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Fojar38 posted:phasma was supposed to be the new boba fett but its looking like its gonna be traitor guy Nah Traitor is actually cool and does something useful.
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 The worst part is that TR-8R isn't included.
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I realize mocking the SJW's is low hanging fruit, but as a nerd dad who was thrilled to share the new one with his kid, and failing in like 4 different stores to find a drat Rey doll, I'm kind of feeling that. There's a weird football-headed alien that was cut from the movie all day long, but no daggone Rey.
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yeah it's like you KNOW it's some corperate shitheel who said the toy gods told them a toy of a girl won't sell in a boy toy aisle despite all evidence and logic yeah, i'm talking to YOU mr head of the toy company, don't care what your ouija board said, she's the main character of a NEW STAR WARS MOVIE, people will buy her toy. no one besides you cares her toy would be of a character who has a sarlacc pit instead of a R5D4
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As a kid I wanted April O'Neil and Pink and Yellow power rangers toys just fine, I never understood that poo poo. As an adult, I still want April O'Neil and certain Pink and Yellow power rangers.
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That's kind of funny because in the Japanese version of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (don't know about other series) the yellow ranger is a dude. All the footage in suits is from the Japanese one so the American yellow ranger morphs into a dude.
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Dec 29, 2015 05:42
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Yellow was a hot Asian chick in the american one and also the black ranger was actually black. Looking back it seems vaguely racist.
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:That's kind of funny because in the Japanese version of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (don't know about other series) the yellow ranger is a dude. All the footage in suits is from the Japanese one so the American yellow ranger morphs into a dude. Yeah, and the White Ranger is a little kid, which is kind of weirder to me. I remember wondering why the yellow ranger didn't also have a skirt back then, of course the internet made it easy to find out why later on.
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Falun Bong Refugee posted:Yellow was a hot Asian chick in the american one and also the black ranger was actually black. Looking back it seems vaguely racist. Didn't the red one also have some Native American stuff going on too? Or am I misremembering completely?
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:Didn't the red one also have some Native American stuff going on too? Or am I misremembering completely? Red was the white karate dude. Blue was a nerd.
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:Didn't the red one also have some Native American stuff going on too? Or am I misremembering completely? He was Green and then White and then became Red. And then Red again. Then black. Somewhere along this he also becomes a racer and then gets a PhD in paleontology and a teaching job.
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So Rey is the Red Ranger, right?
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Otisburg posted:I realize mocking the SJW's is low hanging fruit, but as a nerd dad who was thrilled to share the new one with his kid, and failing in like 4 different stores to find a drat Rey doll, I'm kind of feeling that. There's a weird football-headed alien that was cut from the movie all day long, but no daggone Rey. they exist. its just people buy them up quick. most of the stores only have a bunch of Finns.
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Falun Bong Refugee posted:Yellow was a hot Asian chick in the american one and also the black ranger was actually black. Looking back it seems vaguely racist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBSrP7ub6VA
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bunnyofdoom posted:Tl:dr, Space Ant-eater GMO's bugs to make them tastier, but made on into a lovely villain that enslaves people. Such a rich and deep universe. Disney is stupid for getting rid of this. Do K now.
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Otisburg posted:I realize mocking the SJW's is low hanging fruit, but as a nerd dad who was thrilled to share the new one with his kid, and failing in like 4 different stores to find a drat Rey doll, I'm kind of feeling that. There's a weird football-headed alien that was cut from the movie all day long, but no daggone Rey. I am imagining a Hey Arnold looking alien and then some EU comic or card game text would probably reference a bunch of stuff from the show. Also, re Rey power levels: in the old xwing books Corran Horn (the guy who hosed a Space Otter) literally mindtricks a stormtrooper accidentally before he even finds out he's Force sensitive. Granted Corran is also considered a Mary Sue. But it seems a little silly to whine about space opera protagonists who have a special destiny being OP tbqh. Maybe the better question is why is Kylo Ren good at a bunch of Force powers but bad at lightsabering.
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I seriously can't get enough of this fuckin guy. I love him so much https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f5SdjOOqJ8
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didnt rey mind trick a dude mere moments after being mind melded to kylo ren maybe that has something to do with it
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Fojar38 posted:didnt rey mind trick a dude mere moments after being mind melded to kylo ren They probably had a line or two describing exactly that but then lost it when they needed to trim an hour off the movie, thinking people would be able to connect the dots themselves. Meanwhile, there are people who don't realize that the elite stormtrooper whose first appearance was in a battle during a sensitive operation to capture information critical to the First Order's goals was probably lying when he later claimed to be a janitor.
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The Jedi are space ninja wizards to begin with, but I thought part of the whole force deal was that it lets you know things you need to know.
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WeaponGradeSadness posted:They probably had a line or two describing exactly that but then lost it when they needed to trim an hour off the movie, thinking people would be able to connect the dots themselves. most of the people who didnt like the movie and complain about plot holes are actually mad that the movie didnt do all the thinking for them Fojar38 fucked around with this message at 09:12 on Dec 29, 2015 |
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"this movie is just riddles with plot holes. here we see a scene open on characters standing in a room with a door behind them. but there was no tracking shot of them going through the door. how did they get in that room?!"
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Wait, Finn wasn't a sanitation worker?I thought silver trooper said something about his first time? I was pretty high so i might have missed it.
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yronic heroism posted:Maybe the better question is why is Kylo Ren good at a bunch of Force powers but bad at lightsabering. Considering that Luke is literally the only Jedi in the galaxy, the fight with Finn/Rey was probably the first time the dude ever tried to lightsaber someone who also had a lightsaber. Chewbacca also shot him in the gut with a weapon that we see blasting Stormtroopers around like ragdolls five minutes earlier.
