Jason on Origins in Toy Collecting

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this is as we get the origins of any and all

toy fans that we can I'm of course TF2 and Mike

and today's featured guest is one -fourth of

the A musical something or other cracktastic

plastic no guitar heroes. No drum kits. No nothing

It is Jason one -fourth of the cracktastic plastic

podcast. Hello, sir. How are you? I'm so good.

How are you? I'm glad I'm here too. I think I'm

glad I'm here too. Sometimes I wish I was still

asleep. Oh So yes we are here to get Jason's

toy story and toy collecting 42 questions all

about toy collecting. And I have been listening

to finally after you bugging me for two years

you haven't actually been bugging me for two

years but I remember like two or three years

ago when they started he's like hey I'm like

okay I'll check it out two years later. Seven

hours ago, I finally listened to about five episodes

of your show. As long as you get there, I don't

care. So Cracktastic Plastic, before we get into

the questions, just give the brief summary of

what you and your bandmates do over there at

Cracktastic Plastic. Sure. For years, probably

10 years ago, at least, we've been a band. We're

all musicians. play original punk rock music

and we travel the country on tour all the time

and for years and years we didn't even know this

but eventually learned that we all liked toys

and collected toys it's weird how it just didn't

ever really come up for a while and then once

we learned that we like toys then It was really

neat how each one of us had our own special line

that we specifically collected. Me and my brother,

who's in the band, we're Transformers guys, but

one guy's G .I. Joe and one guy's He -Man. So

we got a pretty good, you know, across the board

of vintage toys, the big lines anyway. And I'll

tell you what, a lot of tours and stuff have

been booked around going to toy stores and...

And so when COVID hit, you know, it kind of killed

the music industry, all things playing live and

all that. COVID really killed it. And it was

really a bummer to all of us, but we still always

talked and chatted about toys. And we're like,

you know what? We need to just hit record. And

so it was an excuse to still hang out with the

guys. And it's been a really great thing. Uh,

just, just getting to hang out with my musical

brothers and talk toys. And that's, that's about

two years ago. We've been doing this podcast.

Absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah, folks. They do

almost every major line except the one that sucks.

I don't even know what you're talking about.

Those toys live in a trash compactor in a galaxy

far, far away. All right, and the sad thing is

I have about Ten or twelve different funko pop

versions So getting into the questions 42 questions

all about toy collecting what is or was the first

toy you remember having as a kid well, I Definitely

have to preface this with if I If I could have

one wish, it would be to have a better memory.

It's become more and more sad to me. As I've

been doing this podcast, I'm like, I live and

deal in nostalgia and I wish I could just remember

things better. You know, I just, it's terrible.

It's actually terrible. But growing up, You know,

it was three boys, so Spoodie, my brother who's

on the podcast, he's the youngest brother and

I'm the oldest. And we had a little bit of everything

growing up, your Transformers, He -Man and G

.I. Joe and such, but I can't even remember like

having one. The biggest thing that I remember

that like is an actual memory that I actually

remember vividly is in 19... Christmas of 1986,

we got the original NES, Nintendo Entertainment

System. Maybe that counts as a toy, I don't know

if it does. It had Robbie the Robot, so like

that's kind of a, it's a robot, so that's cool,

right? That's not a robot. That's not a robot.

That's like one step down from getting a light

bright with no lights. Yeah. I know we had a

lot of toys, but you know, my memory's just gone

on it. That's really the first thing I can kind

of remember. Yeah, it's funny. You got an NES.

I got a crappy Sega Master System. Who the hell

wants to... Well, as a Nintendo guy, we always

are like, oh, Sega looks cool. And Sega people

are like, oh, Nintendo looks cool. You know,

Sega didn't get cool until they introduced a

certain blue -spheric hedgehog and they went

the Genesis and 16 -bit rock. 8 -bit Sega sucked.

Like, come on, Alex Kidd, who the fuck is that?

Yes, you can curse if you want to. Really, seriously.

Alex Kidd and the Lost Stars and Reggie Jackson

Baseball are the only two games I remember having

for the Master System. If you were to ask me

name two Sega games, I couldn't. I can only know

the one. I only know Sonic. I just don't know.

Yep. It's just, I mean, that's, that's, they

built, I mean, Golden Axe and Golden Axe 2, I

remember those. So those were good, but like,

But again, that didn't happen until like the

Genesis era. The master system era was just like,

here have Reggie Jackson baseball and here have

this and have this mascot that we're never going

to use again. And we're not making that the face

of the company because if we did, we'd be bankrupt

in 1987, not 1990, whatever the hell they. Nintendo

had some pretty crappy games too. Yeah, but Nintendo

had the mascot. I guess. I guess. Technically,

Nintendo has several. I mean, okay, if you want

to get technical to mascots, technically Capcom

owns some of them. But I mean, they had Link,

they had Zelda, they had Mario, obviously. Mario's

number one. But they had the little dog from

Duck Hunt. If he's not a mascot, I don't know

what is. It's a mascot for everybody. That's

right, especially with that little laugh of his.

So, was there a particular adult who was supportive

of you playing with toys as a kid? Was there

anyone who was unsupportive? I definitely don't

remember any unsupportiveness. We were super

poor growing up. It baffles me beyond belief

how in the heck my parents afforded any toys.

let alone the ones we did get, but yeah, we had

toys there. They were three boys. I'm sure they

were just like, just get out of the house, you

know, just go play with stuff outside and quit

breaking our house. So I'm sure they supported

it all the way. Absolutely. And be like, damn

kids with your hipping and your huffing and your

ticking and your talking, go and play in the

dirt. Right. Back in my day, we had dirt for

toys. And we liked it. That's right. We ate it.

What? That's right. What types of toys were your

favorites to play with? Well, definitely, it

really, from all that I've been able to stir

up from my memory, it really is those big three,

Transformers, G .I. Joe, and He -Man, you know.

It was three boys, so we were just, you know,

smashing them He -Man into each other all the

time. GI Joe, those vehicles were awesome and

would carry things around. And I knew, and I

knew I loved Transformers pretty early, just

that puzzle aspect, you know. It's just so great.

So I was always, I knew forever, always been

drawn to Transformers. Very cool, very cool.

So... Always drawn to Transformers, would you

say that's the one toy that stood out to you

more than the others as a child? Oh, absolutely.

I mean, just from being poor, that's two toys

in one. I mean, that's two for one toys. You

can't beat that. They should have been charging

$40 or $60 for G1 Optimus Prime back in... I

don't remember what the prices were back then.

But like pricing today, imagine pricing today

back then. Maybe that's what Hasbro's thinking.

That's getting crazy. Do you prefer the label

of action figures, dolls, toys, or other labels?

Now, I definitely don't care at all. I do remember,

I feel like, I don't know, when I was a kid and

still playing, there's, you know, people were...

I don't know, other kids are mean. I just remember

getting picked on about it for being dolls. You're

supposed to say, uh -uh, it's action figures.

So I remember going through that, but now I don't

care at all. I love playing with my dolls, my

toys, all the things. They're not dolls, grandma.

Yeah, I think grandparents are the worst that

they really were. They didn't know. They didn't

know, but they still bought them all. Most of

them did. Good guys or bad guys, which toys were

your favorites to play with the most? I would

say, oh, good guys. I'm just, I'm a good guy.

I'm just a big old boy scout, good guy. So it

was, I don't know, always, you always want to

be the hero, right? So I mean, that's, that's,

that's what I remember, I guess. There you go.

There you go. What is or was your favorite toy

vehicle or playset? Well, I What do the transformers

even do you even consider them to have? No, those

are well get your microplex maybe, you know,

right maybe yeah, maybe this primes trailer,

maybe They didn't they weren't really play sets

like the other lines got play sets. So yeah Yeah,

that question is mainly for stuff like every

other host on the podcast of yours. Like Castle

Grayskull, or yeah, your Boulder Hill, or your

flags, or your this or your that, because yeah,

Transformers were the vehicle and all in one.

Did you and your friends or your family ever

pretend with your toys that you had? By this

I mean, did you say? I'm going to be this toy

and you can be that toy, like Jason can be the

the Coke bottle and Spoodie can be the piece

of glass or whatever. I don't think we did it

exactly like that, but what I do remember that's

pretty embarrassing. I have a couple of these.

There were definitely four of us that claimed

our Ninja Turtle weapons. And went around the

neighborhood, just breaking the heck out of things

and fighting each other. And, you know, everyone

took, wanted to have the nunchucks until they

hit themselves in the face with them. That's

right. Yeah. There, there was definitely, we

always feel like we always would run around and

be Ninja Turtles. And then, then as I got older,

um, This is the embarrassing part, the really

embarrassing one. Well, me and my friends, so

I knew I liked music pretty early too, but, you

know, being poor, we didn't have real actual

instruments. And so I definitely have memories

of definitely a friend of mine and we would,

you know, you'd have your broomsticks that would

turn into guitars. But I... remember having,

I can't remember the name of the G .I. Joe vehicle.

That's like this, uh, plane. It's like purple

jet thing with like two tail fins. And I, man,

I would play, it would be my guitar and I would

just play guitar on that thing. Just for hours.

