Marvel, Netflix and Toys Oh My!

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Geek as well as on geekcastradio .com. So it's

been a little bit since there's been an episode.

So what's been new with you before we jump into

it? What's been new with me? Let's see. I've

been losing my mind. My health is going down

the drain and I think I'm going to die. So business

as usual. Yeah, pretty much. Same shit, different

day. Yep. So with that. Funny guy. Yeah, we're

trying to end Podcaster Meets World this year.

yes we're we're going no no there's no try we're

going to do it that's that's no there's no try

because if we end it next i think if we end it

next year it'll be 10 years since we started

that damn show i think that's what it is because

i think we started it in 2016 Because we had

the top 100 TV shows in 2015 and it came in at

number 50 out of the 100 TV shows that were listed.

And we both scoffed at that and we're like, what

the hell are you talking about? 50 out of 100.

Easily top 25. I mean, come on. I mean, some

episodes do deserve that, but. Yeah, but. But

yes, we are working on getting Podcaster Meets

World going and finishing that up. Yeah, episode

zero was February 2nd, 2016. This is the funny

thing about that podcast, folks. I'm sorry. Steve's

going to go on his 3D printing love fest here

in a little while. So I'm going to go on my podcast

love fest here now. February 2nd, 2016. You know

when the first episode aired? No. April 28th.

April 28th, 2018. Okay, took us two years. To

actually get going. This is supposed to be a

15, 20 episode mini podcast that should have

taken us a year at best. It's taken us almost

10 between episode three and episode four, 2018

to 2021. I mean, you know, there was that whole

thing in the middle there that happened after,

you know, 2019, but you know, it is what it is.

We love the show. We love doing the podcast or

whatever, but just other things were more important

when it came to podcasting. We had transformer

stuff. We had, Altered Geek stuff. We had other

stuff. Well, I had a lot of job situation stuff

between 2016 and like two years ago. Yeah. At

least now you're settled. Hopefully. Hopefully.

For the most part. Hopefully. You never know.

You never know. But yeah, I mean, so we're working

on that, working on a very... other shows um

i'm waiting for side projects to die down at

time to actually properly revive the cyber dragon

ball and m wire i mean i did put out a new cyber

dragon ball episode like a week or two ago uh

by the time of this recording but uh yeah i would

like to do it more consistently yeah well that's

so i'm kind of waiting consistent is key yeah

Yeah. And so I'm waiting until some other stuff

kind of goes by the wayside. So, yeah. So without

further ado, we've got some some movie stuff.

We've got trailers. We've got a movie that I

watched on Netflix recently. Something with the

Avengers and a toy discussion. So since you brought

up the trailers, why don't you kick it off with

that first? All right, trailers. This will be

quick, easy, and painless, folks, I promise.

Since, you know, we don't really talk about sports

around here on the Geekcast Radio Network all

that often. I mean, we did have the sports gal

pal on here. We interviewed her a number of years

ago now. I was born and bred in Boston, Massachusetts.

Boston sports is in my blood. It always has been

in my blood. So whenever anything Boston sports

pops up anywhere, my ears perk up, my eyes bug

out and we're like, what, what's this? Um, currently

I believe it's supposed to be a nine episode

thing on max. Just like how Netflix has The Last

Dance, which is the Michael Jordan Chicago Bulls

special thing that they did for that. Max has

Celtic City going through the Celtics history.

So I'm currently watching that. Coming up April

8th, Netflix is going to be doing The Clubhouse

a year with the Red Sox. So they're going to

be doing that. So I put the trailer for Celtic

City out there in the show notes and I put the

trailer out for Clubhouse there. Celtic City,

as of this recording, just released episode five.

So I'll be probably watching that as soon as

we're done recording here. And it's just one

of those things where like the Celtics, when

they started, I wasn't even born. So getting

to watch that part of history in sports, getting

to actually watch what Bill Russell and John

Havlicek and everybody else did in Boston for

the city, for the fans, for the sport of basketball

in the NBA. I mean, the Celtics were the early

dynasty in the NBA. kind of thing and the red

socks are are the red socks so you know it is

what it is um but i just i love seeing that stuff

and i love watching it it just that's just what

i'm enjoying watching right now when it comes

to certain stuff and i'm watching other stuff

and other things but mostly like i'm watching

that like i know unless i wrangle in one of my

cousins or something i'm pretty sure i'm not

going to get anybody to do a celtic city podcast

with me you know so that i'm watching actually

to watch to enjoy the thing and i don't feel

like i have because it's a history thing for

me like i said and you know it just is so it's

not something i feel like i have to podcast about

other than talking about it here now where it's

like Oh, this is cool. I can sit back, relax,

enjoy this and not have to do all the podcast

prep stuff to then talk about what I watched

kind of thing. And I'm not complaining about

it. It's not a complaint at all. I'm just saying

it's very rare that I get to do that these days

because most of the stuff that I watch. I watch

so we can talk about it. And I just, we just

recorded, yeah, we just recorded, we just recorded

Podcaster Meets World episode 13. Didn't we mention

Wedding Crashers in that episode? Yeah, we did

because Corey and Topanga were Wedding Crashers.

