[Expensive-ass game]

Adjusted for inflation, they've pretty much always been that much, even more in some cases.

[I'm no longer semi-poor]

Nice to hear, although I'm kinda sad knowing you were having tough times. I think I take my own situation for granted, we are able to stay ahead only because we both work, otherwise it would be rough.

[Summer Full 'o Movies pt. 6 - Wall-E]

It wasn't intentional to make him look like Number 5. But the creators of both robots needed to make them have expressive faces using cameras for eyes, a reasonable means of locomotion (tracks) and robot arms, so there's bound to be some similarities (which can be traced even further back to a certain droid in Star Wars). Beyond that, the body shapes, and how they move are completely different. I think Wall-E is also far more expressive, but then he should be, since he's CG rather than a physical robot/puppet, and has the best animators in the business behind him.

 

Actually, when I first saw him, I thought Wall-E kind-of resembled E.T., and that very nearly turned me off from ever going to see the movie.

That was absolutely my impression as well. I felt he was much more like ET than J5.