BTAS – A Legacy Of Voices Remembered!!!

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Hello. Hello. Yes, and we are covering Legends

of the Dark Knight, Batman 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 Moll, voice of

Two -Face, and Treat Williams, voice of Dr. Achilles

Milo. Now, no one's really gonna 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 - 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 not 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, BTIS 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 GeekCast

Radio Network and we love Batman the Animated

Series, we usually keep up on this stuff. 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,

like, So the 23 names that I have here, I just

mentioned Shirley Wagner, 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

Susskind was voiced. He voiced Maxie Zeus from

the Mount Olympus episode, I believe. Oh, yeah,

I remember that one. I mentioned Shirley already.

Lloyd Bachner 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 like, 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 Biggis 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

lose, like he 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 Biggis. 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, um, you're not doing this right.

Shut up. Uh -huh. Uh -huh. Uh, Michael and Sarah

voiced Mr. Freeze. Henry Pollock II voiced Dr.

Jonathan Crane, aka the Scarecrow. Uh, Bob Hastings

was Commissioner Gordon. Ephraim Ziblis Jr. needs

no introduction, but he voiced Alfred Pennyworth.

A 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 Raish Al Ghul, and

yes folks, it is Raish, I don't care what anyone

says, it's Raish. I know, this show made that,

like, Legendarian. Yeah. Because it sounds so

stupid. Razz or Razz or Razzmatazz, there's no

Razzmatazz around here. Yeah, we don't do that.

No, no, no, Raish Al Ghul. The man, the myth,

the legend, the main voice of the character himself,

Mr. Kevin Conroy as Batman. Arlene Sarkin as

Harley. Richard Moll 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 the...

Richard malls death specifically when I heard

about that I was like that's when this came up

what was like holy crap how many people from

btas have actually are not with us anymore and

a list of 23 people is just shocking to me but

yeah we're gonna go through these kind not really

we're not gonna go through all of their stuff

we're gonna 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 real? Oh, wow. Oh That's

probably why he ended up being the man. 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 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

bad girls 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 quasi mottos

mother. She was a couple 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 the alternate earth 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. You're I think we're both

old enough to remember storybook CDs and stuff

like you know storybook cassette type things

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

it's 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

and Batman in a series He was the voice of Darth

Vader and 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 I just absolutely absolutely love

all of these actors and actresses What else is

Brock in he was in ventures of Huckaberry Finn

He was... Oh! So, okay. That's... I guess he

was the radio cassette guy for Darth Vader because,

um, 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... Yelp.

Um, let's see here's... Always 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 Hamilton him mayor

Hamilton Hill and Lloyd Bokner. I was like This

is one reason why we're doing this again. Like

I said is to 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 it 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 in phenomenal Speak

English Steve It 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 like the in the 80s when we were

I was born in 80 Steve was born in 86 I mean,

I'm looking back at some of the earlier stuff

as well, but not not as much 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 sixty three episodes is beyond

me of course it was the eighties and syndication.

Any of the 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 play obviously

adam west yeah the defacto batman before eating

and conroy yeah and 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 I Mean he's still post humus Lee in shows

even this year. Mm -hmm, which is crazy like

you know, but he he also was His Cosgrove and

Freakazoid, you know Which is one of the main

places I remember him from yeah And as there

is oh and as there has one of those voices that

you just know immediately like he's it He's just

one of though. He was always one of those actors

He always had one of those voices that as soon

as you heard you're like, yep That's Ed Asner

no matter what character he was playing. Oh,

yeah for sure Find that 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. Haven't seen Torchwood. I know

he's in that and so it's like John Delante and

people like that He's been like a narrator in

some of the podcasted Doctor Who stuff He's been

in He was in Tron Yeah, and Edward Dillinger.

Yep. That's pretty much is 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. 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 3. Trying to figure out what year that

was. Star Trek 5 was, oh boy, 1989. 89. He was

John Talbot, a Federation ambassador. There you

go. And then he was in Star Trek 6, 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 the 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 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. Rachel Gould from Batman the

Animated Series, and then, two years later, he

plays... Jor -El in Lois and Clark the new he

plays Superman's father in 1994 He's in Babylon

5 for a role he was in biker mice from Mars as

icebreaker for one episode He was in gargoyles.

He was an Iron Man The dude was in everything.

