Interview with Cally on Creating Puggles and Puggleformers

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with the show. hello steve megatron phillips

here and i am doing a quick review on my pungle

and suffice it to say this is my first one and

i was a bit skeptical on it to begin with to

be honest uh... because i've never understood

anyone's infatuation with them before and i have

to say upon getting mine i was hooked Surprisingly,

so I really like this Puggle of angry Megatron

in transmetal form It's just I don't know it

looks kind of crazy With the teeth and everything

so I mean it's the attention to detail on it's

pretty good I like the snarly face that he's

got I like how you can see the the outlines around

where the face and the head is parts of the shiny

parts of the side of his head so yes so thank

you to TFG1 Mike for that and thank you for Cali

for getting that done I really like it it is

on my display with my Transmetal and Transmetal

2 Megatron on my desk currently as I speak which

it would have to be something incredibly important

for me to keep it on my desk in the first place.

So, yeah, that definitely means something to

me. I think I'll let Megatron talk about it now.

Yes, anyways, that's the end of Megatron, so...

I will definitely say check out some of Callie's

other ones. She makes a great selection of them.

I've seen quite a few. So yeah, I definitely

like this. The purple and the black on there

and some of the red. It's a nice flow of transmetal

power. This is Steve Megatron Phillips signing

off for my segmented review of my angry Transmetal

Megatron Puggle. This is Toycast and this is

yet another Pugglecast. I am TFG1Mike and joining

me is Callie. Hello. Hello people. How are you?

Doing good. Yes, very good, very good. And all

fair Callie's like, why are we doing this? It's

only two of us. Well... I have been buying tons

of regular Puckles from you. Yes. I think you

have. You're the only person that orders like

20 Puckles at once and then goes, get back to

me in like six months. No, no, no, no, no. I'm

not talking about those. We're not supposed to

tell people about that. I'm not talking about

those. I'm talking about the stuff that you put

in your Etsy shop. I buy, let's see, one, two,

three, four, five. Yeah, I've bought five from

the Etsy shop. How short a time? Huh? And how

short a time? Can you set a CIM chime? Should

I check those off? Yeah Let's see red camo I

bought as soon as you put it up a couple months

ago The blue splatter aka coal I bought like

a week later Sarge It's like a month time you

bought like 50 bucks worth of stuff Fit in 15.

No, it's more like a hundred Thank you for that

Thank you No, because it's like one of the reasons

why I do Pugglecasts is so I can you know Usually

I'll have you on obviously since you make the

things and I'll have somebody else on that is

also either bought some from you or has gotten

a commission slot from You or something like

that, you know so we can all talk about These

things that you make for everybody and you don't

just do it by commission You also do you you've

been doing over the last couple of months just

regular? Design not not regular as in like plain

white color or anything, but just regular non

-commissioned non -character type of Puggle stuff

and and yeah, so that's why we're here If you

say yes And actually, you know, going back when

you were making the Pugl DeLorean for Optibotamus,

when you were showing the pictures off, and I

didn't know at the time you had had other Pugls

just lying around, or not lying around, but like

other ones that you had just made in like your

spare time before you started doing the Etsy

shop stuff, as far as doing it like on a more

consistent basis. and i saw red camo at the time

was what you were calling him inside the lorean

like yeah i want that it's the only reason why

i bought it was because he was sitting in a delorean

that delorean took so long huh that delorean

took so long oh it's okay but it's a learning

process um joke me insane Yes, and you were talking

about ice cream earlier on Twitter. Yeah, you

made ice cream puggle. Slurpee. I don't even

know what else to call it. Sometimes just like

makeup shit. Yeah, how do you go about your naming

process for the regular ones, for the non -character

ones? Word association most of the time. I just

jump from word to word in my head until I find

something that sounds appropriate. Yeah. And

I'm assuming the first, uh, Patriot one that

you made, the one that I bought, uh, I'm assuming

the first thing you thought was the Macy's Day

Parade, right? Seeing as how on the tag you say,

Hi, my name is Macy, for the, the first Patriot

one you made. Yeah, yeah. I barely remember,

I'm sorry. That's okay. Uh, no, but, um... These

are all real... With the Macy one, with the patriotic

one, it's like you... I know this isn't what

you did, or you found a pattern for it, but it's

almost like you found a way to incorporate the

American flag into a plush ball. The fabric had

this flag on it! This is just so cool. I'm not

saying that that's what you did. I'm saying that

it was a fabric pattern, but it just amazes me

how much, obviously, it reminds me of the American

flag because it has stars and it has stripes

and it has blue in it, obviously. That's really

all I was saying Well, I'll have pictures in

the in the episode Huh, that's what you said

the last time I put pictures in the last post

I'll put pictures in this time as well. Um, what

else? Let's see Let's get the information out

of the way here. You've changed your commission

process. Why don't you walk us through that and

explain why the change? and it was really anxious

for me for the most part to to try to rush through

the whole thing of so many people poking me at

once with notes to the point that it just became

really annoying and more trouble than it was

worth so i decided to go for a lottery type of

thing that people just post on my deviant art

journal to be entered into the lottery commission

thing and i'm at And instead of having the first

come first serve at midnight like it was last

time, I'll pick names out of a hat at midnight

or possibly the next morning, depending how tired

I am. And ten people, still ten people will be

picked out of the hat for commission slots. And

I think it's a lot more fair because people from

all time zones can enter. It doesn't make me

feel like I have to apologize to a billion and

one people and their mother. And I think it just

works out better for everybody involved, except

for the one guy that complained about it. Yeah,

that was a little strange. So far, as far as

I've seen, you've only, like, everybody loves

these things. Nitro loves them, P .O. loves them,

Octobotomus loves them for the most part. Actually,

he commissioned you to do his cat versions of

his cats for Puggles for his wedding, didn't

he? For his wedding! Hey, you know... the more

exposure you get the more you know famous you'll

get with this stuff so you know i mean that can't

be the most what is the most off not awkward

but what is like the most outrageous request

you've ever gotten for a puggle every time you

ask this question every time i still have the

same answer that one time the person wanted the

hitler one oh yeah that's right but not it was

like one more you had nazi symbols on it Yeah,

I could not make it I did not want to make it

out like this man. Yeah Yeah, I've I've had tons

of ideas just thousands of ideas that I just

I had to write them all down and Yeah, but going

back to the whole as far as like the popularity

or the negative stuff. The only two negative

bits I really have ever seen has been that guy

that tried to bribe you because he didn't get

a slot. That was weird. Yeah, and the chick that

commented on the angry version of Beast Wars

Transmental 2 Megatron. I was like, really? No,

that was a known troll actually. Okay. Well...

Do not mention her name, do not say her name,

I will not... No, I'm not going to. That she's

now apparently well known in Transformers community

as being a troll because she caused this big

mess of a stir on the wiki about something. People

that know what I'm talking about will know what

I'm talking about, and people that don't, be

ignorant and gliss. Yeah, and that's fine, but,

you know, it's like... I saw the comments, I'm

like, really? You know, seriously, I mean...

I don't know. But yeah, I... I was kind of...

It kind of made me laugh. What were your nicknames

for the grinning version of Megatron and the

angry version of Megatron? Because it was like,

what the hell? You know for my the version I

have the grinning version I think it was a drag

queen or something like that drag queen Megatron

Yeah, I was trying to incorporate the whole trans

metal shiny thing that I remember from my childhood

into the