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Just re-watched the finale, and realized that Mando's handpicked squad was all female (+Boba Fett backing up in Slave I). And the awesome thing was that I didn't even notice that the first time around…because it was an organic part of the story, and each of these characters had already shown themselves to be extremely proficient warriors: Cara Dune-former shock trooper with MMA level fight skills; Fennec Shand-elite sniper and part bionic woman; Bo Katan-Mandalorian resistance leader and former Darksaber wielder; & Koska Reeves-badass Mandalorian with WWE level fight skills. This, of course, made me question Marvel's reasoning during the Endgame finale (which I absolutely loved, except when they made a point to have all the female heroes band together.) That scene felt so forced…I didn't buy it at all, and several folks around me in the audience actually groaned. So big kudos to Filoni and Favreau for writing great characters (male, female, alien, and everything in between) and not shoe horning any nonsense in.

I had my year end review with my boss today. Apparently I'm an outstanding employee and people only have great things to say about me. If only they knew.... Buying some Lego's, Buying some Lego's, Read Brickpicker, Reply to messages, Help Delivery Driver, Join Meeting, Break down boxes, Break down boxes, Break down boxes, Break down boxes, Lunch, Reply to Messages, Break down boxes, Break down boxes, Break down boxes, Break down boxes, Break down boxes, Break down boxes, Break down boxes, Reply to messages. Repeat.

Receive a $5 amazon credit after watching a short video (less than 1 min). This offer was on the homepage but the link worked on my other account. Be logged into account before visiting link. YMMV https://www.amazon.com/moments/la...rce=amazon

I’m personally not offended. I appreciate the intel (I was unaware) and i’m happy for@gmpirate for his good fortune and ability to QFLL. I never begrudge my fellow Pickers for posting info.

Saw this yesterday. Funny yet kinda true... from a certain point of view.

Both played by Sasha Banks She was just scouting Mando... which is how they knew where to find him when he went on the Quarren ship of fun.

Just picked up 17 of these at 2 Michaels stores. Had to show the website price as they ring up $14.97 in store. Going for $90+ FBA right now. https://www.michaels.com/lego-unikitty-unikingdom-creative-brick-box/10572516.html

can't quit the dickens...

yes, but enough meat on the bones to FBA down the road at $25

I swear Ebay knows when I *just* spent a pallet of cash on the site and then delivers the 5% the next day.

When they came down the ramp out of the shuttle, I was like, ok that's how you do it. I kept saying it throughout the entire episode, "That's how you do it!"

Congratulations, it looks like you attended the JJ Abrams and Rian Johnson school of story writing.

In the spirit of the season, you left one for Timmy.

I was mostly oblivious to the attack until now. It's baffling to me that Solarwinds got hacked, had code elevated to release and no one noticed. We have code line analysis and jar analysis that is run before going to a QA environment. Then the build and deploy to production blocks your push if a single character was modified up to 2 weeks before production. We have to get director approval if even a small property file change needs to be made at that time. I work for a non-tech based company. I'm guessing we are going to start seeing more aggressive security scrutiny on third party software at a corporate level anyway. With a security breach this bad I can't imagine how difficult it is to clean up. How do you trace all the possible locations they can embed new backdoors, understand the data that was compromised, or servers that may be impacted. All it takes is access to a random employee's computer to gain access to the network again Best of luck @exciter1

But Baby Panda 1 and Baby Panda 2 are such inspiring name choices!

I honestly wouldn’t have noticed if someone else hadn’t mentioned it. i just saw some badass characters doing their thing. It never occurred to me that it was an all-female squad.

So, Amazon has these Mall pop ups selling all their hottest products and of course Lego is hot. Picked up a couple minty fresh Razors last night.

can we add a donate button under our names?

Amen. It's just really refreshing to have female characters who DON'T function as eye candy, a love interest 20 years younger than the male lead, a token diversity squad member, or a damsel in distress needing to be saved.

This darksaber thing, as you have stated, keeps bothering me. In fact, I'm even more convinced that Sabine Wren is going to show up in The Mandalorian. Then I start wondering did Ahsoka and Sabine already find Ezra (very end of Rebels) since they are apparently separated and Ahsoka (soon to have own show) is looking for Thrawn? Or did they split up looking for Ezra & Thrawn? And does Sabine still have Ezra's green lightsaber (end of Rebels)? If Sabine has Ezra's light saber, she could spar with Mando and win the darksaber from him. Then she could retake and lead Mandalore like she should have done in Rebels. Apparently she stayed to lead Lothal (Ezra's home) during the Galactic War (end of Rebels). I just hope The Mandalorian doesn't become Rebels 2.0 or Rebels Post-war. We know that characters are not frivolously introduced but will come back later, possibly even the following season. So we'll see the cloaked lady on the water planet (possibly Sabine Wren, currently untitled character), we'll see Migs Mayfield again, all the ladies in the season finale and Boba Fett will probably show up on occasion. I don't know we'll see Grogu in season three. Maybe some sort of finale in season 4 or 5? Will the armorer from season one show up and reveal her face too? I can see a series finale with all the Mandalorians throughout the entire show uniting to retake Mandalore, including Luke and a lightsaber wielding Grogu. Will Ezra show up as well? Will Mando settle down to have his own family or ride off into the sunset like Pale Rider? *sigh* only 11 months to go for season three... My wife and daughter are already throwing fits. Well done Favreau and Filoni, I think you got us hooked.

