These pics do make the proportions look a little off, mostly just slightly too-long legs, but I'm still very much looking forward to it.
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I haven't seen it, either, but I'd love to have this, just as a Transformers pizza delivery van.
It's definitely worth a watch. I'm no fan of the horror genre, but as a series it is an absolute genuine love letter to the 1980s.
Yeah, I've gleaned that much from people talking (and nitpicking) everything from the NES to New Coke being in there.
...man, I really wish I could have gotten that New Coke, too. But I just couldn't afford it. It's my favorite drink, but if I ever had New Coke, it was fleeting and I was too young to remember. =(
Anyway, it's on my "if I get enough other stuff out of the way and have time for it" list. Right up there with the bulk of Star Trek and Doctor Who.
New Coke basically tasted like Pepsi. I remember it, and I remember them getting lambasted at the time for making it taste like Pepsi.
Also, Stranger things is definitely worth a watch. Heck, you can binge everything but the final season right now on Netflix. It's a lot easier to get through this series than any of the longer Star Trek or Doctor Who series, although I would still recommend both of those franchises as well.
It took me forever to get into Stranger Things not because I didn't like the idea but because it looked like so exactly absolutely my jam that I was kinda hesitant feeling like I should wait till I had the right time to appreciate it.
When Season 3 was about to drop some good friends of ours decided to have a premier party and we basically had to binge Seasons 1 and 2 in a week to be up to date for the party.
It was really really good and we enjoyed it and Season 3 a lot.
-ZacWilliam, Haven't actually watched Season 4 yet though because even though we really liked the first three my wife is not a fan of scary shows in general and we keep putting it off. We need someone to throw another party...
When Season 3 was about to drop some good friends of ours decided to have a premier party and we basically had to binge Seasons 1 and 2 in a week to be up to date for the party.
It was really really good and we enjoyed it and Season 3 a lot.
-ZacWilliam, Haven't actually watched Season 4 yet though because even though we really liked the first three my wife is not a fan of scary shows in general and we keep putting it off. We need someone to throw another party...
Somehow I've gone this long without having a damn clue about what it's even about because no one ever talks about that. Just how good it is and nostalgic references/product placements. Like, yeah, I could look up a synopsis, but at this point it's just more amusing to roll with the pop culture osmosis failure.
Same. I hear it's good but I have never heard a single word of what it's about or of anything that happens in it.
Likely because people who have seen it don't want to spoil it for those who haven't. It's too easy to give things away since each season is so short.
I originally went into it completely blind having no idea what it was about, other than the fact that it's both a horror series and one big loving tribute to the 1980s, and I feel it was better that I did since I could have easily been spoiled on major plot points had I looked it up beforehand.
I originally went into it completely blind having no idea what it was about, other than the fact that it's both a horror series and one big loving tribute to the 1980s, and I feel it was better that I did since I could have easily been spoiled on major plot points had I looked it up beforehand.
The only thing I know about Stranger Things is it had a My Little Pony crossover toy that was packaged upside down. I don't know why, but one of my friends mothers had an extensive pony collection and was a big Stranger Things fan, and they knew I collected toys so they asked if I could find one for them. Wasn't hard, they were everywhere, so I got it and mailed it off.
...That's literally all I know...
...That's literally all I know...
You will once you watch it. Can't spoil it for ya.
Without spoiling plot points:
Take
40% The Goonies
30% Steven King (Specifically say It, The Mist, and Firestarter)
10% E.T.
20% Everything Else About the 1980s
-ZacWilliam, Basically imagine Steven King wrote a season of a Goonies TV show to be directed by 80s Spielberg.
Take
40% The Goonies
30% Steven King (Specifically say It, The Mist, and Firestarter)
10% E.T.
20% Everything Else About the 1980s
-ZacWilliam, Basically imagine Steven King wrote a season of a Goonies TV show to be directed by 80s Spielberg.
Having not seen Stranger Things it just seems like an
'80's style kids adventure series where they deal with supernatural stuff; with the twist of actually being set in the '80s and thus allowing it to drop a lot of nostalgic references for people in their 40's.
I'd say that's accurate with the proviso that the intensity and horror is at time more than you'd get in a "kids adventure" the Tone can be Goonies-esque at times but it's equally likely to be King-esque suspense, horror and death.
-ZacWilliam, it's not a kid-aimed show despite having kids and teens as most of the main characters.
-ZacWilliam, it's not a kid-aimed show despite having kids and teens as most of the main characters.
As others have said, it's hard to describe Stranger Things without spoiling it. The only thing I would really add to what's already been described is that there is a fair amount of scientific experimentation without ethical consideration, of the rogue government agency variety, which obviously could never end in disaster...
Well, I'm not familiar with the Goonies, so that falls a little flat, but...
Hearing that would've had me on-board from the start.
I'm not going to watch it. I'm just not into crossovers, but this one totally works for me. I don't know the reference, so I look at this and just see the Transformer, and I like what I see. It looks like the best van mold yet.