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    Image of bookwench bookwench
    11/26/09

    In reply to How To Make Macy's Thanksgiving Parade More Scifi-Friendly
    A float filled with conspirators dressed like teddy bears, concealing: a catapult loaded with flaming naphtha! The naphtha goes up, and whoosh! Giant flaming balloons! Mass panic in the streets! More exclamation points than you can shake a stick at!

    I've presented this idea before but don't have the funding to go forward with it.
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    Image of Hamslicer Hamslicer
    11/25/09

    In reply to How To Make Macy's Thanksgiving Parade More Scifi-Friendly
    The Millennium Falcon balloon, but only secured with a rotating pivot fore and aft for real barrel role action!

    Just think of all the little Death Star balloons you could sell.
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    Image of My_Latest_Incarnation My_Latest_Incarnation
    11/26/09

    @Hamslicer: Oooo! I want one! I want one!
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    Image of astrogirl astrogirl
    11/24/09

    In reply to How To Make Macy's Thanksgiving Parade More Scifi-Friendly
    If you really want to sci-fi it up, how about a giant Tripod lumbering down the street? A firetruck of firemen setting fire to copies of Twilight. An Area 51 "weather balloon". A flashmob of zombies fresh from an outbreak of the Rage virus. Darth Vader's Helmet balloon. An army of cylons marching along. Alien Vs Predator - they could stage a mock battle in various locations as the parade progresses.
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    Image of Hamslicer Hamslicer
    11/25/09

    @astrogirl: Or the "Tripod" from the first War of the Worlds.
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    Image of Andrew Liptak Andrew Liptak
    11/24/09

    In reply to How To Make Macy's Thanksgiving Parade More Scifi-Friendly
    Or they should just invite the entirety of the east coast 501st Legion to the parade, along with the balloon...
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    11/24/09

    In reply to How To Make Macy's Thanksgiving Parade More Scifi-Friendly
    Suggestion for the SG:U float - RDA can make sporadic, brief appearance along the parade route. Staying for only a few minutes to get off a few wisecracks before once again disappearing.
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    Edited by RandomFrequentFlierDent at 11/24/09 6:13 PM RandomFrequentFlierDent was starred RandomFrequentFlierDent was unstarred
    Image of AltMargaret AltMargaret
    11/24/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: Joe Malozzi walks behind, telling the crowd that the float gets better the farther down the street it gets. "Hang in there!"
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    11/24/09

    In reply to How To Make Macy's Thanksgiving Parade More Scifi-Friendly
    Why not reenact this?
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    Image of Julius Seizure - Canuck Julius Seizure - Canuck
    11/24/09

    In reply to How To Make Macy's Thanksgiving Parade More Scifi-Friendly
    How about a freak electrical storm zaps LIFE into the balloons?

    What am I saying, at best the Superman balloon would dry-hump Rockefeller Center and a world-weary New-Yorker would look up and say "More of the same." before ducking into the subway.
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    Image of TotalFanGirl TotalFanGirl
    11/24/09

    In reply to How To Make Macy's Thanksgiving Parade More Scifi-Friendly
    How about a a Twilight balloon? It could be Edward. With his shirt off. And he should sparkle!! Ohh, shiny.... (put down the gun, I'm kidding!)
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    11/24/09

    In reply to How To Make Macy's Thanksgiving Parade More Scifi-Friendly
    What? No giant Summer Glau balloon?
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    Image of Darklighter Darklighter
    11/24/09

    @Bill-Lee: You can't inflate a stick.

    (I kid, I kid!)
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    Image of Wheema Wheema
    11/24/09

    @Bill-Lee: only way she'll ever match up to the overinflated opinion people have of her
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    Bill-Lee promoted this comment Edited by Wheema at 11/24/09 5:12 PM Wheema was starred Wheema was unstarred
    Image of Smeagol92055 Smeagol92055
    11/24/09

    @Darklighter: Careful, slick. She can kill you with her brain.
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    Image of TotalFanGirl TotalFanGirl
    11/24/09

    @Smeagol92055: Oh no she can't she's just..ack..cough...help..me...
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    Image of closeencounter closeencounter
    11/24/09

    @Wheema: BOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
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    11/24/09