So cool. Oh boy. Yeah. Like you're talking to

the wrong person. Yeah, I know. I see that toy

every once in a while and I'm like, that's a,

that's a cool guitar. I should get it just for

that. That's right. I should have a, a Fender

Stratocaster designed after the model of that

toy. Ooh, that's a good idea. Maybe, well, our,

our RGI Joe guy is our, is one of our guitar

players. So maybe I should talk him into doing

a vehicle inspired. paint job or something on

another guitar he builds that'd be fun that's

cool what features define a good toy to you how

true does the item feel in comparison to the

source material likeness well uh i mean i got

i got it i got it made with transformers it's

so easy to just they get there they're a vehicle

they're a robot they're a puzzle i mean there

are three things really and and Just I don't

know it makes it so easy to play with you know

As far as the second part of that I guess I've

learned recently that maybe and I'm from our

podcast I've learned this that I just assumed

that everyone was into the characters But but

like just speaking of Cory the GI Joe guy he

He is very like vintage only based the that toy

from that year Like just for example snake eyes

Like he only likes that one from that one year.

He if you know classified Oh, he doesn't care

at all. He doesn't the the character he doesn't

really Collect a character. He only collects

that one toy where me. It's like another toy

line Let's get the next Starscream, you know,

like gimme gimme gimme each time. So I Don't

know. I feel a connection doesn't matter if it's

a cloth cape or a plastic cape. You got to have

that coronation Starscream you do You gotta have

it So and I'm just waiting that they have not

done this yet. I I'm hoping that I was actually

hoping they would have done it with one of the

three or four variants of the kingdom Galvatron

uh -huh I wanted him to come with a crushed crown

oh yeah that would have been hilarious but uh

yeah I'm definitely not a I know a lot of people

get but hurt when it's not exactly animation

accurate or stuff but But I love the character.

That's what our imaginations are for, you know,

right? And that has gone out the window in the

last 43 years of my life. It seems like it sometimes.

No, I just want to play with that guy. Yeah,

there is no more actual intelligence now, ladies

and gentlemen. It's all artificial intelligence

now. Like, give me a break over here with your

AI this and your AI that. Like, oh, would you

like our AI thing to create a good intro? No,

I can screw up the intro on my own. Thank you.

As you can clearly hear in the beginning of this

episode of the show. And that's what they tune

in for. How's Mike going to screw it up this

time? How's Mike going to screw it up this week?

That's right. That's what it's all about. Oh

boy. So you walk into a store because I can't

say toy store anymore because those don't exist

except in Canada where toys are us basically

abandoned America Jackasses What does toy packaging

have to have to draw you in so you go into whatever

store? It is you see this this and this like

you see four different versions of transformers

What is the each of the packaging have to have

to make you go to one more than the other? It's

easy to think whichever one draws out the nostalgia

first. For Transformers, if it has those grid

lines or something, you're like, oh, what's this?

But I love seeing original art on packaging.

I think about all the Motu stuff, the origins.

just that those card backs are so freaking beautiful

and or like just the painted artwork and yep

like on the new castle gray school i could just

sit and look at that thing forever but um also

there are toy stores everywhere mike no there

aren't we make a point on every episode to point

out a toy store all over the country you do and

because they exist and we need to keep them open.

No, I agree. I'm not disagreeing with you, but,

but in general, you know, it's, yeah, that's

the point is that while yes, there are still

mom and pop shops or even some famous shops like

Kokomo, like whatever else. And as much as I

love, and I have been getting some pre -ordered

stuff from them, much as I love. Big Bad Toy

Store. Big Bad Toy Store is not an actual toy

store. As much as I love them and they're awesome

and everything, yeah, I got the whatever episode

it was you guys were talking about. There needs

to be a core class something or other. I forget

what people wanted. They wanted, oh no, I know

what it is. That's what we're waiting on. We're

waiting on a core class blaster. That's what

it is. So yeah, Elgin was saying that, but I

have the, uh, the core class sound blaster. He's

actually here in my hand. And the only reason

why I wanted that is because my two favorite

colors are black and purple. Yeah. Heck yeah.

And thank God Hasbro reversed their stupid ass

decision on windowless packaging. Yeah. I mean,

I, I didn't, I didn't hate it, but it made me

realize how much I would hold up to the same

thing and like. try to decide which one's paint

job was better. Cause when you don't have that,

you're like, Oh, I guess I'm just going to trust.

Yeah. Or, you know, you hold up two figures,

one's got a head, one doesn't. It's like, well,

this is an easy choice. Like, you know, Oh boy.

I'm glad they're getting back to it. That'll

be good. Absolutely. Absolutely. Do you open

your toys or do you leave them packaged? If you

keep toys packaged, do you have a specific criteria

for that? This is a huge conversation. This is

why these podcasts are three and a half hours

long, don't you know? I know, I know. Well, let's

just say I'm getting better. As a kid, even once

I get back into it as an adult, I feel like I'm

opening things, but there was definitely a point

during Combiner Wars where I got mad at the line

for inventing a new combiner. And I was just

like, oh Plus these cars look really cool and

packaged they did at the time so I just stopped

and I'm just like Nope, I'm just stopped and

I'm just gonna leave them all on card inbox and

for years I did that and I have a lot of a lot

of stuff on card and so recently it's been hard

and You know, it feels like each episode we do

is just therapy on like well These are toys that

need to be played with. That's their purpose

in this world. And that's what, you know, I need

to do it. And I will die soon. And why not experience

these toys? Man, we're only in our forties. If

we're dying soon, I should have been gone by

now. Yeah. I mean, you think about it once, at

least once in a while. And you know, it's like,

man, I just, I don't want to go and not have

had all the fun I could have with these things.

So I've definitely been opening up them a lot

more and it's helped to have a place to display

them. That also helps. I realize in those few

years I wasn't opening. I didn't have a really

great living situation that I could even do it.

So I just get them, look at them. either put

them on a wall for a minute and then pack them

away and just live in storage. But now that I

definitely have a place that I can display them,

it makes it a whole lot easier. And, and I'm

trying the thing that really the therapy that

I really need is what do I do with these boxes?

I have an attic and a garage full of big boxes

filled with little tiny boxes. And I just haven't

thrown away any box. I don't know how to do it.

I love the art. Going back to that last question,

the artist is a big part of it. I mean, I'm no,

I'm not playing with the box, but I don't know.

There's an attachment to it. I don't know. What

do I do? Mike, help me. Yeah. Help you, help

me, help you, help me. Right. How am I supposed

to help you when all of my boxes hold all my

toys behind me? When I can just easily just take

them out of the box, take a picture, put them

back in the box. I don't have to worry about

all the plastic being destroyed or twist ties

or cut ties or whatever the hell. Absolutely.

They enable you wonderfully. I'm keeping them.

Even though I know pop collectors that throw

the boxes, they get them, they take them out

and they throw the boxes away. And I'm like,

you're a mad man. How do you throw away any box?

I don't know how. Anyway. Yeah, I don't know.

It just, I mean. And it's harder because I know

that I'm not going to resell these. Right. For

that's probably the biggest reason on keeping

them. the boxes, I guess. I don't know, man.

So in the comments below, reach out to me. Help

me. How do you do it? Whoever can do it, you

crazy people. That's right. I don't know, man.

Like, but the thing, my biggest problem as a

43 year old is like, so I have exactly, well,

technically I guess Core Class Sound Blaster

does count, but. I have exactly three Transformers

action figures right now outside of Funko. I

have Kingdom Rodimus, I have Kingdom Galvatron,

I have this little core class Sound Blaster.

I have the box to Kingdom Rodimus. It's in the

closet. I have whatever box, Kingdom Galvatron.

He came in his box, but he... His box was weird

because he was an online exclusive. It's the

it's the behold version. It's the it's the it's

the it's the When Unicron, you know Remakes him

into Galvatron. It's the it's the cool purple

one. Yeah Yeah, so His box is just kind of brown

and nothing. So Yeah, but like I don't know man

like Again, going to the Funko Pops, like I can

take those in and out of box. They're fine. It's

easy. You can't take, if anyone out there listening

to the sound of my voice can take a transformer

out of the box and put it back in the box the

way it was before you took it out. It's not possible.

Well, also then how do you answer that question?

Like, cause pop artwork and boxes are very minimal.

The art that's on there, does it? the art have

anything to do with why you get a character?

Is it just all based on what's inside the box?

Yeah, it's not about the Funko Pop. You know,

it's not about the art. It's about the character

and all of that and everything else. So I don't

know. I don't know what to tell you when it comes

to boxes like I don't I don't play with these

like we used like that's one of the greatest

things about Funko Pop collecting is you don't

technically like nobody, none of us, anyone that

has more than three pops we're not all sitting

here in a dark helmet wing wing wing wing we're

not slamming their giant ass heads together we're

not doing that we're taking them out we're taking

cool photos and putting them back in the box

just so we don't have to worry about oh where

did this Star Wars funko pop head go because

it's a bobble head because of the license and

oh god where did this go or oh my god where did

the weapons go? Oh my god, yeah no. Oh I know

what I was talking about, transformation like

with the transformer stuff. As a kid, love the

transformations. Absolutely would do it all the

time. As an adult, I do not need Kingdom Galvatron

to transform into his freaking cannon. I just

want the robot. That's all I want. Like that's,

yeah so. All right, so this one's these questions

there are only 12 in so far 11 and so far They

get more difficult as they go If as a kid or

an adult you were only allowed to choose one

toy franchise to collect from which one would

it be and why? Oh the easiest question so far

Transformers give me that there more meets the

eye. I don't know if you've heard that but they're

amazing Absolutely. All right. As an adult, do

you prefer vintage toys or modern toys? And then

you're right up, right after that's the hardest

question you've ever asked ever. No, not yet.

