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the only toy podcast you will ever need. September

28th will be a day that lives on in infamy because

September 28th, 2011, the Transformers fan community

lost one of our friends, one of our most popular

members, Optimus Scourge, Gary Clark. He passed

away a year ago today. He was on several toy

casts with me and Proto Man. I am TFG and Mike.

He and I had had many personal private conversations

as well and he will be sorely missed. I remember

that when the news broke last year of his passing,

that entire week I just could not function. It's

just so it's just one of those things and as

you heard just now in the beginning of the show

I recut out the episode 75 intro when he was

talking about Shattered Glass Ponemus Prime and

I figured that would be a fitting funny thing

to start off the episode with. Here with me also

is Darth Devious who is a good friend of Gary's

as well. Hello. Hi Mike. And we also have Salt

Slime Blower Bob. Hi guys. Hi Bob. This is Toycast

episode 97. We are three episodes away from closing

out Toycast. I just, you know, I've said in previous

episodes when I was on with Dave, when I had

Dave and Deval on, when I was doing the TFCon

stuff. I love looking at... You know, the toys

that come out online and stuff like that, but

I've lost all interest in the actual collecting

of them. That's why Toycast hasn't had many releases.

That's why we haven't really finished it up.

We do have a strong finish for episode 100, but

yeah, we are here today to talk about some toys.

Why don't... I don't think... Have you got...

Well, you guys were on that Toycast where we

started off the reality talk with... Golden boy,

but yeah But why don't you introduce yourselves

to the listeners Kevin? You can go first. All

right As Mike said I am Darth devious. I also

do YouTube reviews under that name and stuff

like that And Basically, I just like you know

talking about toys transformers mainly things

like that Bob Yeah, what about Bob? Well, I'm

Bob Gilmer and I kind of stepped away from the

toys for a long time and then I caught Just the

movie started coming out and I started watching

Paul Octobotomus's reviews and it kind of Sparked

it back up. So I started collecting again not

like to a huge extent, just certain ones that

I liked. I didn't just go out and I had to buy

the whole wave, but you know, I got like Transformers

Prime, you know, toys because I really kind of

liked them when they first came out. But then

I got into the reviews on YouTube, but I kind

of stopped doing that now just because I've lost

all hope for all that because something happened.

Anyways, I had over 100 and some Videos, I guess

I don't know but I stopped but anyway, I still

like toys So I like talking about them and I

still collect them me and my kids Actually, my

kids and I whatever you want to say Yeah, so

as a father, you know I still have to keep up

on the toys for them and it's a good excuse for

me to buy new toys because the kids really want

this I swear they do and it's really for me.

Yeah Yeah, I really miss doing them. I really

loved them but ever since I'd since kind of hosed

me over I just don't even care anymore. I Don't

even I don't even monetize any my videos. So

yeah It was a bad deal and it kind of left a

bad taste in my mouth. So it's like screw you

YouTube I don't need you I might put like paranormal

stuff up there still like since the ghost hunting

and all that I might put the vlogs up still But

his toy reviews, uh, I don't know yet If I start

getting up into if I start getting up into like

the thousands of subscribers, you know, like

one two thousand I might start monetizing them

then but right now it's just not worth it You

don't get enough views to make any money. So

what's the point? Right. Yep And all I usually

do now with youtube is just put the podcast episodes

up there I'll just you know, i'll find pictures

that are relevant and i'll use the podcast art

and I just make You know video versions of our

podcast so but like I do miss your your Manti

rants I really like listening to those. I was

rolling My collector is the devil I really enjoyed

watching this Yeah, I wish I had a slightly better

camera setup so the head desk moments actually

come out better But no, we're here to talk about

some toys and all that good stuff. So after this

clip we will come back and talk about our selections

Here we are That's not a good sign Since I could

not compel you to surrender the encryption code,

I'm forced to introduce you to someone whose

methods are a little more persuasive. We may

be in a little more trouble than I thought. Autobots,

say hello to Shockwave. Delivering a mountain

of energon, intercepting an encrypted Autobot

communique, and capturing two key prisoners is

impressive, I admit. But Lord Megatron expects

nothing less from his first loot. I should let

you work, right? No doubt you are trying to concentrate.

