2017 Movies that we eagerly await!

2016 went past us in a flash. During that time, we have seen alot of unexpected surprises. We have seen great personalities leave us(Rest In Peace), like Carrie Fisher, George Michaels, David Bowie, Muhammad Ali, Alan Rickman, Chyna just to name a few. We have also seen the election tumult of Donald Trump's success among others that have shocked us.

We made a list of exciting new movies coming out in 2016 last year. We've seen great reviews showcasing the success for titles like Dr Strange, Warcraft, Suicide Squad, Captain America: Civil War. What do you guys make of it? While we also have mixed reviews for movies like Batman Vs Superman(Personally, we like it though!)Even Bat-Affleck is conflicted:

What did you guys think of the 2016 movies list, now that it is out of the way? Awesome?

We just can't wait for this can we?ehem...

Well, for this 2017, We'd like to introduce a list of upcoming movies that will surely leave you salivating. Ready for 2017? I bet you are!

T2: Trainspotting

Choose Life.The film that was a cult hit in the 90s with it's hallucigenic, pop, youth lifestyle portrayal of heroin addicts.  It brilliantly captured the spirit of the 90s at the time amongst the youths and in 2017, with the said youths leading a different life(like your writer), T2: Trainspotting will no doubt be like comfort food for the soul. It is one of the most anticipated movies in January. But for those who think that it would be similar to the original movie, Ewan Mcgregor has this to say: "This is different because it’s 20 years on – it’s really different because we didn’t try to remake the film". In another interview, Mcgregor mentions how his iconic character Renton saying "it's not what others would expect Renton to be...he chose life". And so did we.(did we?) 

https://youtu.be/9I-Rz6MHA5s

The Movie is slated to release on January 27 2017.



The Lego Batman Movie

Remember the time when The Lego Movie actually got us hooked on the soundtrack "Everything is awesome" after it's commercial success? We do! And judging from the trailer(s), this movie will just be as awesome if not more! It would be scary to think this might even be more successful than BvS or Suicide Squad so stay tuned! 

Slated to release on February 9th 2017.


John Wick: Chapter 2

This time, the movies' revenge plot wouldn't centre on the death of Wick's dog(but seriously, who would blame him?). Keanu returns to screen as John Wick, a retired hitman who will severely hand his enemies some ass-kicking. Everyone's psyched about this, including this interviewer here. Watch the interview below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJdWNmgqzp4


Slated to release on February 10 2017.


Logan

Set in the future of Marvels' Xmen universe, this movie chronicles the life of wolverine and how he meets up with a mutant girl who has the same abilities as him. It is also his last performance as the famed character, Wolverine. Fans will be eager to see how Marvel will be handing over the reigns of one of it's heavyweight characters after Hugh Jackman finishes with this. 

In more ways than one, watching this upcoming movie will be like a homage to the Wolverine that Bryan Singer and Hugh Jackman created eversince his introduction in the Xmen movie in 2000. Since then, Jackman was synonymous with Wolverine, just like how no one else can fit Ironman, unless it's Robert Downey Jr!That's 17 years of being wolverine! Farewell old friend!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrCZATWoBHs

Slated to release on March 2nd 2017.


Kong Skull Island

There is only one way to watch this movie: Imax. Fans of King Kong, monsters,Kaiju, Godzilla rejoice because this movie features an island full of huge prehistoric creatures...and an impending colossal fight between the King and the creatures underground called: Skull Crawlers. We know, we know. What's the difference between this movie and the Peter Jackson movie in 2005?

Well, for starters, this movie features a King Kong that is HUGE! We're talking about an ape that is as tall as the empire state building! The dude is just massive. His palm fits nicely into the side of a mountain!(just watch the trailer!) So get ready for an epic monster battle this coming March.

Slated to release on March 9th 2017.


Power Rangers

90s Kids will get a taste of their childhood with this movie as it introduces the origins of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers albeit in a modern setting. You can't help but think that this reboot is to pre-empt post 90s-kids with the craze that was the power rangers.