I think this one's hard just because I'm being

honest with myself. I think it's easy for us

older guys to be like vintage all the way vintage.

But you know, like These toys keep getting better

every year. The engineering, the the paint, they

get better and better and better as toys. They

really do. So like I didn't want to just snap

answer to give some respect to modern toys. I

actually just got a Again, 99 % of the toys I

have are Transformers, but because of Elgin on

our podcast, we had his son on and he really

wanted to, who's like 13, I think, or 10 to 13,

he really wanted to talk about Fortnite toys

and we're like, what's a Fortnite besides two

weeks? Apparently it's a video game and there's

toys about it. which we all learned on this episode

but um so he brought a bunch I bought a couple

just you know just because I had to because when

you look at them in the store you're like well

that's really neat these are weird these characters

are there's a cat with muscles there's a pumpkin

headed dude there's all sorts of weird anyway

so I bought some of these toys and it's really

the first time I ever um, played with a toy with

your 25, 30 points of articulation and my freaking

mind was blown. I still can't understand how

this toy is so posable. I'm like, how does that

ankle even turn that way? It doesn't even make

sense to me. I'm like, and just blown away. And

I'm, I'm just amazed. And I was, I was really

happy that I let my sec. I could be so I'm amazed

by it. Even everyone on the show was just like,

I, so we started this episode about Fortnite

toys, expecting to talk a lot of shit about Fortnite

and we all ended up like really respecting these

toys. They were amazing. So modern toys are freaking

awesome. Yeah. But, but like I said, ideal in

nostalgia. Um, I love these, I love these toys

so much. If you just ask me why, I think I narrowed

it down because they're, they're just little

time machines to me. I can just touch one vintage

transformer and I am just shot back to being

a kid in the room. It's, it's unbelievable. This

like weird sense memory. I know we all have it,

but it's just, I don't know. It's just, it's

the the best way I felt to like slow down time

and like be a kid as long as I freaking can is

so important to me to just to embrace that and

just to hang on to that with all I can to just

stay a kid as long as possible and I don't have

to get old and uh that's why I have to choose

vintage but man big respects to modern toys Yeah,

absolutely, and I blame Jeffrey. This is all

that stupid giraffe's fault. I don't want to

grow up, I don't want to grow up, I don't want

to build a... wasn't supposed to take him literally

right yeah Jeffrey Jeffrey taught us all not

to grow up he might have been on to something

maybe but you know it's funny you mentioned that

how you can you know just look at or touch a

vintage toy and just be So for me what it is

is when I got a friend of mine gifted the kingdom

Rodimus to me and just out of the blue it was

the prime day or whatever whenever it was on

sale and I was like oh okay cool like literally

I forget which episode it is but if you listen

to any of our episodes a couple months ago whatever

it was in the middle of a show I get my buzzer

going. It's like nine o 'clock at night. The

dude that sent this gift to this to me ordered

it like six. It was one of those Amazon rush

delivery things. And I'm like, wait, what? I'm

like, hold on. And I'm like, go and I didn't

put the microphone on mute or anything. I'm so

unprofessional. I know, but like, you know, I'm

like, go. I'm like, holy crap. It's kingdom round.

And so when I picked this thing up first, I was

like, My god, I feel the waves of kibis Kane,

Florida because I remember where I was in 1989

When I had my original generation one Rodimus

Prime I was in kibis Kane, Florida with my mom

and her then boyfriend on vacation and I had

Some weird plastic sword and kingdom Rodimus

with me for some honor and not kingdom rabbit

the original Rodimus with me And I just, when

I, when I touched the kingdom, I was like, Oh

my God, this is basically a modern version of

the original toy, which is great because you

don't want them to do too many things to modernize

it, but it really does feel like that toy is

incredible. Yeah, it is. It really is. It's so,

so good. Absolutely. Out of your entire collection,

what is one toy you gravitate to more than the

rest? 100%. Starscream. He's my guy. I have,

I have all these toys. I definitely always have

a thing called see a Starscream by a Starscream.

I just can't not get him, which I answered earlier

about I more of an Autobot or, you know, more

of a good guy, but yet, you know, I know it doesn't

even make sense. Uh, I've had perfectly nice

people ask me, why do you like this guy? And

I'm like, I don't even know, cause he's a He

sucks as a person, you know what I mean? But

man, I love him so much. He's such a turd. Why

do you like this douchebag? He's never going

to lead the Decepticons. He's never going to

amount to anything in this hill. Hill means a

world of this world we're living in. I've tried

to like figure it out. Like what, it's not his

person or is it his personality? I don't know.

Maybe it's just that he's just simply one of

the most interesting characters, whether it's

good or not. Good. He's definitely always interesting

in every incarnation. And I have a soft spot.

And I think we all kind of sometimes will pick

a character and really just not army build, but

just go nuts with that guy. And it's always Starscream

for me. Yeah, very cool, very cool. You're saying

army build and all's I can think of is that very

first episode It's not the very first episode

of this show But it was the very first episode

of pawn stars that transformers was ever on and

it's this guy who's like, yeah I had him as a

kid and I had like all seven of these Fort Max's

which looked like to be in complete and Mint

condition out of the box and I had all the and

I'm like you have seven of the same damn toy

Like I get army building but come on Right. Oh

boy. All right. Even though there are always

toy lines that people never purchase, are there

any that you specifically and purposefully avoid?

This could be a toy line, character, et cetera.

Well, I think here's where we finally talk about

the elephant in the room and go to a place far,

far away. But I'll be honest. I, uh, Especially

after starting this podcast and and like just

diving in just 100 % to toys recently I am so

glad that I haven't didn't go down the Star Wars

toys path Because there's there's too many I

would be so broke. I love Star Wars the movies

the series everything I love everything Star

Wars, but I like the toys, but I am, I count

my blessings every day that I did not go to the

dark side with the Star Wars toys. Cause I wouldn't

have anything in my life. All my money would

go to Star Wars toys. I don't know how people

do it, but recently, you know, so like Like I

said, 99 % Transformers, but I've started dabbling

a little. I've started little, tiny little collections.

And I didn't even know I was doing it at first,

but I kind of started the bad guys. I'm like,

I love Skeletor, man. Skeletor's awesome. Why

don't I just pick up some Skeletors? And now

I have a whole Skeletor collection. And then

I'm like, you know what? Well, the Chrysalada

connection. I love Cobra Commander. He's awesome.

you know, and that voice, I'm just going to get

some Cobra commanders. So I'm like, and then

I realized, oh no, I'm getting all the bad guys.

And then I don't know what it was. I can't remember

what happened first, but maybe somebody just

gifted me one or it came like that. And I'm just,

and now I've got a little budding Darth Vader

collection. I have the pop, the bobble head that

just came out recently. I love it. It's awesome.

Oh, I know what it was. It was that dang Black

Series one. It got me some FOMO, and I was like,

ugh. But yeah, so I do have a little bit of Star

Wars now, but I'm not happy about it. I would

never tell anyone that I do, but - You just did.

Oh, whoops. Nothing. Nothing. These are not the

toys you are looking for I'm actually surprised

at So the transformers and we're not even too

funko yet but the transformers funko pops like

I Didn't want every single version of optimus

prime that funko is made I didn't want I know

I could give two craps less about the target

exclusive bumblebee I just want a normal everyday

bumblebee. No Come on. No, that's not a jet pack.

Those are his doors. That's not a jet. Those

are his open doors of his car mode. That's not

a jet pack. Oh, wait a minute. I don't know if

the NFT does have it because I don't do NFTs,

but they did a, they did. Well, there are a lot

of people. Well, some do. Side swipe i don't

know if the funko pop side swipe has a molded

on jetpack on his back as i've never seen it.

In person or in videos or anything like that

i'll have to look for that on youtube afterwards

but anyway like i wanted the same thing with

masters like. My masters funko pop collection

has grown but specifically to the two here the

hero and the villain of that series. I wanted

specific versions. I didn't want your normal

every day. Hey, here's he man with his sword.

I think I, I think I have one, but whatever battle

cat one's pretty awesome. Well, I do have the,

that's different because that's battle cat. That's

the four inch pops specifically when I started

doing the master stuff. I think I had Battle

Armor He -Man and Battle Armor Skeletor because

those are the Battle Armor ones and the moving

chest and whatever else. But like for my specific

collection for He -Man and Skeletor, I wanted

the Terror Claws Skeletor because he's metallic

and the Slime Pit He -Man because it's basically

the He -Man mold covered in green paint that

looks like Nickelodeon slime and it's awesome.

