ThaOGDreamWeaver

Thought:

Regenerating this thread for a very small update: the series is not dead, and will return with a Christmas special in 2026. So that's a decently long break. The (possibly) bad news: RTD is still at the helm. So he's got a whole year to come up with something workable.

The Skatalites - Skalloween

The Toasters: FrankenSka

Research Me Obsessively - Brittany Snow

A cape management sim from the crew at AdHoc - a renegade mob of escaped TellTale devs - and the Critical Role crew. Bob Robertson/MechaMan (Aaron Paul) is facing forced and humiliating retirement from hero life. However redemption - of a sort - comes with a job offer from Blonde Blazer (Laura Bailey: Critical Role/Vox Machina/etc). All he has to do is use his experience to match which super(s) ought to be matched to which mission, help guide them through, and use his hacking and tactical skills to keep them ahead of the enemy. Sounds simple enough...? Similar to the Telltale model, the game is released in bi-weekly chunks, and while the management piece is important, managing and motivating your team via dialogue trees is also going to determine your success or failure. Paul and Bailey are joined by Jeffrey Wright, deadpanning his way through some choice lines, plus assorted Critical Role castmembers and a number of their friends and family. Visuals look decent and a nice balance of humour and drama. If the game proves successful, there will also be a tie-in TTRPG, live-action events, an animated series, and, of course, merch. What do we think?

Visions Of Atlantis - Hellfire (New discovery: wildly overdramatic Euro orchestral goth pirate metal? Arr, that be gladdening me black heart, me hearties...)

FEX - Subways Of Your Mind

We offer… …Louvreage.

KISS - New York Groove

Frehley’s Comet - Into The Night

It's tricky to piece together exactly how this is going to play out, but having read a few different pieces... . ..seems that Simon goes looking for Trevor - as one of the very few (sorta-) approachable people who's been involved with superheroics, but is also an actor. And while Trevor's a cantankerous, manipulative, needy old bugger, he does come to realise exactly how much Simon wants this and is going pretty much Method to get it. So he swings in behind him. Though whether Trevor's help will prove useful, backfire horrifically/hilariously, or both, remains to be seen...

D’Angelo - Cruisin’

Peter Gabriel ft Brian May & Phil Collins - Sledgehammer

SHEL - Enter Sandman

Update. Now, there’s been some talking around on these boards before as to whether box office may or may not be the best indicator of how good a movie is. But. If current numbers are anything to go by, Ares will open with around $38m over the four-day holiday weekend. Which is about $5m behind Tron:Legacy from 2010, and $1m behind… Morbius. …ouch? Without a serious pickup over the next few weeks, this will leave Legacy as the only one of the three to hit that magic 3x breakeven point on release. (The 1982 one ran it very close, but the Mouse made much more than the movie on merch.) By contrast, the album is mostly favourably reviewed and hitting the top end of charts all over the shop. I don’t think it’ll become as iconic as the Daft Punk one, but it’s not quite as warm/cuddly/chillout spa zone friendly as that…

Paul McCartney - We All Stand Together

grandson - Autonomous Delivery Robot

The old place has had some upgrades - and thanks to @Dacy for the help with spinning some new angles... (Hint: on Mac, place a piece, then select it and drag while holding Command and Shift). ...resulting in a new, massively expanded flight deck. (And hangar / motorpool / basketball court underneath - still working on what's needed to better represent the aircraft elevator.)

Living Colour x Run DMC - Me, Myself and My Microphone

…and she does have a comic book.

The Hu - Teach Me

Kim Petras x Elvira, Mistress Of The Dark - Turn Off The Light

Matthew Sweet - Dark Secret