Ghostbusters Prop Replica Trap Review

This is Starscream, and you are watching Optimus!

Yes, you are! I sat there doing it over and over

again. I think it only worked one time. Like,

at least three dozen attempts. Did the motherfucker

work right? Oh my god, you know, and here's the

thing. I don't want to call up and bitch and

get a replacement because I don't know if it's

just mine or if it's other ones. But if it is,

I mean, if it is just mine, It's still bullshit

that it goes out like that. Where's the quality

control on something like that? It goes back

to when I told you the other day when I was watching

Dan's video. This isn't going to be a Dan rant

at all. I was watching his video to see what

it was all about. And he said, at first I thought,

okay, prop replica, it's gonna be like really

hard, sturdy plastic like the PKE meter was.

The PKE meter was almost like having a real PKE

meter with it. Right, right, right. You know,

and I see Dan's video and he's like, oh, it's

mostly plastic here, here, and here, and here.

And I'm thinking ghost trap. Ghost trap needs

to have some sort of metal somewhere on it, not

all cheap plastic. Oh my God. Metal? The only

metal is the switch to turn it on. Yeah. And

the screws. But that doesn't fucking count. No,

it doesn't fucking count. It's not bad. It isn't

bad. I mean, it looks good. And if it worked,

I would probably say, you know what, $130 is

not bad. I mean, it's twice the size of the trap.

But, or not, it's twice the size of the PKE meter.

And, you know, that's... fine that's you know

so the price is twice that that's okay i'm not

too terribly you know bitching about that i can't

even get words out right i'm so annoyed but i

paid 130 fucking dollars for a thing that doesn't

even open right and i'm like okay maybe it's

just off the track and you know i'm looking at

this Technically, technically, and this is going

to piss you off even more, technically you paid

$260 plus taxes and shipping. Well, because I

bought two of them. Yeah. I bought two of them.

One is for JT Mitchell, who I'm trying to get

a hold of to see if he'll let me open his to

see if his is like this as well. Yeah. Because

I don't want to ship it out to him. And I should

have known there was a fucking problem in the

first place because as soon as I opened it...

Stick the warning stickers like the little yellow

and black stickers on the top Yeah, there's stickers,

and they're not even applied straight. They're

crooked I mean, I don't even see And here's the

thing I don't even know because it's like it

because you can manually open the trap doors

by yourself right yeah, and uh and I show I show

this in my review and if you open the trap doors

You know it's like I wonder if it's getting stuck

on something because this one opens and then

this one doesn't so what is this doing? Fuck

people seriously I I mean one side opens very

easily in the in the other one doesn't so I'm

wondering Maybe the other one the other door

because it's it's getting caught on something.

I physically feel like getting caught And that's

the door that doesn't open at all. Like, you

saw that one, like, halfway open? That one, there's

no obstruction in me manually opening that. But

on the other one, I don't know, like, for example,

if you're listening, all you team bottomist listeners,

here's me opening the right side. Okay, you heard

nothing, right? You heard nothing. I just opened

that side twice. Now here's the other one. Oh,

hold on, I hit a button. I didn't want to flip

it open. Alright, here's me opening the other

side. Wait, can you hear that? Yeah. What? That?

Yeah. That is it getting caught on something

and not opening all the way. So, here's the problem

now. now i'm looking in here and it's like what

the fuck is it getting caught on because i can't

see it when it goes all the way closed right

i mean the real question here is what the fuck

in production and again we don't know if this

is just yours or if it's a multitude of them

right the one that pixel dan showed off in his

video worked fine he pressed the button like

four or five times and it worked fine. Right.

Right. In closing. So the question remains is

what the hell did some Mattel employee on the

production line leave lying on the conveyor belt

that got twisted, tangled or mangled inside one

single ghost trap? Right. Mine. Of all people.

Mine. Why do you want to Fuck with me, Maddie

Collector! I already hate you! I wanna - this

- this - this screwdriver, this little teeny

tiny needle nose screwdriver I have in my hand,

I wanna shove up Maddie's little pee hole! Oh

my god! But, I mean, I seriously - I seriously

- because, as soon as you close the doors, you

obviously can't see what's going on in there,

to know what's - It's getting hooked on so I

can't even look inside there to see what it is.

Oh And I post it I posted my video a fucking

Maddie collectors wall, I hope people see it.

Yeah Because again Maddie collector Maddie collector

This is for collectors So explain to me Why me?

Who is... I mean, I'm not the biggest Ghostbusters

fan. I'm definitely not the biggest Ghostbusters

fan. Well, you love the movies so far out of

all the repaints that we've... I have fought.

I have fought every fucking thing from Ghostbusters

they have thrown at us. Right. And... Sometimes

more than one. Sometimes more than one. And this

is really how you're going to repay me. Okay.

Fuck you! There's not people walking around outside

hearing me yelling No, because I live on the

second floor now outside my place. Oh, okay.

I was gonna say I Don't even know man, I'm so

annoyed no annoyed even Mean I know it I know

it's amusing, but it's really not amusing because

All matrix just said just open the second trap

and give the bad one to the mecha bottom I can't

even do that because The second trap is for JT.

Yeah. Okay. All right. You know what that might

I'm trying I'm trying to I'm trying to see what's

getting caught. And I think I might have narrowed

it down. I might have. I might have. I don't

know. I mean, we're doing this live on the air.

