Steve Megatron on Origins in Toy Collecting

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Jazz here, and I am so digging the GeekCast radio

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and you're listening to ToyCast. And if any of

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you call me a parts -former, one more time! ToyCast.

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Oh, yes. Listen in to the only toy podcast you

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will ever need. All right, well, five. Do I need

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the questions, or are you just going to throw

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them at me? No, you don't. I'm just going to

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throw them at you. Watch where you're aiming

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that. I know, right? Hello and welcome to an

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all new generation of ToyCast as we get the origins

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of any and all toy fans that we can. I am, of

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course, TFG and Mike. And joining me for the

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first time in this new generation of ToyCast

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is Steve Megatron. Hello, sir. Hello. Hello.

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And it is time we continue talking toys here

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on ToyCast. So, as everyone knows by now, this

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is the middle of July 2021. In July, toys grow

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there. Sort of, I guess. I don't know. It makes

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more sense than peas. Nobody wants to mind their

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P's and Q's. Although toy Q's are kind of...

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Anyway, bad joke. As you heard with... Josh the

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Floor Burger and Adas Baron on their origins.

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We have 42 questions because the answer to everything

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is 42. Number one, what is or was the first toy

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you remember having as a kid? The first toy I

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remember having as a kid? Don't start that. I

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enjoy it, don't you? No, I don't. I am not spending

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15 hours again editing your ums. Well, it's the

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earliest one I remember having. It's kind of

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a tie between two. I had a 1989 Batman figure.

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that had, one was movie accurate that came with

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the Batmobile. The other one had the, the belt,

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the utility belt that came out with a drawstring.

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Oh yeah, I remember that. That ratcheted back

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into him. Yep. And the, that's probably the earliest

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figure I remember having. Next to that would

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be the monstrous body of Krang. Krangarang. Yes,

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Krang. from TMNT of the 87 variety. That's right.

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Yeah, in his big, big body. Yeah. So those are

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probably the earliest toys I can remember having.

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Awesome. Was there a particular adult who was

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supportive of you playing with your toys as a

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kid? Was there anyone who was unsupportive? I

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wouldn't say I had anybody unsupportive. My mom

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actually played figures with me at times, and

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my dad, as long as I didn't ask him for toys

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at the store, would occasionally buy me one.

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Interesting. What types of toys were your favorites

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to play with? So action figures, water guns,

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like, you know, what types of toys were your

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most favorite to play with? To be honest, a little

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bit of everything I had, I had the original super

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soakers and I know we've talked about that on

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a on a previous. Yes. So that that was one of

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the toys that I enjoyed. I also enjoyed playing

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with the the here the. The action figure sets

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with their their bases. So like Star Trek or

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Batman or Ninja Turtles, I had basically all

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the vehicles, all the people for all three of

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those at one point in time. And the other the

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other aspect is the role playing stuff where

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you would get like the communicator or the phaser

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or those those those type of aspects where you

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could act it out yourself. Mm hmm. Absolutely.

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What were your favorite childhood toys that really

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stood out to you more than others? Oh, man. Favorite

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childhood toys that stood out to me. Well, obviously

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the crying figure did, because that was one of

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my my go to's as a kid, although I lost his utilities

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when I took it to one of the Sam's Club. stores

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with my dad when he went and my dad's like, you're

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going to lose that. And I took it and I lost

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it. And I think it was like five or six at the

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time. Some of my other toys that kind of resonate

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with me from that era are, I have a Lego Spirus

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robot that I still have. It's the very first

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Lego kit that my parents bought for me. And it's

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the only one that I that resonated with me enough

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to not lose it. Like when I moved out, I threw

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it in a plastic bag so that if pieces broke in

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storage, I could repair it. And it's done that

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many a times. Oh, no. So it's it's I think 100

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percent. It still isn't a bag again. I store

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it in a bag because I just have nowhere to put

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it at the moment until I do something about that.

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But the figure is probably one of the most prominent

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in my collection, aside from the fact that I

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used to collect a lot of different characters

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from different series, whether it be Turtles,

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whether it be Batman, whether it be Transformers,

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Star Trek. I actually have one of the Generations

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Captain Kirk figures that my dog... ripped the

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face biting it because uh i was watching one

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of the movies in my basement and and had this

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figure and i i touched it with i was eating like

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a hamburger or something and i was watching tv

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down in the basement and i put it on the figure

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and inadvertently had touched it and the dog

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gnawed on it oh no And so I still have that version.

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I did eventually find another one at a convention

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like four years ago, five years ago for I think

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it was like six bucks or something. Somebody

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was selling it for and it was mint condition,

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new on card. And I just tore it off the card.

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So I have two. And as well as another one that

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I got back when my stepdad gave me the Star Wars

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stuff to sell, I got another Star Trek Captain

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Kirk figure from a different play set around

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that time. And so I have a few Star Trek figures.

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I have an old Micro Machines Enterprise A that

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I somehow saved with my Lego stuff. And I've

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been slowly. Well, I have some Beast War stuff,

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so we'll get to that. Yeah. Do you prefer the

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label of action figures, dolls, toys, or other

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labels? Action figures. There you go. Good guys

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or bad guys, which toys were your favorites to

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play with the most? For me, it always depended

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on the character. So, Turtles, it was kind of

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a 50 -50 split. I always liked playing as the

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Turtles, and then I liked Krang. If it was...

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Batman, I swung very much towards just the Batman

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character. And if I chose a villain, it was the

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Riddler from the animated series. And if I went

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Star Trek, I always went good with it. But if

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I went Transformers, I had this, when I played,

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it was always this one theme. no matter how many

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versions of the character I had, I always had

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Megatron win. Always. Once in a while, I had...

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Now, when I got a couple other figures of Optimus,

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I would have him, of course, beat him at the

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last possible second, or I'd have Captain Kirk

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just kick him. You know. Space suit Kirk. He'd

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destroy everybody. But that was pretty much...

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How I did it, it was pretty much the bad guys

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on Transformers, unless it was a certain character

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like Rat Trap or Beast Horse Grimlock or Optimal

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Optimus. But otherwise, I was purely villain

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on Transformers. What is or was your favorite

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toy vehicle and or playset? For toy vehicles?

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I'd have to say the Star Trek shuttlecraft from

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the next generation was probably my favorite.

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Just because it had storage, had seating, I could

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belt the characters in. It made sound. It had

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lights. It was awesome. Now, play sets. I would

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have to go Star Trek because I had the transporter.

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I had the bridge. They sold an engineering later

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on, but it was kind of lame. So I never got it.

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Right. They also had now I also collected G .I.

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Joe for a little bit there. So I had the G .I.

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Joe headquarters, but it was for the three and

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a half inch figures at the time. And that was

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pretty, pretty awesome as well. And I had like

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the 12 inch figure Jeep that went to those and

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it shot a pretty hefty rocket that if you got

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hit with it would hurt. I vaguely remember I

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figured out how to take it off the thing and

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I was shooting my brother with it. But yeah,

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so in that regard, I would probably say those

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those would be it. Now, the one thing I wish

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that was manufactured at the time that never

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was. I would have to get it 3d printed today

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is the beast wars, Axalon and dark side bridge,

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as well as the stasis pods. Yeah, that would

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be awesome. I don't have the money in the world

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to buy those 3d printed, but they're awesome

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nonetheless to know that somebody has done it.

