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The 10 Best Classic Anime on Streaming

The days of mail-ordering a VHS tape that’s basically a copy of a copy of fan-subtitled anime are long gone, but those beloved stories endure. With several options for streaming series and movies from the Internet, there’s no better time to be an anime fan. Not only can you watch worldwide simulcasts of new favorites, but you can also easily revisit the series and movies that first got you into Japanese animation without digging through the closet for your old tapes. And best of all, they’re much better quality than those blurry, wobbly copies.

So fire up Netflix, Hulu, Crunchyroll, and YouTube, and prepare to be taken back in time for ageless anime that helped define the medium for viewers around the world.

Astro Boy (Hulu)

Astro Boy, also known as Tetsuwan Atomu (Mighty Atom) in Japan, is widely considered one of the manga and later anime series that started it all. The classic story by Osamu Tezuka has been made into a number of television series and even a 2009 CGI film.

The story follows the title character, a superheroic robot boy created by a scientist after his son dies. Hulu currently has the complete 1980s series, dubbed in English and Spanish.

Cowboy Bebop (Funimation)

Cowboy Bebop is a classic series that many anime fans count among their old favorites. It’s the year 2071, and  galactic bounty hunters (known as “cowboys”) roam among the stars. Spike Spiegel and his crew are on the lookout for escaped criminals, but it’s the ghosts of their pasts that are actually chasing them. The melancholy tones and quirky but likable crew taught many first-time anime viewers that “animation” doesn’t always mean “kids’ cartoons.”

The first four English-dubbed episodes of this 1998 series are available for free on Funimation; a subscription is required for the full series. You can also find it subtitled on Crunchyroll.

Dragon Ball Z (Funimation)

Along with Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball Z is an anime often credited by many fans as the show that first got them hooked. Episode after episode with epic battles packed with flashy moves showed many young fans just what anime is capable of. Starting in 1989, the action-packed adventures of Goku went on for 291 episodes, so get ready to get comfy for some marathon binging.

The first ten episodes (dubbed and subbed ) are free on Funimation, and the rest can be watched by subscribers. You can also find the first Dragon Ball series subtitled on Hulu.

Lupin the 3rd: Castle of Cagliostro (Netflix)

Lupin the 3rd is a charming gentleman thief whose exploits were written and illustrated by Monkey Punch. He’s often accompanied by his partner in crime, Daisuke Jigen, and their occasional cohorts Goemon and Fujiko. In 1979, Lupin and friends made it to the big screen for a second time in an adventure co-written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki.

Do we really need to say more? Watch it dubbed or subtitled on Netflix now.

Ranma 1/2 (Hulu)

It’s time for some boy-who-turns-into-a-girl-meets-girl hijinks in the television series Ranma 1/2. Don’t worry, it makes sense once you start watching it. Rumiko Takahashi’s whimsical series, which ran for 143 episodes starting in 1989, is a martial-arts romantic comedy for the ages.

All episodes are currently available with subtitles on Hulu.

Revolutionary Girl Utena (YouTube)

Once you’ve seen an episode of Revolutionary Girl Utena (or Shoujo Kakumei Utena), you’ll never forget it. Effortlessly stylish, slightly surreal, and utterly romantic, Utena is the tale of Utena Tenjou, a student at an elite school who is determined to become a prince one day. When she meets Anthy Himemiya, she gets swept up in a world she didn’t know existed.

The entire 49 episode series is currently available subtitled on YouTube.

The Rose of Versailles (YouTube)

This series is considered one of the quintessential shoujo (girls) manga and anime. The Rose of Versailles takes place in France during the French Revolution, following Lady Oscar François de Jarjayes, who was trained in fighting since childhood as if she were a boy. She becomes part of the Royal Guard protecting Marie Antoinette.

The 40 episode series, which originally aired in 1979-1980, can be streamed on YouTube and Crunchyroll.

Sailor Moon (Hulu)

For many who grew up in the 1990s, the English dub of Sailor Moon was a life-changing introduction to anime. With a heroine who sometimes seems less than super, and her group of loyal friends with relatable personalities, Sailor Moon makes it possible for anyone to imagine themselves as a magical girl. If you haven’t watched the original TV series in Japanese, or you’ve never seen the final season (Sailor Moon Sailor Stars), there’s no better time than now thanks to Hulu.

All 200 episodes of Sailor Moon are available on Hulu in Japanese, along with the 2014 reboot series, Sailor Moon Crystal.

