Star Wars Rebels, CW Superhero News, and Toy Collecting

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geek. Hello and welcome to Altered Geek, I'm

your host Steve Megatron Phillips and in this

episode I'm flying solo for the Friday episode.

So what is new with you guys this week I I've

been enjoying some of the TV that's come back.

I've been enjoying Some of Star Trek discovery

even though it's very predictable which That's

neither here nor there Star Trek online hit its

eight year anniversary mark, so I'm having fun

with some of the stuff on that figured out another

way of making credits in the game this time and

that's by selling Star Trek Discovery lock boxes

because yeah, I made back a lot of my wealth

in the game by selling lock boxes because I lost

a lot of it when I bought a bunch of keys and

then four months ago they all went belly up on

price. Uh, so like everything I, I'd spent the

game on the, the EC, the, the, um, the keys were

worthless, uh, after that point because they

started sailing everything. Everything was on

sale. And then, yeah, so I figured out another

way of, of re, re, uh, acclimating my account

to that. Um, also figured out the Kelvin enterprise,

still the most like hardcore ship that I've,

I've had. doesn't get blown up, it comes close,

but it's, yeah. So additionally, I've been thinking

about something lately, and it's been kind of

weighing on my mind. Would people be interested

in if I wrote a book? And I know I'd mentioned

something about a superhero one a few years back,

I think two years ago. because I was writing

that pop culture superhero thing for class and

I Wrote that storyline. I still have the script.

I just I've never gotten back around to writing

anything else to it And it's kind of like I mentioned

before like if it's something I just don't do

then it probably will never happen I May eventually

go back to it, but I really don't know at this

point that being said I've been toying around

with the concept of writing another type of book

and this one would be kind of an educational

informative type and I'm not exactly sure how

much information or how many pages it would be

but I'm thinking about writing a book on podcasting

and the various things I've learned over the

years and the various basically the helpful parts

and kind of mentioning briefly the stuff that

I did that was a failure, and kind of going from

there. I'm thinking about writing this up and

selling it, and I'm just curious of who would

actually be interested in reading this if I were

to put this together on podcasting or whatnot.

So, if that sounds like something you'd be interested

in, just let me know. I'm probably going to write

it. It's probably not going to be out for a long,

like, until later this year, if I do even do

this, because it's something I'm going to have

to take a lot of time to do. But it's been something

that's been kind of weighing on my mind, and

I've been kind of wanting to do, like, some kind

of a teaching thing on the podcast, and I'm not

entirely sure on what yet. And I might do that

for like the YouTube part because like I've been

trying to figure out how to incorporate video

back into the show and I've tried a few things

and it's not really panned out for me. I've not

really enjoyed doing it Because there's a lot

more involved with editing Video as opposed to

audio plus all the different places. I have to

post things. It's just it's not worth my time

So I'm trying to figure out another way of doing

that and so that's something that's been weighing

on my mind as well. So what do you guys think

on that? That's something that I've been really

thinking about. Anyways, myself and Mike Powers

have one of our extra episodes from last week

that we recorded coming out this Tuesday about...

Well, it's it's about customer service and the

What could garner a good or bad customer service

opinion Additionally the week after that we're

going to have the Nintendo label and peripherals

conversation followed by The Geeks but hurt over

first look over reactions And the following week

geeky gear customize it or buy it So why am I

telling you all this? Well, there's four weeks

of Tuesday content already pre -recorded. It's

not time sensitive either so Should be kind of

interesting to hear that and then of course I

will have always the up -to -date Friday show

of some of the geeky news and conversations.

