Top 100 Countdown – TOYS – Part 5 – #25-01!

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and ToyCast as we continue the Top 100 Toys countdown.

Today we're revealing entries number 25 to 1.

So this is the Top 25 Toys of Darkness. I am

one of your hosts, TF2 and Mike, and joining

me as always is the rubber ducky loving Steve

Megatron. Yo! Yo. Also joining us this time around

is, once again, the man who is all about those

impossible missions. It's DJ Valentine from Simplistic

Reviews. I am no spy. I'm just poor. Poor Mego

Owen Davian. Oh my god, if Sheldon Cooper could

see you now. And from the planet of KT Toys,

we have Mr. Optimus Solo. Hello, sir. You did

DJ first, so I couldn't say ho. Yeah, that's

pretty much why I did that. Even though you just

said it. Oh. Yeah. Oh, oh, oh. Damn Thundercat.

And yes, folks, it is Christmas. This episode

will be releasing Christmas Day 2023. Merry Christmas.

Happy holidays. Happy whatever the hell you celebrate.

uh take it away sir and let us know all about

part five of the top 100 toys countdown part

five like he said it's 25 to 1 it's the cream

of the crop it's the top of the list nothing

else can make it there's only 25 spots left and

if we're going back into our references and where

we're sitting going into here so we've had 75

well 76 toys revealed and the leader right now

is board games with 16 entries Action figures

one behind it with 15. And then the only ones

even remotely close to it would be electronics

with seven and DJ's favorite toys with wheels

with eight. So that's where we're sitting right

now. So we'll have to see. It's a close race.

Board games is one ahead of action figures. So

we'll see what this top 25 holds. And then from

the decades standpoint, we have the leader. Currently,

it's actually a tie. with the 1900s and before

sitting at 15 entrants and the 1980s sitting

at 15 entrants with a close runner -up with the

1960s sitting at 14. So it's kind of a three

-way race all within one toy of each other heading

into this final grouping. And then right now

in the toy companies, Milton Bradley is leading

the way with 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. toys no

other company has more than that at the moment

we've had basically a shutout for mattel we've

had zero mattel toys and wow two hasbro toys

so far we have had really quickly i i just need

to interject this here first i'm not trying to

correct you i'm not trying to screw anything

up but When I was doing the editing for, I think

it's part four, wherever Light Bright fell, I

forget where Light Bright fell. I think it's

in the bottom part of the top 50. It's 41. It

is. Okay. Well, when I was getting the commercial

for that, at the end of the commercial, it said

it was a Milton Bradley toy, but you said it

was from Hasbro. Yep. It all depends on which

one you count and where you count it and who

owned it at what point in time. Okay. I was looking

into that and doing all kinds of research after

the fact, and I actually just cut out the part

where it said a Milton Bradley toy in the ad

because I was like, oh, crap. I don't want the

audience to come after us for saying the wrong

thing. A lot of them have been. Now you have

to cut out the thing that you just said that

this whole conversation. Yeah, it is definitely

like if you wanted to make your brain explode,

look at the history of which companies own which

toys at which times. And it's like. And basically,

you can sum it up by Hasbro owns everything now.

Yeah, pretty much. And no, DJ, I don't have an

exploding chip in my head. Thank you. I was making

sure, because now you have to do a whole bunch

of other lifting. Oh, I forgot. Kenner is also

towards the top right now. Kenner is sitting

at, I think, six. So they're also towards the

leaderboard. Anything, Steve or Mike or DJ, how

about that action figure board game race? It's

within one right now with board game leading,

Steve. Do you think that holds true or do the

action figures make a late run here? Oh, I think

the action figures are going to make a late run.

There's still some big players that have not

debuted, so I'm waiting to see what happens.

How about the weird decade thing? To have a three

-way race between the 1900s and before, the 1980s

and the 1960s. DJ, does that surprise you? Yeah.

Again, I always put my money on the 80s. I'm

always going to put all my chips in the middle

of the table and say 80s wins every time. That's

usually a safe bet. So without further ado, let's

go ahead. I tried to do like a Kenny Omega there.

Let's get right into it here with our number

25. Also, just real quick, the 25 that we're

revealing today. every one of them except for

three has either been nominated for the Toy Hall

of Fame or is in the Toy Hall of Fame. So kudos

to those that were voting for this list because

we got 22 out of the top 25 are actually been

nominated or inducted into the National Toy Hall

of Fame. So apparently we know what we're doing.

Anyway, number 25 is one of those that has not

been nominated or inducted into the National

Toy Hall of Fame. We're going to go with a toy

with wheels. One of my favorites from when I

was a kid. I definitely voted on this one. And

also the first entrant from the toy company Galoob.

We're going with the 1986 toy line. Anybody?

Anybody? Remember the commercial? Galoob? I remember

Galoob. That was the company that gave us the

Micro Machines. This is the Micro Machine Man

presenting the most midget, miniature, motorcade

of Micro Machines. Each one has dramatic details,

terrific trim, precision paint jobs, plus incredible

Micro Machine pocket play sets. There's a police

station, fire station, restaurant, service station,

and more. Perfect pocket portables to take any

place. And there are many miniature play sets

to play with, and each one comes with its own

special edition Micro Machine vehicle and fun,

fantastic features that miraculously move. Raise

the boat lift at the airport marina, man the

gun turret at the army base, clean your car at

the car wash, raise the toll bridge. And these

play sets fit together to form a Micro Machine

world. Micro Machine pocket play sets, so tremendously

tiny, so perfectly precise, so dazzlingly...

detailed you'll want to pocket them all micro

machines a micro machine pocket place that's

sold separately from galoob the smaller they

are the better they are oh it came to me it came

to me so we did uh i had a ton of these things

and my mom i think was a fan of them apparently

because i think just like randomly one year that

was like all the presents were micro machines

so i had like i had the big base like boat thing

that you could put like the army planes and boats

and tanks inside and things like that and then

i think i had some cars as well but i love the

micro machines i think they were pretty cool

for their time and we also got the the isn't

that the one that john machida does the yeah

i was gonna say it's gonna be i'm a big fan of

micro machines making it here at top 25 even

so that's crazy to me i i don't know why they

haven't been nominated for the toy hall of fame

but those people should get their acts together

mike what do you think of the micro machines

I loved Micro Machines at the time, and again,

mainly because of the ads, because of, like you

guys said, Blur as the voice of the Micro Machines,

and that was so fun. And just the cars themselves

were just great. They definitely had a lot of

different lines within the Micro Machines, because

like I said, you had your war stuff, you had

your cars, your planes. I'm sure they had some

other types that other people had. DJ, what do

you remember about Micro Machines? I remember

I got a little baby pack. I had the Jeep and

I was like, yeah, this is great. But again, I'm,

I've been six foot two for a very long time.

I need toys are kind of like, yeah, this is great,

but can I get like a real toy, like a bigger

toy? I can't crush with my hand. Yeah. I like

them more for how you could set up like a whole

table. And it was like, The whole world. You

could have a whole war zone on your table with

all the different things you could have. Who

would ever have... I never met the kid that I

have. The world of micro... I've never met that

kid. I got the kid in my neighborhood that had

like 20 maybe. That's cool. But I see the commercial.

This guy is like... This kid has got like...

His parents must be like one of the people that

built the Chrysler building or something. I was

like, how do you get all these toys from him?

Steve, any thoughts on the micromachines? Well,

I'm kind of glad that they showed up. One, the

only thing of Micro Machines I really cared about,

the Star Trek ships. I collected all of them.

I had multiples of the three packs. I had multiples

of, yeah, just a lot of them. And then I got

the limited edition collector set, which was

the only way you could get the Enterprise A.

Nice. And to this day, the only Micro Machine

I still have is the Enterprise A. I forgot they

did have a whole bunch of these in Star Wars

that I do own as well. Micro Machines, they're

all over the place in the franchise. They should

make a comeback. Are they on the store shelves

still? Yeah, they're still on the shelves. They

are very limited, though. Gotcha. All right,

so Micro Machine starts us off here at number

25. For number 24, some people might not consider

this a toy when they first think about it, but

the Toy Hall of Fame says otherwise. It just

got inducted this year. We're talking about sports

cards. Give me Jordan and Barkley for Ewing and

Mullen. You got it. I got Carl Malone. Brute

strength. Rebounding. Inside. He's going to be

running, jumping over people's heads. I won.

You didn't win. You lost. I won. I won. I got

all the stars. Just because you got a few championships

doesn't mean everybody on your team is good.

I'm sorry. You know, that's it. That doesn't

mean everybody on your team is good. They know

how to win. No, they don't. They know how to

win. They can't win. You can't understand. You

may think of me as a little kid, but I know a

lot about basketball. You know a lot about cards,

but you don't know a lot about bats. I know a

lot about John Stockton. John Stockton for who?

For you. Well, no, I would keep John Stockton

because I would sit you on the bench and then

put Stockton in for you. Who are you going to

sit on the bench? USA Basketball Collector Cards

from Skybox. You can probably go all the way

back to the 1800s, 1860s, so this will give a

column back to the 1900s and before, even though

the 25 give a column slash to the 80s, so they're

battling out neck and neck. But sports cards,

baseball cards, basketball cards, football cards,

whatever kind you want. Kids play with them.

They trade them. They put them in their bike

spokes if they want to regret life later. What

are you doing? Sports cards. The most recent

inductee into the National Toy Hall of Fame.

Mike, are they warranted here in the top 25?

I don't know. I don't think so. Are they warranted

in the top 25? I would say no. Do they need to

be on the list somewhere? Yes, just not here.

DJ, agree? Can you play with a card? Can you

play with it? I mean, I had starter packs. I

had David Robinson versus Antonio Spurs, one

of my favorite players. Not my favorite. Dwayne

Wade's number one. But I never said, hey, man,

let's go play cards. Trade cards. But we did

have Magic the Gathering and stuff, so I guess

it's just the definition. Isn't trading cards,

though, a form of playing? I guess. It's the

Magic the Gathering Pokemon thing. I'll let it

go this time. It is, you are correct, but sports

cards? Really? Collecting sports cards is not

the same thing, or having sports cards is not

the same thing as throwing down whatever Magic

the Gathering card defeats everybody kind of

thing. It was more of, hey, this is a... piece

of sports history that you can own in your house

or in your trapper keeper or whatever the hell

your album i can tell you i logged many many

hours with my sports cards growing up and it's

to me like nowadays it's like collecting cards

is almost the same as collecting toy like action

figures or any other type of toy like it's like

You go hunting for them and you try to find the

rare ones or the chase figures or the special

cards. It's got a lot of similarities. I know

I spent a ton of time logging them, trading them,

filing them. Some of them did have more interactive

games that went with them as well. It wasn't

all just the really expensive ones that you're

trying to collect. They had a variety there.

Steve, what do you think? I'm kind of torn on

this because they're not really a... a toy per

se like you don't play it's not like playing

magic the gathering or pokemon because yes i

mean they they are kind of collectible but they're

also a card game whereas this is more of just

a collectible eye candy thing that you kind of

put in a folder and look at every once in a while

uh or like you said if you regret life putting

them in your bike spokes uh but i i don't i don't

have a problem with it being here because it

it's kind of one of those staples that's been

around forever Uh, and it's, and it's still there,

even though people don't really fully collect

them. I mean, my kid got into them like probably

two, three years ago and then kind of fell out

of it pretty quickly. Cause again, it was just

something he could look at, not necessarily interact

with. Right. Um, so I, I don't have a problem

with them being here, but I don't necessarily

think that they are a quote unquote toy. Yeah,

I totally get it. The toy hall of fame says it

is. So we'll go with that. Yeah. Number 23. I'm

interested to see your guys' reaction to this

one. This one was a toy that got introduced to

us in 1974. And originally, I think, came from

Hungary, the country. It was a National Toy Hall

of Fame inductee in 2014. We're talking about

the classic good old Rubik's Cube. Rubik's Cube

here at number 23. I kind of put that in the

same realm as I would like. Some of the ones

that we've seen earlier. isn't every problem

a playground almost like a view master or like

a sketch or you know something of that nature

where it's just like everybody's played with

it like how much you played with it might have

varied depending on like how much you were into

it but i feel like every kid has at least at

one point in time picked up a rubik's cube so

i don't i don't know what that says about its

toy worthiness i voted for it for sure so i'm

not upset that it's here i don't know where i

would put it place wise i'd have to go back and

look at my list but i think it's definitely top

100 worthy mike what do you think yeah i think

so and it's one of those things where you can

play with it you can figure out all the combinations

and yeah that's worthy it's like i guess it's

more like the the the yo -yo or like one of those

things where it's like there's some people that

are masters of this thing and then everybody

else just kind of like Bumbles through it. Dabbles

through it. Yeah, Steve, what do you think of

the Rubik's Cube? I mean, I get why it's here.

I've seen a lot of people that are just masters

with it. I've watched people do the, you know...

