Marvel-ous Day

It's been a banner day to be a Marvel fan.  Yes, I went there.  Well, ok, it's always a great day to be a Marvel fan, but today the bar was set high.  My movie dates have now been established for the next five years.  Most coinciding with either my wedding anniversary, or my birthday. Hooray for the Fan family.  

This afternoon was the epic #MarvelEvent.  Marvel Studios President, Kevin Feige unveiled Phase three of the Marvel Cinematic Universe at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood.

Phase One consisted of Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk (with Edward Norton), Iron Man 2, Thor, Captain America: The First Avenger.  Phase one ended with Marvels The Avengers.

Phase Two kicked off with Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World &t Captain America:  The Winter Soldier. That was followed by the young upstart Guardians of the Galaxy, which has gone from a movie that people weren't sure about how it would turn out.  Myself included.  To a massive blockbuster. Then it's worth noting that the  ABC Television series The Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D picked up right where Cap left off and undoubtedly is leading us down the careening path to the next part of Phase Two.  And for those of you who don't watch The Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, why not?  If for nothing else Agent Coulson is front and center.

Anyway, Phase Two will kick back up with Avengers: Age of Ultron on May 1 of 2015 and will end with Ant-Man in July of 2015.

So today's event picks up where Ant-Man drops off and has laid out the rest of the films in perfect order.

It starts off with Captain America: Civil War and ultimately ends with Avengers Infinity War Part Two in May of 2019.  Which is a super long way to go for a resolution.  But you and I both know it will be well worth the wait.

There was at least for me a big surprise was the reveal of the casting of the Black Panther, he is to be played by Chadwick Boseman of 42 and Get on Up fame.  He was introduced at the event by none other than Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Evans.

 Though he isn't supposed to appear until Civil War, this announcement has me wondering if there is any creedence to the thoughts last week that Andy Sirkus could in fact be playing Ulysses Klaw, who is Black Panther's nemesis.  Since it's rumored that Klaw is involved, and Vibranium, it makes me wonder (hope, hope, hope) that Black Panther also makes a surprise appearance in Avengers; Age of Ultron.  Though of course, it's all speculation at this point.

One of the other highlights for me was the arrival of Captain Marvel, Carol Danvers.  This marks the debut of a solo Marvel film with a female character for the lead.  Since we are talking about this first it is also worth mentioning that there are no plans for a solo Black Widow film.  Also no solo film for Mark Ruffalo's Hulk.

I could go on and on about the announcements today but I will leave it at this for now.  Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D is coming up and I can't wait to see the exclusive clip that they have from the Age of Ultron tonight.

If you followed along with the #MarvelEvent today.  What announcements were you most excited about?  Are you watching Shield tonight?  Do you think it's going to lead us into the Avengers: Age of Ultron?

Got No Strings...Age of Ultron Trailer

So a half a day late and a dollar short but oh my goodness.  My household was in a tizzy last night.  What started out as an oops ended up with much celebration

The Avengers:Age of Ultron trailer that was supposed to debut during the Agents of Shield on Tuesday got leaked last night.  It was pulled rather quickly.  Then Marvel had this brilliant comeback on Twitter

And for the first time ever I say Hail Hydra! Because shortly after that the trailer was officially released.




 Not much context was shown, but oh the teasers for what's to come.  The Hulkbuster armor.  Thor dropping mjolnir.  The broken Captain America Shield. The Maximoff Twins, Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch in action. Of course not to be confused with the recent X-Men:Days of Future Past Quicksilver though they are one in the same.  Can't call them mutants, but they are miraculous ;) Not to mention lots of Hulk/Bruce Banner, Tony Stark, Black Widow and Hawkeye. And of course, the one and only Nick Fury. 

Then we have some really good views of Ultron, and the voiceover is nothing short of ominous. (Have I mentioned that I love James Spader?  He's come a long way since Steff from Pretty in Pink.)

Of course the creepy distorted version of Pinocchio's "I've Got No Strings" adds to the dark vibe.  Pinocchio and dark vibe, who knew?  But it all ties together in an amazing teaser. 

This appears to be heading down a much darker path and I can't wait to see how it plays out. 

There are rumors, that what was released last night wasn't actually the trailer they were going to air on Tuesday.  But that remains to be seen.

Now I'm trying to figure out how the current story line from Agents of Shield is arcing into the Avengers since we know that Shield picked up where the Winter Soldier left off.  There is bound to be an arc or a tie in.

Have you watched the trailer?  What are your thoughts?  What was your favorite part?  What do you think you are most looking forward to seeing? 

Mini Adventures: Marvel is not just for boys

So its not terribly surprising that Marvel is spoken here as a family.  Even my princess loving mini is becoming fluent. 

Mini can recognize the logos of all of the Avengers and can tell you my favorites and why. She can talk Spidey with her brother and her Daddy, knows Thor and Loki.  Right now she has a fascination of all things Rocket.  I think right now it's mostly the cute factor more than anything else but you know, that's ok too.

In the midst of all of her puppy, kitty, American Girl dolls and princess pictures she recently added two pictures of Star- Lord and Rocket to her room.  The girl is developing her own interests and I'm letting her pick and choose.  Obviously within reason.

