Ghostbusters, Masters of the Universe, and Thundercats Action Figure Review

It's the ready to believe you Egon, which is,

I'm sitting here and I'm looking at this and

it comes with the library ghost, which is all

well and good. I mean, I like the library ghost,

but I would rather pay money just to get the

library ghost and not get another Egon figure.

And they're all excited. Oh, it's Egon. I watched

the actual commercial that this is based off,

you know, you know, in the Ghostbusters movie

when they're wearing the lab coats and they're

doing their commercial. You know and are you

troubled by strange noises in the middle of the

night? You know it's that you know, and I'm sitting

here I'm watching it and and then I'm looking

at the figure because I look at they've done

the ready to believe you version of Ray and Egon

and I'm like, okay the ray one You know, he comes

with the ghost sniffer, which is which is good.

That's that's nice The Egon comes with three

different pke meters in different Configurations

like half what halfway up full and then closed

And I'm like, in that commercial, he wasn't even

holding the PKE meter. He had like a stethoscope

around his neck. So I'm like, why do they include

these PKE meters? This is stupid. And then I'm

looking and they want to brag about how movie

accurate these figures are. Not one of them in

that had their lab coat be open where you could

see their shirt and their, like their belt buckle

and all that stuff. They were all buttoned up.

And I'm like, and I'm looking at this, I'm like,

all of them are open on the figure. and the jackets

are removable so why couldn't they just make

a new jacket that would be closed and that would

be accurate so i'm annoyed with with these assholes

and that has been a toy cast special optobotamus

rant were you recording that damn right one minute

and 47 seconds of gold you asshole in the middle

of the night do you experience feelings of dread

in your basement or attic Have you or any of

your family ever seen a spooked specter or ghost?

If the answer is yes, then don't wait another

minute. Pick up your phone and call the professionals.

Ghostbusters! Our courteous and efficient staff

is on call 24 hours a day to serve all your supernatural

elimination needs. We're ready to believe you!

Your call may be monitored or recorded for quality

control. make sure you have it on speakerphone

actually you know it's actually illegal to record

it without telling them i'm recording it well

we had one recording already so i know okay And

they're still going to ask me for my order number

even when they get me. Well then go find your

order. It's not that hard to log into the website

and look at the order number on the order history

page. Stop being lazy, Optobotamus. Yeah, let

me... I'm logging in right now to get it. One

second, please. My first name is Paul Reinhardt,

R -E -I -N -H -A -R -T. Okay, I have on here,

there's a request for a replacement for one of

my Ghostbuster ghost traps. One of them is completely

defective and won't function like it's supposed

to. And I'm waiting apparently to hear back from

somebody regarding a replacement for this. But

this is already like the fourth or fifth time

that I've called in and nobody has any information

or any kind of update or anything. So I just

want to go ahead and cancel this and just request

a refund on it. Sure Okay, I called earlier today

and they still said it hadn't but After after

thinking about it for a little while. I just

I don't want to deal with it anymore Yeah, that's

that's fine Okay, are you guys gonna pay for

the the return address and such What I mean is

who pays for the for the for me to ship it back

to you No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, I

still So I'll be refunded for the for my shipping

to you guys But but that that doesn't that doesn't

guarantee me that I get my money back Right,

I understand that but what I'm saying is who

pays for me to ship this to you guys I have to

pay out of my pocket But that there's no guarantee

for that Okay, so in other words in other words

you guys don't supply a Shipping label or anything

like everybody else that does online business

Okay Okay, well then you know, you know what

then Let's let's I'm sorry I'm sorry. I hear

a lot of noise in the background um um so i'm

sorry i'm trying to but i keep hearing other

people in the background um that's all right

uh on the on the escalation for the replacement

Is there any information on that when that might

be coming through? Yeah, on the original ticket?

I was basically trying to find out what my options

are. Yeah, but see I don't want to have to pay

out of my pocket to return it to you right now

Regardless if I get when I get refunded because

that's gonna take a while for you guys to refund

this to me And now you've already closed the

ticket for the replacement that I wanted. I didn't

ask you to close the ticket You know what is

there is there a way to open up another ticket

and do a replacement because that's what I would

like Since since the refund I have to pay to

get my money back. I don't want to do that So

so what what is it that you're doing now Okay

But now but now here's the But now here here's

my question for you because that ticket was originally

created Well, I called back when I ordered it

a while ago, but that ticket that you just canceled

was created on the 31st now I I only have 30

days Before I can get a refund and this is already

now been Okay, but now is that going to be from

today or is it going to be from Monday when I

originally called Right I understand that but

I also only have until the 16th of this month

So where I can get a refund for this if you guys

are not going to replace my item I understand

that I've already I've already been told five

different times that I'm gonna get an email that

never comes Okay, I've called I ordered this

product on the 17th of October I called on the

21st to notify you guys when I received it that

it was defective I was told to call back in 24

to 72 hours, which I did on the 26th of October

When I called then I was assured that this is

being taken care of So to wait 24 to 72 hours

for an email that never came. When it never came,

I called back on the 31st. On the 31st, I was

told that the previous two times that I called

never were recorded. And because of that, there

was no ticket ever created. Nothing was done.

