Dying Light, Star Wars Comics, Gotham’s Pacing Issues, and Batman Collectibles

Hi, this is John Delancey and you are listening

to the Geekcast Radio Network. Hello and welcome

to Altered Geek Unlimited episode 77. I'm your

host Steve Megatron Phillips and joining me again

this week is... See if you have a mic. Mike the

Birdman Dodd whose mouth is on freaking fire

right now. Let me ask you - Ow. And my wife is

calling me a pussy. Happy Valentine's Day to

you, you fuckers. Let me ask you, have you guys

seen The Flash this week? No, not yet. Well,

this isn't a spoiler for what happens in the

episode, but there's a really funny moment in

it where he, um, eats one of the hottest peppers

in the world. Like, would kill a normal person.

Like a ghost pepper sort of thing? Something

like that, yeah. It's supposed to be, yeah. So

you bitching about your hot wings is nothing.

Oh my god, you know what? One of the worst things

someone ever did to me is they fed me like it

was either I was either a ghost pepper based

barbecue sauce or I Can't remember the name of

this pepper, but either way But luckily my friend

ran a restaurant at the time I could just run

to the back freezer So he's like, hey Mike try

this thing. So he gives me a big friggin spoonful

of it It burned so bad. So I threw up Which is

obviously the gross part of the story. But then

I stuck my head in the ice cream freezer and

just started licking everything I could. Thankfully,

he was very nice to me. He's like, we're going

to get new stuff anyway. But oh my God, that

burns so bad. I couldn't touch hot stuff for

like a year and a half after that. It just sounds

horrid. Oh my God. Pain, pain and despair. Kinda

tasty, but still payment to spare. Wow. Yeah!

How you doin'? Alrighty, so... What have you

guys been doing this week? Nothing but playing

video games. I've actually just finished reviewing

the game Dying Light for the Xbox One and the

PS4. This is a game that originally... really

pissed me off, because I'm like, oh, look, a

zombie game. And admittedly, it's that. But it's

like Dead Island meets Mirror's Edge with a little

bit of Dead Rising. And it gets retarded fun

when you get the grappling hook. You become Batman

with a friggin' machete. And it's ludicrous amounts

of fun as you just pretty much dance on zombies'

heads while jumping across rooftops. It's really

kind of sick. Yeah. I'm playing the game Evolve

2, which is pretty kick -ass. And, what else?

Oh, I've been watching all the Friday the 13th

movies because, well, guess what today is. Just

because we're going to talk about that, oh, kind

of, a little later on in the show, but that's

sort of my way to get in the holiday spirit,

I guess, even though it's Valentine's Day weekend.

I've got my priorities all sorts of fucked up.

Moving on. Who's next? Well, I guess it took

Star Wars for me to actually read Marvel comics.

You know, I'm one of these people that... You

know, and I know Marvel isn't like this now,

but, you know, you grab an issue of whatever

it is and it's like, oh, so I have to read all

these other issues first to catch up. And now

that Marvel has the Star Wars license back, I've

really been interested to see what they're going

to do with the new ongoing series. And they also

have, I don't know if the Darth Vader series

is going to be a mini series or if it's going

to be. Full -on ongoing. I know the Princess

Leia series coming next month is gonna be a one

is gonna be a five -issue mini But that Darth

Vader number one was damn awesome. The art is

amazing in that book I've heard a lot of really

good things about that And you know what? I don't

disagree with you when it comes to the whole

Marvel thing Like I I hope you know the last

ten years of continuity When it comes to stuff,

it's so hard to get in the Marvel books, but

now I guess with secret or whatever maybe it'll

be easier when everything reboots um i doubt

it um but yeah like the the new star wars stuff

i think is going to be halfway legit legit i'm

tempted to get into it but at the same time i

already pull a significant number of books out

by a comic book store my long boxes grow that

i haven't read yet so i'm kind of leery about

it maybe i'll just buy them digitally This thing

Mike is like I said last week You need to go

digital just in a couple of titles not on everything.

You don't need to go all in but I've actually

been thinking about taking your advice because

me and my wife we want to get a new iPad at some

point this year because my first gen one I got

is a wedding gift from Spada has finally bit

the dust so I'm thinking Maybe it's time. I take

that leap and if i'm only buying say 20 bucks

worth of books a month big deal or there's that

one subscription service or it's like the netflix

for comic books it's netflix for marvel actually

yeah so i'm thinking you know what that may be

kind of worth it for me even if so many stories

that i want to read and just have it how many

times a month do you go to the comic shop and

actually buy something like actually buy a book

About twice a month like because my guy's really

cool the guy I record beyond The gauntlet with

Chris I typically go like the beginning of the

month and direct towards the end of the month

Well, so they usually wait a few weeks at all

for all my books to pile up, right? So far as

I can tell Darth Vader is It's twice a month

at this point What I would suggest and I don't

know if this I don't know if this happens up

there but what I suggest you do is have him hold

them for you and then instead of like when you

go to pick your books up instead of Sitting there

and reading the print versions just Marvel includes

a free digital copy in Almost all the books they

do that's true So that way you're spending you're

helping your local comic shop and spending the

399 And you're still getting a free digital copy

that you can still look at on a new iPad or whatever

instead of just spending the four bucks online

Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, I think you may have

a point like I think I'm gonna have to move digital

For everything except ponies now. I really think

maybe ponies and maybe Ghostbusters. I'll keep

print well Ghostbusters is ending but yeah It's

one of those things I've been kind of holding

off about it for years because I don't want to

lose My passwords and just forget like oh I've

got this huge comic book collection, but now

I can't get access to it But I guess I could

say that about all my movies I have stored in

the cloud anyway, so I Don't know and maybe about

that time. Maybe there'll be a sale towards the

end of the spring I can grab a new iPad for like

next to nothing. Yeah, I'm hoping although Very

briefly, Steve was asked, you guys asked what

I did this week. I think I've reached that point

in my life where I've become the crazy old man.

Where I literally sit at my computer and enter

nothing but contests. So if you've been watching

my Twitter and Facebook over the last like three

days, it's been nothing but contest links. As

Tim Allen would say, you sad, strange little

man. Oh my God, it's really freaking weird because

I'm thinking, you know what? I want to trip to

Vegas. I won an Xbox One. What else can I do?

I've entered everything from getting free Lipchap

that trips the ballies. So I've figured, you

know what, out of the 10 million entries I've

done, I'm bound to hit Patern on one of them.

I am a sad, strange little man, and you have

nothing. Yeah, huh. I will just derailing the

conversations where you guys are like in the

stunned, stupefied silence. That's what Canadians

do to us I can feel the expressions on your faces

from here. Yeah, I would hope that you wouldn't

reach out and touch them No, this is not an AT

&T commercial, thank you you made me this way

What else have I been doing? I have a stack of

CDs to go through for La La Land Records that

I haven't written reviews yet of, so I gotta

do that. And just prepping for the GCR Awards

reveal stuff, so that's pretty much all I've

been doing. What about you, Steve? Well, I compiled

the awards list. interesting to say the least

of what was chosen honestly didn't see some of

what came up happening some of the things I wasn't

sure until I saw it in the total count there's

quite a few there's no blowouts but there's quite

a few massively ahead of other things. To the

point that the lowest number voted on something

was once. Well, actually, there might have been

a couple that didn't have any, but I don't think

so. And then there's a couple that are within

one of losing to another one. It's quite interesting,

too. Again, like I said, some of them surprised

me, some of them it was a popularity contest,

so I wasn't surprised in the slightest. I can't

wait to get that done, just so that I can see

reactions afterward, because for once, we didn't

choose anything. Well, all of the core staff

did fill out the form. Well yeah, we all voted

like everyone else. Right, yeah. It was interesting

to say the least. Again, some of the things came

up in multiple categories, especially in TV and

film. It was so interesting to check that. puts

me at a loss of words by some of them like one

of them it somehow walked away with 54 votes

like in one of them which i think is the highest

of of any of the the categories wow um it was

in film that's all i'm saying um but uh oh no

wrong there's one that's at 55 It's in a different

category. But yeah, I can't wait to reveal that

just to see reactions. So I did that. Again,

doing the acting class, so having to learn lines

for the script and pretty much have the acting

down. It's the learning the lines. It's going

to be the pain in the ass for me because if it

were in a chapter book, you're talking Three

or four page span of lines back and forth between

two characters and I'm one of them So the dialogue

is is I feel bad for the other guy Because he's

definitely got more dialogue Then that I would

But I still have way too much to remember to

for my my brain to comprehend at times So I'm

hoping that I don't botch that when it comes

time I've done that. I'm trying to think what

else. At work, they're coming up for a test.