So I've tried my bad, but the same thing with

the Transformers ones. I'm like, okay, yeah,

I'm not going to get every, every, every version

of, of whatever. But, you know, and of course

now I'm, I'm on this whole anti, uh, Funko Transformers

kick because I think personally Funko just buried

the line in NFTs. Like I don't remember the,

the last new one we got was I think tracks and

Unicron were the latest two releases to the public.

Yes. I, but I just got that new optimist that

has lights and sound. Okay. Yep. Yeah, man. That

thing's awesome. Yeah. So, okay. Yes. Technically

four inch. Yeah. Those were the last ones before.

Yeah. Yeah. But like the, you know, how dare

you bury hot rod and NFT land. You bastard. So

pissed. So pissed. I want all those. Cause I

do, I have every Transformers pop and I want

every Transformers pop, but fucking NFTs man,

that just sucks. Just to see them and be like,

I'll never see it. And I know people are saying

now, oh, well they're out in the world. You can

go onto eBay, Mercari, whatnot, whatever. And

I'm like, yeah, I could. If I had the money to

spend on it, I could. But normal people don't,

not that kind of money. But yeah. Yeah, no, I

think gold optimist prime the last time I looked

at it was going for like $400 really I think

the last in the last hot rod I saw was like 140

was the last one I saw and Yeah, like and really

honestly out of the out of the NFTs like there's

hot rod Sideswipe rumble or frenzy depending

on but it's called rumble because it's based

that's the other thing is that the it's based

on the toy not the anime, which is fine, it's

whatever. There's Gold Optimus and then there's

the six inch Devis. I only want Hot Rod, Devastator

and the Gold Optimus. I don't want Side Swipe

or Rumble. But yeah, all right. We jumped ahead,

folks. Way ahead. You can expect by question

16, we would be talking about Funko this soon.

Are there any toys in the past or currently that

you wish you had not bought them? Are there any

toys that you may have sold you regret letting

them go? The first part, not really, but recently,

even just last weekend, I was in a Ross. I don't

know if you have Ross's where you're at. Yeah,

I know what they are. But there's a, you know,

I was just, sometimes you, you haven't bought

a toy in a while and you get a little itchy and

you're like, ah, I need to, I need to spend this

money. It's building up. I gotta get rid of it.

I kind of buy a toy and, uh, I couldn't find

anything that I didn't have. And then they, there's

just this Ross I know has this stupid super knockoff,

cheap, cheap, cheap. transformer -like toy, converter

type toy. And it's cool and all, but I'm like,

even it was eight bucks for this, you know, almost

12 inch big transforming jet. And I'm like, what

am I going to do with this stupid thing? It doesn't

fit anywhere in here. I need to, ugh, I probably

shouldn't have got it. But, uh, but I also, I

don't really sell toys. I don't, yeah, I haven't

gotten really good at that yet. Um, I just, I

just hoard them. I just keep buying them. I don't

really know how to get rid of any cause I don't

want to get rid of any. Yeah. So for context

folks, this, this guy sends me his, his room

tour that he did on YouTube and I'm watching

this and I'm like, I don't know what he has more

of toys or wood paneling in his apartment. That's

why it needed covered up with toys. It's hideous

wall wood paneling crap. Oh man. I haven't seen

wood paneling since I lived in Massachusetts.

Uh -huh. That's crazy. It was good times. Uh

-huh. Oh boy. How large or small is your toy

collection? Do your toys take up the whole house

or are they relegated to one room shelf or something

like that? Answer, whole house. I just live in

a small apartment, but it is the first time in

my life I've ever had 100 % of my toys out on

display and I can't even begin to tell you just

for my soul how good it feels to be surrounded.

Every room is, I only have like three rooms,

but they're all completely full floor to ceiling.

every inch of the walls pretty much full. I did

a quick look earlier just in case you asked,

and I guess I have 265 pops, so I got a ways

to go to catch ya, but I made myself a very specific

rule with that is I only Collected horror movie

pops because I'm a big horror movie guy Horror

movie filmmaker and all this stuff, but so I

only just wanted to and and thankfully I made

that rule early so because there's a only a bazillion

pops so although I have 265 horror movie pops,

so that's Good, but and then I looked and I have

been cataloging my collection. There's this awesome

Because I'm an Android person, I think there's

a fairly cool app for Apple people out there.

But for Android, I couldn't find anything that

was worth crap. So I found this website called

Schmax. And they do S -H -M -A -X. And they do

all toys. All toys. Which is great, but I just

use it for my transformers and I've been since

I moved in here and started putting them up I've

been cataloging them all and I just went over

1400 transformers. Wow. You're right. I need

more. You're right. I could use some more. So

it's funny. I'm a part of a Instagram private

chat thing through a patreon program through

slap shot pops on YouTube cool and One of the

guys in there Actually, he was to episode. He

was episode one. No, he's three episodes ago.

He's 176. Oh, yeah. Yeah his Funko fat guy his

his big thing is Every time I show, like, my

display or whatever else and he sees the white

walls that don't have any of the artwork that

I have to hang up yet hung up, he's like, there's

so much wall there. There needs to be Funko Pops

there, but no, it doesn't. No, no, no. Bill it

up. No, no. Curate. Curate the collection. Make

it manageable. Make it what you want it to be.

Don't let it overtake you. Again, going back

to the whole AI comment. Actual intelligence,

not artificial. You're probably right. Well,

you know. Live long and prosper. So it's funny.

See, this is why I don't show people the questions

beforehand. Question 18, how do you keep track

of your collection? You just answered that. Yeah,

so that's okay. Schmax. Schmax .com .ca .insert

whatever net here. I don't know. I like it. It's

free and it's pretty good. That's cool. That's

cool. How do you like say you have all your toys

and you have all your funko pops which technically

are toys I know but still how do you display

all of these things? Like do you have a specific

display language that you're trying to convey?

I do and if you watch my toy room tour video

you can see it, but I definitely when I first

moved into this place my first two weeks I didn't

have internet so I had all this time to figure

it all out and I have my main room in here with

the computer and the bed is kind of I have it

all loose like most of my loose toys are in this

room and I really had a good time separating

them all by toyed lines so by years basically.

So each shelf or each section is, oh it's just

so great to be able to just have the whole line,

the whole line in a line so you can see it and

see what you need to pick up, what's missing,

you know, just seeing them all together. And

then I have Kind of the living room is where

all the on card and in box stuff is. Um, and,

and I love, I love both rooms for different reasons.

I like that the living room's neat with all the,

cause every inch of the wall is, is a card with

a bubble on it basically. And it's so fun. I

just love it. Cause when you, when I walk in,

it gives me that feeling of walking into a toy

store again. You know, I sorta can, you know,

squint and fool myself that I can get those feelings

again of walking into a toy store. And so when

I set it all up, I just, I was only worried about

getting the Transformers out, trying to get a

hundred percent of them out. And then I was like,

okay, I'm done. Oh crap. I have all this horror

movie stuff and I just have a kitchen left. I'm

like, all right, I guess it's all going in here.

It's a little weird. you know, to have a wall

of pops, two walls of pops in your kitchen where

your stove is. And so it's weird, but, um, and

then it was quickly, um, named hell's kitchen

just cause it's all horror movie stuff. And,

and, um, so it's, it's, it's neat. It's very

comforting to, uh, with the OCD brain, uh, just

to have things separated and in order and in

sections and Neat and orderly. I definitely prefer

that. I mean, I think we all have sections on

the floor where I'm going to get to that pile

of boxes soon, but for the most part, I definitely

enjoy displaying these toys in a museum -ish

kind of way. I've even started doing that. I'll

post when I'm home for a weekend or something,

I'll be like... Jason's Toy Museum is open from

six to eight p .m. and then you know message

me for my address and then people will come over

and and I'll just give them tours and it's just

so fun to like because it's it's overload when

you come in here it's it just their faces when

they walk in like I can tell you all day that

I have a lot of toys in here but till you see

them In person you're just like you can't imagine

and that's that's really fun to just getting

to share it all with with people and Yeah Very

cool. Very cool. Yeah, that's always the interesting

thing Like, you know you you walk into somebody's

house and you see how they have the stuff Displayed

and some people have toys starting at the door.

Some people don't yeah, I don't I am also in

a one -bedroom and the living room is pretty

much, because I have a living room, dining room,

combo, it's one big open space, so you saw it

in the video I sent you on Twitter, but yeah,

no, I am all mostly in the living room and I

don't even think this is, I know this is a majority

of my collection, but I don't even think it's

all of it because there are several where I'm

looking, I was looking through to, I'm like...

Where'd that go? Because it ain't here. I know

I didn't sell it. I wouldn't sell that one. So,

heaven forbid, but everybody is safe, but the

apartment building is burning down. What is the

one toy? You can only keep one toy from your

entire collection. What would it be and why?

What would you run in to save from the fire?

Well, quickly scan around. Boy, where to start?

What's the one? I think. I think I have to do

it. I think I have to choose. So, you know, one

of the first questions was supportive parents

and stuff. And thankfully, Mom and Dad were,

you know, at least not against it and definitely

was supporting it. And I remember, I don't remember

what year it was exactly, but I feel like we

were older. But one of our Christmases, my mom

got Spudy and I both the... The Optimus MP01.