I think so. Yes, yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because

they crashed, because she's in the second half

of season six. They're preparing for their wedding,

and they go to this fancy wedding where the bride's

father is trying to bribe Corey. One million

dollars! And I brought up the movie Wedding Crashers,

and I just looked on Netflix. Guess what's on

Netflix? Wedding Crashers. Guess what has a 20th

anniversary this year? Wedding Crashers. Wedding

Crashers. New episode of Studio 2009 coming later

this year. Oh, God. So, yeah, Celtic City is

on now on Max. If you have Max, if you want to

learn about the Boston Celtics and the history

of that, like I said, there's that. And then

the clubhouse for the Red Sox. I'm interested

to see that, the clubhouse thing, because a year

with the Red Sox, I don't know where that's going

to, I don't know. I got to look at that trailer

again because I'm not sure where exactly in the

history that that is, if that's current or if

that's whatever. Because last year, for the 20th

anniversary since the Red Sox did the big comeback

in 2004, last year Netflix did the special The

Comeback, revisiting and talking about the history

of the big comeback against the Yankees and the

fact that the Red Sox won the 2004 World Series.

I'm not sure what exactly. I don't remember off

the top of my head about the clubhouse, but I'm

very excited for that. So yeah, trailers. Yay!

Yeah, and then speaking of trailers, I thought

it was kind of funny that we finally got YouTube

cracking down on those garbage fake trailers

and their monetizations. I saw news on that earlier

and I was ecstatic. I was like, oh, finally.

There's only one fake trailer I've ever actively

enjoyed. And that's the one with old Superman,

old Batman. It's all this old combination of

footage of movies that have already been out.

kind of thing it it's an old old you know which

one i'm talking if you see it if i send it to

you later you'll know within two seconds oh yeah

i remember this uh that's the i don't do fake

trailers i don't want like we don't get political

on the geekcaster network folks but i'm gonna

say this anyway i don't care what kind of news

it is i don't care what industry of news it is

i don't want fake shit in my news I don't want

fake stuff in my trailers. I want the real stuff.

I get it. People are excited. I get it. People

want to make like, there's a difference in a

fake trailer and a, and a, and somebody wanting

to do their own thing with like, like a, I don't

know much, but I guess it's an homage. I don't

know. Don't do it, folks. Don't try to make shit

up that isn't already there, please. I mean,

not with trailers. Don't try to like. Give me

an example of a fake trailer you saw recently.

Hmm. It's it's more so just like the stuff like

they they try and like I've seen some of the

Avengers or Marvel related stuff. on on youtube

specifically and you can like they splice different

stuff together or then you've got the ai stuff

where they've kind of created it um i don't know

i can't tell one specifically but i've i've seen

a few of them when i'm actively trying to find

a legit trailer yeah and it's it's highly frustrating

especially when you're trying to see something

legit Like it would be one thing if they just

labeled it, you know, like fan trailer. Just

right off the bat instead of trying to like actively.

But I'm glad that they. They're demonetizing

those because honestly. I know it's not like

their commentary. It's not like they're adding

something. They're just creating. I mean, yeah,

they're fun if that you're into that. But I mean,

I I'm not. and again like like i said that one

that's the justice league because the the whole

point of the old superhero one that i'm talking

about is it's it's like i don't think it was

it might have been christopher reeve i don't

think it was but it was like christopher reeve

michael keaton yeah it was and um wonder woman

linda carter uh it was all of them but that was

like That was done like 14, 15 years ago from

stuff that had already been out. What you're

talking about is people trying to fit together

things that either aren't released yet or just

making up their own stuff. And it's like, yeah,

I mean, I don't mind the ones that like they

somebody used AI to create from with Christopher

Reeve, Michael Keaton and Linda Carter and. um

john wesley ship and you know all those guys

like creating the justice league from like the

90s or like you know earlier than that like i

was fine with that like because that that was

just you can tell it's fake and it was just it

was different but like the ones that are trying

to pass off as a modern movie coming out now

that's that's where i kind of I'm like, OK, that's

not. But yeah, that's. It's one of those things

that I'm just not fond of in general. Yeah, me

either. Now I'm going to skip along because I'll

touch on the action figure stuff later. Should

we do the Marvel or the electric state? Well,

let's do the Marvel because it kind of ties into

the movie stuff. Electric State we can do in

a minute. But the Marvel, I don't know about

you, but if I see a certain thing one too many

times in a short time span, I'm like, okay, I'm

sick of this already. Did you know I finally

watched The Social Network? Oh, did you really?

