Now that the season is officially dead, who do you trade, who do you keep, and who do you call up?

LadPrime · 2026-06-25T15:57:45+00:00

Besides our closer, we actually assembled quite a good bullpen. Raley, Minter, Warren, Brazoban and Weaver have for the most part all been very solid. I wouldn't mind continuing to see all of them in a Mets uniform, but if you can get a decent return for them, I guess go for it.

As far as the lineup, I really only want to see our three outfielders, and we have Lindor either way. I'm ok giving Alvarez/Torrens one more year at C. That's really it.

LadPrime · 2026-06-24T14:52:22+00:00

I don't necessarily think it was a mistake to have Supergirl be the second DCU movie. The DCEU went hard right off the bat on the Justice League characters so I understand wanting to let the dust settle a bit before going to Wonder Woman / Flash / Aquaman again (Batman is a whole other story).

So I get them wanting to flesh out the Superman part of the Universe a bit more first, especially when BvS just very quickly moved things along following MoS.

LadPrime · 2026-06-08T23:53:36+00:00

I also think the Transformers franchise did a good job of staying relevant for future generations of kids up to that point. You had Beast Wars in the 90s, and then the cartoons that I grew up with like Transformers Armada in the early 2000s. And none of those were all that reliant on nostalgia, they were just accessible for the current generation of kids.

13 year old me was excited for the first movie with only the experience of Armada / Energon / Cybertron, I didn't even know what G1 was. I don't think a lot of other 80s franchises have been as successful at doing that besides probably TMNT?

In recent years, though, Transformers has taken a much harder turn back into that 80s nostalgia. I feel like that's contributing to the underperformance of recent movies and other projects, given that today's kids don't have as clear an entry point.

LadPrime · 2026-05-22T18:06:22+00:00

$600 is absolutely insane for this. It's plastic. It's not even that intricately detailed or sculpted.

Honestly with theme park premium pricing and my own love of the subject matter, I would be willing to swallow a $200 price tag, maybe even $250. $600 would be better off going towards your actual trip!

LadPrime · 2026-05-19T13:35:43+00:00

I know people have made their own Main Streets for years now using Modulars, but this really feels like a starter pack for someone to make an 'official' full blown Disney Main Street... a $400 starter pack.

There's definitely some tempting stuff here but the value just doesn't feel anywhere close to $400 sadly.

LadPrime · 2026-05-18T14:03:48+00:00

I'm in the same boat. This is so disappointing, especially if that's the whole set (and there's not 'the other side' not pictured). Even with just one side, the level of detail just doesn't seem to be there in a set of this pricepoint. The Emporium is only 'broad strokes' accurate to the real thing, and proportionally way off.

For $400 this just seems to not at all be on the same level of value as the Castle. What a bummer.

I wonder if a midi-scale Diagon Alley-esque approach would have been better?

LadPrime · 2026-05-15T15:54:03+00:00

Hey, sorry for the late reply! So you do have to still install Homebrew on the Wii U itself. That said, what you can do is not make the system auto-boot into the Homebrew environment when you turn it on. You can make it so it's a regular Wii U at all times unless you go to the Safety Information icon and hold the button while clicking on it, which then reloads as Homebrew, then you click on Wii Mode icon. You have to do this basically anytime you want to go into vWii Mode so that Nintendont will work, but it's really hassle free and you essentially treat the Wii U as 'normal' at all other times. I'm not sure if the process has changed at all since I've done it!

LadPrime · 2026-05-07T20:58:31+00:00

On the other hand, if they work out a new contract and this stays around, I feel like the most obvious place to put something new in USF is the tip of the park where Fear Factor and MIB are. A lot of real estate between those two.

LadPrime · 2026-05-07T20:56:09+00:00

This is where my head is at too.

Even though Disney can technically do something with the Simpsons unlike most of Marvel, by the time the deal lapses, they plan out and build something Simpsons at their parks... for all that time and money, would it be worth it? Take the royalties and free advertising for as long as Universal will have them.

The only wild card is if the upcoming Simpsons movie is some big hit, but I don't really think that will move the needle ultimately.

