>Small Soldiers is getting a sequel (?) / reboot
Aweso-
>It's a fricking video game
Frick
If this does well is there any chance whatsoever of getting another movie? Or is the game itself doomed anyway for being based on such a niche old title? Small Soldiers thread I guess.
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Why didn't you post this on Cinemaphile
Because Cinemaphile is hell and most of them are probably too young to even remember the movie.
Can't argue with that
You could say the same about Cinemaphile
Cinemaphile is shit in other ways but definitely not to the same extent as Cinemaphile.
It's a puppet movie, it should count like Muppets/Sesame St
Look I would not mind a small soldiers sequel in the slightest please give me that 90s nostalgia feel immediately
dont the guy behind this test animation is a scammer making up videos of IPs to steal them?
are you going to fling shit here like you did on /toy/ you sperg?
Yes it is
>proof of concept
This person who ripped off medabots is literally a scammer and his dad was a criminal wanted by europol. Frick off with this shit
Can you provide evidence of this?
I would gladly do so but I don’t want to get banned because it’s considered doxxing and that’s against board rules, that and I need to sleep as it’s almost 10pm here. Go ask /m/‘s meda general, they’d be more than happy to respond. And go to the archive and look up the generals history if you have time to waste. People talked about this in depth there. He’s a rich kid from Spain iirc; his dad is in jail and he hired an insane amount of Indians and latinos for peanuts to post propaganda on twitter and youtube for his nft scam. If this thread is still alive and you haven’t done anything yet, I’ll post some links here and you’ll be the judge
>I..I CANT!
Shut up then homosexual cuck
It looks good and the main girl is hot, cry me a river
Nta, his father is Antonio Comadrán. Pretty infamous here in spain
>Can you provide evidence of this?
https://www.chemanager-online.com/en/news/ex-la-seda-ceo-gets-light-embezzlement-case
>admitted diverting €12.2 million from La Seda's corporate coffers to other firms in a web of fictitious enterprises.
His associate is Fadi Kalil, someone who’s also arrested for fraud in the Netherlands and fled to Dubai
it looks more like a fan thing than anything legit OP
There's really not enough information so I'm afraid this is all just hot air. Still a really cool trailer but damn, I got all excited. Whoever animated it seems to really get the vibe of the original so well I got my hopes up.
It's a 'proof of concept' from a company that made a Medabots phone game (some team-based gacha thing, seems like there's strong design through-lines that could apply to Small Soldiers; it uses card-based equipment mechanics to make it 'toyetic,' which aligns with the end of the short).
My assumption is that they're fishing for the license with the style and effort, plus whatever buzz is generated.
not gonna lie, i liked the idea here for a reboot.
imagine a new show/movie but now kinda taking itself serious, with the toy fighting to survive while also killing each other.
but damn i HATE how this is going to be wasted on another stupid free to player (prob mobile) game.
>but damn i HATE how this is going to be wasted on another stupid free to player (prob mobile) game.
Really? I was hoping for a serious third person shooter type game. That sucks.
Hopefully they actually finish making something.
looks really good in my opinion, at least the concept for it was always cool.
And if what you say is true, it has a good core concept for various videogame genres.
even if it turns into gacha shit you could be crude enough to make it interesting.
>Small Soldiers - War for the Necron
>the Necron
I like the Commando Elite, but they're toast if they have to fight the Monolith.
Any girl characters?
based on the video the main Commando is a girl with a sidecut
Is she attractive of unattractive? In terms of attitude and desposition?
I give her a 8/10
8 meaning the hourglass figure shape
would
>that fricking milkshake-sjw hairstyle
crown me king of the world and my first order would be a worldwide ban on that hairstyle from public view. i would make wearing, displaying, or otherwise enabling that fricking hairstyle a capital offense on the punishment of death.
You suck. It's hot.
It’s hot when done well.
This. Just because woketards appropriated it doesn't make it bad. It just makes said tards worse for trying to ruin it.
>Anyone who shares these sentiments
Well it's meant to be a toy from a more modern franchise. The Gorgonites and the Commando Elite were based on GI Joe and Transformers. These new toys are based on something more like Overwatch or another franchise filled with butch strong female characters.
What part of any of them is based on Transformers?