So, without further ado, I'm going to take a

quick break and come back on the other side with

some news. And we're back. So, getting into a

little bit of animation content, Star Wars Rebels

dropped its teaser trailer of the iconic return

to the end of the season and they show Among

other things, they show Kanan getting a new hairdo

and the return of an iconic villain in Emperor

Palpatine, voiced by Ian McDermott, which is

kind of cool that they got the original actor

to come back and portray the Emperor here. I'm

quite psyched. I'm sad that the series is going

to be ending, but I'm really loving what's going

to happen. As far as the show, it's never shied

away from evolution. It's only going to help

strengthen the Star Wars canon, as it were. Some

other things I kind of noticed, it's kind of

weird. We've been seeing a lot of reboots. or

revivals I should say coming between Roseanne's

revival to Murphy Brown is coming back Charmed

is coming back to the CW Murphy Brown to the

CBS and Roseanne I believe is on ABC so yeah

we've got our our fix of Revival is coming now

the 90s are back people in the 80s and so if

that's up your alley then Yeah, that's that's

definitely gonna be good news for you I'm kind

of excited for some of it and then some of it

not so much like Some shows I feel like they

they kind of go on a little too long Kind of

like this podcast at points But yeah, I mean,

it's not terrible. There's also news of Wally

West appearing on Legends of Tomorrow as a series

regular, which I kind of figured was going to

happen at some point, and I kind of wished that

it was going to happen, and now that it is happening,

I'm again right. Don't know I think that that's

that's good. I think that that's a nice place

for him since The flash is pretty dominated although

they could use his help right now in Central

City With Barry behind bars, but that won't last

another couple episodes anyway, so And then John

Wesley ship is going to be coming back as Jay

Garrick Again, and they've been alluding to this

girl that showed up during the midseason wedding

And her persona just screams that she's like

the daughter of of Barry and Iris Just in the

sense that she's super talkative. She's writing

stuff down. She's like talking about the nostalgia

and You know Just the way she's interacting with

everybody and kind of knows who they are, but

they don't really know her and It's it's it's

interesting. I think that it's it's gotta be

the daughter and I think she's got flash powers

and came back in time And I think that's why

I Think you're gonna see that kind of come out

in this At least by the end of the season like

the midseason finale or something and then we

got to see Ralph Digby, Dibney, Dibney, Dibney.

That is so hard to say right now. Ralph Dibney,

the elongated man, get a new suit, which was

kind of cool to see, and then you get to see

Trickster's... I thought that they were going

to try and play the game that Mark Hamill's Trickster

was dead or something, but they instead left

it open and had the sidekick of... the trickster

from the 90s show from the 90s flash uh playing

the mother of the new trickster which was i thought

was kind of an inventive way of bringing them

in and and i love how they kind of play kind

of coy with some of the original flash show and

and kind of bring that in here i think it works

really well um but uh yeah it's it's kind of

fun watching this uh and then What can I say,

Black Lightning by far. It touches on that social

issue that is pretty common in today's age, but

it's so, I don't know, it's so well written that

I'm really enjoying it. And then I like the fact

that he's like an older hero and having to deal

With The fact that he's older and he's having

to protect his daughters from these these gangs

and all these All these different kinds of issues

With society with people in general, it's it's

just it's really hard -hitting but the the aesthetics

on it the graphics the The show is pretty solid

which I was kind of surprised just because I

wasn't entirely sure what to think going into

it and now I have to say that it's it's actually

really well done so if you haven't watched that

yet you gotta check it out and then we got super

troopers 2's trailer which dropped and I'm quite

excited for this and Well, I'm gonna play a clip,

so... Un, deux, trois, let's do it! They've been

waiting for a second chance. Waiting for their

country to need them again. That time is... Meow.

What do you guys give me if I kill that bird?

Farber, that's a bald eagle! Get away, Baldi!

Guys, what do I win? A one -way ticket to hell.

It turns out the French -Canadian town, Saint

-Georges -du -Laurent, is actually on American

soil. You'll be phasing out a Canadian mountain

unit. Best behavior, boys. Not our idea of a

good time either, fellas. Personally, I'd rather

fuck a moose. You wouldn't need a ladder to do

that. Wow. Let's give a big Canadian welcome

to the Vermont Highway Patrol. Come on, guys.

They've come up here to tell us how great it's

gonna be for all of us to become Americans. The

PRC! A pledge of allegiance to the United States

of America! This is happening. Do neither of

you speak English? I do. We would like to...

Eat your paper. Can you show me your party papers?

This time everything will be by the book everything

What can I get for you guys whole beer liter

of cola, what did you say do you want a liter

of cola? Canada's pretty awesome Don't do that

And we're back. So yeah, I'm super stoked about

this film. Uh, just, it looks like a lot of fun.

Uh, and then, of course, Bill and Ted 3, they

finally reveal the title, uh, along with some

story news, and they have, uh, basically, they,

they, they have news that they, you know, Keanu

Reeves and Alex Winder want to do it. They, they

have, uh, Dean Parasite, uh, Galaxy Quest, attached

to direct the film. However, you know, they wanted

to be Bill and Ted face the music and the story

will feature the older, you know, middle -aged

characters traveling back in time to interact

with their past selves in George Carlin's character

Rufus by using footage from the 89 Bill and Ted's

Excellent Adventure. and they want to return

to the scene at the Circle K when Bill and Ted

first meet themselves, only now they're watching

their younger selves and looking at the exuberance

and joy that they had at that time in their lives

and they see Rufus, you know, and George Carlin.

Which sounds awesome, but it still hasn't received

a green light yet. And what's holding it back?

