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You can't get CBS All-Access through any streaming means as a Prime member without subscribing to CBS All-Access. I'm not entirely sure why Amazon streams other pay services through themselves, but I'm guessing it's so you don't have to install apps besides the Prime app to see those other services. So instead of CBS having to support custom apps and force customers to install them they just ride Amazon's app.

Next Generation is the best, and the Borg are the best villain. So I really need to see this. I'll probably binge during a free trial. Did everyone like it better than Discovery? I haven't seen any of that series yet.

First Contact and Nemesis are excellent, particularly First Contact.

Got my Snake Eyes in on Tuesday, and he's easily figure of the year so far for 2020. His sculpt detailing is incredible, and he has the best articulation of any Hasbro figure ever. I was also surprised at how solid the weapons rack is. I thought it would be hollow plastic but it's not, it's extremely solid and weighs about twice as much as Snake Eyes himself.

Seems highly unlikely Black Widow will spoil anything in Falcon and Winter Soldier, but who knows, guess we'll see what happens. I aborted the article after the first paragraph or two once that occurred to me.

Been a fan of Spider-Woman since the 70s, and I don't remember her EVER appearing in Spider-Man. I bet it happened at some point but only briefly. The only association between them at all is spiders. But who knows what their contract says, could be anything. All we've ever been able to do is reverse-engineer it from the actions both studios take, so if the rumor is true and Feige is talking to Sony about Jessica Drew, they must own the rights. We'll see.

AWESOME display! I've done displays where I try to pose figures in the same way they are on the covers of comics behind them, but never seen large displays of both equally represented like that. Looks great!

A fine example of the future the pandemic is helping to rush us towards that highlights how much less productive it will make us.

Anyone heard when the review embargo on this lifts?

I generally enjoy the look of most of the new McFarlane DC stuff, but I'm planning to limit myself to exactly one of all DC characters since I'm a Marvel guy, and those aren't all that close to the one I want even if they were 6" scale. The forthcoming Mafex Superman and Batman figures MIGHT be the ones for me if they end up being as good as they look. Mafex overall does the finest work I've ever seen in 6" action figures, but much of the time they have design problems that make a figure not worth getting because they break too easily. I'm also often not a fan of their aesthetic choices for characters; their Venom is far too small and their Wolverine's claws look dumb in addition to him being too tall (he's only slightly shorter than Spider-Man). Their Spider-Man was absolutely SPECTACULAR and is the only Mafex figure I currently have, and their Cyclops looks scintillating, best ever if he's good, he comes out next month and I'm hoping for the best on QC issues. When the design is solid and the aesthetics are spot-on, Mafex has the best sculpt and articulation you could ever hope for in an action figure. Here's the upcoming Mafex Superman, he looks stunning: https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/VariationDetails/107528 And here's the upcoming Mafex Batman: https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/VariationDetails/96065

I guess I got my collecting bug out with comics...I haven't bought any toy yet without opening it and playing with or posing it for display. The first comic I bought like that was GI Joe #1, bought one to read and at least one other to save without opening.

Someone suggested in another forum that it's all playful and that Yelena isn't her sister and the others aren't her parents, they just sort of filled maternal and paternal roles on the team. Guess we'll find out. Certainly that makes more sense given that Weisz is only 15 years older than Scarlett and David Harbour is only 9 years older than Scarlett.

Did I miss something before or is this new trailer the first time we knew Rachel Weisz was Black Widow's mom? And are we then to assume Red Guardian is her dad?

I'm up to about 250 Marvel figures now. I've bought pretty much everything that's out that I ever wanted in the Marvel Legends line, plus a small handful from other lines like Mafex or Revoltech. I'm curious about Mezco figures but can't get into the aesthetic, the head sculpts all look weird and I'm not a fan of cloth costumes. Mezco does cloth about as well as it can be done, but I still don't like the look of it, and moreover I'm concerned about the long-term durability of the material. I really came close to buying the Mezco Magneto, but I just couldn't pull the trigger because I'm afraid that cloth costume will stretch out and become problematic in a decade or two. The Mafex Cyclops and Thor coming out soon both look incredible, if reviewers don't find any of the quality control issues that Mafex figures often suffer from I'm all over both of those. There weren't many new figures shown at the February Toy Fair I'm interested in, maybe 8 or 9 new Legends figures. The one I like the best is the new Gwen Stacy figure with an alternate Mary Jane head in the new Spidey vintage wave, the sculpt on that is spectacular. The Spider-Man in that wave looks to have spectacular articulation but it's tough to tell from just pictures, so I'll wait for a review to see how much the range of motion of the legs improved. My favorite would have been the first appearance Storm figure, but there are a few things off about the look that I'm not a fan of. Unless they fix some issues I may not buy that one at all despite it being one of my most-wanted figures.