The Autobot vs Decepticon inspired feud between the Gorgonites and the Commando Elite.
Because the Autobots are so famously a society of freaks being hunted by an elite team of soldiers .
Well the decepticons were hunting the peaceful autobots down. In the same way the commandos were hunting the gorgonites down.
The Commando designs are uninspired, and too many seem cribbed from actual Commando Elites and the Necronites look so shit compared to the Gorgonites.
I can see that being a thing though. The returning members being Veterans
I only want a new Small Soldiers movie with the same conditions I'd want a Gremlins movie. Get Joe Dante back, give him a big budget, and don't interfere with his creative process in any way.
Gremlins 2 was on a completely different level than any other film, and I want more of it.
Fully agreed, but is he still working?
He most recently directed a segment in a 2018 anthology movie, and he consulted on that HBO Max Gremlins cartoon.
Well that's a franchise I never ever expected to hear about again. Interesting little teaser though no idea what that entails in terms of actual gameplay.
>Toy story but edgy
ok
Wish they could just make the movie with the material from this trailer, the animation was faithful enough.
>the entire Barbie sequence
hell yes, more please
>War for the Necron
Which one? There are a lot of the fricks.
>The made the good guys actually look cool this time
Guess they learned their lesson from the movie
>soulless diablo iii demons
>better then the BASED Gorgonites
It's fricking Summer, isn't it?
>hyperbolic moron spouting shit at the drop of a hat
It sure is
I mean have you seen the original movie? The Commandoes are clearly meant to be the bad guys. So the girl is going to the main villain.
I kinda like the Devilman inspired look of the leader guy.
It would be kino if the big quadrupedal dude is fricked by being unable to climb and is the first one to go down.
The movie had its moments but it was just Diet Gremlins.
Get the guys at teyon doing that new Robocop game to do it. They're great at doing 80s-90s nostalgia throwback games.
>cliche badass female main character
>necrons yet no mention of Trazyn
Frick this project.
If Kevin is doing what he did with Medabots, he legally can't directly reference any of the original movie's characters.
What he did with Medabots was take advantage of a lapsed trademark. That allows him to use the name, but it doesn't grant him any ownership of prior iterations or the material within. That's why his Medabots game doesn't feature any of the pre-existing designs. He'd be violating copyright laws by using them.
The trailer not mentioning DreamWorks at all makes me think he found another lapsed trademark. He's managed to get some wins in his legal fight over Medabots, but DreamWorks isn't a small Japanese games publisher with no overseas offices.
Who's Kevin?
Kevin Comadran. He's credited as "executive producer" at the end of this trailer. His company appears to have produced it.
The only other thing they've done is that Medabots mobile game. IIRC, he comes from a background in finance. That game is effectively unofficial and it's been the subject of various lawsuits around the world.
https://www.siliconera.com/imagineer-pledges-to-fight-for-the-medabots-trademark/
https://www.prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/comadran-wins-legal-battle-and-keeps-medabots-trademark-in-japan-301765845.html
Yikes. So he's one of those kinds of conmen.
It looks like he's acquired the trademarks for Biker Mice from Mars and Mega Babies ...
https://www.trademarkelite.com/europe/trademark/trademark-owner/COMADRAN%20STUDIOS,%20S.L.U./1352580
That first one's going to cause some problems: https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/news/biker-mice-from-mars-reboot-returning-new-show-toys/
>Mega Babies
He must have no shame.
>Mega Babies
How desperate can one man be to stoop this low?
I think (and greatly hope) she’ll not be your cliche cookiecutter strong female character. She gives of this malicious xenophobic no good-doer vibe like her previous incarnation Chip Hazard, like she might be an antagonist or at the very least an anti hero.
>I think (and greatly hope) she’ll not be your cliche cookiecutter strong female character
I mean. Have you seen the original small soldiers? The personalities of the commandoes are pretty generic.
True…But personally I found them pretty entertaining, generic or simple doesn’t always mean bad. I believe that with good enough writing you can make ANY idea work and be enjoyable.
I mean - the whole point of Chip Hazard and the Commonado Elite was they were a walking assemblage of pro-military, propaganda-adjacent gung-ho American stereotypes. Just go back and watch Chip Hazard's speech - it's just a nonsense string of cliches and quotes from other media. It's effectively an anti-war/anti-military-industrial complex movie due to how it leans into showing why marketing that kind of thing to kids as a toy line is maybe not a great thing to be doing.
