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[NRRork]

I remember these were super popular when I was a little, because in the late 80s, there was a word for people who didn't love Pee-Wee. That word was COMMUNIST.

But damn, now that I see what the dolls look like: SEND IT BACK TO HELL!!!!!



Turns out he doesn't need to say the secret word to get us to scream after all.

[Darth Geek]

It looks like he has a swelled up lip. Was there a scene where someone punched him in the mouth?

[MartyS (Gromit)]

You pretty much need to melt the bussard colletors right off.  They were all burned away in the episode.

I'm going for something between what was done originally and the remastered CGI stuff.  That's why the nacelles are going to be hard to do.  Melted plastic doesn't look like realistic damage.  So it's going to be lots of careful cutting away.  The original modified off the shelf model used wasn't much bigger than the one I'm using, on a small grainy TV screen it doesn't look bad, clearer and larger the saucer still looks OK but the nacelle damage does not, especially where you could tell they simply melted the plastic model.

[Sideswipe]

Yeah, I didnt mean to literally melt the model.  It was a figurative melting.

[Darth Geek]

Yeah, I didnt mean to literally melt the model.  It was a figurative melting.

Just melt it emotionally.

[Sideswipe]

Yes, like I have done to many a young ladies hearts.

[LucasM]

Figured I should put this here, as well as the individual thread for it in the 'Movies' area (so people are more likely to see it somewhere).



For those who missed this set (or any part of it) before: Ernest Farino is having a VERY limited second edition (only 1000 additional copies of each volume: 500 box sets of the three, 500 individual books).

Information is HERE.

And if you did manage to snag the 1st edition set as they came out, you can get a custom slipcase for them also, through this ($50 to protect your investment).

$300 for a boxed set of the three is an incredible bargain.  Volume 2 - the first volume printed - currently goes for just shy of $2000 on eBay, the others not terribly far behind that.  So, basically, $300 v. >$5000 for the three.

Unlike Kickstarter, this crowdfunding program - for these books - are charged immediately, NOT at the conclusion of the funding timeframe.  For that reason it is more like a prepaid pre-order than it is like typical (Kickstarter) crowd funding.

So: be ready for the expense right when you 'pledge', there's not a delay.

But, with it only being active for six days out of 30, and already being nearly at the 1/2-way-funded point (i.e. 'almost 1/2 sold out already'): like Liam Neeson said in Taken: "Hurry!  There's no time!"

[Space version 2.0]

I was recently informed that the series 2 of the Kidrobot Futurama figures were in stores. Bought two yesterday, and one of them was the Donbot chase figure. Score!

[LucasM]

Complete 120 episodes of the 1966 Batman TV series on Blu-ray, in November.

Not sure if I'll get it or not.  I loved it as a kid, but it did so much to cripple the quality of superhero movies for about 50 years, as they were mostly treated as camp by Hollywood thanks to this.  Whether I get it may depend on the price point.

[Cross-posted to The Blu-ray Thread.]

[RoninFox]

'66 Batman crippled nothing. Name one good superhero movie that was out before it. Without that series the Batman comic would have been cancelled, the character would have faded into obscurity, and the superhero genre might never have recovered.  Sure it took time afterward for superheroes to be seen in a serious light, but anyone who'd seen the movie serials like the ones Rifftrax has been releasing of Batman can see that's nothing new. The Adam West series just took all the crap from those serials and made them legitimately funny and entertaining for all ages.

I'm gonna buy the hell out of that box set.

[LucasM]

I didn't say "good" before it, I said:

cripple the quality of superhero movies for about 50 years, as they were mostly treated as camp by Hollywood thanks to this

That means: they were then treated as a joke, not seriously.

Concurrent with Batman was a TV show that took superheroes seriously, and was fairly good for the time, The Green Hornet.  Was it as successful as the primary-color camp Batman?  No.  But it existed.  Possibly the reason it didn't last longer was because people compared it to Batman and didn't give it a chance.

But how about the 50s era Superman TV show?  Seems that was pretty successful taking the character seriously... six seasons successful, actually.

But because of the Batman TV series precedent, the '70s/'80s Christopher Reeve Superman film series quickly deteriorated into camp, from a good start (and even better second film).