What did you think? Actually, it wasn't too bad,

but it jumped around too much in the beginning.

Yeah, yeah. Uh, my Mary and I have been jumping

around watching based on a true story films.

Uh huh. So we watched the one about NASA and

you know, the, the origins of the computers and

you know, that they were actually people, you

know, outsmarting, you know, being able to do

the calculations and then they use the computer,

you know, they got all trained on how to use

the giant IBM computers, the size of a room that

barely has enough memory. to compete with your

mouse um and it was that was interesting and

then you know of course we watch the social network

and then i don't know what we're gonna watch

next but i've got a list that we're gonna probably

go through and try and you know uh try and just

kind of enjoy them and then get a little bit

of history with them at the same time, which

is something we've been trying to do more of,

uh, less brain rot and more something with a

substance. Um, not that I don't occasionally

enjoy the, you know, the other stuff, but I'm

going back and watching older things because

one, I haven't watched some of them and two,

uh, it just kind of feels like it's, time to

watch some of them yeah uh but yeah with with

the whole avengers doomsday cast that i mean

you can clearly tell they're not done teasing

who's in it oh no they're not um and i i did

like how at the end of the the teaser that they

had uh robert downey jr at the end kind of going

yep um but I find it funny. The first name is

Hemsworth. Of course. Because, I mean, he's pretty

much the only OG Avenger. Well, outside of Robert,

but Robert is going to be doomed this time. Yeah.

Well, I mean, you got Hawkeye that's still around

and you got the Hulk. Yeah. But the rest of them

are dead. Yeah. And and I'm fine with Hemsworth.

Like, I I'm glad that he's kind of carrying the

torch. And, you know, he's like, I'm happy to

come back for as many films as you'll have me.

And as long as the role is different. And then

we've got Anthony Mackie is his captain. Yeah.

Then we've got the, you know, Vanessa Kirby is

Susan Storm for the new Fantastic Four, which

I'm cautiously optimistic about just because

they're kind of taking the 60s. to kind of differentiate.

Yep. And then you get Ant -Man. Yeah, I could

do it on him. I wish somebody would step on him

already. I'm fine with him being there. And then

we get... Florence Pugh. Yep. The White Widow,

essentially. John Walker. And then we've got

Namor, which he hasn't been in a film yet, right?

Not to my knowledge. Not in the MCU. I could

be wrong, but I don't think so. And then we got

Shang -Chi, which is surprising because that

movie bombed. Then we've got the White Wolf,

Bucky Barnes. He's an OG. I mean, he's not...

You know, I mean, he's not of the original Avenger

film is what I'm getting at. That's what I'm

counting as an OG, like not the fact that he

predates them. Not the original six. Yeah. Yeah.

But he's he's like immediate second tier. Yep.

And then we get the new, you know, Shuri, the

Black Panther. Which I thought that was kind

of just why is just having her play the role

rather than trying to recast. Absolutely. you

know story progression it just makes sense Ben

Grimm the thing and then we get into some X -Men

which Kelsey Grammer is the beast which I loved

the trailer where it was just kind of doing regular

like Avengers music and then it went into like

the X -Men theme like rolled into it it was like

you know and I was like oh this is cool And then

we get Sentry, which I'm not sure who that is.

I think they're from that new anti -hero Marvel

film. I could not tell you off the top of my

head. I can't remember what. It's the new one

that, you know, the White Wolf and all of them

are in. I can't remember the name of it, mostly

because I don't care and I'm not going to see

it. And then we get the new Falcon. Yep. Joaquin

Torres. And then we get the new Johnny Storm.

Yep. And Red Guardian. Yep. Returning. And then

we get M 'Baku. M 'Baku. Yeah, M 'Baku. I'm not

sure who... Was he in the films? Yeah, M 'Baku

is... He's in the Black Panther films. Okay.

Oh, God. I want to say he's in the Black Panther

films. That's OK. And then and then, of course,

then we have ghosts who's again from. The same

film as. As Bucky. Thunderbolts, that's the Thunderbolts,

that's what it is. Yes, that's the all of the

Thunderbolts are here. I'm wondering if they're

going to be the catalyst to start this off. I

think they are because I think somebody said

something about something in the Avengers Doomsday

teaser spoiled Thunderbolts or something. I don't

know. People are just whatever anyway. And then

we get Loki returning. Of course. I wonder which

variant or if this is going to be the one that

was in the Loki TV show. Like almost like he's

connecting the threads to bring all of these

people together. Yeah, probably. But he's an

OG. So I would throw him in there and then we

get the X -Men. We get Patrick Stewart is Professor

X, which. They've killed him three times. Twice

in the Fox universe and once in the MCU. We're

going to go for four. Uh -huh. Yeah. Yeah. Some

people have hinted that this film could be an

X -Men versus the Avengers. I don't think it's

going to be. I think it might start out that

way. Yeah. But they'll quickly, you know, Doom

will enter and they'll be like, we have a common

enemy. Yeah. Like if they were really. So if

if if the Marvel if Marvel Studios and the Marvel

Cinematic Universe really wanted to do an AVX

and Avengers versus X -Men based on the comics.

