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hmmmmm I just am not impressed with most of the movies. Unlike a lot of people I like this interpretation of Superman. Superman has a lot of interpretations. I hate the Jesus ones. This one was less Jesus and more Boy Scout. Imperfect. And unlike some people I don't mind that he killed Zod. Superman in my mind is still willing to kill but only as a last resort so this fits. It obviously pained him to do that. I liked Man of Steel (though the mass destruction of the city was too much). I haven't liked another movie since then. I had hopes for Batman vs Superman but they made Batman absolutely insane. He was just murdering everyone left and right without caring. WAT? If anything Batman is soooo against killing (so much more than even Superman) he's almost mentally ill. I mean, a universe where Batman just casually kills everyone doesn't make sense assuming that ANY of his villains are still alive. Is the Joker dead? Doesn't seem to be. All those Batman characters you saw in Suicide Squad should be murdered. Batman should have killed them in this universe. Especially since they probably murder, escape from jail, murder, escape from jail, etc (not confirmed but I think it's a somewhat safe bet). Batman should have killed them all. He clearly has no qualms with murderous rampages. IT MAKES NO SENSE! If he's the Punisher he should be killing not ONLY minions but the Super Villains themselves... :/ The TLDR version is just that Batman's character was the worst thing in the world in BvS. Ignoring the muddled story, the terrible Lex Luthor (for the love of God stop giving us this idiotic crazy Lex, give us business man Lex in the style of some of the comics and cartoons), etc... even if the rest was just great I'm not sure I could ignore a MURDEROUS RAMPAGER Batman. It's ridiculous. Half of Batman's character is that he's almost as crazy as his villains and one reason is he lets them freakin' live. lol Justice League? Meeaaaaahrrrggh..... I think DC did wrong exactly what everyone expected too. They're SKIPPING all the introductory movies and going straight for the group ones. They're trying to fast forward on the success of the Avengers. They haven't laid the foundations in this universe well enough yet. Superman I liked but most people still seem to hate him. Batman's first appearance almost everyone hated. Wonder Woman got some good attention but lets be honest, we saw very little of her but luckily her movie is coming out before Justice League. Maybe if Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman ALL got good introductions they'd be set. Superman's was mixed. Batman's was terrible. Wonder Woman's is still unproven. (Suicide Squad is ignoreable). I guess I'll become more excited for Justice League if Wonder Woman is good. But at this rate I won't get my hopes up. She needs some good Thor'ish, Captain America'ish treatment. Coming from a world similar to Thor's and being a warrior, but not knowing much of anything about this world (though she's been around for like freakin' 100 years so maybe they're not going to get the opportunity to show this... I'd like to see her struggle with a computer or something Captain America'ish where he just doesn't understand all the references). It's not been a great universe so far but it might be recoverable... but I'm still probably never going to like Batman in this universe. He just is a terrible murderous person now. At least when half of Metropolis was destroyed it wasn't Superman doing it directly. Batman is just a terrible person now.

Who needs sensible? Just gimmie a freakin' UCS Falcon.

Are you insane!? The Buffy musical was AMAZING. And I -HATE- musicals!

Wait what? It's rumored to be ending? I want Raven too... I wouldn't be surprised though. The companies always seem to over-invest in something that hasn't ever been able to hold the fans for THAT long (I guess Spyro and... maybe Amiibos are the exceptions?). Especially when the extra content given is really... actually not that good IMO. Like a Lego level will give you a couple of hours of fun. Better to spend your money elsewhere for most people.

The Lego Batman movie actually disappointed me a lot from an animation perspective. It just cheated ALL THE TIME. It made up pieces. It did articulation that was basically impossible or would look horrible from any other angle. The original Lego Movie cheated a bit but it wasn't nearly as much and I loved it for it. But the minifigures are amazing! I plan to collect most of them. Maybe not all the oddball guys... they really had to dig down for the most vague characters.

They could always give us them later in non-specific DC sets. I doubt there's licensing issues. I don't think they'd give us a 3rd wave of the Lego Batman Movie but I could be wrong. That's quite the stretch from the movie's release but it's also BATMAN.

Yeah I heard that. I don't like that either heh. I want to really get to know characters. If you're limited to a season I doubt I'll care much about them or get to know them that well. Heck, some characters like Worf and O'Brien just kept going and I just kept enjoying them. I'm all for stopping something when it starts to get bad but I do enjoy longer stories as long as they stay good. I highly prefer them. Even if Discovery is amazing, we'll still likely only get 1 season of it and characters that I doubt will attain anywhere near the level of legend as Kirk, Spock, Data, Picard, etc. I want a more relevant, multi-season, non-prequel Star Trek lol. Star Trek has always been a show that tackles modern day issues. It should continue to do that but some of the issues in the older series are kind of old fashioned and irrelevant these days.