The 10 -second solve or whatever. Yeah, well,

I mean, I've seen a teenager, even locally here,

do it with, like, the three -square width and

then four -square or five -square. And then I'm

like, yeah, you're just nuts. Um, my brother

used to cheat though. Um, he used to tear off

the stickers and then put them on the other side

and then tell us that he, he defeated it. And

we were like, Brian, he was like, we were like,

dang dude. And then he would, you know, Oh look,

I finished it. And I'm like, dude, they're peeling.

I'm like, you were lying. But yeah, I could only

ever get like one or two sides. And then after

that I was like, yeah, I, I'm clearly not smart

enough to do this. I like the people that solve

it without ever looking at it. Oh, I know. That's

the kids that I was talking about that I know

locally. DJ, what do you think about the Rubik's

Cube? The coolest thing I've ever seen as a youth,

I stayed with my aunt, Judy, in Baltimore, and

she was in the Navy, and we pulled out a Rubik's

Cube one day, and she did it in 30 seconds. And

I was like, what kind of sorcery? Have you done?

He's one of those experts you're talking about.

She can do it immediately. Like, done. I'm like,

whoa. And I would talk to my cousin, her son,

Joey. I'm like, what? It's a trick thing. And

she's like, nah, man. My mom's crazy. My mom's

some kind of magical person. Savant. Savant,

apparently. And it was like effortless. It was

like, yeah, yeah, here you go. And we would sit

there for hours like trying to get half of a

side. Couldn't figure it out. And she'd do it

immediately, yeah. So Rubik's Cube, definitely

something you can play with. Definitely the thing

I did have. So yeah, I like it being on there.

All right, so three picks in. No tallies in the

board game column. No tallies in the action figure

column so far. Let's change that with our number

22. With our second of our three toys that are

not nominated or inducted into the Hall of Fame,

this one's coming from 1985. We'll put a slash

in Kenner's column. We're going with the action

figure toy line of Mask. M .A .S .K. Not Jim

Carrey's Mask. I voted for this one specifically

when it came down to action figures. I had a

very strict like it had to be something that

was either been on shelves for like. decades

and decades and decades where it had just such

a huge following or it had to be something that

was like unique versus just like a static action

figure and that's why i voted for mask because

outside of like transformers like they did more

they had more options as far as what they did

and what you could do with them to me without

having to have like the massive playset or anything

like that like just the cars um worked you had

the figures that had the mass that you could

put on or off so i thought that they were unique

enough where it definitely was warranted amongst

the action figure category mask where illusion

is the ultimate weapon convert switchblade to

jet mode Surprise, math tracker. It's night hail.

Battle stations. Protect the decoder, Bruce.

I'm going up. Stacks ready to fire. Masks, switchblade,

thunderhawk, and rhino. Fire! Each sold separately

with action figure. Cover me, Matt. 10 -4. Sato's

getting away! But you're not, Mayhem. Mask, Switchblade,

Thunderhawk, and Rhino. Each sold separately.

New from Kevin. So I definitely voted for them.

I'm kind of surprised that they got this high,

but I'm not upset about it. Mike, what do you

think? You know better than... Any of us, because

we went through it. The toy line is better than

the goddamn cartoon. Bite your tongue, sir. Bite

your tongue. No, we went through both seasons

of the cartoon. The best thing about the cartoon

is the opening theme song. The actual plots of

that cartoon are horrible. It goes like this.

In the mask world, in the mask universe, it ranks

like this. Number one, theme song. Number two,

toys. Skip a whole bunch of numbers and then

go to number three way down here, and that's

the cartoon. That's the cartoon. The toys, again,

like I mentioned in one of the other episodes,

another toy line where I had almost everything.

I had Boulder Hill. I had, oh, that's right.

I had Boulder Hill next to Castle Grayskull and

Cat's Lair. That's what I had. Very confusing

world that they were living in. Yeah, exactly

right. It was a giant mess over there. Yeah,

exactly. Why can't we look like him instead of

tiny micro machine guys? Tiger or something.

Yeah. No, I loved, I love the toy line for mask.

I loved both the hero and the villain vehicles.

It was all great. And that Boulder Hill place

that is just one of the best place. That's the

eighties. Yeah, DJ, you're more of a fan of the

cartoon, it sounds like, but what do you think

of the toy? I had the Condor, the green motorcycle

that turned into a helicopter with the guy with

the yellow suit. I forget his name, but yeah,

I do remember that. Brad. Yeah, in the middle

of... Transformers. This is like Transformers

where the people get to play with it. I had this

when I was like seven. I was very... It had an

effect on me. I remember the cartoon show Loving

It. Again, if I look back now, it's almost like

you don't want to turn around and turn into salt.

Don't look back. In my memory, it was amazing.

I'm never going to watch it again because I don't

want it to be destroyed. Funny crime Secret raiders

Who will neutralize So that they arise I'm gonna

leave a mission Expect from God The superstition

Nightmare Is the mighty power That can save the

day Nightmare No one knows we're lying Right.

I think that's a project I need to do. Which

80s cartoons should you never watch again? Never

watch The Mask again. It was great. It was fantastic.

I currently do have Matt Tracker and Miles Mayhem

in my Heroes and Villains action figure collection,

but I never had them as a kid. I do remember

one of my friends and we would go, both of our

sisters were in girl scouts or brownies or something

like that and for some reason we had to go where

they went and it would just be like them doing

all their thing like in the main part of the

big wherever we were at and then like me and

this kid were like on the floor in the back playing

with his mask vehicles and i was like oh why

don't i have any of these but i never did anyway

steve what do you think about the mask uh i'm

indifferent to it because i never really cared

about the show or the toys. He's too young. I

was more of a Transformers fan and Ninja Turtles

and Batman back then. There's room for all of

them, man. They can all just live together in

harmony. Especially if you're in Mike's room.

There's like a whole toy universe going in there.

There's a photo of Mobile Armored Strike Command.

Command with a K. It's so quick. Yeah, command

with a K. It's like Mortal Kombat. All right,

so Action Figures makes the first volley in this

set of 25. Let's see what we have at number 21.

We're going back to the world of Nerf. We had

Nerf balls earlier, and now we're going to go

with Nerf guns. So Nerf guns, any type of gun,

blaster, whatever you want to call it. Nerf's

N -Strike Arsenal has a specialized blaster for

any mission. You can improve your blasting speed

with the Maverick Rapid Fire Blaster. While the

Night Finder's light beam targeting system allows

for pinpoint accuracy. And you can nail targets

from long distance with Nerf's newest blaster,

the Longshot. Two blasters in one with fire clips

and detachable scope. Everything you need to

blast your skills to the next level in Strike.

Blasters sold separately. Batteries not included.

Nerf. It was a toy Hall of Fame finalist. It's

not been inducted, though. This came around in

1989 from Hasbro. Mike. What do you think of

Nerf guns in general? There's a lot of different

variations, a lot of different kinds. There's

like machine gun, Nerf guns. There's just like

all kinds of various ones. What do you think

of it making the countdown? You'll shoot your

eye out. No, that's a different type. Yeah, I

know. That's why Nerf guns got invented. Yeah,

exactly. I'm surprised that it even showed up.

What? No, I'm just surprised. I'm not bad. Like,

oh my god, it shouldn't be here. I'm just surprised

that it... No, but at 21, I would expect it to

maybe be 29, 30, something like that. I think

in the category of guns, it's like Megatron and

Nerf guns. Pretty much. Or Super Soakers. That's

right. DJ, in the world of Nerf, is the Nerf

gun the best toy? I wanted a Nerf gun so bad

and I never got one. Then I grew up. Then I got

to work at the YMCA of South Broward as a counselor.

They gave us an unlimited budget for toys. Guess

what? We had a whole bunch of Nerf guns. We had

a Nerf Gatling gun. We had a Nerf shotgun. We

had the Nerf pistols. Every time the kids were

good for the week, we'd go into the gym. And

we'd put like a little fort in the back. It would

be like laser tag. Nerf guns are so great. It's

so fun. It does promote firearms, but I don't

care. It was so much fun. The kids had a blast.

They didn't want to leave. The parents would

come and pick them up, and the kids would tell

the parents, come back in an hour, because we

were having so much freaking... Nerf guns are

awesome, all right? To this day, if somebody

gives me a Nerf gun, I'm like, I'm going to stop

what I'm doing, and then I'm going to do John

Wick around my office with Nerf guns. There has

been at least one type of Nerf gun on toy shelves

for, what? 40, 30 years or whatever. There was

a video where they tried to do an act. I think

it was the guys from Collider Crew. They had

to do the special effects. They did a stunt thing,

like a John Wick with Nerf. They shot it like

a John Wick movie, but they used Nerf guns. It

was freaking awesome. It was fantastic. It's

like the one thing that Nerf guns has over Megatron

is it did not get banned from the toy. Cause

they looked fake to exist. Steve, what do you

think of Nerf guns? Make them parents here. Uh,

I, I never owned one as a kid, sadly, but whenever

a friend had one, you, you bet I picked it up

and there've been occasions we've gone places

and, um, they'll be there and my kids will be

present. And, um, I'd be lying if I said I didn't

snipe my own kids, but, uh, And they're a terrible

shot. Years of Battlefield. Anyways, but they

also have merchandising of themed Nerf guns now.

They have Star Trek phaser rifle. I like it.

Nerf gun. I'm a fan. And it looks awesome. We

can make a whole different arena in that gym.

We're going to take down the board. We're taking

down the board. The line must be drawn here.

Now we need smartphone uniforms too. Oh yes,

yes. So Nerf guns takes the 21st spot. We'll

move on to number 20 here and we'll go from 1989

to, I don't know, maybe like 500 BC, um, pinning

down a year for this one's going to be pretty

tricky, but they say about 500 BC, but it was

more popularized in around the 1929 era from

a company called Duncan. we're going with the

1999 toy hall of fame inductee the yo -yo at

number 20 so we just talked about rubik's cube

and i made a yo -yo reference i forgot that it

was coming up but like something that can be

played somewhat simply and then it can be going

like 17 levels advanced like master class when

you're doing all the walking the dog and all

the other kind of craziness. So I was into yo

-yo for a short amount of time and I could do

a decent amount of tricks. I never got like.

master level but i definitely had like i don't

know six or seven tricks i could do but i i think

yo -yos are fun there is a big difference between

a good yo -yo and a bad yo -yo though there is

so and there was like i think it was like the

mid 90s maybe or sometime in there where like

there was a certain brand that like really got

popular again it might have been still duncan

but it like became a fad when we were growing

up at some point like middle school high school

era where the ones that they were producing were

like super high quality and you could do a whole

lot of tricks with them and i thought that was

fun so what do you think mike well yeah you're

right in the i would say somewhere between 94

and 97 they made a resurgence and holy crap you

couldn't turn on any of the six tv channels we

had back in the 90s without seeing a yo -yo ad

they were everywhere and they talked about the

yo -yo grand championships and everything else

yeah i could never do major tricks like i can

walk the dog that's fine that's easy enough but

i like it i think it's good i think it's warranted

being here and yeah yo -yos yay I think there

was a time, too, where every time you went to

a mall somewhere, there was somebody putting

out a yo -yo display. What do you think of the

classic yo -yo from 500 B .C. to 2023? What do

you think? It deserves to be on this list, and

I absolutely hate it. I was not a coordinated

person that could do the walk of the dog. I used

to watch the commercial, and there was someone,

a guy, making it look so easy. I had yo -yos.

I had multiple yo -yos in my house, and I think

they were just giving to me to mock me or something.

I was like, I can't do any of these tricks. I

think it... My coordination was not... By the

time I got coordinated, I had already grown past

the yo -yos. I didn't care anymore. When I got

it, I was like, oh, this is cool. I see the commercial

and then I try to do anything and the thing would

just go down and stop. It wouldn't go back up.

It would do anything. I think what fueled that

resurgence was whatever company was in it, it

might have been Duncan, but whatever company

was putting out the yo -yos in that 90s resurgence,

They did something with the bearings or something

so that all the tricks became exponentially easier

to do. It was a big thing because you felt like

you were finally able to do stuff because the

yo -yos were almost programmed to do the damn

tricks by themselves. What I remember right now

as you guys are talking about this is I remember

where it got popularized in the 90s. Teenage

Mutant Ninja Turtles 2, the secret of the ooze

at the beginning. Mikey walks the dog, he does

around the world, all that stuff. So 1991. Yep.

Steve, what do you remember about the yo -yo?

I remember that it was incredibly difficult to

do. And like you said, there were two different

versions. There was the classic cheap version

that you could just pick up for a couple bucks

and it did nothing except for spiral out of control

and end up on the ground every single time. And

then you had the ones like what you were talking

about with the bearings in them and... they had

a nice uh like a spring mechanism in them where

you would roll it down and it would actually

come back up right or if you like flicked your

wrist just at the right time it would just spin

oh yeah and you can and you can do the walk the

dog and still pull it back but if you try to

do pretty much anything else you had to really

be coordinated it's like it's it's like that

and juggling like the two things that i can juggle

our version i can juggle i just could not yo

-yo at all I can't juggle. I can just throw stuff

at people. I can't nunchuck, I can tell you that.