Carry on. Shockwave are you certain you can extract

the decryption code without first nullifying

our subjects neural net? I Invented the cortical

psychic patch. I am familiar with its idiosyncrasies

Of course you are so we are back and Kevin what

are you gonna be talking about tonight? What

toy you gonna? What toy did you pick? I'm gonna

be talking about my rebel tech Starscream. I

know I just did a review of him that went up

yesterday But this is my first rebel tech figure

I've ever had in hand So these are actually pretty

cool. I mean the pose ability on them insane

Because those rebel tech joints just they click

so well and they just hold so many different

poses Yeah, they're really well done. I mean

the only real flaw well, there's a couple flaws

like one is head and neck are a little weird

and thick because they're based off of Pat Lee's

drawings from Dreamwave comics But And his hands

when you go to change out the hand It's real

easy for the plugs to get pulled out because

the glue is not very good. But other than that

Really is a fantastic figure and it's just I

was so happy when my friend just decided she

was gonna give me hers Just to try and cheer

me up Yeah, I used to love the rebel texts well,

I love the idea of them but pictures lie Honestly

pictures lie because when I originally was, you

know still collecting and I Thought the rebel

texts were amazing. I thought they were actually

larger than what they are Oh, they are quite

small. I'll give you that. I mean some of the

energon scout ears are bigger than them. Yeah

But no, I I Love the transformers Revoltec stuff,

but I just wish they were on a slightly larger

scale like if they were even on a Scout class

scale or you know, I don't think a deluxe class

would work but just something larger than what

they are because they just seem like I think

I I think when I had the rebel tech one there

about Five inches about yeah About I would say

four because I got a five inch doctor who figure

and he's actually about an inch taller than Starscream

Yeah, yeah, so it's about four inches. I mean

they are very cool. What are you gonna say Bob?

Are they model kits? I've never had them. So

no they're there. They're action figures I mean,

they're just highly posable because of the clicky

rebel tech joints I mean, I can actually take

this star and putting them as put a hit in a

sitting pose with his legs crossed That's how

posable he is. Oh cool. Yeah Well, you said something

about glue or whatever and I was like, well,

wait a minute. Well, it's just the the hand Hands

because because rebel tech figures they come

with multiple hands like Starscream here. He's

got one hand that's molded to hold Megatron as

a gun because he actually comes with that and

It's got like the trigger figure and stuff and

then he's got a fist for that side and he's got

like a peace sign for that side and on his left

hand he's got one with a Finger that's just pointing

and then he's got another closed fit But you

have to like slowly and carefully Pull those

out of the joint to change them because if you

pull them too fast The glue they used is kind

of weak and you can just you'll leave the peg

behind in the post basically Okay But I mean

the paint on him is really good I mean he's got

this really nice metallic blue paint for the

blue blue bits and then this fantastic Almost

cherry red metallic red for his red bits. Yeah,

and that That to me makes it worth it It's basically

he's just a display piece. You just can hope

really nicely Yeah, I mean there's not I mean

there's there's stuff you can do with the rebel

texts if you have more than one But there really

isn't anything you can do with them Like with

your regular sized figures. Yeah, I remember

when I had Remember when I had Rodimus and Megatron.

Oh boy. I think there are still pictures on my

Facebook page of those where they were in very

compromising You know poses, you know, you want

to talk about being on bended knee So the the

Transformers 1 2 broke back Mountain is so what

you're saying Essentially yes banja playing music

I don't know about all that, but yeah. What about

you, Bob? What are you going to talk about tonight?

I think we're going to talk about the Mini Mates

Toys R Us exclusive, Back to the Future, the

second one. It comes with Doc Brown and the Hover

DeLorean. It's actually in hover mode, and it

stays in hover mode. It doesn't like... Transform

into the regular DeLorean and wheels pop out

there. It's always in hover mode Yeah, so I seen

it at Toys R Us and I was kind of like I'll give

it a try It looks like a glorified Lego, but

it comes with DeLorean So, you know, I'm a nerd

and I love back to the future. So I gave it a

shot and Man, I gotta tell you putting those

little stickers inside the DeLorean was a nightmare

because you have to put in the flux capacitor

and the time circuits and the dashboard and My

hands, you know It in the doors hands. Yeah,

but my fingers I Couldn't fit the little stickers

in the door and keep them like straight. No,

it's like somebody supposed to do this it was

crazy, but I finally got him in there and It's

a really cool thing just to have sitting on my

shelf. Everybody's like is that back to the future?