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So who or what is this ig-88 goons seem to like a lot?Falun Bong Refugee posted:Wait, Finn wasn't a sanitation worker?I thought silver trooper said something about his first time? I was pretty high so i might have missed it. Yeah. That's why he was so happy when han asked if there was a trash chute. Because he was sanitation and it was his time to shine!!!
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Chewie shot Kylo in the gut with laser artillery (the gun knocked out entire groups of stormtroopers), and Kylo still owned Finn. I'm equally impressed Kylo escaped the planet when it turned into a sun about 30 seconds after that fight ended.
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Anatharon posted:So who or what is this ig-88 goons seem to like a lot?  IG-88 is the robot standing between Dengar and Boba Fett. In reality, he's rather immobile, but he was captivating enough that he's the third most remember bounty hunter from that scene, after Boba Fett and Bossk the lizard man. The thing is the EU blew up his character to be this droid plotting for galactic domination and eventually attempted to take over the Death Star 2 before it was blown up by Lando and the rebels in RotJ.
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Fetus posted:Such a rich and deep universe. Disney is stupid for getting rid of this.
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:Is TRAITOR the new reverse-WITNESS?  :Traitor:
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Geisladisk posted:Considering that Luke is literally the only Jedi in the galaxy, the fight with Finn/Rey was probably the first time the dude ever tried to lightsaber someone who also had a lightsaber. Chewbacca also shot him in the gut with a weapon that we see blasting Stormtroopers around like ragdolls five minutes earlier. Wasn't the idea that Luke was trying to do a whole Jedi academy thing, not just training Ben Solo/Kylo Ren, and then Ren turned evil and busted it up? Presumably he would have used a lightsaber then, even if only against other Jedi trainees, but possibly even in some kind of confrontation with Luke.
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Alright, so my list to do is O and K so far. Will do as soon as this loving hoth scenario si over.
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Light Gun Man posted:Yeah, and the White Ranger is a little kid, which is kind of weirder to me. I remember wondering why the yellow ranger didn't also have a skirt back then, of course the internet made it easy to find out why later on. No, it was the second blue ranger who was a little kid. I know all the sentai footage was dubbed over by the American cast, but it was really obvious when a twelve year old's voice was dubbed over the full-grown blue ranger.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:they exist. its just people buy them up quick. most of the stores only have a bunch of Finns. Action figures aren't produced in equal quantities, so where Finn was packed heavily into case with half or more being his figure, Rey was likely only one or two per case. This is how the figures of women among the cast have been produced for a few decades because the assumption was "boys don't want to play with the girl toy" but morphed into "we can string collectors along." I used to collect during the prequels and hunting down a particular Leia, or any of the background lady Jedi was stupidly difficult unless it was an "inaction figure" like Mon Mothma. Add all the scummy toy scalpers who would horde figures to increase "rarity" and bam, this is why little kids don't get Rey for Christmas. I'll be surprised if we don't see an all-Rey production run by next spring though (if only to spite the jerks trying to resell it for $100). Remember those monks who would put their brain in a fishbowl carried by a robot spider? I remember during or just before the prequels that was their first mail-away figure since the early 80s and people just falling all over themselves for it. I sincerely doubt most even knew what it was, but it was "Star Wars" and "rare" so they HAD to have it!
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I have a buddy who had this ESB Boba Fett action figure that he kept in a case after getting it and talking about how rare and expensive it was. Then one day while showing it off another buddy pulled up some poo poo on his laptop for IDing action figures and we found out it was like a unlicensed remake that got a huge release and only valued at about $4. So his $50 case was worth way more than his prized piece. The next year for his birthday we all got him Boba Fett figures as a jab
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Dengar was played by Jonny loving Cash and nothing you say will ever make my 10 year old self believe any different
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It's actually a little strange that we don't see any lightsaber in the flashbacks except Kylo's. The other Knights of Ren appear to have blades or staffs. The guy Kylo stabs (a Jedi trainee? attacking Rey's flashback PoV for some reason?) is swinging a Space Mace or whatever. They're treating lightsabers as a very limited commodity, so definitely not a prequel approach there but maybe going a bit far in the other direction.sinking belle posted:"do K" was actually the first entry in the style guide they gave to people who got contracted to write star wars EU stuff I don't get this reference.
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Because you need drugs to make up the kind of poo poo that is in the EU. Gawd!
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:Action figures aren't produced in equal quantities, so where Finn was packed heavily into case with half or more being his figure, Rey was likely only one or two per case. This is how the figures of women among the cast have been produced for a few decades because the assumption was "boys don't want to play with the girl toy" but morphed into "we can string collectors along." I used to collect during the prequels and hunting down a particular Leia, or any of the background lady Jedi was stupidly difficult unless it was an "inaction figure" like Mon Mothma. Add all the scummy toy scalpers who would horde figures to increase "rarity" and bam, this is why little kids don't get Rey for Christmas. I'll be surprised if we don't see an all-Rey production run by next spring though (if only to spite the jerks trying to resell it for $100). Lol what you even going on about. You are mad that adults are buying a girl action figure to then resell for slightly more profit while you can't find said doll to... do what with? You gonna sit on the floor and play with it like 7 year old? Or you gonna keep it on your shelf for a year or two then resell it or put in a storage locker to sell in the future? Holy lol
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it was entertaining seeing a bunch of goons blather on about luke and rey being mary sues showing they have no idea what that term means at all. w-what's a hero's journey?
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Groovelord Neato posted:w-what's a hero's journey?
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