Mirymate

I'm probably one of the few people that didn't think Daredevil was that bad. Yes, there were two glaringly bad scenes in the film. The first was that whole "throw my secret id out the window to impress the ladies" fight in the playground. Lord have mercy there had to have been another way to break the ice there. And then there's DD letting a man die. The Matt I'd ben reading about to that point would have been nearly suicidal if he thought he'd caused someone's death. But silly chic-flick scene and way too badass scene not withstanding, the movie was just trying to do to much in the time alotted. The meet Daredevil and his world movie should have been a separate flick from the death of Elektra movie and the fal of the Kingpin. But you could tell they thought they were only getting one shot at Daredevil so they tried to cram as many of their favorite DD momments as they could into 2 hours. What they got was an overcrowded film, too rushed for you to give a tinker's cuss about any of the characters. I'd say that a reboot is almost the only way to move forward. Katie should rock as Typhiod Mary.

Give a man a stolen fish, and you're a generous crook, teach a man how to steal his own fish, and the odds are his inexperience will get him popped instead of you... or something like that.

Blasted Static IP! Somebody fake Monica some votes, huh? I'm beggin' ya! Beggin'!

As the Father of a member of the show's target audience, my oldest is 8, I have watched a LOT of Ben 10. And it's sequel show Ben 10: Alien Force. While there are some neat designs on that show, they don't all lend themselves to minimates. Four Arms has, well, four arms. Wild Mutt has very apelike proportions. Stinkfly, Cannon Bolt, and Brain Storm are all very non humaniod designs as well. It's a cute show, a fun premise (at least the first show was fun, the sequel not as much), you'd be looking at some pretty advanced class stuff to produce them for a lot of them. Not that I don't think that the artists here could handel them. (slowly making my way through the galleries, darn you guys are good) But we're not talking about a bunch of straight repaints here. You're looking at significant time and money investments. Sorry, ML5K, I'd charge my kid for 'em if I customized them. (And yeah, I used to customize Super Powers figures before my kids ate my free time. So I know something of which I seak)

Gaaahh!! And my new card isn't here yet! You folks don't pre-order them all up before it gets here.

My understanding was that Marvel was waiting for the deal they have going with Paramount. That is to say, they did not want to sell Cap to a studio that wasn't going to produce Iron Man and Thor as well, because then making an Avengers movie becomes liscencing Hell. Believe me, if they could grab the X-Men, FF, and Spider-Man franchises away from Fox and Sony, they would. (I would argue they should try... the sense of shared universe, heck shared New York City, is one of my favorite things about the MU.) The less said about the guy behind Barber Shop, the better. And they tried to make a Cap movie, they really did. Early 90's. I've seen a copy... shudder...

No... Chris Nolan has my confidence. WB still doesn't get it. Read all the ridiculous crap that is swirling around their Superman franchise. I get the impression that the folks at WB are embarrassed of their superheroes. They seem to think that costumes = silly. Superman can't fight anyone but Lex with Kryptonite, or Kryptonians in black without the films descending into camp. After Burton, WB execs drove the Bat franchise straight back to campy, and only Christopher Nolan's very strong, focused vision of Batman reignited the series. But reading interviews with WB execs after Dark Knight explain how they now understood how to make comic book movies, and how they were going to apply the dark and gritty Dark Knight style to their reimagined Superman franchise, I was struck by just how little they actually do understand about their own properties. Dark Knight and Begins worked for the same reason the Spider-Man films have worked (largely worked anyway): the Director understands and embraces the character and all his aspects. For Batman, that's grim and gritty, For Spider-Man, it's Parker luck, responsiblity, and quirk, semi-ridiculous coincidence. Superman and Green Lantern are not grim and gritty characters. Superman is about haveing the power to do whatever you want, but chooseing to do what's right anyway. Green Lantern is a sci-fi adventure, and a guy overcoming himself to reach his own pontential. And they wear bright colorful costumes, and fight people who also wear bright costumes with names like Bizarro and Sinestro and Goldface and Mxyzptlk. The situations are going to seem silly on their face, but sell it with conviction and the audience wil buy it. (Ask Doc Ock) How many DC projects have been widley publicized and fallen apart the last few years? WB is sitting on a stable of characters that pound for pound at least as recognizable as Marvel's, if not far more in most cases. Yet Ant-Man will likely get his movie long before Wonder Woman. (how good a movie it will be I can't say, but then really it can't get worse than Elektra) Not saying Marvel is perfect. They've put out some stinkers over the last decade. But we've had Marvel movies spanning from Blade to Spider-Man on the character recognition scale. Some were good, some were watchable, some wished you could have that time back. But at least Marvel is out there trying. DC in the same time frame has done to very good Batman movies and a mediocre Superman movie. Everything else has fallen apart for them before they can even finalize a cast. Sorry for the rant. But no, I have no faith the WB will pull this off. Man, I hope I'm wrong.