He's in everything, yeah. I mean, he really,

really was. Yeah, Dave and Warner always loved

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

Superman, and Spider -Man, I believe, because

he was Dr. Who the heck was he? Is it him? I

could have sworn it was. Where is? 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 and 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,

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. Cuz we know a lot that he did

This is Kevin Conway and I am the goddamn Batman

and thankfully Suicide Squad kill the Justice

League is not gonna be his last Posture no roll.

Thank God. No crisis on infinite earths part

three three. Yep Yep, yep. Yep 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 and the Masters of the Universe on

Netflix. I did not know he voiced Hardac. I did

not either. Wow, Hordak, not Hardac, 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. He was in a

video game as old man bill It was in multiverses

Which that video game I guess is slated to come

out soon ish Really? Yeah It says 2022 but that

was an alpha Or a beta or something like it's

slated to come out like 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 and everything but like there's

some lines that they have him saying 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

Newburn 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 man 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 and here coffee. Yeah, 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. He was... This really kind of makes me

want to go buy a Viewmaster. He was Batman animated

VR and 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

in Batman Beyond opposite Wilfred Ella's term

against us You know just such I mean Kevin is

just he was an amazing amazing person absolutely

lovely guy And then Arlene Sorkin so you got

you got Harley passed away in like I said 2023

so just last year and 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 10 Venus she was in room for romance She

was in the new mic 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 while 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... Would say that ever

would is one of his longest running series From

the CW he was from 2002 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 to grew he was in 1941 as Captain

Chuck stretch sitar ski 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 Like I don't remember him the devil's

advocate wasn't in it Uh, 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 Moll as Bull

from Night Court and put Two -Face side by side

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

I remember Richard mall from is is being bull

on night court and the voice of two face. In

Batman series. This is so fun. And I mean the

show had I mean you know. The talent of these

people that. 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 a judgment day I think it's judgment

day where the third per the the judge per so

you got Harvey two -face and then the judge There's

a three personality split now between between

the character 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 the Instagram reels but Kevin

Conroy people putting reels up of people asking

Kevin Conroy's from old from years and years

ago about voicing Batman and 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 To the

voice acting to the acting in general just everything

It was just so good and it that show has such

a legacy. 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 podcast

have bad episodes you know but on a whole the

legacy of batman animated series. Is amazing

and. Man. We're never gonna 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 voices from Batman

the animated series? Let us know in the comments

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I was like, oh yeah, you mean like people that

buy Apple products Because I have no no direct

love for for Apple products, so I Could appreciate

what it's done for the industry, but it's 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 I can be if the price is right right,

but They make it said well 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? Finally completing my Power Rangers

collection. Yay! Between 3D printing the armor

because... Hasbro Well Hasbro pulled a stupid

they were like, oh there's there's huge demand

on the remastered green and Red Ranger But let's

pull the plug on the lightning collection Before

before the majority of people could actually

get it like it went on like you could get order

it and like October November and then it was

gone and Then everybody that had pre -ordered

it and didn't get it. They're like, yeah. 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. Netflix wanted them to keep

going with the new seasons on Netflix because

one, it was getting massive views and two, it

was getting the licensed property there. but

also they'd been producing it since Hasbro bought

it. 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 like a buttload

of like 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 like skinny narrow helmets Instead of being

like the wider like 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 cow

dull 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 like 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 uh we're

not getting these so we're going to cancel everybody's

pre -order and and then sadly like Hasbro pulse

also is out of all of these and they're they

had like one re rerun of the lightning collection

master morpher and then that was it like and

i i barely missed the second time the first time

i died 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. Like 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. Businesses, online businesses should

count products as being in process to be sold

to that like Again, 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 cents download

99 cent downloads a dollar five or a dollar whatever

after tax of our podcasts on geek cast radio

calm 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

a hundred 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

toy cast but people that use bots to get multiples

of one 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 the rangers. Oh my god. Which means that they

bought how many copies of it? Mm -hmm. 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. Yeah, so I mean I've 3d printed

it successfully ish like the the first time I

tried printing it I printed it on black filament

and It turned out okay, and then I painted it

gold But it it looks like it reminds me of the

chintzy armor that that Tommy had like before

they shot it in the u .s Like when it was like

the Japanese or the Chinese or whatever 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 So I have

gold filament now and 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 ten times better than