We're trying to fucking figure this out. I got

my review light shining through a crack. So I

can try and see I Think I think I figured it

out. I think and I'm bringing out my exacto knife

Got my exacto knife if this works, I might have

to redo my beat. Well, no, I'm not gonna redo

my video Because it's still I still shouldn't

have to do this. It's going up Yeah, you get

your video is still a valid point, right? I'm

still going to upload that video but i think

all right i think it's this piece right here

little little annoying like mother fucker cut

off there nope that's still that's still making

a catch so all right hold on hold on This is

good viewership for people. People are going

to love listening to this. Yes. Well, while he's

doing that, I guess I can fill people in on what

I've been up to. I am now moved upstairs into

the better apartment. I'm still in the middle

of unpacking, but most of my stuff, besides incidentals

and just little piddly stuff, most of the big

stuff is unpacked. The desk is put together as

best it'll get put together for now. Very good.

the computers up uh... you know i've you know

i'm not living amongst boxes i mean there are

cut i have like two boxes at this point that

are that are basically just stuff that put away

yet but the rest of it's all moved in packed

in everything else among the second floor now

as i said i actually have a balcony now uh...

and i'm on the the opposite side of the driveway

so i'm on the east facing side where in the morning

i get the sunlight but it overlooks rallies and

state and shakes parking lots which are also

it's also like right next to the main road but

i think that i seriously better not have the

artist i just the artist completely came off

or not the arm the oh i guess it's supposed to

do that okay well good now i can take it apart

and look at it okay yeah it's definitely getting

caught on something all right hold on continue

with your story i'm still listening so it goes

our apartment building a little backyard area

and then there's the driveway because it's all

sideways The driveway to drive up to either go

to rallies or steak and shake and then beyond

rallies and steak and shake is the main Four

-lane Road, so Bartstown Road Louisville, Kentucky

Is a very busy road and like if you have like

say police cars or ambulances or fire trucks

or whatever else right I can't be recording during

those times because you're going to freaking

hear it because Don't know if most of all of

our Balcony and patio doors are supposed to be

double pane glass I'm not sure if I'm Yeah, yeah.

Yeah. Yeah for soundproofing. I'm not sure if

Joking on a piece of turkey here I'm not sure

if my patio door is double pane class or not

it feels like it is but i'm not sure but you

can hear like every car driving by every siren

that may happen by um wow but that's not good

though i mean that's well that's gonna affect

your i'd rather have i'd rather have those noises

than ba -bum ba -bum ba -bum gangster rap ba

-bum ba -bum ba -bum that makes sense at fucking

four in the fucking morning. That makes sense.

Yeah. I'm much, I mean, like, I can deal with

traffic noises. I'm used to that. Hell, I'm originally

from Massachusetts. My grandmother used to live,

excuse me, right next to Route 3A, which is a

really busy highway up in Massachusetts. So I'm

used to it. And like I said, I prefer it over

being on the parking lot side and dealing with

all the dumbasses. OK, hold on. OK. I don't mean

to interrupt, but. This is what I did. I'm going

to see if this actually works, okay? I'm turning

it on, because now it doesn't stick, but here's

what I did. Oh, wait. Son of a bitch. You know

you're going to have to edit your video to show

what you did to fix it. Possibly, yeah. Okay.

So, I turned it on. Let me see. Oh, wait. No,

I didn't turn it on. Okay. I turned it on, and

now... I am pushing the pedal. It still doesn't

open all the way! Hold on. Alright, hold on.

At least the other door kind of opens, though,

but... Alright, hold on. Let me try again. Nope.

This is such a fucking joke. I mean, it's...

I triple dog dare you to... Take this, get in

your car, go to the Mattel offices and say, hey,

look, here's my invoice from the website. Here's

this. It's wrong. There's something wrong with

this. I want a replacement. I triple dog dare

you to go do that. I don't have a ball to do

that. Oh, come on. I don't know. I literally

can't see what's holding this up now, though.

What it's getting hooked on I I The doors themselves

can pop off Okay, um I mean it looks like they're

designed to do that. They just clip on so it's

so I'm like okay I'll just try reversing The

um the doors. I'll put the right door on the

left side and vice versa right well It got that

door to open but not all the way It's still only

opened halfway. Alright, hold on. Oh, you're

fucking kidding me. Now here's the annoying thing,

okay? Alright, let me... I'm watching the track

here. Now when the door, when I have... Wait

a minute. Okay, when I keep the doors open and

I push the pedal down... I can see the little

device that pushes the doors open. Now, when

I do that, it opens it. All the way. And that's

good. It holds the doors open when I let go of

the doors. Now, I'm going to turn it off. And

it closed it. I'm going to turn it on. Push the

button. Nothing! Alright, hold on. I got an idea.

What if I... I know you love it. I know that

you love Ghostbusters enough that you wanted

a replica trap. Regardless, even if it worked,

I can't justify dropping 130 bucks on a piece

of plastic. I do agree. It's expensive. It's

pricey, but... It's like... You know, I don't

know. I don't know. I mean, I understand. I don't

know. I'm so distracted at trying to figure out

what is catching this. It's gotta be something

in here. But when I close it It doesn't catch

on anything. I'm just randomly talking now Well,

did you see? Did you see the The latest for my

botcon Puggles that Kelly did she finished sideswipe?

No, I did not Grab the link. I figure we can

talk about something that we actually like I

like this. I just wanted to talk to you. I know

you do. You're just frustrated with it. Here's

the other thing. I haven't had lunch yet. And

now that I'm on my medication, it controls my

blood sugar more. And I haven't ate yet. So my

sugar is getting low. And oh, that actually looks

pretty good. Yeah, he looks awesome. I like that.

Yes, he looks so awesome And of course you can't

call their customer service because there is

no real customer service yeah, it's some idiots

in some faraway land I Mean and I can't even

figure out where where it's getting caught on

here because that that would fix the problem

I think I really I really do think that that

would fix the problem but I can't even can't

even determine oh wait oh that might be that

might be it So do we have a breakthrough? Potentially.

Because that doesn't get caught right there.

It only gets caught when it's up like that. Okay.

Alright, hold on. Alright, let's see, let's see.

It's assembled by a retard. So, I mean that's

clearly what the biggest problem is. It's assembled

by some moron. Yep. And it's got this big giant...

