Director Josh Cooley (Inside Out, Up) revealed via Twitter that fans and moviegoers alike should “stay after the credits” for a possible surprise. “The story doesn’t end until the very last frame,” Cooley concluded, suggesting that something special awaits at the end of the toy’s story.
An amazing crew/cast has been working very hard over the last 5 years to bring Toy Story 4 to the big screen tomorrow. We love these toys so much, you will feel it on the screen. OH, and stay after the credits. The story doesn’t end until the VERY last frame. Enjoy! pic.twitter.com/Ds1x31Nhxw
Debuting this past weekend on Friday, June 21, Toy Story 4 already has the best opening box office weekend of the Toy Story movies. 2010’s Toy Story 3 sits at $110 million, trailing behind Toy Story 4’s steadily-climbing $121 million. Toy Story 2 hovers around $57 million, while the first Toy Story amassed $29 million.
While Toy Story 3 ended “perfectly,” Pixar revealed how it pulled together one more story for Andy’s toys. With Bo-Peep established as a main character, producer Jonas Rivera found the relationship between Woody and Bo-Peep to be “so intriguing to us [at Pixar].” Cooley agreed, saying, “So that was our goal for this film: to make this [second] meeting [between Woody and Bo-Peep] so powerful, it would be deserving of Toy Story 4.”
Pokemon Fusion, an online program that randomly generates the fusion of two separate Pokemon sprites into a single (often horrifying) sprite, has suddenly come back into the spotlight.
With a resurgence in Pokemon Fusion’s popularity, we’ve decided to dig into why it has regained attention, how the program works, and share some wonderful examples of fan PokeFusions and subsequent fan art.
The Return of Pokemon Fusion
Fusing two Pokemon together to create fan art has been around nearly as long as Pokemon Red and Blue, but web developer Alex Onsager launched the widely used Pokemon Fusion website in 2010. The site spiked in popularity in 2013, generating a slew of memes, including the classic “Be strong for mother” comic created by ohcorny on Tumblr, which featured fan art for their Weepinduo, a fusio of Weepinbell and Doduo.
Like the Wizarding World of the Harry Potter books and movies, there are a lot of characteristics of magic at play in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite. One of them is the creation of potions, which can give you a serious edge in battles against wizards and magical creatures, speed your progress through the game, or help you capture the most difficult Foundables (we’ve got lots more Harry Potter: Wizards Unite coverage on that stuff, too). You’ll get lots of potions as you play the game, but like any Hogwarts student, you can also brew your own.
Brewing potions is pretty simple at first–if you have the ingredients, you just push a button to start cooking. But there are actually a few nuances to the system that aren’t immediately apparent. If you know what you’re doing, you can make sure you get the right ingredients to make every kind of potion without having to rely too much on random chance. You can also brew your potions more quickly, with a little extra care.
Here’s everything you need to know about potions, including how to get the right ingredients and all the Master Notes.
Ingredients: Find Them, Pick Them, Grow Them
Ingredients are the essential part of your potion-brewing process, obviously. There are lots of locations where you can find ingredients out in the world of Harry Potter: Wizards Unite. First, you’ll find plenty of ingredients spawning out on the map around you as you walk around playing the game, and you can just pick them up by tapping on them.
Using a Greenhouse presents a more reliable way of getting the specific ingredients you need. Tapping on any Greenhouse takes you inside, where you can interact with the building and get a random supply of ingredients (you also get a chance at some Spell Energy), more or less just like an Inn. You’re presented with three potted plants in a Greenhouse, and pulling out one of the plants gives you some smattering of potion-brewing stuff. You won’t know what you’ll receive until you get it, which makes planning difficult.
If you need an ingredient in particular, you can use a Greenhouse to grow your own plants. You do that with Seeds and Water, which you’ll also find spawning on the world map. Tap into the Greenhouse and flip to the tab in the bottom right corner of the screen. There, you can use your seeds and any water you’ve found to start growing something. You’ll have to return when the seed is fully grown in order to claim your ingredients.
Stir It Up
Once you start a potion, you’re stuck waiting for it to finish brewing–usually at least a couple of hours. You can speed up that timer, however, if you know the Half-Blood Prince-like secrets to master potion-brewing. There’s a system of stirs and taps that, like in the Harry Potter movies and books, is not immediately apparent to the novice potion maker, even in the game.
When you brew a potion, tap the wooden spoon sticking out of the cauldron once the recipe has been started, when the liquid is swirling in place. You should get a closer, top-down view of the potion as it’s cooking. This is when you can start your master brewing. In order to speed up the recipe, you’ll need to try various touch gestures on the potion. These include things like a clockwise stir, a counter-clockwise stir, tapping on the potion, shaking your mobile device, and drawing vertical or horizontal lines.
You’ll need to do all the gestures for the potion in order, but once you find the correct one, it’ll be revealed in the Master Notes at the top of the screen. Brew the Master version of the potion correctly three times, and you’ll get the Master Notes unlocked automatically, so you won’t have to try to remember the gestures you used. Master Notes only speed up your brew times, so don’t expect better version of your potions just because you’re a Snape-level potions master. We’ve got the full list of Master Brewing notes below.