It's a money thing, but they're being evaluated

for something they were told about three months

ago, four months ago. It's a new program. It

has to do with incentives and stuff. I'm not

sure how well that's gonna pan out tomorrow when

the guys are there for three hours doing the

evaluation because It's I'm trying to word this

as eloquently as possible to not get in any kind

of trouble But is it like the two bobs from office

space? It's been a while since I've seen that

so I don't remember but but the two the two Bob's

were the consultants that came in to see job

performance and Who can be? You know promoted

and who can be basically? Okay Whether they're

following up and doing their proper procedure,

okay something that nobody there knows how to

do So we're gonna wing it and see what happens

That's literally what's gonna happen I await

the the sadness afterwards So yeah, there's that

I've been playing the 2d s with Super Smash Brothers

Yes, I will bitch slap you but we'll see my Mega

Man is top tier man I used to play competitive.

I will fuck your day up. Who are you really good

with? I'm good with Mega Man, I'm pretty good

with PITS. I will kick your ass with Sonic. Sonic,

pfft. I will kick your ass. Dude, I play it on

the Wii, and I crank them up to level 9, and

I play people online with it, or I did before

they crapped out on that. Sonic and I stomped

everybody's ass did you should be playing in

tournaments, man? Um, yeah, we refer me to actually

pay money and leave home. Hey, man Well, there

used to be this place I used to work in Hamilton

Ontario this game center called phones Pay a

$20 entry fee. You could walk out with two grand

by the end of the night if you were good Prize

pools, man And I also play my brothers at it

which have played Smash Brothers with me in the

past and I used to play a Samus but they Nurtured

the character in Brawl Yeah, I really liked her

in Brawl, but I hated when I used my my like

Final Smash because I hate Zero Suit Samus I

actually like Zero Suit because it puts the only

reason I let in there's only one reason I like

her for that is because you get the electro zap

thing that But the thing is, her moves are okay,

but she gets the speed that Samus in the suit

had in Melee. Which in Brawl, she's super slow

in the suit. Which is why I switched to Sonic.

because I used to play really well with Samus

and I'd kind of play a waiting game. Now with

Sonic, I kind of get in the thick of it and purposely

try and see if I can get my ass kicked. Now here's

a question. Are you doing the amiibo thing yet?

No. Does it do that on the 2DS? You can. When

the adapter's released, I imagine you should

be able to. My friends who work at Walmart this

past week were able to snag me some of the super

rare ones for the amiibos. I'm pretty sure these

things are worse than cocaine because I'm going

to ridiculous lengths to get them. This week,

actually, for those of you that don't know, Target

in Canada is going out of business, so they're

liquidating everything, which sucks because Target

had this exclusive amiibo called Rosalina. Now

our online retailers like Best Buy, Future Shop,

and Walmart got limited quantities of them. So

late last week, I think it was, I sat online

because Future Shop said the announcement was

like, we're going to release a limited amount

of these things online at this time, first come

first serve, right? The whole of Canada, they

had 57. I managed to score one of them. They

sold out in about 12 seconds Couldn't believe

it and My thing just shipped. I think it shipped

today or yesterday, so I should have them like

tomorrow but It smashes done horrible things

for my wallet because I'm I missed out most on

the first wave of Amiibo, so now I'm trying to

play catch -up The only one I don't have right

now out of the newer wave is I don't have Meta

Knight and I loved him. My god, he was so top

tier in Brawl. Actually, I think he was in a

tier all by himself because all his moves out

prioritized everybody else. He was pretty hardcore

in Brawl. Oh my god, like if you watch any of

the old matches from like Apex or Evo, Meta Knight

matches were fun as hell to watch. That or Diddy

Kong matches were really fun. But yeah, like

right now I'm sitting beside my amiibos right

beside me. And the ones I got this week were

super hardcore. I got Ike and I got King DDD.

And you would not believe how heavy King DDD

is, like that amiibo. I'm pretty sure if I were

to hit someone in the face with this thing, I

could make them chip a tooth. I think it's like

a solid hunk of friggin' plastic. But yeah, seriously

though, when the adapter is announced, which

it likely will be before E3, you can transfer

your data from your Amiibo. Let's say you have

it on the Wii U. It can be moved over to your

2DS as well. They are fun. For 15 bucks a piece,

they are actually pretty kick -ass. And the secondary

scalper market is ridiculous. Some of these things

will go for over a hundred bucks. That's retarded.

People are douchebags because they went out and

scalped Marth, the villager, and the Wii Fit

trainer. Now they're scalping Little Mac, Pit,

and Captain Falcon. And now Mega Man and Sonic

will be super rare too. The only reason I got

mine is because I pre -ordered right time, right

place. And people are dicks. Like seriously,

I cannot believe how much money people are making

off these things. Like right now, a Rosalina,

15 bucks figured, right? People are paying 60

bucks for it. Yeah, I'd pass. Jesus, man. Like

I said, I got lucky at 15 bucks only because

I kept pressing F5 for an hour and a freaking

half. Clearly a first -world problem. But anyway.

So, where do we go next? Okay. So yeah. They

just couple light announcements. Um, I'm actually

gonna gloss over a few the Gotham trailer for

next week. Oh It's a red herring it's gotta be

I think they said that from the get -go They

were gonna do it, but it's not gonna be a definitive

origin. Please god. No, look don't let this be

definitive I can't believe the show got picked

up for a second season. I mean, I don't dislike

Gotham, but it just... It's an inconsistent since

it's come back. Up and down, up and down. It's

moving way too damn slow for me. And I don't

mean it's moving slow as in like Breaking Bad

was moving slow. I mean, they are trying too

hard. to tie in all this batman stuff at the

same time tell a decent story within the show's

universe i think at this point they're playing

a cop procedural trying to hit the notes of batman

without having batman which means you're seeing

all these villains parents in some cases uh and

then at the same time they're they're also trying

to It's like they're shoving the rest of them

down our throat now at this point to try and

get ratings Yeah, have you guys seen this week's

episode? Scarecrow? Yeah. Yes. I've only seen

bits and pieces Did you see the piece where Nigma

and Penguin are together? No, I didn't see that

part. They did that in the police station and

it was in the promo for it from last week um

but there wasn't that much into in the promo

there's not much in it it's basically them just

it's basically the camera showing the two of

them staring each other down and it's interesting

i i honestly at this point nigmas too damn creepy

for me to even i mean we all know he's going

to become the riddler but i was i think he'll

he'll straighten out it's just he's Right now

it's he's he's that awkward like extremely awkward

Yeah, OCD so they see him as creepy whereas once

he goes full ribbler. It's it's all bets are

off I think that's my point here I want them

to hurry up and have him do that or really penguin

is okay? Let's say this version of penguin is

not like any other version on Film or comic that

we've ever seen or and which I like this no I

mean I like I like him but I'm saying, like,

he is pretty much the Penguin at this point.

Sure, you know, sure, he doesn't do all the cheesy

umbrella jokes that Burgess Meredith used to

do in the 60s Batman show, but that's what I

want from Nigma at this point. I want him to

go full Riddler, and I actually wanted them to

team up, find some common thing the two of them

could team up for, and just... Go at it instead

of just dragging the stigma story out. I think

it's too soon to turn riddler though I mean this

way if you have them fall from grace You build

up a little sympathy for the character and when

he finally snaps, it'll be a big moment in the

show But maybe they should be hustling it a little

bit faster or give it more Give it a bit more

weight as opposed to dragging it out right now.

I mean, have a few small things happen and then

drop a bomb on us for like a season finale or

something. And sadly, I don't think that's...

I'm sorry, Steve, go ahead. No, I was going to

say, but I think part of the thing too is that

a lot of this... In order for this to happen,

Bruce is going to have to age. Yeah, I mean,

that's another thing too. If they were to advance

the story... Like, maybe at the end of this season,

the story advances five years or something? That's

a possibility. But the thing is, the kid that

plays Bruce is really good. Yeah, he is. I don't

want to lose him. He's really decent. But if

it takes ten years to get there... Yeah, that's

true. Like, I don't think they had a long -term

plan for this show in mind. No, they... Well,

hell, like, the show didn't... Okay, here's our

mini -series. Oh shit, season two, now what?

Well, originally the show was at 21 or 22 episodes

then I got cut back to 17 and then they added

back into Whatever the the current number is

for the first season and now it's got picked

up for a second season My worry is and I and

I know that they're gonna continue to do All

the storylines that they're currently doing the

fish Mooney thing the Carmine Falcone thing all

that stuff I know they're I know they're gonna

not drop that immediately My worry is once they

introduce who they're gonna introduce next week

All bets are off and it's pretty much gonna be

all about the joker Well, I think it's a mistake

to even bring him in this early at least and

especially as a kid I think he should have been

like, you know an 18 year old that you know that

they may be introduced it's kind of down on his

luck and then You know Gotten involved with the

Red Hood gang which this may be very well it

I mean that they pull next week too. I don't

know Because they did say they're gonna bring

in the Red Hood gang, but I'm not quite sure

where it's going to go from there, and I don't

really like the idea of them introducing him

as a nut job this early on without having, you

know, some psychological damage from whatever.