Agh! Yeah. It's just literally insane. Yeah It's

nuts He's hammering it ladies and gentlemen with

the hammer with the hammer that was used to try

and destroy that fucking my little pony Yes,

yes, my little ponies are indestructible. They

are. Oh my god. They are my little ponies are

the junkie ons Not much that's all that's wrong

about that. Nobody's commenting on on my On my

video of the on Maddie collector that really

upsets me. I want people to fucking see that

Did you put it on their Facebook page or did

you put it on their forums wrong on their Facebook

page, okay There there you go What'd you post

on there something yeah, I just said that's nuts

Maddie do something about this They won't they

hate me Yeah, literally if they gave me a different

Door I think I think it would I think it would

work. I Think it's just the door because I don't

even know how to describe it How? Here, hold

on. I know this is not going to be beneficial

to the listeners, but I got to show you this.

Okay, you can see me? Yes. Alright, here's the

trap. This door right here opens perfectly fine.

There is no nothing with this one. Now this one,

this one, can you hear that? Yeah. As you pull

it up, it's getting caught on something. So that's

what's happening. This door opens perfectly fine.

Then it tries to open it at the same time. This

gets stuck and is not opening. But now here's

the thing. If I take and push it up just a little,

I don't even know if you can see how little I'm

pushing this up. I can see it. I can see it,

yeah. Very, very minimal. When I push it up,

it opens with no hindrance. Like I can sit here

and... Yeah, it hinders it now if I move it Down

there's not there is nothing so it's I don't

even understand why it would do that It's messed

up no shit Sherlock But I mean it's like You

know Mattel has has been this company over the

last 30 40 however long they've been in business

I know that they've been in business since at

least the 80s. So at least 30 40 years, right?

They've been this toy company that has done these

multiple lines over the years You would think

that their people would have learned how to do

stuff over this period of time, you know, whereas

I understand production issues, but I mean Mattel

is like Mattel is like the Misfits sabotaging

Jem every show because almost one thing out of

all of their product lines has an issue every

month. Whether it be mismatched, whether it be

shoulders reversed on King Hiss. It's always

something with them, and I'm not saying that

just to pick on Mattel. I mean, Hasbro has their

fair share of production crap as well. I mean,

you'd think... that these people would learn

after 30 years in business how to actually produce

the shit you think so so here this is this is

my last ditch effort okay because i can't figure

out so i have to cut shit here's my little knife

now literally these these doors like i said they

just pop off they're identical doors right except

i don't know if you can kind of see this there's

a little tiny nub right there Yeah, I can see

it. Yeah. That I really don't see what the purpose

is of that when it fits in here. So I'm cut.

But now see, here's the thing. On the actual

trap, there's another groove. Yeah, I see that.

For some, you have this little nub of that. So

I'm going to cut this little nub off. Where's

my knife? All right, here we go. We're gonna

see if this fucking does anything. Oh wait, I'm

getting my bigger... Xacto knife. The fact that

I have to do this, though... Oh my god. You said

bigger Xacto knife. The first thing I thought

of, that's not a knife. This is a knife. It's

not. What? I'm gonna cut myself here, watch.

And then, oh wait, no, alright, there we go.

Don't touch yourself, dude. Alright. So, I have

cut it off. That little nub is not on. Now, I'm

going to put that on here. And look, this was

the side that stuck. Right. It didn't stick anymore.

Right. Now, I'm going to cut... Watch, watch,

the other door is going to start sticking. I'll

be pissed off. You have no idea. All right, so

that, here we go. there we go now that little

nub where the hell there it is all right cut

that off now now these doors are completely reversed

right and neither of them get hindered they now

open perfectly fine now put the trap in power

the son of a bitch up Let's see if it works Don't

look at me like that Are you kidding me Are you

kidding me? Hold on, alright, turn you off. Shut

up! Turn off, bitch! I see it! Oh god, this is

so funny. I know it's not funny for you, but

it's just... The funny thing is, is like I said

before, it's Const Maddie Collector always has

something wrong. Every month, one thing out of

their sale. Something happens to some person.

Doesn't matter if it's you, if it's... Oh god,

I wish people could see this. I wish you were

you screaming this because the looks on your

face are just priceless. He's speechless ladies

and gentlemen, I don't even know all right Yes,

yes it is it's gotta be stupid And it's like

I can't even I can't even see where to take this

thing apart to check the Check the thingamajiggers.

The batteries? No, not the batteries. Well, we

know those work though. It doesn't come with

batteries! $130, they can't give me fucking cheap

batteries? Wait, you have to buy the batteries?

Well, you have to buy batteries for it, yeah.

Otherwise, or unless you have some just lying

around. So, wait a second, wait a second, wait

a second, wait a second. Yeah, okay. The way

I look at this ghost trap and the way I look

at the PKE meter is they're basically for to

me They're basically the equivalent of a liter

class transformer that has electronics in it.

Oh boy, here we go He just tossed it in the trash

ladies and gentlemen destroy it though dude don't

don't destroy it because you need to find out

wait it doesn't work okay i know it doesn't work

but you don't want to destroy it in case they

can send you a replacement don't destroy it don't

pull you know what i'm gonna do no oh wait hold

on tyler tyler call hold on Might have to call

Tyler here. Well, we're gonna leave this recording.

Yeah, and then I'm gonna call Maddie collector

Wow on here. Yes. Yes That should be fun. Yeah

Wow Okay just don't don't destroy it don't set

it on don't try to set on fire don't boil it

in acid like you did leave a little legend star

scream you know you want to pull one of those

just yet because there's a difference there's

a difference between a five dollar legends toy

and a hundred dollar hundred and thirty dollar

piece of pumpkin plastic i know okay okay i'm

i'm calling pilar i'm gonna go on mute how are

you sir I am in a very very bad mood how did

you know it was Mattel how'd you know oh well

I got I got my subscription package I got that

on Tuesday with Icarus, with Icarus and the Ghostbuster.

Today, I got something that might interest you

though. I got the traps! It's a piece of shit.