Too bad you couldn't have QFed that...big $$$ in that

My friends and I have had the same conversation and I also heard this observation pointed out in several reviews. Great summary by you, didn’t feel forced at all and was a testament to F&F’s fantastic writing.

turns out when i'm not slangin' brick, i'm essential. wtf. got round 1 of Pfizer covid 19 vaccine today. i feel very lucky. otherwise the same.

It's sad to see you go. We will all certainly miss everything that you have contributed with your two posts. 😐

I need a Razor Crest Microfighter

As the x-wing flashed past the window I said to my wife, "Was that Red Five?" I grabbed the remote and backed up to that scene - "Yep, it's Red Five. This is the Luke the entire Star Wars fan base has been looking for." She said, "How can you tell it's Luke?" Me: "The stripes on the wings." My wife: "You're such a geek." lol I confess I almost had tears in my eyes while Luke toasted the entire squad of dark troopers. If only the sequel trilogy had given us this Luke. *sigh*

A question as eternal and unanswerable (at least for anyone outside of Amazon) as what is the meaning of life?

that was the before pic...awkward !

Costco .. wave if you see me at checkout

Technic Land Rover is $160 at Walmart.com. Amazon hasn't matched yet. https://www.walmart.com/ip/LEGO-Technic-Land-Rover-Defender-42110/386404234

If it involved backdoors, then I can sleep soundly since @exciter1 is the BP subject matter expert in that area. 😂

Likely gone now. Sets don't show up there once oos.

What’s not included? Volume or wholesale pricing, including membership-based retail wholesalers Items identified as being on closeout, liquidation, clearance, special buys, doorbusters, reward club, damaged, used, open FWIW - Policy specifies No Clearance items for both Michael's and competitors. For Competitors, further specifies In-Stock. Also for whoever asked, I find the Website Inventory to be pretty accurate.

Didn't I hear somewhere that this was fake news? In all seriousness, I hope it goes quickly and painlessly for you, even though I know it will not.

Ugh - I wondered how many other geeks on this thread are dealing with this at their place of "work"

Well, if I were to read my post and knew of an Amazon store near me I may check it out. And since they are selling for $300 I would consider it a good deal/flip. Of course if I upset you because the set is not discounted I apologize.

...Mysterious Traveler gets his own spin-off from Disney+

Im a fantastic writer too...Season 3; Mysterious Traveler deals with Mando after offering his jetpack in exchange for help with some random problem. Pewm pewm laser battle fight scene the end. + Dark Lightsaber + Baby Yoda Eating Learning and getting stronger with the force. + Mando gets new Ship. (RAZOR CREST II). The formula works I am a fan and it is saving the STAR WARS brand.

In YMMV, my store had them 20% off today. Might be worth checking if your local store still has stock. Two get you an ice rink.

Obi-Wan show set 10 years... after ... ROTJ? Only if he's force ghost Obi-Wan. How about 8 years after RotS and 11 years before ANH. https://www.cnet.com/news/star-wars-disney-plus-obi-wan-kenobi-show-release-date-plot-cast-ewan-mcgregor-qui-gon-jinn/

Picked up a complete no instructions or box 10262 Aston Martin DB5 for $105 shipped from EBay the other day. Was still looking for one to build and they were out of stock everywhere, I guess I happened to come across the listing just at the right time. Officially it would have been $120 shipped but I used my $15 coupon from switching to Managed Payments to bring the price down further. $5 for a manual from Bricklink, and just missing 1 LBG plate 1x1 (I've got plenty of those). While inventorying the set, I tried this for the first time. Probably also the last time

Chalk me up as quite pleased. This is the way. I have spoken.

My advice: send one more email expressing your sympathy with his situation but that there is nothing you can do. He can pay the import fees or refuse delivery, and you will refund once the package is back to you (with all the deductions yada yada). Then stop responding. The more you engage, the more he will try to make this your problem.

Wow! That's basically how Episode 7 should have started. We have totally forgotten how many awesome characters that Lucasfilm and JJ Abrams had access to and simply didn't use out of arrogance. Just read about two interesting theories... one that it was R2D2 who saved Grogu at the Jedi Temple in Episode 3 because he seemed so happy to see him in this episode. Also the smackdown of the sequel trilogy....Luke takes a jab at Rey by saying that having power is one thing but training is another. #remakethesequeltrilogy

You’d better keep two, just in case your City layout gets hit with COVID. You’ll need the extra hospital beds. [emoji23]

Holy F Nothing else to say. Agree with everything above. Freaking awesome Compared to where I was this time last year with this franchise? Definitely a course correction.

In 45 days Amazon will have the Cupcake. So, they'll just take the buy box until then . . . nice

I guess you were sarcastic on the other thread where you picked this as a winner, i took you seriously. Its an amazing set since besides being a vehicle it has a playability factor. I think this will do exceptionally well once the deep stockpiles start to thin. Its already at 180$ at amazon which is no less then 140 after FBA fees. With a buy in at 90$ at zavvi last week, thats a 50/90 or 55% return in 2 weeks, not too shabby..

At Grand Teton National Park, I hiked 17 miles round trip through Cascade Canyon to Lake Solitude. It's at 9035 feet elevation and the water is melted glaciers. So I jumped in and swam to the island. In the picture, my wet footprints are on the rocks - nobody nearby to take a photo of me.