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Media Essays: My Adventures At Disney World
Hey everybody! I'm back! Two weeks have flown by in a flash and now I'm here with a new post to tell you all about it! As mentioned in my last post, I took a break from uploading blog posts because I was going on holiday to Florida. This is my first time ever going on holiday to America, and it's by far the biggest holiday I've been on in my life thus far! So what did I do while I was there? I spent about four days at Universal Orlando and also got to visit the Discovery Cove
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5 days ago26 min read


Media Essays: The Bear Fight Shot-By-Shot Analysis
It's that time again, time for another shot-by-shot analysis essay! And I feel today's subject will be the perfect movie scene to do a shot-by-shot analysis for. For today's post, I've chosen to do a shot-by-shot essay of my favourite scene from Disney's The Fox and the Hound, which is among my favourite Disney films. That scene...is the bear fight. Years ago, I placed this scene at Number 2 on my Top 10 Most Memorable Disney Scenes list, and for good reason! Because it's suc
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Oct 1617 min read


Media Essays: Doctor Who For Kids
Written by The Wandering Fox Freddy: Hey, didn’t you say you were gonna stop doing Doctor Who essays? Teddy: Yeah, you know yourself a lot of people don’t read your essays about that, why bother? Have you seen this!? Freddy: … Teddy: … Yeah, I mean look at it! The TARDIS looks like it’s got green diarrhoea flying out of its backside, the Daleks’ eyestalks are bloody dreadful and those “arms” are daft as s***, the “Doctor” is just a Gen Z kid waving around a Sonic Screwdriver
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Oct 159 min read


Media Essays: Star Wars Horror: Can It Work?
Written by The Wandering Fox Freddy: Uhhhhhh. Really? Teddy: Yeah really, like why? Wandering Fox I get you have a thing for horror and it’s October but what on this Earth made you think this was a topic worth discussing? Freddy: Yeah c’mon mate, Star Wars horror!? It’s bad enough we got a Star Wars crossover with Marvel coming out! I know I get it, the title itself will get anybody thinking I’ve gone off my medicine! But no, I’ll explain myself. You see with the way Star War
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Oct 1411 min read


Media Essays: The Career of Terrorhurtz
Remember that essay I did about Dominator 2 and how I talked about axe-bots leaving their mark on the show? This essay is all about another axe-bot, and one that's even deadlier than Dominator 2. This is a machine that has had quite a rough history, but it has made a name of itself and left a big impact on the show, and also the fandom. This robot is one that proves axes are still weapons to be feared as they can still be quite damaging and deadly. That robot...is Terrorhurtz
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Oct 920 min read


Media Essays: Why Optimus Prime: Awakening Left Me Confused
It's already been a month since Peter Cullen passed away, and Transformers fans are still grieving over the man who made Optimus Prime who he is today. This is probably why when this new short was announced, a lot of people were keener than ever to flock to their local cinema and rewatch The Transformers: The Movie. Not only was the movie rereleased as part of Hasbro's "Apology Tour" campaign to celebrate the movie's 40th anniversary, but Peter Cullen's untimely passing made
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Oct 112 min read


Media Essays: The Career of Robochicken
Anyone suddenly craving chicken right now? Then you might want to see this essay. For this new entry in "The Career of" series, I'm covering a robot that, much like Diotoir, is more iconic and famous for being a funny joke machine than being a serious contender and for actually having a solid combat record. This is a machine that everyone in the Robot Wars fandom remembers, even if it never wins much. Sometimes in Robot Wars, a goofy looking machine or a silly idea can leave
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Sep 1111 min read


Media Essays: Shadow the Hedgehog: A Creative Dead End?
Teddy: Oh boy isn’t this gonna be a touchy subject? Freddy: Yeah, how dare anybody criticise the second most famous Sonic character!? Teddy: To be fair there has been a number of critics coming out against him anyway so Wandering Fox isn’t alone in this. Freddy: Nope. But still, Shadow is a very sensitive subject in SEGA and in the fandom, there’s always that big argument of what people can and can’t do with him, you wonder how much of it is true and what isn’t. Teddy: Yes, b
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Sep 1013 min read


Media Essays: The Career of Dominator 2
Whenever you think of great robots, the most common ones that come to mind will usually be armed with flippers, lifters, spinners or crushers. But if there's one kind of robot that tends to get overlooked, it's axe bots. Robots armed with axes aren't always the most popular machines out there, and with today's version of robot combat, it's very rare you'll even see a robot armed with an axe since axes just don't seem as effective as they used to be. That was a whole different
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Sep 417 min read


Media Essays: My Adventures With Superman Rewrite Part 3
Written by The Wandering Fox Continued from Part 2. Season 2 follows a similar pattern albeit we don’t get Lois doubting her relationship with Clark. What allows Superman to be captured is because while covering Hank Henshaw’s shuttle takeoff he has to stop it from blowing up, which in turn leaves him to be ambushed by Supergirl who chastises him for helping the very planet that hates him. Episode 1 mostly is the same, only Hank is working for Lex for his space programme and
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Sep 323 min read