Like, show him damage but not broken. He's, you

know, he should be broken after he hits the chemical

pit. Yeah. I mean, they may drop him in there

very soon. I mean because In the same teaser

Bruce mentions the Arkham thing and then the

the chemical plant So It may actually hit that

that realm But speaking of Batman and on a lighter

about the the new Batmobile and the other Batman

animated series figures. My poor wallet. That's

what you say all the time. It's true and I'm

thinking who do I know to get these things for

free but at the same time these things are huge

I don't know where the hell I'd even put them.

The figures aren't really that big I mean they

are but they're not. have the the new adventures

Batman which my brother got for me and the I'm

going to end up getting the the animated series

version as well to go along with it I probably

I want to get the Joker in the Riddler but I

at the same time I already have the same toy

in the smaller version and it's not that big

of a difference to me Whereas the Batman ones,

it's kind of it's more of a big deal. So I'll

probably get that one. And I really want that

Batmobile because I was itching to get the smaller

one that fit the original like four inch figure

that came out back in the early 90s. But I don't

I didn't want to buy a used one of that. I didn't

have the money to spend on a new one. And this

you can get it from BBTS for eighty four dollars.

Pre -order. But at the same time I don't know

where the hell I would put this like almost like

foot and a half long or two foot long Batmobile

Because I think it's supposed to be like 24 inches

long oh Wow, it's that big. I didn't think it

was that big. I think that's what I read Could

be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that's what I read

I'm quite excited. That's all I know So, yeah,

I'd love to get my hands on it. I just don't

know how plausible it is. These are the DC collectible

stuff, right? Yeah, they've been doing them.

That phantasm looks pretty friggin' badass, though.

I want to get the phantasm, too. Yeah, it is

24 inches long in the bimobile. That thing looks

kind of stupid. What's that? Said though that

Yeah, it's from the new adventure same thing

with scarecrow. I don't like that version The

Mad Hatter I could give two shits less Nightwing.

I think it's kind of cool. But again, it's the

same as the other figure And then you have you

know your various other DC collectibles in there,

too But I'm definitely I I want the Phantasm

one too, but I'm more apt to just buy the Batman

So at this batmobile being this this size and

you can fit these figures in them, right? and

well what I was saying was like I'm wondering

and I don't think this will ever happen since

most of the the stuff that the company that I

mentioned does is mostly movie stuff itself But

I'm wondering if they'll ever do a hot toys version

of the btas batmobile work but that appears actually

speaking of hot toys did you guys see Ultron

Prime this week yeah yes holy shit if I started

a hot toys collection it would start there that's

such a gorgeous figure oh my god I actually sat

in my office here and I'm thinking okay I'm looking

at my video game shelf what can I sell because

that thing looks so friggin cool And I really

want to have Ultron, like, stepping on Captain

America's chest or something. Crushing his throat.

Yeah, just like, ah, no strings on me, motherfucker.

Like, it looks so cool. And, like, that, or I

want to see the Ultron drones. Like, they've

got torsos, but they haven't released a full

drone yet. But still, that thing looks friggin'

sick. Yeah, it does. On toys, why do you torture

me so? If I was gonna start a Hot Toys collection,

it probably would start and end with the 1989

Batmobile. Although, they did a really wicked

Robocop a couple years ago, and anything Hot

Toys at Iron Man looks phenomenal. I know there's

a Hot Toys Hulkbuster, but I don't own the moon,

so I can't afford it. But seriously, man, that

toy company, they have a license to print money.

Pretty much, yeah. There was something I saw

this week, and I can't remember where it was,

but it was a picture of their Russell Crowe Man

of Steel figure, Jor -El. And I really thought

it was a picture of Russell Crowe. And then I'm

like, oh, that's the toy. I'm like, holy shit.

At a glance, these things can fool you. My God,

they got such talented sculptors over there,

man. Like seriously, that's, I don't know, someday,

someday, I intend to own at least a few hot toys.

Toys today are so much cooler than we were kids.

Oh yeah, but the thing is, if we had these toys

as kids, I can't imagine going total rough and

tumble with them. Does I see someone like the

hot toys term? Terminator figures and I'm thinking

man if I were to break one of the accessories,

I think I cry But they do look so bad I mean

if you had a Really nice display room for these

figures and put them in those IKEA like glass

cabinets where you can't get dust on them and

shit Yeah, it's set these things up in a really

cool dot dioramas then You could have like the

ultimate thing like you can always make a stop

-motion movie Avengers with these and I'm surprised

someone hasn't done I Think kids today have it

really really bad as far as Well, no, no, it's

not that it's not about the quality of the toys

it's about the fact can you find them? Because

let's face it. We live in a world where collecting

is key for a lot of people our age or older and

people like us that so what you're saying is

we're the assholes pretty much yeah we're the

ones buying the toys so these kids can't have

well all right look i haven't gone in a toy aisle

in a very long time i was at home i go in all

the time i have an excuse i have a child well

yeah but i've got amazon screw going outside

That's usually how I feel but sometimes I have

to go to Walmart. So I'm in Walmart the other

day and we were down by the lawn and garden stuff

looking at something and I went up to the toy

aisle because I hadn't been in a toy aisle in

god at least two years. And I'm walking down

this aisle. And I'm like, where are all the action

figures? There's like nothing here. It wasn't

that the shelves were empty, but it was like

a bunch of weird things that I never even heard

of before. The only thing I noticed was all of

the Nick Turtle stuff, because they had the new...

They're not cloth figures, but they're whatever

the new design is on the on the Nick turtles

that they had in that episode a couple weeks

ago where they were wearing cloths and I don't

know it's some sort of Yeah, thank you. Yeah,

they had pretty much all the mystic turtles They

had the turtle blimp and a bunch of other stuff

that was the only thing in the action figure

aisle that I recognized Everything else, I did

not recognize at all. I didn't see any Marvel.

I didn't see any DC. I didn't see any Transformers.

I saw nothing that I recognized. And it's like,

wow, I'm glad I don't collect. It's weird. Like,

with that, it seems to me you only get that influx

of stuff during movie years. I imagine you'll

see more Marvel stuff probably closer to Age

of Ultron. Although I know stuff is out on shelves

right now. Though it's harder to find. Which

makes no sense Yeah, like the Nick turtle stuff

It's hard to find some of the shorter packed

figures It took me the better part of a year

to find an April Even then I had to go to the

gray market and finding an on the peg shredder

proved near impossible I Got lucky when I found

him Because people like us are douchebags Because

we leave like well when I used to collect Star

Wars figures for example, this is a really bad

example I knew the case assortments so I knew

exactly what I wanted because I knew exactly

what was in the case and Kids would miss out

on some really cool figures because of people

like me who army build Because I used to buy

almost exclusively clone troopers and you'd end

up on a shelf full of like 40 moss amidas or

bale organas as opposed to I've got Django Fets,

I've got all the popas and everything else and

the kids are left with these assholes that are

on screen for three seconds. People like me that

fuck it up. know there are collectors out there

or there are people out there that do YouTube

videos and I'm not talking about any of my friends

that do YouTube videos at all but there are some

people on YouTube that will run out to every

single toy store in their town no matter what

town it is and if they have the money they'll

buy everything that's brand new go home do their

YouTube video reviews and then sell it on eBay

for God Knows how much more than what it's actually

worth. I actually just saw on Facebook Tonight

as we're doing this podcast My buddy Ben Ben

be on Facebook. He he posted dear third -party

Amazon sellers Stop hiking up the prices. No

one is gonna pay more than ten dollars for a

playmates toy Depending on the figure I would

go out of my way for certain ones. Well, right,

but I mean he's speaking in general about Just

a standard figure not anything that's short -packed

or anything. It's just a regular released figure

Although speaking of the Nick Turtle things mmm,

you should pick up the new turtle van. It's really

fucking cool Playmates sent me one about a week

ago And it's so nice. Like it's pretty much the

same build as the movie turtle van that we got

this past summer, but it's got a lot of improvements

in it. It's just, it's a really nice vehicle.

If kids get anything today, they have nicer vehicles.

But I'd argue we had cooler play sets. True.

