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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Toys R Us (Or: Die, Dinosaur, Die!)
« on: January 31, 2018, 11:11 AM »
I think what Amazon is doing is just hastening the collapse of poorly run companies - e.g. TRU.  If you're well run and have a clear value to your customers you'll likely be just fine.

This is the point I was trying to make, put much more succinctly.

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Toys R Us (Or: Die, Dinosaur, Die!)
« on: January 29, 2018, 02:14 PM »
Retail as we have known it all our lives is going away.  Every year it seems like another major retailer is biting the dust.  The only ones that seem impervious are the bargain outlets and very specialized stores.  Brands that set themselves apart from what Amazon offers.

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Toys R Us (Or: Die, Dinosaur, Die!)
« on: January 27, 2018, 07:25 PM »
Retail is gasping its last breaths.

Our generation will be the last where kids grew up without online shopping as a primary vehicle for getting things. We really are the delineation; I see the “I shop online” crowd reducing with those older than we are, and increasing as the kids get younger. My children will never know a world where Amazon is not a huge thing.

If those rumors about Amazon acquiring Target come true?  Hoo boy.

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The Last Jedi / Re: TLJ 3.75" Class A Creature/Droid Assortment
« on: January 27, 2018, 07:13 PM »
Probe droid is pretty awesome. Finally got a really nice version of this all these years later.

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That Jyn Erso card is pretty awesome.

I would love to see Baze and Chirrut. Round it out with a Bodhi and K-2S0 and they could kinda consider RO closed out.

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We jinxed the Van *****!

Coach's Jerry Van ****
 https://www.avclub.com/r-i-p-jerry-van-****-1821842102
I thought the same thing the other day!

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Favorite Breakfast Cereal
« on: January 4, 2018, 12:17 PM »
Say, do you like chocolate? Do you like peanut butter? Do you like Cheerios? If so, give Chocolate Peanut Butter Cheerios a try.
Oh yes. These are awesome. I also grabbed peanut butter chocolate Shreds. Pretty good.  I am a sucker for peanut butter.

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Star Wars Universe / Re: Is Star Wars special anymore?
« on: January 4, 2018, 12:14 PM »
Marvel is 10 years in with multiple pictures each year. While there are some that are better than others, id say the QC has been kept intact and they are all good, and I eagerly await the next film each time.

As long as they can keep making GOOD SW films, I can’t imagine being less excited.

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Star Wars Universe / Re: Is Star Wars special anymore?
« on: January 2, 2018, 01:29 PM »
To me, it is, but I could see that diminishing somewhat over time.  Or not.  Hard to gauge.  Personally, I LOVED Rogue One.  More side stories done with that level of quality?  Count me in.  I am worried about Solo.

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Saw Ponda Baba, Sandtrooper, Jyn and Tuskegee Raider at Wally yesterday.

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The Sequel Trilogy / Re: Star Wars Episode IX
« on: December 22, 2017, 09:25 AM »

Saying that there can't be new introductions of Force powers would be to invalidate the actual emergence of the ghosts in the first place, as well as Sith lightning, or Force Speed or whatever that was in TPM.
For that matter, aside from slight precognition and communicating after death, ALL force powers introduced from ESB onward are "crapping on the original" notions of what the force is.

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The Sequel Trilogy / Re: Star Wars: The Last Jedi (SPOILERS)
« on: December 22, 2017, 09:21 AM »
I think Luke will be back in astral form, but I think it will be with Kylo more than Rey.

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The Sequel Trilogy / Re: Star Wars Episode IX
« on: December 21, 2017, 08:08 AM »
-CB should've had Lando...  If you're gonna give a Lando cameo he would've been nice to see on, or related to Canto Bight in some way.  Maybe they contact him for the outside help, whatever.  I would've liked to see Lando appear in some way.

Wow.  This would have been awesome.   

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The Sequel Trilogy / Re: Star Wars: The Last Jedi (SPOILERS)
« on: December 21, 2017, 07:54 AM »
Outside of hard core SW fans, most of the people I know who have seen it were less impressed than the previous two releases, which correlates to what we see with the RT scoring.

most non-hardcore people I've talked to genuinely like the movie

In places where anyone can register and vote/score the movie (as many times as they want), the scores aren't great.  RT has a score in the fifties, metacritic is about 50%. 

But in all the movie industry polls that actually poll people coming out of theaters, like Cinema Score (A rating) and comscore (5/5 stars), the movie is doing very well with audiences.  That's a big disconnect.

Birth.Death.Movies has a nice breakdown of the disconnect by looking at the review data.  Curious that 60-70% of the bad TLJ reviews are coming from newly registered users.  And then like a third of those new users deleted their account after posting the TLJ bad reviews.

I am not trying to invalidate anyone's opinion of TLJ or say you're bad/dumb/whatever if you didn't like it.  I am sure that there is a population of folks who either didn't like the movie or were disappointed with what they got/saw, but it does seem like it's possible a small minority of those who didn't like it are causing problems on some of the internet review sites. 

I'm not trying to say that it's all fake and everyone loves the movie, but it wouldn't surprise me if the truth was somewhere in the middle.

I read that an ALT-RIGHT group has claimed responsibility for these bots.  They cite issues with Disney, Kennedy and Hidalgo pushing a feminist agenda and some other random homophobia.  They also reference reviews that their bots posted to other films (Weight of Water) instead of TLJ by accident.

Now, this could be some idiot claiming credit for something that happens as normal, but... I definitely don't take RT at their word saying "we weren't hacked" since all they really have is their reputation. 

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The Sequel Trilogy / Re: Star Wars: The Last Jedi (SPOILERS)
« on: December 20, 2017, 07:53 AM »
Perfect movie? Not close. Terrible garbage? Calm down

I don't know if I would call the movie garbage.  It's certainly not the worst of the 9 made thus far, but Rotten Tomatoes has an audience score of 55%.  In contrast, TFA holds a score of 88%.  That's a big difference.  There were some cool scenes and I even like a lot of the concepts they were going after, but the final product itself is something of a hot mess in my opinion.  Here's how I'd rank the 9:

#1 - Empire Strikes Back
#2 - New Hope
#3 - Rogue One
#4 - Force Awakens
#5 - Return of the Jedi
#6 - Revenge of the Sith
#7 - Last Jedi
#8 - Attack of the Clones
#9 - Phantom Menace

Maybe my expectations are too high for a SW film, and maybe I'll like it more in a second viewing, but slotting it behind ROTS should give you some indication of what I thought of it as a whole.  I think its fair to also call out that a lot of big SW fans (like most of us on this site) are going to defend the movie to their last breath just because its Star Wars.  I recall someone once saying that Hasbro could release a Poop-on-a-stick carded figure and it would still sell...I think there's some of that going on here as well, where people are willing to overlook or ignore the flaws of the movie because they just want to like it.  I really want to like it, but I'm not there yet.

The rotten tomatoes score has been shown to be largely due to bots spamming the site with negative reviews.

Was about to post the same.   

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