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Yep. Absolutely. Did you and your friends ever

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pretend with your toys that you had basically

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Did you say I'm going to be this toy and you

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can be that toy like Steve, you can be the piece

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of glass and I'm going to be the Coke bottle

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top kind of thing. Pretend to be the characters

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of the toys. Yeah. Toys themselves. Same thing.

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Yeah. Now, I pretended to be characters from

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a television show. Right. When I played the RPG,

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like as far as is as live action role play stuff

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with. the Star Trek phasers and communicators.

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I pretended to be Captain Kirk or whomever from

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the Star Trek crew. I didn't pretend to necessarily

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be the toys themselves, but I did pretend to

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do that aspect. And I had enough of them, of

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Star Trek stuff from the movies and from the

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original series in TNG that I was able to do

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supply enough for most of the neighborhood kids

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that I played with. awesome what features define

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a good toy to you basically how true does the

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item uh feel in comparison to the source material

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likeness as a kid i didn't care as much about

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whether it matched the source material it was

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more so the fact that i had it in my hand right

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i did notice the imperfections as a kid But it

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didn't bother me when I became a teenager and

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a young adult. On the other hand, when I looked

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at some of the new things that were coming out,

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some of the detailed stuff that people were making

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or I mean, granted, there wasn't 3D printing

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at the time. But a lot of the figures now, for

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instance, when I dumped my Transformers collection

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years ago. I knew. Good stuff was coming down

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the pipe. It was just a matter of how long I

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had to wait. Right. And there's still one that

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I'm I'm diligently waiting for because the toy

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itself is utter garbage in the fact that it breaks

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due to brittle plastic syndrome. Yeah. So. Yeah.

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So, I mean, I I definitely nowadays I. refuse

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to get something if it doesn't match the animation

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model just because it's not unless there's that

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peak of nostalgia to it like transmetal rat trap

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for instance which is pretty close to the the

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animation model except for the fact his backpack

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doesn't spin around and he doesn't have a gun

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but but overall like the ivory painted it to

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the point that it looks like the show so I'm

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going to figure out the backpack eventually,

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but that's a different story for a different

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day. But yeah, I definitely go towards the animation

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models if I can help it for every aspect of them

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now. What does toy packaging have to have to

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draw you in? So if you're going down the toy

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aisle, whether you were a kid, whether you're

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now an adult, what part of seeing the boys' toy

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aisle... jumped out at you the most? Was it seeing

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the figure in the package? Was it part of the

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package itself? Was it actually seeing toys on

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shelves versus empty shelves nowadays? Yes. It

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was definitely seeing them on the shelves and

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the variety. I always enjoyed that aspect in

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the hunt itself. I'm not an online shopper. I

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don't like it. in person because now unless there's

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a better deal online but if I can get the same

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thing in the store I'd prefer to just do that

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because I'm not I'm fairly patient with it I

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can wait it's not it depends on what it is but

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for the most part I can and I don't like seeing

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empty shelves because it just looks like there's

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nothing ever new it's there's nothing there's

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nothing to even look at Even if I don't get something,

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I enjoy the look. To look down the aisle, the

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bright, colorful packaging, the box of it with

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the window that you can see what you're getting

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instead of just the art. Nowadays, the new age

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Transformers stuff comes in a box with a clear

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plastic window that you can see everything. And

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they're in robot mode. Which, to me, is the big

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draw because back in the day, everything came

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in beast mode. Or vehicle mode, yeah. And some

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of the G1 reissues come in vehicle mode because

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that's how they originally came out. Even if

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they're a retool or a brand new mold with likenesses

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of the original. I like seeing the robot mode

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because then you know what you're getting. So

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even if you hate... the opposite mode, you know

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that the robot mode is going to be either garbage

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or going to be awesome. There's no in -between.

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There's always that one side or the other. And

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so to me, that kind of helps explain it. But

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I definitely hate seeing empty shelves or never

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restocked with fresh stuff that's out. Absolutely.

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Number 11, do you open your toys or do you leave

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them packaged? If you keep toys packaged, do

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you have any specific criteria for this? I never

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leave them packaged because one, they take up

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extra space. So to me, I prefer to have them

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to hold them in my hand. What's the point in

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having them if you can never touch them? True.

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If as an as a kid or an adult, you only were

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allowed to choose one toy franchise to collect

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from, which one would you choose and why? Beast

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Wars. And I would choose it because I have the

00:18:20.859 --> 00:18:23.539
most nostalgia in out of everything that I got

00:18:23.539 --> 00:18:27.660
rid of. That's the only series that I came back

00:18:27.660 --> 00:18:32.200
to knowing I would not ditch it completely. I

00:18:32.200 --> 00:18:36.759
have. That's the only one I didn't get rid of

00:18:36.759 --> 00:18:42.180
the DVD series to when I purged. And so to me,

00:18:42.299 --> 00:18:47.359
the Beast Wars or the modern kingdom version

00:18:47.359 --> 00:18:50.259
of Beast Wars, either way, they're both the same.

00:18:50.339 --> 00:18:53.759
So Transformers in general. But yeah, that's

00:18:53.759 --> 00:18:57.859
what I would go with. Cool. As an adult, do you

00:18:57.859 --> 00:19:03.500
prefer vintage or modern toys? As an adult? It

00:19:03.500 --> 00:19:08.740
depends on the figure. And I say that with a

00:19:08.740 --> 00:19:15.059
degree of thought behind it because there's some

00:19:15.059 --> 00:19:20.660
aspects of the old stuff that is better in that

00:19:20.660 --> 00:19:26.200
they do better paint apps. Whereas some of the

00:19:26.200 --> 00:19:32.230
new stuff... they're very very cheap and lackadaisical

00:19:32.230 --> 00:19:39.430
with yeah now for instance i hate the kingdom

00:19:39.430 --> 00:19:44.349
cheetor absolutely loathe the figure because

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it's not there's there's very little paint apps

00:19:47.630 --> 00:19:51.690
to it and i mean yes you have the cheetah effect

00:19:51.690 --> 00:19:59.850
which yeah it's great whatever the i i i instantly...

00:19:59.850 --> 00:20:02.130
That was one of those ones where I instantly

00:20:02.130 --> 00:20:07.349
had remorse for getting it. And I customized

00:20:07.349 --> 00:20:09.849
it. I sold it. I flipped it. I was able to get

00:20:09.849 --> 00:20:18.710
the original Cheetor and customize him. But he

00:20:18.710 --> 00:20:22.789
had all the right tools. He had all the right

00:20:22.789 --> 00:20:27.569
weaponry. People are having... The old stuff,

00:20:27.960 --> 00:20:33.240
They didn't leave random gaps in arms. No, everything

00:20:33.240 --> 00:20:35.960
was completely covered. Like if you wanted to

00:20:35.960 --> 00:20:37.859
take that thing apart, you had to really take

00:20:37.859 --> 00:20:40.180
it apart. Like this new stuff, like you can pop

00:20:40.180 --> 00:20:42.180
an arm off without even thinking about it because

00:20:42.180 --> 00:20:45.960
they have these new like exposed joints. And

00:20:45.960 --> 00:20:48.779
then they have these hollowed out portions of

00:20:48.779 --> 00:20:53.279
their arms, legs and torsos that for no other

00:20:53.279 --> 00:20:56.339
reason are just hollowed out. So it seems very

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cheap. So I love some of the new decos that they

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have. But on a whole, I find the new stuff not

00:21:05.700 --> 00:21:12.359
as intriguing as some of the old stuff. So I

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think it just kind of depends on the figure.