Nintendo does DLC pretty good. It doesn't feel cheap and usually is worth it. Mario Kart 8 had some great DLC.

Maybe we could talk in the future. I haven't responded properly because I'm in the middle of huge life changes and stuff. But eventually I want to really do some proper customs.

I'm not that excited for Discovery. I'll watch it. I guess I'll hope for the best. But I'm sick of prequels. Enterprise sucked. I want to see the series grow somewhere, not look back to the past. I want to see new enemies and friends along with old ones like the Cardassians, Borg, etc. A prequel basically guarantees we won't see some things like the Borg and Cardassians won't be a big deal. Ignoring the LAME way Enterprise had Borg put in, but everything about Enterprise was lame.

I have to wonder what Lego did to end up in the 99 cent stores. I am back in the US for a bit and was curious to see this legend. I went to a 99 Cent Only store (which is NOT only 99 cents) and there was a HUGE wall of these. I was very tempted to buy an army of Bart Simpsons lol. In the end I bought 1 of each. I mean, none of them are really army-able and I don't even know why I bought some. I already have 3 Gimlis and Barts. Now I have one more I guess? I wonder if Lego didn't meet the sales expectations. To see something like LEGO in a dollar store is really surprising. They have such a price cut. I wonder if any money is being made on them and if so, that's quite a huge markup Lego does.

Things that aren't minifigure scale just aren't for me. But it looks lovely.

It's certainly a luxury. However, I'm one of the suckers that would buy not just one, but at LEAST two of them USC Falcons if they were minifigure scale. I missed the first one because I was so poor. Now I have some money. It's my most wanted set. My most dreamed of set. I'd buy one to build and one to keep in the box and I -NEVER- just keep Lego in the box. That's how crazy I'd be for a new version of this old set! I WANT IT SO BAD! That said, I don't believe the rumors. Well, it's not that I don't believe them. I nothing the rumors. Because literally every year we have people in here talking about the new USC Falcon. Every freakin' year it's one of the rumors. Every year it "leaks". I'll believe it when I see it! I don't want to *plan* for it because this has happened every freakin' year.

The first set I couldn't buy was every single set because my parents couldn't afford any level of Lego. This question is so odd to me. It makes me feel like you grew up Lego-privileged! Check yo privilege!

Oh man I forgot about the Ventriloquist. I'd love him. What other obvious and staple ones are we missing? I'd kill for a Batman Beyond Batman.

This is the show where they modified a bazooka to make it cold when it hits him. Therefore freezing him to death and making him slower. However this coldness was defeated by him simply moving even faster (that's usually how he solves problems, just move FASTER). Also, if you can manage to hit the Flash with a bazooka why not make it a normal bazooka? You know, he'd explode then instead of being slightly cold. I feel like that would be more effective. Then there was that multiple man who could turn into like THREE normal people. Three is too much for the Flash. The Flash was met with a barrage of three people's fists! Almost every episode has this stuff. I watch it with friends sometimes. It's fun to watch and make fun of because it's so ridiculous. Genuine laughs. :)

I hate the new hemlet. I think it looks too childish and simplified. These are the first sets I'm actively avoiding. If they don't go back to the old molds (or new versions of the old ones) for the movie sets I'll possibly just avoid Iron Man all together. It's REALLY ugly and such a HUGE downgrade.

Wondering if there's any easy way to get those free posters they sometimes give out but... not folded, therefore ruining the poster. If I went into the store during one of those offers (are they even offered in the stores?) do they come folded? I'm looking right now at the Lego Batman Movie ones. I'm pretty sure if I went for them I'd be disappointed (like I was with the Star Wars one). Just ship them in a tube!

I think the thing this wave does differently for Super Hero Lego is it has GOOD builds. Penguin's car is just freakin' beautiful. Usually Super Hero Lego have some really lame builds IMO. I'd given up on them. They were clearly more about the minifigures. It wasn't entirely Lego's fault because unless it's the Batmobile there's few things really iconic about the builds. You can't really compare it to Star Wars which has 1000 iconic vehicles! This year though they've done really well. While Penguin's car might not be ICONIC it's just freakin' well made and looks fantastic. Same with a lot of the other sets.

This is one of the reasons I don't use Bricklink that much. I tend to want very specific things and not store seems to have them all. Then if I get them spread out between a lot of stores the price suddenly surgers... :| I've been getting my CURRENT minifigures from Amazon lately actually. It seems easier and for certain figures it's price is comparable, dare I say cheaper. Shipping is sometimes free. For other figures it's a LOT worse. I just try to compare. But Bricklink is a lot of bother these days. I have to use PayPal (EWW!), I have to directly talk to the people sometimes (EWW!), I have to pay a random amount of shipping (EWW!). Etc etc. I wish there was a good store with like everything XD and the ease of Amazon! EDIT: Also Bricklink was easier when I was in the States.