Heck Yeah, and Doc Brown. It's pretty cool You

know the doors open up and it has like little

roller wheels underneath the car So it looks

like it's you know scooting across that you can

roll it and with the wheels down So it kind of

looks like it's hovering across the ground It's

kind of cool and I've got Brown standing by it

and those those mini -mate figures I I looked

at them and I thought they were like Legos, but

man, those things are horribly. They don't stand

on their own very well because the feet are like

angled. They're not straight flat. And then,

you know, after I got that figure, I went out

and got the Minimates Ghostbusters from the real

Ghostbusters. And it came in like sets of two.

So I got a bunch of those and those don't stand

either. So I was like, man, I guess it must be

a Minimate kind of thing. It's just what they

what there are, you know what they are. They're

just bound to not stand very well either He's

leaning to the left or leaning to the right.

They can't just stand straight up and down because

His feet are angled weird. They're just cut weird

Somebody's got many mate stands, I guess Yeah,

that's the only downfall I see with it is you

know The little figure or his leg pops off if

you go to pick him up because the little tab

in his holes so like where his knee would be

it's just like a little tab that holds his bottom

shin on and his foot as soon as you pick it up

it just falls right out it doesn't fit in there

very well so I could see how they can get lost

like I won't let my kids they could play with

the DeLorean but not with Doc Brown because I

don't want them you know missing a leg and then

just have to have him in the car all the time

that'd be kind of weird Real they have a funny

mini -mate story At one of the NJCC's about a

year or so ago Because it was around Halloween

Going on down the street that was also having

a costume contest this one guy came in dressed

the Joker It was a really fantastic Joker costume

He was creepy This guy he went up to my one friend

Ricky and he kept rubbing on him And if you like

Ricky, I'm not wearing any underwear things like

that So Since then we've really been messing

with Ricky with Joker stuff like one of our Transformers

meetups Somebody had a Joker figure they were

they were selling and I kind of snuck up behind

Ricky and took it and started rubbing his ear

With the hand of the Joker just going Ricky remember

me So a few months ago, I get a package in the

mail from Ricky it was a mini mates Robin figure

that he had lit on fire he goes the Joker has

sent you a warning or something like that was

the note that he put inside I was like oh my

you know that would have been even more creepy

if you actually had the hot toys Joker do that

to him yeah many mates I don't know I just I

can't get it like I just can't get into those

like if I was gonna you know if I was gonna hunt

them all down I would prefer the Creon the Transformers

Creon stuff I like those kind of minifigures

but many mates in general I don't know every

time I've seen them in the stores they just seem

like they're in the crappiest packaging ever

Yeah, and and like soon as you take them out

of package like the ghost buster ones I have

Janine As soon as I took her out of package her

leg wasn't even there I was like son of a and

looking around it was wedged up in the cardboard

Like in between the in between the vacuum seal

and the in the back it was inside like the cardboard

I was like what the heck is this lump and it

was her leg and it was really weird and I mean,

they kind of look cool, and I thought I'd try

it. I mean, it's a DeLorean. I don't have a DeLorean.

It was cool to have one, and it was like $10.

It was on clearance, and it was like Toys R Us

exclusive, so I was like, cool. I can review

it and throw it up on YouTube. And the reviews

on YouTube, Bob Gilmer YouTube. You can go see

the actual review that I did of it. But you know,

I when I was collecting back then I was like,

okay Can I review this what people watch it would

it be kind of cool? That's how I thought but

now I'm just like I love Ghostbusters. So I got

the Ghostbusters one and I Have to have it propped

up against you like on my shelf. I have the pke

meter for Maddie and I have them propped up against

that because like I said, they do not stand on

their own and Slimer came with a little Stan

So that was kind of cool. So he's the only one

that's like out in front in case he can stand.

Was that the free Slimer? What? Was that the

free Slimer? No, it was a Slimer with like a,

he actually has a proton pack on when he was

part of the Ghostbusters. Yeah, it came, it was

a pack with him and Janine. But he's out front

but everybody else has stood up against the box

for the pke meter because they don't stand like

I said And if my kids go running through the

house you hear tink one of them will fall over.

