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  1. fantastic_four
    I think that someone on FB explained it by saying that for someone to put that together themself they are going to spend about that in real world parts and labor to to get it together. There were some cosplayers saying that it was not too far off from what they tried to do. I thought the initial 48 hr backing reward was brilliant and that they really paid a lot of attention to detail and offered some interesting incentives. As one Rancor supporter said, bones and a cardboard backer are no incentive. I can color cardboard and 3D print my own bones. When it comes to Ghostbusters, the product has really been absent over the years and they did release the preorder for the neutrina wand as a separate purchase months ago and it actually links up to the pack. I was surprised we have not seen a legit ghost trap though. I would imagine that given the success of the Haslab pack that a ghost trap and the spectometer thingy are not too far off from production. Also I had no idea this market existed, but there is a company who makes a proton pack called Anovos. Check out the listing for it on BigBadToyStore: https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/VariationDetails/67315 It's $3,400, and it's already sold out despite not even being released yet. Hasbro must have noticed this and realized there was definitely a market for a more affordable version.
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    Yea I wasn't in love with GoT for most of the first season either. Kept my attention, but I teetered on bailing until towards the end of season 1. Just learned of this show this week, so I'll give it a shot. Not much chatter here so it doesn't sound like people are digging it yet.
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    I get that Benioff and Weiss wanted to leave, but why wouldn't HBO just replace them? It was the most popular series in the history of the network, so I don't get why Pleplar would have shared the producers' rush given that Martin--and the entire fanbase--so vehemently disagreed with it.
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    It's natural, and expected. Soon you'll also become tired of your comic books, feel differently towards girls or maybe boys, and get hair in strange, new places.
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    Has anyone seen credible confirmation of this? None of the Daredevil actors are listed yet in the IMDB entry. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11815190/
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    Anybody a fan of this Echo character they showed at the end of episode 2? I'm unfamiliar with her, but apparently she first appeared in Daredevil in 1999: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_(Marvel_Comics) She's got some white mark on her face you could vaguely see in the episode. Or at least I thought I saw it from one angle, but it wasn't clear enough to be sure I saw it and when you do an image search on her in the show I don't see the mark clearly in most of the pictures I find. I thought I had seen something white on her face before I even knew who she was and before I knew she was supposed to have any kind of mark; I was just wondering what the white stuff on her face was when they first showed her. And apparently there's another Disney Plus show featuring her currently in development.
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    They handled that with Black Widow by having her be so skilled and agile that she never got hit that I can recall--certainly not as much as Kate has been hit so far in this series. But Kate's still a noob, so they're showing her get hit.
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    I was wondering that too. Every time she got punched or kneed in the stomach or ribs I expected more recovery time or for her to just be disabled for a while, but as you say it's superhero fiction, so whatever. Generally enjoying the show. Seems about as good as Falcon and the Winter Soldier.
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    The Haslab project for the Star Wars Rancor in twelfth scale has been doing something unprecedented among Haslab projects--the backer count has decreased every day for almost the last week. It was already slowing down and beginning to decrease after Hasbro revealed a second stretch goal that wasn't the most highly sought after two figures fans wanted which are Oola, the dancer Jabba fed to his Rancor, and also Malakili, the overweight, shirtless keeper who cried after Luke killed his Rancor in Return of the Jedi. On Friday the team revealed the third and fourth stretch goals, and both were re-packs of already-released characters neither of which were the two missing characters from the Rancor scenes. For you guys who buy items like this to invest I would recommend watching this project for two reasons. One is that if it does hit the funding goal of 9,000 backers it may not go much above that thereby increasing the secondary market value in a year or three. The second is that there's a rumor that the new Disney Plus series "Book of Boba Fett" that releases next month features a VERY prominent appearance of at least one Rancor. Vague details of that are in this spoiler: If the rumor is true I can't imagine why Hasbro didn't wait until AFTER this happened to launch their crowdfund project. It also means that the market value for a Rancor should spike after the project ends but before the figure actually releases, which is just a bizarre sequence of possible events for the project.
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    That anti-Communist angle was my initial read as well, but that was based upon just a few word bubbles I read. I haven't read the entire story yet, going to later tonight.
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    Apparently chin chow has two decidedly non-racist connotations--it's a type of jelly that originated in China, and it's a historical name for a city in China that today is named Jinzhou. I'm now done following this unless someone can find more history or etymology of the name of that musical that makes it clear it's racist. You can't assume the name of that musical is racist simply because it shares a few consonants with a slur given that there are multiple historical uses of the words in the musical's name, and by extension you can't assume Fin Fang Foom is racist if it derives from a musical whose name isn't racist. Certainly the time period of the play saw PLENTY of racist stereotypes--and we saw Kirby and others perpetuating those about Japanese people in early Cap comics--but I can't find evidence that the musical is an example of a racist stereotype. Which doesn't mean that evidence doesn't exist, I just can't find it yet. I know the West often mis-translates Chinese words, so who knows if chin chow or wherever the name of that play came from are mistranslations of questionable origin. It's certainly possible, but challenging to trace the history of. But what did strike me is Kirby's art on the faces of the Chinese people in that issue of Strange Tales...it seems a bit problematic. Could be wrong though, I need to research that style a bit more--but it seems highly exaggerated and something we wouldn't see today.