If they're smart with any kind of sequel/reboot, they'll pick out similar themes in current media and subvert them somehow. Maybe satirise girlboss capitalism with LE STRONG WOMAN military toys or something.
She's clearly meant to be unhinged with how she emptied her clip into the door for no reason but to show her hatred.
That and all the other military toys look pretty damn insane too.
Doesn't look like it's going to be following up on the events of the movie. At the end of the movie the Gorgonites decided to go into the woods at yellowstone to build their own civilization. The commandoes got all blown up by an emp but the ceo of the company said he was going to sell the surplus toys to the military.
So is this just going to be a retread of the original movie?
Based. I played the PS1 game a lot.
Very rad game, pretty strong art and music design that had absolutely nothing to do with the movie. Kind of makes me wonder if they slapped the property onto something that was already in development.
How is this Cinemaphile?
It's a fully animated trailer for a game that will not to do any justice to it.
Small soldiers is a co movie. Animated/puppet characters interacting with human beings.
So every movie with CGI characters is Cinemaphile, got it.
It occupies that same grey area roger rabbit did where it's technically a live action movie but has enough toons and toon-adjacent stuff in it to count.
Roger Rabbit was explicitly about cartoons and featured many prominent classic cartoon characters, there was never a gray area there and it's not really applicable to other movies where live action interacts with animated characters/environments unless they're acknowledged in-universe as being animated.
My PS1 came with a disc that contained a demo for the Small Soldiers game.
Why are they still pretending people like sidecuts?
The landwhale devs have them and make themselves feel better about themselves by adding them to games they work on.
It's meant to be visual shorthand for a female character being a strong independent woman who don't need no man. It's more often perceived as visual shorthand for "annoying activist and probably gay". Either way, it's not done for guys to like it.
Jokes on you dumbass, I like it!
(On this toy gal at least)
Looks good hope we get a sequel movie
If this proof of concept ever becomes an actual game I hope the Commando’s will be the heroes this time, we already got a movie where the Gorgons got to be the goody two shoes, a perspective flip would be cool.
>live action movie not based on a cartoon or comic
>video games
How is this thread still up?
The side haircut is the female Fedora hat. Looks good on certain prople, but looks shit on most.
Couldn’t have put it any better!
My Neversoft boy better be in it
Based tastes
Nah for real as a kid I loved this boy so much, I always wanted a toy of him but besides the Burger King toy it was never made. And I didn't even get the Burger King one because my Mom refused to order from BK!
Dang
>It's a bunch of toys fighting each other instead of Commando Elites taking down human targets through superior tactics and home-made weapons, or having the player characters be stalked by hordes of Commando Elite
WEAK
Damn. Political cartoons in the 60s were dark.
Hopefully they add a game mode with that stuff.
It would be disappointing to not have that concept utilized.
>asymmetrical game where one side is made up of tiny Commando Elite toys and the other side is a giant kid who has to get enough evidence and then get to a grown-up to make them listen
>the toy side has a ton of players, but they have to grab parts to make weapons capable of hurting the kid or to make traps to take out grown-ups before they can be warned
>meanwhile the kid can destroy the singular toys with one good baseball bat hit, forcing the remaining toys to do a whole Barbie Doll thing to allow their comrades to respawn
>If the kid manages to take all of them out or warn the adults then the toys lose, if the toys manage to whittle the kid's health down through a thousand cuts or take out all the adults by slipping sleeping pills into their glasses or electrocuting them with sabotaged wiring then the toys win
>maps range from "small" like a toy store where you can hide among the toys to ambush, to a couple of houses in a neighbourhood where you can take out the neighbours while the kid is busy at one of the other houses
Yay or nay?
Oh also I suppose the kid side should have a small amount of Gorgonite players as well, for there to be a little more pew pew between players, but they wouldn't have a respawn like the Commandos so the kid would have to help them with heals or something. Maybe they end up on the Commando side if they die completely, making it harder for the kid if he doesn't protect his little pals. They'd run interference to slow down the Commando Elite's plans, so that the kid has time to show up and destroy their trap or take a bunch of them out if they're clustered and fighting Gorgonites.