Well, the studio doesn't want a sequel with the

old Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, they want a

reboot. Which, I'm like... It'll just bomb anyway,

so like that's not do that and let's just bring

back the other guys and do a sequel If we're

gonna do it at all like it kind of should be

considering they did the two films and I think

this would be kind of a Nice way to make it in

a trilogy package and just kind of leave it alone

like the old -school way of doing a trilogy and

just leave it after that like no reboot no no

fourth sequel just Three, you know three and

done Kind of like, you know, the Olympus Has

Fallen franchise, which Gerard Butler's been

attached to, you know, the Olympus Has Fallen,

which was a lot of fun, basically like Die Hard

in the White House. And then they had London

Has Fallen, which I have yet to see. And then

they're going to do Angel Has Fallen, which takes

place on like Air Force One. And they've kind

of equated it that this is like the Logan, more

like, you know, Angel Has Fallen is gonna be

more like the fugitive, it's like their version

of Logan, what it was for Wolverine, so they're

gonna end it that way, which I think is kind

of telling that they're basically gonna kill

him in the thing, which should be still funny

in the least, but you know, we'll see what happens,

we'll see. So... And then getting into Marvel,

we have the Captain Marvel Brie Larson donning

her new costume, which Mike and I talk about

in an episode in a few weeks that'll be released.

But among other things, like it's not gonna just

be Captain Marvel, so it's not really time sensitive.

So fans are just losing it over the fact that

her suit is like that teal aqua -looking color

with the... black and silver instead of the gold

red and dark blue which is the same suit they're

just saying that it's Marvel's Marvel's suit

before she gets it and then will become you know

her other suit by the end of the movie it's an

origin movie like what do you expect it's it's

it's gonna be done that way So people are just

losing their crap over it. I don't even understand

why. And then fans have even edited the suit

to look like the concept colors from the concept

photos that were shot all over the place. I don't

know. And then as far as Star Wars Episode VIII

was concerned, Rian Johnson hopes that... Luke

will return in episode 9, but he decided that

the last Jedi fate for Luke was very early on

and kind of answers the question about the blue

lightsaber at the end and it was more so Luke

purposely made himself aged younger and used

his father's lightsaber to more or less provoke

Kylo as like kind of a You know, this is what

he remembered me as when he used the green lightsaber,

and hey, and this is my dad's original lightsaber,

like, just kind of, like, screwing with him.

And then there were other clues that, you know,

Luke wasn't really there, like, besides those

two aspects and the fact that the saber was broken,

but the fact that when he was walking on the

ground under the salt had prints when he walked

around, which I thought was kind of funny that

nobody really noticed that during the thing.

But it's still cool and they're gonna of course

have John Williams score episode 9 so it's all

relative at this point. And then we may have

a new Arkham game coming. DC seems to be... For

Arkham Origins, developer confirms new DC game

in the works. So we could see a possibility of

a new Batman game or a DC game to some extent.

Personally, I would love to see The Flash as

a game, being how big he is on TV. So, never

know. I mean, it's kind of cool. And then there's

the rumor that Henry Cavill may be in Shazam.

which I could care less about. Until we actually

see something, it's not really worth talking

about. And then Dwayne The Rock Johnson will

be in Black Adam, but that's still a ways away,

which is surprising because he was one of the

first ones cast in the DCEU, and yet we still

have yet to see a film. I don't know. It's crazy.

Shazam director, I guess, though, has been teasing

Superman in several posts, so we could see him

in the film now that he's back. And then Gotham's

coming back March 1st, I believe, and they're

gonna have basically revealing that Jerome is

not actually the Joker, but they're saying that

reveal that Jerome isn't actually the Joker.

The real Joker would be introduced in a brilliant,

in a brilliant way. So we'll see what happens.

And then in another piece of kind of interesting

news that I was kind of wondering, apparently

this week in tech, Twit, Leo Laporte, is suing

Twitter. And I haven't heard anything new on

this since the 16th when this information came

out, but apparently he was suing Twitter for

breach of contract and trademark infringement.

It's kind of interesting in that it started around

the same time that Twit came out, so Twit and

Twitter at some point agreed formally that despite

names and similarities, that they could coexist

being that Twitter... um was kind of a instant

messenger slash social media and twit was you

know audio video uh but now that twitter is doing

you know premium video content initiative and

uh more audio and more stuff like that it's shaken

up the once happy coexistence so uh twit's attorneys

have ordered twitter to stop its expansions into

the audio visual uh field so yeah Twit apparently

has been forced to sue for trademark infringement

We'll see what happens on that Twitter's got

a lot more money than this we can tax so it's

gonna be kind of hard for them to really Prove

anything or do anything So they're saying that

Evan Williams the co -founder though is aware

of the conflict between Twitter and twit And

and acknowledge the confusion which would likely

arise from the use of Twitter in the marketplace,

as well as instance of actual confusion, which

is already set in. But honestly, if you've even

heard of Twitter, or still think it's around,

you would know about it. If you haven't already

heard about it in today's age, you're probably

not gonna hear about it. And besides the fact

Twitter... This is social media. So everybody

uses it like twit. It's it's kind of a it's an

audio video platform Like they're just it's kind

of apples and oranges there. I Think that they're

just grasping at it But they want Twitter to

stop distribution of audio and video content

which And trying to sue them for any kind of

profits they may make So, we'll see how that

goes. I don't think that's going to go too well

for either party at this point. So, I'm going

to take a quick break, come back on the other

side with just a little bit of opinion stuff,

and then call it a night. And we're back, so...

