I felt the same doing Star Trek: The Experience in Vegas as a kid. Walking from the corridor to the functional mockup of the bridge was a top moment for my 14-year-old self.

Those EU novels really went to some dark places.

In my opinion, it's really that good.

Wow, thanks for commenting, and for your excellent work!

Probably the same fella. It's been around for a few years, but it was the first I'd seen it, and seemed worth writing about.

Fiction is made up??

I actually reread my blurb twice before realizing this was a "Rabbit Seasoning" reference. I am not a smart man, &c.

Plus they give us all the twigs we can eat.

God damn it, that was the example that was tickling the back of my brain as I was writing this and could not get out.

Thanks! I did that one too.

That IS a fun fact.

You're right. There were plenty of personal disappointments!

Astro City is still ongoing! And it's still great.

Extremis was when I first cottoned onto Iron Man as an interesting character, aided by being deep in the throes of a Warren Ellis phase at the time. So I happy to see some of those elements make their way into the first Iron Man film (and somewhat less happy with how they dealt with the storyline more directly in IM3).

I honestly did not recall that being a thing, but then, I was 10.

Although he did cameo in exactly one episode of the series.

♫ Snoky, snoky, snoky snokiaan. Okie dokie anybody can. ♫

For that, you pay extra.

Oh crud, I misread. Thanks. Correcting.

Inscribe that on my epitaph.