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That and they very quickly ran out of anything resembling original ideas for Very Special Episodes. Professor X was definitely ahead of the curve, but old wise men in wheelchairs is kinda already an accepted trope.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:That and they very quickly ran out of anything resembling original ideas for Very Special Episodes. And then there was M.A.N.T.I.S  A show that answered the question no one was asking. Thanks Raimi, thantis. It was actually kind of fun and made me whoopsie looking up 90s shows.  Cobra, a show about a car that can drive fast. Who knows, maybe it can talk?
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:
I'm rationally irritated that my Dude-ikoff didn't star in the TV-show sequel to the Stallone movie.
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Grendels Dad posted:I'm rationally irritated that my Dude-ikoff didn't star in the TV-show sequel to the Stallone movie. That would have been so much better than a Dodge Viper commercial writ large. The B-list sequel is underrated. Dude man just shooting scientologists in the dick over and over again.
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That Italian Guy posted:That blurb for Cobra make it seems that the special task force is used to silence the victims of crimes that the system has failed to get justice for Much more realistic!
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That Italian Guy posted:Charles Xavier would like a word (also he could technically walk if he suppressed his abilities, I guess). Xavier in the comics has been able to walk for years now.
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Alhazred posted:Xavier in the comics has been able to walk for years now. Good on him for overcoming his one weakness.
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I assume he's still bald. There are always more obstacles to overcome.
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PizzaProwler posted:I assume he's still bald. There are always more obstacles to overcome. From what I've seen of current day X-Men comic panels, he just wears a Cerebro helmet all the time. One that is not like the movie version, but covers everything above his nose.
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Still haunted by the most hilarious/blackest comedy Twisted Toyfair Theatre sequence ever: Flashback to the 70s, it's a disco party. Climax of the scene is Xavier comes in and wows everyone with his awesome moves and luxurious curly mane. "The Chuckster cares about two things in life -- dancing and my hair." Recounting the present day punchline would require a content warning but I couldn't stop laughing for minutes. When TTT went dark it was really dark (Sandman on the beach, anyone?) but they got away with it because they usually had the deeply guilty belly laughs to go along with it.
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:That would have been so much better than a Dodge Viper commercial writ large. Are you confusing a 90s action tv show about a guy with a fast car named after a snake with Viper?
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Phy posted:Are you confusing a 90s action tv show about a guy with a fast car named after a snake with Viper? I totally was. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpR_HUu5hCU M*A*N*T*S does not seem to have a supercar.
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MANTIS was a supercar! Kinda! Or like a lovely vulnerable robocop! Cobra was the other supercar show that wanted very hard to be Knightrider, and was also the one I was totally thinking of Viper with. I think I had a Viper branded electric car racing set? Like the kind with the electrified track?
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Admiralty Flag posted:Still haunted by the most hilarious/blackest comedy Twisted Toyfair Theatre sequence ever: Flashback to the 70s, it's a disco party. Climax of the scene is Xavier comes in and wows everyone with his awesome moves and luxurious curly mane. "The Chuckster cares about two things in life -- dancing and my hair." Recounting the present day punchline would require a content warning but I couldn't stop laughing for minutes. Hulk ruining Doom's hot tub by mistaking it for a toilet is a direct competitor to the jawa humping Angela's leg with the caption of "UUU..UUUUU....UUUUU...UUUTUNNI!" for my all time favorite. Also Mego spiderman just randomly insulting doc ock (Is your PhD in gravy?)
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Admiralty Flag posted:Still haunted by the most hilarious/blackest comedy Twisted Toyfair Theatre sequence ever: Flashback to the 70s, it's a disco party. Climax of the scene is Xavier comes in and wows everyone with his awesome moves and luxurious curly mane. "The Chuckster cares about two things in life -- dancing and my hair." Recounting the present day punchline would require a content warning but I couldn't stop laughing for minutes. I wish I'd saved those or there was some massive archive of them. They cracked me up back in the day.
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thebardyspoon posted:I wish I'd saved those or there was some massive archive of them. They cracked me up back in the day. I thought I was going to make your day because I remember seeing a massive TTT thread somewhere a whileback I found this though http://megocentral.com/category/twisted-mego-theater/
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Did TTT eventually become related to Robot Chicken somehow, or am I just conflating two unrelated things? I feel like TTT somehow loops back into this.
