BTAS – A Legacy Of Voices Remembered!!!

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Hello. Hello. Yes, and we are covering Legends

of the Dark Knight, Batman the Animated Series,

A Legacy Remembered. So I had this idea last

year when it was going to be a year since Kevin

Conroy passed away. And in that time, at the

end of last year, unfortunately, we lost Arlene

Sorkin, voice of Harley Quinn, Richard Maul,

voice of Two -Face, and Treat Williams, voice

of Dr. Achilles Milo. Now, no one's really going

to remember that character because Dr. Achilles

Milo, as it turns out, was only in one of the

worst episodes of the series. Which is... He's

in the... The Tiger Tiger episode. I'm like looking

at every single DCAU wiki page I can look at

to find where this character appears. Because

like Dr. Milo, whatever the other, not Hugo Strange,

but there's another Dr. Milo that shows up in

Justice League. And I'm like, is it that? No,

it's not that guy. But Treat Williams, all of

these actors and actresses, I was really surprised.

I know we've lost a lot of people, but. So in

the document that we have, folks, I have under

the episode topic, BTS actors and actresses that

have passed away. Now, the article that I linked

there actually says ones you didn't probably

know that have passed away. But because we are

who we are here at the Geekast Radio Network

and we love Batman the Animated Series, we usually

keep up on this stuff. So. I was really surprised

that, including Shirley Walker, who was the main

composer for the series, for all the music and

everything else, 22 voice actors slash actresses,

plus Shirley, 23 people have passed away. That

sucks. That is. And we're not here to just bring

the depression down. We're here to celebrate

them. That's the point. A legacy remembered is,

oh, my God, all of these people. So the 23 names

that I have here, I just mentioned Shirley Walker,

and we'll talk about her a little bit later,

but Roddy McDowell voiced the Mad Hatter, Joseph

Mayer voiced Dr. Dorian, which Dr. Dorian was,

oh, what episode was that in? It was one of the

one -off episodes. Mary Kay Bergman was one of

the three voices of Batgirl from that series,

because Melissa Gilbert did it first, Mary Kay

did it again, or did it the second time, and

then Tara Strong took over. Brock Peters was

the voice of Lucius Fox. John Vernon was the

voice of Rupert Thorne. Steve Suskind was voiced.

He voiced Maxie Zeus from the Mount Olympus episode,

I believe. Oh, yeah, I remember that one. I mentioned

Shirley already. Lloyd Bauchner voiced Mayor

Hamilton Hill. Mayor Hill getting in trouble

with the Joker. That's right. Yep, yep. Michael

Pataki voiced the Sewer King, which I had to

look that character up, and I'm like, oh, right,

The Underdwellers, an episode that I barely remember.

Because it was irrelevant. It wasn't really irrelevant.

Okay, fine, it was, but it was just one of those,

one of the few out of the however many 85, 90

episodes the show had, just bad. I threw a rock

at him. Aaron Kincaid voiced Killer Croc. George

Murdoch voiced Boss Biggus from the Forgotten

episode, because the Forgotten... The only reason

why I give the Forgotten a kind of pass is the

music in that was amazing, but that's the episode

where Bruce gets hit on the head or he gets knocked

out or whatever, and he loses his memory, forgets

who he is, ends up in the middle of a desert

with this fat guy named Boss Biggus. Just, you

know, having people do manual labor, blah, blah,

blah. That's the episode where Alfred gets to

fly the Batwing by himself. And the Batwing computer's

like, you're not doing this right. Shut up. Uh

-huh, uh -huh. Michael and Sarah voiced Mr. Freeze.

Henry Pollack II voiced Dr. Jonathan Crane, a

.k .a. the Scarecrow. Bob Hastings was Commissioner

Gordon. Ephraim Simbliss Jr., who needs no introduction,

but he voiced Alfred Pennyworth. Guest starring,

the man who kind of started Batman on TV completely,

back in the 60s, Mr. Adam West, obviously voiced

the Grey Ghost slash Simon Trent in Beach AS.

Ed Asner, who died in 21, voiced Roland Daggett.

Henry Silva voiced Bane. David Warner voiced

Ra's al Ghul. And yes, folks, it is Ra's. I don't

care what anyone says. It's Ra's. I know. This

show made that, like, legendary. Yeah. Because

it sounds so stupid. Ra's al Ghul. Ra's or Raz

or Razmataz. Razmataz al Ghul. No, yeah, no,

no. Yeah, we don't do that. No, no, no. Ra's

al Ghul. The man, the myth, the legend, the main

voice of the character himself, Mr. Kevin Conroy

as Batman, Arlene Sorkin as Harley, Richard Maul

as Two -Face, and like I said, Treat Williams

as Dr. Milo from the Tiger Tiger episode. And

I just want to celebrate these... That's what

this episode is, folks. I just want to celebrate

these people. When I heard about the deaths last

year, when I heard about... Richard Maul's death,

specifically, when I heard about that, I was

like, that's when this came up. I was like, holy

crap. How many people from BTAS are not with

us anymore? And a list of 23 people is just shocking

to me. But yeah, we're going to go through these.