Space Pirate Captain Harlock (Crunchyroll)

In the year 2977, the oceans of Earth have all but evaporated. Humans are prospering, but they’ve lost most of their spark and drive because they no longer need to work for a living. Instead, they mindlessly zone out on entertainment. One man, Captain Harlock of the Arcadia, chooses not to lose his passions, hoisting a jolly roger pirate flag on the bow of his spaceship and living among the stars.

Created in 1978, the 42 episode television series is available subtitled on Crunchyroll.

Yu Yu Hakusho (Hulu)

Yusuke Urameshi isn’t having the best day. For one, he gets in trouble with the principal at school, has an argument with his mom, and gets into a fight. Oh, and he’s dead, perishing heroically after saving a little boy from an oncoming car. But that’s just the start of his real problems.

The 112 episode television series, which first aired in 1992, can now be found subtitled on Hulu; a six-episode series is on Crunchyroll.

What was your first anime? Tell us about it in the comments.

Featured Image: Yu Yu Hakusho (Studio Pierrot)

Images: Tezuka Productions, Sunrise, Toei Animation, Tokyo Movie Shinsha, Studio Deen, J.C.Staff, and Studio Pierrot

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Fan-Casting THE ADDAMS FAMILY Animated Movie

MGM first announced their animated adaptation of The Addams Family back in October 2017 with Gail Berman, Conrad Vernon, and Alex Schwartz producing the film. Other than a release date of October 11, 2019, and news of Oscar Isaac potentially voicing Gomez Addams, we don’t know a whole lot about the animated movie. The studio wants to go back to the roots of the Addams Family by focusing on the family itself but that still leaves a lot of room to work with. 

This is the perfect opportunity to introduce diverse voices for the animated film and, since announcements have been scarce on who is voicing the characters, I have a few ideas about who should portray The Addams Family.

Gomez Addams

Yes, Oscar Isaac has been cast to voice Gomez and fans have long wanted him to play the part because he would be a perfect updated version of Raúl Juliá’s Gomez. However, were his schedule to become to busy, I would love to see Diego Luna take the reigns of Gomez Addams. Luna has the perfect charm and wit for the character, and it helps that he has experience acting in animated films like The Book of Life. 

Morticia Addams 

The creator of The Addams Family, Charles Addams, describes Morticia as the the real head of the household: witty, with a sharp personality. Tracee Ellis Ross would be a great voice for Morticia and could offer her own flair that would add to Morticia’s well-known temperament. She already establishes herself as a loving mother and independent woman as Dr. Rainbow Johnson in the hit series Black-ish.

Wednesday Addams

Wednesday Addams has become an iconic character for many of us because of her dark personality and sadistic tendencies. Mckenna Grace already blew us away with her acting in Gifted and in I, Tonya, so we think she could ultimately make the jump to voice acting. She’s becoming a popular actor–she’ll be voicing young Carol Danvers in the forthcoming Captain Marvel–and I think it would be interesting to cast her as such an iconic character.

Pugsley Addams 

The eldest child of The Addams Family, Pugsley is just as devious and smart as Wednesday Addams. Fresh Off the Boat’s Hudson Yang could be a great voice for Pugsley. If this animated film takes on Pugsley’s intelligent and inventive personality from the original series, as well as his closeness with Wednesday, I think Yang would do a great job since he has already played a precocious role.



Uncle Fester

Bill Hader probably already has a perfect Uncle Fester impersonation. We already know that Hader is extremely capable, so we’d love to see him take on this role. Yeah, he’s busy with Barry and It: Chapter 2 but I’m hopeful he can squeeze this into his schedule. 

Lurch

Lurch is the butler for the Addams family who has a characteristically deep voice a Frankenstein-like appearance. When you think of actors who have low or deep voices, there’s only a handful to choose from. For this role, I think Sam Elliot’s voice would be ideal for Lurch. More than likely, Lurch will be a supporting character in the animated film and Elliot’s deep voice will be a great homage to Ted Cassidy’s portrayal in the original series.

The closer we get to The Addams Family being released in theaters, the more we will hear about actors being cast for these roles. I’m sure my wishlist is far from what the final product will be but I am still pumped for this film. What are some actors you hope to see voice the Addams family in MGM’s new animated movie?

