Veronica Mars is Back?! – A long time ago, we used to have a show…If you know the show, you get the opening joke.  If you’re a fan of iZombie, you’ll love Veronica Mars.  The original plucky-female-detective show by Rob Thomas is back!  The show, which was one of the more critically acclaimed ones of the WB/CW transition era, was cancelled after season three due to low ratings.  The show will be back for a fourth season, 8-episode limited series.  Kirsten Bell’s back for sure, with negotiations on going for the rest of the recurring cast.  If you’ve seen even just one episode of iZombie, you’ve probably seen a Veronica Mars actor.  For instance the past two seasons on iZombie has featured Chase Graves, played by Josh Dohring, who played the temperamental and brooding bad boy love interest Logan Echolls, the main male lead opposite Bell’s Veronica Mars.

Am I excited for this show?  Fuck yes, I am.

This Can’t Be Real News – Despite being investigated for her involvement in the NXIVM sex cult investigation, the prosecution has allowed former actress Allison Mack to attend community college.  Mack was under house arrest with limited phone privileges.   She’s being charged with Keith Raniere, Clare Bronfman, and Nancy Salzman over running a sex-cult, that saw victims branded, and cut off from the rest of their lives.  There are concerns that she’ll use her ability to leave her house and use her phone to target her former victims, though that’s at the moment just a concern.  Mack specifically could be looking at life in prison.

Awesome New Star Wars Lego Set – Well, Lego’s did it again.  They’ve released a Cloud City play set that will set you back a pretty penny.  The set is called the  75222 Betrayal at Cloud City LEGO, will be 2812 pieces and is part of the Star Wars Master Builder Series line of collectables.  The price for it is a whopping $349.99.  It goes on sale on October 1st, 2018.  Details and images below;

Figures:  Han Solo, Princess Leia and Luke Skywalker in Bespin outfits, Chewbacca, C-3PO, Lando Calrissian, Lobot, 2 Cloud City Guards, 2 Cloud Car Pilots, Leia and Han in Hoth outfits, Darth Vader, Boba Fett, 2 Stormtroopers and an Ugnaught, plus R2-D2 and an IG-88 droid.

The official lineup of features reads:

• Section 1 features a landing platform with a sliding entrance door and Boba Fett’s Slave I ship with an opening minifigure cockpit, movable wings and space underneath to store the Han in carbonite element.

• Section 2 features a dining room with a table, seats for 5 minifigures and a decorative Cloud City micro build; lounge with a transparent sculpture and 2 chairs; garbage processing room with an incinerator, conveyor belt and a deactivated IG-class droid; and a promenade with tree sculpture, mural relief and opening doorways leading to other parts of the model.

• Section 3 features a sensor balcony with railing and swing-out function, plus a maintenance cabin with opening round window for epic Lightsaber duels, plus a carbon freeze chamber with lever-activated ‘freeze’ function.

• Section 4 features a dark-red corridor leading to the interrogation chamber with a turning interrogation chair, plus a prison cell, hangar with a secret trapdoor and tool & weapon rack, and space for the Twin-Pod Cloud Car with opening minifigure cockpits and 2 stud shooters.

• New-for-October-2018 minifigure details include Leia’s red dress, Han’s Corellian blood stripe, Luke’s dark-tan Dagobah outfit, the Ugnaught’s head decoration and the cloud car pilots.

• Weapons include Han’s blaster pistol, Chewbacca’s bowcaster, Luke’s Lightsaber, Vader’s Lightsaber, Boba Fett’s blaster rifle, IG-88’s blaster rifle, 5 blaster pistols and 4 blasters.

• Accessory elements include a wrench, handcuffs and Lobot’s cybernetic band.

• Pull the carbon freeze chamber lever to pretend freeze Han in carbonite!

• Cloud City measures over 6” (16cm) high, 22” (58cm) wide and 22” (56cm) deep.

• Slave I measures over 4” (11cm) high, 7” (19cm) long and 7” (18cm) wide.

 

Quick Hits – Arrow season 7 is being reported to be persistently testing the CW’s censorship guidelines.  Marvel’s Captain Marvel Prelude #1 will release in preparation for the upcoming Captain Marvel film, and will highlight Nick Fury and Maria Hill as the leading characters.