Okay. And, uh, and, and we lost mom a few years

ago. So it's extra special now. And, and it's

just such a monstrous, amazing, just the amazing

toy. And, and then it's extra special because

it was just, I feel like definitely we were growing

up. So it was weird to just suddenly get. This

toy from mom, but you know, she knew how much

we loved it So that's that's probably the one

I'd have to get not a Starscream. It's weird

to say that but I Mean, you know, she didn't

get you the Starscream coronation masterpiece

set because they have that too, you know Yeah.

Oh lord. Yeah. No, that's uh, that's awesome.

That's very cool Yeah, I was always back when

I was actually collecting toys not just funko

pops I always wanted the MP04 because he came

with the trailer. Yeah, I know. Same toy as the

MP01, except the MP04 came with the trailer.

I'm like, oh, OK, well, I never got it. And it's

fine. I'm perfectly fine not having it. All right,

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All right, we are back here on Toycast. This

is episode 179 with Jason from Cracktastic Plastic,

one of the only toy podcasts anyone really needs

to be listening to. That's right. That's right.

I said one of, not the. Right, of course. There's

so many toy podcasts out there, but we all do

so many damn different things and it's so interesting.

All things Transformers, that's the other one.

That's the one that turned me on to you guys

in the show. Well, there you go. That's that's

good Transformers in the title. I have to listen.

Hey exactly for years Awesome. Awesome. Thank

you so much. We appreciate it. So on the flip

side of the oh my god your place of Toys is burning

down here's the toy box challenge you get one

and i assume this is inches i don't know i don't

deal with measurements but you get one 18 by

18 by 18 box the only toys you can keep have

to fit in the box what can you put in there he's

measuring folks i heard the measuring tape oh

my god oh that's okay well um you know what i

would do Oh, and then I saw the G1s over there.

Shoot. I think my answer is going to be, I'm

going to try and fit all of my alternators into

this box, because I feel like we all have a break

sometimes, you know, in the middle of our lives

when we find girls or high school and all that

stuff. And I feel that's fairly normal. And when

alternators came out, that was right. When I

was that that turned me that that first smoke

screen Had just got me back into transformers

a hundred percent and I haven't stopped since

and I recently Just completed my alternators

line and it's I mean, it's sad. It's satisfying

It's sad. I can't go by I mean, I can't really

buy anymore because I have them all now but I

know I love them so much and they're just such

amazing toys and so complicated, so big, so weird.

I just love them. They mean so much to me and,

and, uh, I'd try to fit all them into this box.

There you go. That's very cool. Very cool. Are

you a Funko fan? Am I? Let me tell you something.

I got 265. Yeah, I do. I, I find myself since

for years defending them little Vinyl things

and I don't know some people get awfully butthurt

about Pops and being toys, but I love them and

they're cool and Yeah, I've collected the heck

out of them I Catalog them with the app that

app is amazing. I don't it really helps Yeah,

keep track of things. I love it. I wished I wish

the Transformers head I wish all toys had a their

own app that was as cool as that Funko app, but

Yeah, and I mean when then once we started this

podcast I've my focus is definitely Went away

from horror a little bit and just I just laser

focused on these Transforming robots. I just

can't stop it. But yep, but then you know I get

transformer pops too. So I go best of both worlds

Yeah, big fan big fan. I found a an old picture

which eventually I need to take a new picture

of the current one but found a very very old

picture from 2009 era of Mighty Mugs Starscream

back in the day heck yeah and he has in this

picture there was a Marvel so Marvel did Wolverine

and a couple other variants of Wolverine and

one of them they did Logan So it's Logan with

his jeans and his wife beater and his claws out

and he's got a cowboy hat on So what I did years

and years and years ago was like Logan He's not

cool enough for this cowboy hat. No. I put the

cowboy hat on Starscream, and I wish I still

had the cowboy hat on Starscream to replicate

the effect in order to take the Funko Pop Starscream

out of the box and put them side by side, but

I don't have those anymore. I have the pop. I

don't have the Mighty Mugs anymore, but I saw

that image. What an image. Yeah, I saw that image

just as I was going to send that to you. I'm

like, look, this is how fat Mighty... This is

how fat Funko Pops used to be. You'd be like,

that's not a Funko Pop. I'm like, no, you're

right, it's not. I got most of those too. I got

my Starscreams in a box and yeah, I like them.

I think the Mighty Mugs are awesome. Cute. So

cute. Yep. They were the original Funko Pop before

Funko Pop was a thing. What was the most money

you spent on a toy? Let's I would Fortress Maximus

from Titans return probably whatever he was when

he came out I just I mean, I remember it playing

his day. It was a Toys R Us I 1 million percent

did not expect to see him there and I you know

Go down that toy aisle and he's on the bottom

shelf and I'm just like well buck Now I have

to buy him. I can't leave this store Without

him. I must find a way to make sure I leave with

this guy and I just said I'm so glad I did it

was the best, you know three hours putting on

stickers I ever had my life and Yeah, I think

I think he's probably the most expensive I recently

got The Guardian robot Titan and he was 200.

That's They're all 200 now and that's more than

I want to spend, but yeah, I'd say, yeah, no

more than 200 on average, but yeah, that Fort

Max though, whatever he was, I think 350, but

I can't remember, but definitely it was the most

I ever spent. So there's only $150 more than

the original generation one version. Oh my goodness.

Anyone wants to trade me, I'll do it. You can

get your money. It's worth it. That's right.

So on the flip side, what is the cheapest toy

you bought or what was the best deal you ever

got for a figure that may have been worth quite

a bit more than you paid? Oh man. So I'm originally

from this really, really small town called what?

Cheer? What cheer? And here in Iowa and in the

Midwest. This town in this state in the Midwest

is very well known for having one of the largest

flea markets here in the Midwest. I mean just

so many miles of people out in the sun anyway,

so I love going to this thing and it's you know

digging through tubs and and people it's it's

a lot of people not knowing what they got is

is the thrill of the hunt, you know trying to

find that thing and Sure enough. I mean every

year they do it like three times a year and I

try to go as often as I can It's not you know,

everyone thinks they have gold now. So things

are harder than it used to be but um definitely

a few years ago one of them amazing for me it

was amazing it wasn't a super great toy ever

but it was a uh the thing that you hope happens

is they have this thing that they don't know

what they have and so for 25 cents i got an original

g1 spinister and and to them they just sold a

little toy helicopter but i'm like and he was

in great shape and he's perfect and i'm like

I guess, will you take 15 cents for it? No, I

didn't say that, but I was like, I couldn't throw

that quarter at them fast enough. So yeah, I

mean, that's always the fun of going to garage

sales, yard sales, and all these toy shows. And

just that thrill of the hunt, man, just trying

to find that bargain, that thing that you don't

think you're ever going to find and maybe get

a good deal on it. Love it. Yeah, I'm too old

to be hunting anything anymore. I just want what

I want and if I can afford it, I'll afford it.

That's like, I just... Oh no, you're lucky to

know what you want. That's a good thing. Well,

and again, you have to worry about, you know...

And yeah, you do have to find it online or whatever

else. Most every website now has Funko pop. So

it doesn't, unless it's an exclusive to somewhere

or whatever, which is fine. You can find those

too, but like this whole hunting thing, I'm just

like, uh, I'm too old. It's like that joke that

came out in 2015 when that seventh star Wars,

the forest awakens the forest needs a nap. It

was a, it was a, it was a Maggie Simpson joke

at the time because they had the, they had the

Disney plus special at the same time when that

was out. But yeah, no, man, I am, I'm so over

the hunt. Like I, I can't deal with the stress

of hunting for toys anymore. I, you know, more

power to the people that, that, that, that love

that kind of stuff. I just can't. All right,

we're also here in Iowa. Uh, there's a show called

American Pickers. That's, that's where they're

from and, and it got really popular on the history.

Oh yeah. Oh yeah. So like, I don't know. It just,

maybe there's just something in the water out

here in the Midwest that just makes digging through

junk really fun. I don't know. I don't know.

Well, when you got junk on TV, I mean, you know.

Yep. You talk TV I talk some TV now the American

pickers and I don't touch that dial Didn't that

show get canceled Oh, I don't know. I think it's

Last I heard something happened between Mike

and Frank and I went there. I heard that I don't

think I Don't think Frank's on the show anymore.

I think it's just brother now. So Okay I feel

like I'm repeating myself because I feel like

we've already talked about this, but what modern

and or vintage toy lines are you currently collecting?

Answer. All of them. Um, I, uh, sadly that's

true, but also like I'm having a lot of fun now

that I can see all my toys out in one place.

I'm having fun, like trying to complete lines.

I started, I recently like, I'm like 1984, the

first year. I'm going to get them 27 whatever

toys. And I'm like, so I did that. Yay. Check

it off. All right. Let's move to 1985. All right.

I got that one. Now I'm working on 80s. You know,

it's just going to take a while, but so I'm having

fun little games, you know, in your head, collecting

you just, you know, it's easy to put those remainder

ones on a list of things you're looking for when

you're out toy hunting. And, um, so, but then,

like I said, I love the new toys too. I can't.