I'm like It's like they're they're so wobbly

because they don't stand upright and and it's

just one little bump and they'll fall over I

mean, that's really downfall. They're kind of

neat like detail wise and stuff, but Practicality

is you can't really play with them and put them

in poses because They don't even stand straight

up and down. So it's not like you could pose

them their arms and stuff Yeah, and put little

like you could put a pke meter in Egon's hand

and then you can strap it to the belt and then

put a Trap in his hand and stuff. That's kind

of cool. But from the waist down they're useless

kind of like I am Like Mike you had just mentioned

a little crayon figures I recently got three

of the newer ones that they released in the blonde

packs Yeah, got Sunstorm Galvatron and Scorpion

ock. I Do like how the newer ones? Can somewhat

transform they give you a little extra pieces

to actually give them vehicle modes and stuff

that that's a nice little touch But what do you

do with the extra pieces when they're in one

mode or the other? You can't like actually store

their vehicle on their robot See Sunstorm probably

does it the best When some storm is a robot the

pieces that become his tail wing and nose cone

actually become a weapon that he can hold in

his hands Oh cool. Now these are just the Creons,

right? This isn't the actual full -on Creo. Yeah,

these are just the little minifigures, Bob. These

aren't the Creos. Yeah, but I seen a review on

like Waspinator, I think it was, but he had all

these extra pieces left over when you put them

into robot mode. What do you do with those? I

just did a review of these three. You can see

what happens with a lot of the extra pieces.

Scorpinok has like two little pieces left when

he's in robot mode Galvatron all his pieces actually

store on his back. Oh, okay It's just it depends

some of them they're extra bits become weapons.

Some of them. They're just extra bits You just

can't do nothing with it. I Just afraid to give

them to my kids cuz they were like, oh we like

those things and it's like, you know One piece

is gonna get lost and then there is one the other

there's some cheap They're like, you know it

if you go to met Toys R Us the three bucks and

you know Toys R Us is more expensive than Walmart

and Target So if you find them at Walmart and

Target, they're probably like two bucks for a

pair And there's only there's only six different

robots right now though. Eventually there they

are gonna be putting out a set of Combiner's

from these little crayons that can actually combine

into bigger crayons. Oh Wow Get creative really

are I think they've got a Devastator coming as

well and a superior on Made out of cream That'd

be awesome. Yeah, I love the aerial bots. Anyway,

they're probably I still need to get those I'm

looking I might gap to get the combaticons crayons

when they come out because the Bruticus is my

favorite combiner Hands down. I I like the crayons

but This whole thing of expanding on them just

seems weird to me. Like, if you look at Shockwave

and Skywarp and Optimus and all that, they're

essentially Lego minifigs with Transformers designs.

I like that they're that simple, but as far as

expanding on that and having extra bits and allowing

them to transform, I don't know about all that.

That's just a little too weird for me. Well check

out my review and it's only it was only done

like two weeks ago or so Yeah, check out my review

and you'll see it's not that bad. I mean the

extra bits I mean Sunstorm has three little bits

that yeah that become a gun. Yeah, and it's basically,

you know What the only thing he leaves behind

when it becomes a plane is his helmet Because

the nose coming to the top of his head. It's

not as bad as you think As far as the as far

as the Creons themselves originally they were

just yeah robot mode figures Yeah, and that's

it's not necessarily the extra parts that that

I have a problem with this problem with that

They're making them, you know essentially mini

transformable figures now and it's like I enjoyed

them more when they were Just like Lego guys.

That's all just keep robot mode scorpion. I'll

be the best out of all of them right now Just

the way he looks Galvatron's back heavy because

all the crap that's on his back And his cannon

is pretty much just an orange version of the

cannon that Megatron had Orange tip yep All right,

well I don't have it in hand yet, sadly. But

I am going to be talking about Fall of Cybertron

slash Transformers Prime Shockwave. Just amazing.

The figure just looks absolutely amazing and

I know everybody's made a joke about it But I

I honestly think it's a really cool homage his

alt mode reminds me so much of g1 astro train

Yeah, actually that's the first time I've heard

that and that actually yeah Me too. I've never

heard that before I was when you say I was like

wait a minute if I can come up with another another

plane mode for that and just Mock up an astrotrain

head for that. That'd be a nice nice triple changer

right there. It would be yeah That would be awesome.