So I have now gone from the 21st to the 31st.

So you're already talking 10 days. And now today's

the third. And I only have 30 days I only have

30 days to get a refund if you guys are not going

to replace my broken item And by you guys constantly

keep putting me off That's wonderful No, I understand

that but what I'm saying is that now it's gonna

be another 24 to 72 hours So now I have to wait

another, you know, day or three days before I'm

going to get information even though I already

called three days ago. And I only have a limited

amount of time before I can get my money back

for a broken item that you guys sent to me. And

then once that 30 days is gone, I'm out of luck.

According to the person I spoke to on the 31st

The the refund has to come from Mattel not you

guys if it goes past the 30 days Which means

then I have to contact them for it Okay, what

do I have a new ticket number then So it's the

same ticket number, but it now has a different

date on it Okay, so so if you reopened it Okay,

but it but if you reopened it then Shouldn't

it still have because it was created on the 31st

shouldn't it still Be from that date not today's

date today's date just as the reopening time

of it Okay, as long as this ticket number is

gonna work next time I call in because Like I

said, I've already called two previous times

and nobody knows what I'm talking about because

somebody over there didn't record what they were

supposed to Okay, all right, then we'll just

go from there and I'll call back in 24 to 72

hours All right. Well, thank you for your help.

No, that's it Thank you, thank you fuck you Hi

Mike, did you really say that would you are still

on the phone with her? Yes. Yes. I think she

hung up though, but Let's hope she hung up before

oh my god Wow, well that pisses me. I never actually

told her to cancel it Well, I think what she

was saying This is just me trying to analyze

her broken English. Yes. I think what she was

trying to say was Because you requested the refund

She thought oh, well if he's requesting a refund.

There's no reason to have The replacement still

processing. Oh, no. I understand that. And that

makes sense. But I never actually said, OK, go

ahead and cancel that. Yeah. At least I don't

think I did. If I did, then I'll. No, you did.

Well, it's in the recording of Team Bottomless

episode 10 here. So. uh... team of the sorority

or episode ten uh... before you go on your rent

and i know you want to rent about this because

this is fucking stupid uh... i don't know like

i'd catch bits of MOTU and club attorney of news

here and there it's not like it isn't like when

i was doing all the transformers news stuff for

all things transformers where i go to tfw two

thousand five every day so i caught a news item

About MOTU the other day, thank God. About the

Star Sisters? Oh, thank fucking God! They got

moved back from January to February. Okay, I

was honestly not too surprised when I saw that.

Mostly because, I mean, January is a really heavy

month. I mean, that's when they're gonna have...

They're going to have all new Masters stuff.

They're going to have all new Ghostbusters stuff.

They're going to have all new Voltron stuff.

See, the thing is, is that like, you know, Scott

and Ilic, toy gurus, said at San Diego Comic

Con, at Power Con, ThunderCon, at, you know,

all the conventions that Mattel has been to this

year, he said there was going to be um two $30

big lots a $60 big lot and a 40 or I don't know

it was a $30 big big thing two 40s and a 60 right

star sisters is the 60 right it makes it made

absolutely no fucking sense financially for their

subscribers to have that in January right after

Christmas you need to put an item like that out

maybe Inclusion like San Diego comic -con week

or you know like June July August somewhere in

the middle of the year You don't need it right

after fucking Christmas. Just like you don't

put big items on sale You know right before Christmas

well not on sale as in like oh my god This is

only eight dollars for a fucking stupid ass slimeblower

ray figure That's the same fucking thing, but

it's a fucking repaint. You know what I mean.

It's one of those things where I haven't heard,

I haven't read or heard any single Masters fan

say they want the Star Sisters. No one fucking

wants those figures. No, nobody does. Nobody

cares. I know I don't, and I know you don't.

I mean, if it was like Frosta or Glimmer, hell,

even Queen Angela or hell, Harpy or Harpa or

whatever the fuck the Queen of the Harpies name

was. Mike, stop talking. Hunga, Hunga the Harpy,

that's what it is. Mike, I'll be right back.

yeah yes ladies and gentlemen I get on a roll

and I just can't stop sometimes but so anyway

while he's gone well I have a bunch of editing

of dead air to cut out of this episode holy crap

we've been recording for 19 minutes and 44 seconds

and I bet a good 10 minutes of that is is dead

air all right let's see Where's? There he is.