They just don't have play sets now. Yeah, it's

rare. Like I think one of the coolest play sets

Ever saw as a kid outside of you know the flag

Was probably the Cobra pterodrome the sewer playset

I thought was really well done and the tech the

technodrome That was the cat ass It broke my

heart to sell those that this path like this

past year I sold my turtle plays that in my my

technodrome and those things I think were marvels

for toys because they had such good playability

and then looked cool and they functioned they

were kind of in scale with with each other the

fact that you could connect the turtle playset

to the technodrome via that sewer pipe i always

thought was really freaking sweet yeah that was

pretty cool Ghostbusters Firehouse i thought

was a nice playset it didn't do a lot but it

added a lot of agitation factor to your thing

There's one place that I don't, I think it was

produced but in very, very small numbers. It

was the Filmation Ghostbusters Playhouse where

it had the working ghost elevator. I think it

had sounds. It had a place for that stupid bat

guy to live. It had extra ghost equipment. It

could house the car in the garage. And the car

for the Filmation, Ghostbusters series is like

something I'd love to own because that thing

could transform into the sub the jet and the

car and It was all in vehicle. You didn't have

to take parts on or off. It would just fold out

and transform. It was so sick. The other awesome

play sets we had in the 80s Castle Grayskull,

Snake Mountain wasn't as cool as you may think

No, I had that thing twice. Yeah, going back

and looking at it now, I remember Snake Mountain

completely different. Oh yeah, Grayskull was

awesome. Boulder Hill from Mask, Catslayer from

Thundercats. Even the Lion's Den from Voltron

was pretty cool. Yep. Yep, Castle of the Lions.

I crossed one. Yep. Actually, one underappreciated

playset that I think is kind of cool, and you

can actually find this Brand new in the box because

they overproduced it was the command center for

go bots And I thought that thing looked cool

Like I looked one up on eBay a few months ago

brand new in the box partnership it was like

80 bucks That's because that's because go bots

are the Kmart version of transformers Although

you know what actually have you seen the new

go bots that are coming out soon? They look like

Transformers. Oh my god, that's Psykill in leader

one, sign me up. That Psykill looks so fucking

cool. Now, I hope they do Turbo and Crasher,

because Crasher was that female go -bot car who

was like psycho bitch, or Chopper who was that

helicopter dude. I'm trying to think of other

cool - although kids today though, and I'm talking

let's say 95 forward, The Jurassic Park place

that was pretty kick -ass and had awesome vehicles

for the Jurassic Park stuff It wouldn't surprise

me at Hasbro when they because I know they have

the Jurassic Park license Mm -hmm, and they release

their stuff. It wouldn't surprise me if we get

a rerelease of the visitor center From the older.

I think it was Kenner that put them out In the

early 90s and it wouldn't surprise me if we got

a rerelease of the classic Jurassic Park land

cruiser, which goes for insane amounts of money.

I think the cheapest one I ever saw was 200 bucks.

Good lord. No, and that's insane too. As a kid,

I always wanted that one, but I could never find

it. I guess it was just really short packed.

I remember for kids today, say 2005 forward,

There was a playset for Star Wars. There was

the Mustafar or Battle of Mustafar for Obi -Wan

and Anakin. They had the globe turbo tank which

is huge but really sweet looking. I think they

had I want to say they had one for the MT -80

which is the mountain train attack transport.

I'm not sure. I remember I remember a lot of

the Star Wars playsets being really sweet. I

mean even the Death Star playset from the 70s

I thought was really cool. Although many parts

on that thing tend to get broken very very easily.

But Star Wars has always had consistently cool

playsets. The nice part about living in Flint,

Michigan area is we have these flea markets around.

It's the city market, and it's basically an abandoned

big lots that they bought out, and it's just

a bunch of, a lot of it's just like shit vendors,

but there's this one guy in the back, and half

of his, like he has almost the entire ass into

the store, like the whole back wall pretty much.

And he has wrestling toys memorabilia on one

half of it and the other half is all freaking

like toys that we grew up with including some

newer stuff, but it's a lot of like on the box

old stuff and then some new stuff that's that's

in the box and some old stuff that's in the box,

but I managed to find like a couple of batmobiles

in there that were Not only the toy ones but

the Hot Wheels ones One of which I used to own

it was diecast from the eye out Steve since you're

into Batman things you should find the it was

the Wasn't was toy business that did the bat

the Batman 1989 figures uh -huh They they did

a play set that was Wayne Manor and the Batcave.

I used to have that as a kid I want to say this

is true, but every time they've released the

Wayne Manor back game, it's the exact same mold,

just slightly recolored every single time. It

is recolored every time. So yeah, you should

be able to find that cheap. You should so get

that, because that would look really sick, especially

with your bigger PC animated figures. I probably

would if I found it my brother had the the the

kind of bluish colored one And I had the one

that was the kind of goldish color on the outside

Yeah Which if I found that I'd get it again,

I did find a Captain Kirk from generations in

the spacesuit Which I owned as a kid but I when

I played that was my figure that I beat the shit

out of every other character with that was like

my ultimate go -to like everybody else sucks

and lost and then spacesuit Kirk would come in

and kick their ass so I beat that figure to hell

I don't even know what happened to it but this

one's like mint condition out of the box so I

was like I'll pick that up and then I found a

Transformers 30th anniversary Dinobot new in

the box For like 12 bucks and I picked it up.

I was like sweet So, I mean I found some pretty

decent gems there they do have like damn near

every Power Ranger Megazord Which has played

hell on me because the original one I wanted

that something terrible as a kid And I if I could

justify the space I would buy another one or

buy one now that I have some funds but and then

they have a bunch of transformers in there a

lot of which I have and then among other things

that are that are in there but yeah they they

just have a ton of crap that I kind of every

week I kind of go through there I will say this

kids today despite having some lesser play sets

when they get re -releases of our older toys

Like the Transformers Generations line, I saw

a Generations Jetfire and a Generations RC and

Chromia. My God, kids today have amazing sculpts

for their toys compared to what we had in like

1984. Well, I mean, look at the look at the the

old like Ninja Turtles line from the 80s and

then compare them to the the 30th anniversary

Classics line of TMNT. Oh, yeah. Just the detail

in those. I mean, for curry's sake, when they

come out with the new Krang. When are they supposed

to come out with that? It'll probably be during

the summer. Because when they come out with that,

I'm getting it. Because I have the original one.

I have the original one, the giant robot body,

which is busted all to hell, but I still have

the original one that I had as a kid. I sold

mine this year and that broke my heart because

that figure is so good. It's so good, but it's

so expensive and hard to find in good condition.

I paid 90 for mine. Yeah, that's what I was afraid

of. That's why I didn't want to splurge. That's

why I'm waiting for the new one that comes out.

It will be 30 bucks, but it will be fully detailed.

the comparison between the two. I mean, you know,

you look at that or the masterpiece transformers

to the originals. I mean, we do have nice collector

lines nowadays that are like damn near spot on

accurate, which are awesome if it weren't for

the fact that, you know, I mean those that can

buy them because they can afford them and then

others kind of sit there and drool at the screen

because they're like, I wish I could get it.

I can't get it. Now, like, it's so crazy to look

at how toys have evolved over the last 30 years.

I mean, especially like we just mentioned with

Transformers Generations, Masters of the Universe

classics, the TMNT classics, even the G .I. Joe

stuff that gets kind of a makeover every couple

years. Like, man, it's unreal to see just how

much the toy industry has changed. And it's...

I'm glad it is changing, I mean it sucks I don't

see as many kids cover these toys but for us,

yay fun. Well see I think this is a I think it's

a mixed message Hasbro is sending to children

now because I'm not trying to insult anyone here

when I say this but I think Hasbro believes that

children are stupid. Because they now are introducing

these one step or three step transformers Where

the one step ones you just flip it twice and

it transforms as a child of the 80s Steve I know

you're gonna teach your kids how to transform

or let them discover on their own how to transform

the original the regular figures and it's like

That was the whole point of us as a kid, you

know, they even sit in the in the advertising.

It's two toys that that turn it, you know, it's

essentially two toys that turn into one or turn

into the other. And it's a giant puzzle. And,

you know, sometimes we sat there for hours figuring

out how to transform Megatron. I can't tell you

how long it took me to figure out how to transform

Optimal Optimus in Transmetal Tube Megatron.

Right. To this day, I can do it. But like, even

though I have not taken them out of robot mode

in probably about eight years, which means the

plastic will probably snap when I take them apart.

because I had to happen with Transmetal Megatron.