An attempt to make sense. Not just giving up. Like on the Pandora's Box one where he gets out of Pandora's box by his future self who already got out of the pandora's box giving Rory his screwdriver to get him out of it... Any 5 year old would realize how ridiculous that is! Movies and shows with time travel tend to have have plot holes and things that don't make sense. Though usually, for a well written one, you have to dig for them. You might even miss them. Sometimes, the rare one has no obvious plot holes! Whereas Doctor Who is a TV series that is more and more built ON plot holes. It's in the very foundations! It's the walls, the floors, the ceilings, the furniture. The family are plot holes. Little Timmy a plot hole child of the plot hole parents Susie and Richard. The dog is a plot hole. If you open the windows the trees are plot holes! The neighbors are plot holes! The very air you breath in this universe is a plot hole! Now take that same paragraph and replace "are plot holes" with stuff like "is ridiculous", "are absurd", "will make you cringe until your face squishes up enough to form a singularity, of which your whole self will be sucked in and destroyed only to evaporate into Hawking Radiation!". Etc etc. I think an ideal scenario that a time travel movie or TV show could see happen is it's so good people don't care (like, just off the top of my head, Back to the Future). I think at this point people care enough that Doctor Who has gotten so bad. The ratings are pretty terrible lately. The merchandising is way down (I think the peak was when David Tennant end year, Matt Smith beginning seasons happened). You used to see a whole Doctor Who aisle in every toy store. Loved the David Tennant and earlier Matt Smith years. I know it might sound BAD but actually, come to think of it, as I was writing this paragraph I discovered this makes me EXCITED. This could mean a FRESH START. No Moffat. I know Capaldi isn't bad but with him leaving too it'll be truly fresh. And with a FRESH START some of us might get a chance to beat that Doctor Who peak and start loving the show again! I don't mean to be insulting. I'm just very passionate about Doctor Who because I used to love it! Now I can't wait for 2018 or whenever the FRESH START will be! I hope that's understandable!

They actually put "from the director of LUCY" in there. Isn't that something they should hide? Anyways, I'd love to give any of these a go. I love sci-fi. I'm doubting I'll see them in the theaters though. I'm thinking, Netflix or Amazon Prime. I'm probably the most curious about Ghost in a Shell. I watched the anime. I wasn't really into it that much but I'm curious.

Honestly, I don't care haha. Doctor Who was always campy and cheesy. Sometimes episodes were just TOO MUCH. I cringed out of a few Christmas Specials. It never really made sense. Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey Stuff only goes so far. Moffat started taking that farther. Nothing makes sense. You have people doing flips over self-destructing robots that somehow stops the self-destructing robots. You have ladies hiding in bushes. Idunno. You have a million ridiculous and badly done things. In the middle of the Matt Smith era is when it started going all bad. Every season had to have some universe destroying threat. It was so common it became boring. The plots so ridiculous and riddled with plot-holes you'd fall right through them if you tried to understand an episode. In the end it's just been possibly the most ridiculous, most cringey, most laughably stupid show I've ever seen. I used to love it. I'd just not love about a quarter of the episodes. But lately man, and it's not Capaldi's fault at all, it's been just that level of epic absurdity that I cannot do anything but laugh at while crying. I've seen it all so far except that super hero episode. I don't know why. Because of good times long forgotten I suppose. But Capaldi IS good in it. He's a good doctor. He's just surrounded by absurdity. Moffat leaving Doctor Who is the BEST THING THAT CAN HAPPEN. Capaldi I'd love to see stay but I'm so exhausted from the show I'm not sure I actually care. When David Tennant was leaving I was sad and joked about enslaving him and forcing him to be the Doctor for at least 7 years. When Matt Smith was leaving it was dulled a bit by too many Moffat years but I still hated to see him go. Now on Capaldi, the badness has caught up and I'm tired. I'm sorry Capaldi. It's not your fault. You were good. I'm sorry.

There's no way in fudgey fudge land that Doctor Who has selling power that is any compareable to the other big licenses they have. Lego would probably be making a mistake if they made a minifigure series or theme after Doctor Who, as much as I'd LOVE to see it (assuming it wasn't all Peter Capaldi). Doctor Who at it's peak would be a hard sell anywhere that's not the UK. In the US you basically see nowhere with Doctor Who toys because it still sells like crap over there and that's a big market to sell like crap at.

I don't think they always have "3 whole sets" as in 3 of each minifigure. I believe some minifigures are just more rare than others? Is each box guaranteed to have them all? I have no idea.