I like it. I likes it a lot. Spoiler! Drag strip.

I'm just playing with my Puggles. Side swipe.

Okay. Alright. Okay. Alright. I'm leaving. Oh,

where the hell are you going? I have to go spend

time with my wife. Oh. Okay, that's fine. And

eat dinner. That's the big thing. Okay. Fat and

hungry. You are watching Optobotamus. Ho! Not

really. I mean, they are, but I mean it's...

I don't know. Yeah, I... It's dogs like chasing...

cats um and oh wait what the hell is that um

and you know it's not like most of the time dogs

don't try to eat cats well no but you know whereas

a bird is a natural enemy of a cat yeah you know

it's you know it's it just depends i i i think

it's gonna it's It's gonna be how he is. Yeah.

So, we'll see. Ooh, you're only 410 away. Oh,

from 30? Yeah. Yeah. It's projected that it'll

happen in the beginning of December. Yeah. So

I take it you didn't burden didn't care for my

idea of her reviewing Swift wind oh I Didn't

even mention it to her. I Don't know. I I don't

she might want to do it. I can I can ask her

I Mean she's she was one of those When she was

young she didn't have a heck of a lot of money

her parents didn't And she always wanted the

original swift win and never was able to get

it herself yeah so now with this new one you

know obviously it looks a lot better than it

did before yeah and she's and she's pretty excited

I told her I said I'm not even gonna let you

see it until I get She -Ra though like I got

I gotta build the perfect She -Ra for you and

then you'll come home and it'll be sitting on

your desk and this I mean I mean It looks nice.

I do like the way it looks. I mean, I just haven't

I personally have a few minor problems with it

Yeah, I mean they're they're always gonna be

with any figures. They're always gonna be problems

with it, but I Think kind of and it might just

be due to tooling or it might be due to the fact

that this was the first horse that they've done

They may fix this you know I mean with Masters

and Mattel. It's the same thing. They'll start

out with you know version one of a figure take

he man for example and then they'll do like two

or three four five six million different reissues

as the line goes along because as they are able

to tool more they'll do like like the the whole

thing with the hidden ankles now instead of showing

you a giant ankle joint they hide that within

the within the insides of of of the leg you know

so yeah who knows You know, hopefully they can

work out something I mean the biggest the biggest

thing is like the body is kind of a hard rigid

kind of plastic. Yep, and uh You know, it's like

you I can I can feel while I'm like I can I can

totally tell that there's like a ball joint inside

there Oh, yeah, but because of the weight but

because the the body where the neck slides into

like I said is oval shaped and It's hard plastic.

You can kind of feel that it wants to move left

and right, but it can't because of the hard plastic.

Yeah. And I'm wondering if, with future retools

and future... you know whether we get arrow or

who are pretty much swift wind or spirit slash

swift wind and arrow are the only two i really

know from the series because i haven't watched

the series in so long i know there were other

horses as well um hopefully with future retools

we can either maybe get a another like a swift

wind 2 .0 where it's swift wind and a spirit

in one because i know that was a few things that

a couple people kind of complained about is if

you remove the wings It's to look like the horse

got shot by a giant bullet hole. But I mean this

version is specifically meant to be Swift Wind.

While people would want a spirit and I understand

that, it's not for that. I think they're just

comparing it more to Battle Cat. still is kind

of pointless because Battle Cat was never that

big. No. So it just kind of depends. Yeah. I

mean and see something like Swift Wind you can't

it's one of those first ever things you really

can't compare it to Battle cat I mean you can

compare some of the articulation to battle cat

maybe like with the tail and all that but I Mean,

this is a brand new sculpt a brand new thing

for them. So I there is no comparison I mean

unless you're gonna you know go get horses from

the Barbie line and compare it against those

you know But no, I mean it looks you know the

the the toy itself looks amazing of course once

you you know build the the perfect sheer thing

with the silver sword and the formation head

and everything else it'll look great we'll see

yep we shall see so you are well you you have

been for a few months now but uh you're officially

hitched to the wagon sir congratulations how

is the party The party was okay. Naturally, there's

drama stuff that happens. Would Bert show up

or something? Not Bert, just issues with my sister

being drunk and my grandma and things of that

nature. Nothing ridiculous. Don't know it's I

don't even know what ended up happening I Mean

I know I know what happened, but I I don't know

what you know what the result was afterwards.

Yeah So any news on on your replacement or refund

of the horrid trap nope Everything so you're

just gonna eat the costs Well, I mean, I've since

taken the thing apart and I fixed it. Yeah. At

this point in time, I don't really care anymore.

They're a piece of shit company. And it just

sucks because that's the only place where we

can get certain things. Yep. So, I don't know.

