Something I’ve been fiddling around with on and off, only for it to sit on my hard drive for months before I remembered that I had it around. Essentially a “remake” of a similar yet different gag video.
Take a chill pill, IG fans. It’s all in good fun.
So let me get this out of the way; I’m not completely sold on the new suits, but I can give them a shot if they look good in motion. And the symbiotic nature of the morphing effect means that the designs make sense. So you know what? The suits are on the verge of so-so, but I’m fine with that. I’m not hoping for anything “traditional” or closer to the show. It should feel different without leaving a horrible taste in one’s mouth.
But good lord, does this Megazord design look like ass. Just an absolutely horrible abomination of a creative black hole. This is such a ghastly and unappealing design that it makes the cruddy CGI looking Ninja Megazord featured in the original Power Rangers movie from 1995 look like a work of art, for fuck’s sake.
Funny thing is that I was fine with that one Dinozord design that looked somewhat okay-ish, but this Megazord configuration? Goddamn, kid, this looks like shit.
I didn’t know a “quick look” meant rambling on a couch for damn near two hours straight. And here am I making quick observations that only take fifteen minutes to get to the damned point. Go figure.
Funko Pops sure have gotten big over the years. It seems like everywhere I go – whether they’d be an HMV or Gamestop/EB Games or Best Buy or wherever – there seems to be walls of these numerous and completely interchangeable figures waiting for people to blow their money on so they can collect the whole bunch of them for speculator purposes or something.
I don’t get these things.
For those unaware, a Funko Pop figure is those little miniature figures where they take a popular character and reconfigure him or her into this generic big-head, black-eyed, featureless figure. And it’s all the same generic body type and the same facial and all that. And… they all look some bland. They’re not like chibified versions of characters because those are actually cute and somewhat resemble who they’re supposed to.
These Funko things… they look all the same. No facial expressions. No emotions. Virtually no functionality whatsoever. They’re almost like Lego figures, in a way… but at least you could mess around with those and play with those for a bit. Funko things do jack shit.
Even the cheap-o knock rubber figures are more interesting.
Exactly what the fuck do people see in these things anyway? Is there such a market for regurgitated plastic crap they continue to make more of these stupid things? (That was a rhetorical question, by the way.)
I guess I’ll never be a convert to the Funko religion or whatever.
And I’m perfectly fine with that.
Cool little lecture that Stuart Ashen did at August’s Norwich Gaming Festival, where he talks about terrible computer games and even lets a couple people play this horrible things.
Original video description:
Stuart Ashen, guest lecturer and local YouTube celebrity, will be talking about terrible old games in the wake of his recently published book Terrible Old Games You’ve Probably Never Heard Of.
Terrible Old Games You’ve Probably Never Heard Of is a compendium of some of the most painfully bad games available for the European home computer market from the early eighties to the mid nineties. It is based on Stuart’s YouTube series of the same name.
So with all the hooplah concerning the teaser trailer for the upcoming Power Rangers film, I’m left wondering about that other fan film thing that has made waves years ago and making grandiose promises about making a grittier take on the property. Outside of a couple trailers and one or two mini episodes of sorts, nothing has come out of this particular camp.
And what happens while I take a week off from uploading shit?
– Billy Corgan, TNA president and hopeful acquirer of said company, sues Dixie Carter and the company he’s employed with because they owe him money. Goddamn, kid.
– Paige suffers another WWE Wellness Policy violation over prescription drugs they say are “illegal” and now sources on her side claim that a second opinion doctor says she needs neck surgery. WWE doctors believe otherwise; look at all the wonders our Z-Paks have done for us over the years.
– This year’s Survivor Series PPV will comprise three traditional Survivor Series style matches (almost like the earlier editions of the PPV were just that) and headlined by the “long-awaited” rematch between Brock Lesnar and Bill Goldberg, which is being booked for the sole purpose of trying to sell more copies of the video game… because apparently Suplex City isn’t enough of a stupid idea to try and sell more video games.
– The rumored Women In Hell In A Cell match has been confirmed. Not only that, but the match between Seth Rollins and Champion Of The Universe Kevin Owens will also be a Cell match. WOW! THREE HELL IN A CELL MATCHES ON ONE SHOW! SMELL THE BUYRATE! Brace yourselves for mediocrity.
– They announced a Justice League/Mighty Morphin crossover comic… because I guess we really needed the stench of Zack Snyder in my MMPR comic books… oh wait, they’re talking about the comic version of JL, not the film… sorry, my bad.
– Another Rogue One trailer… Maybe you should’ve released this first before TFA if you wanted to get on everyone’s good nostalgic side or something.
Well… that’s something.
So Youtube videos will resume this week with a pick-up video and then straight reviews for the next few weeks. Nothing grandiose for this wave of reviews… I’m saving those for later.
Eh… it’s okay.
]I know it’s been said that this is going to be the last time Hugh Jackman dons the claws and stuff, but somehow I find it difficult to believe that they won’t somehow shove him into a cameo in a future X-film and somehow have him regenerate into a younger jabroni like Shia LaBeef or whichever young stud is relevant at the moment who can’t act.
And yes, I’m still referring to it as “The Temporary Sabbatical Of Wolverine” instead of its Death title. I’m still entirely convinced he’ll be back sooner than later.
Logan comes out March 3.
dtm666 