TV/Movies Megathread

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

Well, in this case you should start from the best Laserdisc editions. 

I paid $6 for the tapes.

[celedhring]

http://www.geek.com/news/paramount-hasbro-building-shared-universe-with-g-i-joe-m-a-s-k-and-more-1642233/

Hasbro and Paramount have big plans to bring the former's huge library of toy properties to the big screen, all in the same universe. Put out in partnership with Hasbro's Allspark Pictures, the new universe will revolve around the following five properties: GI Joe, MASK, Rom, Micronauts, and Visionairies.

Like Marvel Studios and Universal Monsters before it, the idea is to create a full universe with interconnecting stories and characters that will, in theory, make for a more robust movie-going experience. The toy company and the studio successfully worked together to make four Transformers movies and two GI Joe films that made mountains of money. Transformers is currently being developed into its own series of films.

If you're not familiar with these lesser known franchises, here are some basics. MASK features a group of experts wearing high-tech helmets driving transforming cars to fight the evil members of VENOM (basically making it a perfect synthesis of Transformers and GI Joe), Rom revolves around a spacefaring cyborg, the Microverse takes center stage in Micronauts, and Visionaries is a fantasy-based line revolving around hologram-adorned toys. How these disparate lines will come together remains to be seen.

This isn't the first time the idea of mixing these toy lines has come about. MASK leader Matt Trakker made his way into the GI Joe line of action figures back in 2008 and in 2011, Hasbro released a New York Comic Con exclusive called Hasbro Unite that featured quick hit new takes on a variety of properties including MASK, Micronauts and even featured a quick reference to GI Joe.

Well, good luck with that. A friend had all the MASK toys (GI Joe didn't exist in Germany, IIRC), and the ROM Space Knight comic was pretty good if Linkara's retrospective is to be believed.

The obvious crossover here was GI Joe + Transformers, but I guess there's no chance of making a move out of MASK or Rom (I have some Rom comics and they were quite good) unless they attach them to a more known IP.

I loved the MASK cartoon when I was a kid.

[Duque de Bragança]

Well, in this case you should start from the best Laserdisc editions. 

I paid $6 for the tapes.

Did you get the pan and scan ones, à la Ed? 

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

Did you get the pan and scan ones, à la Ed? 

I don't know.  The set I got were released in 1991, I think.  I figured for $6 it was worth a chance.

[viper37]

http://www.geek.com/news/paramount-hasbro-building-shared-universe-with-g-i-joe-m-a-s-k-and-more-1642233/

Hasbro and Paramount have big plans to bring the former's huge library of toy properties to the big screen, all in the same universe. Put out in partnership with Hasbro's Allspark Pictures, the new universe will revolve around the following five properties: GI Joe, MASK, Rom, Micronauts, and Visionairies.

Like Marvel Studios and Universal Monsters before it, the idea is to create a full universe with interconnecting stories and characters that will, in theory, make for a more robust movie-going experience. The toy company and the studio successfully worked together to make four Transformers movies and two GI Joe films that made mountains of money. Transformers is currently being developed into its own series of films.

If you're not familiar with these lesser known franchises, here are some basics. MASK features a group of experts wearing high-tech helmets driving transforming cars to fight the evil members of VENOM (basically making it a perfect synthesis of Transformers and GI Joe), Rom revolves around a spacefaring cyborg, the Microverse takes center stage in Micronauts, and Visionaries is a fantasy-based line revolving around hologram-adorned toys. How these disparate lines will come together remains to be seen.

This isn't the first time the idea of mixing these toy lines has come about. MASK leader Matt Trakker made his way into the GI Joe line of action figures back in 2008 and in 2011, Hasbro released a New York Comic Con exclusive called Hasbro Unite that featured quick hit new takes on a variety of properties including MASK, Micronauts and even featured a quick reference to GI Joe.

Well, good luck with that. A friend had all the MASK toys (GI Joe didn't exist in Germany, IIRC), and the ROM Space Knight comic was pretty good if Linkara's retrospective is to be believed.

GI Joe and Mask, I remember, the others, not a clue.  I'm likely too old.

[celedhring]

Rom the Space Knight was the backup feature in the Spanish Transformer comic-books, which I treasured when I was a child. That's the reason I know the character, really. The stories were a pretty unique mix of sci-fi, sword lazers and sorcery, and the traditional superhero comic.

[Duque de Bragança]

Well, in this case you should start from the best Laserdisc editions. 

I paid $6 for the tapes.

Well, good luck then!

[lustindarkness]

She put on the shirt I was going to wear! 

But it sure looks better on her.

[lustindarkness]

SW Force Awakens: Is The Good, it felt like Star Wars.

[katmai]

She put on the shirt I was going to wear! 

But it sure looks better on her.

SO they let you in topless?

[Syt]

She put on the shirt I was going to wear! 

But it sure looks better on her.

SO they let you in topless?

He wore the metal bikini instead.

[Syt]

3D fad goes too far.

[Eddie Teach]

"That Debbie's a busy girl."

[Grey Fox]

"Part 4"

[Josquius]

Jurassic World- Well that was lame.