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That's very true. What is one toy action figure,

00:21:19.480 --> 00:21:29.519
whatever you can always play with? Hmm. I still

00:21:29.519 --> 00:21:34.559
go back to some of the Beast Wars stuff. Just

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enjoy it for what it is. And I don't have a specific

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one per se, but I definitely enjoy being able

00:21:50.759 --> 00:21:57.660
to use them and see them. Very cool. beast wars

00:21:57.660 --> 00:22:02.400
characters in general awesome even though there

00:22:02.400 --> 00:22:05.640
are always toy lines that people never purchase

00:22:05.640 --> 00:22:08.940
are there any that you specifically and purposely

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avoid this can be a toy line a specific character

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whatever i i don't have a specific toy line that

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i just avoid or character per se i just kind

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of i i stick to what i know i'm going to actually

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like Mm hmm. So, like, for instance, I knew going

00:22:31.450 --> 00:22:36.230
in that Hasbro was going to botch the Beast Wars

00:22:36.230 --> 00:22:42.509
Grimlock. And so I decided, why don't I make

00:22:42.509 --> 00:22:45.170
my own? I'll make it look just like the old one

00:22:45.170 --> 00:22:48.190
from the 90s, which the 90s version had gold

00:22:48.190 --> 00:22:50.329
plastic syndrome, which for those that don't

00:22:50.329 --> 00:22:53.960
know. That's a syndrome that Hasbro decided it

00:22:53.960 --> 00:22:56.880
was wise to use gold flakes in the paint, in

00:22:56.880 --> 00:23:00.240
the plastic. Yeah, that was very unwise. And

00:23:00.240 --> 00:23:03.339
they did it in a lot of figures, especially like

00:23:03.339 --> 00:23:06.559
transmetals, especially in some of the... Now,

00:23:06.559 --> 00:23:09.220
they used a different mechanism for some of the

00:23:09.220 --> 00:23:14.779
transmetals with their chrome aspect, which totally

00:23:14.779 --> 00:23:21.799
ruined the figures as they age. Yeah, they totally

00:23:21.799 --> 00:23:25.440
ruined plastic on a lot of these, specifically

00:23:25.440 --> 00:23:31.980
the infamous Transmetal Megatron. He has, instead

00:23:31.980 --> 00:23:34.519
of gold plastic, he has brown plastic syndrome,

00:23:34.759 --> 00:23:38.700
which is funny because every piece of brown on

00:23:38.700 --> 00:23:41.799
him, if you're not careful, will shatter to the

00:23:41.799 --> 00:23:46.519
touch without much effort. As soon as you try

00:23:46.519 --> 00:23:50.369
to transform it, his arm will shatter. his arm

00:23:50.369 --> 00:23:54.470
will shatter off his, uh, different joints will

00:23:54.470 --> 00:23:57.569
just randomly just snap off for no other reason

00:23:57.569 --> 00:23:59.930
other than the fact that it's just cheap plastic

00:23:59.930 --> 00:24:04.269
that they cut corners on. That's one shitty toy.

00:24:05.289 --> 00:24:07.690
Yeah. I thought about that joke too, but I was

00:24:07.690 --> 00:24:10.789
like, I'll just, I'll leave it because it's a

00:24:10.789 --> 00:24:13.710
great toy. It's just, unless, unless you buy

00:24:13.710 --> 00:24:17.809
the, the Takara version, which Takara did it

00:24:17.809 --> 00:24:24.720
with, real plastic. There you go. Are there any

00:24:24.720 --> 00:24:27.200
toys in the past or currently that you wish you

00:24:27.200 --> 00:24:30.200
hadn't bought them? Are there any toys that you

00:24:30.200 --> 00:24:32.779
may have sold that you regretted letting go?

00:24:33.200 --> 00:24:39.880
This question is so up your alley! Hmm. Let's

00:24:39.880 --> 00:24:43.500
see. All the Beast Wars figures I sold years

00:24:43.500 --> 00:24:49.440
ago? Yeah, definitely that was some of it. For

00:24:49.440 --> 00:24:55.539
sure. Because I had some that I've had to reclaim

00:24:55.539 --> 00:25:02.019
through other methods and recent purchase. So,

00:25:02.079 --> 00:25:06.700
yeah, there's like Transmetal Rattrap, Cheetor,

00:25:07.039 --> 00:25:14.240
Rhinox, the Optimal Optimus. So there's been

00:25:14.240 --> 00:25:19.319
quite a few that Tarantulas, Waspinator. some

00:25:19.319 --> 00:25:23.980
of those I ditched and then re acclaimed in some

00:25:23.980 --> 00:25:26.960
regards, the, the new ones are better than the

00:25:26.960 --> 00:25:31.519
old ones. Like my old rat trap had the, the flaking

00:25:31.519 --> 00:25:36.019
of the vacuum sealed metal flaking. Yeah. Yeah.

00:25:36.039 --> 00:25:38.779
And it had it bad. The one that I ended up getting

00:25:38.779 --> 00:25:42.160
was the 10th anniversary version where they corrected

00:25:42.160 --> 00:25:45.539
the issue. Oh, cool. So that one doesn't have

00:25:45.539 --> 00:25:48.119
the same problem. Now, my tarantulas does, and

00:25:48.119 --> 00:25:52.700
so does optimal, but they don't show any issue

00:25:52.700 --> 00:25:58.700
with the flaking. So, yeah. So, anyways, those

00:25:58.700 --> 00:26:01.460
are some of the ones, like, getting the Thrilling

00:26:01.460 --> 00:26:07.180
30 Rhinox is just painful. Although, if you're

00:26:07.180 --> 00:26:09.400
lucky and you're patient. You can find one for

00:26:09.400 --> 00:26:11.579
the same price as the Kingdom one, and the Kingdom

00:26:11.579 --> 00:26:15.259
one looks goofy. It's one of those aspects where

00:26:15.259 --> 00:26:17.059
you have to pick and choose. You're like, do

00:26:17.059 --> 00:26:19.380
I want this version of it? Do I want this other

00:26:19.380 --> 00:26:22.660
version of it? This one doesn't have this issue,

00:26:22.799 --> 00:26:25.299
but this one does, and this one has more show

00:26:25.299 --> 00:26:27.539
accurate here, but not on this section. So it's

00:26:27.539 --> 00:26:30.880
kind of just picking whichever one you feel is

00:26:30.880 --> 00:26:34.500
the best incarnation of it. Yeah, absolutely.

