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Look who just discovered this thread! Senseless who ha. Pretty much sums up my tenure over the last three years here

How do! -slym Look who just discovered this thread! 'Sup

Oh... Hello

You nailed it. These movies are for those toddlers dressed up as Spider-Man, knocking on your door on Halloween. They have a great time watching these movies. I feel sorry for the sad souls that wish to deprive them of this joy. If you don't have kids to take to these movies, then don't go. They're not for you. Nobody spends 300-500 million dollars to make a kids movie when you don't own the merchandising rights. Nobody. Not completely true. I know that from the toy end that Sony receives a piece of the merchandising from the Hasbro figures. People go into stores and question how a Spider-man figure with limited articulation costs $10 a pop. The reason is that Sony, Hasbro AND Marvel all get a piece of the action if the figure is based off of the Spider-man movie. That may be true with many other merchandising rights that cover figures to party favors. When a licensee wants something to do with Spider-man that ties into the Spider-man movie, they are not just licensing a Marvel character, they are licensing Sony's version of a Marvel character. In fact, when Hasbro did the last two GI Joe movies they had to raise the price of the figures to allow Paramount a piece of the action since those figure lines were based on Paramount's interpretation of the GI Joe universe. Keep in mind that GI Joe is a Hasbro in-house property. Did you not read the other posts? Sony gave up the merchandising rights to Spider-Man for all the movie rights. The way I read it is, Sony gets all the profits from the movies without having to share with Disney and Disney gets all the profits from the merchandise without having to share with Sony. Hence the "simplified" agreement between Sony and Disney. I missed that amid the squabbling. Thanks. Then Sony... made a huge financial blunder.

You nailed it. These movies are for those toddlers dressed up as Spider-Man, knocking on your door on Halloween. They have a great time watching these movies. I feel sorry for the sad souls that wish to deprive them of this joy. If you don't have kids to take to these movies, then don't go. They're not for you. Nobody spends 300-500 million dollars to make a kids movie when you don't own the merchandising rights. Nobody. Not completely true. I know that from the toy end that Sony receives a piece of the merchandising from the Hasbro figures. People go into stores and question how a Spider-man figure with limited articulation costs $10 a pop. The reason is that Sony, Hasbro AND Marvel all get a piece of the action if the figure is based off of the Spider-man movie. That may be true with many other merchandising rights that cover figures to party favors. When a licensee wants something to do with Spider-man that ties into the Spider-man movie, they are not just licensing a Marvel character, they are licensing Sony's version of a Marvel character. In fact, when Hasbro did the last two GI Joe movies they had to raise the price of the figures to allow Paramount a piece of the action since those figure lines were based on Paramount's interpretation of the GI Joe universe. Keep in mind that GI Joe is a Hasbro in-house property.

I don't hate on it. I just don't think it's anything I need to pay to see in the theater. Now, I feel that Guardians is going to be a movie that needs to be seen on the big screen.

I rather enjoyed Man of Steel. I have not seen nor have a real desire to see Spiderman 2. It's a movie I felt I could wait for to be available on disc from netflix.

This thread needs a groove....

Now, I will attempt to get a song in your head for the rest of the day.... I pulled into Nazareth, was feelin' about half past dead I just need some place where I can lay my head "Hey, mister, can you tell me where a man might find a bed?" He just grinned and shook my hand, "no" was all he said Take a load off, Fanny Take a load for free Take a load off, Fanny And (and) (and) you put the load right on me (You put the load right on me)

New Phish... Waiting all Night

As opposed to when? The 80's X-men run by Claremont and Daredevil run by Miller is up there - I don't recall seeing 5 variant covers, embossed, poly bagged issues during that time. There has never been a time in the history of the company when a good product was more important than a punctual product. At least not in continuity. Quality of writing trumps style back in the day. Readers were more into substance. As I've said earlier, "they were in MORE for the money" during the 90's. Marvel tried making money by pandering to insufficiently_thoughtful_persons. Every company's goal is to keep shareholders happy. Everybody knows this. They were making money without the cheesy gimmicks - they just got greedier in the 90's because the market allowed it (speculators). I could be wrong, but wasn't it DC who started the 90's debacle. With 5 different covers for Robin 1, that was followed by Marvel and bagging X-Force 1 with 5 different cards, then X-Men 1 had 5 covers, then foil covers, then Bloodshot 1 had Chromium and Marvel went nuts with Chromium, and so on and so forth, and somehow we ended up with X-Statix, and Doop. Wow, I just had a horrible flashback. Doop is amusing

I've never owned a single copy of the book. I eventually want to though. Every time I plan to pick a copy up, something else comes along. I think Deadpool is one of the few marketable and interesting characters developed during the time period.

I did indeed. That was a day or two before he played at Citi Field!

Here.... everyone sing along T-Mobile hosted a Hey-Jude sing-a-long back in 2009 in Trafalgar Square. Pretty cool... The best we have had in awhile was about ten years ago when U2 performed on a flatbed truck as they drove through the city... oh, and Santa Con... but that's another thing all-together.

Jesse Martin playing a detective...?!?! Too bad they will probably not be able to name him Detective Ed Green

To me, that is cooler than any recent Iron Man cover. That piece of art sets the tone for every Marvel blockbuster that has followed it. As we all know, without the first Iron Man there is no Marvel summer blockbusters every year. Much respect on that acquisition.

That is impressive. Can you make out who the artist was on that? Sometimes concept and storyboard art are produced in house for things like this (as in a Marvel artist) and other times are outsourced to established artists that specialize in storyboard and concept art.

Anyone see this is coming out? As soon as I figure out another $20 worth of things I want to order I am picking it up: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1631400355/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1631400355&linkCode=as2&tag=genera09d-20&linkId=TLFRTUHDSQ2WPIAG

[font:Book Antiqua] + 1 Nice tip of the hat...[/font] That's what I am here for

GAAAAH! The numbers!!!

Agreed... as soon as I saw that it was Quadman, I knew this was about the Action 23 even before I came to this thread.

When this made the news last summer, I was awe struck that this was preached rather than a usual amount of pandering that "celebrities" usually engage in with their audience. I would hope that the original poster would read this and maybe pause and think. - The orator of this?

Sinatra... Why waste a question?

Was just about to post the video for that. Your way was better though

How did this turn into a "Roy" thread?