the one that's currently on my Green Ranger And

it's shinier and it looks like you know I'm an

experiment with it again still and try and print

it as one whole piece instead of cut in half,

but 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

3 or whatever Because like everybody's got that

one and it goes for like anywhere from like 16

to like 29 which isn't terrible. BBTS had it

for like 24 and then it somehow ended up discounted

on order. 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 Dino Megazord and then I'm like I'm good

now and I three I've 3d printed the zennizer

because That's $200 to buy one and I 3d printed

it and part of it like I'll probably reprint

part of it because That was before I had some

of my settings tuned in so some of its little

kind of rickety looking And some of the stuff

I'm printing now is a lot smoother, so I'll probably

reprint part of it and we repair it, but then

I'll probably end up printing myself the master

morpher because And secondary market it 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 gonna 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 The this is the master morpher,

right? Yeah Okay, so this master morpher that

had its Tommy. It's Tommy's master morpher, right?

Yes, this one. Okay. I want to make 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 for

you put the man's name the character's name the

green range of the white range of the yellow

the red range of 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,

nothing, and everything else, but... Everyone

was able to get a chance to leave you didn't

have the funds when you were had no first You

had the funds the second time around you got

screwed That's why I'm saying even 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's oh my is the whole

other bigger issue, but I'm just oh my god reckon

Hasbro, man I'm getting to the point now even

with my like I Still love my funko collection

I still love the funko's that I have but there

are plenty of characters that I don't really

care to have anymore So I'm gonna 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 gonna cut that down to about

150. Yeah, and see, like, for me, like, 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? Because, like, I mean, I've toyed with the

idea of picking up, you know, other Transformers

point and case, like Silverbolt or for, like,

Beast Wars, some other 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?

What was my level of interest on these certain

eras of figures? Obviously, I like the Megatrons,

the Beast Wars Megatrons, the Optimus Primals,

and the rat traps and things like that. Don't

like and I like some of the trans metals and

I wouldn't mind having them or the trans art

versions but one like it becomes a space issue

and then to It becomes like a cost issue like

I have like I wouldn't mind like the trans art

Depth charge when that comes out because it's

gonna look spectacular like but I'm passing on

like Like quick strike and silver bolt and I

was gonna get tarantulas But I passed on him

because I mean I have the season one version

and while I like the trans metal one I've kind

of come to this point of like I don't need every

version of every character 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 just

because one they were cheap to like I'm trying

to customize like a Captain Kirk figure that

I always wanted and I'm kind of working on that

little by little and you know printing more of

the ships and I have a 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 Public garbage

when you're up close like far away. It looks

fine because you can see all the details and

everything and 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 get

by lighting kits for them and i've 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 and uh Can't do the Aztec

in because they stopped selling that kit and

I don't want to spend 60 bucks to buy the Aztec

kit And then I hate the decals like I love the

decals how they look but they never Like you

can't apply them and have them look decent So

I've just opted to like 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 gonna use some of them for

like accents and then I'll paint the rest of

it and Then assemble it and then I'll try and

get like some decals printed better 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 I'm going like yeah, I still

want certain like so for me the biggest sets

that I want to complete in my collection or complete

to a transplant like Some people will joke around

me. Oh, you're not gonna get them all and you're

not a transformer So Funko has several transformers

pops that Like the movie pops don't want them

have no interest whatsoever for the the rise

of the beast movie They look better than the

older Funko movie pops they did but I want the

generation one stuff I wanted this I wanted 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

get. 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 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 do it on a case -by

-case basis more or less. Yeah Mean yeah and

the same thing for me like it 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 Charity auction that's coming

up in May for the poppin duo. They're doing a

on May 18th on 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

gonna go in a in a soft protector. It's gonna

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. Cause I'm not

making it 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

the post office and do shipping and do this and

do that all the time. Uh, or I don't have easy

access to it or easy transportation to get to

and from, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. I

would rather just. donate the stuff to people

that I know and to a good cause to 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 hey somebody else like probably one of the

ones I'm gonna get rid of off the top 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 five pack I'm not mailing the

five pack to Vince I'm not mailing the five pack

to the pop and do oh this is not gonna happen

or you know, I'll figure out which Batman's I

want and which ones I don't and kind of thing

and I would rather Donate them or sell them to

people I know then then to just go on eBay and

take a risk or go on to whatever Deal with all

that. It's too much hassle. So hey Wrap it all

up in plastic, put it in a tote, and mail it

away. Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em 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 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew.

Boil 'em, mash 'em. Let's tell those precious...

potatoes. Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a

stew. Lord. Hey, 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

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