Not really, we're not going to go through all

of their stuff. We're going to go through some

of it. But I do want to start with Roddy McDowell,

who voiced the Mad Hatter, because I am going

to use the IMDb links that I've provided for

us, because it's just easier for me. But, yeah,

I mean, he's had such a really, he had such a

really great career. And a lot of these actors,

they've done endless things beyond voice acting.

All of them are all over the place. Oh, yeah,

it's insane, like, the amount of stuff that these

guys have done. Mm -hmm. Yep, absolutely. Oh,

wait a minute. Was he really? Oh, wow. Oh, that's

probably why he ended up being the Mad Hatter.

He was the bookworm in the 66 Batman series for

two episodes. Wow. I did not know that. But.

This show, folks, Batman the Animated Series

and the rest of the DCAU, it just goes to show

you that Andrea Romano and everybody at the show,

they got, like, the cat's pajamas when it comes

to actors and actresses for these voices. I don't

remember, like, I remember Melissa Gilbert and

I remember obviously Tara Strong the most. Out

of the three Batgirls. But Mary Kay Bergman,

just looking at her stuff, let's see. She was

in South Park, Bigger, Longer, and Uncut. She

was in Hercules. She was in The Hunchback of

Notre Dame as Quasimodo's mother. She was a couple

of characters in Johnny Bravo. She was in Rugrats.

She was the voice of... Wow, I did not... I need

to go back and watch her Batgirl episode again

because I did not notice this. She's the voice

of Gwen Stacy in Spider -Man the Animated Series.

And Gwen was only in one episode. Gwen was in

the Spider -Wars Chapter 2 Farewell Spider -Man

because Gwen Stacy in that show was on the alternate

Earth. thing. Let's see. Brock Peters as Lucius

Fox. It just makes me smile and marvel at all

of the actors that this show had and just everything

I get to discover. That's interesting. I think

we're both old enough to remember storybook CDs

and stuff, like storybook cassette type things

from back in the day. Oh, yeah. Brock Peters

was probably one of the only times James Earl

Jones was not the voice of Darth Vader. He was

the voice, Brock Peters, who voiced Lucius Fox

in Batman the Animated Series. He was the voice

of Darth Vader in The Empire Strikes Back read

-along storybook and CD in 1997. Must have been

part of George's whatever with the special editions.

Who knows? I don't know. But, I mean, just the

legacy this show has, the legacy these people

have, and just, man, I just absolutely, absolutely

love all of these actors and actresses. What

else is Brock in? He was in Adventures of Huckleberry

Finn. He was, oh, so, okay. That's, I guess he

was the radio cassette guy for Darth Vader because

he also voiced him in the Empire Strikes Back,

the original radio drama, as well as the Star

Wars original radio drama from 81 and 83, respectively.

That's interesting. So, yup. Let's see here.

The interesting thing about voice acting, folks,

is you see the animated character, you hear the

voice. You don't see the person behind that because

it's a cartoon. I always liked the voice of Mayor

Hamilton Hill and Lloyd Bauchner. I was like,

this is one of the reasons why we're doing this.

Again, like I said, it's for me more so to...

to do research on these people to figure out

what, not figure out, but to see what else they've

been in to see if there's anything else that

I'm missing in my life when it comes to movies

and TV and whatever. And he was in, a lot of

these voice actors who went on to be really famous

voice actors, most of them ended up being, you

know, they started at like those. Every person,

actors, where they're in everything, like you're

in four episodes of this, you're in five episodes

of that. He was Cecil Colby for 27 episodes in

Dynasty from 1981 to 82. He was in The A -Team

for an episode. He was in The Love Boat for two

episodes. It's just one of those things, and

just Mayor Hill, I just always love that voice.

Yeah, he was he was pretty phenomenal and phenomenal.

Speak English, Steve. It's just kind of in everything

he was in. I mean, it. Yeah, absolutely. You

know, I think Batman, the animated series is

the only place. And again, this is like I've

already said multiple times why I wanted to do

this to look at these people's filmography here.

It's the only place I think I've ever seen or

heard Michael and Sarah, who was the voice of

Mr. Freeze. He does really well in that, to be

honest. Yeah, no. Not only did the story for

Heart of Ice define the character going forward,

the voice was amazing. And most of these actors,

folks, I mean, Michael and Sarah, his debut was...

