Do you know ICQ? Or have you been through the ICQ years? ICQ is the first instant messenger, before MSN and Yahoo messenger. ICQ is supposed to mean I seek you. ICQ was developed by a company Mirabilis. It was later bought over by AOL and others before ending up with VK, the current owner. As the usage for IM is getting less as most users moved to mobile using Whatsapp or other messaging apps. For users that had an account on ICQ, they probably not expecting this item to be still active online. I tried to login to my ICQ, the ICQ app does not seems to respond and unable to switch to English. They have the web version and it works fine. I could login and saw that my contacts are left with 2 users and they haven't been active for a long time. Guess with the decline of IM usage now, it is coming to an end. Hopefully, it will be back in some form again in future. Visit ICQ while it last.

https://icq.com/

For Terminator fans, Netflix will have the Terminator Zero, an anime based on the Terminator franchise. Right now, if the image is what will be from the show, it would probable be focus on the Terminator 1 years. The last recent Terminator shows have been quite bad in term of storyline. Hopefully, a animation can do it the right direction, for the fans. Terminator Zero, should be premiering from Netflix on 29 August, 2024.

The Transformers: 40th Anniversary Event

The Transformers: 40th Anniversary Event is here in Singapore, selected Shaw cinemas. This is a showing of the first 4 episodes of the Transformers Generation One series, More Than Meets the Eye, Part 1 to 4. These 4 episodes tells of how the Transformers arrives on Earth with their on-going battle. It also introduce their human allies characters, Spike and Sparkplug. This is the show that started it all and no other shows of the series can match it. If you are a fan that been through the early years, you may want to catch it and relive the hype. If you are a new fan, watch it too and feel it in cinema with other fans. Catch it in Shaw cinemas.

https://shaw.sg/movie-details/770

One of Singapore's last magazine shop is closing on 5-May-2024. Thambi Magazine Store at Holland Village, they have been around for 80 years. They have been through the years where readers go there for their dose of magazines. Today, how many of us still read magazines? Or the physical magazines? The magazine selections are filled the whole wall and the other side, shelf. News of their closure brought along mass of people to visit and also to purchase into a memory that will be gone. I am one of them. There is nothing much left on the shelf except for some out dated magazines or titles that doesn't interest you. Nevertheless, am happy they get to clear much of their stock before closing.

James Gunn, the number one person in the DC studio, have posted a picture Green Lantern's power ring in Green Lantern's arm shown in a fist. Is Gunn sharing a message to fans or it is just a image for sharing? Currently, there are Green Lantern projects in the making. Guy Gardner will be in the new Superman movie. The TV series will have Hal Jordan and John Stewart as the main characters while other corps members will make appearances. Hopefully it wouldn't be a long wait for Green Lantern fans, waiting for a proper live action Green Lantern show. As a Green Lantern fan, I am glad Hal Jordan will be the main character of the TV series.

 

When Kamen Riders first appears on TV, the show was simple yet serious story. As the franchise evolves, it gets modernized and in the latest movie, it seems that the show has become kind of a children show. I have just watched the latest movie, it kinds of not what I expected. The main characters are young persons, teenagers. They would shout and trying to be humorous. All the while there are some slight humor from the early series but this is a bit different. Totally for kids. Maybe I should continue from OOO to see all the changes slowly. But overall is not really my type of Kamen Rider. And the cinema hall is quite empty when I watched it. They should have more showtime for 555, the previous rider movie. It was full house.

Masked Rider 555: Paradise Regained, the movie was shown on local cinema Golden Village during the weekend. Many fans goes for the show. Mostly the older fans that grew with this series some 20 years ago. I have watched the movie and now I know some of the changes they made to it. I am not giving any spoilers here. You get new Rider, cameo rider, new characters, twist in characters. Overall, it is a show good enough for the 555 fans. With this, I am looking forward more movies for this series. If the new series have multiple movies, they should put out more for 555, since there are enough audiences for it. I feel these classic riders are for the mature audiences and they do not have those young characters type that makes the show feel like a children show. Lastly, the movie comes with free Autographed posters.