mechaninac
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They are; it's called The Acolyte, and it's going to be, by all account, absolutely atrocious.
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Unfortunately, he has abandoned Favreau's vision for Star Wars and, as the absolute lackey that he is, has fully embraced the direction KK set out for Star Wars. Unless he can prove otherwise (BoBF, Kenobi, Mando season 3, Ahsoka and The Bad Batch certainly weren't it), all roads lead to the sequel trilogy... and forgettable mediocrity that undermines what Lucas created, driving away legacy fans while failing to attract new ones to replace them.
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Characters are only as smart or interesting as the person writing them. The best description of the Ashoka series' version of Thrawn that I've read is that he is a dumb person's interpretation of a smart person... a 2-dimensional, thinly superficial competence and menace that do not stand up to even the most cursory scrutiny.
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Worst flop since just about everything cinema in living memory...
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Wow, wow, wow, wow..... wow! 87% box office drop Friday to Friday, 78% overall for its second weekend outing. One of, if not, the worst flops in the history of superhero films on a cost vs returns basis, perhaps even of all time, regardless of genre; heading to an epic financial loss of (nearly/possibly) half a billion dollars during its theatrical run... now THAT's impressive, and has earned it an ignominious place in the annals of movie making... Well done Disney-Marvel, bravo. Stick a fork in it, this turkey is done.
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Agreed. It'll be lucky to do The Marvel numbers, as I posited. When it's all said and done, it'll likely do significantly worse than Blue Beetle. All these studios are hellbent on driving every single money-printing franchise/IP, that they acquired because they were popular and profitable, into the ground with their obnoxious ideological BS and atrocious writing/story telling until they are all as worthless as what Disney-Lucasfilm did with Star Wars and Indiana Jones. Then, instead of engaging in healthy introspection and realizing that They Are The Problem causing their failures, they ignore/deny reality and blame the fans.
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It will do The Marvels numbers, if it's lucky. Sony better not have spent even 1/3 what Disney did on their clambake stinker; that way, at least the financial loss won't be as embarrassingly/hilariously bad.
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Well, Space Balls is Star Wars adjacent, from a certain point of view; so, close enough?... May the Swartz be with you. It certainly isn't with The Marvels or anything Disney-MCU related since Endgame.
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Avatar:TLA (Netflix live action series)
mechaninac replied to SMS007's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Did... did Netflix finally get it right???... Not gonna lie, that looks stunning and very authentic to the cartoon, in a 'the people behind it' get the source material and took it seriously kind of way. -
This movie is going to be epic, and not in a good way for Disney-Marvel... it's going to be fun to watch the aftermath.
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It's a different timeline; however, and I'm likely mistaken on this, I seem to remember there being some off-handed easter egg/mention in one of the reimagining movies regarding the launch of the Icarus deep space manned probe, so... who knows? It could happen in a future installment if the franchise remains self-consistent, competently written and directed (no ham-fisted insertion of THE MESSAGE) and, most important of all for future viability, profitable... judging solely by the first three movies and this teaser trailer, it looks very promising.
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Just amazing, quite literally one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time. And do I detect a slight VF-5000 Star Mirage fighter mode inspired -- infinitely more intricate and polished and contemporary -- design lineage, intentional or not, with this awesome bird of prey?
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Honestly, no, it doesn't, and it is this toy's most photogenic (or is that least off-putting?) aspect.
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That is indeed unfortunate; 99 out of 100 times the trick I elaborated, and you apparently tried, works like gangbusters... bummer. I'd be curious to know what kind of plastic they used for the darned thing; it has to be something outside the styrene family or anything remotely close.
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That's actually an easy fix. Use Plastic Cement (Tenax, Ambroid, Tamyia, the stuff used to bond PVC pipes from a hardware store, etc... anything that will melt ABS, Acrylic, PVC and the like - a small drop is all you need. NEVER USE CA glue; it does not work in these applications and looks ugly as all hell afterwards) to bond the broken peg back on the stand arm's base; once cured, carefully drill a hole through the peg into the knuckle, longitudinally, to add a pin to reinforce the whole thing. If done properly, you'll hardly be able to tell it snapped at all, and it will be stronger than it ever was.
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Or the empty box...
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From a viewer's point of view, the quality of the show -- the writing, directing, acting, etc. -- is entirely down to one's own taste, so thinking it was good or thinking it was bad is a personal thing. From a marketable/profitability stand point, Ashoka seems to have been a sizable failure for Disney/Lucasfilm, with diminishing viewing numbers from a lackluster starting point, as chronicled by Samba TV and Nielsen, that are about as poor as Andor's, having never cracked number 4 of new streaming shows and barely showing up, and already falling from, the top ten of all streaming shows (compare this to One Piece, for instance), plus very little in the way of merchandizing, with Hasbro pretty much sitting this one out.
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This looks like it will be a lot of Fun...
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Well, they had to have the IM tooling made and contract a factory to produce the thing... beyond that, not much effort at all, certainly none in making it look even remotely passable to the majority of the target customer: adult collectors riddled with nostalgia and money to burn, doubtful there are more than a handful of kids on this whole planet who are clamoring for a roughly Playskool level toy of a 30+ year old show... seriously, who is this thing for?
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Wow! That is truly a low effort attempt on Playmate's part, and they even managed to get the base of the stand wrong... incorrect badge design.
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I don't know about anyone else, to me the whole thing looks misshapen and bloated in odd places, but the most egregious of all is the entire pinched and truncated forward fuselage... it looks awful, and I highly doubt having it shot in color and with paint apps will make it look significantly better. Bandai did a wonderful job with their interpretation of the YF-19/VF-19ADV, but their YF-21, to my eyes, is an eyesore that manages to look no better, and in some respects worse, than the old Yamato 1/72. I'll stick with my gorgeously sleek and well proportioned (I personally prefer a deliberate emphasis on fighter mode aesthetics even if it compromises battroid) 1/60 Yamatos, thank you very much.