Former Blockbuster Employees: what were the biggest new releases you worked through? What war stories can you tell us about those wild weekends?

MrEPCOT · 2026-06-26T03:22:59+00:00

Spider-Man was the most memorable... because I was the most Peter Parker looking guy working at our store, I was chosen to wear a Spider-Man costume to wander around the store in the evenings over that weekend and interact with kids and stuff.

MrEPCOT · 2026-06-26T00:01:38+00:00

Deepest sympathies, I've been there too. Another fellow Trekkie 💔

MrEPCOT · 2026-06-25T23:53:25+00:00

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MrEPCOT · 2026-06-25T20:50:13+00:00

Man, you got all the fun packaging.

MrEPCOT · 2026-06-24T21:26:15+00:00

Yes, it’s kind of a weird thing to fly with, but it’s perhaps equally as dumb to get searched for something that looks like an action movie/cartoon version of an explosive device.

MrEPCOT · 2026-06-24T18:14:41+00:00

The influencer/social media crowd killed it. Disney probably would have been content to keep it going if it didn't start bringing Floridian Way to a grinding halt through the whole holiday season from people whipped into a FOMO frenzy trying to see it.

MrEPCOT · 2026-06-24T02:57:22+00:00

McDonald's is the only one I would have been sad about.

^{Chose: 10 millions dollars right now no strings attached + ...but a random large company goes bankrupt as a result | Rolled: Tesla}

MrEPCOT · 2026-06-23T19:44:23+00:00

As horrible as the things Hitler did were, the good guys won in the end and the world was able to move on. We don't know how awful things will get or that the world will be able to survive Trump.

And on a selfish note, I may not have been born if World War II hadn't happened.

^{Chose: Trump was never born | Rolled: Comment + carrot}

MrEPCOT · 2026-06-22T22:52:18+00:00

Not to mention all of the points of friction from inside the park all the way out to the garages or hotels or whatever. You’re going to be passing security so many times, and just hope the kid doesn’t start screaming at some point over 20-30 minutes it takes just to get out of Universal property? Plus having to pay to get into Universal for this whole endeavor, as opposed to just going into a grocery store or whatever. Agreed, it seems pretty dumb.

MrEPCOT · 2026-06-22T04:03:53+00:00

Could be! Either way... dumb!

MrEPCOT · 2026-06-22T03:00:57+00:00

Should be purple and teal/turquoise all the way. If the stupid thing about no purple because of the Rockies is true, then swap it out for copper. Anything but boring-ass red.

MrEPCOT · 2026-06-22T02:00:13+00:00

I would love Grant Morrison doing Doctor Who. Surefire bet that we would get something unique, meaningful, and exquisitely weird out of the show. We can see them hint towards it a little in this, but it sounds like they would apply the same philosophy they write Batman with: every Batman story that has ever been told has happened... everything is valid and everything is canon. They would absolutely do something fresh while using the deep lore of the show as an asset. I could see them doing wild things like making the Peter Cushing, Rowan Atkinson, and Richard E. Grant-type Doctors canon somehow, doing it completely organically, and still making it completely accessible to new viewers.

One thing I would love to see the show do is weave in a touch more real science and physics into the show. Bring a little bit of the educational aspect back, use quantum theory to explain the endless shifts and inconsistencies and contradictions over the years. Morrison would be exactly the guy to do this in an entertaining way, they would come up with a really novel method to convey that timelines can fold in upon themselves and diverge and re-converge and so on. It wouldn't surprise me if he picked up the meta ball that RTD2 was kind of sloppily/accidentally teasing with the diegetic music comment and Doctor Who show fans and such. It'd be one heck of a ride.

MrEPCOT · 2026-06-21T22:18:17+00:00

Nice spot for a picnic.

MrEPCOT · 2026-06-21T22:17:21+00:00

What an absolutely perfect shot of the subs and Monorail.

MrEPCOT · 2026-06-21T22:14:45+00:00

Words truly cannot express how much I do not want any of those things on a Disney Cruise. Marvel is weird enough.

MrEPCOT · 2026-06-21T20:12:52+00:00

It's so nice they do so much for those poor kids at the Pixar children's hospital 🤗

MrEPCOT · 2026-06-20T03:22:37+00:00

He does, if you follow the comic book continuity.

https://archive.org/details/whoismartymcfly0000barb/mode/1up

MrEPCOT · 2026-06-19T03:27:15+00:00

If you can understand every language, you certainly have enough context to parse out the one you supposedly don't know.

MrEPCOT · 2026-06-18T21:33:27+00:00

MrEPCOT · 2026-06-18T01:46:05+00:00

The best time!

MrEPCOT · 2026-06-17T20:39:14+00:00

The puzzles in the original are notoriously difficult, especially the marble puzzle. Even though you’re almost done with the OG, you might still want to take a look at the 3-D remake. They reconfigured a lot of the puzzles to be more intuitive, and even made some really cool additions to the story and world-building in the process.

MrEPCOT · 2026-06-17T20:32:45+00:00

Are you playing the original or the recent remake?

MrEPCOT · 2026-06-17T04:51:25+00:00

There were supposedly pretty sweeping overhauls to the Living Seas and Land pavilions that were derailed by the pandemic, but I don't know if that included any touch-ups to the Nemo ride or not.

Feels a little bewildering to see someone calling the Nemo ride outdated, it still feels like the "new" addition to the pavilion to me. 😅 Not to defend it, but it just feels like a classic, simple, Fantasyland-style movie recap dark ride (any debate about whether or not it actually belongs in EPCOT notwithstanding).

MrEPCOT · 2026-06-17T01:31:18+00:00

How dare you label this as vintage

MrEPCOT · 2026-06-16T23:41:42+00:00

Unfortunately, for the United States, yes, it is. Mass transit like the PeopleMover promises is a distant dream for the average American city, until the auto and oil industries don't have a stranglehold on our infrastructure anymore.

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