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Re: Hasbro: G.I. Joe Fan First Friday Reveals

NNelson — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 13:20:27 -0000

Well, at least they're gonna do a restock on Joes at Target. Not ideal, but then again around me Target is one of the few places that carries this stuff.

I got very, very lucky and showed up to a Target on its opening night and managed to snag a Baroness. One in a million chance. It shouldn't be like that: two empty pegs of Joes and empty Star Wars pegs while there's just walls of McFarland DC and even the Fortnite stuff isn't moving around here.

Re: Hasbro: G.I. Joe Classified Series Cobra Commander?

NNelson — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 23:10:48 -0000

I... I think I love it?

This is definitely the TV show and not the comic book Commander. Just over the top ridiculous.

But I’m into it. I wasn’t going to jump into this line, but between Destro and Commander I think I’m going to have to.

Re: Does Batman Still Have His Scars – Or Doesn’t He?

NNelson — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 13:56:56 -0000

Okay.

I'll bite.

Let's play "Marvel No-Prize" with this:

The scar Alfred is talking about is a childhood scar. Which is so old that it grew up with Bruce. Became part of him in a way his adult scars are less a part of him.

Does it make total sense? No, it makes poetic sense. Neither does magical metal that can bring you back from the dead.

Re: LEGO Dimensions Expansions Trailer: Harry Potter, Goonies, Gremlins & more

NNelson — Thu, 09 Jun 2016 13:03:53 -0000

Now that Disney Infinity has been scrapped I'm going to start holding out hope that we get Marvel/Star Wars characters in Lego Dimensions in a year or two.

Re: Tom Hardy DC Movie Teased - /Film

NNelson — Fri, 08 May 2015 13:57:05 -0000

Tom Hardy knows Transmet?

Can that guy get any cooler?

Also: I have an encyclopedic knowledge of DC and I have no fucking clue what he's talking about here. Could be Doom Patrol, could be The Invisibles... and when he says "it's real estate" I start to think about a Tom Hardy Vertigo theme park. All the different genres he mentions makes me think Invisibles-- that could be Ocean's Eleven. The "could be Batman" and "Pulp Fiction" vibes are straight out of Vol. II.

When he talks about TV and movies it starts to sound like a transmedia play... something like what was being talked about for the Dark Tower. Maybe A few tentpoles linked by Netflix/HBO series?

Re: New Tomorrowland Trailer: Crazy Gadgets Bring Action

NNelson — Tue, 21 Apr 2015 12:28:10 -0000

Haven't been super-vocal about it: but I've been looking forward to this since it was announced and nothing has changed that.

Re: New Tomorrowland Poster; Trailer Arrives Monday - /Film

NNelson — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 17:27:10 -0000

BUT WHEN WILL THEY BE SELLING THE PINS AGAIN AT DISNEYLAND?????

Re: New Tomorrowland Poster; Trailer Arrives Monday - /Film

NNelson — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 17:26:51 -0000

That which has been built is already the past, they're looking at the future.

Re: The Russo Brothers Sony Deal - /Film

NNelson — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 16:29:36 -0000

Joaquin Phoenix as Korvac?

Re: The Star Wars Rebels Canon Changed Star Wars History

NNelson — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 14:08:34 -0000

What's most of interest with Rebels, canon-wise, is seeing what has survived the Disney Purge. As a lot of folks have pointed out on here the stuff that Germaine has locked onto--Inquisitors, Holocrons, trick lightsabers, and Mandalorians--have either long been established by in the Expanded Universe (starting with the West End Games Star Wars RPG, which acted as the defacto "show bible" in the early years of the EU) or in Clone Wars.

The biggest point of controversy remains just how much the history of the Mandalorians have been revamped in the past twenty years.

It's not terribly surprising that a Dave Filoni show is going to absorb heavy elements of Clone Wars, for the obvious reasons. What *will* be surprising is if *any* of Clone Wars is discarded in the Reformed Canon in favor of other elements from the EU, now repurposed as Legends.

What will be even *more* surprising is if the Story team can actually keep one continuity across all the media and have it *count*. That's not something anyone in any franchise has really pulled off before. Not for any length of time, anyway.

Re: Supergirl Casting: Dean Cain and Helen Slater to Guest Star

NNelson — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 16:48:39 -0000

Have to say: I love the way Berlanti honors the casts of earlier incarnations in his shows. It's the *good* kind of fan service.

Re: Our Thoughts On Mark Hamill & Force Awakens Anticipation

NNelson — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 14:19:35 -0000

Listen to the Jedi should you. Much has he learned.

[I regret that I knew all about Boba Fett/Jango Fett in the prequels before going in. Sucked what little joy there was right out of it.]

