Incredibles 2 in 2018

It looks like we're going to see first the superhero Mr. Incredible and his family before we see the new adventures of Woody and the gang. Last Wednesday, Pixar announced that sequel for The Incredibles will hit the theaters on June 15, 2018, a year earlier before its original planned date while Toy Story 4 will move from 2018 to June 21, 2019.

According to a Disney insider, the two films are swapping dates due to an accelerated production schedule for Incredibles 2. Brad Bird is still the man in charge for Incredibles 2, his 2004 movie grossed $633 million globally, including $70.4 million domestically, the second-biggest opening at the time for an animated film and won an Oscar for Best Animated Feature. As for Toy Story 4, Tom Hanks and Tim Allen will return. Unfortunately we still don't know if Andy is still part of the movie.

Apparently, Pixar has been putting a lot more time to produce sequels to their successful movies like Finding Nemo, Cars and Monster Inc. Despite the time it took to produce a sequel rest assured that these movies are worth the wait, after all Pixar movies are all part of our childhood

Return of the 90's X-men the Funko style

Now that the mutants are back on track with the upcoming "ResurrXion" in the comics and the last Wolverine movie, "Logan", X-men fans have another thing to look forward. As announced from the collector corps blog, Funko will bring back our childhood memories as they launch this coming November an extensive line of 90's X-men. This line includes mutants in variety of forms including Pop!, Dorbz, and Mystery Minis.

First with the fan favorite Funko Pop, Fellow mutants Cable, Archangel, Quicksilver in his classic blue suit, Psylocke, Sabretooth and Storm in her Mohawk style. They will also launch a Magneto Pop! keychain to add badassery in your keys.

Second in line are the adorable Dorbz, these Dorbz figures are approximately 3-inches tall andcome packaged in a window display box. Joining their ranks are Storm, Psylocke, Sabretooth, Cyclops, Dark Phoenix, Emma Frost which has a diamond chase variant ( 1 in 6 rarity) and Cable which is a Walmart exclusive.



Last one is the Mystery Minis which includes Wolverines and ten other X-men characters.



All products above will be available this coming November so be sure to check out your favorite Funko retailers.

Bonus. Check out this cute Beast riding the Blackbird Jet coming this December!

Free Ash - Greninja

The next chapter of your Pokemon adventure starts today if you check out your Nintendo eShop. Starting October 18, you can now download the Pokemon Sun and Moon special demo version which gives you a head start to see what are the new features and changes in the newest Pokemon game.

You will also see Ash-Greninja, the Pokemon that brought Ash to finals in the Kalos League in the hit animated series Pokemon the series: XY. This certain Greninja have the Bond Phenomenon that triggers to change its form to Ash- Greninja and increase its power. Watching his battles is like watching Naruto because of their similar techniques especially his signature move - Giant Water Shuriken. 

Apparently, Ash- Greninja will appear as a member of your team and you can bring him to your full version Pokemon Sun or Pokemon Moon after you complete your adventure in the demo version.

Pokemon Sun and Pokemon Moon released date is on November 18, 2016. 

Beyond the space - Star Trek Beyond movie review

The USS Enterprise star fleet are back for its thirteenth film for the Star Trek movie franchise. They continue their journey to space, to explore unknown civilization and to boldly go where no man has gone before. Lead cast Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto reprise their roles as Captain Kirk and Spock, along with Simon Pegg, Karl Urban, Zoe Saldana, John Cho, who played Sulu that turns out to be gay in the new film and the final appearance of Anton Yelchin, who died in a tragic car accident last month before the release of the movie.

Opening sequence is almost the same with the prior film but nonetheless the scene still gave the audience a fun start. Plot wise, I noticed that there's a "revenge" element in the three films wherein the villain is a former enemy/ally of the enterprise and will require a device to fulfill his vengeance. Also Kirk or Spock will go to a near death experience whenever they face the villain of the story. It's a cycle but as a fan you will still enjoy movies like these.   Cracking of jokes are also quite noticeable in the movie especially Bones and Spock. Knowing that Spock is a half Vulcan, which is understandable that he has a robot-like thinking and very logical most of the times, their punchlines sure gave most of us laughs.