Images: Paramount Pictures/Lucasfilm/ABC/Fox Searchlight Pictures/ 20th Century Fox/HBO/Gramercy Pictures

Watch INFINITY WAR’s Thanos Comes to Life Via 3D Printer

It took Marvel ten years and 18 MCU movies worth of groundwork before they fully unleashed the Mad Titan on the universe in Avengers: Infinity War, and the big purple guy was worth the wait. But you can see Thanos come to life in mere seconds thanks to this time lapse video that shows 3D-printers work as magically as someone snapping their fingers after they collected all of the Infinity Stones.

This video, from the YouTube channel WildRose Builds, once again highlights how high-end 3D-printers (this one is a Prusa i3 MK3 model) are basically performing modern magic, as it builds Thanos’s head–with an internal lattice structure for support–from the neck up, layer by layer, into an eerily accurate, highly detailed bust. You can really feel those chin wrinkles! It also includes time lapse videos of builds for a loot llama, a “benchy” tugboat, and a Witcher Medallion.



The longer you stare at that Thanos sculpture the more you expect it to talk to you. So, uh, any chance of using this to bring Spider-Man back? Asking for a few million devastated friends. Because while we know this isn’t actual magic, just some amazing modern technology, we’ll take any hope we can get on how to undo the end of Infinity War.

Think if we build an entire statue of Thanos and ask him nicely he’ll do it himself?

What other character from Marvel’s MCU would you love to see built next with this 3D-printer? Don’t run from it; destiny calls you to give us your best idea in the comments below.

Featured Image: WildRose Builds

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This Is as Close as Hasbro Can Come to DEADPOOL 2 Movie Figures (Toy Review)

When you can’t do directly movie-based toys due to a lack of cooperation between the comics company that gave you the rights and the movie studio that didn’t, what’s a toy company to do? Generally, make the closest versions from the comic that you can, with as much knowledge as you’ve gotten from trailers and preproduction info. Last year, Hasbro gave us a Rob Liefeld-esque Colossus and an Old Man Logan to try and indirectly tie in to Deadpool and Logan; they also presciently gave us Shatterstar, without knowing he’d be in the new one. For the latest Marvel Legends series inspired by Deadpool, nearly every character has a live-action equivalent, and while we’re still left hoping that one day when Fox and Disney make nice there’ll be a Zazie Beetz figure, they’ve done a pretty good job at compensating.

The classic Deadpool is based on the first  Deadpool action figure ever, originally made by Toy Biz, which is why he only comes with short swords and no guns. He uses the Spider-Man double-pec articulation, and has sculpted buns of steel with an implied skin-tight spandex outfit.

X-Force Deadpool looks more like he’s wearing a sculpted costume, and is probably part of the lineup because of the moment glimpsed in the Deadpool 2 trailer where the suit goes dark gray after being covered in soot and ash. This Deadpool comes with two katanas and two guns, one of which has an orange tip to imply it’s actually a toy in-universe. The had grips are wide enough for the guns, so they hold the swords very loosely. Those are better kept in the sheaths on his back.

Cable has a glowing eye effect, and packs both a Rob Liefeld-sized giant gun that clips to his back, and two smaller guns, one of which can be holstered at his side. He’s heaviest on the detail and packs the most bang for the buck, as he should.

So it seems a little whiny to have any issues, buuuuut…because his left hand is an open grip (to steady the bigger gun), he can’t hold the two smaller guns at the same time. I get it; costs wouldn’t allow a second interchangeable hand. But maybe the sole one there could have had a pistol grip? Like, Cable is super powered, so who’s to say he can’t lift a Liefeld gun with one hand?

Since Dafne Keen’s character in Logan was ultimately revealed to be X-23, we get a comic version of her now too, using a smaller teenager body, and the ball-jointed (rather than double-jointed) elbows Marvel Legends tend to use for women, with mixed results. And this reminds us–we’re kind of overdue for a Negasonic Teenage Warhead figure, especially since the Marvel NOW version looks more like the movie version than before.

The angle on X-23’s right wrist is indeed a little weird; it’s not clear how those claws would straight-up retract.

Domino, naturally, is the other female character, and like X-23, has a mid-torso ball joint rather than the males’ ab-crunch/waist cut combo. The hinge and ball joint on her neck allows some creative cranial tilts. (Note: the feet are not cut out of the photo as a Liefeld tribute, but to conceal the hands of a person holding them up).

Deathlok appeared on Agents of SHIELD as a great character, but a terrible visual adaptation of one of the coolest Marvel designs ever. This is one instance where everyone should be happy the toy got the comic look. He comes with a huge gun, bandolier, and smaller gun that can be holstered.

