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  1. fantastic_four
    Yep seems that way.
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    Well, nevermind, there's Loeb's name already. He reports to Ike Perlmutter, so I guess for now there are the short-lived Feige Disney Plus shows, then the longer-lived shows that will go to Hulu and stay with Loeb and Perlmutter.
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    I'm a bit surprised by casting Ali as Blade. Not because he's not a near-ideal choice, but because of his age at 45. If Feige is going to tie character to actors and not swap them in and out, I would have thought he'd do what sports teams do and try to sign actors to long contracts while they're young hoping they'll stay with the franchise for a long time to come with Chris Hemsworth being the prototype for that since they cast him as Thor in his mid-20s. Ali will likely be too old to play Blade at some point over the next decade or so.
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    Maybe a Spider-Man film too. Not sure why that's still up in the air, maybe Iger is trying to bend Sony over to sign a new contract. Or maybe he'll just splurge this summer and buy them out.
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    This is the series I'm looking forward to the most, by far. Have they said if it's open-ended, or will be a set number of episodes, or will be multiple seasons, anything at all about the duration?
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    I'll be shocked if Galactus and/or Silver Surfer are never referred to at all during the Eternals.
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    With four brand-new television shows being spun off directly from the MCU and all of the previous shows in limbo, is it safe to say that either Ike Perlmutter is no longer in charge of Marvel Television or that the division is just shutting down and being reborn under Feige and Marvel Studios? I keep expecting some announcement of that but hear nothing. Even if Feige or Iger prefer to not explicitly publicize that you'd think some reporter would dig up something, somewhere.
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    I know nothing about the Eternals, but I'm generally hopeful because I love most of the Marvel cosmic characters and stories I've been exposed to through their primary titles like Fantastic Four, X-Men, and Avengers. If I look at this as a springboard towards widening the Marvel cosmic universe then I'm all in.
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    My favorite part of the announcements is that Phase 4 is only two years. When I first heard that the Fantastic Four and X-Men would be Phase 5, I was absolutely terrified that meant we wouldn't see them until about 2024 or 2025.
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    Does anyone know what the latest is with Hasbro openly selling the Jabba barge? I still don't see it for sale. I'm not interested in buying it, I'm more interested in their intent for the line. The Hasbro Marvel guys at SDCC said they're looking to do a Marvel Haslab project but haven't decided what yet.
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    He didn't staple his stomach, he just had a heart attack and it scared the hell out of him. Dramatic weight loss always makes you look weird, like a balloon that's deflated. Your skin is stretched out and that causes a weird appearance even at best, and at worst (if you were 400+ pounds) it means you probably will want to have some of your stretched skin surgically removed. There's nothing unhealthy about what he did. The only thing weird I see on Mewes is the same thing I see on all of us, he's looking different as he ages.
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    A year and a half later this is still true today, virtually ALL Disney "4K" discs are 2K upscaled to 4K. Including all of the latest and upcoming releases like Captain Marvel and Avengers: Endgame. Spider-Man: Homecoming was upscaled, but nobody's sure about Far From Home yet. Just recently got a new 55" Samsung 4K HDR television and I can definitely tell the difference between the standard Disney upscaled 4K films and the native 4K films, which within the superhero genre are many of the Fox films. Deadpool and X-Men: Apocalypse are true 4K and look clearly better. Unfortunately Deadpool 2 is upscaled.
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    I think Cookie Monster was just posted today at some point. Cool stuff! Love that X-Men cover recreation, it's my desktop background. The left part of the poster is cropped in comicwiz's picture; it featured Professor X and the only new figure reveal, a new Jean Grey that nobody has seen before this poster that everyone is assuming will get announced tomorrow night at San Diego Comic-Con. I've got those versions of all the figures in the pic except the Jean that nobody has and the three new ones that should be out within a week or two (Storm, Iceman, and Colossus). I'm also lacking Magneto's shield, Iceman's bridge, Jean's telekinesis effect and a Cyclops optic blast...GET ON RELEASING THOSE, HASBRO!
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    I would've skipped it too. What's more to say? They spent a decade of their lives on the show, wanted to move on, and all anyone was going to essentially ask them was why didn't they work on it longer. I'd assign half the blame to HBO for not transitioning the show to new writers/producers and half to Benioff and Weiss for either suggesting or just going along with wrapping it up too quickly.
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    Yea, but critics have been expressing discontent as well, not just fans. I don't EVER remember something getting such mixed reviews critically that also got such overwhelming love at either the Oscars or Emmys. Fans regularly hate award nominees or winners, but critics also disliking something yet it getting so many nominations is new. And possibly even unique in the history of both sets of awards.
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    I never look at Rotten Tomatoes television ratings, but that's interesting. Why would critics bash it in reviews but Emmy voters lavish it with more award nominations than any show in television history?
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    There's a new trend of popular films or shows being lavished with critical acclaim that fans complain about vociferously. First it was Last Jedi, now Game of Thrones season 8. I don't remember ever seeing this before those two examples, but I'm sure I'm unaware of or forgetting something.
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    Sheesh, didn't think about that. It also sounds to be a likely reason they went with this instead of something else related to a licensed property. It ALMOST makes me hope they don't meet the quota.
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    Did Edith disable the drones entirely? All I heard her say was that their illusions were down. They could still be classified as "active" yet still not be projecting their holography since they have multiple functions.
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    How is he supposed to scale with other Autobots? I looked for an image of Unicron next to Optimus Prime and couldn't find what his scale is supposed to be. In the Marvel world Galactus's scale varies, but he's usually drawn with most heroes coming up below his mid-calf level. Is Unicron that big next to the Autobots?
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    The next Haslab project is up, although oddly it isn't on the Haslab site, it's on Hasbro Pulse. It's Transformers Unicron, which I'm not at all familiar with. From the description he sounds like the Transformers equivalent to Galactus. https://hasbropulse.com/products/transformers-war-for-cybertron-unicron
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    +1 I can see why people weren't a fan of a 10-year old making her best childish angry faces, I thought she made EXCEPTIONALLY awesome angry faces for a kid. And she's SUCH a cutie. So yea, I'd love for her to return, but who knows what she'll be like as she ages so I'm not convinced it'll work. Hopefully it will.
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    I still haven't been able to find a still shot of that last scene to analyze it, but I'm reading people claim this about it around the web:
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    This isn't a spoiler without specifics so I'll discuss it openly--the first post-credits scene makes it clear that Feige is fine with re-casting iconic actors from the other universes in the same role within the MCU. So given that now being solidly established, let the discussion about which actors he will bring into the MCU begin! The obvious one is Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool. Which isn't a surprise since Feige already explicitly said he'd be a fool to mess too much with the success formula that Reynolds has already established in those films. I suppose beyond that the actors at the top of most people's lists would be McAvoy and Fassbender.