Good lord. Oh, fellow chucker. I do that with

my dad. My dad was a police officer and he confiscated

somebody's nunchucks when the Turtles movies

were popular. Some teenage kid that had them

and they were in our garage and I went out to

use it. They're like legit wood with metal nunchucks.

And it took me about two seconds to almost knock

myself out. You were playing with a murder weapon,

by the way, so I'm glad you're... ...or anything.

Small town. Moving on. Number 19 here. For the

record, though, that's three for the 80s, Nerf

guns, masks, and micromachines, and that's two

for the 1900s and before, which would be the

sports cards and the yo -yo, so if you're keeping

track. Number 19, we're going to go to a toy

from 1943. It was a 2000 inductee. Another classic

definitely deserves to be on the list. In my

opinion, we're talking about the slinky. Everyone

loves a slinky. Who walks the stair without a

care and shoots so high in the sky? Bounce up

and down just like a clown, everyone knows it's

Slinky. The best present yet to give or get,

but costs a little to buy. The hit of the day

when you're ready to play, everyone knows it's

Slinky. It's Slinky, it's Slinky, for fun it's

the best of the toys. It's Slinky, it's Slinky,

the favorite of girls and boys. Except for when

they stretch out. Down the stairs and it's plastic

and it snaps and all this other stuff. Unless

you had the metal ones and then they just become

this. amalgamized piece of metal spaghetti. I

don't think any plastic version of Slinkys, which

was popular in my childhood, I don't think any

of them ever survived the life of the toy without

snapping or breaking or being half of a Slinky.

I don't know. Oh, no. No. I don't know why we

couldn't have metal ones when I was a kid. What

was wrong with the metal Slinkys? Were they dangerous?

Yes. Was there a movement against the metal Slinkys?

I don't know. It's called tetanus. If the Slinky

goes outside and gets rusty and you cut yourself

with it, then that's not good. They made a plastic

one. Everything is made for a reason. Somebody

did something. They got sued, and they're like,

okay, we gotta make some plastic ones. Some waterproof

ones here. I loved your question. What stairs

are you finding outside? The stairs to your front

door, maybe? Our generation was known for taking

guns and turning them into nerf, taking metal

slinkies and turning them into plastic. I get

it. Mike, what do you think of the slinky being

here at number 19? It's already been said. Yeah,

absolutely. Because, again, just even though,

you know, Silly Putty had a short shelf life,

I was always playing with that, and I was always

playing with the Slinky. So it's just, yeah,

it's one of those toys that has a lot of playability,

whether you're inside or outside. Stay inside

when you're playing with Metal Slinky's kids,

please. This is the public service. That's right.

While I find them enjoyable, I never was able

to get them to fully go down an entire flight

of stairs. They would go down several, but not

all. They mostly became something to pretend

I was projectiling from my hands like Ryu or

Goku. It was like the same level of frustration

that you got with Slinkys as you did with Dominoes.

With somebody messing it up or not. finishing

how it was supposed to because you set it up

too far apart or something. 16 people voted for

Slinky out of the 21. Let's move on to number

18, a category we haven't had a whole lot of.

It's our generic games category. This was a 1971

toy that became popular. I think it's currently

owned by Mattel slash whoever. It was inducted

in 2018. We're talking about the classic game

and all of its variations. The game of Uno. Uno

Attack or Uno whatever. Uno. It's like, how do

we teach everybody? Nevermind. I'm going to stop

at that line. Don't go there. Skip and reverse.

And then the tractor. Hey, you, do you like fun?

Then now is the time for fun with Uno. It's as

easy as matching colors or numbers. You like

going backwards? Throw a reverse card. Bam! Bam!

No! Uno is the perfect game for the family room,

recess, camping, the beach. So don't wait another

second to shout Uno! Uno, you can find it in

the games aisle. DJ, what do you think of the

game of Uno? You're speaking to an Uno master.

It's funny because... I, when I worked for, as

a counselor, we would play Uno literally, batter

spades all the time. And then my sister, just

recently, I watched her on her phone playing

Uno. She's like, I'm like, oh, you play Uno?

She's like, that's all we play. She's like, my

sister's friends will, I don't know. to her horn,

but she's friends with famous people, so she's

like, yeah, I'm playing with blank and blank

and blank, and we're playing Uno. We're playing

it 24 -7. I'm like, oh my god, it's having an

Uno resurgence. Uno was awesome. People cheated

Uno, so you gotta make sure you make the rules.

Just make sure you get the rules right, because

you got the people that just want to do the plus

four and pick up. Just make sure you say the

rules ahead of time, but Uno was awesome. Uno

will never go out of style. And what's the name

of the company that makes Uno? I don't even remember.

It was International Games to begin with. It

was just a generic company called International

Games. I think it's held by Mattel currently.

I think so. I don't like digital Uno because

that's what she plays on her phone. I prefer

the tactile, slap the card down. I like that

bragging right where, you know, pick, draw for

a son. You know, I like that. And a phone, I

can't. Can't slam my phone down. I only know

the original Uno. Does anybody have like another

version that they like? Because for me, I've

never done anything but just straight up Uno.

I know there's like a million variations. I've

done Uno, Uno Attack. There's like a family one

that's like they've got special rules for certain

things. Yeah, I still prefer the original though.

I think there was like a new one within the last

year or two that just like made another resurgence.

I can't remember the name of it. I prefer Skipbo.

Skipbo! Yeah, we play Team Skipbo with the kids,

and my wife is incredibly difficult to beat.

And so my boys, she taught my youngest how to

play all of her tricks and everything. So now

there's a mid -grade person on both teams against

adults. My youngest and my wife are the pro players,

and my other son and myself are the ones that

are goofing around and like, eh. When I went

to Vegas, they had a war that you can actually

gamble on. Imagine if they had Uno in Vegas.

People would be... I think you can get a lot

of people at a table playing Uno at the Venetian.

You can actually do some bets on Uno. Because

I've seen it in real life. That's regular people.

Uno's also become a game that has ventured into

the world of memes with everybody with their

whatever, draw fours. Reverse card, yes. I've

seen that in Premier League. Alright, so Uno

is our number 18. We're going to go to our number

17, which is actually going to be the first one

today that I didn't vote for. I voted for all

the other ones we've talked about today. This

one can trace its origins back to the 1800s,

so another tally in the before 1900 column. I

don't know if I consider this one a toy, but

we did include it with all of our different types

of books. We're going to go with the good old

-fashioned, universal, generic comic book, all

-encompassing. Way to go. Don't let those overgrown

tin men keep you down. Just too many of the big

guys for you, buddy. Hold on tight. Can Spidey

handle a sentinel's blast? Whoa. Grab a copy

of this month's Spider -Man. Marvel Comics, it's

mayhem for your mind. So comic books here at

number 17. I think they... got their origin in

england if my research was any accurate or not

but it's comic books they've probably been around

in different versions forever but obviously super

popular in the 1900s for sure i don't have a

problem with it being in the top 100 i didn't

vote for it just because i felt like there were

some other books that had more toy aspects like

i don't know like for me like a where's waldo

or like uh seeing i book is more of a toy yeah

like a then something that you're just straight

reading Like a coloring book is more of a toy

because you're coloring on it. So that was kind

of like where I drew the line, but I don't necessarily

have a problem with it being on the top 100.

Mike, what do you think? So sports cards and

comic books need to be. 52 and 51 or they, they

need to, they can be on the list. That's fine,

but they need to be way lower than what they

actually are. Cause I've never thought of a comic

book as an actual toy, something you play with.

It's like you said, something you read, something

you collect, something that, you know, I don't

know. I don't like it. But the difference between

this and baseball cards or sports cards. is it

gives you the entertainment of the mind. Yeah,

it does. Yes. Much like you would with playing

with a toy or reading a book or things like that.

So it gives you the visual. It gives you the

story. I memorized the heck out of the statistics

on the back. It's true. Yeah. Yeah. But I get

your point. Totally. Uh, four people had comic

books in the top 10, so they definitely had some

love. Three other people had three other people

had him in the top 20, uh, two other people in

the top 25. So, A lot of high votes for comic

books. So moving on to number 16, our first entry

into the world of electronics for today. So we're

going to go to a toy that came about in 1989.

It was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2009.

We're going with the Game Boy. So all handheld

Nintendo versions can kind of be lumped in here,

but the Game Boy is the most. popular one it's

the most iconic one it was the console turned

into a handheld and it wasn't you know it was

like a big jump from tiger electronic handhelds

to the game oh yes so mike what do you think

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portable power. My aunt had one, and I would

always borrow it from her, and I played Tetris

and Super Mario Land, Super Mario Land 2. And

then a certain cartoon in its third season decided

to bring in the Poochy of Nintendo and create

Game Boy in Captain N the Game Master, and I

use the Commence Game Action quote from that

character all the time. Ready to commence gameplay.

Begin. I'd better go get him so we can warp out

of this crazy world. Okay, Hotshot, let's shake

this joint. Hotshot? But I loved Game Boy. The

original Game Boy was great. I never got into

Game Boy Color or any of the other variations.

I know Steve. Yeah, Game Boy Advance. I never

got into any of that stuff. That classic Game

Boy, though, man, that's where I learned Tetris

and everything else. It was so fun. I never had

a Game Boy, and I really didn't like Game Boys

just because I thought the graphics and the coloring

and the screen was just not good enough. I don't

know. I guess I was spoiled by, like, the Nintendo

and the computer graphics on, like, the Commodore

64 or the IBM or whatever I had at the time.

But I do remember that, like, going into, I think

it was, like, my sister's orthodontist office

or somebody's doctor's office or dentist's office.

Like, they had these in the waiting room. So,

like, you could literally play Game Boy while

you were waiting, and that was my exposure. And

I played, like, I don't know, some game called

RC Pro. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. It was, like, that

was what I was playing while I was waiting for

my sister to, like, You have your teeth stretched

or whatever happens at the orthodontist. DJ,

what do you think of the Game Boy? Again, Uno

Master here. Also, Tetris Master. And I came

to Tetris Master because I played Tetris all

the freaking time on the Game Boy. Every, like,

any time I was traveling or I was in some stationary

position, I was playing Tetris. So, yeah, the

Game Boy. That's probably what it was. It was

the traveling aspect of parents being able to

give these to kids in the car. Play the same.

It was before the portable DVD player took over.

And the coolest thing about the Game Boy is if

you had that you used to, and I'm sure you could

still probably buy them now. I don't know. I

haven't in a while. My aunt had a battery recharger,

and we would just buy rechargeable batteries

back in the early to mid -90s. So that way you

don't have to waste so much money on buying more

batteries when it ended up dying on you. Right.

Steve, final thoughts on Game Boy? I first got

introduced to it when the Game Boy Pocket was

new. One, I was happier because it was smaller

and it was a bigger screen, but then I even owned

them on through the Game Boy Advance and then

when it converted to the 2DS, I had one of those.

I didn't have the second generation flip. game

boy advance but i i liked them for what they

were i i will grant you that they were crappy

graphics uh up until they started getting the

uh game boy advance level of stuff and then they

got really good with the 2ds 3ds type thing but

if like for instance i never had a gaming console

as a kid we had a pc I was always envious of

the kids that had the Super Nintendos and the

Game Boys. I never wanted the Game Gear because

the batteries always died within 45 minutes compared

to the Game Boy, which you could play all day.

I think Game Boy 2 has a lot of ties to the...

emergence of the Pokemon popularity in video

games. Then you had the transfer cables and things

like that. It had a lot of add -ons, a lot of

compatibility stuff. Overall, it was a really

cool innovation. I think that Nintendo is still

leading that charge with the mobile handheld

gaming market. Absolutely. That is number 16.

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back with our top 15 toys of all time. Yes, we've

gotten to the top 15 here, and we're going to

start off. But the category we haven't been in

much. We're going into the category of the dolls.

We haven't had much here, but we're going to

get one that came out in 1982. It was a 2023,

yes, this year inductee into the National Toy

Hall of Fame. I think it was originally from

a company called Coleco. And then Hasbro was

involved. Mattel's been involved. Wicked Cool

Toys, Jack's have all owned it at different times.

We're talking about the classic. Cabbage Patch

Kids. Good parents, my Cabbage Patch Kids. The

Cabbage Patch Kids. Each doll is different and

you can pretend to adopt them. My baby has a

real diaper. You can love and care for them like

your very own. You're a pal. You're the only

one. I love you. They're each one of a kind.

They're Cabbage Patch Kids. You can give them

all your love. Cabbage Patch Kids are each sold

separately. Each doll comes with a pretend birth

certificate and adoption papers from Coleco.