I'm still scrolling. His debut was 1944 in Action

in Arabia. He played an uncredited role named

Hamid. I'm pretty much only starting in the 80s

when I was born in the 80s. Steve was born in

86. I mean, I'm looking back at some of the earlier

stuff as well, but not as much. uh if i get past

1974 or earlier than 74 it's like i may not recognize

this stuff but just yeah he was in one episode

of chips he was in five episodes of romance theater

he was in 63 oh oh that's right he played general

warhawk in the rambo animated series from 1986

for 63 episodes How that show, how Rambo got

63 episodes is beyond me. Of course, it was the

80s and syndication. Any other names that jump

out at you that you want to talk about? Yeah,

I mean, aside from Michael and Sarah and Mary

Kay Bergman, who like obviously Adam West. Yeah.

The de facto Batman before Keaton and Conroy.

Yeah. Ed Asner. as Daggett yeah well I mean just

in everything I mean oh yeah no no I remember

him I mean he was in Up he was in uh I mean he's

still posthumously uh in shows even this year

which is crazy like uh but he he also was um

is Cosgrove and uh Freakazoid yup Which is one

of the main places I remember him from. Yeah.

Ed Asner has one of those voices that you just

know immediately. He's just one of those. He

was always one of those actors. He always had

one of those voices that as soon as you heard

it, you're like, yep, that's Ed Asner, no matter

what character he was playing. Oh, yeah, for

sure. I find it absolutely hilarious that one

of the... One of Batman's biggest villains would

go on to be one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'

biggest allies in The Secret of the Ooze, David

Warner as Professor Jordan Perry. Well, funny

enough, he played the Lobe in Freakazoid. He

played him again in Teen Titans Go. Nice. He

also was in... I haven't seen Torchwood. I know

he's in that. And so it was like John Delancey

and people like that. Uh, he's been like a narrator

in some of the podcasted doctor who stuff. Uh,

he's been in, he was in Tron. Yeah. Edward Dellen

jury up. That's pretty much his, that's the breakout

for me when it comes to his stuff is, is that

role? Well, for me, Aside from TMNT, Secrets

of the Ooze, he was in the Men in Black TV cartoon

series as Alpha. That's right, he was, yeah.

He was in Star Trek under numerous occasions.

He was in Star Trek V, The Final Frontier. Nice.

As a Federation ambassador that was sent out

to Nimbus III. Trying to figure out what year

that was. Star Trek V was, oh boy, 1989. He was

John Talbot, Federation ambassador. There you

go. And then he was in Star Trek VI, The Undiscovered

Country, which came out after Secrets of the

Ooze. And he was Chancellor Gorkon, a Klingon.

And then what's funny is he was in Star Trek

The Next Generation as a Cardassian named Gol

Madred who was the one in a two -parter episode

that basically that's where the there are four

lights meme comes from is because he was trying

to strip Picard of his humanity and his sanity

to make him basically his mental slave and he

would turn on five lights and Picard would be

like there are four lights and he's like wrong

and would just like torture him and yeah so that

was the last time he was in Star Trek but yeah

he played memorable characters in each yep He

is, I think, out of everybody on this list, and

I'm pretty sure, yeah, I'm pretty sure, he's

the only person, to my knowledge, that I can

remember, and we'll find out by going through

some of these others, but he is the one person

that I remember. Ra's al Ghul from Batman the

Animated Series, and then two years later, he

plays Jor -El in Lois and Clark. He played Superman's

father in 1994. He was in Babylon 5 for a role.

He was in Biker Mice from Mars as Icebreaker

for one episode. He was in Gargoyles. He was

in Iron Man. The dude was in everything. He's

in everything, yeah. I mean, he really, really

was. Yeah, David Warner, always loved that guy.

Oh, that was the other guy. It's Batman, Superman,

and Spider -Man, I believe, because he was Doctor...

Who the heck was he? Is it him? I could have

sworn it was. Why isn't that listed here? Come

on, IMDb, do your job. Did I not scroll up for

him? Yeah, there he is. He was Herbert Landon

in The Red Skull. It was in 95 to 97 for 13 episodes

in Spider -Man the Animated Series. I knew I

was forgetting something. And he was Spicer Lovejoy

in the three -hour craptastic epic Titanic from

1997. But yeah, I love, love David Warner. He

was always such a great, great actor. Amazing,

amazing stuff. From 2016 to 2022, right before

he passed, he was in 20 episodes of Doctor Who,

The New Adventures of Bernie Summerfield. Oh,

that's the podcast series. Okay, I thought that

was the actual television show, but either way.

We haven't talked it to death, but we did a whole

other special where my buddy Jesse Raz joined

us where we gave tribute to Kevin Conroy, and

I'm not trying to take away from Kevin and his

memory at all, but, I mean, Kevin Conroy is Kevin

the GD Batman. Like, we can go through it, but,

like, I'll look at this, and I want to see if

there's things that I don't know that he did.