They would market it as Avengers versus X -Men.

They would not market it as Avengers Doomsday

going into Avengers Secret. The whole point of

Doomsday is leading into Secret Wars because

Doctor Doom had a whole big to do with the Secret

War. Secret War is the next big Avengers thing.

So I would love to see that. I think that would

be super cool if they adapted. the avx comics

into the live action marvel cinematic universe

but i think you're right i think it's gonna be

you know it's it's gonna kind of be like uh world's

finest i don't trust you you don't trust me oh

crap lex and joker teamed up we have to work

together yeah it's gonna be something like that

and um Yeah. So, I mean, I see that happening.

And then we get Ian McKellen coming back as Magneto.

Yeah. Which is the first time since like Days

of Future Past. Yeah. And then we get Alan Cumming

coming back as Nightcrawler. Yeah. Which is cool.

And Rebecca Romijn coming back as Mystique. And

then Donut Lord. Yes. James Marsden as Cyclops.

It's funny because somebody posted they're like,

OK, there was a meme going around earlier. I

don't remember what day it was. It was probably

a couple of days ago. So they showed Jason Marsden

in a car driving with the bunny, you know, having

hot. And then it was him in the car again or

the truck with Sonic the Hedgehog sitting next

to him. And somebody was like, they're like,

give this to me, Disney. And it's got Cyclops

sitting in there with Rocket. Yeah. In the, in

the image for doomsday, like as a joke. And it's

like, it kind of makes sense. Like he's kind

of typecast as the guy that's got the CG animal

friend. Yeah. And the funny thing is, is I remember

I just saw a clip the other day. I think it was

at the Sonic three premiere. Where somebody asked

him. So donut Lord in X -Men. he's like no no

i don't know what you're talking about it was

those rumors had been going around i think ever

since he first starred in the first sonic movie

like whether he would return or not as cyclops

and i'm glad he's returning because honestly

there's nobody else i can see in hollywood that

could play that role better than he does even

though he only had the Three or however many

films he was in. I don't remember. He was only

in those three. He wasn't in Days of Future Past,

was he? No, he was already dead. People kept

saying he was and I'm like, he was not there.

No, he was not there. But yeah, I personally,

I hope that I hope that for Magneto and Cyclops,

they give them. The proper comic attire. Yeah.

Like they did Wolverine and Gambit. I'm personally

hoping that they do this. Because, I mean, Professor

X already has the chair. They used it in Multiverse

of Madness. Yep. So there's no reason why they

won't do the rest of them. I think they've come

to the realization that people want it. Yeah.

And it will happen. um well and and jackman said

he said recently over when when uh deadpool wolverine

happened he's like somebody asked him how does

it feel being in that suit he goes oh it feels

fine it feels great i don't know what i was thinking

25 years ago he's like i wish we would have done

this 25 years ago yeah exactly um but yeah i

think it's cool that they're all they're all

reprising they're all coming back and then we

get gambit finally coming back and and then we

of course jump over to Pedro Pascal as Mr. Fantastic

and then we get Robert Downey Jr. and then it

you know this is now in production and then people

were like well where's Doctor Strange where's

Hawkeye where's Hulk where's Spider -Man where's

Wolverine and Deadpool and you know these others

and I'm like so Part of me thinks that they're

not done revealing. Right. Part of me wonders

if they're going to pull like a Mark Hamill in

The Force Awakens where some of these show up

at the end. Yeah. Part of me also wonders if

the Avengers and the X -Men like the X -Men are

drawn into this battle because the Avengers are

failing so poorly against Doom, who is probably

playing like he's Tony Stark. Oh, yeah. And almost

doing like Justice League Doom, where the whole

initiative that Batman has to take down the rest

of the leaguers, I'm wondering if Doom is tearing

them apart from the inside and the X -Men are

drawn in by Loki to fix things. And in doing

so, they have to bring all these other Avengers

that aren't there. But I also get the vibe that...

Every time the Avengers are in a fight and Hawkeye

is not there, they lose. That's true. So I'm

thinking Doomsday is going to be them losing.

