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  1. jvmacross
    I don't think those self-reported "ages" on online gaming communities mean much....half of them are probably f'ing pedos....
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    Well duh again....of course Disney is going to keep pouring money into their biggest IP cash generator....as I have already stated....good or dismal....these shows generate merchandising profit via the countless licensing fees....no rational business would give up on that....the problem is there is no incentive to need to produce quality shows like Andor....why spend more money for the best talent when you can hire mediocre talent and maximize profit... So the "stumbling block" you describe isn't even real....it will never be real until whatever ROI percentage they have had their top bean counters set for the House of Mouse is not met....the fact that there have been way more duds than hits shows that quality isn't a must-have...just a nice-to-have when and if it ever happens...in short, a good Star Wars story from Disney will likely continue to be a hit-or-miss proposition for a long, long time....
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    And?....this is a pointless statement when every other shot in Skellingtin Crew ( sorry never seen Resistance...likely never will) consists of winks and nods (aka fan service) to stuff seen or mentioned in practically every George Lucas era story we know....even those that have been universally trashed like the Star Wars Holiday Special and the Ewok Movies....lmao!
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    I bet a majority of those kids are wearing them because the parents are fans....most kids can't buy their own clothes...lol
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    I think it's way past the time when that may have been a legitimate statement....this is no longer George Lucas' Star Wars.....hasn't been for years....which makes the infantile writing and stories even more egregious....let's face it....Star Wars is trying to be cool for the entirely wrong audience....no matter how you look at it...an audience that now has way more options than the original fan's ever had....it's a tough spot for Disney to be in....cater to a dying fanbase....or cater to a fanbase that no longer is forced into few options for their entertainment dollars...
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    LOL....indeed....anyone who thinks this or any Star Wars being produced today is mainly targeted for "kids" is fooling themselves....unless they mean the kids trapped inside grown-ass adults....no kid I am aware of gives a sh!t about Star Wars...TBH...I'm thankful for that!
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    It would have been nice...but he's more of the Macross Character designer....at least he included what is arguably the most iconic hero mech in the film...
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    Will be there tomorrow with my kids and a bunch of their friends...will do our part to dethrone Moana 2! LOL...
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    Nice...looks like Mikimoto is still on his MtF-style phase
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    Well duh....of course there's going to be some shelf warmers....imagine the indignant rage at Disney-Hssbro if they made only the "cool" characters and not the ones that were hated by the collectors that hated the show but still can't help buying the "cool" looking characters and ships, etc....the point was that no Star Wars shows...good or bad....no chance of making extra cash from the merchandising....
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    Guess my sarcasm was set to low for ya.......and speaking of fan-service....Wolfman Jack clearly will generate some additional profits from the sale of more action figures! No matter how bad a Star Wars show is....those toys will always sell! Kinda like VFs from a terrible Macross series...lol
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    In a galaxy where stone fortresses quickly develop into massive jet-fueled dumpster fires....anything is possible I suppose.... Half way in and this series is almost unwatchable....sunk cost or not, guess I'll keep watching...how much worse can it get, right? Maybe Erkel is revealed as one of Palpatine's top Sith Acolytes!
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    Seems they are jumping in with a world already inhabited with superheroes and I assume supervillians....works for me, even if I probably will have zero knowledge of some of the obscure characters than Gunn seems to gravitate to....but don't need any more origin movies...so I will just sit back and let Gunn do his thing....so far his GotG Marvel entries have been my favorites....should be fun...
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    What other retailers are having this same issue?....no other retailer is mentioned except bbts....like I said, bbts misunderstood or did not act quick enough....either way, the message bbts relayed apparently to EVERYONE who purchased the Regult w/fig was not the correct thing to do....as the change only should have affected anyone purchasing after whatever date KC had requested....
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    Sounds like a BBTS screw-up to me....or like I said...a failure to communicate bilingually...lol
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    Unfortunately, the itch your are craving to get scratched is quickly turned into excessive fan-service by the brilliant minds at Disney Lucasfilm, but be careful as too much will make you go blind!....unfortunately, the D+ Star Wars MO calls for plenty of it....like a wave from the hand of a Jedi, it muddles the reality of bad story-telling for the real Star Wars fans because who cares about a good story when they just made a character from the Ewok movies canon!...when all else fails...toss in some more Jawas, Hammerheads, and Greedos to as many scenes as possible...and toss in some PT stuff too because the PT is cool now! Space Goonies is at best a bad fan-fic with lots of fan-service, more than anything we have seen yet from a D+ show....
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    Maybe BBTS doesn't want to deal with separating who ordered Regults w/figs vs Regults with no figs.....or BBTS f'd up and did make the change as soon as they were notified of the change by KC....in either case, if you ordered from BBTS before KC removed the 'free' fig with a Regult PO and was listed as such on the BBTS, pretty sure KC will honor your order if you can show your BBTS order date...I seriously doubt KC sold that many to BBTS in the first place so it shouldn't be that many figs KC will need to account for...
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    Not sure why BBTS can't just check on their system to see who ordered the Regult w/fig before the cutoff date that KC seems to be requesting....pretty sure KC did not tell them no one will get a Regult w/fig who place an order for one....perhaps what we have here is failure to communicate bilingually!....
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    LOL...that's some brutal bar you've set for yourself!....there has been nothing good film-wise from Disney Star Wars since Rogue One....a Skeleton movie would have been just another Star Wars flop...your tolerance for mediocrity is apparently way higher than mine or perhaps you simply forgot that fact....I think Obi Wan was also initially marked for a movie, but like Skelton Pirates, at the end of the day, it just wasn't good enough and sadly both weren't good enough for TV either....then again, D+ is becoming the place were Star Wars dies....
  20. jvmacross
    Is anyone watching Creature Commandos? Pretty entertaining show so far. I'm looking forward to seeing how Gunn is going to make all these characters work together.
  21. jvmacross
    Yes....this could very well happen....and then D+ will have no series that started good and ended good....
  22. jvmacross
    I guess I have much higher standards....I want quality entertainment start to finish...like I have said before, I'm running out of reasons to keep D+, especially now that they are releasing their shows on disk...the only thing that has been good so far is Andor...a story that pretty much follows the same tactic as almost every other D+ show of giving us the backstory for something or someone that we really didn't need....but for Andor it's working...Skelleton Key seems "new" but I am completely underwhelmed by it....Disney's Star Wars is creatively bankrupt...
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    Well...that's more than I can remember about Skelleton Crew...lol
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    Nah. There's nothing memorable or at minimum worthy of a spectacle...like some of the scenes in other D+ duds....such as watch Kenobi battle Vader even if the whole concept was ridiculous it was still cool to watch....kind of like good fanfics...same goes for Acolyte...the not-Sithlord battles were fun even though the show overall was awful.... With Skelloton Key...there is nothing.....can't recall one interesting thing I've seen and the show is still fresh in my mind....I have not forgotten what I've seen, there just isn't a thing worth remembering....
  25. jvmacross
    Half way through and this series has already proven to be nothing special....no wonder they opted for a tv series rather than a movie.....on D+ Disney has a captive pre-paying audience....on the big screen this would have been another monumental flop...lol
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