We remember the original movie that came out in 1995, of how the new megazord, power coins and most importantly, the power rangers suit drove us crazy. The first full fight scene in the construction site was uhh-mazing(do you guys remember?). 90s Kids will surely have alot to grumble about as this movie aims to be a different beast with a modern teenage touch to it, not to mention the costume. They look like a macguyver-symbiote-alien-mechanical costume. And, since we're on the topic, who will be the face of zordon? But all in all, who's not excited for this? To us, the most important power rangers, the closest to our hearts will forever be MMPR~

Slated to release on March 23 2017.


Ghost in the shell

Based on the Manga of the same name features Scarlett Johansson as The Major and her band of anti- cyber criminal unit, Section 9. Audience will be dropped in a cyberpunk setting. The Major and Section 9 must thwart a new threat aiming to manipulate an artifical intelligence programming. For fans who are not familiar with the Manga, can expect Matrix-like concept in the movie. The Wachowvski brothers'(directors of Matrix) even cited Ghost in the shell as one of their influences in Matrix.

...So now you know one of the originators where cyber information, dystopian, hacker, alternate universe essence came from. Also, a japanese heavyweight director/actor from Japan, Takeshi Kitano(battle Royale, Zatoichi) will also be featured in this movie....and we've got to add that the trailer ost sounds so good, do check it out and the original music from depeche mode. So stay tuned for this movie.

Slated to release on March 31 2017.




The Fate Of the Furious

This movie needs no introduction as we follow Dom get racked up with new people in new situations. Need we say mo'?

Slated to release on April 12 2017.


Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2

Set two months after the end of the first movie, the cast returns to the screen, this time with a renewed sense of leadership in Chris Pratt's character; Star Lord. Not much is known as to the plot, but audiences are sure to discover Star Lord's relationship with his father. The success of the original will not bother audiences who are left wanting for more after the 2014 movie.


The movie will be released on April 26 2017.


Alien: Covenant

Ridley Scott will direct this latest movie in a long line of the Aliens franchise, which Ridley has created in the first place. Ridley Scott's Aliens: Covenant will centre around a space crew's adventure into the planet which Prometheus has left off and boy, are we excited! The movie does feature a strange ensemble including James Franco & Danny mcbride while retaining Michael Fassbender from the latest Ridley Scott movie: Prometheus. 

Slated to release on May 19 2017.



Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Men tell no tales

According to the D23 announcement, the latest instalment of the franchise will see Jack Sparrow et al trying to get their hands on an item that can "unlock an eternal curse".That rumored item is believed to be poseidon's trident.  What's got us psyched is the return of Orlando Bloom's character, Will Turner in this series.  It also features Captain Salazar who has some sort of connection with death, or is death himself. Well, too many questions which we can't wait to find out!
Slated to release on May 26 2017.



Wonder woman

This is to be Diana Prince ( Gal Gadot's) first solo movie. The movie follows Diana, princess of the Amazon, a fearless, strong warrior from a warrior clan who decides to leave the comfort of her secluded island to come to the aid of man after a pilot crashed into her island to reveal that there is a war raging in the outside world.

Stars Chris Pine and Gal Gadot. 


Slated to release on June 2nd 2017.



Transformers: The Last Knight

Slated to release on June 22 2017.


Spiderman Homecoming

Slated to release on July 7th 2017.


War for the planet of the apes

Slated to release on July 14 2017.


Dunkirk

Slated to release on July 21 2017.



Kingsmen: The Golden Circle

Slated to release on September 29 2017.



Saw Legacy

Slated to release on October 20 2017.



Thor Ragnarok

Slated to release on October 25 2017.



Justice League

Slated to release on November 16 2017.



Star Wars Episode VIII

Slated to release on December 15 2017.



With all these great movies coming out this year, prepare your popcorn and rejoice! It's gonna be exciting! 

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018. Have a Merry Christmas by Kitbashing your toy!