00:26:35.779 --> 00:26:38.660
How large or small is your toy collection? Do

00:26:38.660 --> 00:26:40.920
your toys take up the whole house, or are they

00:26:40.920 --> 00:26:43.339
relegated to one room, shelf, or something like

00:26:43.339 --> 00:26:48.480
that? Kind of a shelf, in a sense. It's in a

00:26:48.480 --> 00:26:51.440
cabinet, and then I have a few that are Hot Wheel

00:26:51.440 --> 00:26:55.700
cars that I collect. A few are original, a few

00:26:55.700 --> 00:26:57.700
are repaints, and a few are ones that I've just

00:26:57.700 --> 00:27:01.119
kind of, as I find them, I pick them up. And

00:27:01.119 --> 00:27:04.609
I have a couple of... Enterprise starships that

00:27:04.609 --> 00:27:06.789
are on top of my desk, but other than that, I

00:27:06.789 --> 00:27:09.710
don't. They're kind of relegated to the desk.

00:27:10.470 --> 00:27:14.549
Right. How do you keep track of your collection?

00:27:14.730 --> 00:27:16.529
Do you have a spreadsheet? Do you have a list

00:27:16.529 --> 00:27:18.289
somewhere, or do you just keep it all in your

00:27:18.289 --> 00:27:20.490
head, or do you not keep track of it at all?

00:27:21.190 --> 00:27:24.829
It's all in my head. Plus, I take pictures of

00:27:24.829 --> 00:27:28.150
it periodically, and I keep them on Google Drive,

00:27:28.230 --> 00:27:31.880
so it's just more of... Yeah, I have that one.

00:27:32.559 --> 00:27:35.220
Now, as far as the Beast Wars characters are

00:27:35.220 --> 00:27:40.019
concerned, it's a mental checklist. I know exactly

00:27:40.019 --> 00:27:43.500
what I've got and what I'm going. The Hot Wheel

00:27:43.500 --> 00:27:46.019
cars, it's more so I just pick up random cars

00:27:46.019 --> 00:27:50.240
periodically. Mostly if they're S10 related,

00:27:50.460 --> 00:27:56.079
I get them. Or a type of truck or an Enterprise

00:27:56.079 --> 00:28:00.720
or something themed. How do you display your

00:28:00.720 --> 00:28:03.319
toys? Do you have Beast Wars Megatron riding

00:28:03.319 --> 00:28:08.440
in the back of one of those S10s? How is your

00:28:08.440 --> 00:28:16.059
display laid out? Well, my display is more or

00:28:16.059 --> 00:28:20.119
less... The Hot Wheel cars are staggered, so

00:28:20.119 --> 00:28:23.779
they don't fall off the shelf. I have three that

00:28:23.779 --> 00:28:27.839
are new on card of Hot Wheels. The Enterprises

00:28:27.839 --> 00:28:31.259
are on... table mounts and then the beast wars

00:28:31.259 --> 00:28:35.539
characters are because of how gargantuan winged

00:28:35.539 --> 00:28:39.619
dragon third party uh transmittal to megatron

00:28:39.619 --> 00:28:45.259
is he's dead center of the of the uh the showcase

00:28:45.259 --> 00:28:49.059
and then i have kingdom megatron on one side

00:28:49.059 --> 00:28:53.859
to relegate predacons and then i have on the

00:28:53.859 --> 00:28:57.930
other side optimal optimus and then I have Masterpiece

00:28:57.930 --> 00:29:03.349
Optimus Primal and Masterpiece Transmetal Optimus

00:29:03.349 --> 00:29:06.230
Primal, along with all of the various incarnations

00:29:06.230 --> 00:29:09.849
of Maximals that I have in various states of

00:29:09.849 --> 00:29:12.829
repaint. If you could only keep one toy from

00:29:12.829 --> 00:29:14.769
your entire collection, what would it be and

00:29:14.769 --> 00:29:17.750
why? Basically, this is kind of like the question

00:29:17.750 --> 00:29:20.819
over on the pull bag where I say... If the house

00:29:20.819 --> 00:29:23.279
is burning down and you can only save one comic

00:29:23.279 --> 00:29:26.559
book, so if you could only keep one toy from

00:29:26.559 --> 00:29:28.759
your entire collection, what would it be and

00:29:28.759 --> 00:29:32.440
why? Why are you going to make me choose? I've

00:29:32.440 --> 00:29:36.279
customized almost all of them in there. That's

00:29:36.279 --> 00:29:39.039
your own damn fault. It is, but they're so accurate,

00:29:39.200 --> 00:29:42.380
and that's the beautiful part. True. It's taken

00:29:42.380 --> 00:29:46.339
a lot of time. Now, if that Transmetal Megatron,

00:29:46.500 --> 00:29:49.420
like the regular Transmetal Megatron, was Masterpiece,

00:29:50.000 --> 00:29:53.200
probably would say that if this was the Takara

00:29:53.200 --> 00:29:55.019
version that doesn't break, I would probably

00:29:55.019 --> 00:29:57.480
still say that one. Yeah. Being that it's the

00:29:57.480 --> 00:30:00.099
Hasbro one. I don't think I could honestly go

00:30:00.099 --> 00:30:05.599
through with it. I, why would you do that to

00:30:05.599 --> 00:30:08.599
me? Oh, there's a better, there, there, there's

00:30:08.599 --> 00:30:11.480
another question. So the questions get harder

00:30:11.480 --> 00:30:14.160
and more emotional as they go along folks. Cause

00:30:14.160 --> 00:30:17.599
I have, I have winged dragon Megatron. I have,

00:30:19.039 --> 00:30:23.599
I have my custom Ultimis Prime, I have the Megatron,

00:30:23.640 --> 00:30:25.759
I have Scourge, and I have my custom Grimlock.

00:30:26.660 --> 00:30:36.759
I probably... One toy, sir. You rat. I would

00:30:36.759 --> 00:30:41.619
probably say Winged Dragon, just because he's

00:30:41.619 --> 00:30:47.859
the most difficult to get out of this group.

00:30:50.559 --> 00:30:53.279
Unless I went with my Grimlock that I'm customizing

00:30:53.279 --> 00:30:56.579
right now, because every time I show people pictures

00:30:56.579 --> 00:30:59.420
of it, they drool and tell me that they want

00:30:59.420 --> 00:31:03.440
it. Yeah, they flipped their lid. So on the flip

00:31:03.440 --> 00:31:07.180
side, here is the Toy Box Challenge. You get

00:31:07.180 --> 00:31:12.799
one 18x18x18 box. The only toys you can keep

00:31:12.799 --> 00:31:16.480
have to fit in the box. What can you pack into

00:31:16.480 --> 00:31:19.950
it? Everything I have but the winged dragon.

