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This Fun Little Warcraft Fanimation
In my various internet travels, I always stumble upon random stuff here and there. And I like to share it. Because you good readers deserve to see good stuff as well. And that brings us to this fun little, fan made, stop motion Warcraft animation. I still love Warcraft, even if I haven’t played WoW in a very long time.
Huzzah and kudos all around! Fun little animation, very well done. Kudos to Justin Rasch for his work, as well as his whole team. I hope it’s fun to make videos like this.
Anyway, I’m going to see Thunderbolts* tonight and can’t wait!
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My 6 Favorite Lores
I am a member of several prominent fandoms. I love me some geeky TV shows, movies, video games, comics and more. And like any good geek, I can get super into the lore and backstories of these franchises. Got a wiki wormhole with dozens of pages devoted to the secret connections of several minor supporting characters? I’m in! I love a good lore.
Which means we better get a sequel with the Green Ranger
Don’t understand what I’m talking about? Comedian Patton Oswalt explains it pretty well in this stand-up clip. Lore is not just the main story, but all the deeper histories behind the characters and settings. Lore isn’t just Frodo and the One Ring, it’s everyone who came before and everything in the Simariliion. Lore isn’t just Tyrion, Daenerys and John Snow playing the Game of Thrones, it’s the history of the Night’s Watch, Bran the Builder, Robert’s Rebellion, The Tales of Dunk and Egg and more. Game of Thrones has great lore.
And now I’m going to share my favorite lores with you! I’ve loved a few over the years, ignored others. Feel free to share your own favorites in the comments!
Liking the Warcraft Movie Might Be My Line in the Sand
I get it, people didn’t like the Warcraft movie. I enjoyed it, despite its faults. But in order to truly know a movie, we’ve got to sit through the various Internet parodies that come around.
Alas, Cinema Sins, I cannot fault you for being right. But let us hope we do get that sequel! I’ll even watch it in Chinese if I must!
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I Wish Warcraft Had Done Better, Honestly
Man, why didn’t America like the Warcraft movie better? I know it wasn’t a perfect movie, but it was still darn good.
I suppose Honest Trailers makes some good points. But man, I really wanted this movie to be a big success. I still want that sequel and a few spin-offs. This could have been a whole new thing! Why, movie gods, did you have to make us suffer so? Why did you deliver this movie!
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6 Classic Warcraft Characters They Should Add to the (Hopefully Inevitable) Sequel
For reasons that still befuddle me, the producers of the Warcraft movie decided to adapt the original video game storyline from the 90s. Even though Warcraft became a household name with the World of Warcraft MMORPG in the 00s, they turned back the clock to focus on the origin story of the world. I supposed it makes some kind of sense, but it leaves out all of the most popular characters and stories.
We’ll have to wait until the threequel or fivequel before we see the likes of Thrall, Illidan, the Lich King or Chen Stormstout!
Blizzard should still consider releasing animated movies
But that’s not to say the early days of Warcraft don’t have fun and exciting characters. And being the super lore nerd that I am, I’ve decided to put them in a list. Last week, I wrote about Warcraft concepts and characters I hope to see someday down the line, later in the franchise. That was before I saw the actual movie. Now that I’ve put in the time in theaters, and now that I see them sticking pretty close to the early stories, I’ve got a few more specific ideas in mind.
If Warcraft 2 sticks with that earlier timeline, who are some classic Warcraft characters they should add? You won’t find too many of them in World of Warcraft, but back in the day, they were our champions!
Except FULL SPOILERS for the new movie after the jump.
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