So the Cabbage Patch Kid dolls. If you want to

talk about one of the most famous, as far as

fads go when it comes to toys, we talked about

that a little bit earlier when we talked about

the Tickle Me Elmo, and there's been certain

toys that have just been like... you know i think

of like the furby and the tickle me elmo and

and things like that that just but like taken

over like cabbage patch was like the early version

of that like before all those came across cabbage

patch kids did that so i'm sure you can find

videos online somewhere people like grandma's

beating each other up over cabbage so it comes

in here at number 15 it's also the first toy

on our list to have over a thousand points as

far as how our point system goes. So that's a

milestone. 16 people voted for Cabbage Patch

Kids, and two of them had them in the top 10.

Mike, what do you think of number 15 being the

Cabbage Patch Kid? All I can say is I hope Furby

is not higher, because oh my God, that fad was

crazy. But no, Cabbage Patch Kids, they were

great. I didn't have any of them, but I had plenty

of friends who did, and yeah, you're right. The

fights over these things were just crazy. It

was interesting because it was like the Cabbage

Patch Kids and the Pound Puppies kind of capitalized

on the whole like making it personalized as far

as the kid and the toy. So I thought that was

interesting. DJ, what do you think about the

Cabbage Patch Kids? Is the Cabbage Patch doll

or I guess toy one of the only toys to have a

satirical spoof of it? Because Garbage Pail Kids

are essentially a spoof of the Cabbage Patch

dolls. So I think it was so famous, they made

a card line based on spoofing it. That's how

big Cabbage Patch was. Interesting. Steve, any

recollection? I know that was a 1982 toy, so

maybe a tiny bit before your time, but what do

you think of the Cabbage Patch Kids? I'm familiar

with it. I know that a lot of people did collect

it. I can see its merit being here because I

remember it through the 90s even. So, I mean,

on that alone, I'd probably give it, you know,

top 100 status. I don't know if I'd put it this

high, but okay. It's one that's been like not

on the shelves the whole time, but since 1982,

it's had its moments where it comes back for

a little while or it's featured for a little

short amount of time. I think you can buy one

right now at Target or Walmart probably. think

it's on the shelves so yeah another thing that

has nothing to do with cabbage patch kids but

i keep forgetting to mention it because dj keeps

mentioning the word like uno master and like

we could have like our whole list of toys that

you can master and it seems like a lot of them

have appeared so far like you could have your

yo -yo master your rubik's cube master your slinky

master so it's interesting how many of these

toys on this list could you consider yourself

a master of There might be one coming up later.

All right, so let's go to number 14 here. Let's

put another column back in the 19th century dateline.

It doesn't get much more classic and iconic,

I guess, than this. We're going to consider this

a toy with wheels. It's the ultimate toy with

wheels, I think. The bicycle. With 12 -speed

Shimano shifting for an extra hill climb and

low, and a flat -out high. Handlebars fully padded,

sponges off, and a double comfort racing saddle.

From Huffy, building the bikes America likes.

19th century invention, maybe. 2000 inductee

into the Toy Hall of Fame. It says it. Kind of

came about somewhere in Europe, maybe. We'll

give them credit for inventing the bicycle, but

wheels have been around for a while. DJ, what

do you think about the bicycle, and is it a top

15 one? Yeah, I mean, there's movies based on

bicycles. Nicole Kidman was in a movie called

Rad. Which was all about a bunch of bike guys

riding around or kids riding around and stopping

crimes and stuff like that in Australia. Bikes

were the cars for children. Literally, back in

the day, kids, in olden times, your parents wouldn't

want you in the house. They would let you go

to this place called Outside, and they would

give you a bike, and you could take your bike

and go. Anywhere. As long as you got back at

a certain time, you could go anywhere you wanted

to on a bike. Anywhere. And we're getting a little

resurgence with the little electrical scooter.

Back in the day, kids used to pedal and go everywhere.

The mall, the store, all types of things. We

didn't have Uber. We had bikes. And you didn't

have to lock it up anywhere. No, you just leave

it there. Well, sometimes you did. Not in my

area. It was fun because you'd be on your bike

and our town had a whistle that went off at 6

o 'clock every day. And you knew when that whistle

went off that it was time to pedal your butt

back home for dinner. But yeah, it's like the

rite of passage. Learning to ride your bike and

the parent teaching the kid and then watching

them. And skin their knee and cry and be bloody

all over. Um, it's just like, so it's funny.

It's funny. You mentioned that part of it. Cause

literally, uh, as we're recording this, uh, unfortunately

Andre Brower just passed away and I just finished

watching frequency. And in that movie, Dennis

Quaid helps a young, the, the actor that plays

his son as the kid ride a bike. And I literally

just saw that the other day. A bike is a rite

of passage and freedom for the eight, nine -year

-old, just like the driver's license is for the

16 -year -old. It opens up a whole new world

where you can have friends that aren't on your

block. When you got your training wheels off,

it was like graduating. It's like, I'm going

to fly. If only. Steve, what do you think about

the bicycle being here at number 14? Oh, no.

I totally am fine with it being here. I mean,

we just... on our kid another one for Christmas

this year. Our kids love flying down the street

and those things. The only thing that sucks is

if you're in an area that has goat heads that

pops the tires. Did you just say goat heads?

Yes. That's what they're called. I don't know

what that is. It's a plant. Think of the episode

of Beast Wars. Where Dinobot gets the plant stuck

to the back of his neck. So there's little tiny

plants like that. And they will rupture your

tire and stick to your finger. So they're extremely

painful. I have fixed so many bike tires out

here in Colorado. I'm never moving to Colorado.

Nope. I remember just as a kind of a similar

story. I remember like tree roots were like a

big thing, like jumping wheelies or things off

of tree roots. And I convinced my friend, he

had a big tree root in his yard and I was like,

Oh, we should jump over that. And so I let him

go first and he popped his wheelie over that

tree root and went high enough where the whole

bike then came down across his chest on top of

him. The line of the handlebars across his chest

was like imprinted. And I was like, Oh my God,

he just. I was like, time for me to go home.

Which was two doors down, by the way. Gotta go.

Let's move into number 13. Apparently, it's the

day of the guns, I guess, on our countdown here.

Number 13, we're going with the Super Soaker.

A 2015 Toy Hall of Fame inductee. Came around

in 1990. Currently, I think it's owned by Hasbro.

We're just going to go with that. The Super Soaker.

And compare that to the Nerf gun. Is Super Soaker...

worthy of being higher mike yes why because there

is so much more fun with it like you didn't have

to worry the only thing you had to reload was

water you didn't have to worry about finding

the the discs or the balls or the whatever the

hell came out of the nerf guns like your super

soaker is empty just go to the hose and fill

it up that was there was definitely like a advantage

though to whoever had the most expensive Which

was never me, by the way. DJ, what do you think

of the Super Soaker? Yeah, the Super Soaker is...

I think it's more of the... That was like the

summer outside toy gun. And then the Nerf was

like... You can use Nerf outside. But I liked

urban combat. So I like being inside with a Nerf

and outside with a Super Soaker. So yeah. Steve,

any thoughts on Super Soaker? Yeah. It was owned

by Laramie. Back in the day. I had the Super

Soaker 50. Oh, I remember. They always had the

numbers like the Super Soaker 2000. And what's

funny is that was probably better than the ones

with the giant tanks. Not only did it have the

holster that held like, I don't know, it had

to be like 25 ounces or something. Or a liter

or something. I'm not really sure. But anyways,

it had the pump action on it. The funny part

about the super soaker, that particular model,

you could hook up to the hose. And you could

convert that high pressure energy and not have

to pump the super soaker. And it would come out

in a nice, firm stream from the cannon. We had

a super soaker fight with the kids over the fence.

And it was like a wood fence. And they had their...

higher, more expensive super soakers with, like,

one of them had a backpack and one had the dual

tank. And then I was like, screw this. I plugged

it into the garden hose and stood in my treehouse

with the hose hanging from the super soaker and

just, like, I had, like, direct line of sight

and I sniped him. You can create, like, the whole

war. You get super soakers, you add in water

balloons, like, you have a whole... We destroyed

him. So, so far we have a, uh, we're what? 14

picks into today's countdown and we've had one

action figure and zero board games. So that means

that they are tied currently with 16 a piece.

So our number 12 came around in 1935. It was

a 1998 inductee into the hall of fame. It's from

Parker brothers currently owned by Hasbro. We're

going to give our first tally to the board game,

not a column. main one that we haven't talked

about yet mike any guess i don't know how about

monopoly that was the one coming it was also

it's also the second of the three toys i did

not vote for in my personal list only because

monopoly only ends one way. And that's everybody

quitting or throwing the ball. How did I make

it big? I know how to play the game. I buy real

estate, hotels, fancy cars, even railroads. And

I take chances to make it big. Oh, you've got

to play the game. I'm a monopoly game. No, no.

Have you ever played a, like a 10 hour game of

it? Yeah. Oh yeah. It's horrible. My cousins

take this game super serious. So if you played

their game, it was on and they were bartering

and putting stuff up for auction. And I was just

like, I am not ready for this. This is not for

me, guys. If I'm going to play that long a game,

it's going to be like Stratego or Risk. Not Stratego,

but Risk is a longer game. I'll play that. Monopoly,

I don't think it's that fun of a game. It's not.

I get how popular it is. I get how iconic it

is. I get we've had McDonald's Monopoly and we've

had all the various versions of the actual board

game Monopoly. I probably own Star Wars Monopoly

in the house somewhere. So it's definitely like

taking advantage of all the franchises and stuff

like that. I just, when it comes to board games,

I like so many other board games better, but

I totally get why other people voted for it.

So I get it's top 100 worthy. It comes in here

at number 12. Mike, what do you think? Oh, man,

Monopoly. Yeah, Monopoly will ruin families.

It definitely will, and you're right. There's

all kinds of themed Monopolies, because I still

have to get, Steve, the Beast Wars version of

Monopoly that came out a couple of years ago.

They do have a Transformers Generation 1 and

a Beast Wars version. I believe it's the... I

forget what company it's fully under, but there's

a company called Scopely. They just released

recently. monopoly go on your phone where you

can play with your facebook friends and other

friends that have your whatever and it's basically

the same thing and it's like yeah monopoly is

life and monopoly is war because war is hell

folks when it comes to monopoly dj what do you

think about monopoly i'm in florida as you guys

know and uh when wilma hit uh we had no electricity

for like two weeks and monopoly that in describing

the plot of Lord of the Rings to a friend of

ours who was stuck in the house with us who had

never seen it. We played Monopoly and did that.

And we played Monopoly like... Like you guys

were saying, legit, we were playing with real

money. We were doing it for legit. It's one of

those games where when I was young, I would see

my parents playing. I didn't understand it. And

then when I got older, I played it. Oh, I get

why they are so addicted to this thing. And then

I heard they were trying to make a movie a while

back with Ridley Scott. And that fell apart.

And now they're still making the movie with Kevin

Hart and Tim Story. I'm like, how? How are you

making this? I like the Ace Ventura version better.

Do not pass count. Do not collect $200. That's

all the movie you need. Eight people had this

one in the top 25. So a lot of love for Monopoly.

Steve, do you think it deserves to be so far,

up to this point, the highest board game? No.

It's iconic, yes, but the fact that they have

to keep putting a new theme on it to get you

to buy a new version of it tells me everything

I need to know. Because it can't stand on its

own without having a franchise tied to it at

this point. It literally is not worth picking

up. I'd almost just rather play the electronic

versions, honestly, and that's rare for me to

say that. And honestly, seriously, I'm not trying

to convince any of you guys to join Monopoly

Go at all, but Monopoly Go is essentially the

digital version of the game. They have events

and everything else, but it's not themed, it's

not whatever, it's just classic Monopoly. And

one of the few board games, I know there are

a couple other ones, but one of the few board

games where you actually can get a Mr. Monopoly

In his jail uniform as a Funko Pop. I have it

on my shelf over here. That is not surprising.

All right, let's move on to number 11. This is

a classic one, maybe a little bit boosted by

the appearance of it in the Toy Story franchise.

We're going with the 1952 toy that was inducted

in 2000 to the Hall of Fame. We're talking about

Mr. Potato Head or Mrs. Potato Head or whatever

kind of potato head you want to talk about. I'm

not trying to cause controversy. It was Mr. Potato

Head, dang it. So it's coming in here at number

11. Mike, what do you think? Yeah, absolutely

love it. And there's no Mr. Potato Head ad out

there that I would end up putting in here. I

am just going to use Don Rickles and Estelle

from Toy Story because that's the best. And some

blue Play -Doh. And a dime, call me, and Monkey

Chow. Monkey Chow? For what? Well, for the monkeys,

of course! Come on, monkeys! That's it! I draw

the line at monkeys! Get my agent on the phone!

Yeah, but Mr. Potato Head, he's the Humpty Dumpty

of toys, really. What do you think about Mr.