Yeah. So what else has been going on? Not much

Not much It's just bored Trying to get back it's

funny because I was I was complaining about How

there's so much Stuff that has to happen and

It's a drain on you know I'm just like wasted

and completely tired And then after it's all

said and done, I'm like, oh, this is nice. I

can finally relax. But then after I started relaxing,

I'm like, now I'm bored. So it's weird. I mean,

for all this time, for the past year, you start

getting used to all this running around and all

this craziness. Yeah, doing stuff, getting prepared.

And then all the preparations happen, and the

party happens, the ceremony happens. And then

after that, you're like, Okay, what's next right

exactly and I'm sitting there and I'm I was like

now what do we do? You know, we were she and

I burn and I were sitting downstairs and we were

watching shop on TV and Like what was the last

time that we actually got to sit down and actually?

Enjoy this without it just being in the background

because we'd be down there in the living room

just talking about random things that you know,

we had to do or things that were coming up or

whatever the case may be and We weren't able

to pay attention to anything. So it's like Okay.

Um Well now now now we can actually watch it

in the silence is scary You know, I mean You

know It's just one of those things where, weren't

you guys gonna go on vacation somewhere? No,

we're gonna do that in December. Oh, okay. Because

Vern, she's still teaching. She still has to

go to school. Oh, that's right. We have to plan

our honeymoon around her vacation time. And next

week, is it next week already? Next week is Thanksgiving.

And then in addition to that, it's also my birthday.

Yeah, she gets she gets like maybe a week off

I don't even I don't even think that much she

might get like Wednesday Thursday and Friday

off And then she probably has to be right back

to work on Monday, I'm not sure but I Mean we're

like, well, we can't do it really for Thanksgiving

break, but Why don't we try doing something for

Christmas where she gets like Two and a half

weeks off or something like that. So we're gonna

we're gonna do our honeymoon during that we're

actually planning I think The general plan is

to go up to San Francisco Oh cool, so I've I've

been through there once There's a lot of stuff

that I would like to see up there I would I would

absolutely love being able to go on with the

tour of Alcatraz I don't like boats, so the only

way to get there is by a boat, which kind of

freaks me out. You'll be alright. Yeah, no, I

know. I mean, and it's not too far, but my biggest

fear of being in boats is I'm actually not a

very good swimmer. I can dog paddle, but that's

about it. I don't think if a boat sank that I

would be able to survive by dog paddling. So

that that's that's where my biggest fear comes

from Bern always asked me why don't you like

boats? You know, we should go and do so much.

I'm like I just don't like them I don't I can't

swim very well. So it's like I Used to take Swimming

lessons and swimming classes as a kid and everything

else and I'm not the best swimmer in the world

But I can at least tread water. It's like if

I was you know, if the ship went down You know,

I could tread water for a little while. Do you

know how people can relax and float on the surface?

I can't even do that. See, I love doing that.

I would die. My fat ass would sink to the bottom.

It's a pain in the butt. It sucks. Know that's

just that's just the way that's just the way

it is next way goes so Yeah, I remember I was

on because I was still living here in Kentucky

at the time, but I'd gone back up to Massachusetts

for a vacation when I was 14 and We were at my

aunt's parents house right and they had a they

had a pool You know the traditional three foot

shallow and nine ten foot deep end And I was

a very egotistical 14 -year -old. Yeah. Thought

I could, you know, do everything, take on the

world type of stuff. And somebody let, I believe

it was my cousin Rachel, basically let the skimmer

basically float down to the bottom of the deep

end. Wow. And everybody had just gotten out,

everybody was drying off, ready to go, you know,

we're all getting ready to go home. I was the

only one still, because I've always loved swimming

in just pools. I don't really swim in the ocean,

per se, but I've always loved swimming pools.

And I was the only one still wet. Everybody else

was dry. I'm like, OK, I'll grab it. I threw

my mask on again. And basically, this is the

first time I had ever really Took a dive into

a deep end because I'm more the type of person

that would hang out in the shallow end so I you

know, basically just grabbed every ounce of courage

dove in and Basically swam to the bottom of the

deep end to grab this skimmer. I had to actually

Force myself all the way down there. I felt like

you know two thousand pounds of pressure were

on me at the time I grabbed the thing and I'm

sitting there. I'm almost out of breath and I'm

like Oh my god, I've got to get up here. So then

I just started freaking out because I'm like

I have to get up to the surface I have to get

up to the surface and I just started relaxing

and I just floated up fairly quickly and You

know me at 14. I was probably I don't know 150

maybe I think Something like that. I don't know

but but no it you know that you know that that's

like my huge swimming story the rest of it's

like You know, we would go over to my aunt's

parents' house and have barbecue weekends and

cookout weekends and stuff like that. But I can

see why people would be scared of it. Another

swimming story was my uncle got me drunk at six

years old off a Michelob. You guys got to remember

though, my family, we're all from Massachusetts.