Merry Christmas Comrades!

Amidst the family gatherings and roasted meats, and all the socializing, lets not forget when the nephews and nieces come to visit, there's always a surprise to be had. Most families would be busy decorating their houses and such, and to add to the scenery, I've always added a touch of figurines. Just a little shift of the glass shelf where you keep the toys and figures and comics are sure to leave the kids engulf into the Christmas mood.

Usually, the most time consuming part of leaving your toy collection for the kids to gawk at, is the diorama part. Most times you can get away with draping cloth with unique textures or print out a picture of a scene in a movie and stick it in the background. 

It's amazing what lighting effects and drapery can do instead of putting alot of
effort into making or buying a diorama.

As long as it looks complicated and bada$$, there's no reason why the nephews and nieces
won't adore coming to your place every Xmas!

Or you could make a conventional one like the one below. The sky is the limit when your lifestyle is surrounded with toys and figures, agree?;D

Today though, I'd like to share a kitbash recipe that I've been working on. It's for my nephews and nieces to gawk at this Christmas when they come over. And it's base on a superhero that has been my favorite since the 90s! The Flash!

My fascination with The Flash started when John Wesley Shipps first appeared as the flash in a tv commercial for the television series in the 90s.

Since then, I have devoured Flash comics and Flash content in every known media. Oh boy! those were the good years.

The days when superheroes weren't skinny lads in costume. No offence Gustin!

Hero crossovers like these spurred my imagination and my love for
the scarlet speedster grew.

Back then, the SupermanvFlash races spurred my imagination and my love for the scarlet speedster grew as he won the races(oops..spoiler).

Then again, after a long hiatus, CW gave the flash franchise a burst of new life.

In case you're wondering, I did a retouch of the Flash emblem to keep him in-line
with CW's TheFlash Season 2.

But, and that's a big but...so far, I havent seen a really awesome 12" figure of my favorite superhero...yet. I'm sure Flash fans will agree with me on this when I say: we need the flash in a highly detailed 1/6th scale figure!

Sideshow has made a prototype which is awaiting licensing rights to the figure, but heck, I can't wait any longer and it's Christmas, my nephews and nieces need to see something. Therefore, It's up to me to kitbash the Flash!

Photocredits: toynewsnetwork.blogspot.com(a great blog that has went on a hiatus)

The Concept

Behind every great toy is a concept, especially if you're talking about hero costumes. The flash I would be kitbashing would be a real-world Flash, so his gear would have to be something inspired by modern day science and military technology. I know, some of you might say that it's okay if it's a teeny bit outlandish because with Star Labs, anything is possible, but I'm trying to re-imagine a Flash that is more true-er to our time. Here's what I used:

The Head

First Ingredient: Captain America's Avenger head

Finding the head for TheFlash was an important task for me. As with the other Captain America heads, the "A" alphabet on his forehead is grooving outwards and that would be a problem for me as I'd have to carve the head. I'm no professional sculpt artist, so if there's a situation to avoid it, why not? I'd rather add to a headsculpt than subtract to it.

What I did was to add putty on certain areas to make the head smooth.
The next step was to paint the head with a shade of red and add "ears"

Here's the final headsculpt.

The Body

As you can see from the picture above, there's a shirt that he's wearing. What I did was die the arms red. I didn't want a suit, like a water-tight suit because I thought that it'd take away the element of him being more of a altruistic guy in a soldier-like attire. The flash that I have re-imagined here is older and has more experience, he's been taught more fighting skills by his friend, Bruce Wayne then when Barry first started fighting crime, so his attire is adjusted as such.

Some of you might say that his attire now, cannot fit into his ring. In my defense, I'd say that there's no such technology that can keep a great high performance suit inside a tiny ring. And if Flash is the fastest man alive, finding his stowaway suits throughout the city and changing into them wouldn't even take a second~!

I've chosen Naked Snake's body vest to be TheFlash's body armor. 

