Back in the early 90s, here in the UK, a company called Cheetah produced licensed joysticks based on Batman, Terminator, Alien³ and The Simpsons. They looked great but they were terrible to use, especially the Alien³ model which I really liked but was incredibly uncomfortable. I never bought one, just tried then on the shops, awful things.

Back in the day, I bought the official Xbox360 steering wheel. It made me laugh because it was called wireless. It was only wireless between itself and the Xbox. It still needed a power brick to drive the motor and another wire to connect it to the pedals.

When I sold it, I almost made my money back because it was in high demand. MS had replaced it with that awful U shaped steering wheel that you held in the air like a Wii controller. It used sensors to tell when it was tilted. I never used one but the reviews weren’t favourable as I remember.

That’s a lovely build. I like the way you built the engine with opposing stud work. That kind of build technique always amazes me. When I started playing with Lego back in the late 70s, it was always bricks right way up. I build sets now, like the Delorean and ECTO1, and pieces are facing in all kinds of directions! 😄

I sort of knew about the film but when I watched a it several years ago, it was surprising to discover how prevalent climate change was in the story.

I’m happy to see a positive response here, makes a change from those who like to write off a film based on two minutes of footage.

One article claims this looks like it will go straight to streaming!

😆 Sorry no, thats the only officially released photo so far.

Have you seen the live action Snow White? YIKES!

You can’t really compare budgets to older films due to inflation but I get the point that the budget does seem excessive.

This sounds great!

Has somebody just watched Linus Tech Tips 😁? They’ve recently done two videos where they pull apart scenes likes this.

Tech Experts React to Bad & Great Tech in Movies

Tech Experts React to Bad & Great Tech in TV Crime Shows ep2

Has anyone watched Hackers? 😆

How did they ignore time travel? Cruise only time travels when he dies and he stopped doing that about halfway through.

A great film and it’s a shame a sequel never materialised. We did however get this reunion for a charity auction in 2017.

Hooray, more pop culture references!

I watched the original but during the big end battle, because it was all underwater, I wasn’t sure who was doing what. After that, didn’t take need to see the sequel.

I was being a bit tongue in cheek. GAME took over EB in the UK. I don’t think they’re any dedicated gaming shops anymore, just independents.

Then basically there’s no point in this shop existing anymore. They’re basically toy stores now.

I occasionally look in Game but can’t remember the last time I actually bought anything. It would’ve been a pre-owned title anyway.

Is Electronics Boutique still going? 😁

1989, the gold and black Batman logo was everywhere. It was the film that made me a Batman fan as well. Also, my grandfather misread the poster and thought it was a mouth with weird gold teeth. 😁

If you want to go really in depth, check out the podcast, “BEST MOVIES NEVER MADE” by Stephen Scarlata & Josh Miller. In particular this episode which is the first part of four where they run through all the scripts they could find which lead up to the 1989 final film.

With regard to breaking even, I was just recalling what I found on a small article about the film. So who knows what it would really need to break even? Double sounds more realistic though.

Del Toro was incredibly close to shooting an adaptation of At The Mountains of Madness in 2011, when Universal shut the project down. They decided they weren’t going to risk a $150m budget on an R rated for film which would probably need about $500m to break even.

A couple of years ago Del Toro shared a thirty second clip of pre-viz by Industrial Light and Magic. Another film to add to list of what couldn’t been.

Production companies must hate drones! 😆