I can't stop buying them either. I don't have

a connection to it. I try to have an excuse not

to do it. I don't really try to do the movie

toys. They just come out again with the video

game ones. I'm like, I didn't play the video

game, so I don't really have an attachment. I

think they're cool looking, but it's an excuse

to maybe not buy a couple. Yeah, I didn't even

have the, I didn't even play the games. I've

seen people play the games, but I've never played

the games, but I've, like I said, and I had the

original Optimus and Bumblebee from way back

when, from back in 2010 when they did those.

And I'm looking at these new ones and I'm like,

that Bumblebee color on the original toy was

better than this new one, I think. I don't know.

It was more, it was more. gold in the original

toy, and this one is more yellow, not mustard.

It's more Grey Poupon than anything else. The

Autobots have all the ketchup and mustard they

need between Bubble Bee and Cliffjumper. And

then I guess you could throw some relish in there

with Hound or mayonnaise with Prowl. You're making

me hungry. Wait, wait, wait. It's just condiments.

How can you be hungry for condiments? Oh, you're

right. Who's the hot dog in this? I don't know.

Starscream. That's a Freudian thing I don't want

to think about right now. Thank you. Yes, no.

No, please. No toners in this podcast. Thank

you. See, I listened. I know what I'm talking

about. There you go. Do you visit toy shows or

conventions? When you visit toy shows or conventions,

do you have a typical methodology? Do you bring

a certain amount of money for what you're looking

for, et cetera, et cetera? I love toy shows.

I go to them as often as I can. Seriously, when

we... When we go on tour with the band, we really

do book tours around local toy stores and shows.

And every, when we're going from one town to

the next on tour, we're like, what's happening

in between? Do we got time to stop? And we're

always going to shows and we love going to toy

shows. So I mean, cause they put all the toys

into one room. Like how do you not like that?

But we love toy shows so much that we even started

our own here in our hometown called Cracktastic

Plastic Con. And really it's just an excuse for

everyone to bring the toys to us for once instead

of us having to go running around looking for

toys. And we've done like seven of them shows

and they're great and it keeps growing and it's

just nice creating a little toy community in

our town here in this place called Iowa. Yeah,

I love toy shows. It feels like on driving to

the toy show, we all kind of talk about what

we're looking for and it never really matters

because we hardly ever find what we're actually

looking for. But we always find stuff we want

and that's half the fun. You can bring as much

money as you want. Even on our last tour that

we did, you know, you bring, you're like, I got

the budget set here. And so my brother's booty,

uh, he ended up blowing what he brought in the

first three days. And he's like day four, he's

like on the phone with his bank. He's like, can

you send me some more money? I got six days of

tour left. I need toy money. So he had to do

it. It was like, so it doesn't even matter. You

could just get more money. Because we're in Ohio,

man. It's the the Mecca of toys. It's unbelievable

that state. So we love touring Ohio for the toys

Yeah, I love toy shows What do you think it is

about our generation that causes our childhood

toys to mean so much more to us than say for

instance our parents generation That's a great

question All I can think I feel like our generation,

we had cartoons that went along with our toys.

We had that fiction, you know, that I think that

really helps cement these characters in our brain.

Yeah, we all liked our toys, our Cobra Commanders

and Skeletors, but like they had personality

because we watched them on the cartoons. We would

have never... come up with Skeletor's laugh on

our own, you know, so. And which makes me kind

of worry about, I mean, I guess there's still

cartoons of toy lines out, but not as, not like

it was. So I worry a little about the next generation,

but I don't know. I think that helped just tie

it in for us growing up. I don't know. What do

you think on that one? That one's a deep one.

The difference is, and I know people are gonna

say, oh, but our parents had, yes, our parents

had toys, but you're talking about 50s, 60s,

and 70s toys before the toy boom really, like

the toy boom really didn't start before 1981.

I mean, yes, there were Barbie dolls. Yes, there

were Hot Wheels toys. There were tons of awesome

toys back then. There were, but half of them

were like, you might as well go play in the dirt.

I'm gonna go play in the dirt now with my, with

my Barbies and my... my, my, my... 12 inch G

.I. Joes? Yeah, my male dolls that go with the

female dolls. Yeah, it's, yeah, it definitely

was the quintessentialness of the 80s to have

that fiction to go along with the product because

that way we could... Live out well except for

two transformers only two transformers characters.

They got the shaft in the 80s Well for for iron

hide and ratchet. Oh, they ain't got no heads

Took forever to figure those two out Get over

that and like I was yeah, I had iron hide and

I'm like wait. Where's his head? Is it in the

box? Did I leave it in the what what like mom?

What's a diaclone? That clone is making me die

over here. What is your motivation for purchasing

soys to display, play, fiddle, describe your

collecting style? Are you a completionist, storyteller,

cherry picker, or otherwise? Um, maybe I don't

want to admit completionist. Cause it's like,

it's not, I mean, spooky jokes when we're like,

Hey, what do you want? He says all of the toys

and he has no other answer. And I believe him

and I don't feel like it's that, but yet I feel

very compelled. I don't know. Once you start

getting this many, you're like, it's just the

thing you do. And, uh, Yeah, I mean, definitely

love displaying them. I love to play with them.

I love the puzzles. There's always desk bots.

There's always something to fiddle with. So for

all the reasons, after doing this, starting our

podcast, just photography has been an amazing

reason to have all these toys. I know Elgin will

just be like, I don't even buy this line, but

man, this would go really good with this guy

in a picture someday. And I'm like, that's a

reason to buy a toy. Okay. All right. Yeah. So

I just, I want them all. That's why I need them

all. Pokemon said, please. No, no, no, no, no,

no. Gotta catch them. You don't gotta catch them

all. Are you sure? I can just, I can just see

the headline now. Apartment complex in Iowa,

somewhere in Iowa, just falls to the cement under

the weight of all these toys in this guy's apartment.

And his dying words were, well, it's a good way

to go. Yeah, exactly. It's like, uh, it's like

our good friend. Yep. So it's like our good,

good friend combo guy always used to say life

well spent. Exactly. Have you ever purchased

a toy for a child with the ulterior motive for

playing with it yourself? That's a definitely

yes. Um, I've been a stepdad a few times, so

it's, you always want to encourage and are like

my best friend. He's got kids. So he knows every

Christmas he's getting two transformers from

uncle Jason. Like it's just for 15 years now.

And then like, well, I buy, I can, I get to buy

him the kid toy that I wouldn't probably normally

buy myself so that I can still get to play with

it without having to have it. So I definitely

do. Well, you want to spread the love, you know,

like I know how much I like these toys. I want

to encourage. Meanwhile, I'm over there in the

corner of the electronics department of Walmart,

whispering under my breath, get away from my

Funko Pops, you kid. Get away from my Funko Pops,

you kid. That's a story I have. It's mine. The

sad thing is that day, I remember this. I'm telling

a different part of the story because I've told

the story all the time. It's just a little simple

story. All I wanted was Cobra. No, Cobra Commander

was GameStop. All I wanted was Walmart. All I

wanted was the Walmart -exclusive Baroness, Funko

Pop. One pop. Out of the entire time that I was

living out in Washington, I saw my Walmart maybe

out of two and a half, three years, I saw my

Walmart maybe restock with good stuff like twice.

for pops. And I was in there, I was like, holy

crap, that's Baroness. I don't care that she

has a Walmart sticker on her, but that's Baroness.

There you go. Have you ever purchased a vintage

toy for a child because you thought it would

be fun based on your own preferences? Oh, gosh,

that's probably a no, because mostly just for,

well. Mean one I need it and then I get it before

you get it if it's vintage and then you know,

they're more fragile and and kids yeah, and sometimes

kids do come over to my toy museum and But I

just have a little box of like McDonald's toys

for them to play with if they want to if they

have to touch a toy I don't think I could oh

I don't give me nightmares just thinking of a

kid playing with a vintage toy. Oh He's, they're

going to break it. I can't handle it. But Jason,

man, die cast construction. It's a lost art.

Right. I know you're right. They, these lasted

through us smashing them around, I guess, but

oh man, that's hard to, hard to imagine. Absolutely.

Do you do any toy modifications or customs, painting,

building, building dioramas, etc.? Oh man, I

really, this is on my list of two do's. I really

wished I did. I want to so bad. A few of our

friends do and I love my Twitter feed is just

full of people customizing stuff and I love watching

the videos. I love it. I just don't. Haven't

just got the time to do it. I even I've been

packing around I got a couple Run that first

wave of the Beast Wars reissues. I got a Cheetor

and a rat trap I think you know cuz they went

to clearance for like two dollars or whatever

and I'm like I've been carrying around an extra

two of those Because I wanted to like paint them.

I wanted to make like like a nemesis cheetor

and rat trap it just what I told myself, I still

haven't bought the paint. I don't have the time

to do it. I want to though. I love, I love it.

I think it'd be really fun. I just haven't yet.

I love, I love toy hack stickers. I love sticker

and up stuff. That's one of my favorite things

to do, but as far as sort of customizing, but

not really. Do you think toy companies should

specifically have adult collective toys, child

toys, or find a way to mix both? Hmm. I mean

over here in transformer land. There's usually

at least a toy line and a kid line and I suppose

Masterpiece is the adult line. So but I yeah,

I mean I I Even started back in cyber verse.