Potato Head? I mean, I think he deserves to be

on here, just because everybody's played with

one at some point, but it... at the same time,

like he, he had to go get political, man. What

are your pronouns? What are your pronouns? It's

another one of those, like what kid has, what

kid has not played with a Mr. Potato. It's like,

you know, this is a hall of famer. So yeah, I

get it. I think I was. I never had fun with a

Mr. Potato Head. I liked the little storage thing

in his butt that you could put stuff in there.

My kids like putting his face on his butt and

then moving it all around that way. I think I

had one that had a Chicago Cubs hat or a bat

and a glove or something that you could give

it. You had a themed Mr. Potato Head. I had the

regular top hat Mr. Potato Head. I never had

that. That's another list that we could make,

like the themed toys, the toys that are on our

list that could be themed into franchises or

sports. Right, right, right. All right. Mr. Potato

Head number 11. So the board games just took

the lead a pick ago with Monopoly, but the action

figures are going to try to keep with it here

at number 10. So our number 10. So, yes, we're

in the top 10 here. This action figure line started

in 1978 from a toy company called Kenner. It

has basically never left the shelf since. 2012

inductee into the toy hall of fame we're talking

about the star wars action figure toy line here

at number 10 i may or may not own a few thousand

of these yeah i was gonna say um so we won't

talk about that but obviously i'm a big fan i

voted for it this is like the difference here

so when it came to action figures for me it either

had to have something like unique like we saw

with mask or it had to be something like star

wars that just has seemingly been around forever

There was a brief moment where it wasn't on the

shelves, and I think since the early mid -90s,

I don't think it's left the shelves since. And

load Chewbacca's laser crossbow. Star Wars large

-sized action figures. Up to 15 inches tall.

And ready for action. Large -sized Darth Vader,

Chewbacca, Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, each

sold separately from Kenner. So, I'm a big fan

of Star Wars. I'm surprised it got enough votes

to get in the top 10. But I'm definitely happy

that it's here in the top 25. Mike, what do you

think? Yeah, absolutely. Star Wars is awesome.

I didn't have too many of them as a kid. I only

have Funko Pop Star Wars stuff now. Yeah, no,

like, I remember, I do actually remember having,

I think Michael Wilson sent me this at some point.

He sent me one of the, I forget which character

it was supposed to transform into, but it was

the Millennium Falcon Transformer crossover that

Hasbro did a while ago. Yeah, I can see that.

About a decade ago. I forgot to mention, by the

way, Mr. Potato Head was on 18 lists, so that's

the most that anything has been on since. Star

Wars, not on 18 lists, but look at these rankings.

Number 2, number 3, number 3, number 5, number

5, number 7, number 9. There's a ton of people

that had it in the top 10, top 20. DJ, what do

you think? I had the Falcon. I had a Y -Wing.

I had a Luke. I think I had, I remember having

either a Wookiee or Chewie. I'm pretty sure it

was Chewie. I had it. I love Star Wars. I grew

up on Star Wars. I had the Return of the Jedi

book. I just said that Star Wars is now dead.

I'm sorry. I mean, yeah, back in the day, Kenner

toys were awesome. The franchise now is in perpetual

hell. But right back in the day. Just talking

about toys. It's one of those franchises, though,

that has been able to reinvent itself so many

times. There was toys based on original movies.

There were toys based on the comics. There's

been toys where, for some reason, everybody was

super buff. Yeah, I remember that. The buff Star

Wars. Right. There's been the 12 -inch ones.

There's been the classic three and three -quarter

ones. There's been the six -inch series, which

has been... The Black Series has been huge. And

it started like a whole revolution. It seemed

like I don't know if they do they get credit

for starting that kind of revolution or was the

somebody else do that first? Because it seems

like every toy line now that's action figure

oriented does the six inch. I don't know if they

were the first. Were they the first? I don't

know. I don't know. I don't know what started

that craze, but it went from like in our day,

like it was like in our. older siblings or cousins

or family members days it was the 12 inch dolls

like the big 12 inch and the big star wars stuff

like that and then like our generation it was

like all the three and three quarters like that's

like i mean i'm not saying every toy line had

that there were some that were other sizes but

that was like the classic that was what star

wars was that was what you know gi joe was etc

and then somewhere in the 2000s like that six

inch thing became like the fact because now it's

in you have the gi joe classified you have the

marvel and dc stuff you have the the star wars

black series or whatever they call it so like

it's like crazy i don't know who started it i

gotta do some research mike what do you think

yeah no absolutely it's it's definitely something

that has caught on because again like i mentioned

earlier when we're talking about mask like that

was my biggest problem with the mask as a mask

as a toy line was the toys were like the size

of my thumb yeah like they weren't Looking back

now, it's cool to see all the variations that

we actually had because in my mind, it was like,

oh, all the action figures are one size, but

there's like the Brave Star figures are humongous.

The mass figures are tiny and it's crazy with

all the different size variations that I didn't

realize actually existed. Steve, what do you

think about Star Wars coming in here at number

10 before we move on? I used to have a ton of

them. Sold it all off during my second layoff,

but Uh, yeah, I used to have a ton of them, a

lot of, a lot of figures across different lines,

a lot of ships, a lot of, uh, play centers, a

lot of, uh, a lot of things that I wish that

transformers had done over the years. Uh, you

know, like the stuff that people are 3d printing

now, you know, same thing with like, you know,

power Rangers or, you know, Star Trek or, I mean,

Star Trek did a little bit of it, but like, The

stuff people are coming up with now compared

to that, I mean, nothing kind of covers as much

as what Star Wars has managed to do over the

years. Yeah. All right, we're in our top ten

territory. Let's go to our number nine. This

one was on 19 lists. That's the new record, 19

lists, including six people that had it in the

top ten. This toy originated in 1956. Kenner

is kind of the one that made it popular. Hasbro

owns it now. It was 1998. inductee into the hall

of fame we're talking about the classic kids

toy play -doh Anything goes. Ice cream fun in

a cone or a cup. Play -Doh ice cream play shop

scoops the fun up. Put Play -Doh in, squeeze

out, soft swirl, Play -Doh cones. Whirl and scoop,

it's sandwiches too. Food is fun with Play -Doh

and you. And for more Play -Doh fun. Hop in the

chair, grow wild hair. Sniff in here, style it

there. Fuzzy Pumper Barber and Beauty Shop. Anything

goes with Play -Doh. Play -Doh play sets and

case of colors sold separately. Fun to play with,

not to eat. Play -Doh. I know, Mike, you said

you like Silly Putty better, but a lot more people

voted for Play -Doh, so what are your thoughts?

Yeah, that's fine. They can have their damn Play

-Doh and eat it, too. I will tell you, my daughter

has never seen Silly Putty yet, but she loves

her Play -Doh, and there's this troll thing that

you can put the Play -Doh in, and then you turn

the wheel, and its hair comes out in all different

colors, and she thinks it's amazing. I get kind

of bored with Play -Doh myself, but I'm sure

there are other ways to spice it up, but I just

haven't. been wanting to explore that. So DJ,

what do you think about Plato being here at number

nine? I love Plato. I, it made me feel like an

artist because I was doing it. And unlike. at

least correct me if I'm wrong, unlike Silly Putty,

like you just mentioned, it had play sets with

the hair and you can do things. They had things

that you can do stuff with Play -Doh. Silly Putty

was... Yeah, Silly Putty was very one -note.

One -note, right. You can copy the comic book

and the newspaper on it and you can make things.

Play -Doh, you can do whatever the hell you want.

It was awesome. Except for combined colors. You

can't let those colors touch each other because

then you're screwed. Go across the streams. I

tried to make my sandwich. I was like, oh, I'm

going to make you a hamburger. So I took some

Play -Doh and made the buns and showed it to

her. And then I was trying to take them back

apart to put them in their colored... It's over.

What have I done? What have I done? There's no

turning back. It's over, man. You Play -Doh wrecker.

And then I got a job from my wife. Steve, what

do you think about Play -Doh? No, I definitely

think it deserves to be on here. Like most everybody

has used it at some point and then used it with

their kids or other kids. And so, I mean, it's

just it's one of those iconic things that have

a lot you can do with it. But like you said,

once once attached to something, it never separates.

All right. Moving on. Like I said a while back,

probably in the first episode, we had three people's

number one picks not make the countdown. We knew

that we talked about that ahead of time. Since

then, we've only seen two number ones appear,

which was Silly Putty at number 44 was somebody's

number one, and Battleship at number 33. Since

then, we have not had any others until this pick.

So at number eight, we're going to have somebody's

number one come out, somebody's number two, somebody's

number three, somebody's number five, seven,

seven, eight, nine, nine. Good Lord. One, two,

three, four, five, six. And people had this in

the top ten. And we may get some flack for not

having it higher. Just like Play -Doh, it was

introduced in the 50s. 1959, though, instead

of 1956. And just like Play -Doh, it was inducted

into the Hall of Fame in 1998. We're going to

go with a Mattel toy here. Pretty popular in

2023. Talking about the Barbie doll at number

8. Barbie's small and so petite. Her clothes

and figure look so neat. Her dancing outfit rings

a bell. At parties she will cast a spell. Purses,

hats, and gloves galore. And all the gadgets

gal's adore. Barbie dressed for swim and fun

is only $3. Her lovely fashions range from $1

to $5. Look for Barbie wherever dolls are sold.

Someday I'm gonna be exactly like you. Till then,

I know just what I'll do. Barbie, beautiful Barbie.

I'll make believe that I am you. You can tell

it's Mattel. It's swell. So this may be a factor

of just having more boys than girls. contributing

list or males and females contributing list into

our countdown. But Barbie here at number eight,

are we going to get a lot of flack for this not

being like top five, Mike? Only if Oppenheimer

is number seven. Give me the sad Einstein doll.

Give me the German toy. You think most people

would have this in their top five, Mike? Yeah,

probably. Number 8 is not bad. It's top 10. It's

top 10. Steve, what do you think about the Barbie

doll? It's pretty close to what I ranked it just

because of the iconic nature of the thing. Plus,

it's been pretty popular for decades. Obviously,

nothing I cared about. Wait, wait, wait. Really

quickly before DJ goes, I have to say this, and

folks, if you haven't listened to the previous

episodes, go back and listen, but how Kevin does

the point system, anything you rank at number

100 gets one point. Anything you rank at number

one gets 100 points. Barbie was my 100 because

I knew it needed to be on there somewhere, but

because I wasn't into Barbies at all, I wasn't

going to put it anywhere near the top 10. I will

say that it is the only toy that got a vote for

100 and for one. There you go. DJ, have you seen

the movie this year? Absolutely not, because

I'm a man. But I think... What? I'm sorry. Did

I say something wrong? I watched the movie. We

actually watched the movie like this last week.

And I have to say that out of toys that have

become movies, this might be one of the... most

well done ones i've ever seen like the stuff

that they find a way to put in here that is like

barbie versions that were cast off that like

got canceled for like whatever controversy or

lack of sales that they throw in there like the

different it's it's really clever the way they

put this together like you can almost like not

even pay attention to the plot of the movie if

you wanted to and just like look for all the

different easter eggs of like it's it's just

really clever the way they did that i will say

that much but go ahead dj what do you think about

barbie i think eight is enough But I'm not a

Barbie. My sister had Barbies, but she never,

she collected them. She didn't play with them.

But I know people who did play with them. She

had them in the boxes. I would see them all.

It was like the American Dolls. Yeah, yeah. And

I was like, okay. But yeah, the Barbie, it's

got, it's like the Mr. Potato Head to me. It's

like, I know why it's here. I get it. It's iconic.

It's the highest grossing movie in America. It's

going to have a sequel probably based on Ken.

Margot Robbie is one of the hottest women in

the world. So her playing Barbie made me kind

of want to watch the movie. Then I realized this

is not for me. This is not for me. But I understand

it. I get you. I get you, Barbie. You live your

life over there. I live my life over there. So

that was one person's number one. We have, what,

one, two, three, four. We have seven picks left.

Yep. Four of them were number ones on people's

list. Three of them were number twos on people's

list. So it's the cream of the crop, folks. So

number seven, it was a 2022 Toy Hall of Fame

inductee. It was brought about to us in 1982

from a company called Mattel. Put one column

in the action figure column. Keyman and the Masters

of the Universe. Speaking of toys that aren't

a specific size because they're all different

sizes. That's right. What do we have here? It's

Castle Grayskull. And it's mine. Not so fast,

Beastman. He -Man! You can pit He -Man against

Beastman playing for the power of Castle Grayskull.