No, I'm not. In fact, the reason I'm calling

you is because I want your permission to open

yours to see if it's as shitty as mine is. Yeah,

oh yeah, I mean the only the only thing that

would be different would be I would cut the tape

on the white mailer box Okay, I mean the reason

why is because my trap the doors do not open

They are supposed to yeah one of them one of

them halfway opens and the other one doesn't

and then it sounds like it's grinding gears and

I It might have been because as I was looking

at the box I was like hmm I wonder which box

is in the best shape because I'm gonna keep that

one and I'm gonna send Tyler the other one Because

I'm an asshole It was only it was just the white

mailer box. I was like, which one do I want?

Hmm. I'll take this one, but I Literally and

I cannot see any weight. Well, I guess there

are no there are screws in here Let me let me

see if I can take apart mine And see if it's

just a matter of the gears not being lined up

properly You're absolutely right you're absolutely

right and that's one of my biggest complaints

so um Let me give this a try. I'm gonna try disassembling

this before I even bother opening yours And then

I'll call you back, and if that doesn't fix it,

I'll call you back and let you know how yours

is. I mean, if it's like that on your version

as well, I mean, I'm obviously not gonna make

you buy it. Yeah. Well, I mean, I would just

feel bad. Alright, well let me see what I can

figure out here and I'll let you know. Alright,

talk to you later. Well, here we go. You're still

watching me. There are screw holes here on the

bottom. Yes, I see that. I can't fucking see

in there. Oh, that's a horrible, horrible sore

on your hand. What the hell did you do to your

hand? My hand? Unless it's a birthmark. Where?

I don't know. It zoomed in on something on your

arm. No, down, the other way. No, not up, down,

dumbass. I don't know. Maybe it's... I don't

know. I don't know what the hell it was. It's

probably just one of your birthmarks on your

hand or on your arm or something. Possibly. Okay,

I can... Look like a giant bruise. Look like

Berger just raped your hand or something. Oh,

that's possible. She beats me up all the time.

She's abusive. Alright, I... Alright, stay right

here. I need to get a screwdriver. Okay. Oh,

this is so hilarious. so anyway team bottomless

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that out alright so you got your tools let's

let's take this shit thing apart now but I'm

hoping that this works I mean there's a bunch

of screw holes in here and yeah this is so hilarious

some of them there's probably going to be like

a sign that says if you open this you void the

warranty You'd think it would already be on it,

instead of, you know, after you open it. That

wouldn't make any fucking sense. You know what,

I found out what the problem is. This is the

problem. Oh wait, that's the problem. Wait, hold

on. Yeah. Well, you can't see it. Can you see

that? That's the problem. Made in China. Made

in China. Yeah. All the best stuff is made in

Japan, though. All the best stuff's made in Japan,

not China. Okay, all right, all right Okay, so

I Have this is oh shit Yeah Except there's wires

in here. Well, of course, there's wires in there

dumbass a lot of wires in here Well turn it around

so I can see on the fucking wires all that That

looks it looks like a bomb is what it looks like

it's probably going to explode We're sorry to

inform you listeners, but team bottom is variety

hour Episode 7 will be the last episode because

up to bottom is blew himself up while trying

to fix his ghost trap Exactly. Okay. Um, you

know I can imagine someone and I know I know

this is probably gonna come out wrong But I can

imagine someone like, you know, Ted Bundy or

somebody, you know One of them famous bomb bomb

bomber people I can imagine them trying to put

a bomb in into the ghost trap Oh, yeah Oh, what's

this? Oh, what's this? Yeah. Well, hold on. Where's

the power button? Hold on. Hold on. I'm going

to plug this in. Oh, my God. I swear to God.

Do not attempt this at home, people. I swear

to God, if I have to call the Los Angeles Police

Department or the paramedics to let them know

that you've electrocuted yourself. So I didn't

know that they made I didn't know that they made

yellow variants of the stay puff marshmallow

man Yellow variant is... one of a kind. Now I

can't seem to get this to come back. Hold on.

Come on, you worthless piece of shit! Alright,

that's gonna break it. Wait, I guess I should

push the button that would This is podcasting

at its best ladies and gentlemen that what this

is I guess All right, hold on Wait, maybe maybe

it doesn't work when it's turned off Oh Alright,

now I can kind of see what's going on. Well,

the lights are kind of cool. I'm trying to discover

what is fucking this up. Yes. It's so hard to

tell. Because everything here is fucked up. you

know what the sad thing is i eat at rallies and

i don't eat at rallies in sagan shake a lot but

you know when i have the extra money i'll go

over to either one of those restaurants the rallies

fries the large rallies fries are $2 .49 and

it doesn't even really look like a large but

it is because they kind of overfill it Go over

to steak and shake the containers are twice as

big, but they're ten cents more the the steak

and shake fries are 259 and the rallies ones

are 249. Oh Wow I'm trying to find stuff to talk

about while you're in the middle of I know I

know This has become less It's painting now,

I think I mean we might as well. Yeah, Maddie

Collector posted something on their thing Oh

would they say? I gotta see this. Not mine. Oh.

Mine. Damn. On their website? No, no, just not,

no. On the Facebook wall? Best local collection.

Oh. Nobody cares about that. Yeah, ends. So far

I'm the only one that's commented on your So

I was still in place I really was able to hear

like what without actually going online and reading

what people got i was listening to uh... pixel

dance podcast it figures and he was going through

some of the forum post over pop culture network

dot com of what people got in their man at a

monday stuff yeah a lot of people are getting

shadow beasts uh... bowl moss man uh... somebody

got captain glenn yeah uh... yeah Um, so, I'm

kind of mad that I missed out on that, but, eh,

what are you gonna do? Well, well. Oh, well.

Not give them any more money. Stop giving them

money. I only give them money for Masters of

the Universe stuff, stuff that I actually want.

I don't give them $130 for a piece of plastic

that doesn't fucking work. And yet, that, those

figures are still not, uh... 100%. Well, for

the most part, they are. Well, that didn't work.