And then there’s…Paladin. A C-list character made with a kitbashed body that heavily reuses Blade parts, and can’t even properly hold his guns in his single holster (for two pistols), this is a filler figure, but perhaps a fun one if that happens to be your favorite character. And hey, he might show up on the Daredevil Netflix series eventually. Otherwise, you’ll mainly want him to complete the Sasquatch build-a-figure, which each figure except classic Deadpool comes with a part of.

Mainly associated with Alpha Flight, Sasquatch was on the cover of Deadpool #1 back in 1997, and Bigfoot is a favorite obsession of Liefeld’s–he faked illness to stay home from church as a child so he could watch the Six Million Dollar Man fight the mythical primate. What’s most surprising about Sasquatch is that I fully expected him to reuse parts from Man-Thing, since Man-Thing’s forearms and thighs seemed deliberately vaguely sculpted to read as vines or hair. But no. While they were clearly designed by the same person(s), each sculpt is wholly different.

X-Force were heavily inspired by G.I. Joes in their design–that’s where the idea for all the pouches and big guns came from–and it’s maybe no surprise that collectively, this Deadpool Marvel Legends wave looks not unlike a 6-inch Joe squadron.

But if you want to use them to play Deadpool 2, you can come pretty near.

Another Deadpool wave is coming this fall that will include the comic version of his X-Men trainee outfit, but we may have to wait another movie for Negasonic.

Will you be picking up all or some of these? Let me know in comments.

Images: Luke Y. Thompson

Luke Y. Thompson is Nerdists’s weekend editor and resident toy scholar. Talk plastic to him on Twitter or Facebook.

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7 Spine-Chilling SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK

Alvin Schwartz and Stephen Gammell’s iconic collections of folklore and urban legends have been terrifying and enticing children since the 1981 release of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. Schwartz’s streamlined versions of familiar stories, combined with Gammell’s atmospheric and often horrifying art, created something truly special that was a formative part of many of our childhoods and burgeoning horror fandoms. With the news that Guillermo del Toro’s long awaited adaptation is moving ever closer to becoming a reality with the Oscar winner producing and co-writing the film, we thought we’d take a look back at the stories that spooked us the most!

Room For One More

A chilling Twilight Zone-esque tale of a young woman on her way to start a new job, and finds herself accosted by a haunting hearse driver who shouts “room for one more” at her as she walks to work. Spooked by the interaction, the protagonist continues on her way until she reaches her new place of employment. As her day ends, she heads to the elevator but is shocked to see the hearse driver in place of the usual attendant. He repeats his refrain “room for one more” but unsettled she heads down the stairs instead, where she hears the elevator crash to a fiery doom!

The Babysitter

One of the most influential and best-known urban legends of modern times which inspired an entire horror subgenre in slasher movies, The Babysitter is a stone cold classic. During a dark night, a young girl begins to get creepy phone calls whilst she’s looking after some small children to earn some easy cash. “Have you checked on the children?” the breathy voice threatens, calling again and again until our young heroine calls the police. They trace the call and say the eternally terrifying and now iconic words, “Get out! The calls are coming from inside the house!”

The Red Spot

This story transcended Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, becoming a recurring feature in teen magazines and later on urban legend websites. Not even 200 words long, this is one of the most affecting stories in Schwartz and Gammell’s playbook. A young girl gets a spider bite on her face that slowly grows until it eventually bursts, only for dozens of spiders to appear out of it. Truly the stuff that nightmares are made of.

The Thing

This tells the tale of two young boys who are bored during their summer vacation and spend their time wandering around the local town. One night the pair are sat on a fence when they see a spooky figure… but when they look again, he’s gone. The creepy figure eventually returns, his flesh rotting and falling off as he grabs one of the boys. They make their escape but aren’t believed when they share their ordeal. Alas, the boy who was grabbed becomes ill, his flesh rotting off until he looks just like the thing that grabbed him!

Is Something Wrong

This is a story that in any other context may have just been spooky, but Gammell’s terrifying illustration makes this one of the most haunting entries into the Scary Stories canon! A man breaks into a house looking for shelter after his car breaks down, but discovers a ghost. Scared for his life, he runs from the house. When he finally stops, he turns around behind him only for the ghost to ask, “Pardon me, is something wrong?” It’s Gammell’s vision of the ghost that makes this story one that still disturbs many of us til this day!