And then the follow -up film is going to be them

resetting the slate. Yeah. Like full reboot with

Fantastic Four continuing beyond. Yeah, could

be. That's my thought. I hope that Wolverine

gets to kind of finally play with the X -Men

in the costume and, you know, Deadpool and Colossus

and, you know, some of these other guys that

have been there forever. Yeah, absolutely. But

yeah, I mean, obviously they can only afford

so much. So I'm, I'm hoping that we end up with,

with a really good film either way. Just sucks.

I got to wait a year. Oh, it'll go by really

fast. Yes, I know, I know. But then again, 2025

has felt like, you know, we're at the end of

the first three months, it's felt like nine years.

At least to me it has, but... Oh, boy. And in

other movie stuff... Yeah, so I watched The Electric

State on Netflix, which is done by the Russos.

The Russo brothers did it. And I genuinely enjoyed

this film for what it is. And it was very it

felt very original. And fun, like just something

I'd not seen before. Which Netflix seems to be

doing really well at. uh, you know, the Ryan

Reynolds stuff. Um, we've, we've had that, um,

and his variety of films and they've all been

enjoyable. Yeah. And so this one, I sat down

kind of half expecting to enjoy it half thinking

this is going to be stupid. Cause it's a bunch

of, you know, robots running around talking to

humans and green States. And then they, they

explain that, you know, everybody's kind of plugged

in and, you know, living virtually and not actually

living. And I was like, okay, so it's got some

Wally in there. It's got, you know, gamer, you

know, that film. And, uh, it was just a lot of

things going on in it. And I, I love how the

robots felt like they were real, like they were,

authentically there we had some I don't know

there was a lot of throwbacks just a lot of stuff

that was fun that kind of felt like 80s and 90s

to it yeah so it kind of made me you know I was

like oh I'm kind of at home here and then Chris

Pratt kind of reminded me of he kind of reminded

me of like a Han Solo type character but for

a modern era so The voice acting was fun and

kind of on spot. Stanley Tucci is like the bad

guy. And then Giancarlo Esposito, I can't pronounce

his name right, but he played Colonel Bradbury.

He plays bad guys a lot and everything. But he's

kind of a bounty hunter in this film. And I felt

like he did. really well with what he was given

and then we had um of course like the main characters

the Millie Bobby Brown who's from Stranger Things

and the Enola Holmes have Chris Pratt Guardians

of the Galaxy and Jurassic World and you know

the list goes on and on Jason Alexander was at

the beginning uh Woody Harrelson he plays Mr.

Peanut which was great uh I don't know. Hearing

some of these older legends playing some of the

robots was just a lot of fun. Brian Cox playing

Popfly, which is he's a baseball bot that shoots

baseballs, but he also falls asleep a lot. Jeez.

I don't know. I found the movie to just be fun

in general and just a lot going on. uh, Herman,

that's Chris Pratt's character's friend is Anthony

Mackie. Yep. So I'm like, you got the Marvel

connection there. There you go. Yep. Um, and,

uh, yeah. So, I mean, just, just overall, it

was just, it was a lot of fun to watch. without

giving too much away, especially because you

haven't seen it. And then, you know, I, I want

people to genuinely just go watch it because

again, it was, it was fun in a different way

than a lot of the crap that seems to be coming

out or rehashes. Yeah. I'll give it a watch.

Uh, the funny thing is, is that, uh, when, um,

when I read the, uh, the basic plot of the film,

I was like, huh. So just this line, where it's

like, With the help of Center CEO Ethan Skate,

who developed Neurocaster technology that allowed

humans to upload their minds into drone robots,

that reminded me of a... amazon prime tv series

that debuted in 2020 that we were supposed to

discuss on whatever show we were supposed to

discuss it on you remember upload yep is it very

similar so upload in 20 no it's it's not exactly

similar but it it it's it doesn't have to do

with robots it has to do with death unfortunately

In 2033, humans can upload themselves into virtual

afterlife of their choosing. When computer programmer

Nathan Brown dies prematurely, he is uploaded

to the very expensive Lakeview, but then finds

himself under the thumb of his possessive still

-living girlfriend Ingrid. As Nathan adjusts

to the pros and cons of digital heaven, he bonds

with Nora, his living customer service rep. Nora

struggles with the pressures of her job, her

dying father, who does not want to be uploaded,

and her growing feelings for Nathan, while slowly

coming to the belief that Nathan was actually

murdered. Upload is supposedly getting a fourth

and final season. At some point, according to

this, as of 2024, it has not had its fourth and

final season yet. It's got three seasons at this

point. So, yeah, interesting. I don't know. I

remember when this first hit Amazon. Again, I

know we're talking about Electric State, but...

i remember when this first hit amazon prime and

karen and i had watched it and we watched that

first episode we were just like oh my god this

is hilarious like this is a show we should be

podcasting about even though it's about death

and dying and afterlife and what just the hilarity

and the the dude uploads himself to the digital

afterlife and the first thing he wants to do

Is pee all over the wall. Because he can. Because

he's dead. And it doesn't matter. So anyway.