You're not supposed to break stuff. I didn't

break anything. I'm tossing stuff into my chair

on the other side of the room, because I'm in

the middle of unpacking this tub while you're

doing... I mean, I found an entire CD wallet

thing of stuff now. Let's see. Oh yeah, all the

Super Bowl DVDs. Very interesting. What is this

Coors light Super Bowls 1 to 10 20 to 29 and

then 31 no 21 to 21 to 30 interesting Thank God

Super Bowl 31 isn't on there. Holy crap freaking

freaking Green Bay fucking Packers beating the

Patriots. That's ridiculous And now I'm looking

through a bunch of old CDs. I used to have I

used to burn CDs a lot So now I'm looking through

all that. Oh Wow, ooh I Might not act Wow. It's

a good thing. I look through this pout this this

CD wallet because I just found music that I somehow

no longer have on my iTunes that I can put in

my iTunes. Yes, this podcast is really interesting,

isn't it, ladies and gentlemen? But again, we

are all about the random here at Team Bottom's

Variety Hour, so... This is about as random as

it fucking gets. Well, no, I honestly think episodes

five and six, the last two episodes that we released,

are about as random as it gets because... We

didn't acknowledge the audience in either one

of, like, any of those clips that we recorded

for either one of those. We just sat down, started

talking, and didn't even say hi and welcome to

Team Bottomless Variety Hour or whatever. So

I think those are real. No, we never did. Seven

Dust, Nickelback, Nickelback. Let's see, 12 Stones,

Hall and Oates. Oh, hell yeah. I hope this CD

still works, too. Ooh, Finger 11. Um, yes. Yeah,

I'm really like pumped up for music right now

and I'm glad that over on GeekCast Radio I'm

starting that music spotlight. Oh, you gotta

be kidding me. This is gonna be so awesome if

that CD works, too. Yes. Change of season. Alright,

I'm re -screwing things. Stop screwing things,

Paul. You're married. Oh, that doesn't sound

good. Sounds like a vibrator as well. Oh, drowning.

Awesome. Stop farting. Very funny. Well, you

know somebody has to be funny while you're fiddling

around your trap. Oh, I know I Wish I had screws

that were magnetic. Oh Shit yay mini Cringer

I'm holding mini. I'm going through this box

over here. I'm holding mini Cringer in my hand.

Oh the one that came with Marlena. Yeah it's

a great skull marley is in here somewhere oh!

tropican a pure premium orange juice i wish i

had batteries to put in this radio oh well i'll

buy some later the only problem is i don't have

the the battery compartment door so the batteries

just like hang open the does anybody on team

bottom is one by my first book of poetry that

i published in two thousand seven ten bucks yet

outing you it's in the deal for your birthday

uh... uh... i did presence that people do not

want to do it fingers are too back for this Now

I can't get this other screw back that's what

she said I Am I am thinking that I'm gonna have

to open up JT Mitchell's Well, he did give you

permission so did I Would just to make sure Alright,

hold on. I got it. PlayStation 1, Triple Play

2001. I love that game. Okay, where is that other

thing? I effectively think I made this worse.

Great, to be honest. You gotta go breaking stuff

Paul, I don't know Now I can't find another freaking

tag what the hell So I Was listening to that

podcast again, and they were talking about the

Green Lantern movie masters and how much poor

More poor that they are than the Batman movie

masters. I don't understand how I understand

how Mattel can do a great job on Batman Movie

Masters because, well, it is the goddamn Batman

and do such a shitty job on the Green Lantern

Movie Masters. Then again, it is Ryan fucking

Reynolds. It's nothing but Van Wilder in a Green

Lantern suit. Well, it's not even that. It's

just the figures are poor design. I've made this

even worse. So they probably won't even give

you a replacement at this point, will they? Need

better Well, don't tell them that you tried to

modify it Yeah War for Cybertron optimus cool

I'm good since you're going through your ghost

trap things I'm in the middle of going through

this box over here and I war for Cybertron optimus.

Oh Yes I'm Now now now it's now it's no longer

Even opening huh, it's not not even opening now

at all. Yeah You fucked it up The most part yeah,

oh This is all of Marlena's extra gear in a plastic

baggie that extra head is just creepy No, I mean

it's not it's not really the head that's creepy

just the fact that it's a head in a bag Now I'm

going to Put all these screws back in And then

I'm gonna call Maddie collector So you're gonna

call Maddie Collector first and then open JT's

afterwards? Oh, well, yeah, I guess I'll open

JT's first. Then if I need to send back both

of them. You know? Yup. I love the BotCon comics.

Well, 2008 and 2011. Yeah, they're very good.

Yes, they are. I'm gonna go and get... Okay,

I'll still be here Nothing else to do Well eat

something god damn it Man talks about having

crappy blood sugar, and you won't eat anything

right away Alright ladies and gentlemen, so yeah,

I'm I'm going through my stuff here as we're

recording this I needed something to do while

Paul was was taking apart his his ghost trap

there I Found two press releases one both from

shot Factory one for mask and the other for the

gem series on DVD So that's very very cool. I'll

follow those away somewhere else My Get Glue

stickers. I love my Get Glue stickers. So awesome.

Get Glue is awesome. Everybody should be a member

on Get Glue dot com. Sure. It's fun. All right.

All right. So up the bottom, this is opening

J .T. Mitchell's Ghost Trap. Yep. Trying to be

very careful with his. Obviously, if his works.

I'm going to swap them. You're gonna what you're

gonna you're gonna wop them or swap them waffle

All right, here we go sure I want to know what

a wop them is Right, right, you know everybody

saw that with Well, not everybody I saw it All

right, here we go. I'm sliding. I'm out. There

we go You got the hose Actually, you know what?

I'm not even gonna I'm just gonna Open this one

because this is the piece that fucked up Right,

you have your hose. Yeah, I'll just hook up my

hose and stuff to it Everything is just in a

little baggie here. So oh Man, imagine if it's

the fucking hose that's causing the problem the

electronics or whatever That would be fucked

up. All right. Here's JP Mitchell's plug in his

end All right. All right. I'm pushing the button.