Because we know a lot that he did. This is Kevin

Conroy, and I am the goddamn Batman. And thankfully,

Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League is not

going to be his last. Nope. Thank God. Nope.

Crisis on Infinite Earths Part 3. 3. Yep. Yep,

yep, yep. Uh, now... I don't know how you feel

about it, and it was only one episode. I need

to go back and watch it. There was the CGI He

-Man in the Masters of the Universe on Netflix.

I did not know he voiced Hardak. I did not either.

Wow, Hordak, not Hardak, Hordak. So I might have

to go back and watch that just to see how he

voiced that character. So there's one thing I

didn't know about the guy. Yeah, I had no idea

he did that either. Yep. He was in a video game

as Old Man Bill. He was in Multiverses, which

that video game, I guess, is slated to come out

soon -ish. Really? Yeah. It says 2022, but that

was in Alpha. Or a Beta or something. It's slated

to come out next month. Yeah, the main release.

Got it, got it. The one place where I... knew

he was going to be, but I did not know how they

were going to, like, have him be Batman, is Justice

League Action. That is a severely underrated

series. And... He's actually really good in that.

I mean, he's great in everything, but, like,

there's some lines that they have him say in

that that I'm just, like... Huh? There's a whole

scene, and I absolutely love this. There's a

whole scene where it's him and Superman, and

they're going after Deadshot. Superman is voiced

by George Newbern, again, so George is reprising

when he was Superman in Justice League and Justice

League Unlimited. You got Kevin as Batman, and

then you got, oh, oh God, Christian Slater as

Deadshot. They end up in the interrogation room,

and Superman tries to be like Bat... Like, Superman

tries not to be himself, tries not to be the

Boy Scout. He tries to be a hard -ass like Batman.

And it's just... It's such a hilarious scene.

And in this scene, Batman, voiced by Kevin Conroy,

the subtlety in this... Like, he just kind of

takes on the whole Bat and the whole... I am

vengeance. I am the night. I am always in the

shadow. He just, like, pops up. Here, coffee.

Ah, get that away from me. Donut? Chocolate is

good. Like, oh, my God. The whole freaking scene.

I absolutely love it. And I'm sure people will

hear it in here in the podcast somewhere because

I know I'm going to put it in somewhere. But,

yeah, I want to eventually go back and look at

Justice League action again because I feel that

show is severely underrated. No, I agree with

you. Yeah. Uh, he was... This really kind of

makes me want to go buy a Viewmaster. He was

Batman animated VR in Viewmaster. I kind of want

to go get... I kind of want to see that. Obviously,

he reprised in multiple Batman projects over

the years. The Killing Joke, Arkham Knight, the

three video games, Arkham Knight, Arkham City,

Arkham Origins, Arkham whatever. And he's done

Batman and a bunch of other things as well. Obviously,

Old Man Bruce and Batman Beyond opposite Will

Friedle as Terry McGinnis. You know, just such...

I mean, Kevin is just... He was an amazing, amazing

person. I absolutely love the guy. And then Arlene

Sorkin. So you got Harley passed away in, like

I said, 2023. So just last year. I mainly only

know her as Harley. I don't, like, I'm looking

here and I'm like, it's, oh, I think I kind of

remember her in the one episode of Frasier she

was in. But, yeah, I mean, her credits are Batman,

Superman, Batman, Superman, the Batman, Superman

movie. You know, she was in Ted and Venus. She

was in Room for Romance. She was in the new Mike

Hammer. She was in... Okay. Now, wait a minute.

I need to go back for this. And it's, well, it

was last year. Oh, God. Wow, last year was the

40th anniversary. We might be doing a new studio

episode revisiting Trading Places because...

It says she was a woman at the party, uncredited,

in trading places. So, I mean, that movie's never

not a bad thing to go back to anyways, but I

just loved her. She was such a great person,

a great actress, and the roles that she did do

outside of Harley are just really fun. And then

last year... Like I said, I mean, you know, Treat

Williams voiced Dr. Milo, but I mean, Treat Williams,

he was actually in one of my favorite series,

White Collar. He ended up playing Neil Caffrey's

father. I recognize his face, but I don't recognize

what he's in. Yeah, he's one of those where you

recognize the voice, you recognize the face,

but he's... Yeah, I mean... I would say that

Everwood is one of his longest -running series

from the CW. He was from 2002 to 2006, 89 episodes.

Let's see, before that, I'm trying to think of

what... He mainly did... Bit parts. Bit parts,

but he also did a lot of movies, too. True. He

was in 1941 as Captain Chuck Stretch Zatarsky.

Probably mispronouncing that. He was in Neapolitan

Sting. He was in J. Edgar Hoover, where he played

J. Edgar Hoover from 1987. But yeah, I mean,

basically, my main takeaway from him... Oh, oh,

The Devil's Own. I thought that was The Devil's

Advocate. Damn, I got excited for a second. I'm

like, I don't remember him in The Devil's Advocate.

