James Whitbrook's discussions

It's Lightning meets Ezio meets fetish gear meets giant shield arm meets... Adam Jensen's glasses? Read more

Yup, you can have a Gif avatar. I think it's been ever since Kinja? Maybe earlier. Read more

Ah, see I've only ever seen TOS (as in the show), not any of the TOS-crew movies, so I only remember him as a Nav officer - this is probably where you tell me my mind is playing tricks on me and at some point in the original series he swaps shirts, but I just remember him as a Nav officer in yellow! Read more

Waaaaaaaait. Why is Chekov wearing Red and not his Gold tunic? Oh noes, Please don't become the token Redshirt, Pavel! Read more

Remove '/gallery/1' from the URL, that should make them appear as a list! Formatting is a little wonky that way, but it works. Read more

Yeah, it's understandable why they have to do that, to keep the Trademark for the other stuff, but it does not help them look less like the bad guys - they've definitely had a bit of a reputation hit recently thanks to their price hiking and the ho-hum response to their Finecast models, so this doesn't help. Read more

I'm not surprised at Games Workshop, to be honest. The Space Marines are their biggest sellers (according to a friend who has worked for them for yonks, selling Space Marine related material, models, books, game deals, etc., makes up for over 50% of Games Workshops profits these days, which is kind of insane given how… Read more

I saw it Thursday - did you even read my comment? - and I think the core tone of the book is still there. Yes, you'd be foolish to ignore the overriding desire to link this series of films to LOTR that's there (of course, it would've been just as foolish for them to have ignored capitalising on that connection,… Read more

Ooops. Silly me, had a bit of a brain fart there. Thanks for pointing that out! Read more

I agree that the first hour is definitely the slowest bit of the movie - it runs at quite a lick once they're out of the Shire though! - but... hell, I liked all of it. I didn't really care that it was dragging its heels a bit, because I was still in that honeymoon period of being all delighted to see this universe… Read more

I'm surprised it's doing so poorly critically, but I think you've hit the nail on the head, Annalee - it seems a lot of people have gone in expecting 'Lord of the Rings 2: The Ringening' (Or maybe 'This time it's Ringier'? Alas, I divulge!) and when the grim seriousness and epic scale of it all isn't there, they're… Read more

The Denys Fisher Robot is so cute! I love how retro it is. The Character Options one really does the design justice though. It's a goddamn shame we didn't see more Classic Build-a-Figures... or another wave of classics full stop, actually.

Growing up, Gundam Wing on Toonami was pretty much my go to place for giant mecha that weren't the Zords from Power Rangers, so I have a soft spot in my heart for Trowa's Gundam, Gundam Heavyarms. First: Heavyarms is a ridiculously cool name for your giant robot. Second: His lower left arm is a goddamn bigass minigun.…

I have the build-a-figure toy version of this from the first wave of Classic-era Who figures... it looks gorgeous as a toy, but even as a huge admirer of Robot as a story you can't help but chortle a bit at the CSO for it! Read more

Yeah, I get what you mean. It seems people are very insistent on ignoring Peter Jackson when he says 'all of this extra stuff is actually stuff Tolkien went back and wrote about the background and time period of The Hobbit, during the Return of the King Appendices!', and just instead go 'omg milking! Padding out!' -… Read more

Oh no, it's not used in that moment - but it would've made way more sense in some of the Necromancer subplot stuff in this film, so I can see why you'd think that!

I saw it today (3D only, not HFR) so whilst I can't comment on that aspect of its 'video-gamey-ness', I really enjoyed it. Read more

Yup, I like the character building stuff, but the pieces definitely feel cheaper than Lego bricks. The plastic is different and doesn't feel as 'solid' as Lego bricks do - like, for example, you don't feel like you could snap a standard lego brick in half without great pressure, whereas CB bricks certainly feel like… Read more

This is the closest you'll get - from the company who make the Doctor Who action figures, Character Options. It's from their faux-Lego line, called Character Building.

Follow the hyperlink. The BBC released a teaser picture of part of it today. Read more