I tried taking him apart once and his arm decided

it didn't want to fold back in his gut. It just

popped off. Never went back on. But I have, you

know, I mean, even the Masterpiece Prime that

I got, the original one that came out for 60

bucks, I wish I would have bought two of those

at the time. But what I'm saying is, though,

it's like you had fun as a kid figuring out for

God knows how long. It was infuriating. I'm not

going to lie, but I figured it out with or without

instructions. It's like working on a puzzle,

which is something that I think that kids lack

nowadays. Yeah, they have the technology, but

a lot of the time they don't have the imagination

or the cognitive ability to sit there and figure

something out. because it's too hard. Well, unless

it's on like a video game screen or something

like that. Well, that's what I mean. To physically

do something. It goes back to the same conversation

of not physically conversing with people like

with your mouth. So it's it's it's that kind

of thing that, you know, it kind of brings that

back to me. But yeah, I mean, I'm going to show

my kids and I'm not like. Like those, pardon

my French here, but these shitty ass figures

that Hasbro is trying to shove down our throat,

the two inch tall Transformers that sit on the

dinosaur and don't transform, or the 12 inch

tall Optimus and Bumblebees that don't transform.

Are they at least super articulated? No, they're

just fucking garbage. Unless they're super articulated.

Well, I don't care they're not transformers unless

they transform and to me I'm not gonna spend

the money to buy my kid a toy that doesn't do

what it's supposed to do If I want a freaking

action figure I'll go buy him an Avenger or a

DC figure You know something that isn't meant

to transform. It's meant to you know bend it

at the arms and the legs and you know just beat

the shit out of each other I For a transformer

that defeats the purpose. That's why action masters

died out and they wonder why there's shell formers

now And it's like durah look at the 80s I you

know, my son's got some of the robot hero ones,

which even those don't transform but being his

age They are at least articulated so I don't

have a problem in spending the three bucks to

buy them for him and He enjoys them, but like

at my mom's, he has the rescue bots, which are

the fold -up ones, but even then, she's got some

of the more complicated ones and they're figuring

it out. He's two and a half and my nephew's three

and a half or four. I don't know. I think that

some of the stuff is too spread out as far as

those toys. Not that they aren't decent to some

degree, but I think that... I don't know, some

of those toys are just garbage and shouldn't

be sold. One line that's always remained that

I felt fairly consistent over the years, and

I think it's because they have got a really good

person in charge of the line, is Star Wars stuff.

I mean, it's hard to find a bad Star Wars figure,

and what I mean by that is, the sculpts, almost

all of them are really good. The vehicles are

amazing, although some of them are molds you've

seen for like ten years. But they're really good

molds like of vehicles like I think one of my

favorites was the Clone Wars gunship and That's

still awesome. Although it was weird though when

you got the revenge of the Sith one. You didn't

get the clone gutters bubbles That would sit

on the side of the gunship you had to buy those

separately Which is kind of a pain in the ass

because you only got those with attack the clones

But yeah like Kids today, they got it good and

bad, I guess. You know, Star Wars has been consistently

good, except when Hasbro decides to match them

with other things. Like, I remember that whole

Star Wars Transformers or - Okay, that - some

of those were really cool. I had almost all of

those. I'm sorry, the Millennium Falcon one was

horrid. You know what? I had that one, but I

never took it out of the box, so I don't know.

It was horrid. Speaking of - of - of - of kids

today getting screwed. And this kind of calls

back to the 2DS thing and the 3DS, because I'm

seeing multiple complaints about this anyway.

I think it's kind of like, I'm going to be honest,

because the whole 2DS thing is completely new

to my mind. I'm still assimilating what it does

and doesn't do. Because I came from the the era

of the Game Boy Advance and not the SP not the

You know the the fold -up one that that they

had no I'm talking the actual Game Boy Advance

the very first one And to go from that to a 2d

yes, it's fucking mind -blowing I Didn't realize

it doesn't come with a way to charge Like you

couldn't take batteries out like I was expecting

there to be a battery slot even if it was like

AAA or something but And then I was looking at

him like wow. There's really no way to charge

it without a special cable Yeah, it's because

they want you to have this proprietary battery

Which which I can get that don't get me wrong

because it does last a long time. I haven't had

to charge it but since I since I got the cord,

but the The thing is is I Think it's kind of

bullshit that you get a but get a special cord

You can't use like a universal USB like the mini

USB like you'd use for a cell phone Yeah, although

you can do that with I actually know you you

can't even do that with the Vita Yeah, you're

right. It's you have to get the proprietary thing

and they're making it actually Increasingly difficult

to try and actually get a legitimate cord Cuz

yeah, it's kind of pain in the ass. I mean, it's

you know what? It's just like cell phones for

a long time especially Apple was bad for this

You have to have the specialty cord for the iPhone

Well, I went from iPhone 4 to iPhone 5. It was

a different cord. I I had to get my hands on

one of the energizer ones It's the 3 -in -1 car

plug and USB cable it's got the the plug on it

for it covers like the the 3ds 2ds DSI DS whatever

all the different ones under one flag but uh

it just it just kind of boggles my mind that

for one they don't come with the cord when there's

no alternative way to charge them unless you

have the damn cord I think with the 2DS I gave

you I think I just needed the extra cable. Well,

no, I'm not I'm not busting your chops I'm just

saying like cuz they're saying the 3DS. Oh, yeah

does not come with one. Yeah Yeah, which I think

is kind of bullshit. That's that's what I was

more so getting it I wasn't I wasn't knocking

you I'm happy for the gift that was But um, I

was just knocking the fact that Nintendo is not

bundling the new one with the cord It's it's

almost like when you buy a printer you gotta

buy your own USB Yeah, I always found that kind

of funny which is why I'm not so mad at Nintendo

now full disclosure Nintendo did send me a review

unit, but I already had the cables anyway I see

it as you know what it's no different than buying

batteries for something at least it's gonna last

you a long ass time and I can see it as a cost

-cutting measure Because look at this way. Let's

say you don't you already have one, right? Mm

-hmm Why would you pay an extra 10, 20 bucks

when you don't need to? Well, I think what they

could do as an option is have like a bundled

edition, but you get a discount if you don't

need the cord. I think that may just come down

to retail packaging. Yeah. So I can see Nintendo's

point. I can see the consumer's point too. There's

a benefit either way. Picking your stance more.

So yeah, I just kind of funny but I kind of hope

Nintendo Doesn't miss the window of opportunity

with the new 3ds XL Because they need more games

and I'll take advantage of the hardware as soon

as possible if they really want to push it Because

I know with the the new C stick on it any games

that use the old circle pad Pro just have it

built in now, which is really cool for games

like Monster Hunter and Ocarina of Time and Majora's

Mask and whatnot. But I know the only game that's

taking advantage of the new stuff under the hood,

you know, Blade Chronicles, which I don't think

has an official release date yet. So I hope Nintendo

for E3 announces, oh, by the way, in September

we're releasing I don't know, a new Metroid for

the 3DS. I don't know or anything like that,

but I hope they don't let this kind of drop in

the water like they did with the Nintendo DSi.

It's a Nintendo DS with a camera. Because that

was the one hardware alliteration that made no

sense to me. It didn't offer anything different

and there were only a few games that took advantage

of the new hardware One was called photo dojo

Yeah, I think there's only five games that took

advantage of the camera nobody else did and I'm

hoping the Nintendo now that they can open up

more stuff to the developers Edge of it because

if it's true, it looks like the 3ds XL can run

we games more or less. You have got a whole new

possibility of really cool shit that could be

ported to this console. Speaking of Nintendo,

what do you guys think of the Netflix working

on a Legend of Zelda live -action series? I think

it could be really awesome if they get someone

who knows how to handle it right. According to

the art... The second link opens his mouth though.

According to the article Steve is here for moviepilot

.com Nintendo is said to be on board and writers

are being sought there isn't any more details

or much information but the fact that this is

in a very very very early processes of development

has has the writer pumped here it could be really

interesting I just I mean Netflix puts out some

really cool original programming but I'm just

wondering like You gotta look at it this way,

this is the first time in a long time that a

Nintendo property has had anything on television

or film. I mean, let's face it, Nintendo will

get scared if this doesn't do well. Actually,

I can counter -argue on that one. And those always

had Pokemon Okay. Well, yeah, but I'm talking

live -action adaptation the last Nintendo game

that I can remember was over 20 years ago and

Super Mario Brothers and No one except for probably

me actually likes that movie I like the visual

design of it. I think it looks like a really

fucked up Blade Runner You know and even in there

And when I say Nintendo gets scared, I'm not

talking about their... I mean, Pokemon, you know,

that's their license to print money when it comes

to that stuff. I'm talking about their core games,

their core franchises. There hasn't been a Mario

cartoon since Super Mario World ended in 1991

or 2002. I think there's been a few in Japan,

but I'm not sure. Well, here in... in north america

there hasn't been one since you know 20 you know

20 25 years ago at this point there was a donkey

kong animated i think in 96 97 yep it was 3d

cgi yeah that yeah donkey kong country but again

i'm actually surprised they've never tried to

adapt metroid like imagine that as like a 3g

as like Do you guys remember the cartoon Starship

Troopers that was like that 3D animated thing?