Most of us love fishing, love boating. all this

and all that. And it was my uncle, my grandpa,

my mom, and her boyfriend at the time. We all

go out on the boat to go fishing and, you know,

my uncle was drinking a can of whatever and I

thought it... I don't think I realized at the

time that it was beer. But he basically tricked

me into drinking half a can of Michelob and that's

probably the earliest time that I ever had alcohol

and that's probably one of the reasons why I

don't like alcohol in general by itself. is because

he tricked me into drinking half a can of Meccalo.

How are you doing? Lord. How are you doing? Have

you seen the new Thundercat figures? Yes. What

do you think of them? I like them. I think Bandai

is probably one of the most fucked up toy companies

ever, though. Yeah, that's very true. The pictures

they're showing are obviously... obviously like

very nice pictures you know now the actual figures

that we're gonna get in a store probably not

gonna look like this well they might add detail

they might do this they might do that we don't

know my biggest problem with bandai for thundercats

is specifically thundercats classics they started

out with the eight inch line eight inch lines

unless you have other eight -inch lines, which

I don't think you have any eight -inch toy lines,

the Thundercats don't fit with any collection

at all for the classics. Why does that matter?

You're doing the logic about people wanting to

put their Thundercat figures with their He -Man

figures. No, it's not even that. What I'm saying,

it doesn't matter. It could be, you know, a G1

Optimus Prime that is smaller than anything else.

You know, it doesn't matter what it is. The point

is, is that the 8 -inch line basically towers

over every other... Oh. What the hell was that?

I don't know. That was weird. Oh, okay. The 8

-inch line basically towers over every other

toy line. Now, I could see if, you know, you're

gonna try to put it up to next to 12 inch GI

Joes, that'd be alright. I don't see why that

matters. I really don't. I mean, it's like, I

don't have my Thundercats stuff displayed next

to my Transformers stuff. Well, yeah, I mean,

everybody, you know, segregates their collection

to what lines they have, but... I don't know,

it just didn't... Don't know why they just didn't

start out with a six inch line to begin with.

I mean they did both And the enough for the classics

the class the classics Lionel and tiger are both

eight inches aren't they? The class the classic

for Lionel and tiger. Yes are both eight inches.

That's what I'm that's what I'm talking about

I'm not I'm not talking about the new ones. I'm

not talking about the new show Figures I'm talking

about the classics versions that Bandai is doing

I know what you're talking about, I don't see

why that matters. I don't know. To some people

it does. Why does it matter? There's no logic

to why it matters. Oh, and I gotta say, with

all these Transformers Prime reviews showing

up of all the new figures that are coming out...

You're just changing the subject now. Well, anyway,

so with all these new figures coming out and

all the new listings being posted and everything

else I did go over to BBTS and basically pre

-order the ones that I wanted for Transformers

Prime and then I watched all the video reviews

and I'm like Yeah, I just don't care and I cancelled

all the pre -orders Which which ones did you

pre -order? I pre -ordered Optimus and Bulkhead

or Optimus Optimus Optimus and Bulkhead whatever

no no I think I just pre -ordered the two pack

of that which is Optimus and Bulkhead I had pre

-ordered Megatron and Optimus and I pre -ordered

one that has one of everyone so RC Bumblebee

Starscream and Cliffjumper I just got one of

each because I figure there's no reason to buy

more than two if I'm just going to keep most

of them in robot mode. But after seeing your

video reviews and after seeing Pia's video reviews

and a couple other ones, I was like, yeah, I

like the toys, but I just don't care to collect

them. I don't know what it is. Like I'm getting

out of the toy collecting business. I mean, besides

the fact that I'll be getting Masters next year,

I just, I don't know. It's just not stuff that

I care to have anymore. I don't know why. Oh,

you suck. Sorry. But the Thundercats toys themselves,

and again, you know, Thundercats images that

they're showing us, as you said, they're probably

Photoshopped. They're probably not, you know,

like, okay, take Warfare Cybertron Soundwave.

The Photoshopped images of him looked amazing.

Then we got a dull blue toy You know, you know

one thing that I'm actually looking at here now,

I don't know if this is I'm actually one of the

biggest complaints about the classic Lionel figure

was that the the six inch or the eight the classic

figure I'm sorry. So the eight inch version had

Like pegs and joints and stuff that were colored

wrong. Yeah. Like down in his ankle, for example.

Right. Instead of having blue painted ankle joints

or whatever, the joint connectors were actually

the color of his skin tone. So it really kind

of threw the look off when you're looking at

a blue boot and he had like a skin tone dot.

