|
|
Post by pitbulllady on Mar 20, 2014 19:12:23 GMT -5
Fanart? Stories? Etc.? His 40th b-day is coming up on the 26th, less than one week away! I've got one piece of fanart ready, might do something else if I can get proper inspiration.
pitbulllady
|
|
|
|
Post by RandallBoggs on Mar 20, 2014 20:07:13 GMT -5
Ooooh please don't say that heheh...believe me, dislikes the prospect of remembering he's getting old (probably feels older than he should, looks ok to me) ha ^0^ Please hold the "over the hill" jokes out of respect for him people heheh.
Can't spill my plans or he'll find out. Personally trying to figure up something...board-wise, I dunno...
|
|
|
|
Post by randallsnape7 on Mar 21, 2014 23:10:50 GMT -5
I have a birthday scene depiction I've been working on. Quite honestly, I would love for Randall to actually have a birthday party celebration with Mike and Sulley at home at the end of 'Monsters 3'... it would be very touching if he did.
I hope I can get the picture finished and ready for posting on March 26. Keep an eye out!
|
|
|
|
Post by pitbulllady on Mar 21, 2014 23:32:04 GMT -5
It would be great to see him have a birthday party, wouldn't it? That's where Boo could come in, because once a little kid knows when someone's birthday is, they're not going to let that go! She would absolutely insist on a party, and it would be touching because that is probably the first birthday party he's had since HE was a little kid, and seeing someone who should hate him care about him that much would really be emotional.
pitbulllady
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2014 22:12:06 GMT -5
He's turning 38, not 40. He was 25 in MI, which we know from multiple sources, making him 16-17 in the school year of 92-93, when MU took place. Your math is off. He was born in 76, not 74.
|
|
|
|
Post by pitbulllady on Mar 24, 2014 22:38:47 GMT -5
He's turning 38, not 40. He was 25 in MI, which we know from multiple sources, making him 16-17 in the school year of 92-93, when MU took place. Your math is off. He was born in 76, not 74. Actually, Remy, my math was off the first time, based on a quote from "The Monsters Inc. 2003 Annual", published by Disney, in which it said that the All-Time Scare Record was set in 1963 by "Fangs" McDonald, "13 years before Randall Boggs was born", which would have made Randall a '76 model. HOWEVER, based on PIXAR'S information, in MU, in the form of that calendar on Mike's wall, it has been determined that Randall's freshman year started in 1992, because that was the only year in the early '90's in which the dates in November matched up with the dates on Mike's calendar. Pixar's own artists have said that Randall was 18 years at the time, which would have meant that Randall was born in 1974. I've always said that Randall was in his mid-late 20's at the time of MI, and was going with "25" based on that Disney book. There's only 2 years' difference, but the calendar is pretty hard to argue with because that's definitely canon. pitbulllady |
|
|
|
Post by randallsnape7 on Mar 24, 2014 22:42:18 GMT -5
Oooh! 25 years old, huh? Randall Boggs is extremely young! Far younger than I ever thought he was! I guess he'd be 26 in 'Monsters 3'?