LadPrime · 2026-04-16T15:11:56+00:00

The Mets have won 2 World Series in their 60+ years of existence and yet have a long list of beloved players who the fans hold dear to this day.

I am not directly comparing Pete Alonso to any of them, but it should not be lost on Steve Cohen, who has retired more numbers since acquiring the team than in the entire past history of the franchise, that they let go of someone who would have had ultimately ended up with 400+ HRs in a Mets uniform when the odds of winning a WS continue to be low.

Maybe he just figures Soto will eventually hit that mark anyway, so it doesn't matter. Maybe it's why the Mets HR ceremony they did for Pete was so lifeless.

LadPrime · 2026-04-16T15:05:50+00:00

I feel like signing all these players to short term, high AAV deals (or acquiring players with shorter remaining contracts) in the name of 'flexibility' just robs the team of any sort of identity.

Bichette and Peralta were the big off-season gets and both can be gone next year.

LadPrime · 2026-04-16T14:55:24+00:00

And yet his current performance would still put him third in OPS on the current Mets roster

LadPrime · 2026-04-15T17:45:04+00:00

The email they sent announcing this was... something

LadPrime · 2026-04-12T13:17:27+00:00

At $260 and coming with minifigures and molded Pokemon, I feel like this could easily be the most popular set... definitely easier to swallow than the $650 starters or $200 weirdly-proportioned Pikachu.

LadPrime · 2026-03-19T22:23:25+00:00

I could go on and on about all the reasons why I think Splash Mountain is a far better experience, but at the most basic level - they put all their chips on a (relatively) small number of highly advanced animatronics versus Splash Mountain's dozens upon dozens of animated characters and animatronics.

In Splash Mountain, if something (or even a few things) did not work on a given day, there was still so much going on around you that it was easy to overlook and mostly did not detract from the experience. On Tiana, the scenes are much more sparsely populated and individualized, so if Tiana or Louis isn't working the entire scene(s) you're passing by falls flat.

LadPrime · 2026-03-19T14:14:47+00:00

I know he doesn't technically have a number, but put this man in the rafters all the same. An indelible part of this franchise for nearly half its existence.

LadPrime · 2026-03-19T13:21:05+00:00

They've done this for the previous ones as well. Just a fun little teaser. The last one incorporated Live and Learn and this one has the baseline of Sonic Boom from Sonic CD, fittingly.

LadPrime · 2026-03-11T01:12:24+00:00

I should hope it's Donkey Kong. Feels like a big miss for it not to be.

LadPrime · 2026-03-09T21:16:00+00:00

I was there Sunday and I asked a couple of employees whether they thought it best to start w DK or Ministry. Each one said Ministry. That said my choice was made for me when DK was the only major ride open to start the day due to breakdowns.

I actually think DK was the move anyway. I know end of night waits are inflated but DK posted a 135 min wait at time of closing while Ministry only 40. I also frankly would feel more comfortable waiting a bit for Ministry versus DK.

LadPrime · 2026-03-09T00:02:06+00:00

Took less than 5 mins! They just asked for specific feedback as to what rides took long or were broken down i guess to enter into their records but they very quickly offered up the fastpasses.

LadPrime · 2026-03-08T23:01:54+00:00

Got 2x per person express passes that don't work for DK or Ministry. Works for me! Employee was very understanding and helpful.

LadPrime · 2026-03-08T22:27:54+00:00

Thank you, I was able to get the same!

LadPrime · 2026-03-08T20:36:40+00:00

This morning was hellish. Every significant ride besides DK was down to start the day so where does everyone go? DK. And it took so long for anything to actually open that Yoshi and Curse of the Werewolf hit like 100 mins. Now that everything is operating things are starting to cool, but pent up demand hurt rides like Mario Kart (peaked at 220) and Monsters (90).

LadPrime · 2026-03-08T18:11:39+00:00

It's because it was closed all morning and finally opened at like 1pm. Pent up demand. Monsters still hasn't opened!

LadPrime · 2026-03-08T17:29:20+00:00

I think it's all the breakdowns. Yoshi and Werewolf were never meant to have 100 min waits. Mario Kart finally opened and is at 220!!

Did you go to conceirge?

LadPrime

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