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Live from Chubzzy Wubzzy's with Habsro's Steve Evans
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Hasbro's Steve Evans is one of, if not the most, active members in the toy community - whether it's his frequent polls and questions, posts of his personal collection, or what brings us to sitting down with him live at Chubzzy Wubzzy's this week - one of his TREMENDOUS giveaways. On his way to deliver the Ghost HasLab to his lucky winner, he stopped in to chat with us and others at New Jersey's FINEST toy shop. Listen about what he's been up to, what he's collecting, and about the recent launch of the Marvel Legends Maximum Spider-Man on this special episode recorded in front of a live audience at Chubzzy Wubzzy toys in Little Falls, NJ.
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Introduction to Adventures in Collecting
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Speaker
Are you ready, kids? Get your parents' permission, check your mailbox, and grab your shopping cart. It's time for the Adventures in Collecting podcast. I'm Eric. And I'm Dave. Welcome to Adventures in Collecting, where we talk toy news, culture, and halls, along with our journeys as collectors.
Recording at Chubsy Wubsy Dooiz with Steve Evans
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Hello, everybody, and welcome back to Adventures in Collecting. We are here at Chubsy Wuzzy Dooiz in ah Little Falls, New Jersey. ah And we're here with a friend of the pod. You forgot my name. Steve Evans. Oh, there you go. No. You get a little extra, ah just in case you don't know who Steve Evans is. Steve.
Steve Evans on Hasbro and Disney License Collector Brands
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remind reminder you i am or i am I am fortunate enough to be the Senior Design Director over at Hasbro looking after all our Disney license collector brands. So that includes Marvel Legends, Star Wars Black Series, Star Wars Vintage Collection, Retro, anything and everything within those two universes. so chances but design For design. somebody has something that you've ah Somebody listening probably has something that you've worked on. I hope so. Yeah, I've been doing it 25 years. I'm I've permeated into everybody's house. Of course, the correct answer is the Indiana Jones retros and the Marvel Legends 375s. Oh yeah, and all those two. I have so many children. I forget. I forget what they are. Well, in that case, if you have one of the Indiana Jones figures, you have actually like a replica of an actual Steve Evans
Scanning Retro Figures from Personal Collection
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action figure. you do. Yes, because they are scanned from my one. So when we did retro, we start off with Star Wars retro. We said, Hey, I'd love to do the old Kenner style figures again, it'd be good for people to be able to get the original ones and we can do some new characters. And they were like, Okay, let's do that. And I was like,
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Oh, you can scan mine. Mine are right at home. Scan them. And that worked out nicely. And then when we did the um Indiana Jones one, I said, I got those too. Scan those as well. So yeah, they are the grandparents of all of those Star Wars and Indiana Jones retro figures that you have at home. Plastic progeny. I can't even, I can't even attempt to say that. Plastic progeny. You got it. I can't say it.
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So what what brings you to ah to to where we are today?
Toy Gifting to Deserving Individuals
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Well, ah I'm killing multiple birds with one stone, ah to coin the phrase. So I am heading down further south, later today, to deliver one of my ghosts to a very deserving gentleman came named Jamie. I gave it away. I give away Hazabs.
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left, right and center because I enjoy it and it's it just makes me feel good. And I was looking for someone that deserved one and he is a musician and songwriter that goes into children's schools with special needs and helps them understand and helps them realize how special they are and how it's okay to be different.
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and he's yeah And he has he has ah two little girls, and they all cut Star Wars, and he was nominated ah by his friend Mark, who's the bassist from Ash. Any of those remember Ash from the 90s? Yes. And um I'm going down there tonight, hanging out with those two, and then on the way through.
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I'm here at Chubsy Wubsy's store because I promised Chubsy that I would come to his store and I always stand him up, but I'm here. so And I've met you a lot either. Yes. So are his kids young? Yes. Okay, so you have to promise me something.
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I will do my best. My girl's favorite part about the ghost yeah was the packaging. Yes. Because the two shipping boxes make wonderful houses. Oh, they're fabulous. So make sure you make that suggestion. That they can carve them up into some houses. I actually like all the molded kind of old stuff. I did a video of where it looks like the Death Star trench run. Yes. yeah And those are like hard corners. They're like corner pieces. They make for great building materials. Very useful. yes Very useful. It's like double the value. Just the packaging. So we're here at Chubsy Wubsy Toys in Little Falls, New
Chubsy Wubsy Toys Visit
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Jersey. um So what makes this store a special place for you, Steve? I have no idea. I've never been here before. But!