If you're into arts and graphics, you will enjoy the visual effects they used to make the scenery which looks real and superb. Camera angles are shot in the right position and most importantly, you will enjoy watching it in IMAX.

Star trek Philippines after the screening at Imax SM Megamall

Overall the movie is great. The cast and visuals made the third movie of JJ Abramverse on par with the Star Wars: The force awakens. 9/10 for me.

Watch it watch it! Special thanks to United International Pictures and Geekcraft for the invite.

All new and All different Toycon!

Toycon is considered as a con to watched out for all toy hunters in the Philippines. Whether you collect Marvel and DC action figures, Gunpla, Hotwheels, Dolls, Figuarts, Die Casts, Statues and other stuff, this is the real deal. This is the place where you can find the toy that you wanted when you were a kid or the missing piece in your collection.

However, with the sudden announcement
of the ticket price, some people don't seem to like the idea of change. The increase of the ticket price was unreasonable at first but for me, it's damn worth it tho I'm hesitant to go in the first place.

I've been attending toycon for a few years and I can say that there are numerous problems. First, is the place. It's like you're in an air conditioned Divi but with less wild people. Lot of people roaming around, taking pictures, and looking for the toys. If you're a cosplayer and wearing heavy armor, props in all your body, sweat all over because of the heat but you have to act in character and roam around, I can say that you're really have the passion and love on what you were doing. That is why i salute all the cosplayers who gave an extra excitement and a plus factor in the event. Let' us be frank here, people love to take  selfies with them, especially with a hottie cosplayer, right??? Ooopppss!! :) Cheers to all the cosplayers for surviving the event!! Second is the Food area. you can't properly eat with the amount of people and extreme heat ( For me coz I sweat a lot). But if you are hungry as hell, i don't think that it will matter. 

Nevertheless, this year's Toycon is a game changer. It happened last June 10-12 at SMX convention center. A larger location that can cater more congoers. The gigantic Voltes V is this year's main attraction with the 22 ft iconic robot. Lot of people took  with it, who wouldn't  if you see that gigantic robot right? Of course i'm one of that people. Anyways, they also have a Stan Lee area where you can see stuff with his signatures, like a lot of signatures. a lot of guest like Hodor from Game of Thrones, Mario Maurer, Dean Cain, Pat Lee and many more.

Things that i enjoyed were the tons of booths where you can find great stuff tho I wasn't able to find the Pizza Spidey :( the display area from different toy groups, like I can stare at the display cabs for a long period of time. Gigantic Funkos and NBA players statues that were also selfie catching for the people. Lots of stuff I can't even put it all here hahaha.



The last flaw that we just noticed was the.....space management. Yeah it's spacious especially on the right side, likke more people on the selling area that leads to less people going to the artist alley. I also didn't see the point of putting colorful stuff at the center and the lighting was bad.

Weighing the good and bad, I can say Toycon 2016 is still good. The excitement and thrill of toy hunting is still there. Meeting fellow collectors and gaining new friends would be the real highlight of Toycon 2016. It's a great start to level up the pop culture convention knowing that Asia Pop Comicon will be back this August.

Hauls!

Superhero movies and evolution of viewers

2016 is a great year for all the geeks as we saw the debut of DC's trinity at Batman v Superman, first solo film of Deadpool, the most anticipated civil war and recently X- men Apocalypse. In this digital age, movie viewers tend to rely on reviews which can also affect the performance in sales of the movie. Good example is The Amazing Spider-man 2, for me it's a good movie but some douchebags posted spoilers in the social media which results in disappointment for moviegoers which leads to poor sales and cancellation of the franchise. The movie might have flaws but the consistency and story is right there but unfortunately we won't be able to see what will happen next since Spider-man's rights are back to Marvel Studios/ Disney.

