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Pedantic rant incoming:

It’s not just Mario in his default idle animation — Nintendo has an actual render of Mario in this pose that this version seemingly tried to recreate.

Some far-future space creature is going to be studying Super Pochako, known only to them as a Polyvinyl Venus.

Goodman is a solid choice. Read more

If anything, I feel bad for Sony and the dev team at WB Games. Read more

Jesus Christ, what a bad take.
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I know Animal Crossing was always going to be a big seller, but I’m curious how it would have stacked up if it hadn’t released alongside the pandemic. It was a perfect synergy for sales.

Nobody is from Earth, but “human” is still one of the races in the Star Wars galaxy.

Published in’98? Nope. Disney ejected everything besides the movies and shows from the canon. Some of it has been reintegrated in new stories, though, so maybe ol’ Dengar can dig him out again.

Theatrical releases are harder to make a pirated copy of (at least a good pirated copy) than VOD, which is insanely easy. Read more

Remember when Fox decided to cut the advertised 3D version of Fan4stic and just kinda gave up on the film as it released?

This seems like Disney is just making the most out of a product that’s mostly complete. Whether they don’t want to drop more money on reshoots or they physically can’t because the young actors have… Read more

It absolutely blows my mind that Fox took two cracks at the Dark Phoenix Saga — the first of which was the first “bad” X-Men movie after two successful films — the director of the second version is the same guy who wrote the first version.

Yeah, but those other options aren’t owned by Hasbro. That’s the key difference. (Well, I guess Gobots are? Didn’t they get absorbed into Transformers?) Read more

For one Marvel didn’t “rebrand” anything to differentiate anything. Read more

What they were trying to do was already done by them, honestly. Universal had the original shared universe, Marvel is just the big name doing it now.
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...I think they ran into issues because Legendary’s Godzilla ran in and claimed “MonsterVerse” as part of their branding. There were also issues that a number of the Universal Monsters are actually public domain at this point, despite the Universal versions being the prominent versions people remember. For example,… Read more

It really is genius. In theory it allows you to make a large, more obscure character who wouldn't otherwise get greenlet. In practice you buy a colander-variant Louis Tully you didn't want because your Terror Dog won't have a left-leg if you don't.

They announced a mobile revamp...in 2018. So yes, they’re “trying to revitalize the brand” but I think it’s still more “trying” than “revitalizing”. Read more

You say that like Marvel has been all A-listers. Iron Man and the Avengers are A-listers now, but over 10 years ago none of the Avengers characters compared to Spidey or DC’s trio. But I get that Iron Man, Captain America, and Thor were still the Avengers. The Guardians of the Galaxy were nobodies, though, and those… Read more

Here’s the thing: Read more