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LEGO / Re: Recent Acquisitions
« on: May 21, 2013, 06:43 PM »
I need to nab that if I'm ever at a TRU for some reason again.  I was thinking those may have been hard to get so I didn't bother when they first hit but now I need to get off the pot.

Out of all of the mini-ships I have (both polybag and planet sets) it is the weakest of them all - and I pretty much like the mini-scale stuff. I think what would have made this better was a beefier cockpit/fuselage section, but I'm sure they limit the pieces based on the price point.

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LEGO / Re: Recent Acquisitions
« on: May 21, 2013, 04:06 PM »
Picked up the poly-bag Madalorian Fighter on my way home from work last night at my local TRU.

Won some eBay auctions over the weekend - the Imperial V-Wing Fighter and General Grievous' Starfighter - should have 'em tomorrow according to the tracking info...


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Would it have killed them to put the exploding Battledroid (both colors) in these two sets? What about the 2013 MH Jango Fett instead of this one?

The only difference between those and these in the 2-packs is the exploding feature - the articulation on the exploding ones was five points of articulation as well.

I would have been happy with them putting the light-up Sandtrooper all by himself in one of these cardbacks as well.

This is the biggest problem I have with this new limited articulation approach. It gives them justification to NOT carry forward a figure from the past that may have been difficult/near-impossible to get.

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Official Television Thread
« on: May 21, 2013, 01:20 PM »
Otherwise my wife has hgtv/DIY/food on a constant loop.

Wish Cable would set up a package with just those five networks.

*sigh* Tell me about it....

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TV-9D9 / Re: The Clone Wars - Season Six?
« on: May 19, 2013, 11:37 PM »
I dunno...looks pretty cool to me. Maybe he needs to go scout properties on Dagobah.  ;)

Still looking forward to seeing these arcs. Except the Clovis one.

My problem is that it makes the Jedi and ESPECIALLY Yoda look incompetent. So it's before the events of EP3 and Yoda already feels like there is a "prison-like" aspect to being in the Jedi Temple? And yet they're surprised when the Clones turn on them? Really?

 ::)

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TV-9D9 / Re: The Clone Wars - Season Six?
« on: May 18, 2013, 11:53 PM »
This is why The Clone Wars was cancelled. Someone at Disney, who is in charge, clearly sees clips like this for what it is...

CRAP.

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The Bullpen / Re: Iron Man 2 Toys
« on: May 14, 2013, 04:19 PM »
In my case, they had both lines.

Nice - thanks! Going to have to check a couple Five Below stores on the way home tonight! :D

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The Bullpen / Re: Iron Man 2 Toys
« on: May 14, 2013, 04:12 PM »
I just saw a bunch of stuff at 5 Below that I'd never seen also.  A couple of the armors were kind of cool...never knew they existed.

   E...

Were they the Iron Man 2 line or the follow up "Armored Avenger" line that featured the Concept Hammer Drone? That's the one figure I wish I could still get since it closely resembles the armor Whiplash wears at the end of the movie.

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LEGO / Re: Recent Acquisitions
« on: May 9, 2013, 12:44 PM »
Walked into the Toys R Us near my job last night and was shocked to see a 2011 Republic Frigate set on the shelf, priced at $85. I had a $15 off coupon if I spent $50 or more, plus I had $10 in Rewards R Us bucks - so I got it for $60 + tax AND I got a $10 gift card since I spent more than $40 in Lego.

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The Sequel Trilogy / Re: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy Speculation
« on: May 6, 2013, 07:26 PM »
Star Wars has always been more about the visuals and the story with a lot less focus on the acting (I'm looking at you Hayden and Natalie).

Not to stir up another hornet's nest, but I'm convinced that what performances we got out of Hayden and Natalie were a product of 20% their own doing, and 80% bad directing. Lucas got LUCKY with ANH and like you pointed out things like "But I wanted to pick up some power converters whine whine whine" is pretty bad - we just forgive it because most of us look back at ANH through a VERY thick pair of rose colored glasses.

I have seen both Hayden (Life as a House) and Natalie (Black Swan) turn in performances that were great. In fact, if I were to pick their WORST performances EVER, it would be their performances in the Star Wars prequels.


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The Sequel Trilogy / Re: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy Speculation
« on: May 6, 2013, 02:06 PM »
I guess I should have also stated that in ANH - Luke & Leia are supposed to be 19 years old. Another three years pass between ANH and ESB so that makes them both 22 at the time of ESB. ROTJ supposedly only takes place 1 year after ESB so that means they would be 23 years old in ROTJ.

Han was 29 years old in ANH which means in ROTJ he's 33 - ten years older than Leia.

Even if Leia didn't have kids for ten years after ROTJ, it would still mean she had her first kid at 33 years old (Han would be 43). Last time I checked, women have kids that this age all the time w/o any problem whatsoever.

So setting the ST 30 years after ROTJ means that when they start, the ages of the main three characters are:
Luke - 53
Leia - 53
Han - 63

And the ages of the actors in 2015:
Mark Hamill - 64
Carrie Fisher - 59
Harrison Ford - 73

With the help of makeup and movie magic, I have no doubt that Hamill and Ford can be made to look like they're playing characters only a mere 10 years younger than their actual ages. Considering that in 1977, a 57 year old Obi-Wan Kenobi was portrayed by a 63 year old Alec Guiness and NO ONE seems to mind, I don't think another four years is that much of a stretch.

And Fisher is only 6 years older than Leia would be at the time, so again, not enough of an age difference to get so upset about.






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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Iron Man 3
« on: May 6, 2013, 01:44 PM »
For me, I didn't mind how they changed the Mandarin - in fact there was one line in the movie that IMHO means that The Mandarin could always be in a future Marvel Universe movie.

(sorry, I'm trying not to spoil anything, but it's kinda hard)

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LEGO / Re: Recent Acquisitions
« on: May 6, 2013, 10:25 AM »
Was surprised when I got into work today - one of my co-workers picked up for me one of the Lego Store Holocron Droids that were the in-store build back on May 1st. She had gotten one for her son, but he didn't want it so she brought it in for me knowing that I'm a Star Wars fan!

I am surprised at how cool this little guy is!

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Other Toy Lines / Re: Star Trek
« on: May 4, 2013, 08:21 PM »
Picked up the complete Series One Kre-O sets for Star Trek the other day to add to my wife's Star Trek collection. When I got them home she didn't care for them so I took them all back today. Oh well...

Was tempted to keep one of the smaller items to see how well the light-tech stuff worked but decided against it.

Wish Hasbro had done a 3.75" line for this movie - could have been great.

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The Sequel Trilogy / Re: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy Speculation
« on: May 4, 2013, 08:08 PM »
Maybe the originals' grandkids... 70-year-olds don't have 20-something kids.

2015 - 1983 = 32 years

Why is it so unrealistic that Han & Leia and Luke & mystery woman (I won't say Mara Jade anymore since she could be negated by the ST) waited 5-7 years after the events of Return of the Jedi to have kids? If they did, the first born would be 27 years old at the start of the movie and would still very much be considered a 20-something. 20-something doesn't have to mean 20 or 21.

Personally I'd welcome a movie that, while always aimed also at kids, I hope kids/teens on the big screen take a back seat to adults.

The caveat to that though is that out of any director in Hollywood, Abrams is someone I would trust with directing kids in a movie - while the plot of Super 8 wasn't all that great, the acting on the part of the kids in that movie was fantastic and even if just ONE of the offspring of the Solo/Skywalkers has a kid themselves, if that kid is handled in the same way the kids in Super 8 were handled, we'll be just fine.


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