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  1. It's Kyoryu...wanna say Navy. Navy. Totes defs. That wasn't really the case, Kamen Rider did precede Super Sentai (especially the iteration actually labeled as such) by a few years, but they were both the brain children of the same guy. And as a franchise it's almost completely different. It's more little brother than knock off.
  2. Sawbuck paying Biscuits a visit it seems. Man what thread am I even at It's some bat thing, maybe?
  3. Pfft I've been a Rider for like 9 months straight. It's a robot with a nose for some reason.
  4. A-MA-ZOOOOOOOON

  5. Oh, whoops. It's actually obviously Midorenger. What a silly mistake to make.
  6. Ok, then I gotta say...that looks like...Akarenger. Yup. Pretty sure that's Akarenger.
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    Oh No.

    It wasn't in a row, I think they were separated by a few, probably. Apparently I got the first in my 733rd egg, and I hatched a grand total of 748. So they may have been spaced out a bit, but pretty close around each other. By that point I already had all the eggs sitting in my box and if I remember correctly I was just grabbing them at random. Dunno. Sure freaked me out though.
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    Oh No.

    THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I TRY TO GET A SHINY NOTHING AT ALL. no seriously six boxes, no shinies, nothing. used masuda method and everything and i got jack all from it. the games refuse to give me shinies ever...but for some reason have given me pokerus twice... Lol. Six boxes, that's cute. It took me 25 boxes to get a shiny Phantump. Twenty five! Ok, that's a lie. I didn't get a shiny Phantump, I got three, like all at once, when I got to box 25. Friggin' RNGs. Yeah, getting rid of those 740+ non-shiny Phantumps sure was a thing...
  9. Pfft, it doesn't even get going until like 10 hours in. Adventure Time is great.
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    Pokemon Types

    The solution is more Poison/Bug, Flying/Normal, Ground/Rock, and Fighting/Fire types, obviously.
  11. There are a few things I liked about it, but the one that stands out the most (the character models) is something I would not have had to actually spend my time watching it to enjoy. So to some degree I'd say yeah, that was an hour wasted. Not to that hyperbolic level, because I see it as not so much bad as aggressively unremarkable. But it was sort of a waste of my time. Not that I say that with any particularly strong emotion behind it, I watch a lot of shows, several of which are also pretty wasteful uses of my time, and sometimes considerably worse than JtO. So my response to this question is more of a resounding shrug. You also bring up Bionicle having an odd concept behind it that maybe couldn't be taken too seriously by a writer, but I don't really agree with that perception. The show that the character in my avatar is from is a essentially a toy commercial itself, aimed at kids, about street dancers who turn into samurais and knights who use fruit armor to fight. The guy in my avatar is wearing mango armor and wielding a mango mace. If it sounds ridiculous, it's because it is, and it's ridiculous beyond what Bionicle could hope to be. It's a pretty great show. Now, this is a pretty awful comparison, because Gaim (the other show in question) is Japanese, had 47 episodes, and was pretty dark and complex in its execution--none of which are things JtO is, could, or should be. But my point I guess is, having to market toys and being kind of bizarre in concept aren't really barriers to having a show be something more, you just need capable people behind a show to make it happen. And it's not like the people behind JtO are demonstrably incapable or anything, but I do think they aimed too low and produced a very generic and unremarkable product in the end. It's not without redeeming qualities, but then very few things are. There's things I'd like to know about the production of JtO too, before really blaming anyone about it. Maybe Lego dictated that the story should be kept as simple as possible, maybe production for these began before the animations or whatever were finalized and as such they weren't able to match the personalities too well, I don't know. Resounding shrugs again.
  12. Dude, you sound way angrier and confrontational about this than pretty much anyone else who's actually posted negative opinions. Heck, most opinions aren't even particularly negative (definitely very little hatred being thrown around), just mixed. Throwing shade at people you disagree with isn't going to persuade them that you're the voice of reason here. "It's a toy commercial" is a poor excuse to justify lower standards, anyway. Journey to One is a commercial product, everyone knows that. It's not a secret. But most kinds of media, especially that aimed at children, is similar to some degree: It's all trying to market something. Just because it's a commercial doesn't excuse anything. Not all commercials are made equal, and if people think it could have been better, it's because it has been done better before. It has nothing to do with whether the old Bionicle did it better. (Personally, I think even compared to other Lego shows (also all nothing but commercials, and most not being particularly deep or complex) Journey to One is overwhelmingly mediocre). If it's something that fits your expectations and that you can enjoy, hey, cool. Enjoy it. No one's saying you can't. Don't act like other people's views on it aren't valid just because their expectations were different, though.
  13. Wow, neat that you're getting the chance to do this, and so soon after it came out. Pretty cool. What I'd like to know is: When did Lego order The Journey to One/when did it start being made/how did it come to be on Netflix...which is I guess three different questions, but like. Where did it come from? How far back did they start working on it? Was it before the 2015 animations were completed, or...?
  14. Wow. I was hopeful, but since an AT project had failed once before, I wasn't optimistic. Really didn't expect Adventure Time to pass, but man I am glad it did. Definitely getting it in whatever form it ends up being released. And maybe if it's successful it will be conductive to more CN cartoons getting similar sets...Steve Universe maybe? One can hope.
  15. ...Twotoa. ...Really. Twotoa though. Not even Twoa or something. Just. Twotoa. Really.
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