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King_Serperior

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  1. Anyone remember those HeadOn commercials from a while back?HeadOn, apply directly to the forehead.HeadOn, apply directly to the forehead.HeadOn, apply directly to the forehead.

    I remember back when that commercial was viral, CN spoofed it with a Dracula puppet with a voiceover describing The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure.
  2. Agents was a good theme. But before drifting off, I'll say the one reason it fizzled was the fact that the last wave focused on a generic city. In my mind, it was weird as to why Dr. Inferno would focus all his resources on this one city while in the first wave he was spreading his message and his minions to all corners of the globe.

  3. One of my favorite all time themes, honestly. My favorite part was the golden city saga, when they introduced all those ball-and socket joint bricks, which certainly made things a lot easier.Although I easily knew things were starting to falter when I saw all the "human" drawings of the human minifigs, which were completely different from past years. I wish they brought it back, maybe even steal Ninjago's spotlight. Cause seriously, what would you rather see, ninjas driving around in cars and spinning while beating up snake people, or oriental-style mechs whose pilots have martial arts skills fighting a plague of robots that have turned against them?

  4. I in fact disliked Life on Mars because of the lack of clear antagonists. The only conflict in the theme involved the "rebel" Martians, who were never fleshed out as a faction of their own. As such, it ended up looking like there was no conflict at all, and a lack of conflict leads to a poorly-developed plot.I disagree that most characters in modern themes are "blank faces". Agents had a clearly-defined cast of characters, as did Pharaoh's Quest, Atlantis, and the upcoming Monster Fighters.I was never aware of all the plot materials online. They must have been poorly promoted, and that is a weakness in my eyes. Themes like Agents didn't need to promote supplementary material, since the sets established a clear plot without needing comics, books, movies, or story serials.I loved the sets for Life on Mars, which had epic color schemes and included some of the best mechs of the time, but the story always underwhelmed me. Modern themes are much better in terms of story, in my opinion.

    I see where you're getting at, but when I mean "blank faces", I was talking about stuff like Mars Mission, Space Police (although this one I'd probably let it slide because doing bios on a whole police force would be draining). For some reason I'm kinda seeing Monster Fighters to be one of those "blank face" themes, but then again I might be proven wrong. In retrospect, a lot of the Mars Mission stuff was better (That huge limited edition 6-wheeled drill tank being displayed on top of one of my cupboards), but I really hated the stiffness of the new martians compared to the old martians.I also kind of miss those visors that would cover more of the helmet, which in this day and age are essentially nonexistent :(. Space fans in the 90s would probably know what I'm talking about.
  5. Back in 2001, I was little. Little enough to get, see, and want Bionicle, but little that I thought Tahu was a girl just because his mask was shaped the way it was. Back then, they had these little separate booklets other than the instructions that housed what other lines would be selling at the same point in time the set it was packaged with would come out. I would see the Life On Mars promo pages. I would often think to myself it was pretty strange, because there was no straightforward fighting, which brings me to my first point. LoM never introduced major conflict like other themes. While there were things like rebels, they were never clearly introduced as much as say, skeletons in Ninjago were. Both humans and martians seemed to be just there to give kids a choice, in retrospect, between playing intrepid human explorers or martians mining and riding that tube system that was used in the martian base set. Despite the fact that some say conflict brings out the worst in children, it did sell, and Bionicle, which was heavily conflict and story oriented, lasted for almost 10 years. Second is that each character wasn't a blank face as they are in most action themes today. Each character on each side had name. I also found it inventive how the Martians' names would be the names of stars. Thirdly, instead of the here-are-two-sides-they-will-fight-for-one-year-or-so LoM got a weekly radio log accompanied by a mini-game. Each log would tell a chapter of the story, which in turn painted a fantastical version of Mars complete with underground cities and castles. To be honest, I still think of LoM as more progressive than a lot of themes that had potential, like World Racers or Pharaoh's Quest.Credit to the maker of Biodium Vault for helping me rediscover this lost theme and for inspiring me to work on my on LoM story as well.

  6. @Takava, KEEP. Jolly would give axew (into haxorus if you're gonna use it out of little cup) a much needed speed boost, and Mold Breaker + Lum Berry/Choice Band can give you an awesome sweep to pick off stuff like Will-O-Wisp Weezing. Now I'm not into heavy EV training or vitamins, but here is my super double train team. Comments and Criticism are welcome.Serperior-MildItem:Meadow Plate/Big RootAbility:OvergrowLeaf BladeDragon Tail Leech SeedGiga DrainChandelure-LaxItem:Choice ScarfAbility:Flame BodyFlamethrowerEnergy BallShadow BallHidden Power (Water)Garchomp-JollyItem:Wide LensAbility: Sand VeilDragon RushEarthquakeFire Blast Stone EdgeThese last two rotate on my teamSigilyph-RashItem:Mind Plate, although this will change to Life OrbAbility:Magic GuardPsyshockIce BeamAir SlashFlash CannonStaraptor-QuirkyItem: Focus SashAbility: IntimidateBrave BirdClose CombatU-turnSteel Wing.

  7. I'm not going to say much here, because I don't usually see movies I don't think I'm going to like, but I'd like to take the time to say that The Last Airbender was the worst movie I have ever seen. I didn't quite realize this when I first saw it, given I was in a fair bit of denial and hoping it would be good. I hadn't heard of M. Night Shyamalan before, so I didn't quite know what all the kerfuffle was over this guy. But then I took the time to rewatch it when it got put up on Netflix. My god. Those two viewings are three hours of my life that I am never going to get back. Terrible casting, acting, writing, plot condensation, and attempts at drama. Almost all of the slow motion in the fight scenes seemed to be randomly inserted just so the scene could be stretched out without filming more. The actors sounded like they were in some slapped-together seventh-grade play. Shyamalan outright removed 'Koizilla' from the climax (which was the one part of the movie I wanted to see most), and the bending was changed to fifteen seconds of random buildup moves, followed by the actual effect, which would have taken one arm-thrust to do in the show. They even changed the actual Chinese script from the show into a bunch of lame "Asian-inspired" scribbles. I'm just glad the original team is making another animated series, so this horrendous piece of crud won't be the series' last word in the public mind.But the effects were decent.

    I agree. What was one of the major parts of the whole Avatar franchise (In my opinion) were the Asian influences, such as the sharp curves of Fire Nation architecture, clothing and robes shared by people from all four nations, even to the Earth King's bear's hat and shirt. Don't get me wrong or anything, but they could easily do better than the actors they cast. If I remember correctly, Dev Patel didn't even have the scar the real Zuko had, and Azula (who was that one girl we all loved to hate in the series) was instead his father's personal suck-up. Also, if some die-hard fans like me remember, each element had certain motions affiliated with them, like how Earth had fists and Fire, had sharp, two fingered jabs."Koizilla" was also one of my favorite parts of the original series. I don't think Noah Wringer (the actor who played Aang, or Ong in the movie's case) ever got another job in Hollywood again.
  8. I did see that Malcolm in the Middle episode (and Dewey called Tahu "Zoltan") once after a scout troop meeting I put up the bs01 podcast on my iPod and this one other guy was like "you like Bionicle?" but he wasn't a ##### about asking. I was the only Bionicle fan in my elementary school, and this one girl I was arguing with cursed Bionicle.

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