That would be completely awesome Copyright that

Mike is I don't think I've ever heard anybody

else compare the two. No, there have been other

people Has there yeah, I saw I believe it was

m goes review. I think he said it at the end

of his review I forget who else said it. I've

heard several people say it, but I think I was

one of the first people to say it, because as

soon as I saw it, I was like, hey, G1 Astrotrain,

that's pretty cool. No, I've always liked Shockwave,

the character in general. even though sadly in

G1 he didn't have that much to do and he was

kind of a bumbling idiot on Cybertron. They really,

you know, I know a lot of the fans pretty much

hate on Animated, but Animated really put a really

neat twist on Shockwave and I thought that was

really cool. And seeing him in Prime, I hope

to God we see more, because wow. Oh yeah, they

gotta bring him back. He's gotta still be alive.

I know there was a huge... If he's still alive,

at least do more flashbacks. to tell a different

part of the story. Yeah, he was pretty badass

in that episode. His next episode was awesome,

by the way. Oh my god! We can't get into that.

We can't get into a full -on review of that.

No, no. It has nothing to do with toys. I had

my jaw on the floor. I looked at it and I was

like, oh my god! Yeah, just think of it as if

King Arthur and Sir Lancelot are our sword fighting.

That's all I'm gonna say Well true, but still

that's that's the impression that I got watching

it that was like that was a clash of the Titans

My kids were like look. It's Luke Skywalker and

Darth Vader. They're fighting with life It's

way better than that God that reminds me of those

horrible awful Transformers Star Wars crossover

toys Death star I was gonna say don't and you

said it was like impossible to get him into To

paint I thought about doing a review of it, but

his cape broke off and then I ended up using

it to make psychic paper for my doctor who costume

so And and some of his His lightsabers all bent

up now, so I'm just he's about the size of Primus

in robot mode. I Mean he's he is huge, but it's

just when you turn him all the panels Will drive

you mad trying to lock them? When I saw the when

I saw the the toy of shockwave and and again

I don't know if it was modded But I originally

I usually go over to because they usually have

really great galleries And I know this is probably

sacrilege to you TFW board members But I usually

go over to the Cybertron because they normally

have really great photo galleries And when I

saw shockwave when I saw the pictures of him

on there again, I don't know if if He was modded

or whatever else, but his eye, like in the official

images and in the actual figure itself, because

I've seen video reviews of him, it seems like

it's a hot pink thing because of the light piping.

But on this picture of him, it was pretty much

a dark, muted, almost like a deep blood red eye.

And I actually, um, I asked Kali Kari Shoka to

make me a, uh... Follow Cybertron Shockwave Puggle

and I've got him here and it took me about a

month after I had him to realize the pink sides

on him on the Puggle are to mimic his chest piece

from the toy. It took me a month to realize that.

But no, Shockwave in general, he looks like an

amazing, amazing toy. Hopefully... Before Christmas,

I will actually have him. Oh, before 2013! Yeah.

Yeah, Rose. The new wave will be out there. The

new video game will be out. Transformers 4 will

be in theaters by the time you get it. Oh my

god. Yeah. And for people wondering what the

hell we're talking about and what the hell we're

joking about is if you watch Optibotamus or if

you follow him on YouTube or Twitter or whatever

else, every Friday or Saturday, depending on

what day he has available, he does Ustreams.

And I won one of his Ustream contests and one

of the prizes was a Transformers Fall of Cybertron

shockwave. So that's what the joking is all about.

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we close this out, we're going to talk a little

bit about Transformers Prime news. It's pretty

much toy related all of it. But they're going

to be releasing a Transformers Prime Gaia Unicron.

