I wonder if they'll become the Brooklyn Islanders?  I'd kinda dig that.

I doubt they'll change the name.  For the Nets, a name change totally made sense.  When they were in the ABA they actually played in NYC and were the New York Nets.  Then they moved across the river to the Meadowlands in Jersey and because of that they became the New Jersey Nets.  And with the move to Brooklyn, Jay-Z's association with the team combined with a pretty strong sense of Brooklyn pride, it made sense to call the Nets the Brooklyn Nets.

As for the Islanders?  Technically, they'll still be on Long Island.  And in New York state as well as the city, now.  I can't see a name change really benefitting them all that much.  The new arena should definitely spark some interest in the team.  At least, until they start playing and their record starts reminding people why the Islanders have become the red-headed step children of NYC area hockey teams.

There's been an ongoing theme of Tony drinking through all of the films.  In the first film, cocktails with the generals after the missile demo, and the benefit scene.  In the second film there's his birthday party scene where he clearly gets out of control.  And in Avengers he's drinking while talking with Loki.  So the groundwork for Stark's alcoholism has at the very least been established. 

The trailer seems as though someone wants to take EVERYTHING from Tony.  Perhaps that loss will be the catalyst to develop a storyline which looks more closely at the alcoholism issue? 

But in that respect, we may not have some of the other plot devices available that the comic writers had.  Case in point:  there was a point in the comics where Tony Stark gave up being Iron Man.  He handed the mantle over to Jim Rhodes at that point while he dealt with his drinking problem.  And at that point in time, nobody knew Iron Man's secret identity, so having Rhodey fill in as Iron Man worked.  It wasn't until after Stark had come back as Iron Man that a new suit was developed specifically for Rhodes, and he became War Machine.  But that storyline isn't possible since the films have done their own thing with regard to the timeline.

A trailer for The Wolverine appears to be coming soon.  This teaser was posted to YouTube a couple of days ago, and it sounds like promotion for this movie is about to ramp up.

Does anyone think that we're going to see a toy line for this movie that's similar to what we saw for the first solo Wolverine movie?

I watched the trailer last night.  The dialogue from Tony that acknowledged the events of The Avengers was interesting.  It seems like they definitely want to maintain some continuity in the Marvel universe.  As for the other dialogue?  I'm wondering if that was James Badge Dale, who I believe might be playing the Iron Patriot.  And the shots of Ben Kingsley as The Mandarin?  Those were interesting, albeit I was surprised to see him with a pistol.

I'm sure we'll see some more trailers in a couple of months.

I saw some more of the line at TRU tonight.  And perhaps my initial sighting of the basic carded Bilbo was an anomoly, or I saw a bad batch of figures.  Because the individually carded Bilbo figures from the 3.75" scale line looked much better, and far less glossy than what I had previously seen.

I also saw a 5 pack that features Bilbo, Thorin, Kili, Fili & Dwalin.  That looked okay.  I also saw the deluxe Warg & Orc, as well as some 2-packs.  But I have to say, I'm a little surprised that there are a couple of different price points for the 2-packs.  Prices for 2-packs with Biblo and Gollum were less expensive than the set that features Gandalf and the albino Orc.  It comes across a little odd.  Why not find a middle ground in terms of the price point, and just offer a single line of figure 2-packs?

If we're talking about pairs of themed 2-packs?  I've got a couple of ideas:


THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
ATTACK ON HOTH
-Imperial Snowtrooper & Imperial Snowtrooper Officer
-Hoth Rebel Trooper & Hoth Rebel Officer

CLOUD CITY
-Boba Fett & Han Solo in Carbonite
-2 x Cloud City Wing Guards


RETURN OF THE JEDI
EMPORER'S ARRIVAL
-Emporer Palpatine & Darth Vader
-2 x Royal Guards

Are they shipping the corrected stormtroopers, or the ones with the messed up helmet paint?

I neglected to post about the Stormtroopers.  They were there, too.  And the helmet paint actually looked decent.  But I have so many Stormtroopers that I passed.  I just picked up an AT-RT Driver and a Senate Guard.

I watched the episode last night.  Honestly, it was kind of "MEH".  I saw some echoes of the Onderon storyline from KOTOR II, but aside from that I don't know if this really advanced the story of the series all that much.

The Ahsoka / Lux storyline seems to have been advanced.  The only notable thing on that front that was communicated in a halfway interesting fashion were Anakin's comments to Ahsoka about attachment.  An exercise in foreshadowing?  Perhaps.