During our "big summer blowout" Disney/Star Wars Weekends/Universal trip she picked out her first Marvel shirt.   She thought it was cute and well, she's six.  

E decided to wear her Marvel shirt today with leggings and a sparkle athletic gunmetal skirt. it was the perfect E outfit, sparkly and cute with the right amount of spunk.  She couldn't get more girly today if she tried.   

Well, apparently she could. Tonight at dinner Mini announced that she was wearing a boys shirt.  I said, no...remember we bought it in the girls section and it's talking about boys. She looked at me and said "No, Mommy...girls don't wear superhero shirts.  Only boys do."  After assuring her that girls can and do wear superhero shirts, she finally told me that some of her friends told her she was wearing a boys shirt and it embarrassed her.  It bothered her enough that she even told her big brother about it and he was talking to me about it too.

I want mini to be proud of her choices.  I don't want her to feel like because she's a girl she can't like Marvel, or Star Wars, or whatever. If she wants to be a princess superhero so be it.  She is the only one who can decide that.

 

 

The genesis

This summer was an amazing summer great vacation, then a week or so later I was lucky enough to be invited to attend the Disney Social Media Moms on the Road Celebration in Phoenix. Such a huge thing for me and as an added bonus I got to hang out with DisBroad Patty for a day and a half.

Oh and I got to fan girl my favorite feline too.  Guys, I got twitterpated by a cat.  True story.  But I love her. She was more concerned about sleeping but oh well...You can tell how excited she was.

Ok, so aside from those particular things, I got inspired. Tracey Clark from Disney Sisters, had an amazing session speaking about mobile photography.  This of course piqued my interest.  I am forever talking pictures with my phone.  You name it, if it interests me I take a picture of it.  I got all sorts of fired up and learned ways to shoot outside the ordinary, and some invaluable editing lessons.  I'm also learning that while there is a lot of information about iPhone photography there is not as much about Android photography.  So I'm learning as I'm going. She also had one of my favorite quotes from the the day, "What you envision, may not always happen, Embrace it, that is where the magic is."  That's kind of become a daily mantra for me in areas even outside of photography.

Somewhere in the midst of all of the awesomeness that was that day. This idea reared it's head again and it began to germinate.  Believe me when I tell you that poor Patty had to listen to me obsess about it from Phoenix to the Shenanigans home.  That would be an hour, and then we hashed it out some more, and some more.  Even talked about it at dinner with Mr. Shenanigans that night.  Yikes.  Sorry Patty.  I stew.  I don't fly by the seat of my pants and just run with an idea.  That being said Patty was the one who helped me come up with the name.

I got on the plane from Phoenix with an idea and a plan.  Granted it took me awhile to get it together but it's here and I'm super excited.

I would also be remiss if I didn't thank Chris from On a Roll designs.  She was the mastermind behind my awesome logo, header and button.  Thank you DisBroad Amy for suggesting her services.  I Etsy convo'ed her and I think we kind of became fast friends from that first conversation.  The girl gets me, bless her heart.   She's also incredibly talented.  We've joked that I'm just going to put her on retainer because I keep thinking of things that I would like to have done.  Seriously amazing.  Seriously.

 From one conversation about what I had in mind, where I wanted to go with the blog, what I wanted to say.  She gave me not one but four different images.  It was hard to decide.  Obviously I went with two of them.  But I love them all.

If you need any graphic design work, check Chris out, I promise you won't be disappointed.

So now that I've discussed ad nauseam  the origins and thanked the people who got me here, I think I'm ready to move on.  Thank you again for joining me on the journey.

Wordless Wednesday: I am Groot edition

Prologue

Ahh there's always a beginning isn't there.  Running was the impetus for Suzanne Ran.  Then the runDisney and Disney obsession started sneaking in more and more and then well, it's just a fabulous time to enjoy being a Marvel fan right now.  Lots and lots of things to talk about it.

I started to feel like maybe, just maybe my non-running stuff needed a home.  It always seemed out of place for me and I truly never got comfortable posting my other loves there.  

I fully intend to share my love of Disney, Marvel, Star Wars, music...whatever.  Oh and I might bring up my little people from  to time to time too.  I'm kind of funny that way.

Welcome to my little corner of the nerdiverse..  Allow me to introduce myself properly, I am the unassuming nerdy alter ego of Suzanne Ran.  To all who are like-minded welcome.  To those who humor me just because...well, thank you and I love you for that. :)  

I married into Marvel/Star Wars fandom.  Spidey was my gateway...He kind of digs me too.

Star Wars was a close second.

From those humble beginnings my own interests have surprisingly developed.   I've branched out slightly to X-Men, you can ask DisBroad Shannon my reaction to seeing Cyclops at Islands of Adventure after Princess weekend.  I fan-girled hard.

When I told Cyclops that I wanted the picture for my husband and son, he said "Well, then, let's make this a good one".  I hope to do just that.  Come on in and make yourself comfortable.  

(oh and please excuse my dust as I get comfy in my second home)