He wasn't in it. Oh, that's where he was the

substitute. I remember that now. Very, very cool.

Unfortunately, we've lost all these people. And

then I can't tell you how many different things.

Like, I don't know if somebody did this, but

I wish somebody would. I wish somebody would

have taken a picture of Richard Maul as Bull

from Night Court and put Two -Face side by side

with it because... Those are the two main things

I remember Richard Maul from, is being Bull on

Night Court and the voice of Two -Face in Batman

the Animated Series. It was just so fun. And,

I mean, this show had, I mean, you know, the

talent of these people. Like, you wouldn't know

that if you didn't see his name and didn't look,

you wouldn't know that Bull from Night Court

ended up being Harvey Two -Face in Batman the

Animated Series. Oh, no. And, you know, say what

you will about, I forget which, is it Judgment

Day? I think it's Judgment Day. Where the third,

the judge, so you've got Harvey, Two -Face, and

then the judge. There's three personalities split

now between the character. And the whole thing

is just done so well. And I don't think it's

because of my research here in order to do this

episode, but I have been seeing nothing in Instagram

Reels but Kevin Conroy. People putting Reels

up of people asking Kevin Conroy. He's from old.

He's from years and years ago about voicing Batman

in various things. And I'm like, damn it, man.

All of these people are sorely missed. We understand

that death is a part of life and everything else,

but it just goes to show you how awesome Batman

the Animated Series was, from the writing to

the music to the voice acting to the acting in

general, just everything. It was just so good,

and that show has such a legacy, and I don't

think anybody... that's in their right or left

brain would ever say anything bad about the show

as a whole. Yes, every show is going to have

bad episodes. All shows do. Hell, podcasts have

bad episodes. You know, but on a whole, the legacy

of Batman the Animated Series is amazing, and

man... We're never going to get something like

that ever again. No, sadly not. Good thing there's

still physical media. Mm -hmm. Thankfully so.

Absolutely. So, folks, who were your favorite

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get to be the bad cop. I thought maybe this time,

I could be the bad cop. All right, Deadshot.

We need a name, and we want it right now. Oh,

whoops. A little too hard. Sorry, Batman. I'll...

I mean, that's nothing compared to what I'm about

to do to you, Deadshot. If I don't get what I

want, now. What? You'd better watch yourself

with my partner here. Any little thing can set

him off. Superman, we talking about the same

guy here. Why don't you step out, Batman? I want

to have a little private talk with Deadshot here.

Let's put a little light on the subject. Oh,

sorry. Too bright? I mean, that's nothing compared

to my heat vision, which would really do some

serious damage. So, talk! You gotta be kidding

me. Coffee. Don't do that! I thought you might

like coffee. It's good. Why are you showing me

your teeth? What is that? You're going to need

that coffee after I get through with you. Donut.

Get that away from me. Is it poison? It's chocolate.

I'll talk. I'll talk. I'll tell you everything.

Just get him out of here. And we're back. So

on our next episode, we're going to be talking

about some cult brands. Oh, boy. This is going

to be fun. Yeah, funny enough, it was a suggestion

from my boss. Why is that? Why did your boss

suggest this? Because we were discussing it while

we were in Pennsylvania. We were like, oh yeah,

cult brands and people that... And I was like,

oh yeah, you mean like people that buy Apple

products. Because I have no... No direct love

for Apple products. I could appreciate what it's

done for the industry, but at the same time,

it's not one of those brands that I just love.

So, yeah. I'm brand loyal to a lot of things.

I can be, if the price is right. Right, but they

make it... We'll get to this next week, folks,

in episode 431. So you'll hear this in a week

or so. What else you got going on right now?

I'm finally completing my Power Rangers collection.

Yay! Between 3D printing the armor because...

Hasbro decided to do a stupid. Well, Hasbro pulled

a stupid. They were like, oh, there's huge demand

on the Remastered Green and Red Ranger, but let's

pull the plug on the Lightning Collection. Before

the majority of people could actually get it.

It went on like you could order it in October,

November, and then it was gone. And then everybody

that had pre -ordered it and didn't get it, they

were like, eh, sorry about your bad luck. So,

yeah, a lot of people are pretty ticked off about

it. Everybody's on Facebook going, when are they

bringing it back? Never. Hasbro essentially spent

$6 billion to buy the brand, and then they're

like, yeah, let's put it on the shelf. Because

they essentially, like, Netflix wanted them to

keep going with the new seasons on Netflix. Because,

one, it was getting massive views, and two, it

was, you know, getting the licensed property

there. But also, they'd been producing it since

Hasbro bought it. And especially with Once and

Always and Cosmic Fury, and honestly, graphically,

they were better than the last several seasons.

And they brought production back to the U .S.

