Michael Nguyen

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We can Fly together in the Golden Sky!

[Michael Nguyen @PkmnMstr]

@LoganPaul Go fuck yourself.

[Michael Nguyen @PkmnMstr]

@bustosanibal Because they know people want full design sets. There are usually five designs and they list each one separately. But since 30th has 10 designs, one display is a full set. Easier for us, easier for them.

[Michael Nguyen @PkmnMstr]

@razzle1337 They went up right at the posted time and promptly sold out in minutes.

[Michael Nguyen @PkmnMstr]

@TrueKROOO

[Project R.A.Z. @razzle1337]

⚡ Giveaway! ⚡️

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[Michael Nguyen @PkmnMstr]

@Koutchboom @UTDCheeto @preterniadotcom Release date is May 1st.

[Michael Nguyen @PkmnMstr]

@UTDCheeto @preterniadotcom It's "Bionicle Cosplayer"
I actually really like the mini original toa canister accessory.

[Michael Nguyen @PkmnMstr]

@iamshylarenae Encounter locking is why I only shiny hunted Paldean Tauros once. Never again.

[Michael Nguyen @PkmnMstr]

@linkkling I haven't played in a while, but for a long time I collected Magikarp candy just for the hell of it. The last screenshot I could find says I got to 15,700, lol.

[Michael Nguyen @PkmnMstr]

@jokergatack We also got X Geats first because it reuses parts from Vulcan Lonewolf.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Sure, your eyes aren’t tricking you. That clip looks better than the new trailer, and the reason has nothing to do with talent. The VFX supervisor on Amazing Spider-Man 2 in 2014? Jerome Chen. The VFX supervisor on Brand New Day? Also Jerome Chen. Same person. Completely different system around him.

In 2014, Chen had 50 effects artists at Sony Imageworks, the largest VFX crew the studio had ever put on a single project. They handled about 1,000 of the film’s 1,600 VFX shots on a $255 million budget. The crew shot on real film (not digital), on location in actual New York City, scanned Times Square with 36,000 photographs of over 100 billboards, and built physical lighting rigs on set so the CGI would match the real world.

Now look at how Marvel makes Spider-Man movies. No Way Home had 2,500 VFX shots spread across 12 studios and about 3,000 artists. The budget was $200 million, $55 million less than TASM2 despite having 56% more VFX shots. Digital Domain, one of the VFX vendors, was delivering final shots days before the December 17, 2021, release. They kept reworking shots into mid-January, after the movie was already in theaters.

Zoom out, and the math gets worse. Marvel released 6 films between 2008 and 2012. From 2023 to 2025, they pushed out 7 films and 7 TV shows. The Hollywood union representing VFX workers reported that Marvel pays artists about 20% below industry average and staffs one person where other studios hire three. Artists described 64-hour weeks and breakdowns on the job. Then, in February 2025, Technicolor, the parent company of MPC (three-time Oscar winner for Life of Pi, The Jungle Book, and 1917), collapsed almost overnight. 4,500 jobs gone globally. The studio had been actively working on Disney and Paramount films when the lights went out.

Brand New Day has four months before release, and trailers routinely show unfinished shots. But the gap between a 2014 Spider-Man and a 2026 Spider-Man has nothing to do with technology going backwards. The industry has been asked to do three times the work for less money per shot while its biggest studios are going under.

[Michael Nguyen @PkmnMstr]

@hanaamurakami Tokusatsu.

[Michael Nguyen @PkmnMstr]

@aznproblemscos This seems to be a dilemma for many. I'm the other way. I already have a Switch 2, but I'm avoiding Pokopia like the plague.

[Michael Nguyen @PkmnMstr]

@catsdex I prefer Japanese. But honestly I don't really care. I'll buy what I can get for the price I want, lol. For my favorites like Rayquaza and Magikarp, I'll buy any and all languages.

[Michael Nguyen @PkmnMstr]

@caro_irl It outvalues my car.

[Michael Nguyen @PkmnMstr]

@RealEktris I ordered mine shortly after they went up, but he still adds now. Just checked. And we got a limit of 6 too. VS JP and Asia who were only alloted 1.

[Project R.A.Z. @razzle1337]

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[Michael Nguyen @PkmnMstr]

@razzle1337 I'm actually watching Zyuranger for the first time and it's SCORES more watchable than MMPR. I just got to Burai's debut. Tommy who?

[Joe Merrick @JoeMerrick]

"But Legends and Let's Go aren't main series"

Hah

[Michael Nguyen @PkmnMstr]

@SakurasCardShop Why do people keep expecting middlemen to behave like billion dollar corporations?