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Halloween 2019 – Horror Toys Featuring Dave Potosnak from the Calling all Creeps Podcast
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On this special SPOOOOOOOOKY episode of Adventures in Collecting, Dave and Erik talk the latest news and hauls with friend of the pod Dave Potosnak from the Calling all Creeps pod and Zapp! Comics. Then, Erik, Dave, and Also Dave talk toys in horror movies and horror toys - maybe even a "true" story about a real haunted doll...
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Introduction to Adventures in Collecting Podcast
00:00:30
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Hi, Dave. Hi, Eric. Hey, Dave. Do we curse on this podcast? Yes, Eric. Yes, we do. Are you ready, hoils and booms? Get your parents' permission, check your mailbox, and grab your shopping cart. It's time for the Adventures in Collecting Podcast.
00:00:54
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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.
Special Halloween Episode & Guest Introduction
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So happy Halloween, everybody. Welcome to our special Halloween episode of Adventures in Collecting.
00:01:19
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Thank you to Joe for hooking us up with a special little intro there. We also have a special guest here in the attic with us. I'm not that special. You're special. Also, that wasn't Joe. That was one of the many creatures we asked him to do an impression of. True. Yes.
00:01:42
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Yeah, I don't know which one, as of this point, I don't know which one we're gonna land on. We have a couple different ones to choose from. We rolled the dice, we're hoping to land on that spot. We just don't know when the game piece will get there.
00:01:56
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So as I mentioned, we have Dave. We mentioned Dave. We are slowly inching towards our hashtag all the daves.
Humorous 'All the Daves' Discussion
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We're collecting daves. Hashtag all the daves. Yep. There's like a reverb in my headphones that's awesome with that because it made me feel like a morning zoo. Or it's like hashtag all the daves. Live coming to you Monday morning.
00:02:29
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So Dave, introduce yourself. Where are you from Dave? My name is Dave.
00:02:34
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By the way, it's not me. It's the Other Dave that I promised last week. My name is Also Dave. And what podcast do you co-host, Other Dave? We're going by Also Dave for this one. Okay, Also Dave. I almost named my cat Also Dave, but then I realized I'd look like such a jerk going to the vet. Do you want to be Also Dave or Dave Also?
00:02:57
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I like Also Dave. All right, Also Dave. So which podcast do you co-host Also
Star Wars Toys Excitement
00:03:02
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Dave? So I'm coming to you live from the Calling All Creeps podcast, which is a Goosebumps literary review and comedy podcast.
00:03:11
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So as I mentioned, this is a special Halloween episode of of adventures in collecting. So our main topic is going to be Halloween related. But as always, we're going to update you on some toy news and and what we're hauling in. And we'll have a third a third person to also Dave to include his his contribution to this to also news and haul. Yes, I also haul.
00:03:38
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So in terms of news, as usual, when it comes to me, there's a lot of really cool Star Wars stuff coming out. There has been early leaks of Best Buy putting some of the product that was announced for Triple Force Friday. So there's a really cool ATST Mandalorian set that's a Best Buy exclusive.
00:04:02
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that by the time you're hearing this podcast, it'll be only a couple days away. Halloween is the street date for that. So both the Black Series IG-11 and the ATST vintage collection set will be best by exclusives. Those will be available on 1031 on Halloween.
00:04:26
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As always, since we don't have Toys R Us here in the United States anymore for now, there's been a lot of really cool stuff coming out of Toys R Us Canada. There's a really great Black Series.
00:04:42
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Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker, you know, his his act one and two look from Return of the Jedi. Great looking figure. That's starting to show up in Toys R Us Canada, along with some of the other newer Black Series figures. So Janna from The Rise of Skywalker. There's the I think her name is Cara Dune. It's the other the main character from The Mandalorian.
00:05:11
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Um, strong one with good muscles. Yes. Yeah. Good muscles. Well, I think she used to be a professional fighter. Yeah. Um, she was, I think in, I forget which organization she was in. Um, Gina Carano, Gina Carano. Thank you. Yeah. And she was also in Deadpool. She was also, uh, she's also in the gym with her good muscles. Yeah. I think she was in that new American gladiators reboot too. I forgot about that.
00:05:40
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Yeah, so lots of really cool stuff coming from the Star Wars IP out there. Question on that though. Yeah. What color is that cape on Luke Skywalker? It is brown. That's right. Like it's supposed to be. That's right.
00:05:55
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Unlike the the three-pack that was just announced that the evil cave special edition three-pack that features Is that what it's called? Yeah, okay They named it really like going back to like those like canter names were like people were just like walrus man and like You know like they just kind of named it You know in in that style so like it's called the evil. I think it's called the evil cave special edition do you know how they played off walrus man and
00:06:25
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All those names? How? So now Star Wars lore is that those are basically like the racial slurs for those for those aliens. Like literally that's like the slang term for those Star Wars races like a hammerhead. A walrus man. That's kind of badass though. It is.
00:06:47
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But yeah, so unlike that set Where Luke is he doesn't have his like overcoat that he can that he's wearing when he confronts Vader Which is kind of the whole part of that set like the Darth Vader figure has the tearaway masks That looks like Luke's face underneath it. Yeah
00:07:03
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The Luke is not screen accurate. It's also like a much maligned figure from like early vintage collection stuff where like the joints are all weird. His arms are like super long. Yeah. They just retooled the head and they left the body the same way. So it's kind of...