Electric State. Yes. I will watch Electric State.

And I will report back next week. Because it

does look really fun. Like you're saying. I saw

the trailer earlier. And yeah. No. So very cool.

Very cool. I'm just. I'm kind of over Pratt at

this point. I am too, but he does really well

on this. I mean, it's him. So, I mean, you know

what you're getting. Yeah. But yeah, I mean,

it was just it was fun and I wasn't expecting

it. Cool. That's good. That's awesome. Looking

forward to it. So with that aside. Getting into

toy talk. Yes, toy talk. So in a previous episode,

I brought up the Star Trek nacelle figures. And

brought up how wave one, you know, they start

out with some obscure characters. I mean, for

the most part, they're not all obscure. Like

you get Captain Jellicoe. Ronnie Cox which is

tempting enough just to have a figure of the

dude I mean these these are coming out in October

for one and they're like they're 2029 bucks or

whatever which is not bad for what these are

considering how highly detailed and how articulated

like they got the ankle the double jointed knees

twisting you know at the waist the twisting at

the legs the you know ball joint arms and or

arm and leg sockets and then you get the twisting

arms and then you get the you know you can swap

out hands and they come with like usually some

of their key items like jellico you get like

a phaser uh uh pad a book and like some paintings

from picard's thing and then the fish tank like

so they all come with something you know for

display piece and then you get you know like

captain garrett from the enterprise c you get

you know a bunch of other random characters captain

sulu from the excelsior and then um and they

only had eight figures and like the other ones

i mean the only two that were somewhat enticing

for me for this wave were the captain jellicoe

and the captain sulu like the rest i was kind

of like meh um but then i i was like you know

what they need they need kirk from generations

like they need yeah you know they need that for

wave two and then lo and behold i i get up like

this morning and i'm i'm checking online and

i'm like look holy crap well so i i looked like

it was literally the day after we published the

episode that that popped up for that one but

then like today they unveiled the whole line

of wave two and i was going what these are awesome

you know and i mean i'm not gonna buy most of

them but the the main one that's of interest

to me is the uh captain kirk from star trek generations

and it's because he's wearing the vest like that

was that was one it held a special place for

me in my childhood for one because the first

trek film i saw in theater was generations Yeah.

And then I saw the, you know, his outfit and

I was liked the, the design of the vested Kirk

outfit. Cause I'd never seen this one before.

Like he wore one similar in Star Trek two, but

then it wasn't like this was, this was new. And

so I, I just liked the aesthetic. I liked the

color. I like, you know, just the whole thing.

So, um, so anyways, they, the likenesses of these

nacelle figures are spectacular. um they look

just like the actors they look just like they

did in the film for the most part i mean it's

like the equivalent of a masterpiece figure for

a you know a poor person pricing right um they

you know he can clasp his hands behind his back

he comes with uh because in the movie he's cooking

in his house and so he's got this jar of dill

weed so like they of course give him that and

the two eggs that he cracks and then he's got

some firewood and the stump and then the axe

that he's chopping and then the horse so he can

ride a horse and all of these come with the kirk

figure nice and i was like okay this is uh this

is kind of cool like i'm genuinely excited for

this this figure like i this one for sure will

be on my my go -to list like i'm gonna get it

um and then of course they reveal the rest of

the line and they added two more figures to this

line to kind of flesh it out a little bit and

they they kind of made sure they took something

from every generation they took you know kirk

from uh generations they took captain janeway

from the episode year of hell um they took wharf

from generations in the sailor uniform they took

to paul from star trek enterprise season three

and four They took Geordi with the sailor uniform

from Generations. So we get three from Generations

here. We get another from Star Trek The Undiscovered

Country with Valeris, the betrayer. Yes, the

betrayer. And then you get the Romulan commander

from the original episode Balance of Terror,

which was Mark Leonard, who later played Spock's

dad. um carol marcus from star trek to the wrath

of khan we get nog from deep space nine and then

we get uh the character called bem from the animated

series which i'm not familiar with uh but no

i was just like okay this is kind of cool we

got some next generation stuff we got some tos

we got some you know star trek movies we've got

specific episode versions of characters uh from

Enterprise Voyager and Deep Space Nine and the

animated series and so I'm genuinely I'm genuinely

excited to see how well these prototypes show

up and while I'll probably only get the Kirk

from this line I'm excited to see what Nacelle

does because For the first time in ages. I'm

excited about a Star Trek toy. That isn't Playmates

toys like the. The recent resurgence of Playmates

toys into Star Trek like five years ago. The

figures comparing them to the original figures

that came out in the 80s and 90s and early 2000s.

