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[PA Comic] Monday, August 19, 2013 - Savagery
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That shit is funny
Also Kara's face is now rounder than previous outings. Gabe's face, meanwhile, looks super different in panel 1. It's like... shallow. Like in this comic.
Holy shit, I can't stop laughing.
I'm assuming it's some kind of rare toy for that Infinity game.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andyrobertson/2013/08/15/toys-r-us-exclusive-disney-infinity-crystal-figures/
Oh shit that is evil.
Either way, this is all deliciously evil and brilliant. I would have lost all the moneys as a child.
Kind of. It uses toys like Skylanders. It's a little different in that there are seperate games for each franchise (so like, an Incredibles game for the Incredibles figures, a Cars game for Cars figures, etc), and there is "Toy Box Mode" which is sort of a LittleBigPlanet/Minecraft type thing where you can combine stuff from all the different available franchises to make games or build stuff or just mess around.
So even Disney brings on Satan to consult from time to time?
Yesterday I went to the mall presumably to buy my daughter the Princess Twilight Sparkle stuffed animal at Build-A-Bear (I don't know if you know this but TS got *wings* and so she is no longer a unicorn but an *allocorn*!!! Emphasis is my daughter's.) My secret mission was to buy the new Lego set for the Syndey Opera House -- which is really quite breathtaking -- nearly 3000 pieces -- I'll let you Google it.
But we stopped in Disney store since it is right there in the children's district of the mall (our mall seems to have districts -- I get a little nervous sometimes walking through the Chinese district -- but I digress). Long story slightly shorter, I bought Disney Infinity as well as the Cars playset and played for a few hours with my daughter yesterday.
During the opening sequence she commented "This is soooo beautiful!"
Then when it came time to play she asked me, "How come there aren't any girl characters?" and then insisted on opening the Cars pack so she could play a girl. It nearly broke my heart.
At one point while I was playing in a different set pieces, my 1.5yo son picked up both Cars figures, held them with his arms stretched out to his sides and span around going "brrrooooommmm."
I was lucky that she only wanted to play in the Toy Box and in Cars because I didn't discover until much later the multiplayer restrictions in the game worlds. I agree that is a stupid restriction, but it probably reduced the testing matrix a lot.
EDIT 2: I'm seeing the girls from Frozen, Wreck-It Ralph, and a couple other Pixar/Disney IPs. Maybe they didn't have those female characters at your store?
Those are all future releases.
The only girl characters available right now are the one from the cars playset (as mentioned), Mrs. Incredible, and Violet.
It's kind of a weird oversight, though I can't see what girls they could have packaged with the base game given all the franchises they picked for wave 1. I guess they could have been generous and given Mrs. Incredible along with Mr. Incredible, which might have also alleved co-op complaints. But then you've got four figures with the base game...
Pfft. Disney was run by Satan for two decades. Who do you think invented the Disney Vault?
Responding to other posts, I also noticed that Infinity is a boy-heavy show... and it's not like Disney doesn't have access to a ton of extremely popular franchises starring women. But then, the higher-ups at Disney generally seem pretty convinced that princesses can't have real adventures.
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/disney-vault-vt/n12033/
... Oh damn it, I never even considered that.
You can bet your bottom dollar, because it will require your bottom dollar, that we're going to see some Disney Princess action before this shit is over - or just classic Disney if you prefer. Belle and Beast and Mulan and Ariel will have their time in the Sun
Barely even human
Savages, savages
Killers at the core
Ruling this land.