Just Delicious

This wild and wacky cannibalism story is a great example of the PG-13 level of bleak brutality that’s kept the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark series on the ALA’s most challenged books for 30+ years. Also known as “Where’s my liver?” this grim yarn introduces us to a cunning wife who steals the liver of a corpse for her husband’s dinner after she eats the liver he bought for himself. Later that night when the ghost of the woman whose liver he ate comes a knockin’, the man kills his wife and replaces the corpse’s lost liver with hers!

The Dream

Staying away from home is a classic childhood fear and this story plays on that. We meet a woman traveling from town to town painting, who has an awful dream about a mysterious figure and a dark room. The woman in her dream warns her to leave this place, so when she wakes in the morning she does just that, heading to Dorset at her landlady’s suggestion. Only once she gets there, the room she acquires looks just like the one in her dream, and when the landlady knocks on the door, she opens it only to find the terrifying woman from her dreams!

Do you have a favorite scary story to tell in the dark? Which one gave you the most nightmares? Can’t wait for the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Movie? Let us know in the comments!

Images: Scholastic

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This Nebula Cosplay Is an Awesome Mix of Makeup and Prosthetics

Cosplayer AmberSkies cosplays Guardians of the Galaxy‘s Nebula so perfectly that, at first glance, you might not even realize it’s not actually Karen Gillan. AmberSkies has every detail down, from the makeup to prosthetics to the costume itself. So much, in fact, that she was featured by Marvel in her very own video spotlight in 2017.



The costume may take hours to put together, but at least it’s not the profound and unceasing pain that Nebula suffered at the hand of Thanos. The first time Amber put on her Nebula costume, she told Nerdist, it took five hours from start to finish. She’s since streamlined the process to about three hours of makeup and prosthetic work.

Amber’s cybernetic arm is part of the costume itself, which is beautifully detailed and looks like it’s straight out of the movie.

“I’m proud to say that every single cybernetic piece on that costume was handcrafted by me as well,” she said. “The supplies that I have used over time have evolved with my skill and it goes much smoother now than it used to.”

“Nebula was my first experience with body painting and advanced special effects work for a character,” Amber said. “There was a huge huge learning curve for me when it came to full body application such as this.”

The results are undeniably worth it.

As for why she chose Nebula, Amber said she was intrigued by the character the moment she saw her in Guardians of the Galaxy. “I was absolutely enthralled with her character design and hidden agenda,” she said. “Everybody loves a good movie cyborg, but this dark, brooding, mysterious blue alien in the background just had something special about her—and I loved that.”

Which Guardian of the Galaxy would you love to cosplay? Tell us in the comments.

Images: AmberSkies / Julius Photography

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Allow Terry Crews to Catch You Up on All Five Seasons of BROOKLYN NINE-NINE

Terry Crews is a delightful human being who steals the spotlight on Brooklyn Nine-Nine as Sergeant Terry Jeffords. So, of course, we were devastated when the show was canceled. It was a roller coaster ride of emotions for 31 hours but, thanks to fans and celebrities like Mark Hamill, Brooklyn Nine-Nine is back and so is Terry. We will continue to follow the 99th precinct of New York’s finest once again sometime in 2019, which will leave you plenty of time to catch up on the show if you’ve slipped away from it or have yet to watch it. Thanks to this video we first saw at the A.V. Club, Terry has your back with a seven-minute recap of all 108 episodes from the past five seasons of Brooklyn Nine-Nine. 

Rather than drone through specific aspects of the series, Terry breaks down the characters as if he were Sergeant Jeffords–taking time to acknowledge how useless Scully and Hitchcock are–and offers cute plot summaries that don’t take away from the show. It’s enough of an overview for you to watch the series for the first time and still be surprised. Of course, Terry Crews has a big personality, to put it mildly, so his explanation of all five seasons is…somewhat colorful.

via GIPHY

Since the sixth season of Brooklyn Nine-Nine won’t air until sometime next year, now is the perfect chance to get in on all of the popular references from the show and see why it’s so great–and why Terry Crews is a magical man. All five seasons of Brooklyn Nine-Nine are available to watch on Hulu, so cancel your plans and abandon your social life. The crew at the 99th precinct are the only friends you need. 

What are some of your favorite quotes and characters from the show? Tweet at us or let us know in the comments! 

Images: 21st Century Fox

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DEADPOOL 2 Sent Out a Few Royal Wedding Invitations of its Own

This weekend, two of the biggest stories are Deadpool 2‘s big splash at the box office and a certain royal wedding between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Do you think that Deadpool would ever allow anyone else to steal his spotlight? If Marvel’s Merc with a Mouth were real, he probably would have crashed the wedding and run off with the bride or the groom…or possibly both. But since reality is one wall that Deadpool can’t break, he found another way to capitalize.

