Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

We don’t have any shopping malls here.

@Eel
Really?
Where is your hometown?
Here there are quite a lot of Malls in my hometown Surabaya such as Pakuwon Mall, Tunjungan Plaza 1-6, Plaza Surabaya, Galaxy Mall, BG Junction, Pasar Atum Mall, etc.
And also some dead malls that I found recently.

@Anti-Matter I live in a small city in one of the least-inhabited states of Mexico. (For some perspective, your hometown of Surabaya has nearly four times the amount of people living in it, compared to the entirety of my home state)

There are cities with malls around us, but the closest shopping mall to me would be over 200km away. I don’t think any of the ones I “frequent” closed, but they did decline heavily during the pandemic.

@Eel
Oh, wow. 😯
200 km, it's like the distance from my hometown Surabaya to Jogjakarta (Middle Java).

@Anti-Matter I found it interesting so here’s, a size comparison between my home state and the island of Java:

Really puts it into perspective the difference in population density, I suppose.

@Eel
Yup.
Indonesia is a part of Asian continent and Asia have a lot of population including Indonesia.

I found at least five malls in my hometown Surabaya were dead and literally dead.
Dead means there was a bit business activity over there but more like 5% of tenants get occupied.
Literally dead means the Malls is dead, no business activities, all the shopping places closed and some of bigger area changed into sport venue.
The dead malls happened because either they are located on non profitable places or located on bad Feng Shui places like near of graveyard.
The situation getting worse during pandemic.
Even there was a Mall already dead before pandemic.
That's because the Mall located near of graveyard. Not a good location as it will bring bad luck.
It's sad to see those big buildings are wasted.
The dead malls I found in my hometown.
Dead

• Lagoon Avenue Mall
• Jembatan Merah Plaza
• Lenmarc Mall

Literally Dead

• Golden City Mall
• Surabaya Town Square

These are also for your information when you visit my hometown Surabaya.
Don't visit those malls.
They are dead places.

Wow!
I have watched Trolls Band Together for the FIFTH times at my local Cinema XXI.

The musics were the reason I watched that movie for 5 times.
And I like the Boy Band concept musics with influences from 80's and 90's musics.
I felt young again. 🥰
Perfect, It Takes Two, Better Place, Family, they are quickly become my favorite songs.

I'm sorry Disney.
WISH was a quite good movie but the songs were forgettable.
Meanwhile, the songs from Trolls Band Together are really great and catchy.

@Anti-Matter did you actually try to view it in different-numbered halls or was that a coincidence?

@Anti-Matter Trolls salah

@Snatcher Top of the morning to you kind sir. I sure hope so, although the time just before Christmas is wonderful to spend with more people. Most prefer to spend it with offline friends and family and I approve of such actions.

@Eel I lost the 50/50 on guaranteed help banner and got a 4 star addiction instead. Should I build it, looks like a strong unit?

@Princess_Lilly keep it for the unique skill, pass it on to a 5 star Daily Routine

@Princess_Lilly Oh that's perfectly fine, yeah it's quicker to reply to shorter posts. No worries there. Thank you! That's a good point you made there with the one-point perspective, I like your pun as well, lol. I haven't seen your friend code when I wrote this but I think it's all right to just share mine in this thread... my friend code is SW-0427-8582-2999 and my username is MarioLover. (If anyone else wants to add me, please let me know by replying to my post. Also be sure to tell me your username so I know it's you.)

(Don't worry @Tyranexx and @Sunsy, I'll get to your posts as well.)

@Eel
I got different numbers of the movie Hall depend on the place and the time I watched that movie.
Sometime the same movie got the different movie Hall room on the next day due to other movie schedules.
If you see the ticket, it mentioned the Mall names, the date I watched the movie, the seat number and the time aired. The big number you see on the ticket is the Hall room number.
The biggest Cinema XXI venue have until 6 Hall rooms. The bigger of the Mall size, the more movies will be aired on that place.

I tried to watch on Monday until Thursday as the ticket price is 35,000 IDR, Friday is 40,000 IDR, Saturday and Sunday + Holiday = 50,000 IDR.

Trolls Band Together was aired only on two or three malls here in my hometown Surabaya due to the franchise itself is considered less popular in Indonesia so it got lesser places to watch but it got 5 times airing time, from 12 pm to 8 pm.

I tried to watch as many times as possible if I thought the movies were great before it replaced by next upcoming movies. But if I thought the movies were not good enough, it will be only one time watch and never watch that movie again.

@Princess_Lilly
Trolls salah ? (Salah = Wrong)
What was that mean ?

@Anti-Matter I am smiling at this, you've seen the movie more than I have. I've seen Trolls Band Together four times.

First time was early access (DreamWorks decided to do a special screening of the movie on the series anniversary) by myself. The second time was opening day, and the Saturday after with my friend. Then another showing the Monday after Thanksgiving by myself.

Glad you love the movie.

@MarioLover92 Alrighty. Also I should clarify when I said "I don't play ranked," the exception to that is Gameloft games like Asphalt and Disney Speedstorm as the only multiplayer in them are "ranked." Though rank in Gameloft games have more to do with with rewards you receive at the end of a season.

The next upcoming movie that caught my attention is Migration by Illumination.
Considering Illumination had done Super Mario Bros movie very well, I really hope Migration will deliver interesting stuffs to watch.

@Anti-Matter I've seen the trailer to Migration all four times I've seen Trolls Band Together, and it grew on me. It looks cute and fun. Hopefully I'll get to see it after Christmas too.

Will probably get a Migration cup for my drink as checking AMC's website, they're doing cups similar to Trolls Band Together. I loved having my Viva cup while I was watching the movie, made it feel more special.

@Sunsy
My first plan about Trolls Band Together was watching them for 2 times if thought the movie good enough and I ended up by watching them until five times because the musics were so great. 😊
I heard a rumour there will be Trolls 4 movie in the future. Also, I found some deleted scenes compared from the first trailer and actual movie such as the interaction of BroZone when still young with the audiences like Baby Branch winking, the Brozone made some cheerleader formation, the removed sound bites "You Suck!" from second trailer when BroZone get into trouble during performance.
Btw, BroZone itself sounds like BoyZone, right?
BoyZone is another 90's Boy Band.

@Anti-Matter I'm glad you love the music.

Yup, according to the director, Trolls 4 is ready to go (to be worked on obviously, the movie isn't made yet). At least according to this article. Once it gets greenlit by Universal of course. I've already seen fans asking for a fourth movie.

It was a teaser trailer, they do that with the Trolls movies, I remember Trolls and Trolls World Tour had some minor differences in their trailer vs. the final movie. In fact the "You suck!" is from Trolls World Tour. Worth noting, the scene where Poppy says "I know you think it's risky and maybe it is," she said this to Viva. In the second trailer however, it looks like she's saying it to Branch.

Didn't know that, I thought of BroZone because the band was made up of brothers.

@Anti-Matter isnt salah the 5x prayer? When you said youd see the Trolls 5 times, it felt like a good joke