00:31:25.390 --> 00:31:29.930
And possibly optimal optimus. I could fit the

00:31:29.930 --> 00:31:32.470
rest of them. I'm positive of it because I have

00:31:32.470 --> 00:31:37.950
a... You said an 18x18x18? Yep. Let's see. This

00:31:37.950 --> 00:31:44.410
thing is... Oh, I could fit all of them. Except

00:31:44.410 --> 00:31:46.289
for the winged dragon. I could fit everything

00:31:46.289 --> 00:31:49.670
except for that. Easy. Now, if I took his wings

00:31:49.670 --> 00:31:54.769
off, I could fit all of them. Are you a Funko

00:31:54.769 --> 00:31:58.930
fan? No. What was the most money you spent on

00:31:58.930 --> 00:32:04.390
a toy? I decline to answer. Your wife doesn't

00:32:04.390 --> 00:32:06.269
listen to your podcast. She's never going to

00:32:06.269 --> 00:32:13.019
hear this. Anyway. I decline. What was the cheapest

00:32:13.019 --> 00:32:18.920
toy you ever bought? $10. Well, if we're talking

00:32:18.920 --> 00:32:20.799
Transformers, if we're talking cheapest toy,

00:32:21.000 --> 00:32:23.940
it would be a Hot Wheel car for $1. But I've

00:32:23.940 --> 00:32:26.279
gotten some pretty good deals on some Transformers,

00:32:26.279 --> 00:32:29.099
like that Megatron that's busted. I got him for

00:32:29.099 --> 00:32:32.819
$16. Jeez. And I repaired him, and I repainted

00:32:32.819 --> 00:32:34.759
him, and now he looks so accurate, he just doesn't

00:32:34.759 --> 00:32:37.440
move. That's right, because he's glued together.

00:32:39.500 --> 00:32:42.519
Do you visit toy shows or conventions? Ladies

00:32:42.519 --> 00:32:45.180
and gentlemen, this question was written a long

00:32:45.180 --> 00:32:50.059
time ago before COVID -19. So in the past or

00:32:50.059 --> 00:32:52.420
currently going on into the future, would you

00:32:52.420 --> 00:32:56.799
visit toy shows or conventions? I possibly would.

00:32:58.500 --> 00:33:03.819
I don't honestly know if I would, but I more

00:33:03.819 --> 00:33:08.500
so I watch them online when they have them. Yeah.

00:33:11.719 --> 00:33:13.720
What do you think it is about our generation

00:33:13.720 --> 00:33:16.579
that causes our childhood toys to mean so much

00:33:16.579 --> 00:33:20.119
more to us than, for instance, our parents' generation?

00:33:22.000 --> 00:33:24.440
Because our parents instilled it in us that they

00:33:24.440 --> 00:33:28.440
bought us a bunch of crap. Whereas they didn't

00:33:28.440 --> 00:33:30.640
have a bunch of crap bought for them, which is

00:33:30.640 --> 00:33:32.319
probably why they bought us a bunch of crap.

00:33:34.359 --> 00:33:35.900
They were like, well, we didn't get all this

00:33:35.900 --> 00:33:37.900
stuff when we were kids, so they should benefit.

00:33:38.359 --> 00:33:40.519
And then now we're like, we can't afford to buy

00:33:40.519 --> 00:33:44.339
this crap for our kids. Back to the same boat.

00:33:44.799 --> 00:33:48.940
Yeah. What is your motivation for purchasing

00:33:48.940 --> 00:33:52.700
toys to display, play, fiddle? What's your motivation?

00:33:53.299 --> 00:33:59.319
I would say all three because I enjoy, well,

00:33:59.359 --> 00:34:01.700
one, like if my kids want to use them, I have

00:34:01.700 --> 00:34:06.670
no issue. doing that like i i have certain ones

00:34:06.670 --> 00:34:10.329
that are 100 off limits and then i have other

00:34:10.329 --> 00:34:13.690
ones where i'm like uh yeah you can use that

00:34:13.690 --> 00:34:16.449
one today or you know rotation type of thing

00:34:16.449 --> 00:34:18.909
where it's it's like yeah that's that's fine

00:34:18.909 --> 00:34:23.210
i don't care so and then i'll sometimes play

00:34:23.210 --> 00:34:31.530
too uh like i had because i can do voices i i

00:34:32.079 --> 00:34:34.300
sometimes do like goofy stuff with the characters

00:34:34.300 --> 00:34:38.539
and kids think it's hilarious uh like i had kingdom

00:34:38.539 --> 00:34:42.800
megatron uh getting in a fight with his dinosaur

00:34:42.800 --> 00:34:49.440
hand and arguing with him and yeah and they they

00:34:49.440 --> 00:34:51.199
thought that that was the most hilarious thing

00:34:51.199 --> 00:34:55.219
in the world when i did that so you can have

00:34:55.219 --> 00:34:57.900
his robot face mouth say no you can have the

00:34:57.900 --> 00:35:01.920
dinosaur hand say yes Yeah, I hear the robot

00:35:01.920 --> 00:35:06.099
say no, and then the dinosaur is like, I'm hungry.

00:35:06.179 --> 00:35:08.559
I'm going to eat your face, you know, and stuff

00:35:08.559 --> 00:35:11.480
like that. And I think it's funny. But, yeah,

00:35:11.599 --> 00:35:14.219
I mean, I like to also, like I said, I like to

00:35:14.219 --> 00:35:18.340
customize, too. We'll get to that. Yeah, that's

00:35:18.340 --> 00:35:20.880
part of a big draw. But I like to display them

00:35:20.880 --> 00:35:25.159
mostly. It's mostly because of either nostalgia

00:35:25.159 --> 00:35:30.230
of not. uh i guess in a sense nostalgia plays

00:35:30.230 --> 00:35:33.329
into it because as a kid i was like i want all

00:35:33.329 --> 00:35:35.829
of these but if like somebody else in the household

00:35:35.829 --> 00:35:37.769
had that character you weren't allowed to have

00:35:37.769 --> 00:35:40.429
them oh boy it's one of those kind of households

00:35:40.429 --> 00:35:44.789
is it well what was sad is because i was from

00:35:44.789 --> 00:35:47.269
a divorced household we were allowed to have

00:35:47.869 --> 00:35:51.769
The same toy at both houses. So you wasted money

00:35:51.769 --> 00:35:53.849
twice. If you wanted to play with that toy. At

00:35:53.849 --> 00:35:59.449
a different house. It's so stupid. I had two

00:35:59.449 --> 00:36:03.590
optimals. I had two. I had one dragon megatron

00:36:03.590 --> 00:36:06.329
thankfully. But I had two of the transmetal.

00:36:07.150 --> 00:36:12.550
Megatrons. And yeah. That was. Both of them broke.

00:36:14.650 --> 00:36:17.409
Have you ever purchased a toy for a child with

00:36:17.409 --> 00:36:19.510
the ulterior motive of playing with it yourself?

00:36:21.570 --> 00:36:26.090
No. Have you ever purchased a vintage toy for

00:36:26.090 --> 00:36:28.489
a child because you thought it would be fun based

00:36:28.489 --> 00:36:32.849
on your own preferences? I bought a vintage toy

00:36:32.849 --> 00:36:40.510
for myself. No, vintage toy for the child. No.

00:36:40.550 --> 00:36:44.230
Because you thought it was, you know, okay. Do

00:36:44.230 --> 00:36:47.309
you do any toy modifications or customs, painting,

00:36:47.630 --> 00:36:50.030
building, building dioramas? Here you go. Here's

00:36:50.030 --> 00:36:53.190
your question. I've thought about doing the diorama

00:36:53.190 --> 00:36:56.949
thing and building parts of the axon and the

00:36:56.949 --> 00:36:59.050
arc, but 3D printer people do it so much better

00:36:59.050 --> 00:37:02.050
that I would just feel ashamed if I tried to

00:37:02.050 --> 00:37:07.369
pass that off. But as far as modifications, I

00:37:07.369 --> 00:37:13.980
have, to date, I've customized a... Kingdom Rat

00:37:13.980 --> 00:37:20.820
Trap. I've customized a Kingdom Airazor. Dinobot.