Use Potions For Everything
Potions are very useful in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite. The ones you’ll use most often are probably the Healing Potions, which can keep you alive during battles and Wizarding Challenges in Fortresses, and the Exstimulo Potions, which make your spells more effective against Confoundables and in battles. But there are a bunch of other kinds of potions as well, which can increase your Focus in battle, raise your experience gains as you play, and help you keep Confoundables from fleeing when you try to catch them.
You can only carry 50 potions at the start of the game (you can buy more space with Gold if you like), and you’ll quickly fill that up with potions you get from leveling up and completing Achievements and other objectives. Especially as you get further into the game, you’ll face harder challenges that will require potions–but they’re easy to come by, so don’t save them up. Use them, and keep brewing more.
Master Brewing Notes
Here’s a rundown of the Master Brewing notes for each potion recipe.
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More than likely, you subscribe to some sort of streaming service, like Netflix. In fact, you probably have yourself signed up for more than one. Every week, services like Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, and Shudder release new content for you to binge from the sanctity of your own home.
This is actually a pretty quiet week for releases. Most of Amazon’s new releases come out on June 30, and next week is July, so expect a slew of new movies, TV shows, and more to hit next week. You’ll have a lot to watch during your holiday weekend. Let’s check out a couple of the highlights for this week.
True Grit heads to Amazon Prime Video on Saturday, June 29. The Coen brothers western follows a teenager whose father was murdered. She hires a U.S. Marshall to track down the killer. It’s a great genre film and one of the few times where the remake is better than the original. If you don’t have Prime and you want to watch the film, don’t worry, as True Grit will be available on Hulu on Sunday, June 30.
The only other notable movie coming this week is 2018’s The Spy Who Dumped Me. The action comedy stars Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon as best friends that become involved in a conspiracy when one of them discovers her ex-boyfriend is a spy.
Below, you’ll find the full list for everything being released on Amazon, Hulu, and Shudder this week. If you want to look into the future, both Amazon and Hulu have revealed what’s coming ahead for July.
Blizzard has announced some big changes slated for the next major Hearthstone update. The collectible card game will add two more cards to the Hall of Fame, which makes them ineligible for Standard mode play, and at the same time it will introduce a whopping 10 new cards.
In an update on the Hearthstone Blog, the team explained how it tries to define class identity, and outlined what it sees as the core strengths and weaknesses of each class. The studio has concluded that two Basic cards don’t fit the theme of their classes’ identities, and so they’ll be retired into the Hall of Fame: the Rogue card Vanish and the Priest card Mind Blast. Both will still be playable in Wild mode.
Vanish is a spell that returns all minions to their owners’ hands, but Blizzard feels the efficient board clear is counter to one of its intended weaknesses. Mind Blast allows Priests to do a lot of damage to their opponent in a pinch, especially with spell damage boosts, while Blizzard intends the class to be limited in its direct damage. Those two will be replaced by two new cards, Plaguebringer and Radiance.
In addition, Blizzard is introducing ten new cards to the Classic set, which will be obtainable through Classic packs or crafting. It says it wants to steadily introduce new Classic cards to maintain a “healthy amount of easily-obtainable cards” through Standard games, as it rotates some out into the Hall of Fame. The studio said these cards will be coming in the next major update, but didn’t announce a date.
Hearthstone has traditionally introduced a handful of new expansions per year with only minor balance changes in-between. This season the game has been noticeably more active in filling the months between major expansions with other in-game events and changes. After the latest expansion launched in April, its single-player component began rolling out in May, and in June the game issued its first-ever batch of card buffs alongside a brand-new card. You can still claim that card for free by logging in by July 1.
Summer is officially here, and Fortnite is celebrating the start of the season with a two-week-long event. 14 Days of Summer kicks off on PS4, Xbox One, PC, Nintendo Switch, and mobile devices tomorrow, June 25, and it’ll bring a load of new things to do and see in Fortnite’s Battle Royale, Creative, and Save the World modes.
On the Battle Royale front, developer Epic will unvault one weapon for only 24 hours every day during the 14 Days of Summer event, giving you a chance to play around with some of the items that have been removed from the game. On top of that, there will be new challenges to complete and rewards to unlock each day of the event, as well as new outfits and other items to purchase from the in-game shop.
Finally, Battle Royale players will be able to jump into a new limited-time mode every day during 14 Days of Summer. Epic hasn’t yet revealed the order these modes will arrive, but it has given fans an overview of all 14 LTMs on the Fortnite website, and they include the John Wick crossover, Wick’s Bounty, as well as a handful of new modes, such as the summer-themed Splashdown Squads–in which players will try to eliminate opponents with a new water balloon item–and Storm Chasers Surfin’ Squads.
In Save the World mode, meanwhile, players will be able to complete new quests every day during the 14 Days of Fortnite event. Clearing these quests will earn you Summer Tickets, and if you mange to complete all 14 before the event ends, you’ll unlock a “new explosive weapon.” Fortnite Creative will also feature a new island every day during the event.
There are still a few weeks left in Season 9 of Fortnite, but Epic has already announced it is making some changes for next season. Specifically, Fortnite’s minimum requirements on PC will change beginning in Season 10. In the meantime, you still have a few weeks left to complete any remaining challenges from this season. If you need help, you can find tips and guides for all the trickier tasks in our complete Fortnite Season 9 challenges roundup.