Extremely easy to install. I own four sets of the first version of the claws (the picture I posted shows version 2, gonna get some of those next time I order other stuff from him) and I have all four sets in four different figures, and it was easy to install them into all of them. Installing them VERY slightly increases the size of the hole already there for the Hasbro claws, but not so much so that the original claws no longer fit. Can of Beams made them something like 1/64" bigger than the Hasbro claws so that they would fit in well and stay in place unlike the Hasbro claws. If the holes on your figure are significantly offset then the claws will be, too, but none of my four figures have any of their six claw holes offset enough for it to look weird. One of them is SLIGHTLY offset and the middle claw angled maybe 5 to 10 degrees too far off to one side when I first installed it, but I just pushed on the claw to adjust the available angle of the hole until it stopped doing that. Mine are installed into the Apocalypse wave tiger stripe Wolverine, the vintage brown suit Wolverine, the first appearance Wolverine that came in the 2-pack with Hulk, and the same Love Triangle Wolverine that StingerMcK linked above. I've heard you can put them into the Caliban wave X-Force Wolverine that came out last year, but I didn't try it because the claws that come out of the box with that one are styled differently and they stay amazingly straight on their own. Those are the best Hasbro has ever done in terms of keeping straight, and I like the styling, too. Below is a pic of my Apocalypse tiger stripe Wolverine with version 1 of the Can of Beams claws next to the X-Force Wolverine with its standard claws. In summary the Can of Beams claws did everything I was hoping for and more. I didn't realize how well they would spread out without me doing anything most of the time. Like I said some figures have claw holes that are offset enough for them to look weird, but that only happened on one of the four figures I used them with, and manually pushing the claws against the hole fixed it. The other three were perfection from first install onwards. They stay in VERY well, I don't think I've had one fall out yet.

With the bone claws in that's the finest Wolverine action figure ever made in 6" form. The only one that's any better is the Legends 12" Wolverine figure which has the exact same sculpt as this one, it's just bigger and more detailed. The metal claws on this figure are just straight up trash though. HATE how they easily jut out at odd angles. I bought third-party metal claws for use with him from a guy who calls himself Can of Beams, those make the figure virtually perfect. https://www.canofbeams.com/shop/claw-kit-style-2

Including John Walker as a new Captain America isn't all that small a detail. I'm more interested now than I was before since Sam as Captain America makes no sense given that he has no powers, but a less-moral version of a powered Cap should be interesting.

I really liked Gattaca, but it never seemed realistic. I can't see any democratic society getting hard-segmented into "valids" (the genetically engineered) and "invalids" (natural birth). It was a vision of a dystopian society that seems to imply there are despotic hands behind its creation. And the film itself outlined its own unrealistic premise--just because you are genetically superior doesn't mean you have the will to act in a way that is any better than people with worse genes than you may be incented to act.

Yes, but then it isn't cloning, it's genetic engineering. I agree with you and always wondered why they used cloning at all as opposed to trying to create a race of genetically-engineered super-soldiers along the lines of Captain America. If you're going to clone I would think you'd start with a VERY exceptional organism to serve as the master, so it makes sense that Baby Yoda might be a clone if we assume his species is particularly Force-sensitive.

When did we see any version of the Force deform the user's body? The only thing they showed us was Palpatine becoming deformed by his own Force lightning when Mace Windu reflected it back at him. And why would a clone be weaker than the original? The Clone Troopers were all just as strong as Jango Fett was. Below is an overview of how we cloned Dolly the sheep back in in the 1990s. It took 277 tries before it worked, but once it did she was just an exact DNA copy of the original nuclear donor sheep.

Yea I read Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi before the films came out. I wonder which of the other films had the novelization come out long after the film?

If he was a clone why was his face scarred like the Emperor's and why was he so old and messed up? I would expect a new body from Palpatine's DNA to look like a young Palpatine.

I was excited for a FA Storm, but I'm on the way that one looks, gonna wait for reviews. The new classic Spidey might be good, they said they made improvements to articulation that I'll wait for a review to see. The ones I'm sure I'll buy are Black Tom Cassidy, deluxe War Machine, the new Hydra soldier (it's available now, already bought it), the new Apocalypse, Nimrod, and Gwen Stacy. I MIGHT get one of the movie Wolverine figures, waiting for reviews.

No idea, I'm not paying attention to the others, really have zero interest in GI Joe now. I only like that weapons rack from Snake Eyes.

You can make out a mask covering the lower half of the face in the silhouette, that's why people think it's Silk.