Oh, yeah. You know, one thing I'm noticing on

the classic, they're reissuing the classic Lionel

with like an open mouth where he's yelling or

something. Right. The colors of the joints look

like they match where they're supposed to. So

that actually is interesting. That's probably

because of the fact that everybody was complaining

about the paint not matching on the 8 -inch versions.

And they're like, well, let's scale them down

to 6, and we'll fully paint them. The 6 -inch

ones also have that problem. Oh, did it? Yeah.

I mean, I'm looking at the Lionel. I'm getting

ready to do this 6 -inch Lionel review. And he's

got, like, black. His joint pegs are all black.

Wow, that's weird. Yeah, so I mean it's it's

not something that was just exclusive to that

but then I'm even looking because they have they've

unveiled the new six -inch fingers as well which

is Chitara and Tigra and looking at their pegs

their pegs look like they match the skin around

them so That's actually, that's actually kind

of cool. I hope that that's something that does

carry through because I I really did not want

to have to ever buy the 4 -inch figures. I really

wanted the the thunder tank so I bought the thunder

tank and then I was like well I can't have the

fucking thunder tank without anybody riding it.

That's just stupid. So then I ended up having

to buy every single one of the 4 -inch figures.

And the 4 -inch figures just... They suck. Yeah,

I mean, they're not all terrible, but it's like,

you know, Chitara and the cats, um, the Watsons,

the Hiley cats, you know what I mean. They're

terrible. Panther, you know, everybody else is

fine, with the exception of those three. Yeah,

you know the thing about like Below six inches

in toys those to me with the exception of maybe

the Star Wars stuff the Four inch lines or the

three and a quarter inch lines those to me are

for you know as a child's play thing Six inches

and above is for collectors Yeah, I agree with

that Probably should reward that because that

sounds so wrong But yeah, but yeah, I mean it

I Mean I I don't know I Don't know I just I just

don't I was never very happy with the fact that

You know, we didn't know what we were gonna get

in the future with that. So it's like Well, I

bought the six -inch figures, you know, and I

was like, well, you know, that'd be nice if they

made all the, all the other ones, but we don't

know if they are, because we don't know how well

this toy line's doing, and we don't know what,

you know, how, how it's gonna work with anything

else. Let's see. And it says, uh, oh, wait, what's

this? In our previous interview, it was revealed

that Wiley Kitten cat... Being planned as a two

-pack for the current animated series six inch

line so Apparently they are planning to do them

all in six inch. I just You know, I just I just

want them to actually do it and I don't know

I don't know how are these toys selling at all?

For the new series toys. They're not they're

not really selling at the Toys R Us that I see

in there the Toys R Us by my house They're there.

They're just sitting there on the pegs, but You

know they might be selling you know somewhere

else fairly well. Yeah now I you know Ever since

1983 1984 or hell even 1982 with GI Joe You know

cartoons and toy lines have always gone together,

you know most cartoons for the good majority

of cartoons There are some that tell a story

most of them tell a story, but most of cartoons

are toy commercials well, you know, yeah living

living toy commercials and Nowadays, I really

hate that because the companies that run the

shows are Dependent on the toy company selling

the toys, which is stupid Now, granted, the last

three episodes of, well, I like the verbal episode,

but the last two episodes of Thundercats were

just horrendous. I mean, you know, giant elephants

in the room, and he hit me with a piece of pipa!

Right, yeah. It's just like, oh my, like, paper?

Really? It's, it's, you know, I don't remember,

this guy on Twitter, what is his name? His name

is... Dr. Ed foot dot on Twitter says that I've

been bashing the the new thundercat stuff, you

know It's I I really like the series. I I've

made no secret really that I like the toys that

There are weaknesses in the toy line But you

know for the most part I'm enjoying what we're

getting from them. I think they can improve it,

but you know, whatever now the series itself

annoys me because every single filler episode,

and I've sat down and I've re -watched the entire

series up to this date. Every single filler episode

is basically a lesson in teaching Lionel to be

patient and not to run in without thinking about

things first. Every single episode. The argument

is like well, this is a kid show when I was watching

kids shows when I was a kid each different episode

Had a different lesson. There was a different

lesson to be learned. I mean you you can even

go I mean what one of the most obvious ones is

Silverhawks a little PSA is at the end of the

episode in terms of a little question with the

copper kid, so You know in GI Joe no one is half

the battle There are messages in these, you know,

there's lessons to be learned. Lion O, like I

said, every single filler episode has been Lion

O having to learn to be patient and learn not

to, you know, have a head of steam and running

the things without thinking about shit first.

And that's every single filler episode that we've

gotten so far. Every one of them. Yep. That's

the part that annoys me. Oh yeah, I agree. I

understand that. And I understand that this episode

here is... The series of episodes is part of

a little story arc where they're traveling to

find the gemstones that came out of Mumrah's

sword thing. Or not a sword. Yeah, it was a shield.