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    I'm seeing that the Chu Chin Chow film was released twice, and it's an adaptation of a musical that originally ran in Britain starting in 1916. This is the wiki link to the play that has the most information about it. Nobody has yet noted racist stereotypes in the wiki article, which doesn't mean they aren't there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chu_Chin_Chow
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    Never heard of it. Are we sure that film or its name is racist? I'm familiar with the phrase "ching-chong" being a racist way to mock Mandarin and it's easy to see the repetitive "ch" sound at the beginning of the three words in the name of that film, but I'd have to see the film and know what the title means before assuming it's racist.
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    Here's the full story from Strange Tales 89; each image is clickable for a full, easily-readable version of the page. Still reading it, but it very definitely is set entirely in China. It also has some Communist stuff in it I need to mull over.
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    Despite being aware of the character for a few decades I never read anything with him in it. Was he a space alien in the original Strange Tales comic? I Googled this and couldn't find anything definitive. As you said it does sound a bit uncertain.
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    Never heard that before. What's offensive about it?
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    While I've definitely decided I really like Prometheus after mulling everything in it over, it can easily go the opposite way. I really liked Wandavision's complexity as it unfolded, but by the end I mostly detested it for tossing those 100+ little mysteries and easter eggs in that it ultimately did very little with. Haven't thought about that show once since it ended, and unless we later find that one or more of those unresolved references turns into something big in the MCU I doubt I ever will. I know some of you guys love that "MEPHISTO!" meme, it's a mistake for a writer or director to ask questions or lead viewers in a direction that it never intends to answer or complete. I still feel completely trolled by Wandavision's creator Jac Schaeffer, particularly on those references to Marvel characters like Mephisto or High Evolutionary that she peppered into the story dozens upon dozens of times.
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    Why did Thena kill Kro? And which Thena was it that killed him--was it the post-mind-wipe Thena, or the whited-over eyes Thena that's a throwback to her pre-Earth mindset that for whatever reason didn't get completely wiped when the Celestials put her on Earth? I think I need to re-watch that scene several times to fully get it...
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    Another thing I completely didn't get while watching--which side was Kro fighting on during the big Ikaris fight, and why was he on either side at all? Up until he joined the battle I thought he hated both Eternals AND Celestials, so I would think he wouldn't have wanted to be on either of those sides enough to join the fray at all.
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    All the movie explained was that the planet needed to have a critical mass of "intelligent" life on it in order for the Celestial to emerge. Intelligent being the operative word there. One had to assume that the "intelligent" life was generating some kind of special energy/life force that the Celestial needed. Yea, I guess that's all I heard too, but wanted to re-watch to be sure. Until it hits Disney Plus you reaffirming what I thought I heard helps, so thanks. They also said during that explanation that the Deviants were put onto planets to wipe out apex predators that could wipe out intelligent life, but that the Deviants ended up becoming apex predators themselves so they created Eternals to fix that mistake. OK, sure...but you've been doing this for millions, if not billions, of years. So if the Deviants end up being an accident why do you keep repeating the same mistake, Celestials? Seems like by the time you got to Earth 7000 years ago the millions of years of bad experiences would have taught you to stop letting those darned Deviants loose. I looked for some explanation for why the Celestials would let Deviants loose on worlds in the comics prior to the film's release but could never find an explanation. At least the film tried to give one, although I don't fully get it yet.
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    I tend to agree. I've heard a few explanations for why that scene was offensive, but I didn't see those positions explained thoroughly enough to understand the objections. But I'm also not Japanese, so I could easily be missing a lot of context for how to feel about depictions of Hiroshima.
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    Technology isn't necessarily what would make us special. But whatever it was she thinks she saw I don't, hence why I'm asking here, to see if anyone else could see it. Certainly Ikaris couldn't see it either after she referred to what Tony Stark and the Avengers did, so too bad she left so much unsaid. In part, but more than that we should think Eternals. Kirby's intent was that they represented the ultimate expression of the potential of a species as shown in the third panel below where Nezzar the Calculator experiments on homoerectus (space intentionally omitted to prevent forum word replacement). I don't think we can tell if any of this is what happens with the MCU versions of the Celestials and Eternals, but since they weren't doing this on Earth because it was being used as a Celestial egg we also can't rule this out as to how they usually operate in the MCU either.
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    Another thing I missed--the exact idea of what Tiamut (the Celestial gestating inside of Earth) needed with billions of humans. They're food for him? And intelligent life is more nourishing to a Celestial? Or was it something else? I wasn't clear on exactly what Tiamut was getting from humans.
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    One thing I want to re-watch in the film is that army of incomplete Eternals they showed at some point. Were they all unique individuals that didn't look like the Eternals we saw on Earth, or were they an army of the ten Eternals from the film all duplicated multiple times? It wasn't on the screen long enough for me to figure that out.
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    I assume there's some back story not yet told explaining how the Time Stone in the Eye of Agamotto got to Earth as well. Wong explained in Infinity War that the stones were created with the Big Bang, and while it's possible the Time stone just happened to fling out into the matter that eventually coalesced into Earth that seems highly unlikely. Or even if it did happen the odds are higher it would be somewhere relatively deep inside the planet than up near the surface where humanity found it. The more plausible idea would be that stone was also brought to Earth by someone else. But all of these interstellar travelers bringing half of the stones to Earth--and others fetching the rest from various planets that humanity could never travel to themselves--doesn't strike me as a great reason for Ajak to consider humanity special. All I see is a civilization far less evolved than countless others she would have encountered in the "millions of years" she said she had been helping the Celestials.