Via ComicBook.com, 20th Century Fox sent out some royal wedding style invitations to the marriage of Deadpool and Cable. BBC Radio 1 film critic Ali Plumb even posted a few images of the invites on his Twitter account while praising their quality.

In honour of the royal wedding and, um, the release of his new movie, Deadpool has sent me a gift. Which is nice (and well worth zooming in on). #deadpool #deadpool2 #royalwedding pic.twitter.com/HZCYyhcxR1

— Ali Plumb (@AliPlumb) May 19, 2018

Would this marriage ever come to pass in the Marvel Universe? Not if Cable has anything to say about it! But Deadpool has been shown to have some more complex feelings towards his one-time partner. More recently, their relationship has been strained. But we ask you, what’s a little attempted murder among friends? Happens all the time.

Speaking of which, Deadpool once had his own royal wedding to Shiklah, the Queen of the Undead. It ultimately didn’t last, but here’s hoping that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have better luck!

What do you think about Deadpool 2‘s royal wedding invitations? Let us know in the comment section below!

Images: 20th Century Fox/Marvel Comics

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Josh Brolin and Ryan Reynolds Do Battle With Playground Insults

By now, you’ve probably seen Ryan Reynolds and Josh Brolin on the big screen, doing battles with guns, knives, attempted drownings, swords, bullet-slicings, vehicular near-homicide, and much more as Deadpool and Cable. As themselves, however, they are generally charming gentlemen who don’t kill anyone. But that doesn’t mean they show up unarmed; the costars are still fully dangerous with an arsenal consisting of nothing but their wits.

In a more elegant battle for a more civilized age, the two faced off on BBC Radio 1’s Scott Mills show for  a recurring feature called Playground Insults. No language is off-limits (so maye don’t watch out loud at work), but the goal is to either crack the ther contestant up, or be so devastating that they cannot respond. Let’s watch the X-Force opponents go at it:

It’s interesting that everyone always goes to Green Lantern when it’s time to attack Ryan Reynolds, but nobody ever thinks to bring up Jonah Hex to Josh Brolin. (For what it’s worth, both men did their best in those roles, and Reynolds did meet his wife, so he wins in the end.) As for Reynolds’ suggestion for a Goonies drinking game, we might have to try his first suggestion but never, ever the second one.

Even the show’s hosts have trouble picking a winner; Brolin, it turns out, has a sharper sense of humor than his alter-ego Cable, and it’s a perfect counter-attack to Reynolds’ more overt name-calling. Who do you think won this old-school(yard) battle? Comment below and tell us why.

Image: BBC

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Who Was the Millennium Falcon’s Best Owner?

It’s the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy. It’s the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs. It may or may not have been inspired by a half-eaten hamburger or an unused design by Austrian architect Otto Wagner depending on who you ask. It is the Millennium Falcon and it’s not just the most iconic ship in all of the galaxy far, far away, but perhaps in all of pop culture. Now, with the release of Solo: A Star Wars Story, audiences will get a peek at the Millennium Falcon before Han Solo turned it into his filthy, frightfully fast freighter, back when Lando Calrissian held the proverbial keys. Under Lando’s stewardship, the Falcon was decidedly cleaner, kept in pristine condition, and boasted a number of luxury features like a wet bar and an entire closet dedicated just to capes.

via Giphy

In the grand tradition of Star Wars fandom, we couldn’t help but overthink things, which created a great debate in the Nerdist offices: who is the better owner of the Millennium Falcon, Han or Lando? Rather than settle this ourselves, we decided to pose the question to the people who know the Falcon best–the stars and filmmakers behind Solo: A Star Wars Story. At a recent press day in Los Angeles, I sat down with director Ron Howard and stars Alden Ehrenreich, Donald Glover, Emilia Clarke, Paul Bettany, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Woody Harrelson, Thandie Newton, and Joonas Suotamo to get a definitive answer to this all-important question on today’s episode of Nerdist News Edition.

Who do you think was the best owner of the Millennium Falcon? Let us know in the comments below!

Read our spoiler-free review of Solo: A Star Wars Story!

Solo: A Star Wars Story hits theaters on May 25, 2018.

Images: Disney/Lucasfilm

Additional reporting by Jesse B. Gill.

Dan Casey is the senior editor of Nerdist and the author of books about Star Wars and the Avengers. Follow him on Twitter (@DanCasey).