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Post by Hassan bin Sober on Aug 8, 2021 14:43:54 GMT -5
It was 1999. Didn't have a computer at home. Realized one of the computers in the high school library was connected to the internet. Went to Yahoo.com to look for Star Wars Episode I stuff. I remember instead of using the search bar I clicked on the "Movies" category link that was on the main page and then clicked on a "Star Wars" link before then clicking on a link for some specific web site. I remember it had images of the new, upcoming action figures. It was my first look at the new characters. I remember thinking Darth Sidious looked fat and thus wasn't the same guy as Emperor Palpatine. Also remember being surprised that "Darth" was apparently a title and not a name.
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Post by Hassan bin Sober on Jul 31, 2021 8:20:35 GMT -5
I'm hyped but concerned about the comedy. The trailers make the movie seem more serious. Ghostbusters is a comedy and needs that element as well.
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Post by Hassan bin Sober on Jul 16, 2021 16:26:52 GMT -5
Batman '89 is my all-time favorite super hero movie while Returns is a film I've never really cared for. So the '89 suit is my favorite. Also they never updated the Kenner Batman figures to match the Returns look. All the Keatan Batman figures they made were wearing the '89 suit only with the normal logo on them.
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Post by Hassan bin Sober on Jun 14, 2021 12:17:23 GMT -5
The Dark Crystal.
A lot of this movie but specifically when the Mystics start doing that deep chanting noise. That sound haunted me for years.
Labyrinth.
A lot of this movie but specifically when they first show the goblins. You just see their faces in the dark and I always imagined them being under the kid's bed. Also the Fireys. Something about the fact that they could take off their heads creeped me out.
Young Sherlock Holmes.
There is a scene where a guy is hallucinating that he is being attacked by a gargoyle or demon. He ends up stabbing himself to death trying to kill it if I recall.
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Post by Hassan bin Sober on Jun 14, 2021 10:57:37 GMT -5
It's the sort of mediocre movie theme you'd expect to hear playing during the credits.
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Post by Hassan bin Sober on Jun 10, 2021 10:22:52 GMT -5
I only have the small countertop Pacman from Arcade1up. It's pretty cool.
I did however pick up an At Games Legends Ultimate. It is a "full size" cabinet, has 300 preloaded games, and the ability to add your own through emulation and such. So in other words it's a sort of multicade for those who don't know how to make their own.
I also own a old Zaxxon cabinet that someone converted into a Neo Geo. i have a multicart in it.
My goal is to set up a sort of arcade in the basement. I've been looking at other Arcade 1Up cabinets but the price always seems a bit to high.
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Post by Hassan bin Sober on May 18, 2021 16:30:00 GMT -5
I still can't really read Roman numerals. And I even grew up in a house where our main clock had them.
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Post by Hassan bin Sober on May 17, 2021 17:12:23 GMT -5
Did anyone outside of toys use the orange visored Cobra Commander? That version briefly appeared in the comics before they went back to his hooded look since that look got an updated figure.
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Post by Hassan bin Sober on May 17, 2021 12:13:23 GMT -5
A bunch from G.I. Joe:
Wild Bill toy had him wearing green with a brown vest, and a blue hat and silver sunglasses. Toon had him wearing blue with yellow vest, tan hat, and black sunglasses.
Lady Jaye toy had her wearing a black cap. Cartoon never showed her wearing it.
Covergirl toy had her wearing tan with brown vest and short red hair. Originally in the cartoon they had her wearing all green and she had long blonde hair. They later changed her design to watch the toy.
Cobra B.AT. toy had a silver face plate. Toon had a red face plate.
Zartan toy had this sort of brown hood over his head. Cartoon tried to portray this as brown hair. Toy also had him in brown shirt where as the toon had him wearing a blue one.
I also never felt like the toy version of Flint looked much like his cartoon counterpart or even the art on his card. I think it's his face and the way the toy is wearing the beret that seems off.
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Post by Hassan bin Sober on May 16, 2021 16:58:36 GMT -5
My favorites:
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Post by Hassan bin Sober on May 16, 2021 16:04:46 GMT -5
The Turtles in toy form were like a combination of their original comic book look and what they became in the cartoon. Shredder was particularly different from his toon form and they never really updated him.
With He-man there were many that were different from how they were portrayed in the cartoon. Man-At-Arms not having a mustache in toy form and Teela never wearing the snake stuff in the toon stand out.
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Post by Hassan bin Sober on May 8, 2021 16:43:19 GMT -5
Slightly off topic, but does anyone remember that other Ghostbusters cartoon? Not the reboot, I'm talking about the one with the gorilla Always wanted there to be a crossover between the two. You know they really missed an opportunity in Ghostbusters 2 to have the kid says "Aww I thought it was going to be the one with the gorilla." instead of He-Man.
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Post by Hassan bin Sober on May 7, 2021 15:31:08 GMT -5
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Post by Hassan bin Sober on May 6, 2021 14:36:45 GMT -5
Nick Knacks 1989: #77 - Total Panic #78 - Think Fast! #79 - Make the Grade #80 - The Patty Duke Show #81 - Fred Penner's Place #82 - Eureeka's Castle #83 - Hey Dude So we have to wait till 1992 for Grimm Fairy Tales Classics? This is a Mandella effect thing for me. I swear I was watching that on Nickelodeon at least by 1991. I have distinct memories of watching it when my family still lived in Indianapolis. We moved to another town in the fall of 1991. Even if I am somehow wrong about when we moved I know we didn't get cable TV again until a few years after we had moved.
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Post by Hassan bin Sober on Apr 8, 2021 14:04:59 GMT -5
Would Stay Puft still be using the marshmallow man as their mascot after what happened in 1984?
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Post by Hassan bin Sober on Apr 8, 2021 12:34:12 GMT -5
Gives me a Gremlins vibe. And while we can argue they are cashing in on Baby Groot this would have been done before the world knew about Baby Yoda right?
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Post by Hassan bin Sober on Apr 8, 2021 12:26:12 GMT -5
If "The Toys That made Us" documentary is to be believed they came up with the theme song first, before they had officially committed to bringing back the toy line. So they still may have been working with the idea that G.I. Joe was the name of a guy as opposed to a team of individuals.
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Post by Hassan bin Sober on Mar 20, 2021 13:59:26 GMT -5
They are constantly updating these board games. I know at one point Stratego looked like a board game version of Halo.
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Post by Hassan bin Sober on Mar 20, 2021 13:52:58 GMT -5
There would also be the issue of casting and wardrobe. Do you cast a white woman and have her in Middle Eastern (Persian?) garb and have people cry cultural appropriation or do you cast a person of color and have people complain it's a negative cultural stereotype? Choose your poison.
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Post by Hassan bin Sober on Feb 7, 2021 19:35:38 GMT -5
There were also a lot of greaser villains in those cartoons.
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