Bob Harris

I just sent in my email, so Aapje, get ready for our continental MMMV Secret Santa! Yay!

Seriously: Since it's pretty hard to get Minimates here in Germany - and when you find some, they are expensive, like 8 Euro a regular 2-pack, which means around 11$ - I might not be able to fulfill my secret child's precise wishes. But I did win some awesome prizes around here in the last months, so I'm going to take some of those as a secret santa gift, hoping that it brings a little sparkle in his or her eyes anyhow. Otherwise, I could of course use Stuckakid or something, depending on where my secret child lives. But I'm all happy and excited!

Just wanted to say, that my mates arrived perfectly save at my home!

Thanks a lot, BHM!

However, I've yet to hear one person tell me WHY this book is so great. Why are the toys so sought after? Is it really all that great? Is it better than Y: The Last Man?

but in the end this is still just a film adaptationt.

That's the point. You already refered to Citizen Kane in movies, which was able to extravagate, to push things forward in ways usual movies wouldn't go, because nobody knew of those possibilities. In that way, Watchmen was a milestone even more than Miller's Dark Knight was in my opinion, because Moore - like brother karamazov80 already pointed out - is a visionary just like Orwell or Kurosawa were for the movies, or Joyce and Dostojewski were for the novels. He introduces not only a very (post-)modern way of looking on heroes and embedding them in a very realistic (political) context and

, but also makes use of unusual ways of narrating the story (

) and the inclusion of non-comic parts and themes in his story (

). And of course, the ending,

I don't want to be too theoretical - of course I really just do love some of the characters, especially the Comedian -, but these aspects just blew me away.

Snyder has really good and creative ideas of adapting and visualizing a story into a movie, but I guess he is not firm and well-versed enough to put all of this visionary work into a film. For that, we'd need someone comparable to Welles' genius. But after all, if he just sticks to the comic, that movie will be awesome!

Oh mein Gott!

This new trailer even beats the first one. Maybe it's just because I watched the first one way too much already, I don't know. As much as I loved the Smashing Pumpkins song for the first, I really do apreaciate the Muse song in this one. (Although I don't really like both bands that much.)

I guess the big difference between Dark Knight and Watchmen is, that the first one is this franchise thing - which worked pretty well for the Dark Knight movie, but was horrible in the "and Robin" interpretation - and Watchmen has this one original story. And this story is so amazing, complex, thrilling, multilayered, humorous, astonishing, critical and unsettled, that every change in its plot and it's order and way of telling it, might be a fatal mistake. Moore is a brilliant storyteller and knows how to evolve and display his characters as well as his story, so I hope Snyder will stick to the comic as close as even possible. (He should as least be as close as Jackson was at the Lord of the Rings; if he can, even closer.) I guess one of the major mistakes might be - and I don't know if I'm the only one feeling that way - to introduce too much action sequences, because Watchmen hasn't that much in it and doesn't live from those moments. And don't having the Black Freighter in it is something I don't really indorse. And I don't see the Under The Hood excerpts - I really love those chapters, because it really sounds pretty authentic when Hollis Mason discusses e.g. the pros and cons of wearing a cape!) in it as well...

So, sticking to the original story, this movie will be a blast even for a non-funnybook audience.

Anyways, I wonder if everybody who was bitching about Batman's growl will now bitch about Rorschach's voice. I dig, myself.

If you were already bitching about the "original" Batman's growl - so did I - you better shouldn't listen to the German dubed version. That was even more awful as the Bale original. I do hope that I'll find a cinema that shows Watchmen in the English original version somewhere around here.

Trying not to get in the line of fire betwenn these two gentlemen.

If you want in, pm me and we'll talk.

Okely dokely!

There are far too many Minimates going to Germany lately :tongue:

Hey, I read that! Guard your tongue! :tongue:

and what about people from an other country, where there are no other MMMV members?(like holland, germany or even spain?)

Pff, we should make up our own continental MMMV Secret Santa! With blackjack. And hookers.*

Seriously, I'm too new here to be allowed to participate, which is absolutely fine with me, I really do accept and suppport the rules, but I get your point Aapje.

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*This is not offensive language but paraphrasing Bender. But you already knew that.

I also think there'd be a bit of an outcry in less open-minded arenas at having an openly gay actor playing an American Icon.

I bet Fredric Wertham would've loved to criticize that!

I don't like it to pick the sexuality of an actor out as a central theme. I guess that's not appropriate to a good discussion. (No offense, just saying!) I really hope that Cap will not be interpreted as a strong and starry-eyed fightingmachine stereotype thing. The blonde and blueeyed thing is stereotype enough, I guess, but of course he has to look like that! I always thought that Cap - at least in the last years and especiall in the Civil War times - had a very sensitive and thoughtful side and I hope that this will occur as well. Somehow. And if, for any reason, Mr. Barrowman can do that, well, I say take him! But I can't assess how loud "an outcry in less open-minded arenas" would be there. I'm fine with that.

But maybe there is someone out there as perfectly right as Robert Downey Jr. is for Iron Man.

I guess the solution to the whole problem is that BHM just got thorlike strength. Or is he in fact a variant, so he got beardedthorlike strength?

An example would be which two pack has two unique variants.... I put Iron Man Silver Centurion/Classic as both are variants of an existing character anda two pack.