I'm like, you know what? I freaking love this

cartoon so much. It's probably my second favorite

cartoon. I'm like I want these toys too. Sure

they're cheap sure they're hollow but they're

these characters that i love in this cartoon

that i love that's that connection to the to

the fiction and i'm and so i bought the shit

out of them cyberverse toys and now i'm doing

it with earth spark earth spark's fucking amazing

and and i'm loving these toys i'm doing my first

build a figure i'm so excited because i'm all

in on this earth spark Well, I don't know. So

I like them all, you know, imagination knows

no articulation. So give me them all. But, um,

I mean, I'm glad. Yeah. Start them young. So

yes, definitely have kid lines. Yeah. I don't

mind. Like, yeah, you need to. catered to everybody

but it's and I said this recently in a couple

episodes so folks if you're hearing the sound

of my voice and you've heard this before you

can fast -forward no they don't love it they

don't love it when I repeat repeat repeat myself

I feel like I'm kickback over here or shrapnel

or whatever whichever one put the energon energon

energon just shut up Uh, but what, uh, uh, the,

uh, oh, that's so, yeah, it's so funny to me

seeing like the transformers official Instagram

page go through their stories and they're like,

parents swipe up now to buy your kids, uh, whatever,

what, um, uh, uh, the, the Tarn. That's what

it is. Like no child should have Tarn. You're

probably right. Just in the context of the fact

that. of what the character is, no child should

have Tarn. Yeah, but imagine being a kid. You

want that thing that you're not supposed to have.

You want that naughty thing and Tarn represents

that. Ain't that the truth? Yeah. Do you have

a, my parents got rid of my toys story? No, but

sort of. And by parents, I mean that asshole

spooty brother of mine. So I don't, I mean, we

were toy, we broke a lot of our toys. They never,

a lot of them didn't make it, but there, there

was probably a box that made it through. And

you know, like I said, we have that part in our

lives where we stopped for a minute. And when

I think we both kind of came back at the same

time, me and my brother, but that jerk face got

to that box before me. And somehow because of

dibs rules, He, I mean, I'm still, I'm very hurt

about it. Like he had my, my G1 shockwave that

I know was mine, but he got to that box before

me and just loves to just talk about his shockwave

anyway. So no, I didn't, I don't think anyone,

yeah, that horrible threw them away or garage

sale. Thankfully. no traumatizing story like

that, but I did lose them to my brother. At least

I could still visit them. You know, there aren't

a lot of them, but I could still at least visit

them. That's something I guess. Or, you know,

you could just find a way to distract him and

just steal it back from him. That's true. He's,

he's got quite a few too. So I'm sure if I just

shuffled his shells around a little, he wouldn't

even notice. Nah. Once you have over 1 ,400 of

these things, you don't notice shit anymore.

That's not true. Tell you every name of every

one of these damn things. Absolutely. Do you

find you are coming to an end of your active

collecting? If so, what has signified this phase

for you? Was there ever a moment when you were

done with toys? Have you ever considered stopping

as a collector or even selling your whole collection?

100 % zero. No. I mean, yeah. So yeah, when we

were teenagers, you know, that part we stopped,

but I came back and there's, I think about it

often. I mean, the thing I've been thinking about

recently is that when I die, I'm going to be

a burden on somebody just straight up. I'm going

to be a burden on somebody. But yeah, no, I mean,

When people ask her when you're 80 are you still

gonna? Yes, I'm gonna be playing with toys I

had can't I can't see stopping ever. I just you

know, it's such a part of me I love it so much.

It brings me so much joy Why would I ever want

to stop I? Kidding no hard time is hard enough

to try to sell these things. I don't know. I

can't imagine I'm all in man I have a, I have

a tattooed sleeve of transform. I mean, it's

in my blood. I got a love. There you go. There

you go. Yeah. It's so funny folks. A little bit

beside behind the scenes here. You're probably

hearing this episode a few weeks after we recorded

it, but I just finished. Recording and releasing

with Jason a different Jason Jason swabota from

seven bucks a pop and I asked him that I asked

everybody I asked everybody all the same questions

the questions don't change the stories do so

I asked him and he goes. Whenever I depart this

mortal coil, it'll be somebody else's problem.

I don't care I'm like, all right. Well, that's

the that's the best answer. I've gotten for that

question ever No, he's not wrong I mean, you

know here at all. That's right. There's gonna

be one in Because I'm pretty sure I'm not gonna

see this year, but in 2099 There's going to be

one person left inhumanity that is just surrounded

by a landfill of plastic. And it's going to be

the plastic from the last 200 years of us contributing

to it. Because once we're gone, unless you're

donating them to other kids or other good wills

or other whatever, like, who the hell knows?

They're just going to end up in the trash anyway.

I know. I mean, I can be hopeful that somebody

else will get to enjoy them, but yeah. Absolutely.

What is something that does not have a toy of

it that you'd love to have in toy form? Well,

uh, man, it's all transformer talk. Um, so I

love this crossover series. It's been just the

joy to, uh, the things we thought about as kids,

like, wouldn't it be awesome if GI Joe and transformers

could, I mean, they're, they're, they're toy,

they're vehicles. Why can't. Yeah, so and they've

started doing that so awesome. I have I think

all of the Crossover series I just find them

so neat, but there are definitely some that are

missing obvious for me I don't know why I go

to air wolf first, but I used to love that show

so much Kit from Knight Rider obvious Missing

needs to happen while we got Feeny still around

Or and then like greatest American hero. Those

are the top three Like needs to be up next for

the crossover series. Those are toys that need

to happen And you would think with like the G

however many GI Joe helicopters there are yeah

You you would think that they would have made

some sort of air wolf something repaint or something

the same thing with kit however many you know,

like you you and even if you create a new cat

like They took a care. They took a car and made

a character out of. They took the DeLorean and

made gigawatt like, like it's not even like combined

like Megatron, his tank Megatron, his tank is

obvious because that's, you know, it's Megatron

and it's a in his tank. That's obvious. But like

in order to make kit a transformer, you have

to make him his own character. Like you have

to black sports car. we have those just paint

something black and call it kid already. Yeah.

So I'm enjoying those crossovers and that's definitely

keeps my brain thinking about fun things that

could be someday. I'm just glad the crossovers

have gotten better over the years. Oh, yeah.

Because I remember the original Transformers

Star Wars crap. I hated that Millennium Falcon

more than any other toy in my entire I'm like,

why the hell would you make a transformer out

of the Millennium? That's I'm sure they could

do it now and get away with it. It would be fine.

It would be awesome. But back then that one from

those days, like, but it was hot and chewy. So

it's perfect, right? Darth Vader is the Death

Star. Perfect. So, I mean, yeah, so it's cool,

but yeah, I don't know if they were really that

good at toys. That's my point is that they weren't

that great. I love the concept of making it,

you know, but. Oh my god that that that because

it kind of gave them human ish faces. It's really

uh -huh The transformations are crazy. Oh Boy,

what is a toy that you'd love to have scaled

up and functional for the real world? Oh my well

The arc yeah, let's go cruising through space

That'd be fun, right? Cruising through space

waiting for the nemesis to just deploy its its

boarding chutes. Uh -huh. Yeah, we're getting

one. Yeah, we're Yeah, I think I don't know I

think everything I'm looking at already pretty

much exists in a real way That's one of them

that doesn't and number 37 in a row. That's what

she said How have your spouses and or significant

others, mates, partners, et cetera, et cetera,

dealt with your collection? Oh, well, I've I've

had some that have really not liked it. And I

I'm so lucky. I mean, so lucky with my current

girlfriend, Michelle. She's amazing. And it's

oh, man, there there isn't fear. Like there is

when you're inviting the girl over for the first

time. And you're like, okay, well, this is, we're

going to know real soon if she's the one or we

can keep going. But, um, no, she, uh, she, uh,

she's super supportive. So lucky. She, um, really

loves coming over and looking and playing with

the toys and, and, uh, just loves that I love

something so passionately and supports it. Super,

super lucky there. I know we don't always get

that, but I'm definitely lucky. Yeah, absolutely,

absolutely. Toy collecting can have its struggles.

What is one aspect you tend to struggle with

the most? Well, I'd say the coming up with the

money for the dang things. They're not free anymore.

Nope. No, yeah, I mean, I tell myself that they've

always been getting more and more expensive since

they were ever. So like, it's just part of being

alive and buying things as they cost more tomorrow

than they did yesterday, all things. So it's

like, why, why complain now when it's always

been that way? But yeah, the real struggles is

what do I do with these boxes? Come on, man.