The female characters design is just v from cyberpunks head on a warhammer space marine body
But who will be the keeper of Encarta?
You just KNOW that she's going to get so much "mindbroken by Gorgonite wiener" fapfics/images.
Wouldn’t have it any other way anon.
Name a more badass moment than chip hazard floating down the river you CANT
That can't seriously be the title, right? I mean, I get it, GW's legal team only goes after poor people and/or fan animators, but this is a bit much.
>That can't seriously be the title, right?
You underestimate a criminal who is trying to hijack several brand names. He’s currently fricking over the biker mice from mars team, nacelle. He thinks that universal, Spielberg, hasbro, and games workshop won’t frick him over. This is an ego of a spoiled rich kid crook
Wait, explain? I was under the impression this was being done by one of the big studios?
>Wait, explain? I was under the impression this was being done by one of the big studios?
Why didn’t you read the thread? Read
He comes from a wealthy family. His dad embezzled funds from an investment firm and help distribute it to fictitious companies in a complex web and was charged thanks to europol.
He stole the medabot name the moment it expired and then made a complete knockoff. He lives in andorra which is a notorious tax haven for criminals in Spain and Italy, and Spain was lenient to side with him because they accept all types of crypto bullshit. He used the name to make a nft crypto scam and fooled “100,000” users, mostly from Latin America. His representative of the studio was a Arab criminal that got arrested for fraud in the Netherlands then fled to Dubai. He didn’t pay his Pakistani offshore people that made the shovelware and dropped them. When he announced the project, some shmuck gave him 50 million for “nft” projects he plans on making; which is clear it’s just money laundering and not a cash injection/investment.
He then proceeded to do the same with mega babies, biker mice, and now this. This is not in any way associated with small soldiers or the companies behind it, this video is a means to fleece people for their money in return for a nonexistent game/project.
For context, all of his shills are mostly Latinos and Indians earning a few dollars per day. His shills tried doing this on Cinemaphile with medabots and got exposed so he tripled down on social media; he ended up getting the medabot hashtag banned and reset because of his shills abusing it. He seems to be successful with this con as apparent by the replies of this thread and /toy/ and I do not sympathize with anyone who’s going to be tricked by this yet again.
I'll be completely honest, no, I wasn't particularly interested until just recently with some of the replies. Deeply regretting that now...what a shitshow, this is hilarious.
Frick man ! I didn't expected that, I am kind of impressed how he was able to fool so many people.
I just hope this makes the big studios realize there may actually be some money in the small soldiers brand.
Welp…There go my hopes for a cool Small Soldiers sequel/reboot game with a xenophobic tomboy space marine GF.
Me to. How does someone steal so many IPs and Release such a well made trailer with no involvement from the IP holders?!
You do know that GW doesn't own the word Necron, right?
They do when it comes to a fictional toy by the name 'Necron'. A first-year law school scrub could win that case, anon. And yes, they do actually own the word in a commercial context.
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Copyright-and-Legal-Information
I don't see Necron on that, and they'd be hard pressed to enforce it, since the name existed before Warhammer 40K did.
...and all associated logos, illustrations, images, names, creatures, races, vehicles, locations,...
CTRL+F isn't always your friend, anon.
Plus, the box in the video even says 'NECRON ARMY'. Can't really get easier than that.
>...and all associated logos, illustrations, images, names, creatures, races, vehicles, locations,...
None of that matters unless they can prove they came up with it
>NECRON ARMY
Now that is actually be something they could enforce, since a "Necron Army" IS something that they did come up with.
They can't claim Necron as a name, because they didn't come up with it. But they did come up with the idea of a militaristic species named as such.
Loved the movie as a kid, I remember clamoring for the Chip Hazard toy, but they weren't sold where I lived.
Also, the video is not a videogame, it's just a concept some students slapped together in UE5.
What a bizarre IP to try and profit off of. Was Small Soldiers really that popular back in the day? This really could've been its own thing.
I'd say it was like Space Jam, but not as popular. The kids really liked it, everyone else shrugged it off. Now those kids grew up, so it's kinda like a nostalgic hidden gem.
That's true. To be honest I just noticed it's was small soldiers some time later since I completely forgot about the IP.