    @closeencounter: I wish to de-promote this comment about Summer.
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    Image of TrueCrime TrueCrime
    09/15/09

    In reply to Beasts, Giant Secrets And Alternate Futures Await
    Good to see Ex Machina is back this week.
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    09/15/09

    In reply to Beasts, Giant Secrets And Alternate Futures Await
    This may sound like a weird question, but how can a future be alternate?
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    Image of redqueenmeg redqueenmeg
    09/15/09

    @OW-Holmes--Upset with Polling: We can't, because if we travel into the future from this point in time, it will be the future of THIS reality, in which Biff is corrupt, powerful, and married to your mother, and in which THIS has happened to ME!! [holds up newspaper reading "EMMETT BROWN COMMITTED"] No, our only chance to repair the present is in the past, at the point where the time line skewed into this tangent. In order to put the universe back as we remember it and get back to our reality, we have to find out the exact date and specific circumstances of how, when, and where young Biff got his hands on that sports almanac.
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    Image of CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
    09/15/09

    @redqueenmeg: Alternate or not. As long as I get to have a go on a GOD DAMN HOVERBOARD!!!!
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    09/15/09

    @redqueenmeg: Have I mentioned that you are going to be like the coolest Mom ever?!
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    Image of redqueenmeg redqueenmeg
    09/15/09

    @CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard): Well, they don't work on water, you know.
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    Image of redqueenmeg redqueenmeg
    09/15/09

    @Grey_Area: Aww, thanks! :) Here's a secret, though, I already have a 4-year-old. But he thinks I am cool too. And he watches LOTR. So we have that going for us, which is nice.
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    09/15/09

    @OW-Holmes--Upset with Polling: If you're referring to the description of Frank Miller's Martha Washington, it works out like this:

    1.In the 1990s Frank Miller wanted to write a political satire. He set it in the future so it wouldn't be about any specific person but about general concepts in politics and socioeconomics.

    2.In the 1990s the 21st Century was still in the future.

    3.Much of the story takes place in what is now our present day --the early 21st Century.

    4.Frank Miller is a good writer but not a prescient one. His fictional details of 21st Century life are entertaining but of course have no connection with the actual 21st Century we find ourselves in. They diverge quite a bit.
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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    06/15/09

    In reply to Ancient Cylon Warrior Almost Looked Like Darth Vader
    It would be interesting to see a BSG DVD movie that takes you back to that period.


    It was dumb of Ron Moore and David Eick to push off the idea of more movies. But then maybe they figured everyone would be so disgusted by the fourth season that no one would want to see anymore.

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    Image of Don't Make Me Ang Lee. You wouldn't like me when I'm Ang Lee. Don't Make Me Ang Lee. You wouldn't like me when I'm Ang Lee.
    06/15/09

    In reply to Ancient Cylon Warrior Almost Looked Like Darth Vader
    Maybe Vader was one of the first hybrids?
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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    06/15/09

    @c0dek:


    LOL.


    So that's the connection between Star Wars and BSG.

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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    06/15/09

    In reply to Ancient Cylon Warrior Almost Looked Like Darth Vader
    Guys. Isn't it pretty common knowledge that Darth's whole look was samurai inspired?
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    Image of MosesMonster MosesMonster
    06/15/09

    @Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: Star Wars is a mix of a western and Japanese storyline. I just can't remember which films inspired it.
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    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    06/15/09

    @Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.:

    No cause George Lucas invented everything himself and original. Star Wars was not inspired by various good and bad WW2 movies, 1940s movie serials, Kurosawa films or the Japanese movie, The Hidden Castle. No siree, not one damned bit. /end snarky fanboy reply


    Sadly, the one character that was a true Lucas original was Jar-Jar Binks.

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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    06/15/09

    @MosesMonster: Just for fun I'm going to say..... Seven Samurai, Goonies, Rocky 5 and.... Step it Up.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    06/16/09

    @ManchuCandidate: i didn't realize nick bottom the inept alien was an original character...
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    Image of NerD: Blattella NerD: Blattella
    05/14/09

    In reply to Star Trek Vs. Star Wars, A Video Comparison
    I think the only winner in this article is the cat.
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