And then on top of it, I don't know, I felt like

they were willing to dump the money into it to

create the original content. Because there was

nothing reused for Once and Always. It was completely

original. And Cosmic Fury even had majority of

it was brand new. And I felt like they did a

wonderful job overall. Like, yeah, there were

some pitfalls and I felt like Cosmic Fury should

have had another season to flesh out some of

what they were dropping at the end of that season.

But Hasbro was like, no, we're done. And they

want to reboot it. And in essence, they've essentially

pulled the plug in the entire line. But they

had a buttload of quality control issues, and

then they were re -releasing the MMPR figures

with remasters, which essentially was a better

head sculpt, a better helmet sculpt, because

in some cases they were skinny, narrow helmets.

Instead of being the wider, normal view helmet,

they fixed a lot of the paint job, they fixed

the belt where it has the lines across it. for

the remaster and then they they added a little

bit more accessories in some cases or in the

accessories of like the green ranger they made

him when he'd given the the dragon armor to jason

and was had the candle and he was losing his

powers and so they had that version of tommy

that came out recently in the remaster and i

managed to get that one Just by happenstance,

it was on sale on eBay or something. And then

I was trying to get my hands on the Remastered

Red Ranger for MMPR. Because one, it has... There's

multiple reasons. One, it has the belt lining.

Two, it's got the normal shaped head for the

morphed body. But it also comes with the entire

Dragon Armor suit, which Tommy was lacking. But

it doesn't come with Jason's head because of

the issues with Austin St. John. So I was like,

I'm willing to go without the head, the human

head to have everything else. And then. I had

it on pre -order, I had it, and then it kept

getting delayed, getting delayed, delayed, delayed,

delayed. And then they're like, oh, by the way,

it's on indefinite delay until the end of the

year. And then people were getting notice from

Entertainment Earth that after they took everybody's

money, because that's what Entertainment Earth

does and BBTS doesn't do that. And they're saying,

yeah, Hasbro's pulled the plug. was essentially

the email that Entertainment Earth was sending

out. Now, BBTS somehow sometimes manages to get

things even after the fact, but if it even happens,

it'll be at the end of the year. My guess is

that they're going to let everybody know in the

next month or two that... yeah, we're not getting

these, so we're going to cancel everybody's pre

-order. And then sadly, Hasbro Pulse also is

out of all of these. And they had one rerun of

the Lightning Collection Master Morpher. And

then that was it. And I barely missed the second

time. The first time I... Yeah, I didn't have

any funds, so I couldn't do it. And then the

second time I had the funds, but it sold out

before I could hit pay. Because it was still

on my cart. Oh, see, that's not right. It was

literally in my cart, and I was trying to pay,

and it was like, no, no, no, all gone. And I

was like, you suck. Yeah, that's not right. Online

businesses should count products as being in

process to be sold to that person. Again, I'm

not saying we sell this, but let's just say,

for example, we would never do this, folks. I'm

not saying we would at all. Let's just say we

were going to sell 99 cent downloads, a dollar

five or a dollar whatever after tax of our podcasts

on geekcastradio .com. And let's just say we

have, let's just say it's the top 100 stuff.

Let's say we sell those for five bucks. Per download,

because that was 100 hours worth of... Anyway,

doesn't matter. Point is, you put it in your

cart, that should immediately begin you being

in process of being able to check out with that

item. And this is a whole other toy topic we

can talk about on ToyCast, but people that use

bots to get multiples of one... Oh, it was infuriating

because I was looking at some of the collections

of people, and they had, like, a dragon armor

for every single one of their rangers. Oh, my

God. Which means that they bought how many copies

of it that just people were like, man, I just

want one. Yeah. And there's only two Rangers

that the Dragon Armor really belongs on. Obviously,

Tommy is the Green Ranger. And then, like you

already said, Jason has the Red Ranger when blah,

blah, blah. So. Yeah. So, yeah, I was like, oh,

this sucks. People suck, man. I've 3D printed

it successfully -ish. The first time I tried

printing it, I printed it on black filament.

It turned out okay, and then I painted it gold,

but it looks like... It reminds me of the chintzy

armor that Tommy had before they shot it in the

US, when it was the Japanese or the Chinese or

whatever. uh version of it where it was like

super floppy and looks like something that like

a parent would make for a kid for their halloween

costume uh so i i have gold filament now and

uh i've 3d printed it i cut it in half so it

would actually print properly this time there's

a little bit of a cut in the middle of it which

i'm not too concerned with because overall it

looks 10 times better than the one that's currently

on my green ranger and it's shinier and it looks

like, you know, um, I'm going to experiment with

it again still and try and print it as one whole

piece, uh, instead of cut in half. But, uh, but

yeah, I mean, I'll have my green Ranger and then

I managed to get my hands on the Jason red Ranger,

like with the Jason head, the, the wave three

or whatever. Uh, because like everybody's got

that one and it goes for like anywhere from like

16 to like 29. Which isn't terrible. And BBTS

had it for like $24. And then it somehow ended

up discounted on order. And so I have that one

coming. I'll have it this week. So I'll have

my MMPR collection complete. Give or take with

my 3D printed parts from my Green Ranger. And

then I'll have a knockoff Megazord. like seven

inch combiner Megazord of the dyno Megazord.