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What does make it special is Chubsy himself. like I met him a few years ago at Wayne, um new york comic ah ah new york New Jersey Comic Con, or Comic Con New Jersey, or whichever way round it is. New Jersey Toy Con. New Jersey Toy Con, thank you very much. It all becomes a bit of a blur. But I remember meeting him there and being like, who's this guy? so He's quite shy.
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Oh, ah you can't say. and he Was he wearing the superhero costume? Yes, he was wearing the superhero costume. So he invited me down to that. Had a great time there. It was a retro, predominantly retro toy stuff. So I think I bought a couple of bits and pieces and I really enjoyed it. And he's like, I got my store. and yeah So I've always promised to come down because I'm always down this way quite a lot. um For some reason, I'm drawn to sort of New Jersey and to Philly and down down here.
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I thought I'd come and say hello. And there's plenty of people. There's like one, two, three, four. six It's a packed house. That's about 20 people. Packed house. Yeah, packed house. And I think he's running a special deal today. I think there's some kind of... Yes. 15% off. 15%. The Steve Special. percent Yes. The Stevie Special. Stevie Special. That's all I'm worth. 15%, folks. Actually, that's more than I'm probably am worth.
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Yeah. Okay, so that's why I'm here. So you're a man
Collecting Lord of the Rings and Beyond
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that collects a lot of things? I do. Toy tactics. Stevie's Toy Tales. Tall Toy Tales. Tall Toy Tales. Yeah. I love the alliterations. I love the alliterations. Anyway, I can learn the things. What are you currently hunting for? I think the last time we had you on the podcast, which was basically forever ago, we talked about some Lord of the Rings figures that you were hunting.
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i still and like expression that you still have not found no rock i've still got I've only got Aragorn and Gollum still. I almost found Gandalf, but I couldn't quite. Either the price wasn't right or the hands were too chipped. He chips a lot that guy. But I did, I did i was down, actually I was down in Where was I? I was in Philly. I was in Philly, southeast of Philly. And I went to a toy store down there, and I can't remember the bloody name of it, so I apologize. And he had a few of them. So he at least let me look at them and feel them.
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That's as near as I got from his figures. And I was like, oh yeah. So I'm still hunting those. ah What else am I hunting at the moment? I've been getting a few Tron pis bits and pieces. I'm enjoying my Tron stuff. all right And Sesame Street. I've been picking up some of our friends over at Super 7. They've done some Sesame Street fix. Have you seen the NECA Sesame Street stuff yet? I have. I haven't picked them up yet because ah so for me, Sesame Street is small. Little. But I might do. I might pick up those.
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I think those are ah Paul Harding work on the big ones. yeah they they They look ridiculous. They're really good. yeah yeah there there I could say something really horrible about Paul. I won't do Paul, I promise you. I was like, which facial scalp did you reuse for those?
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oh Sorry, Paul. I'm sorry, Paul. Man, man, I'm sorry. You know, I love you. know You know, you're a very talented guy. He's like one of the OG sculptors. Yeah, we want to have him on the show at some point. so Yeah, he's cool. Maybe let's not burn bridges. Paul, you know, I love you. What Tron stuff?
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um I'm picking up, I've recently got the stuff from Super 7 again, that they did the Disney exclusives. I've pulled in a Medicom, the old Japanese Medicom, which is like a thinner light cycle with the sort of super articulated ish. Almost like a microman style, which is kind of interesting, kind of quirky, but I do like Tron. I'm looking forward to the new movie this year. I was going to say, I'm really hoping with the new movie that we get some more more Tron stuff figures back on the show. yes i like well Yeah, they've got the diamond slit reissued. I think they're Tron-8-2 stuff. Yeah, they did. Their packaging is like the arcade
Excitement for Tron Movie Merchandise
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cabinets. And I'm holding out hope Super 7 does legacy. like Oh yeah yeah. I watch Legacy. read i it's At the moment, the Darth Punk Legacy album soundtrack is on my... oh yeah um i think it's I think it was second in my Spotify kind of yearly thing. First was... um
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What's the first one in Indiana Jones? Rage Lost Ark. I think it's called Into the Jungle or something. Out of the Jungle or something like that. That's my number one. That's surprising. I play that album all the time. I am so square. it I think the only thing the only band that could override that is Nine Inch Nails. Nine Inch Nails, yeah. Which we've got coming.
