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Hasbro Is Still Apologising for Killing Optimus Prime 40 Years Later
‘The Transformers: The Movie’ was supposed to clear space for the next toy line. Children, inconveniently, had become attached to the inventory.
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‘Whisper of the Heart’ Returns in 4K, and It Still Belongs to Yoshifumi Kondō
Studio Ghibli has restored one of its loveliest films. It is also the only feature its director ever got to make.
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Nintendo’s Two Cancelled Virtual Boy Games Require a $25 Cardboard Visor
Europe never received Nintendo’s red 3D machine. Thirty years later, its lost games arrived with a subscription and some assembly required.
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Spaceballs Found the Money
Rick Moranis came back, Mel Brooks found the money, and 'Spaceballs' arrived at Comic-Con with an eleven-phase cinematic universe. The flamethrower now looks restrained.
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Moana, Again, Already
Disney's live-action 'Moana' opened in July 2026, ten years after the original, to a mid-thirties Rotten Tomatoes score and collapsing tracking. Seen from a country where the film has only ever been called 'Vaiana', the fastest remake Disney has ever attempted looks stranger still.
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You Cannot Remake the Greatest Game of All Time
Nintendo closed its June Direct by announcing an 'Ocarina of Time' remake and calling it "reborn", the word you reach for when you would rather not say what you have built. A note on remaking the one game the whole medium agreed was the best, from a Nintendo kid who has a stake in it.