Metroid was that, you know how fucking awesome

that would have been? No way, I'm about to say

that's not a Nintendo property, never mind. Yeah,

the closest thing they came to Metroid was having

the world and Mother Brain and Captain and the

Game Master. That's the closest we've ever come.

It would be really neat. I mean if the Legend

of Zelda is successful in live -action if they

do it more as a standard swords and sorcery and

don't try and go for the whole Game of Thrones

crowd Because they want this to be more family

-friendly from what I from what I can tell Yeah,

if they take it seriously, it could be really

awesome because it's not like they don't have

money and if Nintendo believes in it, they'll

give them money But I like this a little less

risky. Like, give us a five -episode Metroid

mini -series done with really high -end CG graphics.

Get Jennifer Hale, the voice of Commander Shepard.

I think she did the voice of Samus, or am I thinking

of someone else in some of the other games. Get

the woman who did Metroid Prime. I can't think

of her name right now. I want to say it's Jennifer

Hale, but I'm probably wrong to go out and do

it. Or, you know what? It's some of their Fire

Emblem stuff, which is really successful over

in Japan. It's getting pretty popular over here

too. Give me an animated series. Or hell, do

you know how cool it could be if you took the

world of Nintendo, right? Or Smash Brothers into

a cartoon, a legit cartoon. I was thinking that

too. awesome that would be and get like all the

voice actors like here come on in for like a

couple weeks let's record all your dialogue and

the writers can have adventures set in the smash

world have master hand as the bad guy basically

take the storyline out of subspace emissary from

brawl and just have like a new bad guy for the

show Like seriously that like my god, you know

how many people would tune it you imagine the

toy licensing possibilities Like shit man Nintendo

jump on this crap fuck Zelda give me Smash Brothers

You can do it all at once exactly this way you

have everybody then you see who's popular and

who's not And then they can include Sonic and

Yeah, I mean and think about all the third parties

that would line up to have their characters in

this Like seriously that'd be so cool But I really

hope it's successful for Netflix and since it's

in the super early development I'm guessing we'll

see this in like four or five years I Don't know

it it didn't it didn't take them too long to

put out daredevil They're putting out Daredevil

in April. I guess that's true, yeah, but we know

Marvel hasn't had a stumble yet. True. Actually,

you know, somebody brought this up to me this

past week and I kind of agree with it. You realize

the whole comic book movie thing is only one

colossal failure away from the bubble bursting.

Really? Mm hmm. I mean, we just gotta wait for

somebody to not give a shit anymore. Yeah, I

mean just imagine what's gonna happen when the

MCU has its first bomb. And now that obviously

they've got Spider -Man, that's a little less

likely, but I still think they're banking a lot

on some of the unknown properties, like inhumans

for... And it's gonna be one of those that bombs

it, honestly. But then again, we all thought

that about Guardians. True. But I think that

the only reason that that didn't bomb is because

Well, not only that but the fact we haven't seen

a damn thing about it before Yeah, that's true

with We don't we don't have a freaking clue with

a lot of those other ones Whereas, you know you

get to the like the Avengers everybody's like

yeah, I know who they are You get to spider -man

usually you're like, yeah, I know who they are

And then, so you have this built -up expectation

ahead of time, so. Yeah, like I'm hoping, obviously,

the bubble doesn't burst for MCU, because I really

want to see what a Captain Marvel movie's gonna

look like. Although, weird rumor I heard this

week, they want Angelina Jolie to direct it.

Which, I don't know what she's done, so I can't

trust her abilities. As long as she's not acting

in it, I'm fine. I don't think we're looking

near it because every film she's been in like

she was in Maleficent which wasn't really that

bad, but it's just still it's Angelina Jolie.

She virtually plays the same person in every

movie. Yeah, she just wears a different costume.

It's like watching Nicolas Cage. She's only directed

five things. She directed a documentary in 2007

called A Place in Time. She directed In the Land

of Blood and Honey in 2011. Last year was Unbroken.

And she is currently in post -production for

By the Sea for this year. She's been announced

for Africa for next year. I don't know who I

want to direct this though. I want a really strong

female. to direct it. And there was the woman

who did the Hurt Locker, but then she went home

to do Twilight, so I don't know. Then again,

you can only work so much magic with what you're

given, so. That is true. I don't know who I'd

want to honestly see do it. So let me ask you

guys, what the Spider -Man news, or anyone other

than what they've... rumored, is there, who would

you want, since it's not gonna be Garfield anymore,

who would you want as the Marvel Peter Parker

Spiderman as an actor? I'd like to see them do

a take on Miles Morales. I think Donald Glover,

I think he's just a little too old for it now.

Yeah, I've seen that name popping up a lot and

I'm thinking, you know, you gotta get somebody

that's the right age to be able to sit there

and play this role for, you know, believably

and for the next, like, ten years, you know.

I mean, if it asked Donald Glover five years

ago, it might have been great, but I think that'd

be cool, but I think it would confuse a lot of

mainstream audiences. So I don't, I think they're

going to have to go with an unknown. Which might

be beneficial. Yeah. And just, you know, don't

retell the same origin story. Give us five minutes

of flashbacks. There you go. And just don't misuse

it. And I wonder what's going to happen with

the Sony stuff because they are still moving

forward with Sinister Six and whatnot. Does anybody

really care anymore? See, I'd rather see them

adapt like Venom and Carnage, get Venom's own

movie. See, that's a bad guy I give a shit about.

Do I give a shit about Electro and Doc Ock and

the Vulture? No. Good Venom and Carnage. Although

they're although now that the spider -man universe

and Marvel now play nicey -nice together potentially

see shit in Guardians their references the like

Symbian yeah, like think how cool that would

be I mean get like agent venom in like a random

cameo or something Like I don't know there. There's

so much more possibilities now for MCU for including

awesome bad guys but I don't know it'll be Interesting

to see how it all pans out cuz spider -man for

all intents and purposes is a street level hero

like daredevil Like he's a guy who's not gonna

take on the fucking red skull or doctor doom

on a regular basis He's gonna play assist he's

not gonna be the lead exactly. He's not gonna

be you know your main guy so I like the possibilities

to what it opens, but it's a trump card you can't

play often. You gotta use it right. And this

next Spider -Man movie that comes out in 2017

has to do a lot to wash the taste out of our

mouths of the last two. Because honestly, I liked

Amazing Spider -Man 1. 2 had moments, but on

the whole it sucked. Yeah, I had to agree with

you. I just... Emma Stone was the best part of

that movie. She was the only reason that that

movie was watchable. Honestly. Jamie Vaux was

a terrible choice to play Electra. I don't know

if it was a terrible choice. I think the way

that they were interpreting the character. Yeah.

Before the film I think was just stupid. I don't

think that it was him I think you know as you

mentioned before it's what they're given to work

with and if they're given shit That's what's

gonna come out It's like it's like watching the

Green Lantern movie Which I throw on there for

Blanchard's amusement Yeah, he did a shitty job

because the movie was shitty Although, you know...

He's gonna be great in Daredevil, though. Or

not Daredevil, uh... Deadpool. Deadpool. Oh,

yeah. Especially today he teased the prototype

of the mask. That's pretty cool. I'm looking

forward to it. I think, what, Deadpool comes

out, what, next year or something? Yeah. Wow.

So they better get fucking cracking. I'm freaking

geeked for that. I heard that it's got a low

budget, too, so... Actually, I had this thought...

the other day because they're talking about developing

an x -men series for tv we talked about this

last week i think and you guys um blanche do

you follow wrestling still right yeah okay you

know who Naomi is yeah i don't i don't think

she'd make a bad storm in the 80s style i was

thinking about that the other day because she's

got the physicality if she wants to pull it off

Yeah, she does, but I'm not sure if If WWE would

go for that. I don't know considering how well

Batista went over as Drax It would bring a lot

of positive influence to their kind of divas

division Just a thought I was I was just kind

of thinking about that the other day because

she wore this this outfit on NXT or some bullshit

I was watching it I'm thinking, Jesus Christ,

you look like Storm out of the 80s. You just

need the mohawk. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

That's what I'm saying. That's what I think that

WWE will not go for is, I mean, unless she's

going to wear a bald cap, I don't think they're

going to go for her having a mohawk. But still,

it would be cool. And I'd love to see her get

more mainstream opportunities because almost

every other diva sucks. Or at least in terms

of how they fight. At least Naomi, I believe,

is, you know, legit. My wife is thrusting at

me. I think of more to really kind of talk about

the whole superhero thing. I know Bryan Singer

is kind of teasing some locations for Apocalypse

this week. Well, I also heard that they may have

Professor X and Wolverine team up in a movie.

