The basic vibe I get from Republic City is that it's Hong Kong meets New York.
Legend of Korra
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That was great.
Aw, it's gone.
Go here: http://vimeo.com/user2018104 .
... Oh Gawd, so adorable!
What a great line. Had me laughing.
New trailer on that vimeo site.
MASTER KATARA!
Videos are gone on Vimeo site.
Of course they are. 
They are running adverts for this show on Nick now... they can't be too far off from announcing an air date. I highly suspect it's going to start sometime in June or July.
figmentPez
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The teaser videos can be found from an official source here: http://korranation.tumblr.com/
figmentPez
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I don't understand lock-outs on marketing like this. Why block your fans from being able to see promotional material? It makes no damn sense to me.
It has to do with who owns the license in some regions, I believe. Nick doesn't have a channel in every country, so it often sells the rights to the series to 3rd parties (who then get it on TV) because it nets them money with basically zero effort. It's probably already sold the rights to Korra based simply on the strength of the previous show.
Distribution contracts aren't just for distribution, they also include costs for things like promotion, DVD rights, specials, additional content, etc. Part of Nick's deal with Sky (or whomever, this is just an example as I dunno who has the EU rights) to distribute might include Sky picking up the cost of advertising the show in Europe in exchange for a relatively low price on the actual distro rights. So if Nick allows people in Europe to see marketing for the show, they're "giving away" revenue they might have otherwise demanded in the deal.
Sky has every reason to like this kind of deal, because it means that instead of a guaranteed high pay-out for rights, they pay only a medium bit, and gamble that their media buyers can out-perform the market.
And so EU viewers get (relatively) shafted.
It's for similar reasons why BBC America's Doctor Who behind-the-scenes-documentaries all star a bunch of American celebs who have nothing to do with the show talking about it. The British ones can't be shown here.
Sky has every reason to like this kind of deal, because it means that instead of a guaranteed high pay-out for rights, they pay only a medium bit, and gamble that their media buyers can out-perform the market.
And so EU viewers get (relatively) shafted.
It's for similar reasons why BBC America's Doctor Who behind-the-scenes-documentaries all star a bunch of American celebs who have nothing to do with the show talking about it. The British ones can't be shown here.
This was a legitimate problem for many years in Japan, though I'd say the real problem is that they over-charge for their product, not that people won't pay it.
On top of that, here's a new trailer, too! http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/03...end-of-korra-gets-an-airdate-and-new-trailer/
figmentPez
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Watch it while you can:
If they get 100,000 new likes and shares, they're going to premiere on the 24th!! http://www.korranation.com/
The 24th. YES! BRING IT ON! Come on Avatards, let's friggin do this!
So in this show, they found like a pack of sky-bisons and thats why we see em there. Feel's too convenient. Like...RPG fodder convenient.
Aang found some dragons too, in season 3, when everyone said they were extinct. Heck, even he's a case of the same. Just because nobody's seen one in a hundred years doesn't mean none of them are around anymore - just not around where anyone would've easily come across them. The Avatar world is not ours, with satellites and UAV's and whatever else we use to monitor even the most inhospitable reaches of the land.
This is true. It wasn't until Ozi's reign that any real technological advancement took place.