And then I'm like, I'm good. I'll, and I three,

I've 3d printed the Xenizer because, uh, that's

$200 to buy one. And I 3d printed it and part

of it, like I'll probably reprint part of it

because, uh, that was before I had some of my

settings tuned in. So some of it's a little kind

of rickety looking, uh, and some of the stuff

I'm printing now is a lot smoother. So I'll probably

reprint. part of it and re repair it but then

i'll probably end up printing myself the master

morpher because um and secondary market goes

for like 300 and i'm like i'm not spending that

like 65 is kind of my limit which is what it

was selling for new i would probably go up to

like 80 but i'm not going to go higher than that

it's it's just like the the scalpers in the secondary

market are ridiculous so they kind of ruin collecting

for everyone yeah This is the Master Morpher,

right? Yeah. Okay, so this Master Morpher that

has... It's Tommy's Master Morpher, right? Yes.

Okay, so here's the thing. I understand they

wanted to have this as a Hasbro Pulse exclusive.

Fine. Whatever. But really, you put Tommy Oliver,

Jason David... You put the man's name, the character's

name, the Green Ranger, the White Ranger, the

Red Ranger, the... Black Ranger, the Invisible

Ranger, whatever the hell. As long as it's that

character, if you put that in stores, it will

sell out. You will make bank. Like, I understand

the whole thing of exclusivity and this, that,

and everything else, but... Not everyone was

able to get a chance. You didn't have the funds

when you had the first. You had the funds the

second time around, and you got screwed. That's

why I'm saying either of these websites need

to do something where as soon as you put something

in your cart, that begins the checkout process

for you as a customer, and somebody else doesn't

get it because it isn't in their cart. That's

what I wish somebody said. Oh, my. This is a

whole other bigger issue, but I'm just. Oh, my

God. I reckon Hasbro, man. I am getting to the

point now, even with my, like, I still love my

Funko collection. I still love the Funkos that

I have, but there are plenty of characters that

I don't really care to have anymore. So I'm going

to either donate them or sell them or do something

with them of the ones that I don't want anymore.

But, like, by probably the end of the year, I

think I currently have over 300 Funko Pops. I

think that's what it's at. I'm probably going

to cut that down to about 150. Yeah. And see,

like for me, like I've, I've started to kind

of weigh, I'm like, all right, I have a display

case. What is going to fit? What is not, what

do I care about? What do I not? Cause like, I

mean, I've toyed with the idea of picking up,

you know, other transformers, a point in case

like silver bolt or for like beast wars, some

other, uh, trans art figures. And ultimately

I've kind of broken it down to the fact of like,

do i care enough do i need them do i you know

what uh what was my level of interest on these

certain eras of figures like obviously like i

like the megatrons the beast wars megatrons the

optimus primals and the the like the rat traps

and and things like that but I don't like, and

I like some of the trans metals and I wouldn't

mind having them or the transfer versions, but

one, like it becomes a space issue. And then

two, it becomes like a cost issue. Like I have,

like, I wouldn't mind like the trans art depth

charge when that comes out. Cause it's going

to look spectacular. Like, but I'm passing on

like, uh, like quick strike and silver bolt.

And, uh, I was going to get tarantulas, but I

passed on him. Cause I mean, I have the season

one version and while I like the trans metal

one, I, I've, I've kind of come to this point

of like, I don't need every version of every

character, uh, like pick the one that like, I

like the best or the one that I already have

and kind of just live with it. And then when

they kind of don't serve a purpose, I'll just

get rid of them. But like, I have, I have some

G1, I have some G2, I have, I have some Star

Trek figures. Like, I mean, I've picked up a

few of those, uh, just because one, they were

cheap to like, I'm trying to customize like a,

uh, Captain Kirk figure that I always wanted.

And I'm kind of working on that little by little

and printing more of the ships. And I have one

of the Polar Lights Enterprise Constitution class

refits that I've painted and been trying to put

decals on and paint to try and make it look like

my ship on Star Trek Online because the one I

got from Star Trek Online looks kind of like

a pilot garbage when you're up close. Like far

away it looks fine. because you can see all the

details and everything in the Aztec -ing. This

Polar Lights one, while I love the design of

the ships, I would never buy another Polar Lights

ship again, because they feel chintzy. Like,

they feel cheaper than my 3D prints, and, like,

one, my 3D prints are, like, usually two to three

parts to put together. And there's more advanced

ones where it can be like multiple pieces and

they just kind of clip in. Like this Polar Lights

one, half the stuff is like there's a gap because

something didn't want to snap in because it wasn't

like fully aligned or whatever. And then I know

you can buy lighting kits for them and I've already

ruined that part and painted whatever it was

that needed to be lit up and I've already attached

it together and things. I can't do the Aztec

-ing because they stopped selling that kit, and

I don't want to spend $60 to buy the Aztec kit.

