I'd say all final smashes look cool. Especially Fox's and Ike's.

Nobody knows yet. I'm willing to bet my wii on an option to start as her from the beginning. It only makes sense since players will be able to turn off the smash ball.

I still, personally, think it's pretty stupid that Samus' smash turns her into ZS Samus, and vice versa.  The beauty of Zelda in Melee was that if I wanted to switch back and forth between Shiek I could, and if I didn't want to I didn't have to.  Granted, I could just NOT get a smash ball if I didn't want to switch between the two...but it still seems pretty lame to me.

But maybe I'm alone on that....

Donkey Kong's Final Smash is by far the worst.

yea, my main in Melee is DK and seeing his final smash made me die a little. It has no range and what i've seen from it, it doesnt really 1hit kill so what the fucks the point. It looks like someone can just sit on the other edge of the map and kinda like dance while my smash ball goes to waste. Oh well.

It's good for edgeguarding I guess, but that's about it, unless there's some way to make his FS have a much longer range and the guys at E for All just haven't figured out how (remember you have to time your button presses to make it reach further). Also think about it in FFA. People will be smacking eachother left and right. Someone's bound to get hit into your FS.

They should! Or at least 1 every weak. Bastards...
I'm still wondering and waiting for that last 3rd party!
My bets on Megaman or Bomberman.

I don't think it's SO bad.  Before now, we only had one taunt for each character.  Now, we're not stuck with the same old one all the time.  And if nothing else, this gives Mario shorter taunts than his dreadfully long standard one.

It also confirms a couple things, the most important one being that Snake's box is indeed his taunt, instead of his Down-B like some people were speculating. That said, though, we've been getting a very long string of mediocre-to-decent updates lately. I really hope we get something super awesome soon.