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  1. On 10/13/2022 at 7:01 AM, Fixxer2 said:

    I dont need full marines, just bitz to mess with and add to existing space marines.  Heads, arms, weapons, accessories, whatever. SO if you have a drawer or a box full of sprues that you dont want or need anymore. LET ME KNOW. I'll pay you $ or trade other gaming goods. 😄

     

    Just sent me a message and we can go from there. Thank you! 

    We have TONS of bits at Mindtaker in Vancouver AND we're having a Sprue Sale tomorrow!

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  2. 18 hours ago, Brother Glacius said:

    To me this is not streamlining anything. They leave out crucial aspects of the original story that matter down the line. Rand carrying a Heron marked blade is a big deal. But not in the show. Mat's dagger and his connection to it were a big deal...but that was dealt with in one episode. Tom built a real connection with the boys...but again...who needs that. Moraine never makes it to Tar Valon in the books...whoops.... Rand meeting Elanye....we'll shove that somewhere else I guess. Sorry..they aren't streamlining anything..they are just blatantly taking a few points they want to hit, and then making up whatever filler around it. I would have liked something that resembled the story instead of near complete character changes. Egwene bragging about killing someone? please.

    Heron blade - they got there this last episode, ha - i had a great explanation lined up for why they didn't but unnecessary now.

    Tar Valon - apparently because of how important Tar valon/ Aes Sedia structure/life is to a lot of the story they wanted to bring it in earlier. Also production issues prompted some of this change - Tar Valon is a static set that they will use throughout the series so they skipped caemlyn as not to have to build a set, just moved the important plot points to tar valon. Does it take out a lot of the flavor and character development of Eye of the world - yup, but it wasn't necessary for the storyline. I'm guessing Caemlyn will show up in the next season where we'll meet all the Andoran court people.

    Totally agree about Egwene, I feel like they're kinda lost with her character and how to progress it. I Don't like how far they're going with the Egwene Rand thing, takes away from the independent badass that Egwene is. 

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  3. I feel like I'm not the only series fan that is totally fine with the changes made, i very much disagree that this is an in name only adaptation. Its a modernization in a different medium. Most of the changes are fairly easily explained by production limitations and cultural modernization. So much of the books would have made horrible tv, stone faced aes sedai and warders not reacting to things, endless internal monologue, 147 different character points of view (thats a true stat right there). Anyone want to talk about the actual changes and why? 

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  4. On 11/23/2021 at 8:18 AM, Brother Glacius said:

    For whatever reason, the show writers decided to throw out all of the "coming of age" story arcs. That one decision to make them all older has pretty much wiped out most of the first book...heck, probably the first three books. So many of their decisions and the way they act are based on their age and ignorance/innocence. How are they going to portray Mat's slip into darkness due to the dagger when he's already of questionable character? Are they going to leave out all of the awkward romantic stumbles that commonly occur to the group? Not happy with that choice. 

    Idk - how much fun would watching a bunch of 17 yr olds talk about how bad they are at talking to girls? That can easily take over the actual storylines going on and quickly devolve into a CW coming of age melodrama when that isn't the core of the story, just flavor. I do agree that if the expectation was a YA family friendly fantasy series this is not it, certainly has been some awkward moments watching together with the kids.

  5. 20 minutes ago, Brother Glacius said:

    I'd love to hear what some of those issues are. I'm not enjoying the story changes. They are diminishing all the wrong things that were core to the series.

    What really sucks though, is that they could have at least softened the blow to the Jordan fans by being upfront with all the changes. Hell, Jordan even laid the groundwork for it. He basically had a multi-verse for his world. There were hundreds if not more copies of the world where things went differently. They could have simply started with some opening which alluded to that, that this was one possible turning of the wheel, etc.

     

    Interestingly my kid has decided that this telling is from a different turning of the wheel so that perspective doesn’t need to be implicitly spelled out, just a mindset you can take on.

    One of the core themes in the series that is a problematic point is the binary treatment of gender. It is ingrained in pretty much everything and comes with some pretty heavy gender stereotypes bordering on misogyny at points. 

    I know I had read a few articles prior to the show release that said there were going to be major differences so I was ready for that from the start. 

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  6. Big fan of the books, read several times, my 13yr old is reading them now (on book 7). We’re enjoying the Amazon series as well. Lots of healthy discussion at home about the changes and why. The original series of books had a lot of problematic areas that the tv series is looking to avoid, the maturing of the content is a bit jarring at first but understandable from a product standpoint. 

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  8. 20 hours ago, Koyote said:

    I have 232 issues (more than 19 years worth). I have a few oldies that date back to the early 90s, but most are from the late 90s until GW stopped printing them in 2014. Shortly after that GW completely lost its f*cking mind, and I quit 40K for good. 

    Except for a few issues, they are all in good condition.

    Dalmer, if they will bring you happiness they are yours, for one cent.

    The only condition is that you must take all of them or none of them.

    I still live in Bellingham, so you don’t have to worry about shipping.

    I'm looking for issue 305 (i have one of the armies in that issue that we (mindtaker) are selling and i would love the issue to go with it.

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