00:37:20.940 --> 00:37:23.340
I've done Dinobot, which Dinobot just needed

00:37:23.340 --> 00:37:26.019
minor modifications. I could have gone a little

00:37:26.019 --> 00:37:28.320
bit more in -depth with him, but I opted just

00:37:28.320 --> 00:37:33.940
to say forget that. Meaning that he could use

00:37:33.940 --> 00:37:37.699
better striping in Robot Mode and Beast Mode,

00:37:37.860 --> 00:37:40.960
but I don't intend on transforming him, so it's

00:37:40.960 --> 00:37:44.659
not... It's not that big of an issue to me. Cheetor,

00:37:44.780 --> 00:37:48.219
I've modified his... I've added the gold that

00:37:48.219 --> 00:37:52.119
was missing on the entire figure. I've modified...

00:37:52.119 --> 00:37:55.460
Kingdom Rat Trap is a complete custom. I completely

00:37:55.460 --> 00:37:58.320
repainted that. Other than the gray of the rat,

00:37:58.519 --> 00:38:01.039
everything else was repainted. Same thing with

00:38:01.039 --> 00:38:04.400
Eraser. I repainted the entire figure other than

00:38:04.400 --> 00:38:08.400
a few select parts of the orange. I've repainted...

00:38:09.390 --> 00:38:12.489
parts of Waspinator from Thrilling 30. I've repainted

00:38:12.489 --> 00:38:16.610
all of Blackarachnia from Kingdom. I've repainted

00:38:16.610 --> 00:38:24.409
Transmental Rattrap in all of his gray areas

00:38:24.409 --> 00:38:28.809
and some of the orange that was orange color

00:38:28.809 --> 00:38:34.269
for no reason. And then I've made custom figures

00:38:34.269 --> 00:38:39.000
as far as I've made my Ultimis Prime using uh

00:38:39.000 --> 00:38:45.179
siege ultra bagness to use his that body so that

00:38:45.179 --> 00:38:47.320
one i don't have to paint an entire figure white

00:38:47.320 --> 00:38:55.019
but also because then because then uh i can make

00:38:55.019 --> 00:38:59.420
it look cybertronian and as much like the uh

00:38:59.420 --> 00:39:02.539
custom character and then of course i've got

00:39:02.539 --> 00:39:06.989
grimlock Beast Wars Grimlock, which is based

00:39:06.989 --> 00:39:12.909
off of the 90s figure. And in a sense, but he's

00:39:12.909 --> 00:39:21.309
a heavy modification of Dinobot from Kingdom.

00:39:21.510 --> 00:39:28.989
And that is no easy feat. It's because it requires

00:39:28.989 --> 00:39:34.630
a complete repainting of the character. into

00:39:34.630 --> 00:39:38.150
white which honestly if i thought about it i

00:39:38.150 --> 00:39:40.650
could have waited until the other grimlock came

00:39:40.650 --> 00:39:43.409
out got that one where it's all baked in white

00:39:43.409 --> 00:39:48.309
and then modified from there but honestly like

00:39:48.309 --> 00:39:51.449
this this version of it is so much better than

00:39:51.449 --> 00:39:54.230
what hasbro is putting out that i don't feel

00:39:54.230 --> 00:40:00.710
bad about it and it's got the studio 86 grimlock

00:40:00.710 --> 00:40:07.389
head oh very cool So it very much fits the style

00:40:07.389 --> 00:40:13.889
of the 90s Grimlock. Very cool. Do you think

00:40:13.889 --> 00:40:16.469
toy companies should specifically have adult

00:40:16.469 --> 00:40:20.489
collector toys, child toys, or find a way to

00:40:20.489 --> 00:40:23.730
mix both? I think that a lot of them are starting

00:40:23.730 --> 00:40:28.269
to do that now. And I say that because Hasbro

00:40:28.269 --> 00:40:32.070
themselves, they have the Masterpiece line for...

00:40:32.559 --> 00:40:35.840
adult collectors which granted i can't afford

00:40:35.840 --> 00:40:40.239
because they either start out they usually start

00:40:40.239 --> 00:40:42.400
out pretty affordable and then as the longer

00:40:42.400 --> 00:40:46.760
they're out the more expensive they get and because

00:40:46.760 --> 00:40:50.400
i say that because i got optimus primal masterpiece

00:40:50.400 --> 00:40:53.579
when he was brand new like had just come out

00:40:53.579 --> 00:41:01.289
and he was 129 at the time and Now you can't

00:41:01.289 --> 00:41:06.110
get them for under $300. Yep. So in that regard,

00:41:06.409 --> 00:41:13.429
I feel like, yes, I think that there should be

00:41:13.429 --> 00:41:19.110
the adult figure collection. But also, you know,

00:41:19.110 --> 00:41:22.889
the kids, granted the kids ones are, you know,

00:41:22.909 --> 00:41:29.219
you've got, what is it? Cyberverse. It's basically

00:41:29.219 --> 00:41:33.760
their version of it in some of those. And they

00:41:33.760 --> 00:41:37.159
have a lot of kids' versions now of various series,

00:41:37.360 --> 00:41:41.139
whether it be Star Wars, whether it be Transformers,

00:41:41.139 --> 00:41:44.019
whether it be really anything. And then they

00:41:44.019 --> 00:41:46.699
have the adult, you know, like Star Wars has

00:41:46.699 --> 00:41:49.340
the Black Series, or, you know, Transformers

00:41:49.340 --> 00:41:53.440
has Masterpiece. Unless you're going, like, Kingdom,

00:41:53.619 --> 00:41:58.110
in some regards, they have... the the netflix

00:41:58.110 --> 00:42:00.969
version or their uh takara just recently got

00:42:00.969 --> 00:42:05.590
back in the game of doing the the collector edition

00:42:05.590 --> 00:42:07.650
or the the perfect edition is what they're calling

00:42:07.650 --> 00:42:11.250
them which is basically they give it the paint

00:42:11.250 --> 00:42:16.309
apps that hasbro was too lazy to do which means

00:42:16.309 --> 00:42:20.590
that oh it's going to actually be good so yeah

00:42:20.590 --> 00:42:23.829
do you have a parent my parents get rid of my

00:42:23.829 --> 00:42:29.139
toys story Uh, not really. I kind of did that

00:42:29.139 --> 00:42:32.400
to myself. That'll be a question down the line.

00:42:33.500 --> 00:42:36.000
Was there ever a moment, actually right now,

00:42:36.119 --> 00:42:39.320
when you were done with toys, have you ever considered

00:42:39.320 --> 00:42:42.119
stopping as a collector or even selling your

00:42:42.119 --> 00:42:45.920
whole collection? I've done that before, but

00:42:45.920 --> 00:42:49.000
it was more so because I was broke and needed

00:42:49.000 --> 00:42:52.059
money under a lot of different circumstances

00:42:52.059 --> 00:42:56.320
over my life. Right. So, yeah, I've done that

00:42:56.320 --> 00:43:01.360
on numerous occasions. What is something that

00:43:01.360 --> 00:43:04.059
does not have a toy of it that you would love

00:43:04.059 --> 00:43:11.099
to have in toy form? So it has to have no toy.

