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I'm actually working on reviewing Adventures of Mana for GamerDad.com!  It's kind of weird, this is the second time Square has remade Final Fantasy Adventure on the Game Boy.  The first was Sword of Mana on the GBA.  But that was really more of a reimagining as it had two playable characters and a more convoluted storyline, etc.  Adventures of Mana is a more direct remake.  In fact, you could probably use an old strategy guide for Final Fantasy Adventure and it would work for this game.  I do kind of wish it were more like Sword of Mana in some ways.  The old sprite-based graphics had more personality.

Speaking of How to Train Your Dragon, I didn't mention it in my blog, but I feel the only DreamWorks CG animated films to come close to Pixar quality are the How to Train Your Dragon movies.  They're really good.

Yeah when I first heard of the connection between A Bug's Life and Seven Samurai, I thought that was pretty interesting.

One of the messages in Finding Dory is also "there's always another way" and I think they do that message better in that movie than in Monsters University.

Oh yeah, Brave is fantastic.  The Halloween after Brave came out, a bunch of little girls who went trick or treating at my house were dressed up as...Meridia?  I think that was her name.  Like I said in my blog, I loved how Steve Purcell, creator of Sam & Max, helped work on Brave.  And was the voice of the crow.

Your woes of working at a park on 4th of July reminds me of when I used to work at a church.  The week before Easter Sunday, I was running around like a chicken with its head cut off!  It's hard to enjoy the holiday like that.  At the church, Easter was busier than Christmas, if you can believe that!

Yeah I know there are dogs in the movie that fly biplanes.  The only reason why I said that was because of Snoopy doing that long before Up. :)

A dog in a biplane?  Who ever heard of that? :)

Are there any Up characters in Disney Infinity?  I think I remember you could get the house in the Toy Box.

Even though it's not the same playing arcade games at home, I'll still almost always get the collections.  I just really like 'em!

I recently tried to replay Donkey Kong 64 on my Wii U, and it hasn't aged well either.  But I thought it was great back in the day.  It's weird because a few years ago I replayed Banjo-Kazooie and its sequel on Xbox 360 and I thought they had aged very well.  But I do remember them being always better than DK64 anyway.  I know there is a 3DS version of Ocarina of Time.  I wonder if that fares better?  I haven't played it on the 3DS.