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Happy Birthday, gentlemen!

Happy Birthday, Nerv!

That Genis-Vell is a fantastic figure.

I can attest to the fact that he does visit this site. He made me a trade offer a while back that was so incredibly unfair that I was insulted. I considered it for a minute then did a little bit of research into who he was. After finding out, I instantly ended the trade. I think it's kind of weak that someone would come on here and try to take advantage of the great community in order to turn a profit on eBay.

Have a great birthday, Matt!

Happy Birthday to all! I hope you guys each have a great one!

That's an amazing gift!

The Happiest of Birthdays to the undisputed King of Completists!

I would like to see the list whenever you have the chance. I still haven't figured out the identity of my Secret Santa!

Same here. The Preview Goblin, (the variant of the box set Goblin), is the one missing from my order. With that being said, I have an extra bagged Hireling, or anything else from my trade list, that I would trade for a Preview.

Welcome to the Multiverse! You've found the right place to indulge your Minimate hobby/addiction.

Just sent my votes in. Thanks for doing this, MINI_MYTE!

I placed my order with Movie Mars very shortly after MM posted about them. After no shipping update, I inquired about the status and was told today that part of the order was due to ship out in a day or two and the rest were on back order, (I ordered 2 of each). After two weeks that's what they came back with. I know that orders placed after mine were fulfilled so it's pretty annoying to read the email response I received. I'm really feeling let down by Paizo as well. They came in with an unsolicited long post that amounted to sales hype for the two packs with the promise of the goblin promos to come. After what was supposed to be half of the order being shipped back to their home office didn't pan out and then discovering the surplus at DST, we were told that they would indeed be on the Paizo site and to patiently wait while they were mailed from DST to Paizo. And then, nothing. No change to their website and no more updates or explanations on why the long post of promises didn't come through. So I have to turn to this Movie Mars site, which is just terrible, and then get screwed around some more. I know that Paizo isn't directly responsible for how lousy my experience with Movie Mars has been, but if they would have followed through with what they came in here and posted all in caps about, then the Paizo Minimates experience would have been a fairly good one instead of the frustrating debacle it has turned into.

My info is in!

Lazy Eye could have come right off of Siamese Dream.

Tough to list just five, but these would definitely be in a deserted island box of music for me. 1. Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins 2. Doolittle - The Pixies 3. Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain - Pavement 4. Perfect From Now On - Built to Spill 5. Blur - Blur

Way to go, Cap'n!

I'm definitely in!

Wow, I really appreciate it, everyone. I honestly do. This will be one of my favorite pieces in my collection not only because it's a proto, but even more so because of how it came to be in my possession. Thank you for the kind words and thanks to Zach for giving MMMV such cool stuff to do contests with. And I'll say again that there aren't enough prizes available to give to the people here that deserve to win.

Merry Christmas and happy holidays to everyone here!

Have a great birthday!

I don't think that any of these corporations have moral or legal concerns outside of the bottom line. Using your Star Wars scenario, there is no way these companies would pull Star Wars even if there was a credible threat. They wouldn't risk losing the money. And I honestly don't think that everyone that's a Sony employee or that works at a theater is bad. I'm talking about the very small number of people that make the decisions. Those are the ones that have failed so miserably here.

Sony Pictures didn't have much choice but to pull the plug on this release. Several major theater chains decided not to exhibit this film due to threats to their patrons and staff. I feel like they had a lot of choices. Sure, the big chains pulling out will have an obvious impact on number of screens. But I can't believe that there aren't a ton of smaller theaters that would have been all over showing a "controversial" movie. When something is banned it becomes a must see or must buy for a significant portion of the population. Sony could either take the total loss that they are and suffer the potentially more damaging ongoing PR nightmare or they could have tried and made as much as possible and looked good for making the best of a bad situation. It isn't like this was Battle of the Five Armies that would see hundreds of millions of lost revenue because the big vanilla chains hid behind their bedroom doors. Unless it hit some crazy instant cult status, The Interview is a low $20M ticket sales movie. And that's probably why Sony and the Cinemarks, AMCs, etc... of the world backed off. Why make a stand for a probable low return? What if threats had made threats against the new Tolkien movie? Would everyone be so quick to cower when they stood to lose 9 figures? I doubt it. The same companies that are using customer and staff safety would be showing BotFA back-to-back-to back on multiple screens.

They confuse us all, Gary. They confuse us all.

This is a pretty complex issue that I have a few scattered thoughts on... First off, Sony's movie division is a radioactive dumpster fire. I fully support anyone's right to say or produce anything that they wish, (with the exception of illegal material), even if it is something that I disagree with or abhor. But at the same time, I think there has to be a reasonable expectation of response. I am free to say anything I wish to anyone on the street. But, depending on what I say, I can't *expect* there to be no negative consequences to what I said. Free speech is one of the most amazing aspects of a free country. But it isn't a shield against what the reactions of others will be. In this case, Sony makes fun of the leader of a country that limits any all free speech, and then satirically kills him. They couldn't have thought that there would be no response to this. I'll grant that they might not have thought it would include the airing of all of their dirty laundry and threats of violence against their customers. But considering who they targeted, is it really that big of surprise? With that being said, it's absolutely shameful that they cancelled the movie. It's a gutless reaction, but sadly not surprising. Cowering has become the norm lately. An uptight soccer mom gets bent out of shape because a toy on a peg doesn't conform to her her strict sense of right and wrong and she gets a few thousand like-minded people to sign an online petition, (not even using her real name), and TRU just caves. Obviously the right to a buy a toy is much less important than the right to say what you wish, but the principle is the same. Corporations and even everyday people are so afraid that they just fold to avoid conflict. It's certainly sad to see even if it's about a movie that I had zero interest in from a studio that I have no respect for. I feel bad for the theater workers that are having to deal with the fallout. Every local news station will be sending an intern to a theater to get a soundbite because the spineless execs that made the decisions will hide behind their attorneys. Bugging low wage workers about the abject failure of their parent corporation is like grilling a concessions vendor at a stadium about why a GM made a terrible trade. That person just wants to show up and do their job. Perhaps the least, (or MOST), important thing is what happens to Sony in the future. I just keep hope alive that Marvel will regain Spider-Man. Maybe this will devalue Sony to the point that they can't keep rolling out garbage Spider-Man flicks just to keep their hold on the franchise.