And the previous serials and such were serious (which was my point), they just didn't happen to be good (your argument against what I wrote).

Comic books as a whole were not treated with respect in film before, generally a crappy director's short-hand way of saying, "this adult is dumb," was to have them reading a comic book on-screen.

[RoninFox]

I didn't mean to upset you, but the importance of '66 Batman series is very often underplayed.  It may seem that the tone of the series might have had a "camp" effect on the genre as a whole, but that camp feel was very indicative of the comic industry already. 



This was the era of the comic book code, which created censorship standards so strict that it was nearly impossible to tell a "serious" story for fear of being accused of corrupting children.  The comic book industry wouldn't start to get serious again for a couple decades, and then we started getting more serious comic book movies too.

[LucasM]

I didn't mean to upset you, but the importance of '66 Batman series is very often underplayed.  It may seem that the tone of the series might have had a "camp" effect on the genre as a whole, but that camp feel was very indicative of the comic industry already. 



This was the era of the comic book code, which created censorship standards so strict that it was nearly impossible to tell a "serious" story for fear of being accused of corrupting children.  The comic book industry wouldn't start to get serious again for a couple decades, and then we started getting more serious comic book movies too.

You didn't upset me, I did [we are always the cause of our emotions, regardless of whether it is conscious or not].  I had just woken up and was in more pain than usual from sleeping wrong, so was already physically irritated, so it took less for my emotions to 'fall in line' with that irritation.  But I was mostly frustrated that I expressed a limited opinion on a topic that does not lend itself to concise 'causal' descriptions.  I would have been better off not saying anything in the condition I've been in lately  ["lately" being relative: we are talking about roughly since May of last year, with a particular down-turn in October, followed by further ones early this year].

I understand the history of comics.  Yes: DC was known for silly superhero stuff (especially the Batman and Superman stories in the '50s).  Marvel started something different.  Though deliberately funny at times (Ben and Johnny's fighting), it was mainly S-F in costume.  But it was serious.  [A superhero's surrogate father dying because the superhero had previously been a selfish douche?  Not silly at all.  A Jekyl/Hyde scientist hunted by the military and persecuting after an accident while the scientist was saving a civilian's life - being punished for doing something selfless?  Not silly at all ((though derivative of the start of The Amazing Colossal Man)).]

I do think that the '60s Batman TV series did SOME good: it was not until that time that an adult could talk about a superhero without being thought an idiot (partly thanks to the prior depictions of comic-readers in non-superhero movies that I mentioned in the previous post).  The flipside to Two-Face's coin there, however, is that the adult had to be denigrating and laughing AT the superhero concepts as being silly and contemptible, not discussing them intelligently.

But some of the fallout from that show was also that newspaper writers for any story on comics for the next 50 years, in the headline for their story, or the first line of their story, or the caption for the picture related to their story, would, invariably, have "*BAM!*  *BIFF!*  *POW!*".  This said, quite clearly, "none of this comic book stuff is to be taken seriously".  That was true even in stories that were very serious [e.g. "*BAM!*  *BIFF!*  *POW!*  Superhero comic sells for thousands of dollars!"- "Final *BAM!*  *BIFF!*  *POW!* Comic-creator X drew his last story [and died]"]  There are STILL occasionally hack writers that rely on the Batman-TV-style sound effects in their stories.  It seems only since maybe the first X-Men film did that really start to fade.  Yes, I know that sound effects are written out visually in comics, but the Batman TV series made them an easy way to demean an entire class of literature.

I think a few people may have gotten a clue when, late in the 20th century (possibly early in the 21st - that close to my head injuries my memory is often sketchy), Time magazine had 'Watchmen' listed as one of the 100 greatest novels of the 20th century.  Not 'comics', not 'graphic novels', not 'superhero stories', but, simply, 'one of the 100 greatest novels of the 20th century'.

[Darth Geek]

Sharknado Pop! vinyl figure! I so want one of these!

http://www.entertainmentearth.com/prodinfo.asp?number=FU4285#.U8yNUJVOU5s

[Darth Geek]

I thought of RoninFox when I saw this:

http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/77823/win-freddy-makeup-appliances-signed-robert-englund-and-robert-kurtzman#axzz3AJ4m5D16