Flash's body is covered with a utility vest that has an in-built defibrillator
and a temperature compensating mechanism for when he becomes super hot.
It also acts as a protective shield against any stray projectile, much like a kevlar.

As you can see from the description, The body vest serves multipurposes in the Flash's fight against crime.

The Arms and hands

As for the arms, Flash would need some sort of lightweight protection, something in the form of kevlar or carbon-fibre so that his arms can articulate quite freely in the case where he needs to rotate his arms to create a whirlwind. Which also means, he can't wear pauldrons.

Snake Eyes bicep guard is something which I need for Flasher

It would look really really cool if I could add Snake Eyes's pauldrons along with his bicep guard for the flash, but it'd be a hindrance if Flash needs to create a whirlwind to get out of sticky situations.

The wristbrace and hands are very important to me.

I feel that the gloves of TheFlash would need to be friction resistant and would need to have excellent gripping power and hard callouses on them just in-case Barry needs to execute his "supersonic punch". With that being so, I have chosen to go with TDK's gloves.

Look at those callouses on those gloves! <3

As for the wristbrace, after awhile of brainstorming and thinking, I came up with....nothing. There's no wristbrace from Hot Toys, Sideshow, ThreeZero etc. No wristbrace that fits with Flash's personality and utility that the Scarlet Speedster needs.

I imagined the wristbrace to provide lightweight protection, structural support(so his bones dont break easily when he does the "supersonic punch", much like how boxers have it) and I imagine the wristbraces to be equipped with ballbearings that slide up and down his wristbrace to create a sort of "pendulum" effect, so he generates more weight going forward when he swings his arms through running. This is valuable as it adds extra weight to his supersonic punch.

As you can see, there are also no straps on his wristbrace. It is strapped by
3magnetic straps. No fuss of untying

Pants

The Flash would want his pants to be streamlined, but not too much until it traps heat, it must also allow the heat his body is generating to leave the suit. As for this, I am spoilt for choice here. I didn't want it to be a suit, although I think Superman's suit would have looked nice. 

But for this, I'd have to go with Thor's pants(the first movie) as it's simple and its cool and doesn't shout out too much of Thor's character.

Thor's pants here is just about nice, it looks cool but it also doesn't
scream out it's master's name. btw, Thors' helmet does look like it
can belong to hawkman right? just saying...

Kneepads and Boots

For no reason whatsoever, CW and CBS has churned out Flash's that have no intention of wearing the iconic yellow boots. Just sad. 

CBS has no excuse to leave out the boots...

For me, Flashs' boots need to be in it's iconic color but at the same time, updating the color palette to modern time by replacing yellow, with gold. And that's how my Scarlet speedster will look like, will be in red and gold.

I imagine Flash's boots to be friction resistant, no straps like how the wristbraces are and lightweight. During the initial stages of coming up with the boots for Flash, I was considering Falcons' or Hawkeye's boots but I soon find out that, having military boots would be too heavy and having straps and laces wouldnt help in running and easy-wearing.

Falcon's boots have smashingly good looks, but it is too heavy though

Hawkeye's boots are the closest to my idea of The Flash

So I was shopping on ebay for Hawkeye's boots until I saw the perfect boots for TheFlash. Thank goodness I delayed my purchase.

Look at the boots, no straps, easy-slip-on, lightweight and it looks futuristic
without looking ridiculously out-of-this-world.

The moment I laid my eyes on Flynn's boots, I knew that was the one and there was nothing else that comes close.

As for the kneepads, I thought Flasher would be glad to know that should he trip during his lung bursting run, his kneepads can always break his fall and prevent his knees from shredding off when he skids on asphalt. Haha, yeah, that was pretty graphic aint it?

Looks good once it's assembled don't it?

The Finishing Touches

Once it's all assembled, all that's left to do is to put on the Flash emblem and color the whole "suit". I had two shades of red when I painted the Flash; Metallic red and a maroon sort of red, for the "ears", boots and emblem, I painted them gold, instead of yellow. There's also no white in the emblem as I thought that would be like announcing to any bad guys to "Shoot here" directly into his chest.

