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  • Some Cheap Super Hero Blu-rays

    Some Cheap Super Hero Blu-rays

    After reading Nick’s review of the 76081 The Milano vs. The Abilisk, I remembered that I actually hadn’t seen the movie yet. I know, I know, but I have the Blu-ray on my X-mas wish list and lo’ and behold, Amazon has it on sale! They have a few other Super Hero blu-ray movies on sale too so here’s a short list:

    All of the above movies are eligible for Movies Anywhere. I’ve talked about Movies Anywhere in a previous post. If you haven’t signed up yet, you should!

  • Review: 76080 Ayesha’s Revenge

    Review: 76080 Ayesha’s Revenge

    A good measure of how decent a set is going to be can be puzzled out from the LEGO Shop@Home listings… though being able to measure it requires you to have a good handle on marketing speak. Say what you want about LEGO, they have a marketing department that can spin a word salad with the best of them. With this set… I’m not sure they even tried. There are nine bullet points in the product description: three of them are just measurements, two (and parts of another) are trying to explain to you what that red blob is.

    Guardians of the Galaxy involves a character named Ayesha. Her head is gold, and she does want some sort of revenge. I believe that is where the similarity between this set and the movie ends in any practical form. Okay, that’s not fair. Most of the parts of this set do have things you can point to in the movie… it’s just that they feel like they captured the wrong parts of the movie to give us. The ship was in there, but it is lacking the things that made it memorable in the movie. Ayesha was wearing a suit, but that’s not how you’re going to remember her. There was a cliff, but at no point in time did it resemble that little pile of random red bricks.

    Still, this set comes with 323 parts and runs a nice $29.99 (and is frequently on sale… while I’m writing this it’s sitting at 20% off on Amazon), it’s the only way to get Yondu, and it comes with a Baby Groot in an outfit that was from one of my favorite segments of the movie. There are some very nice parts tucked into the set to… but the first impression that this set suffers from the same problems that most of the Super Heroes sets based on the movies do at this point. They have pretty much nothing to do with the source material past some minifigs.

    Oh, and spoilers, because a lot of this review will be a rant about why the movie and the sets don’t seem to have much to do with one another.

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  • Review: 76079 Ravager Attack

    Review: 76079 Ravager Attack

    I’m starting this review a few days before the second Guardians of the Galaxy movie comes out; I’m excited, I have tickets to a double-header with the first in IMAX on Thursday. The first GotG movie represents something very unique in the Super Hero genre; a genre I really enjoy, but is starting to show a few problems. The Marvel movies, which are all entertaining, are very formulaic. The look and appearance of the movies themselves has become somewhat bland. Marvel tends to stick to flat colors and taking off brightness… giving Cap a dull blue suit, making Spider-Man less shiny looking, darker colors for Doctor Strange, etc. DC goes sepia and covers everything in grit; suicide squad made Harley colorful, but everything else was gray and brown with an extra helping of grit and dust.

    Guardians of the Galaxy has been bucking all of those trends; it’s absurdly colorful. It mixes humor and action more effectively than any other comic book movie not named Deadpool. More than that, it proved that you can tell a comic book story with an ensemble cast, without diving deeply into origin stories, and make us care about them in a two hour runtime. I’m just saying, it’s perfectly okay to choke up a bit when you hear “We Are Groot.” Guardians of the Galaxy was supposed to be the first “failure” in the MCU, back when it was first released, but it ended up being one of the best, if not the best, we’ve gotten.

    The verdict on LEGO sets is a bit more mixed. The first line only consisted of a few sets and a polybag… but it gave us one of the best spaceship/jets in the first Milano set (I still maintain it’s named after Alyssa Milano and not the cookies). It also gave us a good set with a Nova, and a… not good prison break set. Still, it was great to get the major players from the first movie, even if we still need an official Glenn Close minifigure, and that Milano was fantastic. For the sequel, LEGO seems to be sticking to their most recent trend of “let’s just rehash the old stuff, but make it worse and raise the price a bit.” Thus far, I’ve only picked up one set for review, 76079 Ravager Attack, and that is mostly because I wanted a Mantis minifigure. Here’s hoping that this little $19.99 and 197 piece manages to impress a bit more when built than it does in the first impression.

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  • Latest (and probably last) Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2 Trailer

    Latest (and probably last) Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2 Trailer

    Is it May yet?

  • Trailer Out For Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

    Trailer Out For Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

    Despite me not really giving that terrible set a glowing review, I mean, I can’t even bring myself to look up the name of it, you know, the one that had Groot in it, I rather liked the other two LEGO sets based on the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie. So here’s hoping they will make more sets for the sequel. I mean, why wouldn’t they? It’s like printing money.

    Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 comes out in theaters on May 5th, 2017.