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  1. danth
    Thanks. It's a good reminder for me that different people with different experiences have preferences just as valid as mine. Agreed on wanting options to achieve cartoon or toy accuracy like Maketoys Jazz. Agreed. It's pretty fun to rant/complain sometimes though...
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    To be more specific, what really made me laugh was the scene where they're all fighting with swords and the main guy stabs someone, then stops in the middle of battle to open his visor and try to look badass. And all the silly pseudo-religious wailing/singing. Who knows if the movie will be good or bad. But the trailer seemed pretty cheesy IMO.
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    I watched the trailer. Looks really dumb if I'm being honest.
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    But remember those Christmas mornings where you didn't get any Transformers toys, but watched the cartoon instead and had the character's poorly drawn, simplified animation models burned into your soul, creating overwhelming nostalgia to this day? Neither do I. I'll never get it. The original toys were awesome looking, with panel lining and cool stickers full of circuitry, and there's no way the cartoon with it's cheap animation was going to be able to capture all of the toy's coolness. So now, we're going to make the toys just as boring looking as the animation? Why? Don't get me wrong, the cartoon usually fixed the toy's goofy proportions. And in cases like Ironhide completely deviated from the toy in perhaps a good way. But man, for me, those cartoons were just commercials. The toys were the things I spent hours playing with and looking at. Jazz has wings!
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    The argument is that a "theatrical release" is by definition exclusively in theaters. Otherwise the contract would have specified "hybrid theatrical/home streaming" or whatever. Pretty big smoking gun here:
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    And they put a picture of an AWE Striker on the box? 🤣 Maybe it's a prelim box pic...
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    🤣 I'm guessing those can be removed, but not sure.
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    Did you read the whole contract? Do you know what time frames are inherent in industry standards? Did you know that industry standards are actually considered in these kinds of lawsuits, and that they affect how contracts are interpreted by judges? I think you guys are handing Disney the benefit of any ambiguity here, without giving and benefit to the plaintiff.
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    I don't think so. "If release, then theatrical". Home streaming is not theatrical. A theatrical release literally means in theaters. It specifies exactly the kind of release. It does not include home video, streaming, etc. There would be no point of having a contracts specifying how movies were released if they weren't binding. This argument that "they CAN do what's in the contract...Or something else" doesn't make sense. It defeats the purpose of a contract.
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    This seems pretty cut and dry and absolute. It doesn't say they can do a theatrical release AND a home streaming release. It says wide theatrical release. Period. I'm not a lawyer, but I don't see how the contract allows Disney to release the movie to streaming. Seems like it very much does stipulate exclusively theatrical. These are the operative words from the contract: "If release, then theatrical". The contract language specifies exactly what they are allowed to do. If it's not in there, they can't do it. At least that's how I'm reading it. It's kind of like if I promised to pay you $100 USD for a job, and then I tried to pay you $10 is USD and $90 in packaging peanuts. And then said "the contract didn't specify exclusively USD".
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    Nice to see Annie Potts is still cute as heck. Paul Rudd is great in anything so that's a plus. Getting a bit tired of Finn Wolfhard being in all these 80's throwbacks. Well...I guess it can't be worse than Ghostbusters 2.
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    If these were o-ring figures, I'd be down. Or even scaled down versions of the 7-inch figures. I don't get it. Why make the figures old Joe fans would want, but at the wrong scale, and figures we would never want at the correct scale? The whole point of the original figures were the articulation. That's why you got them over Star Wars figures. But then again they make Transformers figures that don't transform, too. So I dunno. I guess there's always someone out there willing to buy anything.
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    Holy heck, I actually kinda like these. They really stand in stark contrast to the gangly, overly-textured, super wrinkly action figures that we always get from Hasbro. I might be the only one who believes there is a level of detail that looks ridiculous and distracting on action figures. These might even err on the side of too little detail, but I'll take it over the alternative where every figure must have random patches of mesh fabric and mall-ninja armor strewn about their body. However the price is bonkers. I'd drop $60 on a vintage figure I wanted, but not these. I'd also prefer it if they were 3 & 3/4 inch on throwback cards.
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    Agreed. The MP-52 top view in alt mode is very gappy/messy. Also that stubbier nose cone. For me, alt mode is king, so the MP-52 is a step down. It does look very nice in bot mode though, especially if your top priority is toon accuracy. I like the cleaner look, but MP-52 almost looks like sofubi due the the smoothness and roundness and I don't really love that.
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    😄 I've seen it on some smaller box sets that were designed to look live old VHS tapes. That kinda make sense and added some charm. On these, it just looks dumb. The collector's edition set is hilariously huge. I assume these all have the new sound effects track, which is an instant pass for me.
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    There are recent pics of her with Zabka out there. She looks amazing for being 49! Definitely check out Teen Witch if you want to see one of the most cringe-worthy scenes in movie history.
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    Hopefully they get Teen Witch to make a cameo!
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    And since when is Mace Windu an Arashikage ninja?
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    And so soft?
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    Will it have a blue nose cone?
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    Holy crap, Timber looks diseased. Looks like an animal too old and sick to groom itself. Has the sculptor even seen a healthy wolf before?
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    Forgot to thank you for this. I was able to snag one. Thanks!
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    Next they're going to do something dumb like make one of the main characters female, or black, or make the entire leader of the rebellion a women, or make the good guys anti-fascists. They should just keep Star Wars apolitical, like the originals!
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