Media Essays: My Adventures With Superman Rewrite Part 2
Written by The Wandering Fox Supporting Cast Ron Troupe Ron is a guy here as he is supposed to be. He’s a more reasonable reporter compared to the big and larger than life Cat and Steve, but still has a spine when it comes to tackling issues such as bigotry and stands up for Superman when Luthor tries to paint him as a untrustworthy alien. Ron helps Lucy settle into the Daily Planet with them both falling in love and Lucy confesses to him the truth of why she’s here, with Ron
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Sep 219 min read


Media Essays: My Adventures With Superman Rewrite Part 1
Written by The Wandering Fox Freddy: Didn’t wait long did he? Teddy: Well now that Season 3 is done with he can make a start on it. Freddy: I wonder if we should let everybody know now this isn’t a hate piece? Teddy: They should know it’s not, they only got to look at his thoughts on MAWS. He doesn’t hate it. He doesn’t love it either. Freddy: Ugh you know what people are like on the internet, they don’t bother reading past the first few words. Teddy: I hope they read this be
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Sep 122 min read


Media Essays: Ash vs. Sawyer: How Good Was It?
After the atrocity that was Ash vs. Cameron last week, THIS is a battle actually worth covering and talking about. Unlike the previous battle, Ash vs. Sawyer is actually pretty beloved. It's certainly more beloved than Ash vs. Alain was, that's for sure. Hey, at least they didn't hype Ash up to win and then chicken out at the last minute. XD This one's going to be a fun analysis for me, because Ash vs. Sawyer is one of my favourite Pokémon battles in the entire anime, both in
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Aug 2112 min read


Media Essays: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy Rewrite Part 2
Written by The Wandering Fox Freddy: You all still with us? Teddy: You better be because now we’re getting to the stories! Freddy: Will this get enough interest? Teddy: Will you leave a comment? If you do make any, make sure you are polite about whatever you say. Yes I would much welcome it if you were. Last part we looked at what was staying, going and what was new. This here is where we get to the movies. So imagine that this is the first of the trilogy we got in 2015 inste
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Aug 2015 min read


Media Essays: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy Rewrite Part 1
Written by The Wandering Fox Freddy: Hold on. Didn’t we do this already? Teddy took a look. Teddy: Yes! He did this years ago! Back in 2023! Freddy: That’s strange. Wonder why he wants to do another rewrite? Teddy: Maybe he’s bored? Freddy: Maybe he has another idea? Teddy: Don’t know. Wandering Fox, why are you doing ANOTHER sequel trilogy rewrite? Well. Because I have been feeling a little more in a Star Wars mood. It’s been well over a decade since the sequels began and si
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Aug 1916 min read


Media Essays: Ash vs. Cameron: How BAD Was It?
Oh boy...I'm in for a bad time with this one aren't I? Ash vs. Cameron from the Pokémon Black and White era of the anime is extremely contentious amongst the fans. It is unanimously considered Ash's most embarrassing League loss in the entire series, and even to this day is used as an example of the writers' stubborn refusal to let Ash win a league at its worst. One could argue that Ash losing to Tobias was worse since they literally just farted in a random guy with Legendary
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Aug 1413 min read


Media Essays: Growing Up With BIONICLE
Once again, we find ourselves celebrating a huge milestone in the world of media. In this case, it's the 25th anniversary of one of the biggest and most successful toylines of the 2000's decade. A toyline, I hear you ask? Which one? We're getting to that, readers. 2026 marks 25 years since this toyline graced toy shelves and began a whole legion of toy collectors, be they kids or adults, and is still celebrated for its achievements to this day. That toyline...is BIONICLE. Rel
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Aug 1010 min read


Media Essays: Pokémon Horizons Rewrite (Part 4)
Parts 1, 2 and 3 here. And here we are folks, the final part of this huge rewrite of Pokémon Horizons. I can't begin to tell you how fun it's been taking the original series and giving it a change for the better. Now for this part, we give Horizons the conclusion it deserves by making Season 6 entirely about Blueberry Academy and ditching Season 7's original premise entirely so we can instead making Season 7 all about wrapping up the Laqua storyline. So without further ado, l
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Jul 3116 min read


Media Essays: Pokémon Horizons Rewrite (Part 3)
Parts 1 and 2 here. And so here we are ladies and gentlemen, Part 3 of my Pokémon Horizons rewrite. The previous four seasons were easy enough as I stuck mostly to what came before while making changes when appropriate. But for this part, I'm more or less rewriting everything from the ground up while keeping very little of the original seasons. The time-skip era of Horizons is when the show really jumped the Sharpedo and just felt directionless with no sense of what the story
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Jul 2412 min read


Media Essays: My Relationship With MAWS
Written by The Wandering Fox Teddy: Do you think people will get it? Freddy: Well knowing the Media Man he’ll stick a poster of My Adventures with Superman on there so it will help. Teddy: Yeah, otherwise it’s a long title, My Relationship with My Adventures with Superman is a bit much to say or read. Freddy: Still, it’ll be interesting to see what our wandering friend has to say. That it will be! As a fan of Superman I have got quite the oddest relationship with MAWS. Yes, r
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Jul 2316 min read
