Some Interesting Developments

Toy Story was shown as a preview for Kingdom Hearts 3 - releasing in 2018! Now, they've given a year but not a month/day or even a season, so I'm willing to bet late 2018 with the possibility that it gets pushed to early 2019 if delays happen again like with 2.8. With Toy Story 4 in the works, I hope they can get Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, (John Ratzenberger goes without saying) and everyone to reprise their roles for the game. It also occurs to me that Disney owns the Muppets that they could have a Muppets world in this or a future game. Obviously, Whitmire would not be a part of it (was he really that difficult to work with?), but maybe Frank Oz (not to mention when/if they do Star Wars). Muppet Sora and friends would be hilarious (whereas Young Xehanort looks like something out of Small Soldiers in that cutscene). Remember, it's all to protect the world order. :P Since Buzz and Woody already had their data in a game, maybe they will include Jungle Book this time around too (not the live action one, though). And since the CG of the game is close to that of Pixar, the Toy Story characters look exactly how they should. If they ever end up doing anime, KH Chibi would probably be funny (but would never happen). A bunch of new KH Funko figures have been leaked, but as many as there are, there still aren't figures for all of the characters. MST3K's Tom and Crow are getting figures, too, and that's pretty cool.

Now on to Appmon. Unryuuji's backstory is that he basically invented texting, and people eventually used it for cyberbullying, but he got the blame for making the app in the first place. The people in the Appmon universe are even dumber than reality. Yuujin and Offmon were rescued offscreen, and next time they look into where Rei's brother Hajime actually is. Leviathan declares itself CEO in Unryuuji's place, and Eri decides to quit Appliyama because of it, but Rei says she can't quit without helping him. Posing as a manager doesn't go well for him, but it turns out all right in the end...assuming letting them rescue Hajime (who is now a Sleepmon - how many other kids got kidnapped if they are all Sleepmon?) wasn't a trap of some kind.

I finished Little Witch Academia, including the special (which claims to be a sequel but is really an early-on midquel). Main character Akko gets worse before she gets better (except in the special where she's at her absolute worst), but by the end she's tolerable to me. Let's talk more about that special. It combines ideas from a few different episodes, and certain characters act out-of-character or at least accentuate their worst traits - including the townspeople. The townspeople are horrible, and while Diana is acting more arrogant than she ever has, she has a point about the parade being demoralizing. Akko is the bitchiest she's ever been, telling off her two teammates and abandoning them for Amanda's team (which is worse than what she does to her mentor in the main series, as she's being rude and dismissive to two people instead of one and didn't have to be tricked into doing so). As for the finale of the series, the antagonist harnessing the rage of soccer hooligans was kind of an ingenious plan (it is England, after all). Why do the villains always want to harness the power of anger for energy? Overall I'd say it had some good ideas, and I didn't hate it enough to stop watching.

What the Hell?

Steve Whitmire was fired as Kermit for no [disclosed] reason?! Now he feels like he failed us all and Jim Henson. He didn't fail! The Elmo guy fucked up (and I am disappointed because he was also Master Splinter in the live action TMNT movies), but he didn't. While he's not Jim Henson, he is a national treasure (and the voice that people in my generation grew up with). He's been doing this since he was 19. What's he going to do now?

They brought back coffee Oreos! And it's even better because it's all the filling instead of just half, and I feel like there's more of it. It's Dunkin Donuts' doing again, but that doesn't matter. It's still delicious and specifically mocha this time. I used to eat these as an after-school snack in high school along with the mint ones. It's only here for a limited time, though.

A friend had me watch Little Witch Academia. I've gotten about halfway through it, and it's okay, but it's not as good as Soul Eater NOT! (or regular Soul Eater for that matter). I don't like the main character, or any of them really. Diana is like a palette-swapped Sunset Shimmer, and I feel like this should really be her story since she's not a bad person. whereas the main is kind of bratty and "accidently's" herself into everything. So far episodes seven and eight are my favorites, but "favorite" is too strong a term. And don't think I didn't see Rita Repulsa's headdress as one of the nine witch mantles.

I've decided on what to do for a holiday video this year, and it's turning out pretty well. I'm still sorting out what stills to use, but the musical mashup is all set. It's going to be awesome.

What Could've Been

Two things I forgot to mention about Appmon: Haru's grandpa being a Super Mario (or "Hyper Mari-" before both Haru and Astra get cut off hilariously by Grandpa and Rei respectively) and the fact that the rest of their Appmon army were forgotten in favor of the buddy system. What happened to their chips? Only the buddy chips disintegrated, but since the ultimate Appmon Digivolution thing there hasn't really been a need to use the rest of the army Appmons. The Appmon cemetary was worse than the Deep Web where all the Appmon wore cloaks. The outmodes were desperate to be relevant again, but then it reminded me of that one Perorimon who almost faded from existence. She probably would've ended up there. Then there were the ghosts of CG villains past plus that one Appmon no one knew. The one with the hat wasn't even there.

I had a dream that in a future Kingdom Hearts game you would be able to customize and name your Keyblade (after the character you were playing had an epiphany about something - it could be any one of the playable characters we've had so far). In the dream, you went to Moana's world, and there was one world that had the protagonists of FFXV. Speaking of, that game was something else. The first part of it was Sidequests: The Game while the rest of it was rushed. I would've expected Luna (who looks a lot like Namine) to have been killed off at the second-to-last Summon, not the third. The rest of the three were thrown in there haphazardly and felt less like a hero's quest and more like Plot Convenience: The Game. I can see why they want to take their time with KH3 now so it doesn't become a mess like that one. As for the 2018 calendar coming out at D23, it probably doesn't have a special meaning like a release date; it's probably just a treat for the fans. I'm surprised there weren't already KH calendars, unless there were and they weren't as special for some reason.

The last FNAF game was cancelled so Scott could have more time with his family. That's understandable, though I wonder if there was anything about it hinted at in The Freddy Files book that's coming out. Of course he will continue to write for the novel series and new mini-games (or spin-off games) for FNAF World.

I didn't like the trailer for the MLP movie. It was made for a general audience, and that's selling out. It didn't explain a damn thing. Stuff just randomly happens and yay friendship.