If this thing is Voyager size, in the pictures

it looks bigger than it probably is. Did watch

a review on it yesterday the day before one of

the guys on TFW out and like somewhere out out

in Asia somewhere had one did a review and He

put it next to the Voyager Optimus Prime and

they're basically the same height So and again,

most of these pictures are, you know, probably

photoshopped or whatever else or you know Angled

weird stuff. Yeah, what about you Bob any thoughts

on that unicorn? I don't know. I've kind of fallen

out of anything that says prime and transformers

I mean I kind of stopped with just the main autobots

all the new repaints and stuff I just nothing's

really like jumping out at me like I have to

have that and I'm like that's another one. It

was like It'd be kind of cool to have unicorns,

but I don't know I think it's cool that it's

the Transformers Prime Unicron, it's not... Oh,

hey! Hey, I am a blue planet now in Unicron colors,

it's not Primus as Unicron, you know, it's none

of that. It's based off of the cartoon design,

and I like that about it. It's alt mode is...

What is it? Yeah, I mean People calling it like

a flying mountain volcano ship thing and it doesn't

have any defined It's got that weird face on

it. Yeah It's just it has no Clear path. It's

like they're like, okay. Everybody wants this

unicorn figure We kind of have to give him an

alt mode, but what are we really gonna do? It's

almost like the fallen figure from revenge of

the fallen Yeah, it's like a little mess. Yeah

but i mean honestly what you know if if you guys

got this in your collection you would display

it in robot robot yeah exactly because that's

the thing it's like because of the storyline

in prime of unicorn being the core of planet

earth there's not a whole lot you can do with

giving him a planet mode there's just no way

that is true So Bob, are you going to dress Brandon

up in a Bumblebee or Optimus costume this year?

Actually, Brandon was Bumblebee last year. Oh,

was he? Yeah, he was Bumblebee, and it was like

the padded suit. Yeah. And it looked like he

had the arm cannon, and he kept running around,

and you go, hey Brandon, and you go, I'm not

Brandon, I'm Bumblebee. And you actually had

to talk to him as Bumblebee. And then he would

go, beep boop, beep boop, beep boop, beep boop,

like Bumblebee talks. And, uh, it was pretty

funny, so he was just running around going, like,

static and stuff. It was like, Bumblebee used

to have a voice, he goes, nuh -uh, so I had to

show him some G1 when Bumblebee actually talked.

And then, uh, unanimated when he talked, and,

no, why, Bumblebee can talk. Yes, so it kind

of blew his mind, but I don't know if he's gonna

be a transformer this year or not He kind of

wants to be a ninja turtle cuz that's the new

big kick. So yeah. Yeah, but last year Yeah,

he was definitely bumblebee Yeah, they're coming

out with prime optimists and bumblebee kids Halloween

costumes this year I wonder if they have the

glowy eyes Like looking at the picture. I don't

think so. Yeah, I guess that wouldn't work for

kids costume No What I find funny is that and

I and I and I know you know, you know Hasbro

doesn't want kids dressing up as as Decepticons,

but what I find funny is that Optimus and Bumblebee

are the only two characters that really ever

get Halloween costumes. I honestly want to see

a Megatron Halloween costume with, you know,

purple and, you know, dark energon eyes. I think

that would be really friggin' cool. And an arm

cannon, like an inflatable arm cannon. I know!

Why not do Zombie Cliffjumper? I mean, it is

Halloween, dude, like the, you know, you could

have a zombie cliff. That's actually a good idea.

i mean it would be a perfect Halloween because

you know you're supposed to be scary it's like

i'm not a transformer i'm a undead transformer

that's a good one so the final thing we're going

to talk about is um transformers prime christmas

ornaments the RC's eyes she's gonna swallow your

soul yeah it's gonna give me nightmares This

is from American Greetings. It is not only Halloween

costumes that are turning up already. Toys R

Us have a listing up on their website for this

year's Transformers Christmas Ornament set from

American Greetings, a five -piece set consisting

of the faces of Autobots Optimus Bumblebee bulkhead

RC from the Transformers Prime and Autobot logo.