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2014 22:44:44 GMT -5
Well either Pixar contradicted Disney or Disney contradicted Pixar, but the book did come first, and making him 18 means he didn't in fact skip any grades. That however I believe was only our assumption and not canon. I'm not saying argue against the calendar, it's clearly 92-93, but we have a contradiction from artists and book, so I guess it depends on what you believe to be true. Also, citation please if you don't mind for where the artists said he was 18? I don't doubt you, I just want to see it myself, since I'm gathering information on him. I know it's not in the art book and I don't THINK it's mentioned on the blu-ray... at least not that I recall... To further confuse matters, in the art book, Ricky Nierva states that MU takes place 20 years before MI... and unfortunately, the calendar years for 1981-1982 are the exact same as 1992-1993. So now the whole "MU takes place in 1992-93" is out the window, as the only solid evidence we had for it was the calendar. Taking Ricky's statement, MU actually takes place in 81-82. I'm more inclined to believe the film takes place in the 90s however, but there's no solid way to say at this point, and just goes to show that Disney and Pixar have not only contradicted themselves, but each other as well on this matter.  |
|
|
|
Post by pitbulllady on Mar 25, 2014 14:36:12 GMT -5
Well either Pixar contradicted Disney or Disney contradicted Pixar, but the book did come first, and making him 18 means he didn't in fact skip any grades. That however I believe was only our assumption and not canon. I'm not saying argue against the calendar, it's clearly 92-93, but we have a contradiction from artists and book, so I guess it depends on what you believe to be true. Also, citation please if you don't mind for where the artists said he was 18? I don't doubt you, I just want to see it myself, since I'm gathering information on him. I know it's not in the art book and I don't THINK it's mentioned on the blu-ray... at least not that I recall... To further confuse matters, in the art book, Ricky Nierva states that MU takes place 20 years before MI... and unfortunately, the calendar years for 1981-1982 are the exact same as 1992-1993. So now the whole "MU takes place in 1992-93" is out the window, as the only solid evidence we had for it was the calendar. Taking Ricky's statement, MU actually takes place in 81-82. I'm more inclined to believe the film takes place in the 90s however, but there's no solid way to say at this point, and just goes to show that Disney and Pixar have not only contradicted themselves, but each other as well on this matter. The citation for Randall being 18 at the time of MU actually comes from "The Art of Monsters University", in which the Pixar artists weigh in on the challenges of rendering "Mike, Sulley and Randall as their 18-year-old selves". I believe there is a comment mentioning the ages of those three on one of the special features on the DVD, too. And no, the whole "MU takes place is 1992-93" is NOT out the window at all, because Dan Scanlon has stated in several interviews that "MU is set about ten years before MI", key word here being "about", which means, "give or take a year" or "approximately". That timeline actually works out to 9 years between when we first see the three main characters starting out their freshman year, and when we see them working in MI, which is in 2001, according to the date on the newspaper in the vending box. All of that works out, time-wise, quite nicely. Most college freshman ARE 18 when they start, we KNOW that it's been established that MI took place in 2001, and that there was a 9-year difference between the two movies' timelines, which is close enough to 10. MI takes place in November of 2001, and Randall would have been 27, not 25, at the time of MI's events, going by the calendar in MU, Dan Scanlon's statement about the time frame of MU, and the mention of Randall being 18 when he started college. It's just a two-year difference, not a big deal, but I'm going more with what the Pixar people have said and shown and by what MU's director said. The music, etc., is most definitely consistent with the early '90's than early '80's. They didn't have "Techno" music in the early '80's, like what is being played at the first ROR party, but that was BIG starting in the early '90's. Ditto for the Heavy Metal in Party Central, which really took off after 1985 and continued to be popular until around 1994 or so, when the "Grunge" movement knocked it off its hair-sprayed pedestal. It is kinda helpful to have actually lived through all these decades, as an adult, to really be able to remember what sort of things defined each decade. pitbulllady |
|
|
|
Post by pitbulllady on Mar 25, 2014 14:41:33 GMT -5
Oooh! 25 years old, huh? Randall Boggs is extremely young! Far younger than I ever thought he was! I guess he'd be 26 in 'Monsters 3'? Actually, if all that Dan Scanlon has said is accurate, plus the calendar on Mike's wall, that would have made Randall 27 at the time of the events of MI. As for how old he will be IF and when he shows up in a sequel, no one can say, because we don't know for absolute 100% certainty that there will even BE a MI3(probably it would be MI2, since MU was a prequel, not a sequel), or if Randall will be in it if there is, so we certainly don't know how many years AFTER the events of MI it will take place. It might be set just a few years afterwards, or it could take place on our same timeline, making it set a couple of decades, at least, after MI, so Randall, Mike and Sulley could very well be in their 50's by that point. |
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2014 20:04:54 GMT -5
Well we've pretty much established the years, but not his age. I can't find any reference to him being 18 at all in the art book; page number please? I DID find Mike being mentioned as being 18, but not Randall. So yeah, we've established the 90s, but I think the age is still up in the air.
Also, I'm gonna have to agree to disagree with you on the music being an indicator. Swedish House Mafia's (yes I know it's not technically them, just referring to the two of the three as such) style sounds way more modern than the stuff I grew up with in the 90s, but that's just me. I don't think they did a stellar job in fact on replicating music from the early 90s (I haven't seen Party Central so I can't comment on it), but as said, that's me.
|
|
