Meanwhile, in Canada:

*Looks up character*

oh that's a bad one.

To flip a Dexter's lab quote, it's not the hairline on the outside that counts, it's the one on the inside.

Fair, but the existence of the set at all feels like a shift towards targeting collectors over kids. There's still tons of margin at 9.5¢ a piece.

An awful time skip that goes from "a long, long time ago" and "far, far away" to "right here, right now."

Yeah, seems like a trivial opening for a competitor if they don't reverse course, but they've let these kind of grifts slide before.

Some folks have amazing taste. JPEGMafia loves Texhnolyze and Escaflowne.

Fitting for "Gen Alpha Fear Factor" content creator gone candy salesman. They got his crap at Costco up here now, salt in the wound of them dropping my favorite protein bars.

It'll double as a prequel to an IP Netflix will soon own, so it'll be Stranger Things Extreme: Ready Player Zero.

Put enough lead back in the air, and a lot of consideration of others will evaporate as an externality yet again.

They definitely sell through stuff. Local franchise had a Clear Card era Card Captor Sakura in, gone with in a week.

(Aside, the Ellisons ain't even good for the money. In film and compute, they're funding it all on commercial debt that's being traded around as credit default swaps and foreign investments. They're another bunch of con men.)

Every day, another headline that has this refrain echoing in my head:

Kind of amazing it look less than a generation's life span of relatively clean air for power-brokers to forget how incredibly awful air quality used to be everywhere. Like the people who fought for the Clean Air Act and celebrated the first Earth Day are still alive today.