Yeah, it was a shield. So they're trying to find

these. And I understand that but... It's like

they have they have all this filler bullshit

and then like the last two minutes of the episode

Focus on their main objective Which is we got

to find this where where's this? Where's this

gem at? Why can't we find it said that it was

here? Okay You're you're you're gonna waste 20

minutes. I mean cuz these shows are what like

22 minutes long You're gonna waste 20 minutes

Just bullshitting with elephants that can't remember

shit I mean, seriously. It's terrible. Yeah,

it is. And that's what's gonna kill the series.

Nobody's gonna wanna watch it if they're constantly

force feeding us the same bullshit message over

and over again. I understood that Lionel was

a hothead after that very first episode when

he's going around. It was, what was it, the third

episode of the series? Or the season when...

When they were, he was fighting, he was doing

the whole Moby Dick thing. Yep. That was like

the third episode. The third episode was a filler

episode. Are you fucking kidding? It's lame.

And, you know, I mean, it was, you know, learn

to be patient, Lionel. And, snarf, snarf, you

stupid snarf. I mean, come on. Well, Snarf in

this series isn't as bad as Snarf in the old

series. I like Snarf in the old series. I don't

particularly like what they did. They took Snarf.

Snarf was Lionel's best friend. Now they relegated

him to being a pet. Which, you know, I mean in

the first series he had, you know, sentience

and he was going around and he, you know... And

I'm not saying that the new version of Snarf

doesn't have that, but he's a pet in this. Yeah.

It's like me taking you and, you know, all of

a sudden and then making you a dog. That'd be

one fat dog. That would be a fat dog. But I mean,

the point is, you can't take something that has

a personality and completely... I mean, the new

Snarf has a personnel, I shouldn't say that,

but it's just, there's a huge difference between

the two characters. And I don't particularly

like it. And honestly, in the same respect, I

probably shouldn't be too critical of Snarf,

because I don't like how Panthor is... Panthro,

not Panthor. I keep doing that. Don't like how

everybody keeps doing that. No, I don't particularly

like How he is depicted in this series as well?

Although I appreciate the difference between

them. So I should have I guess I shouldn't be

too critical of snarls, right? I Don't know.

I mean cuz you're taking you're taking Well,

you know that there are elements of pan throw

that are still from the old series apparent in

the new series. I just don't like the fact that

he's this big general in the new series. See,

that's the difference though. See, that's where

the old series and the new series extremely differ.

In the original series, and everybody knows this,

but I'm going to say it anyway because I'm making

a point. The original series you had, you know,

Thundera slash Krypton blowing up and everybody

leaving. Right. right they crash land on earth

they're put into suspensions cat subs suspension

capsules during space flight why no grows up

in size but he hasn't grown up in maturity right

so the point of the cats in the original series

was they were all to teach him a certain lesson

tiger was to teach in this panther was to teach

in this which are was to teach in porn poses

you know and the kids Screw the kids because

it was actually in turn supposed to teach them

stuff So in this series you have it set already

on third earth thunder is a city and it's a completely

different different way, so It I think I mentioned

this a couple episodes ago in team bottom of

sorority hour. It's almost like this show is

like The Greeks versus the Romans but with cats

and other species. Yeah, I mean that's really

what this is Taking the original characters and

reimagining them into a completely different

thing and It's it's not bad. I like it. I don't

mind that aspect but you know I still would prefer

just if you could modernize it without going

completely in a different direction. I mean,

Tigra and Lionel are brothers in this? That's

so weird. And I can see what they're doing with

this because the story that they have created,

I'm sure we're going to find out eventually that

there was a whole Thor thing that happened with

Loki and you know Loki is or Tigra is basically

Loki in in this new Thundercats universe where

it's it's to me it's apparent that um what the

fuck's his dad's name Claudus um Claudus yeah

yeah is uh you know he somehow rescued Tigra

whose original father is Tigris Yeah, and you

know I mean it you know raised them as his own

son. I mean it's like I said It's Thor and Loki,

but in thundercat form So I mean I see what they're

doing with it. I don't mind it, but it's it's

it's a completely different thing It's not you

know I mean at least with transformers. There's

some consistency You know Continuities that you

have going on yeah, so With this one, it's just

a completely different thing. Yeah, it is. It's

bad. I mean, I'm not, I mean, it sounds like

I'm trashing it. I enjoy the series. Right. I

really didn't think I would because I still to

this day, I don't like the animation on it. Yeah.