Oh Wait, you gotta turn it on dude turn it on.

All right ready. Yep. Oh Wait Please tell me

you I Forgot to put in batteries Alright Wow

I'm telling you with my blood sugar being low.

I'm not I'm not thinking Okay, alright stop stop

what you're fucking doing get up go into the

kitchen and get a bag of chips go get something

I'd have to I'd have to actually run to a store

and get something because We have to go grocery

shopping. We don't have anything in the house.

But that's all right. That's all right. I'm not

going to die. I'm just saying I'm a little shaky.

You probably can't even see it. Yeah, I can see

it. I'm a little shaky and obviously me being

mad. It's making it worse. It affects it. Yeah.

So I'm just I'm just taking my time. Going nice

and slow. There we go. Batteries are in there.

Uh huh. Alright. Screwing it back closed. Alright.

Now, I don't know if it's on. Alright. So now,

here we go. I'm gonna push the button. Nah, nah.

Okay. Oh wait. Hold on. I don't want it in that

mode. Turn that mode off. Ready? Yep. Don't look

at me like that! So, ladies and gentlemen...

Hold on! Let's do it again! Let's do it again!

Alright, now turn it over to the other mode,

just to check. So it's just yours that has the

fuck up. There's the light. This is the actual

play mode. as i say i see uh... which in the

pedal uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh...

uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh...

uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh...

uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh...

uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh...

uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... Can't

even say it's funny because it's it's so not

it. It's to the point where holy crap How do

you buy two ghost traps one defective one not

defo God, what is wrong with you people manic

collector? Okay, I'm he's speechless ladies and

gentlemen He's composing himself. I'm calling

Tyler back real quick. Okay. I'll shut up now.

Hold on, I got it. Here we go. I'm calling. It

just doesn't seem to want to work. Yours works

perfectly fine, though. Yeah, yeah. They're like,

oh. They're like, oh, this is Octobotamuses.

Let's piss him off. That's true. That's very

true. Well, that was going to be the next thing.

Right after getting off the phone with you, I'm

calling up Maddie Collector. I'm trying my hardest.

I really am. They're like, oh, no, no, no, not

that guy. We're not going to send him another

one. Maybe I'll be like, I'm Steve. My name is

Sean. My name is Sean. Um, on goal. Right. You're

like, mine's mine's effective. It's stupid. No,

yeah, but yours yours yours was really fun to

play with The hell why is my phone going crazy

So there oh it might be it might be Maddie. I

don't like my phone is not That's okay. Um Would

I say it's worth $130 When you take into consideration

that it's twice the size of the pke meter I could

see where they would double the price and I mean

There is no metal in it But opening the thing

up and seeing all the wires and stuff that is

actually in it to make the whole thing work There's

there's a substantial amount of crap that's in

there I mean, maybe $100 would probably be a

little bit easier to swallow. $130 is maybe a

little bit too much. But I would definitely not

have a problem paying $100. Well, I paid $130

for it, so I definitely don't have a problem.

But I mean, like I said, I opened it up. There's

a lot of intricacies. I mean there I'm I was

really surprised I opened it up and it seriously

looks like it's a bomb on the inside. There's

wires all over the damn place It might be maybe

it's possible I mean I did only open up mine

and But I mean it's just it's amazing to see

there's so many wires in there and there's really

There's really like not that much that's going

on. I mean It's really kind of surprising but

Right, it's got the way they the way they describe

it is the regular mode is what they consider

Ghostbusters one Which you just push the pedal

it opens it up Then the lights turn on and you

push the pedal and it closes. There's no lights

There's you know, none of those special effects

aren't included. Then there's the Ghostbuster

2 mode where You turn it on the the light actually

there's like red lights inside there to like

simulate catching the ghost I suppose and Then

it flams shut and it bleeds and it beeps and

then it has like a little electric sound like

it's being shocked and then if you wait long

enough it sounds like the ghost is inside there

banging against the walls and and there's i don't

know if it's completely random or what but they

actually have a design where the back wheel of

the trap will it's like on this mechanism that

makes the trap kind of like shake a little bit

but i i literally had it on for like five minutes

And I only saw it do that shaking gimmick like

once So it's not like a like a whole lot of shaking

going on You know so I mean it's it's intricate.

It's it's pretty I mean I'm pretty impressed

with it except for the fact that mine doesn't

want to work So That's I mean, it's it's pretty

bad when I mean There's two of them here and

one of them doesn't work and one does I mean

really a 50 -50 chance here. Come on Yeah, I

mean and I mean I mean and honestly I am I am

glad that I did pick this one Because I wouldn't

want to send it out to you and have to have you

deal with sending it back That's right, that's

right, but But I'm gonna I'm gonna give Maddie

a call and talk to her. I'm gonna talk to Arun

Mamakamadaba and see if I can get this taken

care of Maybe maybe Ahmed mama Dima job, that's

what I'm gonna call Think so think so What if

I tell them I say, you know, I'm sorry to hear

about this option That would be bad. Yes, that

would be bad That's true, that's true. Now, do

you want me to go ahead and send yours out, or

do you just want to wait until you come here?

That's fine. Is it in like YouTube payday? Oh

no, that's fine, that's fine. That works for

me. I mean, according to my schedule, we should

probably get paid I think Wednesday or Thursday?

Let me look. But I mean, that's fine. You know.

I don't even, I don't know. I haven't figured

it out. I mean, it'll probably be... It probably

won't be too terribly bad. I mean, the box is

pretty thick. But when I got mine shipped to

me, it's like... I got I straight up got you

know like Matt or Mattel blob you know like a

Mattel box like The box is like huh like a case

yeah, I'm sorry like I got a case because I got

two of them And I think three of them fit per

case So they just took yeah, they just took one

out. They just handed it to me and it's big But

I mean I can't imagine it being More than take

15 bucks. Oh yeah. I know what it is. Yeah, that's

what I'm kind of thinking. You know, that's pretty

much it. Yeah, you saw the white nailer box there,

didn't you? How many did they - did they have

a bunch from there? Really? You should have just

went and took one, dude. Nobody would have noticed

one being gone. He's trying to convince JT Mitchell

to steal stuff from conventions now. Nobody would

have gotten caught. Nobody would have known.

