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Very much looking forward to this :)

There's also a Madame Tussauds in Niagara Fall, Ontario, Canada which I have been to, though not for decades.

DAMN! How could I have forgotten "Hard Core Logo" for my "wish they were real bands" list?!

Canadian Triple Play The Canadian Conspiracy Canadian Bacon Goon "Men With Brooms" could substitute for "Goon", if you want one with a Canadian lead.

The "Bands We Wish Existed" Trilogy This is Spinal Tap The Ruttles Walk Hard

A year and a half? That sucks. Most are a little late, because excrement occurs. If it's any consolation to you there are still people who haven't received their perks from the "Space Janitors" season 3 Kickstarter. That was due in 2014. I think the only reason that I got mine, about 2.5 years...

I so want to visit that place, but I don't want to go to England to do it 😂

If that sets you off then I don't suggest you sign up for email notifications. A couple of years ago I bought a Smallsword for a friend in Whiting, IN from a shop in Elgin, IL. I was hoping that she would do a CosPlay of "La Maupin." Elgin is just west of Chicago, close enough to be a suburb...

This guy was so easily bored with a game that we would sometimes have character creation sessions, for a new one, then never actually play it. You get all hyped on something and buy the $40.00 book, then it sits on your shelf forever.

We had a GM who would start us on a system, play it for a few months, and then just when it was getting good he'd get bored, and start something new. Pity, because he was our best RP GM. I wasn't as good but ran stuff for much longer, so more players were satisfied.

The power creep is real.

I was reading/collecting in the 1960s and 1970s, so I bear the Old Knowledge ;)

Exactly. Some of the more recent stuff as bordered on Birdman power.

But he never should have done "Biker Boyz."

Kiss pretty much had wrestling personas. You could have thrown them in the ring with The Undertaker and The Iron Sheik, and no one would have blinked.

The yellow sun was certainly part of it; the heat vision, invulnerability, and such, but Krypton also had a much higher gravity than Earth, so "Leap tall buildings..." and super strength. More recently it's become more about the sun than gravity. Maybe, but if it comes down to duelling fandoms...

Add Glitter Rock for the trifecta.

The problem with "sufficiently good and special" is that those special things are what ends up making derivative works good as well. Beyond that, what comes later has the advantage of seeing what worked for the public and what didn't. I'm not sure that Superman would exist as he does, today...

And that's the problem with the truly seminal works of speculative fiction; even when done right, people will think they're derivative of something else, rather than that something else being inspired by them. I mentioned "Lensmen." Most people would just think it's a Star Wars rip-off, these days.

I can relate. Many years ago I'd make the trek into downtown Toronto like it was a religious pilgrimage. I was always excited to be there and would spend hours at used clothing stores, alt clothing stores, surplus stores, game stores, and record shops. After working there for over 25 years I now...