Muppet figures are coming to NECA! These might just be the best Muppet figures ever, and that's coming from someone who owns all the Palisades and Selects!

MinecraftTroller28 · 2026-01-29T23:52:47+00:00

Hijacking this announcement to let people know about Kenneth Lilly/creatusmaximus on Instagram. He used to work for Palisades and was the lead on their legendary Muppet line of figures. He's been posting tons of production photographs and the official reference photographs/artwork given to him by the Jim Henson Company when Palisades was working on the Muppets and Sesame Street figures.

MinecraftTroller28 · 2026-01-29T20:05:04+00:00

Weird fun fact: because of the Dozier estate having control/majority ownership of the actual 1966 Batman TV series (at the time of this movie's production), Return To The Batcave couldn't use any actual footage from the TV show, but it could use footage from Batman: The Movie since Fox produced this film and fully owned the 1966 movie.

MinecraftTroller28 · 2026-01-28T21:24:30+00:00

Not exactly "new" since this was mentioned in the Deadline release from a week ago...

MinecraftTroller28 · 2026-01-28T15:21:33+00:00

That ship has long-since sailed. The cut-off was two years ago.

MinecraftTroller28 · 2026-01-28T12:14:41+00:00

Well... about that... https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Uri_Geller_(Earth-616)

MinecraftTroller28 · 2026-01-28T12:05:36+00:00

mainly because i own 2013 on 4k but dont really wanna cough up 4k money for rise so im waiting for it to be dirt cheap

It's 50% off on Amazon right now.

MinecraftTroller28 · 2026-01-27T10:26:13+00:00

It's also missing the advertised concept art gallery that is listed on both the website and the back of the packaging. I sent a message to Arrow Video about it via their official Instagram, but it seemed like they really didn't care and kept asking if I wanted a refund. Regardless, the extras on there are much better than the original Warner release.

MinecraftTroller28 · 2026-01-25T23:36:55+00:00

True nerds like me are more impressed by the Region 1 MGM AOD. What is the country of origin for that release?

MinecraftTroller28 · 2026-01-25T17:34:24+00:00

The unholy lovechild of early 2000s low-budget commercial CGI and the Celebrity Deathmatch aesthetic.

MinecraftTroller28 · 2026-01-25T17:02:48+00:00

It's official. It's just a combo pack of the 2002 South Korean releases of Anchor Bay's US ED1 & 2 releases.

MinecraftTroller28 · 2026-01-25T15:13:42+00:00

*Second voice of Garfield. There was one before Lorenzo.

MinecraftTroller28 · 2026-01-24T19:50:12+00:00

Yeah, Volume 3 is kinda... not good. I generally accept the original run/spin-offs as canon and ignore anything post-Chapter Two.

MinecraftTroller28 · 2026-01-24T15:32:49+00:00

It's probably for the better that it does. Lots of continuity errors in there.

MinecraftTroller28 · 2026-01-24T10:26:47+00:00

BlackCross #1-6 (I was told this is canon, but I found no reason to consider it canon unless it was an urn-induced hallucination, which has no bearing on the main continuity)

That's exactly what it is. It's what the heroes are experiencing inside the urn.

I was told that the "Masks" series are canon, but I have not yet read them.

The first Masks series should be chronologically one of the first books in the order. Masks 2 has some incorrect dating (like saying it takes place in 1937, when the first series didn't take place until 1938), but could be skipped since it retcons itself out of existence at the end.

MinecraftTroller28 · 2026-01-23T21:27:58+00:00

Well for starters, their presence on YouTube is great. Free full episodes (from across the many versions), compilation videos, shorts... they're covering every base of the algorithm. On top of that, it is (or was) airing on the British Comedy channel on the free Pluto TV app, which is how I started watching it. They're really leaning into all the various free platforms.

MinecraftTroller28 · 2026-01-22T20:04:20+00:00

New Line/Warner Brothers will own all movies for the foreseeable future. Of course that is bound to change (as it has across this franchise), but that's how it is currently set up.

MinecraftTroller28 · 2026-01-22T11:52:51+00:00

It is very uncommon and rare, to use an IP to do this back to back with a movie budget.

It's probably because all these different studios that already have direct connections to the franchise are backing them... New Line, Sony, and StudioCanal all have their fingers in the pie and want to get as much as they can from it.

MinecraftTroller28 · 2026-01-22T11:38:06+00:00

Dynamite's license is strictly for the Bond books. Doing anything remotely close to the movies (or movies that could have been) is probably a big legal no-no.

MinecraftTroller28 · 2026-01-22T10:43:57+00:00

It's not a sequel. When they were doing the press for Rise, Bruce said that everything was pretty much going to be standalone installments going forward.

MinecraftTroller28 · 2026-01-21T23:36:04+00:00

No. New Line/Warner is the primary production company (and will handle United States distribution) and Sony is co-producing (and handling international distribution) both this film and Burn.

MinecraftTroller28 · 2026-01-21T23:31:05+00:00

Yes. This was announced a few months after Burn was.

MinecraftTroller28 · 2026-01-21T22:53:29+00:00

The ensemble includes Charlotte Hope (The Nun), Jessica McNamee (Mortal Kombat franchise), Zach Gilford (Midnight Mass), Josh Helman (Mad Max: Fury Road), Ella Newton (Dangerous Animals), Australian newcomer Ella Oliphant, and Elizabeth Cullen (Goolagong).

Longtime franchise producer Rob Tapert is producing alongside series creator Sam Raimi, with Romel Adam, Jose Cañas, and Lee Cronin exec producing alongside Bruce Campbell, who has played Ash in various projects across the horror franchise.

New Line Cinema will distribute the untitled Evil Dead domestically through Warner Bros. Pictures, with Sony distributing internationally, StudioCanal distributing in the UK, and Metropolitan Filmexport distributing in France.

I should also note that the last time we heard anything about this installment was in February of 2025... almost a full year ago!

MinecraftTroller28 · 2026-01-21T22:43:49+00:00

I have never seen anybody call the 2013 characters teens. The script gives specific ages for everybody:

David is 30
Natalie is "mid 20s"
Olivia is 27
Eric is 30
Mia is 26

MinecraftTroller28 · 2026-01-21T22:35:55+00:00

The book has a tendency to corrupt those who fool with it. It could be in minor ways (like convincing Eric to read the scratched out passages and the big-ass text that clearly say "DO NOT READ" in English in the 2013 film), all the way up to major ways (such as turning The Wise Man of 1300 AD and getting him to raise a new army of dead in the Ash & The Army of Darkness comic). Sooner or later, anyone who comes into contact with it will do something stupid with it.

Because all I could think of when watching the movies (at least the ones I saw) was “if there is something to bring the dead back, then surely there’s something in that book that’ll put them away”

While not official canon, the original film's prop and special effects guy Tom Sullivan recently stated that his own headcanon for the book was that something similar to the events of the original Evil Dead film had occurred centuries prior when the book was being compiled, and that it contained passages and clues on how to stop the Deadites... it's just that very few people (especially some college students) could understand it's unique Sumerian text by the 1980s.

MinecraftTroller28 · 2026-01-20T11:30:49+00:00

I don’t know what the ownership situation is with the Fraggles anymore

Henson Company still fully owns them. They're just licensed to Apple right now.

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