I answered th same thing, TBT!, for the same reason. I guess, to bring up unambiguous questions is a hard job - I tried to do that in a completely different context. It works well untill the first answers come in, which showed me that being precise is much harder than I could possibly afford.

BUT:

The winners of this competition are :

Woohoo!

Thank you very much BHM and congratulations to the other lucky ones!!!

congrats to Bob Harris (between this contest and the AA one he is doing quite well, too well methinks )

Hihi. But you know what? Since it's pretty tough to get Mates here in Germany, I thought that would be my big chance!

I'm curious on Question 6 also....Santa spidey I get now, but what about the other two?

I don't know if Prof. X's wheelchair has like rubber wheels or so, but Civil War Cap has metallic handcuffs.

Oh and 18....I'm assuming by body part you didn't mean accessory cause I said Zombie Ironman's face plate

That's a good one. I went for Mysterio's Cape, cause I thought that no other than his fishbowl head could be placed there.

The thing I REALLY appreciated is, that I never before looked so closely on all those fantastic Minimates that've been created yet!

Ah, Rick Jones!

Now that I'm allowed to talk about it, to get the correct birthdate of Brian Braddock was the hardest thing to do in the whole contest! (I only got it, when I was searching for Psylock's date of birth, for her being his twin sister!) And after that great effort, it wasn't easy to guess how old BHM is. I found some hints on it in the demographic thread, but that was really, really hard. So, Dinobot, I bow humbly before you!

Thanks for the answers and the whole contest, BHM!

There is nothing to moan about!

(except: q1 wave 17 Sandman? He even comes with two seperate arms. Ah, I just reread the question, I thought you ment including accesssories. OK. And, on q6, what part that comes with Prof. X isn't made of plastic? Don't consider this as complaining, I just wondered when I read it. I'm absolutely fine with your answers!)

That's a real nice one, chapeau!

In the guess-who's-in-the-new-waves-contests I was first going for a Dead-Of-Captain-America wave, suggesting Crossbones in it. That was partly wishful thinking, because I didn't think of him being that impressive when created with current parts. Well done!

In a week of new releases esp. Deadpool all the questions relate to Minimates available NOW.

(Note: The devilish red color isn't my choice!)

But I sign that 32-parts-Woah! of yours Dinobot!

Well done, really nice!

Thing is, I received a Taskmaster right after the contest ended in a Trade-It-Forward-Package. I just tore him apart and have 28 pieces in front of me:

*15 body parts (arms with hands each 3 parts, legs with feet each 3 parts, torso, head, "crotch")

* 3 sheath/holsters (for pistole, sword, knive)

* 1 belt

* 1 cape

* 1 pistole

* 1 knive

* 1 sword

* 1 bow

* 1 arrow

* 1 extra hand

* 2 shield parts (shield and arm-holding-ring-thing)

*28 parts

That's what I have. I guess the thing is, that you might have counted the shield as one part, but since you can tear it apart I counted it as two.

But in the end judgeheadsmate 2000 A.D. is always right, even if he's wrong he's right, so there's no arguing.

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Edit:

If someone - like Metallica noted - declared in the answer, that he/she* counted an arm or leg as one part, that might be respected in your judging process BHM. I noted as well that my answer is 28 as long as you count the whole body as 15. Maybe that's something you can consider.

Enjoy the judging process, BHM

*I heard of "shes", but maybe they are just an ancient myth...

BTW This contest made it sink-in that Psylocke is looking damn good for her age!

Thought the same thing!

i thought that was a trick question he did say to "read carefully".

I thought that was a trick answer to be read "humorously".

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Perhaps I will try it, though my family might think I've finally gone off my rocker once they see a little plastic person in the ice cube tray.

Maybe if you put frozen Sauron in a hotdog bun, no one will notice the strangeness of the situation.

Hey NorthRaider, good to have you on board and welcome to your own, soon to be full-blown 2" plastic addiction!

(Sooner or later we'll get you into comics as well. I bet, Watchmen is a good start!)

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WHA!

Look at that face!

Look at those accessories!

You can put the machineguns on his back!

Next to the swords!

And the knivesheath at the back of his belt!

Even two different expressions when wearing his mask!

So, all in all he's a total lamo

That's it for today, I better go to sleep.

Since I was just browsing the questions when you put them up earlier, I completly missed to notice that huge amount of prizes you offer here! Just wanted to say thank you! Damn, you Brits are generous!

PS.:

So, any deadline to this yet? I MAY be able to pm you some answers tonight, but defintely by tomorrow.

Please send the answers after ALL the questions have been asked, it's not a race

There will be at least 6 further questions (probably tomorrow) & there will be plenty of time to PM the answers to them to me (not yet )but remember the time difference in the UK & the fact that I'm frequently intoxicated during most of the evening hours here

Karamazov80 will not be involved in the prize-winning

Poor karamazov!

Thanks buttheadsmate for bringing the contest up! I just browsed through your questions and I think there are some tough ones, one has to investigate a lot of time to solve these. But I bet this is going to be fun and no paleing into anything.

Wrecking Crew Box-Set!

Falcon would be great!

I'd like to see a Samuel Jackson Nick Fury as well, but I guess he'll be in the next Marvel Studios Movie wave.

So, I'd start begging for the Inhumans!

And a Hand ninja army builder.

Today, the mates finally arrived all well and save in Germany!

Thanks a lot for the entire contest and everything!

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