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Yeah, i'm I'm really excited for that. and I mean, going... I finally got to go to Disney World and get on the ride. And when that when that score hits, like, I got off the ride, my cheeks hurt. and I was just smiling so hard the entire ride. My fiancé took pictures of me as I'm walking through and I'm like, big grin on my face. I feel left out. I haven't been on it yet. It sucks. Is it in the Orlando world?
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Whereas it was, okay well, and I was in land last time and I wasn't. so And they have a thing where you can go in and record lines and make yourself. You can make a figure. Make a figure of yourself. With your face on it. Oh with the yeah like a little my digital yeah projection. yeah shit abroad show yeah so very works back here so I switching Switching gears a little bit. Maximum Spider-Man. So he dropped, he sold out everywhere.
Maximum Spider-Man Figure Features
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Congrats by the way. Thank you. I'm glad that sold out. That was good. Well, yeah am I glad it sold out? I guess so. I want to have to double i want as many made as I wanted. That's the aim. As of the time of this recording, it's still available at GameStop. So GameStop still has your pre-orders up for it. But yeah, I mean are you are you surprised at kind of the general reaction to to it? No, I mean it was a bit of a kind of a test for us in in a way because we're sort of like what is value mean and I have this sort of I have this mantra where that value is not the price you pay it's what you gained it's like an old-fashioned thing and I'm we were interested we were discussing things like what
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What do we need to do to create a definitive figure of our kind of A-list Marvel characters? And it's like, what does it take? How much more articulation does it, how much more deco does it take to create the Spider-Man, the Spider-Man, how many accessories?
Creating Definitive Figures
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So ah we challenged the team to just kind of like, just go and design it. Dwight, just go and design the ultimate Spider-Man and let's see how much that is and work out whether that is value.
00:10:29
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whether that cost is worth the value. So, you know, it's more expensive, it's got extra it's got extra hands, it's got extra accessories, but probably more important, it's got extra articulation points, it's got extra decking, loads of extra decking. So I hope people, I'm glad people have pre-ordered it.
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um But I'm more interested in what they think when they actually get out. Yeah, I mean that's the that's what I want to find out So I'm hoping we get a chance to get a little bit closer to it at New York Toy Fair in a couple weeks I've been talking to to Ryan. Hopefully. Yeah, hopefully it's on display um But uh, yeah, I mean I pre-ordered one. I'm really excited for it. I mean that's not only am I excited to see what What I'm kind of in my brain saying is like a, and I know you can't say this, but I will say it, like a Mafex killer, you know, it it has kind of that i just import addition to what we normally get with a Marvel Legends figure, you know, besides the extra art, besides the extra accessories, just, you know, the kind of the re-engineering, you know, the top to bottom re-engineering. So I'm really excited to see it. And more importantly, because we've had some really great Spider-Man figures you guys have done an incredible job with that character over the years. I'm excited to see what's next for this, because there are some characters that come to mind that like you could use a little bit of extra... It opens a lot of doors. What do we think? So my my big one... i was right talk three give me tired I would think that it would really be like very smashing. Well, I'm just going to say it. So I'm a Hulk guy. Hulk? I thought we were doing that. key's He's my he's my favorite comic book character, my favorite superhero. so And I have wanted a Marvel Legends Hulk figure that could gamma-clack. So he's gotten great, you know, back of butterflies over the years, but he doesn't have those front ones. So I just want a Hulk figure that can encourage that can do the clap thing. We shall see folks, don't we? And I think i'll do I'll do a second one. You get one. Now you you go next. Go ahead, go ahead. I'm not going to say Ghost Rider, actually, because I know that's not going to happen for a while. um you wouldn't I would love it. Why don't you say that?
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Okay, but uh well I was gonna say the the Danny that just came out is pretty nice Yeah, it's a very special character. Yeah, if he if he didn't have a sweater on he'd show you his ghost rider tattoo Which is right near my Tron one? um Yeah, I mean I would I'll pick ghost rider, but it's not I Okay, ghost rider. I'll do it No pressure I'm twisted but the other thing too is like I think you know again just spitballing potentially a character like a magneto or a floor that could maybe have a soft goods cake you know something that we don't haven't seen yeah a lot of from I was gonna say magneto I think I think that is that that is the mission for maximum that's the maximum mission is to like how definitive figures, how do we do it, what needs the extra articulation, what needs the extra deco, what needs the extra soft goods or whatever, all the accessories that we can't normally, we'll never really be able to get with the the kind of regular $25 one.