And then I hate the decals. I love the decals,

how they look, but you can't apply them and have

them look decent. So I've just opted to put on

some of them, and I'm like, whatever ones I don't

put on, I just don't put on, but I'm going to

use some of them for accents, and then I'll paint

the rest of it. And then assemble it, and then

I'll try and get some decals printed that are...

uh of the ship name that i want from my game

but yeah i mean otherwise i'm just 3d printing

the ships and then i'll just paint them by hand

and you know make up my own color palette and

honestly i'm fine with it yeah pretty much i'm

going like yeah i still want certain like so

for me the biggest sets that i want to complete

in my collection are complete to transfer like

Some people will joke around with me, oh, you're

not going to get them all, then you're not a

Transformer. No, I don't want them all. So, Funko

has several Transformers pops that, like the

movie pops, don't want them, have no interest

whatsoever for the Rise of the Beast movie. They

look better than the older Funko movie pops they

did, but I want the Generation 1 stuff, I want

the this, I want the that, I want those Beast

Wars NFTs that they did. But it's one of those

things where I'm not trying to complete, complete

that set. I'm just trying to get all my favorite

Transformers characters as Funko Pops. So I'm

working on that. And I've got... I don't have

them all yet, but I'm working on Batman the Animated

Series to tie back into earlier in the episode.

I just made a deal for Joker and Dr. Harlan Quinzel.

So I'll get that next month. But the rest of

it... I don't know. It just depends. Like, I'm

getting more interested in seeing what kind of

display stuff Funko can give. Like, Funko does,

they do comic covers, they do VHS covers, and

it's larger things with a figure inside. Like,

there's a Dark Knight movie poster cover from

The Dark Knight, and it's Heath Ledger Joker

and Christian Bale Batman Funko Pops inside of

it, but it's the poster for the movie behind

it. And it's... slightly bigger than a six inch

pop but i don't know it's just i don't know toy

collecting is kind of winding down again for

me i don't know i can understand that like i'm

it it kind of depends for me too like i within

reason yeah i'll i'll i'll do it on a case -by

-case basis more or less yeah I mean, yeah, and

the same thing for me. Like, it has to, like,

when I go through and I'm about to go through

and do this purge, like I said, and donate a

bunch of these things to a charity auction that's

coming up in May for the Poppin' Duo. They're

doing a, on May 18th and whatnot, they're doing

a charity auction for the Ronald McDonald House.

But, yeah, any character that I don't feel like

I absolutely have to have in my Funko Pop collection,

it's going to go in a soft protector. It's going

to go in one of these four different. toast that

I have around my living room right now and I'm

just going to mail it to him and say, hey guys,

donation for the charity. Nice. For me personally,

with the situation that I'm in with my disabilities,

the fact that I don't drive and the fact that

I don't go out to the post office and do shipping

and do this and do that all the time or I don't

have easy access to it or easy transportation

to get to and from, etc. I would rather just

donate the stuff to people that I know, and to

a good cause, because a lot of these people that

do whatnot auctions and stuff, when they do charity

auctions, it goes to a good cause, and I want

to see the stuff that I've had for the last few

years, if I'm not interested in it, hey, somebody

else. Probably one of the ones I'm going to get

rid of off the top of my head is probably the

five individual... New Kids on the Block pops.

Even though I love New Kids on the Block, I have

the 5 -pack. I'm not mailing the 5 -pack to Vince.

I'm not mailing the 5 -pack to the Poppin' Duo.

This is not going to happen. Or, you know, I'll

figure out which Batmans I want and which ones

I don't, that kind of thing. I would rather donate

them or sell them to people I know than to just

go on eBay and take a risk or go on to whatever

and deal with all that. It's just too much hassle.

Wrap it all up in plastic, put it in a tote,

and mail it away. Boil them, mash them, stick

them in a stew. No, you gotta say it right. Come

on, if you don't really say that, you gotta do

it right. No, he goes, boil them, mash them,

stick them in a stew. Boil them, mash them. Let's

tote this process. Potatoes. Boil them, mash

them, stick them in a stew. Lord. Potatoes. Hey,

he agreed with me. Well, I had to pull out the

real voice in order to agree with you. Yes. All

right. Why don't you close out episode 430? Because,

folks, we are 70 episodes away from 500 of Altered

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