That makes sense to me, although what's the next

big Wolverine star to be told? But even then,

that's an alternate future. I have it in the

team up Patrick Stewart with Wolverine, and I'm

kind of trying to wonder how. They're they're

saying that it would be a different accent type

of X -Men movie But I don't I don't think that

they have any clue what they're trying to tell

Yeah, because I like I'm trying to think what

stories like what big ones are left to tell Then

again, I don't know Wolverine's history all that

well, so someone's probably yelling at the screen

right now Well history means squat as far as

the movies are concerned only because they don't

follow the original thing anyway in the x -men

universe if If Jackman is only Contracted for

one or two more movies And I know Steve hates

this, and I hate this too, when they split movies

up into part one and part two. But they could

do a two -part version of the Death of Wolverine

storyline that just happened. And actually, because

Jackman is... I don't know. Getting older. That's

not a bad idea, actually. Give him a nice send

-off? Yeah. That'd be really friggin' cool, actually.

Or, as a villain, set it up to fight Omega Red.

tie that into it maybe give them like a bunch

of guys that are obviously actually you know

what yeah if you adapted the death of wolverine

that could be really sweet actually that could

be really freaking sick if handled right and

then although i know this will never happen because

there's no way in hell all three companies will

decide to work together but you could then have

because wolverine is dead you could have spider

-man and the x -men I would love to see all the

studios play nice, and I wonder if Fox will think

about it if they see the MCU Sony deal going

well. I mean, even if it cost them a boatload

of money, it's going to make everybody more money

in the end. There's no reason for them not to

do it. Especially when it's Marvel's property

to begin with. Whoever may own the film rights

or not, it's... They're still Marvel's. Well,

and as far as I know, Marvel's being kind of

childish by downplaying mutants in the Fantastic

Four right now in their books, which is, I think,

kind of stupid. Well, I think they're doing it

to choke out the other companies to try and get

their shit back. Well, yeah, and honestly...

But I honestly think it's because I don't think

it's Marvel. I think it's Disney. I mean, I know

they're the same thing, but it's still none of

this shit happened until Disney took over. Yeah.

I mean, honestly, I wish everyone could just

come together, have a couple of drinks and come

to some kind of an agreement. Because ultimately,

they're doing it for us and their pocketbooks.

But if they make us happy, they get richer. So

why would you not? Watch what you're gonna see

happen is a fantastic for and and x -men and

all those are gonna end up getting sent over

to DC Although you know what I will say I'm somewhat

optimistic for the new fantastic somewhat I Don't

know it looks different than anything. I would

have expected I'll give it a chance I hope it

don't suck Don't care either way because I probably

it's not one that I I'm actually gonna go see

in the theater But it's I'm more interested in

the Fantastic Four's villains than I am the team

itself Like Galactus, Annihilus Honestly, even

the mole man Stuff like that. I don't remember

the trailer too much because I just kind of wasn't

bad Well, it was actually it was actually quite

entertaining. It was like Interstellar meets

the Fantastic Four Did they actually show Galactus

or was it just a giant cloud again? No, they

showed this pillar of light. Which is supposed

to be how they got their powers. Yeah, it's something,

my guess is the villain will be Annihilus or

something like that. That's my guess because

it looks like this movie takes place in the negative

zone. Or parts of it anyway. I don't know. I

still, I don't care what anyone says. I still

enjoy the original two films only because...

I like the cast, but I don't like the storyline.

Yeah, that's it. That's my point. You know, once

Michael Chiklis became Ben Grimm and Chris Evans

became Johnny Storm, that was it. Those two characters

bouncing off of each other was amazing as far

as the comedy aspect of those characters. They

hit the nail on the head. I just had this thought,

okay. J .K. Simmons is to J. Jonah Jameson, as

Michael Chiklis is to The Thing. You should bring

back The Thing in the new fantasy. Obviously,

it's already been shot and it's in the can. To

me, that's always going to be The Thing, is Michael

Chiklis. Everybody else, completely replaceable.

But the chemistry between Chris Evans and Michael

Chiklis was pretty priceless, though. Absolutely.

But Chris Evans is Captain America now. Well,

yeah. And he's a much better Cap than he was

on Human Torch. Exactly. Oh, you guys... You

guys haven't... Well, Steve, you saw it this

week, didn't you? Saw what? Flash. Yeah, I watched

that. Right after they made this comment, I'm

like, uh -oh, Marvel's going to sue DC because...

They used the flame online and I was like, oh

my god, I can't believe they pulled that off.

Yeah, Marvel can't sue them. No, I know. It'd

have to be. Have you guys been watching Agent

Carter? Yeah, kinda. What do you think of it?

I like it better than Agents of S .H .I .E .L

.D. I'm sad that it's only a... I think it's

paid better. Yeah, and because it's... focused

on one central character and everything that

happens around her, not an entire team of nobodies.

Except for Phil. That's the only one he gives

shit about. Mike doesn't recognize him because

he died in Avengers so he thinks he doesn't exist.

It just it boggles I Understand people I listeners

I understand people come back to life in comics

all the time with the exception of the Waynes

and Uncle Ben unless you're in an alternate universe,

but I Just feel with them bringing Coulson back

It takes away the emotional impact it had of

killing him in the Avengers Maybe they'll address

that in the age of Ultron Or maybe they'll turn

on Nick Fury saying, oh, you motherfuckers. Maybe.

I don't know. But no, Agent Carter, I'm liking

it. I find it really hard to believe that Jarvis

was once an actual person, but I like how he

is being portrayed on the show. Yeah, honestly,

the chemistry in that show is great. I mean,

I like everybody who's in that show. Even Chad

Michael Murray, I think he's really kind of grown

up a fair bit. since his One Tree Hill days.

Oh absolutely. The coolest thing for me in the

beginning of Agent Carter was the the whole voice

box man. I thought that was amazing effects.

One of the things I like about this show, and

it's subtle, is I like the music in it. It suits

every little, it suits everywhere. If anything

Marvel nails atmosphere right. Oh absolutely.

You know you're watching a Marvel product when

you're watching something. Even Agents of S .H

.I .E .L .D. on its worst night, you know what's

in the MCU. That's something very few shows,

I think, ever accomplish when they're part of

a franchise. I'd say Flash and Arrow, they're

pretty consistent too. Not as consistent. I would

say Gotham is not as consistent like you could

have in a Batman, because honestly, you take

a few words out here and there, you never know.

There's not a lot to Gotham when it comes to

music flash and arrow I believe both series are

composed by Blake Neely I had written reviews

for both season one and season two soundtracks

of arrow I cannot wait until we get a release

for flash For a soundtrack to see what the music

sounds like outside of the show, but it really

really works I'm trying to see here who is on

the It's Christopher Lamins or Lenin's on Agent

Carter for Leonard's for composing on the music

for that one. What is SHIELD? What is SHIELD?

Yeah, because SHIELD does have some really good

stings every now and again. Like they've got

some really good sound design on that show. Depending

on what part of the show it's in. Yeah. Yeah,

yeah shield has some good music I'll say that

for it because it's bare McCreery of all people

who compose and his stuff, you know, it's him.

Yeah Absolutely, like I love all his stuff on

the walking dead. I love the battle star galactica

stuff. He did Mm -hmm. The guy that's on agent

Carter Christopher Leonard's he's done Dr. Do

little three. I don't know why but shark bait

uh... the comebacks the perfect holiday alvin

and the chipmunks uh... meet the spartans so

he's moving on up in the world since okay in

the last five years he's done uh... horrible

bosses to think like a man to ride along uh...

let's see identity thief give me shelter The

first horrible bosses, I mean he's done some

pretty cool and interesting stuff, but it's no

Bear McCreary. Yeah. I mean, this guy is doing

stuff to keep the lights on. At least Bear, he

can pick and choose his projects whenever the

hell he feels like it. And I think, and I really

have a problem with the television shows of today

as far as the intros. Unless it's a comma and

some sometimes even the comedies do this but

like shows like agent Carter agents of shield

Gotham flash arrow They would rather have well

flashing arrows specifically. They have a voiceover

and some music behind it Don't get me wrong.

I love just the way stuff is now and I understand

that but I just wish that they're like it like

if you're gonna open a show like like say flash

is gonna open with a not necessarily a previously

on but like here's a prologue of something that

happened now and then you open the show oh 24

hours before that or something like that I just

wish there was an actual you know theme that

we could hear without a voiceover in the show

first or you could do like what supernatural

didn't completely just do away with it they just

got that quick five second like electro shock

lightning you know beginning and then it's it's

to the episode I guess they're trying to cram

more story into as much time as they can. Like,

for example, I kind of think of Smallville had

that minute and a half intro. Like, if that's

a minute and a half, you could do more with.