That's just, that's just me. I don't like anime

style and that's, and people were like, well,

then you must not have liked 24 Hours because

that was anime style. This is a completely different

type of anime. I mean, anime back then didn't

look as Asian, which I guess that sounds rude,

but I mean, it's a different, it's a completely

different style. You know, 80s anime looks different

than the 21st century version of anime. So, you

know, I don't care for it too much, but the story,

the main story, I actually enjoyed. All the filler

stuff. I don't care about at all. That's my main

issue is that you know the verbose That was a

nice episode to have thrown in there. I Could

handle that but again my biggest problem with

that whole thing was that it came after a six

-week hiatus Which is not is not the thundercat

fault. There is not that this shows producer

fault. It comes from character network. So I

Have I have you know, I don't mind that so much

but Then they'll follow it up with two episodes

that just totally suck. Yeah, I mean, it's like,

you know, I get that they're making this huge

journey and huge search to find these other stones.

Right. And they're moving across third earth,

going to different villages and different forests

and different, you know, whatever. But it's like,

really? You couldn't just like fast forward this.

Couple episodes and just you know get to the

good stuff already cuz I honestly the last epic

battle Good episode we had was legacy episode

7. Well, I I really liked the um The drifter

in the duelist. Oh, yeah, that was pretty good.

I actually I actually really liked that episode.

I was very surprised Because that that kind of

is a filler episode as well And again, it's the

whole thing about teaching patience. But it was

done in a much better way, I thought. I really

liked the drifter in it. I really thought he

was a really cool character that I really do

hope that we see later on in the series. But

I don't know. I don't know. I'm just annoyed.

With some of it, but the toys I I've never really

made it a secret that I I don't or that that

I like the toys I mean I oh yeah, yeah, yeah,

yeah, yeah, and it even says um I'm reading on

here says the same can be set with these post

screws on the back blah blah blah black pins

matching the color blah blah blah Collector displaying

the figures under front of things like this they

have fixed um they have fixed it It has a fix

for this. Orange colored pins, screw tabs, etc.

Been looked into for Tigra, Chitar, and future

reed issues. And it says, we have taken measures

on our 6 inch line. So that's very cool. I'm

very happy about that. I really do. I'm very

happy about having the figures. My argument with,

you know, the eight inch, you know, it's too

big. I keep my figures, you know, segregated.

And I don't, I never understood the whole rationale

where people wanted to display their thundercat

figures with key man. That's really the biggest

thing. You know, other people have reviewed these

figures and have compared them. to the classic

He -Man figures. I don't know why they do. It

makes no sense to me, because honestly, the toys

were not produced by the same company back in

the 80s. The show was not produced by the same

company back in the 80s. It had similarities,

but fuck. Every show back then had similarities.

I mean, it was a cookie -cutter type of a thing.

So that's what they cast, you know, one thing

was successful, so another company came along,

they did something else with something different.

But it was the same general scheme. I'm waiting

for the FedEx man to get here. What the fuck

are you FedExing? Do what? Oh, I'm waiting for

the FedEx man to get here. Oh. Yeah. What are

you expecting now? I'm expecting the World Wrestling

Federation... Championship belts from the Attitude

era with Stone Cold and The Rock and all that.

Oh, cool. Got me one of those suckers coming.

Yeah, so I mean, I never understood why people

have this fixation on, you know, putting just

because they aired around the same time. Well,

that's fucking stupid. You don't put your G .I.

Joes with them, which G .I. Joes are three inch

figures. You know, you don't put those with your

He -Man. So why would you do it with thundercats?

You know, if fucking thundercats were like four

inch toys. Or maybe five, maybe five inch, I

don't know. But, you know, you don't put that

with them. I don't know. Some people probably

do, I don't know. It doesn't bother me that much,

though, in terms of the price. I don't really

care. And the thing is, with the size reduction,

hopefully there will be a price reduction. Well,

yeah, I mean the the eight inch figures are the

most expensive I Don't even remember how much

they are but they're the most expensive and then

the six inch ones are a little bit cheaper and

then the four inch ones are a little bit cheaper

even still but Some of the four inch ones I think

should be a whole lot cheaper like for example

the Wiley's I don't know why those are those

are like eight bucks. I don't know why They don't

do anything. They're the same price as all the

other things that have a lot more articulation.

Yeah Oh What are you gonna do? I'm hungry now.

I haven't ate my lunch yet You're like Tommy

Call me after you're done eating lunch. Oh, knock

it off. Okay, right there. I said after you're

done eating lunch. You haven't even eaten lunch

yet. That was my fault if you haven't eaten lunch.

I thought it was something half -waist or import.

So I was like, well, I'll call. What the fuck

do you want, boo? All right. So that's going

to do it for this episode of Team Bottomless

Variety Hour. Yeah, he snuck this in there. He

didn't tell me that he was doing it. but i i

mean i knew you were i mean eventually after

a little while i realized we weren't just talking

oh wow i didn't know that corey burton did the

voice for joga and tigus yeah that's weird i

didn't know that now you know knowing is half

the battle we'll see you next time on team bottomless

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