00:43:11.239 --> 00:43:15.019
Yeah, no toy. Okay, so it can't be one that just

00:43:15.019 --> 00:43:17.659
needs a masterpiece version. No, no, no, no toy.

00:43:18.639 --> 00:43:22.800
Never released. Never made, never thought of,

00:43:22.880 --> 00:43:29.760
never, never. So does one that, um, one that,

00:43:29.760 --> 00:43:33.659
Oh, I got one for you. Optimal Megatron. There

00:43:33.659 --> 00:43:36.400
you go. Yeah. He never had a toy. Yup. No, I've

00:43:36.400 --> 00:43:39.239
seen a very, very nice custom of it that somebody

00:43:39.239 --> 00:43:43.039
3d printed a head to swap out. And it 3d printed

00:43:43.039 --> 00:43:46.219
the, uh, the, the part where the, the cannon

00:43:46.219 --> 00:43:50.599
goes as well as, as posable ankles that you can

00:43:50.599 --> 00:43:55.179
replace on the original figure. But I have not

00:43:55.179 --> 00:43:59.900
been able to get a hold of the person that created

00:43:59.900 --> 00:44:05.039
that because I would love to customize it. Mostly

00:44:05.039 --> 00:44:07.679
because Optimal's head is tiny and I don't like

00:44:07.679 --> 00:44:10.300
his backpack and would like to get one that's

00:44:10.300 --> 00:44:14.039
show accurate, but that doesn't exist. Although

00:44:14.039 --> 00:44:19.480
there's also the cloaked Megatron that, yes,

00:44:19.519 --> 00:44:24.980
while it had a toy, it was not actual. No. Representation.

00:44:25.000 --> 00:44:28.780
Yeah. So I would also consider that not being

00:44:28.780 --> 00:44:34.380
a real toy. Yeah. So this question kind of comes

00:44:34.380 --> 00:44:37.000
from the pull bag. The question over in the pull

00:44:37.000 --> 00:44:40.599
bag is, what is one thing that you would love

00:44:40.599 --> 00:44:43.960
to have from a comic book in the real world?

00:44:44.539 --> 00:44:47.800
Basically, this means like Green Lantern's Ring,

00:44:48.059 --> 00:44:50.599
Batman's Batarang, that kind of thing. The question

00:44:50.599 --> 00:44:53.889
for ToyCast is, What is a toy that you'd love

00:44:53.889 --> 00:44:57.050
to have scaled up and functional for real people?

00:44:59.050 --> 00:45:03.610
Oh, for real people? Mm -hmm. Scaled up and functional.

00:45:05.230 --> 00:45:16.329
A toy that's scaled up and functional. I've stumped

00:45:16.329 --> 00:45:20.969
him, folks. Well, there's the Enterprise, but...

00:45:26.250 --> 00:45:32.849
Yeah. Probably... I don't know, Optimus Prime

00:45:32.849 --> 00:45:36.670
or something. Drive a semi that transforms to

00:45:36.670 --> 00:45:39.889
a giant robot and then it can not worry about

00:45:39.889 --> 00:45:43.449
transportation. I guess you could pay $700 for

00:45:43.449 --> 00:45:46.090
him to auto -transform, but it's not a real toy.

00:45:46.170 --> 00:45:50.889
It's not a real truck. Anyway, no. Question 37,

00:45:51.150 --> 00:45:56.230
folks, in a row. No. Bad joke. Oh, yeah. No,

00:45:56.250 --> 00:45:59.369
no, no. I love that I have question 37 here.

00:46:00.250 --> 00:46:03.650
How have your – and this applies because most

00:46:03.650 --> 00:46:05.530
of the guests I'm going to talk to, some I may

00:46:05.530 --> 00:46:08.590
or may not know what their status is. How have

00:46:08.590 --> 00:46:11.630
your spouses, significant others, mates, partners,

00:46:11.869 --> 00:46:16.250
whatever, dealt with your collection? Called

00:46:16.250 --> 00:46:24.050
me a man -child. I don't understand your obsession

00:46:24.050 --> 00:46:27.610
with Transformers. Yeah, me neither. It's very

00:46:27.610 --> 00:46:32.769
appealing. That's all I know. What part of collecting

00:46:32.769 --> 00:46:38.230
do you struggle with? The cost. I'm pretty sure

00:46:38.230 --> 00:46:40.989
every time I ask that question, folks, that's

00:46:40.989 --> 00:46:43.030
what's going to be the answer. Most people will

00:46:43.030 --> 00:46:49.460
say the cost or space. Yeah, the space aspect

00:46:49.460 --> 00:46:53.360
I would say too, but it's more so I think it's

00:46:53.360 --> 00:46:56.480
the cost. I think just because stuff is so bloody

00:46:56.480 --> 00:47:04.519
expensive for like any of it. Yeah, I'm if cost

00:47:04.519 --> 00:47:08.480
wasn't an issue, I would probably go on to get

00:47:08.480 --> 00:47:10.679
some of the G1 characters. I would probably get

00:47:10.679 --> 00:47:16.389
probably, you know, more more of the versions

00:47:16.389 --> 00:47:20.469
of certain characters such as like depth charge

00:47:20.469 --> 00:47:24.789
or quick strike or some of the the ones that

00:47:24.789 --> 00:47:30.170
are in the show that are maybe larger and take

00:47:30.170 --> 00:47:35.949
up more space because i mean i i would like some

00:47:35.949 --> 00:47:39.030
of them but like i i love depth charge but i

00:47:39.030 --> 00:47:43.110
don't have the space for another giant In my

00:47:43.110 --> 00:47:47.510
cabinet, I can fit more small, which is why like

00:47:47.510 --> 00:47:51.150
Rhinox will be joining them soon. But yeah, yeah,

00:47:51.309 --> 00:47:54.570
I, yeah, I would say cost definitely is, is one

00:47:54.570 --> 00:47:59.610
of those factors. What is one positive and one

00:47:59.610 --> 00:48:06.269
negative memory you have with buying toys? Positive.

00:48:06.909 --> 00:48:09.869
is probably the thrill of the hunt and getting

00:48:09.869 --> 00:48:12.849
to display them and play with them or customize

00:48:12.849 --> 00:48:18.889
them or some of that aspect. The negative would

00:48:18.889 --> 00:48:23.050
be when you fall on hard times and have to ditch

00:48:23.050 --> 00:48:28.289
them. Yeah. Because then you're like, it took

00:48:28.289 --> 00:48:33.329
me so long to get XYZ and now it's gone. Yeah,

00:48:33.329 --> 00:48:37.849
it's gone. If you could create any toy, what

00:48:37.849 --> 00:48:40.829
would you want to create? Basically, Hasbro or

00:48:40.829 --> 00:48:44.110
Takara or whomever gives you the keys to the

00:48:44.110 --> 00:48:48.230
kingdom, and they say, create the next best -selling

00:48:48.230 --> 00:48:55.409
thing for us. Masterpiece Transmetal Megatron.