The ones that they came out with recently, yes,

they have more articulation. Yes, they can physically

sit in a chair without their legs going bow -legged

out like they're trying to spread eagle. It's

like they can actually sit in the chair because

they have the articulation of modern toys, but

they looked like crap. And they were shorter

than the originals. And just felt cheaper. And

I don't know. I'm glad for another company to

take on what Playmates started with and kind

of accelerated. And it's honestly actually, in

my opinion, better than the Art Asylum stuff

that came out years ago. I don't even remember

that stuff. Yeah, I remember it, but it was like

too much out of my price range. At the time,

I mean, now I'm looking back and I'm like, oh,

they were 30 bucks. It's like, but I mean, at

that time, I couldn't afford that for, you know,

a figure. And I was like, I don't I don't I don't

want to. I mean, now I'm like, oh, that's kind

of par for the course. But we've also got Master

Replicas, which has and this is the weird thing.

Nacelle has the rights to Star Trek of old. Anything

predating the reboot of the J .J. Abrams from

2009, everything from 2009 onward is by a different

company, and everything 2005 to the 60s is Nacelle.

Anything from the 60s to 2005, Nacelle can make.

But they can't make anything from any of the

modern Trek series. Interesting. Which is weird.

And they're only allowed to make in America.

Weird. So I'll probably pre -order the Kirk when

he's available for pre -order on their website

because Walmart sells nacelle figures. They sell

the nacelle company figures of biker mice from

Mars. I don't know if I would ever see the Kirk

in store. And so and BBTS doesn't carry this

stuff. These are like exclusive through these

companies. Otherwise, I would just preorder through

them. But. But I'm genuinely excited for what

Nacelle is doing. Master Replicas, on the other

hand, which took the line of the Eagle Moss Star

Trek ships. And they've kind of bought up other

companies that have gone bankrupt or whatever.

Taking the brands like they have some Star Wars

and Star Trek, some Orville, Doctor Who, Battlestar,

like they take a lot of sci -fi properties. They

got the rights to all the modern Star Trek. And

so they have like Picard season three of Worf,

Riker and Picard. And. Looking at them like they

do look pretty close. To the nacelle company

figures. However. They've almost got like an

unrealistic. Look to them that the nacelle company

seems to have captured the exact likeness. And

nacelle companies figures are also like six inch

figures. Master replicas are like four and a

half. So they'll fit more with the playmates.

line but they're fully articulated so they again

it's kind of it's weird I'm interested in some

of those however like I don't know if I'll actually

pull the trigger on any of the new stuff like

from Picard season 3 just because it's another

website that I would have to get crap from if

BBTS had them all I would be happy but they don't

so But yeah, I mean, it's a really weird place

in the toy market, especially when companies

that used to make toys don't make toys and companies

that own licenses to certain brands license them

out to other brands. And then it's a strange

environment we're in. Very, very strange. And

honestly, I'm kind of. I think toy companies

have become like streaming. There's too much

choice to get your toys from everywhere and anywhere.

There's too much choice in streaming to watch

your stuff wherever you want to watch it. Whether

you purchase it on Fandango, whether you stream

it on Netflix, Hulu, wherever, Max, wherever.

Toy companies, same thing. It's like, Hasbro

has this, but they're then licensing this out

to Playmates, or Mattel has this, or Funko has

this, or the guy that created Funko has left

Funko and created this company now, or the guy

that was running Funko for the longest time has

now left Funko, and he's got his own company

now. It just all feels way too splintered, and

I don't know. Remember, folks, because we're

recording this on March 31st, 2025. Tomorrow,

April 1st, everything is a trap. It's a trap.

It's a trap. So the other thing that's kind of

funny, too, is Playmates got the license for

Power Rangers from Hasbro. Yep. And these figures

look like... crap um they so like i i looked

at these and i'm like why would like i mean hasbro

redid the automorphin rangers you know like like

what bandai made back in the day and then um

and then we got of hasbro more recently And then

these ones, they just look weird, like weirdly

proportioned, tiny head. Like, I mean, they don't

even look there's something that just looks odd

to the face and they're called Power Rangers

Reignition. And it's like they're rehashing season

one, season one and two Power Rangers all over

again. And it's like, OK, we've we've had this

beaten to death. Yeah. And it's not like they're

reviving the old Rangers. It's like, no, they're.

they they're rebooting like why make these again

when hasbro just made them yeah really uh now

the benefit here is like i mean they don't have

the the armor coming off on the green ranger

or whatever but they're also coming out with

the zords again so like you if you missed out

on the original dino zords and you know building

them that hasbro came out with you know the crappier

version Or even like kind of I almost equate

them to kind of in the middle. They because they

can shoot out of the saber tooth tiger and the

triceratops. Out of their tail, like they have

a colored blast that comes out. I think they

sell them individually. I don't know that for

certain, but I know that they sell the power

more for they're going to. With. The power coins,

all five power coins and 40 sounds and phrases,

and they're selling the power more for. For 1699.

