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1 hour ago, lechuck said:

There is an old Klingon proverb for all of this: Only a P'Takh judges a warriors strength by the Bat'leth they carry on their back!

If we're quoting Star Trek, I'll paraphrase the 109th Rule of Acquisition:  "Inane Klingon insults and an empty sack are worth the sack."

4 hours ago, Thom said:

As ever, I'll wait to give my view of it after I've seen it, cause you can't tell if the pudding tastes good until you've tried it.😉

Thing is, if the pudding smells rancid, tasting it to make sure, let alone swallowing it, is not a smart move...

7 hours ago, Big s said:

If that budget is anywhere near a real number, I doubt this movie will bring in a profit.

Once marketing is factored in, this thing is unlikely to even come anywhere close to breaking even, let alone turn a profit; it may very well turn into the biggest financial bomb in Marvel history, which after Quantumania and The Marvels is saying something.

This is promising to turn out exactly as most have expected it would... Could it end up okay despite its insistence on "trying to ice-skate uphill?"  Well, the chances aren't zero but... 

31 minutes ago, Atomski said:

Man, Cyrus is borderline arguing with folks in the comments on Kickstarter. He is very instant that the pink color is to guarantee success". What? !

Why not?... It's worked swimmingly for Hollywood, comic books and the AAA gaming industries...  

3 hours ago, Tking22 said:

Once again, I just want a TV Kaki 1A so Vermillion can be done, c'mon Bandai, get to it already!

That and a Brownie and I'm all set too.  Hop to it already, Bandai! 

9 hours ago, no3Ljm said:

Love the new concept arts.

Nobody can (truthfully) deny that these movies are extremely well executed visual feasts.

Ugh!... little to no originality left from the House of Mouse, and when they do try something new it's almost always dreadful.

5 hours ago, TangledThorns said:

2.5 stars out of 10? lol!

Seriously tho. Hollywood greed is so derp and I hope this loss is another wake up call for them. But I doubt it. You'd think the way Hollywood burns cash without real consequence that it makes me think they're probably doing it to launder drug money... 😱

 

 

Everyone on the production side of this thing set out to create an intentionally off-putting and insulting anti sequel... they succeeded.

4 hours ago, Tking22 said:

I only caught one episode of this but it was pretty awful, very surprised a second season is happening, but clearly it got enough views to warrant a second season so there you go. 

Or, they were contractually obligated to produce a minimum of two seasons, just like Velma.  Note that that particular abomination was unceremoniously canceled after the 2nd season was done. 

22 hours ago, tekering said:

The problem is as already stated:

They'll never get around to making anybody from the actual bridge crews, 'cause this line will fail right out of the gate. 🤕

At a scale incompatible with any existing Star Trek figures, no collector is just going to buy "that guy from that one episode."

They've already attempted it, no doubt, but major retailers aren't going to bite.  Nobody with any business sense would possibly think it's a good idea. 🙄

Star Trek has been turned into such a moribund franchise by this point, due to gross mismanagement and massively unpopular shows over the last several years that even main legacy characters, let alone obscure ones (see also Star Wars), will not sell in large enough numbers to justify the investment in warehousing space, let alone shelf/pegs at the retail level.

Bad Shipping Fan Fic postmortem.

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.