Re: LISTEN: Zack Snyder Aquaman Radio Station Phone Call

NNelson — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 17:27:13 -0000

He doesn't say "he's Triton" he says "his trident."

Re: Ray Kurzweil Says We'll Be 3D Printing Our Clothes in Less Than 10 Years

NNelson — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 15:24:05 -0000

Kurzweil is often a good 10-20 years off with his predictions. So I look forward to printing clothes during my retirement years.

Re: San Diego Comic-Con Only Selling Single Day Passes for 2014 Event

NNelson — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 16:55:34 -0000

Just when you thought SDCC couldn't get any dumber.

They should switch to a film festival programming model. This is just lame.

Re: Kinect Completely Ruins Need For Speed on Xbox One

NNelson — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 17:22:19 -0000

“Ropin’ slap?"
“Pokin’ lap?”

What the hell is really going on while you play Need for Speed?

Re: Load Custom Fonts on iOS in Daedalus Touch

NNelson — Thu, 19 Dec 2013 14:43:39 -0000

I'm just super-happy with the blue theme. Not sure which of the names they are calling it, but it is super-easy on the eyes.

Re: Medium Confusion - the candler blog

NNelson — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 14:05:17 -0000

>Medium wants to be the whole Internet.

Have to disagree with you here. Does Wordpress or, heck, LiveJournal want to be the whole Internet?

The more interesting use cases of Medium are Epic, The Magazine, and Matter. They are using it as a CMS. That's all.

Gruber's later quoting of Anil Dash's piece in August comparing Medium to YouTube was interesting. It's a way of taking the lessons learned in the video world and applying it to long form. It might *become* the biggest marketplace of long form, but it won't be the whole Internet. Nor do I think that that is the aspiration here.

In fact, they really don't *push* the kind of temporary trend-piece that my Medium post is. They push pieces on autism and more personal essays.

Re: Asking the Wrong Question — Andrea Phillips

NNelson — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 14:37:46 -0000

So I got invited to the same think tank, and I too recoiled a bit when I saw what the core question was.

Given that I know most of the organizers, and consider some of them friends, I started scratching my head. "Is this really what needs to be on the table? Does the, actually rather tiny, core transmedia community need to have a final battle royale?"

No and yes.

I think the implied goal of the think tank is to get the various bullhorn carriers to stop fighting about definitions and move on to answering exactly the questions your posing, Andrea. I too wish that the discussion had been framed that way. Yet every time the group as an aggregate whole gets together the conversation turns to "what do we call this?"

That has to stop. It has to stop for the very reasons you outline. Everyone is looking at the phenotypes of the projects, instead of trying to find what uniquely binds the community together. What problems do those who are drawn to the transmedia discussion face in their daily practice that, say, another media producer doesn't face?

What is the underlying DNA all this--often very awesome--art share?

I don't think that the gathering next month can or will settle the definition issue, but I do think that there's a chance it can get the debates going in different directions without the carnival atmosphere of a Facebook thread. If what comes out of the tank is a hideous mutant that needs to be put down, I'm sure that it will be drawn and quartered within days.

Deadlines permitting I'll be in attendance, doing what I try and do at all these events: listen and reflect back what I'm hearing. Try to help find the common ground between the participants. Push a little so that folks try and see the similarities between their work and not so much the differences.

Re: Disable Chrome's Print Dialog and Use the OS X System Dialog Instead

NNelson — Sun, 22 Sep 2013 02:03:04 -0000

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Re: Opinion: Failure of Neal Stephenson Kickstarter Is Apparently Everyone’s Fault But the Developer’s

NNelson — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 21:25:17 -0000

Their mistake was to treat the Kickstarter campaign as a way to attract additional investment, as opposed to having that investment lined up ahead of time. What's amusing to me is that they clearly know major figures in the industry--Gabe Newell is right in their pitch video--did no one tell them this was a janky idea?

Re: Brad Bird’s enigmatic Tomorrowland now has an enigmatic plot synopsis

NNelson — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 14:29:21 -0000

A full ARG was already run as a lead-in to D23, search for "Disney's The Optimist" to find the details.

Re: Star Wars Bits: ABC Has Begun Talking About ‘Star Wars’ TV Shows; Plus ‘The Star Wars,’ ‘Battlefront’ And Celebration

NNelson — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 18:28:08 -0000

I also like how his quote seems to be directed at one of his cast mates.

Re: Smug Apple Bloggers to Get Even More Smug

NNelson — Tue, 09 Jul 2013 13:34:28 -0000

I think there's a category problem here: the Apple blogosphere is "news" in the same way that the watercooler at work is the host of TMZ.

Marco Arment is a software engineer who blogs. A lot of the Apple bloggers are similar.

Re: Peter Jackson Details Additions in ‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’ Extended Edition

NNelson — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 16:24:45 -0000

I'd pay for a SHORTER version.