Which I've never seen it that low. That's not

bad. No, that's not bad at all. And I'm like,

hmm. i'm like you're thinking about it well like

that was one of those like bucket list things

when i was a kid and even when i was a young

adult i was like man i'd love to get my hands

on a power morpher and then like a legit one

like my 3d printed one is nice don't get me wrong

but i i don't like i don't know it'd just be

cool to have like the display item yeah well

it's not just the display item it's you know

what it is i don't i don't know if this will

actually come across in the microphone because

sometimes it won't pick it up but it's the lights

and sounds man i bet that didn't pick anything

up it did not but of course it didn't but no

i mean it's the lights and sounds it's the fact

that it'll look pretty close i mean i have the

i still have the original playmates like communicator

from star trek like the one i bought back in

94 as well as like a couple of other Star Trek

figures I actually owned back in the day. And

then, of course, I've supplemented since then.

But no, I mean, I'm super excited about that.

They're going to come out with the Blade Blaster

for 20 bucks, which will again have sounds and

lights and all that. It's in some regards like

I'm it's nice to see other companies take it

on because somehow these other companies are

making it work. Yep. like they're they're making

the prices down to where people can actually

get some of these things that for whatever reason

hasbro couldn't get cheap and i don't know if

it's like a playmates toys thing like i don't

i really don't know like and it could be where

it's manufactured like i i really don't know

but um i'm kind of excited to you know finally

get my hands on that get my hands on the kirk

figure I find it odd that, again, other companies

are taking on, like these new companies or even

Playmates being as old as they are, taking on

these licenses of these companies that have been

around forever. And they're just kind of tossing

them around to different ones and doing, in some

areas, a better job than the company that owned

the license previously. or produced the toys

previously you know in the case of the power

rangers like yeah the figures were better with

the lightning collection but you know as far

as their accessories they were unaffordable or

you couldn't get your hands on them with uh with

hasbro but playmates it'll be far more likely

that i'll see in the store and then with the

nacelle company again like these are like awesome

figures like i think they'll scale well with

the first contact playmates figures that came

out way back when but uh yeah i mean i'm i'm

super stoked for some aspects of the toy industry

and then i'm and others i'm not so Yeah, absolutely.

The other big thing that I've been keeping my

eye on is in our back end of the website, under

our podcast tab for published podcast episodes.

So far, folks, in almost 16 years, 3 ,979, we

are 21 away from 4 ,000 published podcast episodes.

Bet you never thought we'd get that far. Yep.

Who knows? You never know. I just hope when it

gets to $399 .99 that they don't offer us a discount.

I was going to say, I hope it doesn't start counting

backwards. like wait a minute you can't erase

this don't don't do that hey now but uh but yeah

i i started looking at this uh about the end

of last year when it was somewhere around 3800

and i was like holy crap oh boy but yeah no that's

uh yeah oh yeah i forgot to bring i'll bring

the other thing up next week but i forgot to

bring this up i now have a uh 3d printed decepticon

matrix of leadership thanks to mr megatron over

there I just don't know, out of all the whatever

toys I do have around here that are not Funko

Pops, who can actually hold this damn thing?

I don't think any of them can. Well, one shall

stand, one shall fall. Yes. One shall fall all

over the Matrix. Fall over. You know what Ford

stands for, don't you folks? Frapped on a raw

deal. flip over read details fix or repair daily

how about forward backwards drivers return on

foot that's funny not not my jokes folks al april

al april's auto nims old comedian uh that's funny

out of florida i saw him in louisville kentucky

at the comedy caravan years ago i love that guy's

stuff But yeah, so hope you guys enjoyed this

episode and the discussion that we had on here.

Thank you as always for listening to Altered

Geek. I've been your host, Steve Megatron with

TFG1 Mike. Be sure to check out... I got one

more thing really quick. I'm sorry to interrupt

before I forget, before my brain farts on it.

Again, folks, March 31st, we're recording this.

Happy birthday, Brad Maul. Enjoy your birthday,

even though it's late when you hear this, buddy.

He's a huge listener of ours. I was going to

say at the beginning of the podcast, and I forgot.

My brain sucks. Yeah, yeah, yeah. See, I'm the

worst podcaster. I told you I'm the worst podcaster.

There he is, Brad Mull, longtime listener. Thank

you so much for listening all these years, buddy.

Happy birthday. Hope you had a great birthday.

Okay, now you can go through your outro. Sorry.

Yes, we hope you have a good birthday, sir. Yeah,

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