You have to put the castle together. Beastman's

escaping. The throne, Dad. Dad, you saved the

castle! Castle Grayskull from the Masters of

the Universe Collection. He -Man and Beastman

each sold separately from Mattel. The thing that

I give credit for He -Man, not only for kind

of being, like we've talked about, like an ad

nauseum, like one of the, it was like the introduction

to a whole new world in the 80s. Everything kind

of came after He -Man. But what He -Man toys

did is they had a lot of gidgets and gadgets

and gizmos and like... things that the the toys

could do whether it was you know action type

things where you could squeeze their legs or

push a button and do things or whether it was

like mosquito or who could actually like there

was like red liquid inside him and then things

like that like they all had different like not

all of them but like they had different things

like triclops had the three you know the different

eye sets manny faces had the different faces

that you could cycle around with so like there

was lots of like little things that they tried

to make it so it wasn't just like a stationary

static action figure. Um, and for that, I gave

it a lot of credit. So it was definitely on my

vote. I'm surprised it got all the way up here

to number seven, but I'm not complaining. Mike,

what do you think of the masters of the universe

toy line? I'm not surprised that it got hit this

high because it's one of the staples. And I've

said it in every episode, folks, you're listening

to the geek cast radio network. Did you expect

anything less from us? And the thing of it is,

is I had, I didn't have the whole toy line, but

I had a good majority of the good guys and the

bad guys. I had both Snake Mountain and Castle

Grayskull, except because I come from divorced

parents. Castle Grayskull was at my mom's house

and Snake Mountain was at my dad's house. What

does that say? Until he decided... Yeah, uh -huh.

Until he decided in 1986, when I was six years

old, that I was too old to play with toys and

basically either... I don't know if he sold them

or got rid of them or... I just went down to...

Massachusetts to Rhode Island one weekend with

him and all of a sudden my toys were gone. I've

told this story on ToyCast for years now because

it's one of the stories that just goes along

with my toy collecting story. There's a picture

of me I want to say it was 89 where I'm to the

left of the frame Castle Grayskull is in the

front of the frame and it has Every other toy

I had except for any of them, it's got a Dick

Tracy action figure next to it. It's got Captain

Planet next to it. Got all this stuff just standing

outside of Castle Grayskull. And the other thing

I will say is when I, my mom in 2012 at the time

said, here, take this. I've been lugging this

thing around for 30 years. She gave me my original

Castle Grayskull. And sadly, the apartment complex,

about three months later, had a huge infestation

of bugs, and I had to get rid of the damn thing.

Wah, wah, wah. Oh, well. That is terrible. I

have a few hundred of these. Yes, you do. Not

as many as I have Star Wars figures, but it's

been growing exponentially with the classics

line and all that's out there on the shelves

these days. So, DJ, what do you think of the

Masters of the Universe as a toy line? As a toy

itself, as a toy playing with it. It wasn't like

high on my list. I was more of a Transformers

kid, G .I. Joe kid. I was a huge fan of the show.

I mean, as we sit here, I'm literally adding

together another He -Man sketch. We do it on

our show all the time because I love the show.

I love the characters, but the creativity of

the characters, as you were describing. The fact

that they got him in the toys, I thought was

like Ram Man and Mecha Neck and all that stuff.

I like that. But I like He -Man more as a property.

It bugs me that I can never get this thing off

the ground because they have so much cool stuff.

But as a toy, it was okay. I think I prefer Transformers.

Because I got the original kind of like... old

-legged sit -em -on, the very rubbery He -Man

toy. It wasn't really... I like the Battle Cat

toy and the Panthro toy. Not Panthro, Skeletor's

cat. Panthor, not Panthro. Panthor was another

cat, so I apologize. But no, the show to me,

I love the show. To this day, I still love the

show. It's just the toys, I think... I guess

as it moved on, I think when they redid some

of them, they got better for me. But in terms

of the creativity of the characters and the names,

I'm a sucker for a pun. Most of the characters

are puns named after stuff like that. I like

it. So He -Man being on this list, it might be

problematic because it's above Barbie. Somebody's

going to cancel us because we have He -Man over

Barbie. But still, I don't care. He -Man's cool.

I like the slime pit, too. It had some cool vehicles

and things like that. Steve, what do you think

of He -Man? I was not a huge fan of it as a kid,

but I have to agree with DJ. I was more of a

Transformers fan, more of other franchises, but

I do like the franchise as a whole. I had some

of the original He -Man stuff, and then I had

some of the new adventures of He -Man. Eh, whatever.

I liked the figure quality better as far as that.

As far as the show, I'd only ever seen the movie

because I owned it, and I had the power sword.

I've not been able to find the classics version

of the Skeletor from the live -action movie yet,

but I really want to. They also have done something.

Yeah, they have done some of the new adventure

figures, too, which are amazing, even if the

show was terrible. So I have Slush Head and the

Skeletor. Yeah, I mean, the figures in the Toys

Fort were great. I don't know much about the

series. I had the movie where, you know, he got

the upgrade and met Flog and all those, you know,

that kind of stuff. My favorite thing to do was

to take all of the new adventures bad guys and

have them get the crap beat out of them by my

Transformers. That's right. So, yeah, so, like,

Megatron would use them as cannon fodder and,

you know, Beast Megatron. Nice. Yeah, and then

they'd get demolished by Primal. Alright, let's

move on to number six, which was a finalist for

the Toy Hall of Fame, but guys, it's not in it.

Crime Against Humanity here. It came around in

1988 from a company called Playmates. The only

list from the Playmates toy company. We're talking

about the TMNT action figure line, the Teenage

Mutant Ninja Turtles. why is this not in the

hall of fame i don't know but it's uh i actually

it's one of the ones i didn't vote for so i apologize

but for me i had the action figures I love Teenage

Mutant Ninja Turtles as a property. Ninja Turtles

from Playmates! For some reason, I just could

not quite fit them onto my countdown because

I had too many other action figure lines, I guess,

but I totally get it. They did have some interesting

ways to take the turtles and make them sports

stars or make them monsters or make them whatever,

so they definitely tried to reinvent themselves

a bunch, so I don't have any problem with them

being on the list. They were one person's number

one, so I apologize to that person that they

didn't make number one, but they did make one,

two, three, four, five, six, seven people in

the top ten. Steve, what do you think about the

Turtles? I mean, I ranked it in the 40s, but

I actually owned literally everything that came

out for it at one point. Yeah, I was one of those

spoiled brat kids. My parents literally, I had

the Technodrone, I had the Sewer, I had the Turtle

Van, I had the Turtle Blimp. Uh, I had literally

every figure I had, like the Star Trek, uh, editions

of the characters or the, uh, the ooze characters

where they would mutate from, you know, like

the turtle to a full blown, you know, the Ninja

Turtle and then, uh, the larger version. So it's,

it's funny seeing all of these exact same toys

hitting the stores now. Um, and I've still not

picked them all up again and I have none of them

left, but it's, it's more so just like, it can

live in my nostalgia. It's fine. I, I don't.

feel the need to get them but i i definitely

see them being on this list and it's really the

only thing that playmates ever made that kind

of got them off the ground mike what do you think

so far of the order we've had for just the action

figures today so so far today we've had mask

star wars he -man and turtles yeah i would say

that's probably right all right dj Well, the

thing about Turtles is, again, I remember in

Massachusetts that we had a store up there called

Benny's, and when the Turtles first hit in 88,

we'd go in there and get those, the regular,

the standard action figures for, like, five or

six bucks. Like, they were not expensive back

then. And like Steve said, I had the... The biggest

problem I had with the Turtle blimp is the blimp

was an actual, like... thing it wasn't wasn't

plastic it was like inflatable or something or

other oh yeah it was totally inflatable yeah

i always lost the damn blimp part i always kept

the bottom part of it love the turtle van love

the sewers uh the sewer layer play set uh just

absolutely yeah turtles was definitely because

again i've mentioned this before on other shows.

The 80s had a timeline of various franchises

from He -Man to Transformers to Mask to this

to that. And by 87, Turtles was king. And yeah,

no, I absolutely love the Turtles toys. And they've

done so many interesting things since then. We

finally have a coming out of their shells action

figure set from the tour back in 1990. That's

true. I think personally, I would put Mask and

Star Wars ahead of Turtles. I don't know. He

-Man would be kind of neck and neck with Turtles,

but that's just me personally. DJ, what do you

think of the Turtles being here? For me personally,

in terms of the Turtles as an IP, it ranked the

Eastman and Laird comic book first. Then it was

the cartoon show. Then it was the movies. The

toys are usually left. I didn't have a lot of

Turtles toys. I watched the show religiously.

I know the song religiously. I know more of the

lyrics of the song than people in my family's

name. So I know that. The toy itself was a little...

It's like right there with He -Man. I think I'd

probably put He -Man a little bit above it. Just

because of the variations. I'm not 100 % sure,

but I'm pretty sure He -Man had way more characters

than the turtles. So yeah, I probably put He

-Man above it just for that specific reason.

But as an IP, I mean, the turtles, you could

not walk around without seeing a turtle somewhere.

Some kind of turtle something. Oh yeah, totally.

And like Kevin said in the last episode, Even

though we could argue day and night of where

these should be ranked, in the top 25, there's

no argument over whether they should be here

or not. We can decide whether it should be at

number 7 or number 6 or number whatever. But

the fact that they're here is awesome. And I

think my favorite gimmick the Turtles ever did

was the... I remember undercover Don the most,

but it was basically they were dressing up as

various things and then the shell heads where

you could push it down into the body. That was

the coolest thing back in the day. Absolutely.

All right. So there are only five spots left.

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so that means there's only room for five more

reveals. Everybody can be starting to check the

list and check their list and see what hasn't

fallen yet and try to make their predictions

on what our top five is. We'll see. This number

five pick was on nine people's top ten. Nobody

got it at number one, though. The highest it

was ranked was number two. This was a 2011 National

Toy Hall of Fame inductee. It came to us about

1968 or so. going back to the toys with wheels

dj and this time it's some hot wheels so hot

wheels at number five we've seen matchbox way

further down on the countdown but now we have

hot wheels at number five welcome to the world

of hot wheels monster trucks where big tires

meet even bigger tires crush the road with bone

shaker save the day with five alarm tear into

it with tiger shark And get wild with Demo Derby.

Large 124th vehicles each sold separately. Mike,

what do you think of that? Absolutely. Gotta

love them. Like I mentioned in one of the other

episodes, right here on my desk, I have a Hot

Wheels Knight Rider Kit Super Pursuit Mode car.

So absolutely love Hot Wheels. They were so cool.

What do you think of them being number five?

Yeah, no, absolutely. Definitely. All right,

Steve, any surprise? uh not really these i mean

they still sell like hot cakes and are still

dirt cheap in the store and i i i check them

out periodically when i go in with the kids and

look at the toys or i go to the grocery store

to pick something up and i'm like yeah let's

see what's new over here and then periodically

i'll pick one up just randomly and the kids are

like why are you buying a hot wheel you and i'm

like because i like it and it's i own about a

dozen of the treasure hunt Hot Wheels sealed

on the card just because I knew other people

wanted them so I bought them instead. That's

when I worked at Target and I did not like the

Hot Wheel collectors. They were not nice people.

But for some reason out of all the different

collectors we had to deal with the Hot Wheels

collectors were the worst. Really? And I knew

that there was one treasure hunt per case so

every time we got a case and I just took the

treasure hunt and bought it and they never found

it. Hot Wheels collectors, and this is a whole

other podcast episode, but Hot Wheels collectors

are like Just beyond die hard. Oh yeah. We literally,

this guy and his son were, I worked at target

for 10 years. Basically this guy and his son

were outside 10 minutes before we opened every

day of the year for 10 years. Why? And I literally

saw these people grow up. I didn't want. And

I didn't want to. And they would come by and

they would make a beeline to the back of the

store where the Hot Wheels were. They would look

at them for three seconds, then turn around,

make a beeline out, and I assume go to a different

store. And they would do that every morning.

More power to them, I guess, but they didn't

find much at our store. But I think the thing

about Hot Wheels that I can appreciate, though,

is that, like Steve said, you could buy the individual

cars for whatever, 69 cents at the time or 98

cents or whatever the heck they are now. They're

$1 .25 now. Yeah. So like right around, you can

get them for, you've always been able to get

the cars for less than a buck 50, right? So you

can get them for cheap. You can get a bunch of

them for cheap and give your kid a lot of cars

to play with. But you could also make it more

expensive if you wanted to, if you wanted to

get all the tracks and the play sets and the

different things like that. So like it kind of

served multiple purposes. So I totally get it.

My daughter loves Matchbox or Hot Wheels cars.

I don't know which ones she has specifically,

but they're all kind of the same. But obviously

Hot Wheels has been the one that has like reigned

supreme. It's like. When it comes to Transformers

and GoBots, Hot Wheels, Matchbox, I get a similar

comparison, I guess. DJ, what do you think about

Hot Wheels? They're like Matchbox with a publicist

because they had the song and they were driving

for real. I had the car wash. Hot Wheels was...

I wasn't Matchbox and Micro Machines. To me,

I love them all even though they're different,

but I dig them. I dig them all three being on

this list because... When I was a kid, to me,

they were just, hey, I got a car one. Microchips

are a little bit too tiny, but at least it was

one where if I got a Hot Wheel, I was like, yes.

