Reply To: Hobby Weekender 15/03/2019 – The 2000's

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@limburger yeah,  Highalnder 2 is high art compared to the Last Airbender film. Hell, Highlander: The Source (aka the one that couldn’t afford to use the actual Queen music so got a cover) is high cinema compared to TLA. At least Legend of Korra proved a more than worthy sequel, and Dark horse have been putting out quality material with the creators to continue where both shows ended and fill in some gaps….

@mage There’s a reason I normally use Kup as my online Avvatar 😉 Which of the Dinos did you get? I did dig the POTP take on them quite lot, but Volcanicus really does need one of the 3rd Party upgrade kits badly. In fact POTP did some stirling work on the Combiner front – Starscream & Elita-1 make fun bodies, but the Terrorcons are the lines real MVP, with each bot being pretty rad and their Abominus form being just plain sexy. just a shame the distribution of the 5 bots was utter garbage. And in the TF theme, last week i did get some surprises through the post, War for Cybertron Siege 2-packs of Redhot & Stakeout (the Rescue Patrol) and Ravage & Lazerbeak (the Spy Patrol), part of this lines Micromasters range 😀

@horati0nosebl0wer yeah, Yoko Kanno hit it out the park – again with the GITS:SAC soundtrack. If she had just done GITS:SAC, Cowboy Bebop, Macross Plus and Escaflowne’s music she would have been a bona fide legend, but she’s still  arguably the most in demand, multi-talented composer in the biz (read an interview where the conductor who worked on her first orchestral work couldn’t believe it was her first time composing for that scale…).

Good shout outs there for shows as well – Last Exile was a fascinating work, and worth a watch for anyone who is planning games with a sky-pirates vibe. Excel Saga is just ****ing nuts though,  and you have to respect ADV’s commitment to ensuring the shows jokes got through by giving you an option on  the DVD for pop-up info boxes as part of the sub-titles menu…

@evilstu Have you tried the SAC compilation films instead? They cut out all the side-stories to just give you each series main story-arc in a nice chunk. And I get what you are saying about FMP, but they did try to keep some of the humour going until the story intruded – 2nd Raid and Invisible War get positively brutal. FOMOFFU! was a nice way to condense that majority of the comedy into one side show though….