The last bit of feedback we had was from the

finding fatigue in toys, but what's causing it?

Brad says, Personally, I don't have toy fatigue.

There seems to be more out there for collectors

or kids. The biggest hit is to parents' wallets.

My biggest issue today as a collector and as

a parent is toy quality is decreasing in favor

of cheaper plastics or design build quality.

Figure prices continue to rise, but their quality

goes down and I'm just over it. No, I totally

agree. Kids toys are just getting worse and worse

as far as the quality now if you're doing the

collector thing like the masterpiece line or

something like that then They typically put better

stuff in it, and they just look better, but the

price is like Way up in the sky Which a lot of

the toys are just basically getting priced out

of normal people's Price range like I don't honestly

buy that many toys for my kid anymore We actually

show the yard sales in the summer and they're

allowed to pretty much pick out whatever as long

as it's cheap and My kids don't play with stuff

long enough for it to matter They don't play

with anything. It's like franchise related or

anything like that So I mean it's it just makes

it easier and personally they just don't care

Like I've got them on Legos, which is perfect

because they can build anything out of them And

there's like a multitude of them so it doesn't

really matter However, like we don't really do

action figures. We don't really do transformers.

We don't really do any of that stuff, which Is

kind of beneficial because then he's not running

around doing any of it Like I don't even have

any of my stuff out. I haven't had it out over

a year I've kind of gotten away from a lot of

collecting anything and I'm actually getting

to the point now that I'm probably gonna go back

into my storage units in the next week and tear

out a bunch of my Collectibles and it just outright

sell them all so if anybody's interested in that

I've got some various transformer stuff. I've

got a lot of comics some of some trade paperbacks

I've got some movie posters Mostly like I've

got the Batman returns. I think that poster Star

Trek into darkness poster GI Joe The second film

I think Rise of Cobra or something else, that

poster. And then I've got some Transformers animated

books. I've got some Batman figures. So I'm going

to be selling a lot of stuff. So if anybody wants

it, I'll sell it cheaper than eBay and then you

just pay shipping too. And then I'm just trying

to get rid of it. If not, I'm gonna go take it

to a pawn shop in the next like two weeks just

swing off everything all at once Because I I

honestly one I'm not gonna play with it anymore

two I'm not gonna have it on a shelf or on display

and three like I'd rather have the money because

I've got other stuff I'd rather get right now

like upgrading parts of my computer, you know

Star Trek Uniform, you know, just whatever so

But yeah, I mean I don't really have fatigue

in toys I just with the prices going up they're

just not worth what they used to be like you

can buy those star wars figures for like six

bucks back in the day they're like nine hours

or eight or nine i mean it's not even for the

price of one figure you could have got two back

when we were kids and so i i just don't see the

merit in in paying for it it's like comic books

they've tripled in price too since i was a kid

i remember getting them for like a dollar 95

you know 225 and And then, you know, like $2

.75 at some point and then they all went to like

$2 .99, $3 .99, $4 .99, $5 .99. I'm like, nope,

done, screw it. You know, I mean, it's, there

just comes a point where it's just too expensive

to keep collecting anything. I've gotten to the

point too that most of my collecting, I just

save a picture of it. And honestly, like I hardly

go back to it unless I need it for a podcast

art. And then I go back to it, but other than

that, like, I guess I'm kind of like a digital

pack rat in that sense, like I save it on the

computer, like the picture of whatever it is

that I want, and then I just, it fulfills a need,

I don't need to buy it, and then it eventually

gets deleted because I'm like, eh, what do I

have that for? So, just kind of weird stuff.

Anyways. So if there's any topics you guys want

to hear about or anything specifically on the

Friday show, you know, listener feedback of any

kind or suggestions for content here or on the

weekly topical shows that are 20 minutes long

with myself and Booth Ninja, this episode I'm

not going to drag it on any further because there's

really no need for it. There's not a lot of news.

A lot of my Star Trek stuff's covered in Future

Imperfect, you know, like why? Star Trek fans

are still butthurt over the series and all the

times that Star Trek broke canon, which is quite

humorous because people are now starting to actually

keep track of how often Star Trek's betrayed

its own franchise and broken canon. And then

how hollow the series has been in of itself because

it... It's choices and what it does is very very

obvious So I don't know just let me know what

you guys think anyways until next time get altered

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