If I got a Matchbox, I was like, yes. If I got

a Microchip, I was like, oh, this is cool. So

it wasn't like I was like, oh, man, I got a Matchbox

instead of a Hot Wheel, or vice versa. It was

always like, yeah, this is great. So yeah, Hot

Wheels being on here is awesome. Matchbox were

always a little bit more of the realistic cars.

Hot Wheels, always the more toy fun cars. To

me, it seemed like. All right, moving on. There's

only four spots left, guys. Number four toy was

on 12 people's top 10. This was introduced in

around 1964. So two back to back in the 1960s.

This was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2004

from a company called Hasbro. Yes, an appearance

by Hasbro, guys. We're talking about the G .I.

Joe. Toilet. cobra gi joe and cobra the enemy

each sold separately from asbro so this includes

for the record all gi joe toy lines doesn't matter

if it was the original classic 12 inch toys or

the three and three quarter action figures like

we got with all the different vehicles and things

of that nature all things gi joe comes in here

at number four dj what do you think uh gi joe

was one of those cornerstones of my entire existence

It's one of the cornerstones. The other one's

probably going to be a little bit higher. Yeah,

man. One thing I'll say about G .I. Joe, I was

a fan of Cobra more than I was a fan of the Joes.

I love Cobra. I love Cobra Commander. I hate

Serpentor. I love Cobra Commander. I love Death

Joe, Baroness. I had a whole bunch of Frag Vipers.

I had a Hiss. G .I. Joe, the cartoon, the comic

books, The toys. Quintessential awesome toy.

Brand. Just awesome. Anywhere you go. Sometimes

we're talking about Turtles. To me, I like the

cartoons and the books. G .I. Joe, the toys were

cool. The cartoon was cool. The comic book was

cool. Everything was cool about G .I. Joe for

me. I think G .I. Joe, that was the type of figure

anybody's recollection or toy story from when

they were a kid about any type of action figure

that was getting like burned or demolished or

dropped from trees or whatever. Like that was

JJ. That was the toy line that was getting all

the abuse. I promise you that. Um, and they didn't,

some of them didn't survive very well with their

little rubber band arms, spring arms. What's

interesting is when we look at the action figures

that we've talked about so far today, Mask, no

nomination for the Toy Hall of Fame. TMNT was

just a finalist. It's G .I. Joe, He -Man, and

Star Wars that have actually been inducted, for

whatever that's worth. Steve, what do you think

about G .I. Joe? Lick my boot, Paris! Yeah, I

love G .I. Joe. It was one of the first comic

books I got as a kid. subscribed to that series,

got a lot of the toys, got a lot of the 12 -inch

figures, got some of the smaller ones, and then

when they were hitting their 25th anniversary

at Walmart, I was picking those things up like

hotcakes. I had several of the figures that I

had as a kid, or the talking backpacks, or the

other versions of the characters. I was able

to pick up my favorite version of Cobra Commander,

which is where he's wearing the battle armor.

I know it's from the Deke series, which everybody's

kind of like, eh, that series sucks. I still

love the armor. Say what you will about the show.

I love the armor, and I wish that they'd come

out with an updated, larger version for the classified

stuff. Did you like the hood or the chrome faceplate?

For Cobra Commander, I mean. I'm sorry. I liked

the hood. I liked the face plate. I don't know

about the face plate. It depended. I didn't really

have a preference either way. Just because I

loved the voice and I loved his sniveling behavior.

I used you for the voice on our sketch, my friend.

My banner is based on the sketch that you did

the voice of Cobra Commander for on my Twitter

home. I was like, yo, I need Cooper Commander

immediately. Do me Cooper Commander. That's awesome.

I love this character, though. I love this show.

There's a lot to love about G .I. Joe. Sadly,

they've ever since... What was it? Resolute?

Yeah. Renegades was awesome. Resolute kind of

fizzled out, and then they've not really been

able to do much with it since. Not in animation,

no. Not in animation, but I wish that they would.

I really do. It has so much potential, but I

feel like Hasbro will just screw it up, especially

with what they've been doing with Transformers.

I will say that every time I see the classics,

the classified figures on the shelf, I have to

have like an internal battle with myself to convince

myself that I can't buy it. Like literally, it

was like a couple of days ago I was there and

they had a couple of the dreadknots in the classified

series. And I was just like, those look amazing.

They're so well done. Like if I can just get

the dreadknots, right. I had to have like a whole

battle with myself, but I didn't get them. And

I'm going to regret that. I have three Funko

Pop G .I. Joe figures, Cobra Commander Baroness

and Sergeant Slaughter. I would love to have

a Sergeant Slaughter classified. That thing is

awesome, too. All right. So G .I. Joe, for me,

I did not have the figures as a kid. I don't

remember having them because I was more of a

Transformers person. I could have had them. I

just don't remember them. But the thing about.

G .I. Joe with the properties and stuff. Currently,

Skybound Entertainment under Image Comics, they

are launching under their new Energon universe

a whole new run of G .I. Joe stuff with the comics.

So that's going to be really interesting. And

they are carrying over from IDW into Skybound

Larry Hama's run. So they're just taking the

run from IDW since IDW lost the license. and

going from issue 300 to 301, and Larry can continue

telling his story that he's been telling for

the last 40 -some -odd years or whatever it is.

So yeah, G .I. Joe, it may not have an animated

series right now. I don't know if it ever will

again, but the toys are out there, the comics

will be out there, and it's a good time to be

a G .I. Joe fan, I think. Are you excited that

they're crossing over the Transformers movie

with a new G .I. Joe movie, if you watched the

last Transformers movie? Oh, really? And that's

when we all lose the excitement. All right. BJ,

you were talking about, like, when we were talking

about He -Man and Turtles, like, who has the

most characters. I can tell you one thing about

G .I. Joe. You thought you were cool when you

had your, like, 10 or 15 G .I. Joes, and then

some douchebag in your class would, like, come

down the street, and he'd have, like, a duffel

bag of 300 G .I. Joes. Yep. That is so true.

It's so true. How do you have 250 different GI

jokes? How do you have an entire literal army

of GI jokes? You went home with your 12. I got

seven of them. Why do you have five hisses? There

was always that kid in the class that literally

had like, I'm like, I didn't even know they made

this many. My dad doesn't love me. So instead

of love, he gives me GI jokes. something i was

like good lord um no wonder you're bashing them

with rocks and things you got like they're just

dime a dozen all right so let's move on to number

three here uh how about a toy that made 16 people's

top 20 that's a lot or 15 people's top 10 15

people's top 10 let's knock out a toy that's

on eight people's number one eight People's number

one falls here at number three. It's not a toy

Hall of Fame inductee. It's only a finalist.

Came around about 1984 or so, guys. It's Transformers

here. So we did not vote Transformers all the

way up to number one, guys. It happened. It's

still in the top five. It's number three. Steve,

what do you think of Transformers coming in right

here? Oh, yeah. Or as Megatron would say, yes.

This one for me gets the vote because of the

uniqueness. If you're talking action figures,

there's no action figure that is more unique

than the Transformer toy line. Oh yeah, for sure.

There's so many variations, so many different

series, so many different gimmicks. Miners and

pretenders and headmasters, not to mention just

in and of itself the basic ass Transformer transforms.

And then the fact that they even have G .I. Joe

vehicles that transform into the Transformers.

Right. Yeah, the Transformers crossovers are

crazy. And talk about a toy that's just literally

been on shelves, again, almost, almost all the

way from 1984 to now. I think there was a few

years where it wasn't somewhere in there. But

it's been on there for so many different lines,

so many different variations. They just keep

reinventing itself over and over and over again.

And what kid doesn't like? a Transformer. This

can be a car and a robot. What is wrong with

the kid? Why did it take to 1984? DJ, what do

you think about the Transformers? This was the

second cornerstone of my existence. I was raised

on G .I. Joe and Transformers. That was the thing.

I got an Optimus Prime. That was the first. uh

transformer i ever got it was optimus prime you

can see how my ego grew from there i was like

i got i got the leader number one holy crap but

yeah transformers is fantastic and again that's

like gi joe the cartoon was awesome the comic

was awesome everything was awesome that was the

first movie i ever cried in Transformers, that

freaking animated movie. I've told Mike this

story a billion times. And it's funny, there's

a Pavlovian response. It's something that will

always make me stop and for some reason calm

down, is watching, and it's just him, Optimus

Prime Transform. And I know there was a guy,

I saw it on Twitter, and he had a, it was a...

larger Optimus Prime, and it was automatically

transformed. Without you touching it, it would

just transform by itself. Yeah, the RoboSyn Optimus

Prime. I saw it. I didn't know what it was. I

was just doom -scrolling on my Twitter or X,

whatever you want to call it. I stopped automatically.

I was like, this Optimus Prime is transforming.

It's going to watch. Oh, yeah, okay. Let me see

if I'm going back down. For some reason... I

mean, you can't help but watch. You can't not

look at it. It's Optimus Prime's transformations.

For some reason... And all of the transformations

are pretty cool, but for some reason, Optimus

Prime transforming with the arms going in and

him going... It's just so cool. Transformers

might be the greatest concept of a toy of all

time. The fact that it's three kind of upsets

me a little bit, but again, I understand. I'm,

you know, partial, but Transformers, just the...

Damn you, Michael Bay. It pisses me off. I just

watched Godzilla Minus One a couple weeks ago,

okay, where you have human characters that are

so... likable and good with Godzilla in the background.

And it all blends together. But Michael Bay,

for some reason, couldn't figure out that formula,

how to use one of the coolest toys ever created.

And he had five chances to do so, but he still

couldn't make a movie that was not even good,

passable to the human psyche. He couldn't do

anything with Optimus Prime, Megatron, voice

actors still alive, ruined it. I don't understand.

It is one of the greatest toys, if not the greatest

to me, the greatest toy of all time, destroyed

by Hollywood. I don't understand. I don't get

it. But it's so good. Again, with all the Michael

Bay destruction, it still doesn't ruin. That's

how good it is. It still did not ruin my love

for Transformers. As horrible as those movies

are, as despicable as those movies are, I still,

every time I see Optimus Prime Transform, go,

it's like a stress ball. I don't know what it

is. Mike, what do you say? Any other comments,

Mike? So the thing with Transformers is, yes,

I agree with everything DJ said about the films.

However, I will say financially without those

films, Hasbro would probably not be where that

we probably would not have gotten a commander

class Rodimus Prime or whatever, because. Those

movies made them so much money that the toy lines

could keep, the toy line of Transformers could

keep going and going and going just like the

Energizer bunny. My curiosity, yeah, well, it

still made them beyond $10 billion and they put

it back into the toys. Did they? The quality

control, the colors, the paint jobs. We are getting

a Commander Class Optimus Prime from the 86 film

next year and technically Beast Wars saved the

franchise way before. Yes, they saved the franchise

because Hasbro didn't know what to do with it.

Rise of the Beast is a horrible film, and they

couldn't even get Beast Wars right. Yeah, well,

they tried, but that's what happens when you

take Beast Wars and you bastardize it, and then

you don't feed it the same fuel it had from the

original show. You know, one would think all

the, you know, most of the actors are still with

us. Maybe utilize them and not make them all

sound, you know, when they run into the screen.

Yeah, I don't know. Like, make it look less,

like, grungy and, like, I don't know, like, a

bunch of trash cans rolling into each other.

They've got an animated show coming out on Netflix.

The newer one. Is it a movie, actually? Oh, yeah,

Transformers 1. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hopefully there

they maybe resurrect the soul of this awesome

brand. But, yeah. One day before I die, there

will be a Transformers movie with no humans in

it. Don't count your breath. Technically, they

already had that, but it was an animated series

called Beast Wars. Like I said with Godzilla

Minus One, you can have humans in them. Just

write them well. That's all you have to do. There

was humans in the animated series. I didn't mind

Spike. Just write them well. It's not that difficult

to do. Just did it for $12 million. So how do

you beat a toy that gets 16 top 20 votes? How

about a toy that gets 18? Top 20 votes. And this

one had 12 top 10 votes. Two people's. Number

one. It was a finalist for the Toy Hall of Fame.

It has not actually been inducted. Shame on them.

Came around in about 1983. We're going with Nintendo.

When you get hold of the Nintendo Entertainment

System. When you master Rob the Video Robot.

And meet the challenge of Gyromite. When you

shoot the light -sensing zapper. When you play

the system with so many arcade hits. You're playing

with power. The Nintendo Entertainment System

Deluxe Set. Batteries not included. Super Mario

Brothers and other games sold separately. Oh,

wow. All -encompassing Nintendo. Doesn't matter

if it's Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64,

GameCube, Wii. I don't care. It's Nintendo. It

changed things forever. It still changes things.

Video games, things of that nature. A little

bit of revolutionary here. Nintendo, number two.