The emblem is made of clay, just like the ears. You can also make them with putty.

...And...Voila! here are the final pictures! The Flash doesnt have the "lightning streak" on his hips though as I thought that would be excessive, and adding a gold belt would make him look like batman, so I just left it how it is. I hope you like it! If there are any comments, do leave 'em below.

Liking the "weathering" effects on the suit and emblem?

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007. Gearing up for The Flash Season 2

Hi all,

The Flash. Need I say more. I grew up on this fella, way back then since John Wesley Shipp became the scarlet speedster.

I prefer this costume though, oh well...

Anyways, move over Mr Shipps, and welcome Grant Gustin!. I think he did a great job, considering, I wasn't too enthusiastic when it was first announced that the Flash would have a new modern season back then. And, the costume for the new Flash, well, I wasn't too enthusiastic.

This is the first Flash new season 1 picture, that I saw from the promo...mehhh

Well, well well, after watching the show, well, I'm hooked.

After all, Heath ledger blew me away as the Joker(and I was one of those sceptics, when he was announced as Joker, back then, not too long ago).

I really like the modern take, this new flash has taken on. No more coincidental lightning bolt on "that fateful night", whereby the original Flash series took it's direction. No. This new Flash had reasons behind everything. The one I really like is how the lightning bolts on both his ears are actually sound mufflers to protect Barry's eardrums from potential sonic booms when he's going at high speed.(Well done I say)

There are certain things which threw me off initially. Like how Iris, is well, an African American(She's hot though, Candice Patton)...not what I lived with, from the comic version. But they added a more humanistic touch to Iris this time, by showing her selfish side. (Yes, I do find her annoying at times.)

Also, Oliver Queen and Barry Allen...I don't think they're best buds. Based on the comics, they barely talk to each other, only when they need to. The Barry I knew from the comics, was friends with Hal Jordan, and spent time having intelligent conversations with Bruce Wayne. Oh well, I guess I'm asking for too much.

Warning: This ain't like the comic books. But still..

The thing that blew me away was how, this modern series paid tribute to the original ones, by inviting John Wesley Shipps on the show, as Barry's Father.(You can imagine my reaction at first!).

Did I meantioned, Tina, from the original Star Labs making a cameo?

Also, I thought the Reverse Flash was pretty haunting, like how I felt when I read about 'im in the comics. So...Kudos.

Anyways, Back to season 2. There's a few treats, waiting for us, Like Jay Garrick, more meetings with the Arrow and his team and more. If you haven't catched the trailer, here's the video below:

More on Jay Garrick:

As far as we know, Jay will be played by Teddy Sears. Jay comes into season 2 from a parallel universe to warn Barry and his team of an impending doom. Hmm... What could it be?

We could also see from the trailer, the return of Captain Cold. Not forgetting, he lets loose the villains on the final episodes of season 1 could mean, we could see a new rogue set up here. I can't wait!

Keiynan Lonsdale(according to what I heard), will be Kid flash(not Bart Allen though), but Wally West in season 2. Oh my gosh, this keeps getting better, don't it?

Also, There's still a reverse flash in this series, so don't fret.

Oh, oh! and Cisco Ramone has powers.. Is this true? What will he be? I liked him a lot in season 1. The lines he's given, well...loved it.

Oh, and Barry discovering how his speed can make him travel into alternate dimensions, will it mean there'll be more parallel universe's in this season. I really do think so.

Okok...I'm trying not to give away spoilers here. I'll wait till the first episode of season 2 comes around before we splurge more, alright?

Meanwhile, there, I placed the Comic Con trailer here so that, we can see more juicy bites.

The Flash Season 2 will premiere on CW on the 6th of October 2015. Don't miss it!

Credits to the Flash Promo Team for such a wonderful Poster! Can't wait.

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