I have so many boxes. Money and space are the

two biggest, you know, that's always the deal

with that. Yeah. Yeah. I need to actually go

through. So I, I feel weird having like holiday

pops out when it's not a holiday. So I will cycle

those. So right now, uh, my Ebenezer Scrooge

Funko Pop Batman with Jack Frost Joker. are both

in in the closet all of my home alone pops all

of the christmas vacation pops save two are are

all in there and now because i came across these

recently in the last couple of months and i haven't

had a chance to clean out the closet to make

them fit in there for the season but i have the

uh... the two pop holiday moments finally i finally

was able to get those the christmas vacation

house in the home alone house so Those are sitting

behind me with a bunch of other things stacked

on top of them. But yeah, space is always, and

that's my thing with spaces, that's why I'm curating

my collection. I will not, like, I can't let

my collection get over 500. If I let it get over

500, I just can't. Just can't do it. What is

one positive and or one negative memory you have

with buying toys? Well, it's the highs and lows

of the thrill of the hunt. This last tour that

my band went on, my band's called Xray Mary,

xraymary .com, this last tour we went on had

just the greatest moment ever, and I'll do that

second. the, the, the bad story, uh, really isn't

that bad, but it's something that happens. And

like at the beginning of tour, like I had a list,

I knew what I needed and I came across it fairly

early. I mean, this tour is going so well that

like halfway through we're going to Walmart to

buy more totes, you know, just cause we got to

put toys in more totes. And, uh, so I don't get

to see these toys or look at them or for a while

and I forgot what I'd bought. And last day of

tour, bought the gosh dang same toy again. Oh

no. And I'm still hanging it. I've tried to sell

it. I haven't been able to get rid of it yet,

but it's not a big deal, but it's like, gosh

darn it. That was. What toy is it? Um, I think

it was war for Cybertron wheel jack. Oh, nothing

crazy, but no hound. It was no. One of those

War of Cybertron guys. Yeah, he's in a tote now

somewhere. But not a big deal, but I was like,

gosh darn it. The tour was going so great. And

I'm like, ah, that was 20 bucks. I could have

spent on something else. That's why it's a bad

memory. Yep. But we went on this little trip

to these toy stores and like, They just from

the minute, like Elgin, this was right when the

Castle Grayskull was out. And he's just, I mean,

the He -Man folks are so lucky right now. I mean,

there's so many good He -Man Motu toys out. It's

just, it's not even fair how awesome these toys

are and how many and plentiful they are. It's

amazing. I'm just jealous, but you guys are having

it so good right now. It's awesome. And so the

Castle Grayskull came out and even our Walmart

in town had a little price tag placeholder and

Al's just like, great, now I have to go every

day until, you know, because that placeholder

is there. Never did come by the way, but we're

on tour. We're out of town. We know this is the

biggest toy he's probably ever bought and would

be. You know, it just becomes the, like, focus

at every toy store, every shop we go to. It's

like, do they have Grayskull? No. Grayskull?

No. Grayskull? No. It never happens and just...

And it doesn't happen. And it's kind of sad.

I mean, some part of you is like, well... That's

a hundred bucks. I don't have to lose now. But,

uh, so, but we're like, oh, it is kind of sad,

you know, and it's dark and we're heading home

and we're like, you know what? One more store,

one more Walmart. I know it's late guys. I know

we're tired. I know we just want to get home

and go to sleep, but just, just one more. Okay.

All right. We'll do it. So we go in, we, we all,

you know, make our beeline like we do. Spoodie

goes and grabs a cart. I always end up running

sometimes. I get so excited. I get to the toy

section, but we all kind of arrive there at the

same time. And since we all do different lines,

they're not all in the same places, but we, you

know, we're looking through this big toy aisle

in this Walmart or Target, whichever it was.

Then we were just frothing, we finding toys we

hadn't found. Still no gray skull. But with the

rest of us are like, oh yeah, we got, oh, there's

this, this is cool. And then we're like, oh,

we lost track of Elgin. Where's Elgin? Where'd

he go? And we looking at each other and then

from the next aisle over, we hear a grown man

yelp like no other grown man. has ever made this

noise before in public. But he lets out a hoot

and a holler and is just, I'll just never forget

it. And we look and the end of the aisle, he

comes running around the aisle with this castle

grayskull over his head. Just the biggest beam

of smile you've ever seen in your life. And we

happened to snap a picture of it too, of the

moment when he came around this corner of this

aisle and it was just the perfect Climax to this

toy hunt. It could not have been storyboarded

any better It was just so amazing and it was

incredible and and then it turned out the toys

amazing and oh man. It was such a It worked out

the way it was supposed to. It was amazing. That's

so cool. That is so awesome. Yeah. Yeah, there

is nothing like finding what you've been searching

for after going to four different stores and

striking out. Absolutely. Yeah. You know, the

whole hunt thing though, it's like, Can I just

click on a website? No, I know I know and I understand

that but like when you were describing his scream

I'm like, so basically he turned into bulkhead

from Transformers Prime and scream like a little

girl Like I actually had that audio and I'm like,

oh man. It's so nice to be able to use this Is

you just screaming a girl? No That's hilarious

Did you just scream like a little girl? No. Maybe.

If you could create any toy, what would you want

to create? So basically Hasbro gives you the

keys to the kingdom, no budget, no, the sky's

the limit. What would you do? Well, I was asked

this question early when we started our podcast

and my answer was the Ark. And then they freaking

made it. So I'm so happy. But so I was thinking

about it and like. I just can't let go of another

old TV show that I don't know if anyone else

knows about called Manimal. I've heard of it,

but I don't remember it. It's basically like,

yeah, this special private eye that, or that

like something, I can't remember, voodooy thing

happened. And so he could turn into animals like

a black panther or a hawk. or a snake to help

solve crimes. I know, pretty awesome, right?

And so, I mean, I'm not even a big Beast Wars

guy, but man, I don't know, just another crossover,

another, obviously would never happen, but man,

just to get more manimal love in the world, that's

my stupid pick. There you go. Very cool, very

cool. What is the one piece of advice you would

give the toy collecting fandom in general? Well,

I think it's the same advice most of us would

give that our calm, rational people would give.

And the more I get into this fandom, it's like,

come on guys, this end of the day, it's just

toys, you know? uh we get them to make us feel

good and and for fun and if you let yourself

get all mad then what are you doing man so obviously

the advice is to just calm down and remember

why you're even touching these toys in the first

place because somebody wouldn't let us when we

were kids that's right and we must reclaim our

childhood Absolutely. That's right. What is advice

you would give kids who enjoy toys? Well, this

is a double -edged sword, because on one hand,

you want to be like, kids, don't play with your

toys too hard. But then we also know that these

toys today aren't going to be worth anything.

This phenomenon that happened to us in our generation

isn't going to happen again. Like there's so

many of these toys now that it's just not a thing

so Just a hundred percent would be just like

Indulge that imagination man play play play play

play You know, that's what makes better humans.

I think is just be creative use your imagination

and play play play Alright folks, we're gonna

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Yeah, I'm just gonna go with that Yo Joe and

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it up for episode 179 with Jason from cracktastic

plastic The only purple toy podcast you need

I guess The art man, it's in this decepticon

purple. I I'm not I'm not saying it. I love it.

No, I love it. I think it's great Me too. Best

art ever. Yeah. So tell us all about Cracktastic

Plastic and everything you guys do. Remind everybody.

You betcha. Yeah, four buddies of mine here in

a band. Every other week every other Tuesday

For a couple years now. We've been putting out

episodes. We kind of pick a topic do a little

discussion on that topic, but a lot of it's about

you know, just recent pickups and toys we picked

up lately and sharing them with each other we

all record in the same room and We pass the toys

around because it's fun to play with toys and

we've even started doing video versions of the

episodes you can find on our YouTube But all

although we were on all the socials everywhere.

If you're hearing this we're there, you know,

so subscribe over there We have we have a patreon

patreon .com slash cracktastic plastic Links

to all the things that we do can be found on

our website, cracktasticplastic .com. Not drugs,

plastic drugs. I guess it's drugs. Cracktasticplastic

.com. Mike, thank you so much for having me,

man. This is awesome. I love your shows and your

network. It's just an honor to be here. I appreciate

you having me on. Absolutely, absolutely. Well,

everyone else is also invited. I can't keep all

four of you in the same room, but the other three

are more than welcome to come on and tell their

stories. It might be a while though, because

this is episode 179. I don't know what I'm doing

for episode 180, but episode 181 to 187. So the

show may be going on hiatus in the future, folks.

Because we have to record episodes 181 to 187,

which will be the Geekcast Radio Network's Top

100 Toys countdown. So we announced this sort

of kind of so when we were deciding what countdown

we wanted to do after the wrestlers countdown

we did in 2019, we said, oh, it usually takes

us about Two years to get one of these things,

you know, get up, get everything and get all

the emails and get all the lists or whatever

else. Like, okay. In 2021, let's do transformers

and the next one let's do. Thank you. I appreciate

that. 100 hours of audio editing. Thank you very

much. Good. Glad you liked it. Glad everyone

liked it. If everyone listened to it. Uh, but

yeah, so Transformers and Toys was going to be

the next two that we were going to do. And due

to life basically throwing me a bunch of curve

balls at the end, my wife passed away. I had

to move across the country. I had to do all of

this crap and everything else. So we're like,

yeah, Toys is probably not going to be for a

while. So we are finally up to a point where

we are going to be launching the top 100 Toys

countdown coming soon. to the cast radio network

thank you so much has been a blast i always love

asking people these questions and half the time

i don't show people the questions because i want

to be able to sit here for three hours and edit

out all i just don't know how to answer on this

question on but thank you Amazing. And yeah,

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time until i guess i have no idea no clue last

episode before the countdown episodes it's the

uh... countdown to our extinction apparently

and uh... no insecticons needed so for now i

am tfg would make with jason from cracktastic

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