Yeah. I will say that for all the lack of music

that's in Gotham, they play the beginning scene

of each episode. They transition it well from

when that scene ends to when the little like

three seconds of Gotham music comes up, when

the title thing comes up. They do that really

well. But again, it's only like a three second

beat. There's a guy, I know he does video game

music, and I know he's done movies too. You should

check him out. I'm pretty sure you've talked

about him before, but his name's Tyler Bates.

The main reason I know him is because he did

the music for Assassin's Creed 4 Black Flag.

I know, I think he did, that's some pretty big

Hollywood stuff in the last couple years. Just

thought I'd rarely toss that out there if we're

talking about composers and shit. I can't wait

to hear what Brian Tyler has for Ultron. I cannot

wait for that soundtrack. That's gonna be pretty

legit. Your Tyler Bates guy has done stuff like...

Half Past Dead in 2002, Dawn of the Dead, You

Got Served, See No Evil 300, Halloween from 2007,

Watchmen, Halloween 2, Movie 43, why? You know

what? Parts of that movie are really funny, but

the rest of it is just utterly stupid. He did

the - apparently he did the composing on Guardians.

Yeah, yeah, that's that's where I recognized

them again from recently. Yeah That's another

than two guardians too. I'm really looking forward

to seeing well license soundtrack Comes out of

that one. Mm -hmm. Why is the subject for guardians

is in our car constantly playing? That's how

like that's track is phenomenal. Oh, wow. This

guy did war for Cybertron soundtrack, huh? Interesting

So, getting into the last part of the show since

that's gone on a bit. Since we're on tangent

number 15 now. Yeah. Last week we had to answer

some questions about what are some non -public

comics, non -mainstream comics, that's what it

was. Are people reading? Dan? movie revolt said

some of his favorites are east of west deadly

class and southern bastards some of his other

ones are saga great book suicide risk irredeemable

and then had the the superhero kind of pitting

against each other kind of thing and then he

had the superman what would happen if Superman

went evil and Lex Luthor was the only person

who could stop him. Frazer says, I like a lot

of Valiant comic stuff like Quantum and Woody,

Exo, Man of War and the Valiant. Brian says,

one of his favorite Dark Horse books is Mind

Management. Brad says, The best comic right now,

hands down, that also is not from DC or Marvel

is Saga, which seems to be a pretty popular one,

so much so that it was in the GCR and awards.

I can't recall for the life of me which one won,

so even then, I still can be unbiased. You said,

Mike, that you have yet to see Saga, but you're

burnt out on Snyder. Yeah, it seems to be the

one that everybody's like all like Happy with

although they he everybody says, you know, well,

I don't I don't think saga is doing I don't I

don't think Snyder is on saga Snell is on witches.

That's yeah Well, he's doing witches and the

American vampire stuff. I think I said in the

comments that I would Like to check out saga

at some point But that's when I said, as far

as Snyder goes, I just don't know. Yeah, I was

done after. That's why I quit reading comics,

actually. He pretty much for me personally, Scott

Snyder peaked at the end of Court of Vowels because

Death of the Family was anticlimactic. Zero years,

the worst Batman origin ever told. And. Because

and I know people are sick of me hearing that

they're sick of me saying this Batman eternal

has to end before I can read issues 35 to 40

of the actual Batman title because it takes place

after the weekly ends Other ones I listed that

are not DC or Marvel cowl from image Sex criminals

from image the IDW TMNT stuff You know stuff

like that and and like I said at the beginning

of the show You know, I'm finally getting into

Marvel and it's all because of Star Wars So,

yeah So no comments other than those I Have a

cool question that I think will bring something

new what video game Do we answer this now? Mass

Effect, without a doubt, Mass Effect. If you

could somehow translate that into a movie or

a really good live -action series Fuck yeah,

I would say skip the movie route because there's

so much influx of like either Well, I mean just

there's already so much geek stuff in film Then

I think it's just kind of overkill I think you

know it's kind of like how well agent Carter

and in you know flash and arrow and those kind

of shows are doing on TV, whereas if they were

on film, I don't think it would keep as much

buzz. Oh, okay. I've got something for you. It's

not necessarily a video game, but it's a game.

I'd like to see them, because the successive

Game of Thrones, I'd like to see someone take

a serious stab at doing Dungeons and Dragons.

Pick a setting like Forgotten Realms or Ravenloft

or whatever. and really flesh it out. Like, maybe

adapt the Dragonlance novels or something. Like,

go back to the beginning and show me the War

of the Lands or something like that. Or, alternatively,

they tried this kind of in the 90s. There was

a series called Kindred the Embraced which was

about Vampire the Masquerade. how hot vampires

and supernatural shit is still these days. Give

me The World of Darkness, give me Werewolf the

Apocalypse, give me Hunter the Reckoning, Mage

the Ascension, basically bring together all the

World of Darkness characters, give me a cool

TV show out of that. Or Call of Cthulhu. I'd

love to see that done right because Lovecraftian

horror is so hard to do. And if you gave it to

the right cable network, you could get away with

the really disturbing shit. You have something

really friggin' awesome on your hands there,

so. My choice is to be Mass Effect, Dungeons

& Dragons, and World of Darkness. For me... Honestly,

I'd like to see a... 13 or 15 episode season.

of them adapting one episode per game, adapting

the Need for Speed franchise. So basically, each

episode would be an adaptation of whatever game.

So let's say we start with... Those games have

storylines? I'm not saying that to be insulting,

I'm just genuinely surprised. Okay, so you can

start with, let's say, the 2005 most wanted.

That had a general storyline, it had characters,

it had voice actors, it had all that stuff. I

don't know, I just think that would be kind of

cool to see a different type of... If you're

going to create a show about race cars or speedsters

or doing that kind of thing, instead of making...

That's not a bad idea actually. Instead of making...

Don't get me wrong, I love the franchise. Instead

of making nine more Fast and the Furious movies,

why not go to Need for Speed? If you think about

it, Mike, you look at Need for Speed, like they

had, what was it? Crap. Underground. They had

Underground, then they had, was it Pro Street,

then they had Underground 2, so each episode

would be an adaptation of each one of those games,

and it would only be a... Without commercials,

42 -minute episode with commercials is an hour

-long thing. And it would be an adaptation of

each game, and I think it would be pretty cool.

You just gave me a wicked idea for a long -running

series, actually. Use Grand Theft Auto. And you

could do it like Breaking Bad. It just has to

be a crime story. Crazy shit happening. I can

almost see that happening. Think about how close

Breaking Bad is to a Grand Theft Auto game. Think

about that. Walter White is, in essence, a playable

character. Well, he'd just be the announcer on

the radio. Especially if you can get Laszlo to

guest voice on the radio. That'd be so cool.

And if you could bring in past characters from

past games, like if you could get Ray Liotta

for an episode, hey, Tommy Versetti. Something

like that, or Nico Bellac shows up. Yep, that

would be awesome. Oh my fucking God, that would

be such a cool series. Set it in Liberty City

and just have it be like an anthology series

and eventually it picks a character and follows

them through it. That would be pretty cool. fucking

AMC jump on this shit. You would have the coolest

licensed soundtrack of all time because people

would be jumping on each other's dicks to get

on the soundtrack for this show. Because every

Grand Theft Auto game, nine times out of ten,

has an amazing soundtrack. Once again, license

to print money. If you can make Grand Theft Auto

on TV, not be stupid. Honestly, I just want to

see Trevor Phillips on screen So I think that's

it yeah pretty much I was gonna talk about horror

movies because it's Friday the 13th today But

maybe I'll do that next week Yeah, we could do

that so Anything else that you guys a little

like to pimp out before we close out? I'm recording

a new movie madness with Dave and roblox this

weekend are they not talking about the Friday

the 13th movies I'm also I think we're recording

new beyond the gauntlets this weekend, too I'm

not quite sure what we're talking about just

yet because it's all going to depend on whether

we'll see because we're in the middle of a wicked

cold snap right now, so So were we. Brutal, man.

It's weird. It's like an Arctic low from Siberia.

So just fuck. Send it back. Yeah. Go home. Don't

want you. No Camperende rushing or whatever.

Yeah, I'm good. So speaking of horror, kind of

a dig that I saw in there. They hired the Saw

writers to recalibrate Halloween. Whatever the

hell that's supposed to mean. See, now supposedly

they want to go back to the traditional slasher

type instead of something bat shit insane as

the Rob Zombie take on it. I don't know, man.

I think that's a franchise that needs to go to

sleep for like ten years. I'd rather have a sequel

to the 2009 Friday the 13th and have it done

right as opposed to have a new haul. I don't

give a shit about Michael Myers. I give a bigger

shit about Jason Voorhees. Or somehow find a

way to make Nightmare on Elm Street 2 not suck.

Although, if they're gonna remake Nightmare 2,

I fully expect the same amount of homoeroticism

as I got in the original. 2015. So with those

balls in your mouth, we'll close out the show.

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