Wow... Just... Wow. Never would have pegged him for Jordan, but man that worked. I wish, WISH I had confidence WB was going to make a movie half that interesting.

scifigenre is actually relatively local to me and I've order individual packs from them before. If you're still looking for the one we "spoke" about earlier, I'll check with them when they officially hit.

Killer Moth Kite Man Pre-Crisis Firefly Signal Man Crazy Quilt (Everybody does Poison Ivy)

No, those are real prototypes. But they take individual pictures of the protoypes, then photo shop them into different arrangemtnets. The first wave 29 picture we saw had Daredevil front and center. This one has BP up front, and somehow he doesn't look as oddly proportioned. My guess is they resized him out of prototion in the first PS arrangement. Of course, I've seen what skilled artists can do with photoshop these days, so who can really say what's real anymore online.

S'okay. We promise to keep our dad-blasted music turned down and to stay off your lawn too.

I like this rearrangemnt better than the other picture. Black Panther looks somehow better, maybe the other was just a bad shop job, I don't know. Moon Knight though... his head can't possibly be actually attached to his neck peg, can it?

Nooot quite. Yes, Hasbro wants nothing to distract us from the Bayformers onslaught. The show was done, lucky to get it's third season but it wasn't coming back for a fourth. And this last wave of toys was going to be THE last wave. But these Animated toys were originally scheduled for an early May release. The retailers basically said they would rather pass and wait for the Bayformer street date. It's hard to blame them, Animated sold descent, but Bayformers were flying off the shelves. Everyone is banking on lightning striking twice. Ask the Targets with their 1/4 ailse of full of barely moving Bakugon how often that happens. All in all Anmiated was a great show and an exceptional screen-to-toy line of Transformers. It deserved better than to be treated as filler. And I too have been looking for information on Specatcular Spider-Man. The move to Disney does not bode well, since that's become the destination for canceled Marvel shows. My guess? Poor toy sales = cancelation.

A good ending. Good seires. Most consistently entertaining, and best written TF show since Beast Wars, maybe better than BW all in all. Shame the last wave was cancelled as well. My son really wanted that Arcee. Not surprising, but regetable. Darn Bay-formers. Hopefully since most of the wave made it to the prototype phase, and possibly beyond, we'll be able to get them at some point.

the eyes are a Bob Layton thing. They always seem impossibly far apart. So theat doesn't bother me. Since the bands are removable, can they sit a little lower on the wrists and legs? In the first pictures you took (and thanks for posting them) the bands seemed almost at the knee and elbow joints. The prototype picture semed to have them further down. I think if they were more in position like the prot-pics, it would make him seem less like a hobbit. But

List it officially as Shazam, but make sure you can get to the article if you search for Captain Marvel.

So I solved my Cap's mask problem. It still rides a little high, but now it comes on and off without any problems. How did I do it? I popped the head off and carefully sanded down the sides and back of the head until the mask sides on and off without taking the head with it. I worked slowly and carefully, so the slimed down head doesn't look noticeibly different when the hair is on. I could have used my dremel, but that would have sacrificed control for speed.

TRU site says september... but 2 Secret Wars boxes... did I miss something on that thread besides all the death threats against the undead slag-spoutin' saurion?

Best Hulk: the one from the Heroes Boxed set. Worst Hulk: Grey Hulk, the head piece just looks ridiculously oversized to me. Favorite Hulk: The Kirby Hulk is close, but really the overall charm of the very first Hulk wins. YMMV

Darn hugely successfull Bay-formers crushing my only moderately successfull Animateds.

A Red Hulk would ruin Norman's "illusion" that he has the "real" Avengers behind him. And I don't see Rulk agreeing to be painted green or grey, even to stick it to Hulk. Rather see an "Offenders" boxed set with Rulk, Baron Mordo, Tiger Shark and Terrax anyway... oh right, right, need to have a "draw" character. Okay swap Rulk for Hulk in that Jarella's World blue armor he's whereing right now to fight the Offenders. There, now we have our popular heroic character.

<Homer> OoooooOOh. But I want it Nooow! </Homer>

Okay. So I took some promised pictures of minimates interacting with the older Imaginext Police station. So here we go... First we have a shot ot the DC mates and the little cops for scale.The little cops have removable armor. And now here's the set itself both front and back The Cops come with handcuffs which work with mates very well... There's a desk and chair... that the minimates can fit into. And there's a break away wall... The minimates can fit into the police car as well... And here's another couple of shots with the mates useing the set... Now the set can be taken apart and reconfigured a couple of different ways, and there's a trap dorr above the jail cell, but for some reason none of those pictures came out. As you can see, this set works really well with minimates and for our get in the florr and paly with them purposes, we love it. I think it would work well as a display peice as well.

For this you can unlurk anytime. So this would seem to say the girls are back to hanging out with the Guardsmen. Sounds like the "Concept Spider-Man" was an early idea they've replaced, that may or may not be back later. If by "Concept Spider-Man" they mean that Alex Ross design, that's a Spider Variant I wouldn't mind seeing... with say the Vulture, or the Lizard.