Recent content by LordGigaIce

Six of one, half a dozen of the other. If kids- or more precisely kids' parents- aren't buying toys in as large numbers as they did before then the influence the collector fanbase has will grow. Doesn't matter if that change is being driven by new generations of kids not being into toys or...

I disagree. In the 2000s the wisdom was fans were a big enough subset to warrant a bone here or there, but that they weren't a big enough subset to justify gearing the brand towards. That this changed is down to kids checking out of toys in favour of video games and tablets and smartphones...

Their comic designs were absolutely faithful (and ToyBiz infamously attempted to follow them up... badly). But my point is that they were limited in articulation and they had action features. Marvel Legends is the first line that I can think of that not only went all in on articulation, but...

All very well said, but I wanted to highlight this because it touches on probably the ground zero for all of this... Marvel Legends. Super hero figures predated Marvel Legends but prior to that they were very kid oriented- limited articulation, simple or stylized sculpts, and action features...

Broadly speaking I think Archer's tenure did the brand a whole lotta good... and a lot of his seemingly arbitrary decisions made sense in the context of the 2000s... but I also think that it's clear that things changed in a way where his approach was no longer strictly necessary. The dude was...

"The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself."

Meh. I'm a fan of the current direction. And Archer's era? I could nitpick it to death. I'm also not sure how the current team would feel when someone not involved in the toy industry implies they're not "toy people."

"We have a connection." And not to relitigate the Mandarin twist, but the scene where Tony finds out what's really going on is straight up played for comedy. Iron Man 3's trailer presents a darker movie, but the actual film is exactly what you'd get from a Shane Black/RDJ collab. See also...

Whatever is needed whenever they decide to bring him back 😆

Iron Man 3 was far more jokey then the trailer let on.

I'd argue that yes, there is one monolithic "style" of monolithic humour. "That type of comedy" after all, implies a sort of general vibe that the MCU's humour falls into. While it's perhaps more accurate to describe is as "overly quippy" or "snarky," or "overly quippy or snarky at the expense...

"He's right behind me, isn't he?" didn't originate with the MCU, but it is used a lot there, and is generally a suitable poster child for the issues people have with MCU humour. I don't think it's a bad thing, myself... but it's a matter of context. Sometimes a Big Mac is just what you need for...

It's just such a shame that Bale nailed the Batman voice from jump in Batman Begins only to dial it up to 11 and the point of parody in TDK.

He had a week to prepare.

I skipped SS '86 Bumblebee because the Netflix version was good enough. I would have skipped SS '86 Optimus, because ER is good enough. I only ended up getting him as a Chanukah gift, and he's not in my main collection. So... honestly... SS '86 Seekers? ER may be based on a design from 2006...