00:48:55.630 --> 00:48:59.289
There you go. Because that's the one character

00:48:59.289 --> 00:49:05.579
that people would love to see. And that will

00:49:05.579 --> 00:49:07.340
never happen unless the third party does it.

00:49:09.019 --> 00:49:11.920
Like people are paying upwards to like two to

00:49:11.920 --> 00:49:14.880
three hundred dollars to get the Takara Megatron

00:49:14.880 --> 00:49:19.559
just so it won't break. Yes. Now, mind you, it's

00:49:19.559 --> 00:49:22.780
a fifteen dollar toy. Yeah, I know. Originally,

00:49:22.940 --> 00:49:27.059
I know. And so like I've watched people spend

00:49:27.059 --> 00:49:29.159
over one hundred dollars on Inferno. He was a

00:49:29.159 --> 00:49:33.670
fifteen dollar toy originally. And so to me,

00:49:33.670 --> 00:49:36.289
unless you're getting an upscaled version for

00:49:36.289 --> 00:49:41.289
that cost, I just can't fathom how people are

00:49:41.289 --> 00:49:45.590
spending it on the figure. And I get it. It doesn't

00:49:45.590 --> 00:49:47.349
shatter. It doesn't break. You can transform

00:49:47.349 --> 00:49:50.369
it. It's still cool. I totally understand that.

00:49:50.789 --> 00:49:53.250
Because if money wasn't an issue, I would get

00:49:53.250 --> 00:49:56.889
a Takara version 2 and then possibly just repaint

00:49:56.889 --> 00:49:59.570
it so that it's show accurate and wouldn't have

00:49:59.570 --> 00:50:03.539
to worry about it breaking. Yeah. But being that

00:50:03.539 --> 00:50:09.199
that's the issue, like I was perfectly fine picking

00:50:09.199 --> 00:50:11.920
one up for $16, which is exactly what I would

00:50:11.920 --> 00:50:16.179
have paid for it 25 years ago. Right. And repainting

00:50:16.179 --> 00:50:20.500
it since it shattered in my hands into what it

00:50:20.500 --> 00:50:24.860
looks like now. So, yeah, I just yeah, I think

00:50:24.860 --> 00:50:26.699
that that would go over really well having a

00:50:26.699 --> 00:50:30.820
masterpiece one without all the the the. quality

00:50:30.820 --> 00:50:34.500
control flaws that the current one has. Right.

00:50:34.619 --> 00:50:37.820
Yeah, absolutely. What is the one piece of advice

00:50:37.820 --> 00:50:41.760
you would give the toy collecting fandom? One

00:50:41.760 --> 00:50:48.460
piece of advice. Well, it's almost going to be

00:50:48.460 --> 00:50:52.300
twofold because I don't conform to rules very

00:50:52.300 --> 00:50:59.500
well. Uh, it would be one. Don't break the bank.

00:51:00.269 --> 00:51:05.190
trying to collect. Bide your time. There's sometimes

00:51:05.190 --> 00:51:08.550
when biding your time can be a good thing. For

00:51:08.550 --> 00:51:11.289
instance, Tarantulas, I wasn't seeing go for

00:51:11.289 --> 00:51:15.630
under 80 bucks for a long time. Picked him up

00:51:15.630 --> 00:51:19.110
for 30. Same thing with Transmetal Rattrap. I

00:51:19.110 --> 00:51:21.530
wasn't seeing him go for less than 50 in good

00:51:21.530 --> 00:51:26.010
condition and found one for 20. And then same

00:51:26.010 --> 00:51:30.179
thing with this Transmetal Megatron. Yes, he

00:51:30.179 --> 00:51:32.559
was broken, but I was seeing broken ones even

00:51:32.559 --> 00:51:36.360
going for 60. And this guy just happened to be

00:51:36.360 --> 00:51:39.440
posting it for 10. So, I mean, don't break the

00:51:39.440 --> 00:51:42.539
bank trying to get stuff like, you know, there's

00:51:42.539 --> 00:51:45.199
other methods of trying to find it or check within

00:51:45.199 --> 00:51:47.880
the fandoms. And then if all else fails, if you

00:51:47.880 --> 00:51:53.400
can't find the original figure and there's alternatives

00:51:53.400 --> 00:51:57.739
such as the Kingdom Dinobot, make your Grim.

00:51:58.030 --> 00:52:00.170
Make your new figure, you know, customize something.

00:52:00.369 --> 00:52:02.550
If it's not exactly how you want it, don't be

00:52:02.550 --> 00:52:05.570
afraid to, you know, dip your toe in that water

00:52:05.570 --> 00:52:08.469
to customize. I started off with a Kingdom Cheetor

00:52:08.469 --> 00:52:12.570
and was terrified I was going to ruin this figure.

00:52:12.730 --> 00:52:15.030
And when I look back at the photos of the one

00:52:15.030 --> 00:52:18.130
that I sold, in all honesty, it looks like crap.

00:52:18.269 --> 00:52:20.130
I'm surprised somebody paid triple of what I

00:52:20.130 --> 00:52:24.440
paid for it. You know, if you're just doing it

00:52:24.440 --> 00:52:28.619
as a display piece, like it's fine. But yeah,

00:52:28.760 --> 00:52:31.699
I mean, just kind of learning. Don't don't be

00:52:31.699 --> 00:52:37.380
afraid to play with your toys. And the last question,

00:52:37.539 --> 00:52:41.420
what is advice you'd give to kids who enjoy toys?

00:52:42.219 --> 00:52:46.570
Have fun with them like. Don't be worried about

00:52:46.570 --> 00:52:47.710
what they're going to be worried about years

00:52:47.710 --> 00:52:49.750
later. If you think it's a really awesome figure

00:52:49.750 --> 00:52:51.809
and you want one that's new in the box, just

00:52:51.809 --> 00:52:55.130
pick up a new one and put it in storage somewhere.

00:52:55.289 --> 00:52:59.780
But honestly, just... take care of your toys

00:52:59.780 --> 00:53:03.239
but have fun with them too i love you shut up

00:53:03.239 --> 00:53:06.420
bitch i'm not done all right folks that's gonna

00:53:06.420 --> 00:53:09.380
do it for us here on toy cast i don't know what's

00:53:09.380 --> 00:53:11.380
coming up next here on the podcast it could be

00:53:11.380 --> 00:53:14.179
a display case it could be another origins episode

00:53:14.179 --> 00:53:17.860
we could finally unveil the toy crimes police

00:53:17.860 --> 00:53:22.780
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exist, Spreaker, as well as any other podcatching

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client you use. I prefer you use one of these,

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though. Leave the show's feedback in iTunes,

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please. Do this. Follow us on Twitter at Geekcast

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Radio is the network. Twitter at TFToycast is

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the show. I am at TFG1. Mike, what is your Twitter,

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sir? At SCP21. Become a fan on Facebook. Go to

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facebook .com slash geekcastradionetwork. You

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can also search out TFToyCast over there as well.

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For now, I am TF2 and Mike with... Steve Megatron.

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Join us next time when we will be talking more

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toys here on ToyCast.