the more colorful reviews available, not only did PRIME and everyone else involved learn nothing, they doubled down.  Wonder how many of the 30% who bothered to finish the 1st season will come back for the 2nd and stick with it to the end... and, as I understand it, Amazon is contracted for five seasons of this financial hemorrhage. 

20 minutes ago, seti88 said:

and not forgetting, SV-51!

8 minutes ago, twich said:

Yes, I would love a Hi Metal R SV-51! All three flavors please!

Twich

I'll third that sentiment but the wings do give me pause.  I suppose the most efficient and stable solution would be interchangeable sets, one for each folding/folded state; also, given how thin they would be, the boosters, if included, would likely present some sagging issues unless the plastic grade of the boosters are extremely light or the ones for the wings that mount them are very tough/rigid.  Regardless... BRING IT ON!

10 minutes ago, hutch said:

Acolyte.  Totally cancelled

The Failure of One.

The Failure of Two.

The Failure of Mannyyyyy.

1 minute ago, pengbuzz said:

I liked Down Periscope (minus all the sexual innuendo and cursing).

Down Periscope is a silly hoot

One of my guilty pleasures is the incredibly mediocre, and often quite bad, cinematic mis-adaptation (more like a name recognition slapped on an incongruous story with a few borrowed element to make it seem legit) Wing Commander.  I know it's a mess of a poor excuse for a theatrical release trying to capitalize, way too late, on a popular videogame IP, with incredibly asinine themes an subplot(s), but I enjoy the heck out the capital ship and some of the fighter action, and the overall atmosphere of the universe depicted.

Getting back to Kraven, if it's anything even remotely close to Morbius, it's going to be nigh unwatchable.  I tried to power through Morbius when it finally debuted on FX and it was a stupefying, mind numbing experience I never want to go through again.

1 hour ago, Big s said:

It’s not that subjective. Enjoyable is subjective. People can enjoy a bad movie, but they shouldn’t go as far as to call it good unless they’re in denial. Morbius was a bad movie, but there are people that actually found it enjoyable, but they should never call it good.

It always amazes me how many people fail to comprehend this self-evident distinction.  A good movie is objectively good, measured by several different criteria; ditto for a mediocre or bad or downright awful film.  On the subjective end of things, people can dislike good movies or like bad ones as enjoyment is an individual perspective.  The vexing thing, however, are the people who take the dunking on a movie they happen to like, despite its plain-to-see lack of quality -- in part or the whole -- as a personal affront.

8 hours ago, Big s said:

Honestly, the best thing on there is X-Men 97. Beyond that there really hasn’t been anything worth watching the last couple years 

And you don't have to subscribe to D+ to legally watch it, if you want to, which means there is NOTHING in there truly worth paying for, at all, and hasn't been since Andor.

5 hours ago, Stampeed Valkyrie said:

I've put the brakes on everything KC until they catch up, they no longer respond to email and everything ends up "Shocking" so no more pre-orders...

Ditto!  If I ever again feel the urge to pre-order anything from them, I'll do it through BBTS.  Paying upfront and waiting up to 3 years to get your item (Dana) is for chumps.

17 minutes ago, Raikkonen said:

Since then, I'm relieved I'm no longer under it's spell, and saved myself a lot money and space. 😁

That, right there, is the greatest, most ironic and self-defeating, "contribution" Disney/Lucasfilm under KK ever made to Star Wars and I, for one, am eternally grateful for all the savings from them turning the IP into something mostly unwatchable and impossible to support financially in any form.

12 hours ago, Raikkonen said:

Light saber whip... 🤣🤦‍♂️

What's next? Light saber net launcher? Light saber nun-chuks? Light saber imagine whatever you want alla green latern ring? 🤣

Light saber Swiss Army Knife... because you never know when a Kyber-attuned contained plasma nail file or toothpick will come in handy. 

Finally got the payment request from AmiAmi; now to wait 2-4 months (chose the slow boat method to save on shipping) to get my copy.

19 minutes ago, Thom said:

 

No, it's cheap and childish. What you are saying is that brainless memes and have taken the place of intelligently made complaints. Which is a shame.

No amount of cogent criticism will dissuade anyone invested in this train wreck of a show and that's not the intent anyway... people are more than free to enjoy crap, so hilarious mocking memes that speak volumes with a single line or nothing but an image will not only suffice, they will thrive and drive the shills and the sycophants bonkers because they have no relevant comeback or sense of humor.

11 hours ago, Thom said:

...Considering all else wrong with the series, this seems bottom of the barrel, IMO.

Along with "There's a tempest in me", her toothy horse ride, and now Halbrand/Sauron's wig, have become representative memes of just how much there is wrong, and is wrong, with this series.  Pointing out her chompers, in truth, isn't actually about her teeth; if the series were good and reverent of Tolkien and the fans, nobody would care.

1 hour ago, Chronocidal said:

Oh, I'm not going to hesitate to grab a bunch of these.

I do have to question where the color for those effects came from though.. I haven't watched that in a while.  Are the engine plumes actually greenish?  Because that looks positively disgusting.

What, you don't like glowing antifreeze lemon yellow???...  me neither... 

2 hours ago, Big s said:

They’re both really silly to me

This whole vanity project farce of a so-called show is beyond silly -- cringe inducing, actually -- to anyone who holds Tolkien's work in high regard.

Just now, Big s said:

Galadriel needs dental work, not shampoo 

I'm mocking Halbrand/Sauron's "disguise" flowing dollar-store strands, not Guyladriel's crooked chompers...

One wig to shampoo them all and in the night, condition them...

18 minutes ago, Big s said:

But if it had an ending, it would’ve probably surpassed the original series. Being too faithful to something like a book isn’t always the best route. Some material works better in different types of media. I’ve never read the book, but for that media it may have been perfect, but for a visual series with so many teases, it just feels like a let down. The book itself was just an adaptation of real life events that strayed pretty far from the source material in some aspects 

If they had added an "ending" it would be the farthest thing from perfect... we've been witness to far too many examples to expect otherwise; they would've butchered it and it wouldn't have been Shogun.  It would've been some hybrid mockery of what the author put to paper.  Again, faithfully adapt the source as they did, to their credit, or leave it alone and create something original in no way associated with the works of others... something most modern screenwriters, producers and directors are terrible at, or incapable of, doing.

3 minutes ago, Big s said:

Yeah but even if that’s where the book ends, the story felt unfinished 

I felt the same way when I watched the original miniseries but I've come to realize that adherence to the source material, even if it feels unfinished -- as the original author intended, is infinitely preferable to having adapting screenwriters, producers and directors make stuff up to fill in gaps or add (ultimately) dumbed down resolutions to tie up things with a "neat" little bow... that never works to anyone's satisfaction and invariably cheapens -- too many examples of this, sadly, as it always comes across as the midgets standing on the shoulders of giants arrogantly believing they know better -- the entire effort involved, especially that of the original author.  In essence, be faithful to the source, within the constraints of the medium chosen, or don't do it at all.

A Nikick?... awesome!  Bring on the Ishkicks, Ishforn and Bronco too.

2 hours ago, Mog said:

Head-canon’ing is TIGHT! 

Super easy, barely an inconvenience... 

9 hours ago, Hikuro said:

Guess it'd been to soon for a zip disk huh?

At least two decades too soon.  Oh boy, are we dating ourselves or what?...