Crazy Frog Trivia #17
There are a large number of bootleg toys that play a looped segment of Crazy Frog's version of Axel F, even if it has no relevance to the character or series the toy's based on.
An example is this bootleg Ben 10 Bus toy:
Crazy Frog's Axel F also seems to be a popular song pick for bootleg toy manufacturers to use in LED spinning tops:
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Recently watched the Ben 10 reboot properly and I found it much more enjoyable from the moment Vilgax showed up onward.
My favorite part of the show was definitely the rivalry between Ben and Kevin in Season 3! A shame only that Kevin didn't officially join Team Tennyson by the end of the movie.
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Oh maybe this Reboot Malware founds out about Kevin's Antitrix and tries to absorb Bootleg's DNA from it but since Bootleg's DNA is a mutated it changes him.
It could see it as a last ditch effort near the end of his arc, but I don’t see Malware actually absorbing Bootleg’s DNA. Considering that could leave Kevin with a missing transformation.
Also Bootleg isn’t just a mutant Mechamorph, but a hybrid. Which means Malware would have to be really desperate to go after Kevin. But like I said, I think he’d be stopped before he could succeed.
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I'm my ongoing obsession w Spiders, I've decided I'm gonna start ranking the outfits of my favorite spiders, starting with..
BEN REILLY
We're skipping his first suit its just a copy of the base Spider-Man, if I do one of these for Pete then I'll share my thoughts there. But for his first real suit..
The Return Suit: 7/10
Upon the return of Ben to the Spider landscape he donned a spare Spidey mask alongside casual clothing for this suit. I like the idea of it, and im not gonna judge it too harshly cause it ain't like he designed this, boy pulled it out of a closet. (Ben put your grippers away though dear god)
Scarlet Spider: 10/10
Peak 90s design, ripped slutty crop top hoodie? Check. Giant spikey eyes? Check. Belts around his ankles because fuck you? Check. Its a classic design and god DAMN they did it justice in Across The Spiderverse
All of Ben's sketchbook suits: ?/10
Let him cook pls I beg
Sensational Spider-Man: 12/10
YEAHHHHHHH. A perfect suit. The bigger spider and the exposed webshooters from the Scarlet Spider suit work so well here. This is the gold standard for alt Spidey suits and deserves to stand next to the original.
The Jackal: 6/10
Its a neat look, but like- it's a red suit with a cool mask. There isn't much here to talk about?
Scarlet Spider (2017): 3/10
Why. Did. You. Give. Him. Lips.
Why. Trying to build the hoodie into the suit just- doesn't work. Why do the gloves have random lines between the fingers? It just feels like a bootleg Spider-Man you'd see at a thrift store.
Beyond Suit: 8/10
I appreciate the fact they fixed his legs from the sensational suit to give him full boots, but the arm webbing and the off center spider keeps it from being as good as the last time Ben donned the Spider-Man mantle.
Chasm: 5/10
So story reasons that I hate Chasm alone. This suit just is kindof a mess. The mask is really messy and im not a huge fan of how the spider looks or the fact his lenses are connected on the mask.
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thoughts on broadway and/or the tonys and/or musical theater in general
fuck i never did get around to this LOL here we go
broadway... compels me in some weird way. like for every single complaint musical theatre fans lob at opera- 'it's too much about spectacle!' 'it's too elitist!' 'it's funded by rich people!' (which that last point in and of itself is. Have you ever been to europe. but the way in which opera criticism is uniquely USAcentric is a convo for another time) are all... like... right there in musical theatre on broadway.
arguably those are even more of a problem over in musicals. musicals have Brand Identity. when you think of wicked, every wicked production is specifically built to look the same, with no real difference in direction or performance besides individual casting. (and also that infernal dragon, for some reason, that they never even really actually use except for like one moment where it wiggles around a bit. a lot of my memory of seeing wicked in 9th grade is just remembering how absolutely disappointed i was that they had a big dragon animatronic and they never used it in a satisfying way! like, what the fuck! anyway, again, tangent.) even if there isn't a cohesive brand there's the matter of rights settlements, and certain creative restrictions, and on top of that there's the fact that it is incredibly hard to go watch broadway musicals if you don't have transportation and monetary access to them. (and don't get me started on whatever the fuck "bootleg trading" is. like man they're even inventing capitalism in new places. hello.)
opera meanwhile is the wild fucking west. most of the standard rep works are in the public domain. there's only 1 standard rep opera i can think of off the top of my head that has any creative restrictions in the performance license contract, and given the one creative restriction with that one is "please have black people play the black characters and don't do blackface you freaks jesus christ" i'm totally down w/ it. if you want to go watch opera, there's thousands of recordings on youtube and on specialty sites like operaonvideo.com that just act as a huge performance archive. opera is genuinely one of the most accessible art forms there is with the advent of the internet.
(man remember when hamilton had basically a free raffle for 10 dollar tickets every week or whatever that was? meanwhile the opera company in my college city literally just sells 11 dollar tickets to students and every time you buy one from them it acts like it now has a blood debt to you. crazy.)
broadway is like genuinely so capitalistic it baffles me, godbless. and i do WANT to understand musical theatre better but a lot of the time it just sort of whizzes past my head and i have no idea what to make of it. (that, and theatre kids are.... Well. Yeah)
THE TONYS are equally baffling, but instead of broadway which feels like some strange dystopian world, the tonys have a distinctly alice in fuckin wonderland shit to me. there are opera award shows but none of them are nearly on the same level as the tonys. it's cool that the trophy spins around i think. i think its very obvious the tonys largely exist as a further marketing mechanic and not as like... actual awards, but to be fair thats the point of all awards shows at this point anyway. (well, that and making a lot of people very angry.)
looking at this year's nominations for example. here are some of my thoughts: i forgot about the some like it hot musical, i genuinely have no idea who the audience of that is meant to be. CORN MUSICAL??? who the fuck made a CORN MUSICAL and WHY? &juliet terrifies me with its existence. the plays should unionize together. i dont know why i was surprised ben platt is there i thought he just kind of faded into the walls after the dear even hansen movie or something. isnt new york new york a frank sinatra song. oh shit the sweeney todd revival already premiered? (i dont keep up with broadway news) why is there a corn musical. also when i looked up the tony awards i accidentally typed in 'the toby awards' which is apparently an award show for building design. Anyway thats my analysis as someone who is genuinely so clueless about current broadway news
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