Almost anime like but not. I won't insult good anime by the comparison with this crap,lol.
This shit is like a hundred times worse than the new clone wars cartoon.
But these action figures are for little kids and i guess they are not that far removed from say a darth potato head figure. Its the big heads,lol.
The biggest laugh i had lately was reading the Bruce Greenfield piece where he compared Chris Pine to the new Bond Actor Daniel Craig. I liked Brosnan better than Craig, but this comparison is not even fair to Craigs acting ability. Pine is an unproven unknown from a movie most people have not even seen and he is getting way too much attention.
If the Trek Pictures bombs it will probably kill off trek. But it won't hurt pines career. If it is sucessful he will be typecast as James Siberius Kirk, i mean Tiberius,lol.
Trek as it is no longer sells. If JJ can renew the product so people start buying the books and watching the shows again then trek will be resurrected once again. It won't be my generations Trek or my fathers.
Right now Star Wars novels are always ending up as bestsellers. The videogames sell well and the Clone Wars cartoon is the biggest hit cartoon newtork has ever had on its hands. So much so a second season was recently given the go ahead. The star wars brand is selling well and is strong. Not the same for trek. Although the Comics have sold modestly. The new comic wriiten by Orci is probably the first one to ever sell out in recent memory. someone out there wants this movie. There is an audience for it. Paramount may have little respect from the masses but they don't lack business smarts. They understand overall it is a business and a way to make money. and JJ made no mistake by invoking the name of Lucas Star Wars brand saying he wants this trek to be as sucessful.
Now that they have announced Alan Dean Foster as the guy writing the novelization, i may go out and buy the book and read it. Alan Dean Foster is a respected science Fiction Author of original fiction as well as having Written the novelization for Lucas Star Wars, its novel sequel Splinter of the Minds Eye. And he wrote the Story for Star Trek Phase II: in thy Image. That became Star Trek the motion Picture. and much of what he wrote remains into the movie in Livingston's script. And he wrote those star trek logs novels based on the animated trek series.