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I always forget that Wizard Magazine (and Toyfare) stayed in print all the way up to 2011.
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Neito posted:Did TTT eventually become related to Robot Chicken somehow, or am I just conflating two unrelated things? I feel like TTT somehow loops back into this. I always thought the same thing so I decided to Google it. From the wiki on TTT: quote:The television show Robot Chicken, which features animated action figures, sprung from Twisted ToyFare Theatre — quite literally, as former writers Tom Root and Douglas Goldstein are head writers for the show, along with fellow Twisted ToyFare Theatre alumnus Matthew Senreich. Robot Chicken producer Seth Green is also an avid toy collector and was a long-time friend of the magazine. He wrote the introduction for one of the Twisted ToyFare Theatre collected editions (actor Mark Hamill, a frequent voice actor on Robot Chicken, also wrote the introduction to one of the collections).
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I liked the one collection that had a bunch of blurbs from big names in the comics industry talking about how funny TTT is and then one from Alex Ross just talking about how horrified he is that they mistreat such valuable collectors items and they should just give all the megos to him instead for safekeeping
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Naruto Episode 2: How does Naruto know what Ninja Trainer Ebisu's name is? It was not mentioned until Naruto does the mass molestation move against him.
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LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:Corky Romano is almost funny when it's not painfully boring. The single funny thing in the movie is when the mob guy filling in at the vet clinic just tosses the dead mouse and replaces it with a new one.
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Spider-Man: No Way Home So it's a small-ish issue and I assume the answer is just 'Delete key + recycle bin empty' but For all the tech that Stark's glasses are synced up with, there's no auto-record thing on them that has a 70,000 step deep process to delete any recordings on them? I was really waiting for that to be at least an offhand mention and they just do a first person projection of Mysterio doing an evil Hugo Weaving laugh to all his henchmen over how easy it was to trick that teenager into believing that he was an upstanding citizen that should definitely be trusted by everyone. Fun movie regardless even though it took a bit to really ramp up and get moving. And it's great that Charlie Cox had another opportunity to do all that DareDevil acting again since he had a problem acting like he wasn't blind for a while afterwards.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Wait, what is Chris Kattan good at? Being annoying. Kind of. Not a romantic lead.
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Kattan was pretty great in Undercover Brother.
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Saw Indiana Jones 3 the other day. Dude was in that temple looking down into the hole, when 5 guys in dress shoes go down a metal staircase, surround him, and still catch him unawares. What the gently caress?
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skooma512 posted:Saw Indiana Jones 3 the other day. Well obliviousness is kinda his main character trait
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Manager Hoyden posted:Indiana Jones (the character) is canonically dumb as a brick I am now afraid the one implied the other  e: what was the line "i was a child" "you knew what you were doing" ugg
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The old TSR Indy RPG from the 80s is famously lovely, but my favorite lovely part is the example they use to explain skill rolls. Jones and Marcus are sitting in Jones' college office, and he calls in a student, described as a swooning beautiful blonde co-ed, and then Indy rolls to try and whip a pen out of her mouth. If he succeeds she runs off terrified, if he fails he whips some of her hair off and she runs off screaming. Either way the two guys sit there and laugh about it.
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Manager Hoyden posted:Indiana Jones (the character) is canonically dumb as a brick I think they are talking about Marcus. But yeah. Also, Dad Jones has a Thing with Elsa, who is literally young enough to be his daughter.
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theironjef posted:The old TSR Indy RPG from the 80s is famously lovely, but my favorite lovely part is the example they use to explain skill rolls. Jones and Marcus are sitting in Jones' college office, and he calls in a student, described as a swooning beautiful blonde co-ed, and then Indy rolls to try and whip a pen out of her mouth. If he succeeds she runs off terrified, if he fails he whips some of her hair off and she runs off screaming. Either way the two guys sit there and laugh about it. Yeah but that's a college student. It's not right but it's not George Lucas arguing Stephen Spielberg down on a girl's age. Wouldn't it be crazy if she was 13? STFU George, hit this rail
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