00:13:32
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and deliver that and yeah it's gonna it's gonna be more it's it's it's more but as long as the values there then it it works so we'll see yeah and we're not gonna flood the market with like one every flipping wave or anything like that it's they're very purposefully picked for things that need definitive versions in a very specific way yeah and i mean that's quite a good start absolutely and we'll see where we go from there but um Yeah, the lineups are pretty cool. yeah Yeah, so is there do you guys have a kind of a cadence in mind with these yet? Or is it like Spider-man we do but I don't think we're announcing that yeah, but it's it's not know it's not like 20 of them a year. It's very very it's it's it's That character needs it. Let's do that. Got it. Got it. Deliberate more of a deliberate i oh
00:14:18
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All right, so um since this is now the third time you you've been with us, but first time live, um we have a new final question.
Favorite Toy Accessories Discussion
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So I'm going to do the into the microphone thing. So, whether it's the small tools and flashlight that come with the kids from Skeleton Crew, or the miniature comics with the latest wave of legends, there have recently been some really cool and unique accessories in Hasbro figures, or with Hasbro figures. What is your all-time favorite toy accessory? I'm rating him. Oh my goodness, May. That's a tough one. That's a tough one.
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all-time favorite accessory. It doesn't have to be one that you made while you were in general. No, no, I'm thinking. Alright, so I like the Cloud Car Pilot's little communicator because it's so difficult and gets lost every, as soon as you look at it, it disappears. So the fact that when I bought my, re-bought my Cloud Car Pilot Kena figure, it came with the little communicator. I have a soft spot for that. I love i love I tell you what I do love. I'm just looking around for inspiration to try and get me out. I love Christa's little crystal stuff. That's kind of cool. Anything like that. Anything that's slightly gimmicky, I really like. Like red reveal glasses or red reveal things. I can't think of a figure that had a red reveal, but Christa's little stuff was pretty cool.
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um remark says be fored Oh. I'll go back to Tron. I like the Tron discs. They glow in the dark. I like anything that glows in the dark. one i like anything Dan know this from the Marvel Legends. I like anything that's translucent, anything that glows in the dark. I'm a real shark jumper when it comes to accessories. You can't go wrong. Sometimes it's some of my favorite stuff. Glow in the dark. Glow in the dark crystal viewer. All right. That'd be cool. So before before we sign off, there's one more thing I want to do. And I realized I left it in my bag over there. Oh, we've got to fill. Grab it. So I will be right back.
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So as I mentioned... Same spot too, I got it on the back of my arm. I'm a big Hulk fan. Yes you are. And I love this one. Look at that. Check the thickness of the card. I would like you to sign my Hulk. In green. In green. Alright. And I mean, you know I'm an opener. I've got my... It's Eric with a K, isn't it? Yes it is. I've got my Let It Breathe. Oh, this is a really weak green. But this is a very special figure to me. I loved the three and three quarter inch Marvel Legends figures. I've got it unpunched, which is kind of rare.
00:16:58
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It's not a very good I could see it like if Matt's watching this right now him and Brian are just like he's yelling at me for not having a paint Yeah, I need a black one. They can't it won't write. Well. Well we could go over it the black go over it with the black one There we go, but uh Eric smash perfect not that you can see it I can't even see I'm sitting right here, but I will will go over that with a black one over that's for you But uh yeah with that Steve, thank you so much for for ah for visiting here. Chubsy, Chubsy. You gotta to get on camera here. you got a No, come come say hi real quick. Oh, he's too shy, everyone. He's too shy, this boy. Hi, everyone. I'm Chubsy Wubsy. And and we're we're acknowledging the Tribal Chief as he's got his... cake He's got his... Ulfala on, yeah. But, yeah, thank you. The Ulfala. These guys spoil me, man.
00:17:49
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So he's the tribal chief. It's a wrestling wrestling thing. Samoan dynasty. With all the YouTubers, man. They are amazing people, man. But ah we've got a ton of awesome people here. We're going to go back to having some more conversations. Stevie, thank you so much for taking the time to chat with us. Always a pleasure. Always a pleasure. Yeah, Dave, side sign us off.
Closing Remarks and Listener Engagement
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um May the force be with you. No bugger off. ah Thank you so much.
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