You would have just slipped right out. I mean,

you're very inconspicuous. I'm just saying. You

probably should have just did like the Homer

Simpson and like stuffed it up a shirt or something.

Oh wow. Alright, well I'm going to call them

and I'm going to be nice, like you suggest sir.

Don't call them off and I'm going to be in the

job. But what happens when they're done and hopefully

get it all taken care of? Can I say thank you,

come again. All right, well I appreciate your

advice Thank you, I greatly appreciate it now

I must call them be nice All right turn your

video off cuz that froze oh did it yeah, oh,

oh yeah, I did Yeah, I'm going to go on mute

while you do that. So this is a Team Bottomless

variety hour first, a live call to Matty Collector.

Now you do know, have you looked on their website

about calling customer service? Customer service

call here. It basically says, for questions related

to the actual product and not specific to the

order transactions, please call Mattel Consumer

Relations. at 1 -800 -524 -TOYS or you can use

the form below to contact customer service for

all store related questions. So that I have my

order number and all that stuff. Yeah. All right.

Hold on. Logging in. OK. You might have to use

the email form as far as the order number. I

don't know. Oh, no. I got the order number here.

No, I know. But what I'm saying is. It says to

call the phone number for questions about the

actual product only, not about the order number.

So... Well, no, there's gotta be a way I can

call someone. There's gotta be somebody I can

call. Yeah, you call that number, the 500 -524

-TOYS, but it says here, for questions related

to the actual product, and not specific to the

order that you made, the order transaction, please

call. Right. So basically what they're saying

is, we only want you to call us if you have a

question about the actual product. We know nothing

about your order number, is what it's saying,

I think. OK, well, who do I call then? Do I have

to call Digital River? I don't know. Well, according

to the Matty website, it says to help serve you

better, please enter your order number or email

address below, basically for the order transaction.

It's basically a... Web search not not a web

search. It's a it's a web form. It's a web I'm

seeing it now. Hold on. Yeah, let's see. What

is How do I request a refund? You automate order

and process your own Make sure to contact but

I'm just gonna call them. Okay. All right. Here

we go. I'm calling This should be entertaining

I know English Consumer Relations Hi, I actually

I placed an order for some items on your Maddie

collector website and I'm not entirely sure if

I'm calling the right number or what but I Ordered

two of the same item and one of them is completely

defective. It doesn't work at all Okay, please

yeah, that'd be perfect Yep, go for it Perfect,

okay. Thank you very much. You too. Bye now All

right, so now I got a different number and I

call that one eight seven seven 4 6 6 2 8 8 9

All right, here we go team bottom is Thank you

for calling Maddie Collector. Thank you for calling

Maddie Collector on 9 -4 -6, sir. I just knew

that you had things only number one, two, one,

seven, nine, one, seven, zero, and four. Is that

right? Uh, three, four, two. Was it the last

number two? Okay, thank you for helping. Uh,

yeah, I placed an order for two of the Maddie

Collector Ghostbuster straps and one of them

is perfectly fine and the other one is defective

and doesn't work. My name is Paul Reinhart. Yeah,

it I'm not exactly sure but right out of the

package it has it sounds like it's got some kind

of a mechanical opening door and It it one of

one of them works perfectly fine and the other

one the doors don't open at all Yes I'm sorry,

I didn't understand that. What's that? Basically,

whenever you activate the feature, the doors

on the toy are supposed to open automatically.

Now, when I do it on the one that works, it works

perfectly fine. On the defective one though,

it sounds as if there's some gears grinding and

there's a loud noise that's associated with it

and the doors themselves don't open. 24 to 72

hours There's there's no there's no way that

we can get this taken care of now Okay, does

the 24 to 72 hours begin today or on Monday?

Okay, I guess No, that's about it Sure No, that's

it I Did pause it when you were giving your your

email address yeah, I figured you would Yeah,

that's what Thank you It gets it gets escalated

to someone else and then they'll email me if

if they want to issue me a return or something

like that. Yeah, so you need to save that number,

that second number, the one that the original

lady gave you. You need to save that to be able

to call Matty Collector directly. Yeah, and they

don't even give me like a ticket number or anything.

Wow, and see I think that's probably where you

probably just should have on the website here

just should have filled out the form and just

said here's my order number here's here's my

email address here's the here's the issue and

you could just write out the issue oh my god

this such a fucking joke i mean yes seriously

it's an absolute joke in the meantime i now have

to sit here and twiddle my thumbs waiting for

my $130 order to be fixed. Dude, just sit there

and admire your belt. You'll be fine. You love

your new belt, so... Yeah, but you know, it's

the principle of this entire thing. I - I understand

it is the principle of the thing, but still,

you know, you know what, you know, and honestly

when, when someone, you know, when a customer

service person gives me that type of answer that,

that there needs to be a 24 hour wait or 72 hour

wait, I'll say, you know, that sucks, but okay.

And then I'll just go do something else and I'll

forget about it. You know what I mean? Oh, it's

just, it's insane. I'm so in. In fact with it,

you know, the one kind of neat thing is Tyler

doesn't want his until next week. So I'm keeping

Tyler's I'm keeping Tyler's and I mean Because

they're gonna send me a replacement. Yeah, they

have to otherwise No, they have to You know,

what's gonna piss me off though is they're gonna

be like, okay. Well, I need you to Take it to

a post office and mail it to us. Making me have

to pay for that. I'm really trying not to be

too mad. Yeah, you don't want your blood sugar

to go skyrocket. I know, I know. But at least,

even though it sucks that it was yours, it sucks

that the first one you opened was defective,

at least you know it's only that one so far.