BvS also suffered that same fate tho if you think about the movie plot wise, kinda shallow (Martha!) But I enjoyed the movie. Civil War is also criticized by netizens saying it doesn't follow the comics (meh! You just googled it don't call yourself a Marvel Geek).

To conclude this nonsense article just enjoy the movie. Don't say negative comments even though you haven't seen the movie yet. If you're a Marvel fan that's good, if you're more of DC that's also good. After all it's a win win situation because we're able to see our favorite characters in the big screen.


PS
Don't spoil the movie to anyone. Don't be that shit :)

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X-Men: Apocalyspe [Spoiler Review]

Last May 21, I attended the 4th Superfan Screening of Filbars. Screening is quite different if you compare it to the previous screening. I would like to share some insight but I won't elaborate the whole movie. Moving forward to the main topic, the movie starts with a flashback wherein we see ancient civilization ruled by En Sabah Nur a.k.a. Apocalypse. It's quite notable that his 4 horsemen are amusing tho they don't have much screen time. I'm not a solid X-men but his power in the movie is a bit different from the comics as he need to transfer his consciousness to other body to gain the power.

They also reintroduced Jean Grey, Kurt Wagner, Warren, Ororo, Jubilee and Scott Summers in the movie which I think they did a great job portraying their character except for Angel and Jubilee. One problem that I saw in the X-men franchise is that they tend to use a character they won't fully utilize them. I feel bad for them but somehow the managed to entertain us with Quicksilver saving the mutants from explosion ( insert music "Sweet dreams are made of these blah blah blah"). Wolverine also shows for a brief period as he was released from the Weapon X program by Jean Grey. As a Wolverine fan, I saw the rage, the fury of the Wolverine that we should have seen eons ago. He also wore the iconic weapon x suit or should I say the helmet and the wires over his body.

Some says there were only few action scenes but for me it's enough. I saw what I want to seeas the X-men fought Apocalypse with teamwork. Sophie Turner nails it I can't even wait to see her again and the Phoenix Force. One thing that I don't like in the new movie is Mystique. They literally use J-Law's popularity but I don't think Mystique is an essential character but they made her become something important in the franchise.

I don't want to spoil everyone so go out and check the movie.

8/10.

PS

There's a credit scene (ESSEX)

To become something else

“Akala mo magaling ka, yun pala marunong ka lang” I remember this post as I browse my facebook news feed. This might be the first time that I will post something way out of geek stuff coz I just want to express what’s on my mind. I’m in the process of coping up with my new job and I could say that my performance is quite not good. My previous work doesn’t require any mental activity wherein you are being push into your limits. In short “hayahay ang buhay” and it’s not related from the course that I took at college. For almost 2 years my mind was put on suspended animation. Then right now in my new job where I work for (Name of an Avenger who died by catching bullets to save Hawkeye and that freaking child), things are not good for me.

 Due to the years working under BPO, I find it hard to catch up with the retail industry. Feels like I’m back to noobie level where I can’t even explain what is marketing and the current trends. All those creative ideas, stratagems and even business ethics are now gone. Even my superiority complex fades away because I know I don’t have any idea what’s happening. I sounded like a douchebag na nga due to my lack of my communication skills. This is the time where I felt yung “Walang madaling trabaho” feeling. So what are my options? Give up or fight? These are the moments in our lives that we can learn a lot from experience. I think of it the other way around like it’s some sort of challenge. My friend (Andi) once told me “How do I eat an Elephant?” I didn’t get it of course but then she added, “Divide and conquer”. No need to rush things and timing is also important. It’s okay to fail but don’t make the same mistake twice but if you failed again eh di wow! Kidding aside, those are fine as long as there is learning and use it in order to develop yourself. To save yourself you need to be someone else, you need to be something else ( Naks! Green Arrow!)

It's a sign! Reinvent!