Given he's as popular as Rocket, it's a little unfair to kids who just want a Groot to play with. Especially as you have to buy two characters who aren't in the movie.
There are apparently other complete Groot figures in different scales though. The pegs for GOTG toys have been nearly empty the few times I've looked for them. Did they underestimate the demand?
I don't think the people who make the movies deserve your wrath. Are they the ones making the comics suck? All this dark and dreary stuff will never make it into the films.
Would you hold all of Lucasfilm accountable for the bad decisions George has made?
DrCrowTStarwars said:
Ryan McAvoy said:
There is a Starlord model kit. Only 1:9 scale but still might be fun to build.
I don't know an action figure you have to build?
I am getting Johny Long Torso flashbacks.
You have to buy a bunch of Marvel figures just to get a complete Groot. (There was a similar scheme with the comic version of Rocket a couple years back.) Dr. Forrester must be pleased!
Iron Man wasn't even in the movie!
walking_carpet said:
chyron8472 said:
[sigh] still the greatest poster ever made. everything you could every want to know about what this flick did in 1977 and how it captured the imagination of an entire generation - this poster has it. Just perfect. especially how the droids are in the corner looking at luke and leia.
just perfect.
now all we got are crap giant head posters and blu ray covers.
anyway, back on topic. 'pparently they are really hitting us over the head with the whole 'we're using pratical models and sets' now bob iger is getting into the act talking about the amusment parks they are making based on the ST.
I concur. It's no wonder a certain surprise hit movie inspired this fan made poster.
I am so crossing my fingers and toes that they build a Star Wars theme park out where I own some Florida swampland. I won't sell unless they release the OOT though. ;)
Happened again today.
Four more, and we can let loose with the Hitchhiker's Guide jokes. ;)
The sad part is someone will feel compelled to buy all of them.
So was this a false alarm? I'm not seeing anything about in the usual places, and it would be nice to know before I buy the darn thing.
Glad I can live without that steelbook, as it's already being scalped.
Specify "no international shipping" on an ebay auction, someone in Europe bids on my stuff anyway. :/
IIRC, the EU established long ago blaster bolts aren't lasers. Tibanna gas or something?
https://screen.yahoo.com/star-wars-teaser-101343393.html
They are so many little changes in the SE's, not just new FX, that seamless branching both versions would be fairly complicated. What was done with the new TOS FX was very simple by comparision.
Better to have each version on a separate disc, so there are no SE changes leaking in.
;)
If that poster is a fake, it's a darn good one. Luke has his ROTJ saber too.
Some of those cover variants are fun. Boba Fett in The Punisher pose is a nice homage. The Jaxxon one is the only variant I would go to any trouble to find.
Why Leia is wearing a Jabba palace guard getup before Lando ever did, I have no idea. If it turns out they stashed that outfit on the Falcon, and Lando happens to find it when he needs one years later... ;)
At this point in his life, he must be happy to not have the entirety of Star Wars resting on his shoulders anymore. Love or hate what he's done with it in recent years, it's lonely at the top.
The same problems apply. Any seasoned Trek scribes aren't young and hip enough to suit the studio.
Well if droids are slaves, so is just about every other sentient robot or android character that's ever appeared in SF movies and tv. Data is the rare exception.
Luke's somewhat different attitude toward his robot friends may have been shaped by working on the farm and being more "hands on" with them than even his uncle. Yet, he still sends them on dangerous errands.
One of my favorite story arcs in the old Marvel books was that of Valance the bounty hunter. He had a unique hatred of droids, (and relished blasting them to bits) but eventually had a change of heart, thanks to a certain protocol droid.
Well, certain posters at the HTF keep shooting the idea down, because Meyer and Frakes are old geezers, experience doesn't count for crap in Hollywood anymore, and good solid film making isn't what the kiddies want in a Trek film these days.
As I said over there, Paramount had better get their **** together, or the 50th anniversary will be little more than a cheesy, overpriced merchandising bonanza. :(
Got that error message on a white screen for about three minutes today around 2:18 pst. Never saw that one before!
TheBoost said:
Fun fact, my Grandpa fought in Europe, mostly Italy, during the War.
He once told me that you could tell where a man fought by what racial slurs they used. He didn't know that 'Nip' was a racial slur until the 1970s, because men in the European theater of war used 'Jap,' and when he'd heard 'Nip' he'd assumed it was a normal term, like 'Brit.'
That's interesting, as the 60's sitcom McHale's Navy does use "nip" and "nips", but I don't think they ever say "jap". It's set during W.W. II of course. It's been airing on one of the retro tv channels the past few years. I can't recall if Hogan's Heroes used "kraut" often.
I do recall an old tv Guide article about the 80's series Tales of The Gold Monkey, (set just before the war) where they were scrupulously avoiding using "Japs" in the scripts in spite of the setting. Derogatory terms for Nazis were okay, but characters couldn't use German in that context.
Funny how in TCW, clone troopers often call battle droids, "clankers" but apparently never utter slang terms for any of their flesh and blood opponents. ;)
Sounds like the same sort of greedy speculation that pretty much ruined the hobby for many people in the 90's.
And I'm no artist, but the way the legs are drawn doesn't look right to me?
I guess drawing our heroes to look like the actors who played them is right out as well...
I like my old Norelco shaver, but replacement heads are getting impossible to find, and I have only enough left to keep it going two more years. (Lucked out in finding a few on clearance in a drug store a few years back. Three bucks each!) Prices online are in the hundreds, more than even a top of the line shaver costs these days. What the ****?
Forced obsolescence sucks.
Guess it slipped by them in the 90's. Considering kids did read Mad back in the day, I'm surprised they used it in the first place.
Of course, we now live in an era where "schmuck" is bleeped out of old movies on tv. (Pretty sure I first saw that word in Mad, if not Cracked.) It only took the self appointed guardians of decency 40 years to look up what it means? ;)
Really getting harder to resist picking up some of these. Almost caved in when I came across the white Boba Fett at Walgreens last month. Jabba would look nice on my shelf if I can find a spot for him.
I've yet to see a Slave Leia where the paint job on the face didn't make her look cross eyed or stoned.
The heck?
If anyone still cares, I did sort everything out, and gave the laptop to someone who really needed it. The trouble stemmed from a CD Rom copy protection scheme called Starforce, which installed itself with a collection of classic Namco arcade games. Ironically, I got this game CD for free as the local game shop didn't have it in their computer system, and the sales guy just gave it to me. Sounds like a sinister plot now.
AFAIK, it never bothered my Dad's old Windows XP machine.
http://www.glop.org/starforce/
How I figured this out, I don't even remember now. I destroyed the CD, but kept the classic 80's tunes that played over the game menu screen. :)
There's no need to yell. ;)