Yeah. Because out of all the ones that I've seen,

out of all the people that I've talked to about

having this $130 piece of plastic, you're the

only one that has had a defective one. Of course.

Of course I'm the only one. What why why else

would it be any other way then big then to give

me the defective one? There's no other there's

no other explanation Give it up the bottomus

give him the defective At least there's progress

At least they didn't just tell you outright,

no SOTA, you can't do anything with it. Yeah,

yeah. I don't know, but I'm repackaging this

into the package that they provide you with.

Yes. So there's that, there's that, so they can't

bitch me about anything. I'm making sure everything

is included. Yep I Can't wait till I get these

Puggles in my hands cuz wow that side swipe looks

so awesome I Mean she really captured the the

toys you know not just not just that oh, I mean

when when i originally told her i just originally

thought she was just gonna make the red and white

had the redhead and then you know the white face

i thought that i thought the whole thing was

going to be read but no the face around the faces

read the actual faces why he's got blue eyes

uh... and the rest of them is black and she's

got the green spoiler uh... and all that and

just look so awesome yeah it really does yes

it does uh... you know going through my uh...

or where my book on total pictures let's see

where are they uh... transformers call formers

but con you know going through all the ones that

she made like looking at dead and dead and dead

and derrick wyatt told her that it was the wrong

she dennis was to be more maroon less purple

but i love the purple that she used on him uh...

i mean he's got a very unique Right on it, you

know, yeah Yeah Breakdown looks absolutely amazing.

She's got him with a bluish face. It's it's um

Well, I mean, it's the side swipe face pretty

much except he's got purple eyes and a maroon

face Drag strip looks so she looks great Wild

Rider Wild Rider has the like his his mouth from

the toy. Yeah It's kind of like a squiggly line

for a mouth on the Puggle. Oh my god, it looks

so great. And Motor Master. Motor Master Puggle

is like... It's the toy head, pretty much. I

mean, she even was able to make Box Head. But

it's the expression that the toy face has with

the gritting teeth, and it's... Oh god, I can't

wait... I can't wait till she sends me these,

because the last one that she's doing for me

is... face plated toxitron so I'm gonna have

a green optimus prime head with a purple faceplate

that should be pretty cool yes so awesome so

so awesome what else do you want to talk about

here on team bottomless variety hour episode

7 oh I don't know oh and people are actually

some people are talking about the This guy's

like, just heard from another ghost trap purchaser

that only one door opens on his unit. Since you're

sold out, will you be offering any way to send

these in for repair? I haven't received mine

yet, but it does make me a bit weary. And the

guy was like, Obtobotamus? Or another person

too? He said, yeah. If another one deserves a

defunct... Or if anyone deserves a defunct unit,

it's him. What? What? What? Where is this? Send

me this link. It's Maddie's thing. On their video?

Or on your... It's on Maddie's Facebook. Hold

on. Hold on. I got it. Hold on. Let me see. Maddie

Collector. The Batmobile. Just wanted to warn

anyone shopping at Target. Let's see. Where is

this? Oh, here we go, here we go, here we go.

Uh, Ghost Trap Purchaser, there's only one door

that opens in the yard. Where are you? Fuck that

asshole. Probably a pixel band lover. No one.

especially $130 no one deserves a defunct product

especially a 130 piece of $130 piece of defunct

plastic comments on the guys that that's you

know do people really have to do that I mean

Aren't we past this by now? I have no idea I

mean, you know You know you have your thing Dan

has his thing You guys don't ever talk to each

other. I don't even think you guys have ever

talked to each other at all. Yeah You know But

See, this is the problem with people that are

fans of one person, not the other, or vice versa.

The problem with it is, is people choose sides,

and that's fine, that's their entitlement, you

know, that's, I guess, First Amendment or whatever

the fuck. But it's like, seriously? You're gonna

sit there and badmouth someone you don't even

know? You're gonna sit there and wish them to

get defunct products? Really? I -I agree. That

makes no fucking sense to me. I mean, that's

like... That's like you and I... Saying that

you know every transformer Pia gets should be

defunct because he deserves that that's so fucking

stupid Yeah That's like, you know, all right.

Well, maybe maybe Ben's a bad example, but that's

like us You know wishing Sean long to get defunct

products, you know, you don't wish I mean that's

the student in this day and age That's what people

are really talking about. That's what people

are really discussing and pointing out that people

deserve bad products seriously No God people

just and people wonder people honestly wonder

why I never step out of my apartment It's because

of stupid shit like this because stupid shit

happens in the world every day I could step out

of my apartment right now And I guarantee you

I could look left or look right and somebody

would be doing something stupid that would just

piss me off Now you're flying to it's yeah I

think, I'm trying to remember, let's see, I got

Marlana out, I got Cringer out, so Castle Grayskull's

out as well, Orpheus and I were trying to Optimus,

all the Puggles are out, because I'm hoping I

can store these two tubs, because I have two

giant, like, rubber -made tubs that I moved most

of my stuff in. I'm probably gonna take one of

them back downstairs to the other apartment to

put more junk in to carry back up here. Because

I never actually got everything moved out. I

got majority of it But yeah, so everything's

moved out for the most part that's good news,

you know People are stupid And see the bad thing

about this is now that I've I mean I can I can

remove my comment But I'm not going to but the

thing is is once that guy and anyone else that

feels the need to comment on On his status. I'll

get every single notification because I comments

on the status as well. Yeah, you will I know

But yeah, so you need to go get something to

eat because if you don't eat you're gonna be

fucked up So yeah, that's it I mean we've been

going for a solid hour and 36 hour and 37 minutes

here on team bottomless variety our episode 7

So far, I think we're getting even more random

because basically what you guys got in this episode

was basically an audio walkthrough of team bottomless

Captain up to bottomless here basically taking

it part a toy. Yeah Yeah, pretty ridiculous so

that's gonna do it for us and we'll see you next

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