So this holiday season, you can have faces of

Transformers Prime crew watching you while you

exchange gifts with your families. Unwrap your

presents. Check out the listing. Oh my God. This

that RC, she will eat your soul. She won't just

steal it. She will just eat it. Oh my God. It

looks creepy as all hell. She's this she really

is the scariest one I have that they should have

made her a Halloween ornament My wife ever got

me one of those I have to turn her head around

so she doesn't try to you know stare directly

into my soul Hey optimus really give me your

face I know it's I know it's transformers prime

optimus, but just the way that these things are

sculpted. It looks like they're all pretty much

pretty menacing outside of all reasons he doesn't

have a mouth uh... to pull these kind of like

wide -eyed like what's going on guys he's david

host will be war it's like let's take his voice

we are screwed let's just take his mouth and

everything so that there are no he he looks like

you'll be on the matrix with his mouth starts

going together you know i just how far can you

go with these toys in prime they're turning into

star wars like seriously They'll put I don't

know about all transformer transformer prime

Ornaments, I don't think Christmas and transformers

really go together It's just in my mind Most

of us got transformers for Christmas. There you

go. No, but I mean not on the Christmas tree

itself Yeah, you know you get pretty lights and

all this it's like let's put Optimus Prime Optimus

Prime and Earth's evil head up on the Christmas

tree Well, the Autobots symbols red and bulkheads

green. Well, but R .C.'s face will make baby

Jesus cry. Oh my god. Wow. Sorry. That was a

good one. Oh my god, that's... Okay then. Um,

hmm. Nobody wants to make him cry. Thanks, Transformers

Prime. Wow, well, wait a minute I I do feel bad

because I do have a Christmas ornament that is

the ecto one Sorry that that homework put out

not too long ago So I guess it's not a face staring

at you though. That's a car. That's an ornament

I mean, I mean you press the button it plays

Ghostbusters song. So that's kind of cool. I've

got a bunch of start Star Trek ones Yeah, I do

too. I have Star Wars and Star Trek ones. I've

got some stars. I've got the Death Star and Yeah,

that's just the thing. I mean all of these all

of these franchises not just transformers or

not just transformers prime all of these franchises

Transformers Star Wars GI Joe He -Man She -Ra

all that stuff Jim. They always will have merchandise

like Halloween costumes like You know Christmas

ornaments and and all that stuff, you know I

so and it's so funny because we're coming up

on Halloween and I love Angry Birds as much as

the next person but I keep seeing an ad for Party

City and oh, yeah That's 50 % off and it's like

50 % off. We have all kinds of costumes We have

Angry Birds costumes and I see the picture on

the TV and I'm like Wow, how is that? Costume

because it's essentially the angry bird as it's

the centerpiece on the person I Their legs and

head and arms stick out. So yeah. Yeah. Yeah

It's too too weird. I I know I know a lot of

people out there love Halloween I've pretty much

lost all interest in Halloween. I still watched

the charlie brown halloween special everyday

it is the great pumpkin joy brus to watch that

every year but not a rock i think that they're

all good you got to like the roseanne halloween

specials though yeah but i mean we're going to

let you know trick -or -treating and dressing

up in costumes on stuff i i just kind of fell

out of that a long time ago and now rc made it

even worse for you for christmas Well, I haven't

got I mean, well, when my mom lived here in Kentucky

with where we're still living in the same city,

but we're living in different apartments. But

when she lived here, we I said, you know, you

know, the last, you know, about 10, 15 years

or a lot, you know, less than 15 years have been

about, you know, she's she's always wanted a

real train. I'm like, do you really want to deal

with the hassle of a real tree? We actually went

into Kmart, found a I don't know, four foot,

five foot tree. It's one of those, you know,

it's one of those artificial trees, but it came

with lights and everything else. So all you gotta

do is just put it together and plug it in. And

it looks just like, I mean, it is a real Christmas

tree and it's absolutely amazing, but it's so

much less hassle than even the old, you know,

artificial trees that you had to get the pole

and you had to put that in the stand and well,

this thing is just, you set it on the table and

there you go. And it's just, it was just so much

easier than getting a real tree. And I personally,

myself, I haven't had a Christmas tree in, God,

since I was about 12 or 13. I just don't have

the need to buy them since I live by myself.

There's no sense. Yeah, I was just gonna say

you're the only one there so you don't have to,

like, have your wife go, Well, we have to put

up a tree. You guys got anything you want to

pimp out before we close it out? I Just want

to say, you know Going back to Gary real quick

before we close it out. You know, it's it's been

a year buddy. We all still miss you Just hope

you continue to rest in peace Yeah, it was just,

it was so fun, you know, getting to know him

and being his friend and everything else. He's

just an amazing, amazing guy. Good old Karma

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