Let's start with Steve. What do you think? I'm

in favor of that because one of the systems that

consistently had kids wanting to play it and

adults is the Nintendo systems and it doesn't

matter what iteration. They seem to kind of evolve

in a logical progression when it needs to and

not when it doesn't need to. My first foray into

Nintendo was with the Super Nintendo. The first

one I bought was the GameCube and then the Wii,

and then I've not had a Nintendo system since,

but that's more so because I have a PC and I

don't really want to buy another game system.

Um, but yeah, I mean, they've, they've got a

lot of great innovation, a lot of great games,

smash brothers, Mario. I mean, a lot of great

properties that are exclusive to them. So, I

mean, it's, they're, they're definitely a video

game juggernaut. Mario Zelda enough said, um,

Mike, what do you think of Nintendo? Oh, I absolutely

love it. I mean, A video game system with their

own magazine? Sign me up. You were the king of

the neighborhood if you had a Nintendo Power

subscription. That's right. The Power Glove,

whatever they all were called. Yeah, no, absolutely.

And I remember getting Super Nintendo for Christmas

in 92. I played Super Mario World pretty much

all day into the next day. I didn't sleep that

night at all. So, DJ, we had Xbox at number 91.

We had PlayStation at number 29. We have Nintendo

at number 2. Thoughts? The first Nintendo game

I played was Mike Tyson's Punch -Up. But when

you said Nintendo, the first game that popped

into my brain, because there's a million games.

Everybody's played on every system ever. The

first game that popped into my head was a little

game called Goldeneye. And we're talking about

experts before. Uno expert, Tetris expert, GoldenEye,

MFing expert, okay? So when I was a freshman

in college, yeah, best believe that Nintendo

64 was plugged into the common room downstairs.

And when we were in class, we were playing GoldenEye.

Chops, I was on a job, we were doing a whole

thing. Nintendo is... We outlawed. You outlawed?

Oh. We outlawed odd jobs. It's very hard to get

a headshot on. This is what's the pros. I would

use Trevelyan if I wanted to get a little froggy,

but if I just wanted to teach somebody a lesson,

I'd get an odd job and slap them up. But no,

the point is this. Nintendo is... It's almost

unfair, Nintendo. It's almost unfair. It literally

revolutionized... childhood that's that it's

something that when I was younger I had like

baby baby I had like an Atari or whatever and

I was like oh this is funny I saw my stepfather

had Mike Tyson's punch I was like what is this

thing you've conjured what that looks like Michael

Tyson how are we doing this Contra? What do you

mean? Up, up, down, down, left, right, left,

right. B .A. Select Star gives me 30 characters.

What do you mean? Ninja Gaiden? There was so

much things going on. You could lose yourself.

Literally, it's like Narnia Nintendo. Nintendo,

you would just fall away. How long have I been

there? A couple minutes? Two days. You've been

playing this game for two days. Yep, two days.

That's right. I grew up, obviously, with Intellivision

and Commodore 64 and things like that, but I

remember Nintendo. What happened with Nintendo,

and it's not just that it revolutionized it once,

it's like revolutionized it over and over and

over again. It revolutionized it just by its

initial thing, and then it did it again with

Game Boy, and then it did it again with all these

different things throughout time. It's like the

highest grossing movie in the world of this year.

Guess what it is? Mario Brothers movie. Yeah.

But another thing that Nintendo did was it got

into the rental. Yep. aspects of it like where

you didn't just go rent movies you went and rented

video games which i don't think ever existed

before that i could be wrong but i just remember

it was like the thing like you know you if you're

having a sleepover or slumber party or birthday

party or whatever like you went and rented a

certain game and your goal was you had to beat

it before you had to return that thing like two

days later or whatever it was that was like the

mega mans of the world that was blowing into

the cartridges to make sure it worked yes everybody's

done it but you knew like you and your like three

or four friends knew that you all had to combine

your brain power and your strategy because it's

like, well, we have to beat these guys in the

right order because we only have two days to

do this. You know what I mean? A Link to the

Past was similar like that. Goldeneye may be

the only game that I was a master of. You're

a Goldeneye master too? You're a Goldeneye master

too? I think we need to do it all, my friend.

It can only be one. There was, like, the sentinel,

which you could become the bullet, and I could

go up and down stairs. I might proximity mine

you to death, though. I think he might not make

that. I'll allow those two, though, because I

had it where if you allowed proximity mines,

the first time you died was the end of the game.

Oh, so you were going to die. Okay, I see how

you activate. You were going to die. No, because

I had all the mines set where you were going

to respawn. Oh, so you just continued to map

it out. Did you look at the walls so people wouldn't

know where you were on the map by looking at

your screen? You better not die because you're

about to die 12 times in a row. Game recognized

game. I see you. I see you. Nintendo was... I

get it. When I did this list and I was thinking

as the lists were coming in and I saw list after

list that had Transformers at number one. Like

I said, we had eight of them. I'm like, well,

there's no doubt Transformers is going to be

our number one. Then when Nintendo was ahead

of it, I was like, well, I guess it makes sense.

So that leaves only one spot. So we're going

to go with our number one, which was a couple

things about it. It's on four people's number

one overall. It's on 15 people's top 10. And

it is the only toy that got a vote that appeared

on every single person's list. So the only universal

vote goes to Lego. Emergency in Lego City Harbor.

The big container ship is on fire. Quick. To

the fire station. You can launch the new fire

boat. Hey! You can build the fire boat, attach

the motor, and rush out to put out the fire.

The new fire boat is fast, powerful, and perfect

for the job. You can save the day with the new

fire boat from Lego City. Batteries not included.

Each set sold separately. From 1949. It was a

1998 Toy Hall of Fame inductee. I believe it

was invented in Denmark, if my research is correct.

But Lego, it's the ultimate building toy. And

I was very shocked at the number of building

toys that did not get an appearance. Like, guys,

it was Lincoln Logs and Legos. That's it. Yep.

And that's all that matters, really. Well, I'm

just saying there's so many different building

toys that I am very shocked that we only ended

up with two. um because if you think about like

just like the just the blocks um erector sets

duplos playmobiles tinker toys lincoln logs mega

blocks connects like there's so many different

building toys but i guess when it came down to

it like Everybody was voting on Legos, and they

didn't have room for another building toy on

their list. So, DJ, are you shocked that Lego

comes in at the number one spot? One of those

things where I was like, Lego? Oh, yeah. Again,

it's one of those. When's Lego being turned?

Oh, I forgot, by the way, that the toy or the

thing itself, the building of it, the movies,

the video games that made the prequels good.

Everything about Legos is like, yeah, it makes

sense. There's nothing in it. Spider -Man Homecoming,

Ned pulls up a Lego Death Star. That was like

five years ago. Yes, he does. It's never going

away. It might have maybe the most longevity

of anything on this list. I think in 20 years,

people are going to see it. I think it's right

on the shelves since the 40s, basically, already.

But it's another one like you're talking about.

It's so diverse. He has all the franchise connections,

so you can have Star Wars Legos and Marvel Legos.

It's longevity. I'm talking about the future.

You could go on forever. Oh, gotcha. Yeah, yeah,

yeah. Oh, yeah. Well, that's another thing that

it's become, too, is because it's not just, like,

you could have the simple blocks that, like,

the three -year -old could play with, but then

you have these, like, complex, crazy things.

Like, there's TV shows just about Lego Masters.

Oh, yeah. I love that show. What other toy has

a game show? Exactly. there's lego star wars

helmets from every any any star wars character

that ever had a helmet since 1977 there's mando

helmets there's bad batch helmets there's a lego

land there's a lego theme park for christ's this

lego theme park here's how you know guys like

star wars has like a section of a toy aisle transformers

has a section of a toy aisle lego has an aisle

it has an aisle yeah an aisle and a half yeah

it's like two aisles yeah and the other thing

i can't figure out is like i don't know how it

survives at its price point oh it's so expensive

it's been expensive my entire life it's never

gone down it does like oh you want something

that's bigger than like this like 12 piece lego

toy i hope you have a hundred dollars Don't even

think about looking at that one that's half the

size of this aisle. Get your checkbook out. I

want the Lego Optimus Prime and I can't afford

it. It's so expensive. It just tells you it's

come from just regular old yellow, blue, red

blocks that can make a tower to something that

can make anything that we've made or had in pop

culture. It's just insane. And it's like the

train set. You can have a whole basement that's

like a village of Legos if you wanted to. The

stuff people can do with this stuff is absolutely

incredible. Mike, any shock at it being number

one? No, not at all. And it deserves it. Because

like everything you guys have already said, it's

the innovator over and over and over again. Even

though I kind of crapped on it in the last episode

as far as just in the 80s being just yellow,

blue, and red bricks. But since then, and as

they've gotten the licenses and everything else,

oh man, this, this brand is, is never ending.

And I am so happy that it is the number one.

Cause I was like, what's going to beat for us

again for us here at the geek cast radio network.

What is going to beat transformers? It's Nintendo

and it's Lego. So think about that as a top five

hot wheels, GI Joe transformers, Nintendo Legos.

Like that's, pretty impressive. I get we didn't

have Barbie in there, but Hot Wheels is the best

car toy ever. G .I. Joe and Transformers are

two of the most iconic action figures. Nintendo's

the best electronic toy probably ever. Lego,

the best building toy. They've all been around

forever, it seems like. We were talking about

getting the licensing. I think toys are going

to Lego. I don't think Lego are going to... Star

Wars, Lucasfilm's probably going, hey, you want

to make a... Some Star Wars Lego stuff. They're

going to Lego. I don't think Lego's going to

the Lucasfilm. I think it's propping up. Remember

a couple years back when Hasbro tried to do their

own Legos. I forgot. Then it flopped horribly

because they were just ugly and terrible. I think

that they were just like, hey, it's probably

better to license with Lego and let them figure

it out. So that's why we have a transformable

Lego Optimus prime. Yeah. That's impressive too.

So we will have an entire wrap up episode. I'm

assuming Mike, that we're going to get into some,

like the ones that didn't quite make it. We're

going to break down, like the, we're going to

get into the arguments of who deserved to make

it. That didn't make it all that kind of stuff.

But what I do want to give right before we close

is just the, the final stats for. Okay. Wait,

wait, wait, wait, before you do that, I just

want to let everybody know. First of all, everybody

have a happy holiday season. Merry Christmas.

Merry, happy, whatever you celebrate. This episode

is coming out Christmas Day. The recap episode

will be coming after the first of the new year.

We are taking a break. I need a long winter's

nap. The recap episode will be probably somewhere

around January 15th when you all will be able

to hear us go through all the stats and everything

else that Optimus Solo is going to tell us. But

for now... Give us the stats that you were going

to give us. For now, it's just going to give

you how those different categories ended up.

That way, the wrap -up will talk a lot about

the toys that didn't make the countdown and things

like that. In our categories, as far as dates

go, if anybody was keeping track, the final tally,

even though it was really close going into this

with a 14, 15, 15, it ended with the 1960s had

16 toys. The 1900s and before had 19 toys. And

the 1980s had 24 toys. So the 1980s came in strong

here in this last episode with nine toys to take

the lead and the victory as far as time period

goes. When it comes to toy companies, we had

a tie for the lead. And again, some of this is

debatable on who, it's not always who invented

it, but who kind of brought it to market and

that kind of stuff. Milton Bradley and Kenner

both had eight. So those shocking guys, no Mattel,

no Hasbro at the top. It's Milton Bradley and

Kenner and like followed by Parker Brothers probably

after that. And then the last one, the categories.

Number three ended up being Toys with Wheels

with 11. And then number three or number two

ended up being board games with 17. They only

had one today, guys. Only one board game, Monopoly.

That was it. And then action figures ended up

with 21. So 21 for action figures. It took it

right here at the end with six in this last episode

compared to just the one board game. So we'll

break down more of the categories and more of

the toys that didn't make it or just missed or

what we think should have or all those types

of arguments when we do the wrap up show, Mike.

Absolutely. All right, folks, that's it. The

eighth GCRN. Top 100 count. We've done 800 entries.

Obviously, there's more. But out of published

audio, 800 entrants over the last 14 and a half

years. Holy crap. We're crazy, aren't we, folks?

I need a raise. I need to get paid. Fuck a raise.

I need to get paid, damn it. Steve, DJ, any final

thoughts before I run through the closing here?

No, I mean, I think it worked out satisfactory.

I'm not angry. I was going to be angry, but I'm

not angry. And that, guys, is impressive. When

DJ's not angry, you know you've done something

well. When DJ Valentine doesn't have issues,

that's a podcast you want to hear. That is true.

I almost ranted. Then I stopped myself. So good.

Good job, List. Good job. That's right. All right.

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I would have waited an eternity for this. It's

over, Prime. Lego City. The mobile police units

have caught the robbers and need a police station.

Hey! You can build the new police station. Take

them in, get the confession, and lock them up

in the prison block. But the robbers have planned

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