00:07:19
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Not great. It's a three pack. Unlike the Black Series Luke. But yeah, outside of that, that's all I've got for news. Regular Dave. Original Dave. Original Dave? Regular unleaded. So I actually have something that dropped like two day. Boss Fight Studio has put up their pre-order for the Legends of Lucha Libre line.
00:07:47
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So wave one is Penta Zero M and Ray Phoenix aka the Lucha Brothers and they are $37.99
Wrestling Figures Insight
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per. So you can pre-order them both and there's also accessory sets. One's kind of more of a deathmatch one and the other one's just kind of more of a regular hardcore match one. Like there are light tubes in this which is
00:08:11
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Bonkers to be completely honest. Why do they have light tubes? Why is that important? Well, it goes back to from lucha underground when Penta zero M was Pentagon jr. And he had the Deathmatch with Vampiro where there were light tubes involved and this is because they're breaking light tubes over each other, correct
00:08:32
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Awesome just saw them at AAA in Madison Square Garden bought a pentas mask and Let me tell you love those guys I might actually pick up these figures because I just love them and Love what they did to my face that time. I got so I was so comfortable. He'd yell whatever I wanted So I told like people are very into wrestling right now. I
00:08:54
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They were like, Mexican wrestling, I'm there, I'll be there. Recently, they were like, oh, WWE will be here, I'm like, I'll think about it. I just heard about Sushi and Sumo in New York. Gonna be there too. I wanna do wrestling around the world, baby. Well, you're a big New Japan guy, right? Yeah, I watch that as well. Yeah. And of course, the Lucha Brothers are in AEW right now.
Power Rangers & Walgreens Exclusives
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Dave, anything?
00:09:23
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Also, Dave. Thank you. Did you have anything that you would like to add? Oh, stop. Also, Dave was my father. You could just call me Dave.
00:09:34
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Yeah, there's a couple things because I just looked through Instagram. So my favorite store, Walgreens, has been getting a few exclusive figures that are hitting now. No, not that Danny Moonstar that I'm just going crazy looking for. Because you need three of them, right? I need four of them. Four of them. Because I've the New Mutants team is one of my all time favorites.
00:09:59
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So we're getting all these cannonballs. We have a new sunspot, but none of them are in their New Mutants costumes. This isn't even like the original fun New Mutants Clairemont costumes, but I need it. The cannonballs in the X-Force costume, isn't he? Yeah, which he's got like a little Ninja Turtle mask for no reason. Your whole body is made out of Kirby dots. Why do you mean to wear a Ninja Turtles mask?
00:10:19
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But we are getting General Kenobi, a six inch Star Wars, which is what I collect now. I got rid of all of my three quarter, three and three quarter figures when that came out and went super heavy into them when they first launched. So that I'm very excited about. I've been slowing down on that line, but really, really cool. Also, I think one of the most underrated lines and possibly the best figures Hasbro has been putting out this year, the Power Rangers lightning line.
00:10:49
Speaker
Those are really cool looking. I admire them every time I walk down the aisle. So articulation wise, quality wise, I'd say they rival figure arts. No shit. So they especially because Bandai does have a say in these. Everything from the articulation to the details of the paint is incredible. I am holding myself to only buying the villains. But of course, because Zach's my dude.
00:11:16
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We got that Zach Black Ranger in with the Dragon Shield that is a Walgreens exclusive. Not only do I love Walgreens, I love my man Zach. I got to pick that up too.
Super7 Toy Updates
00:11:26
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Awesome. Yeah, I keep seeing I feel like I keep seeing Zed.
00:11:31
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So such a good figure and it looks so good and though the white Ranger I keep seeing like the Tommy white Ranger He was double packed in that and they did they did such a good job with that that 3d face sculpt on him Like it's just it's incredible the best figure in that line Surprisingly is actually a two-pack. It's the green Ranger and the putty the putty putty is the best figure and
00:11:54
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You know, it's just and this is like, as much as I love Hasbro Hasbro, I love you. I love what you're doing right now with the Marvel Legends, you know, the Star Wars figures of vintage collection, like all the tech that you're using. It's great. But they have made some like very.
00:12:09
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Strong decisions with how they've packed these figures because it's like you know, you want more than one putty But you don't need you could use like six putties, but what do you do with six green rangers? I have two putties and it sucks because there was somebody at the comic shop I work at zap comics and cars in Wayne, New Jersey. Also, I'm an elephant Uh, what's up zapcomics.com or go to our instagram. We're always we're always sharing your stuff. We love zap. It's big zap. Love they love you, too
00:12:36
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This podcast was actually kind of thought out there a little bit. Yeah, we did so we did some planning some external planning at zap one day Yeah, you had the ideas and it's just like we're all standing there talking toys And you're of course fitting in perfectly with everybody and just a whole big thing. It's like why don't you just do it? Yeah, go get your pro original Dave
00:12:57
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and do it original day og day og d they call him on the streets uh and then my only other news i don't want to take all your time but uh super seven which well walmart walgreens uh not walmart boo uh walgreens is my favorite um store super seven's probably my favorite toy brand right now or supplier or store um and they have just released the uh
00:13:27
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Packaged art for the ninja turtle line that they're doing. Oh, yeah, which super nice a feel of the comics the cartoon and more importantly the original toys that we knew from growing up the other modeled after the playmates Yeah toys and the the packaging art
00:13:45
Speaker
I have so many turtles, so many vintage turtles. Everybody's done it. I just picked up the Neko ones. These are the best by far. And the packaging like this is a figure I'd be proud to display in the package because it's beautiful and it looks just
Wrestling Figure Collections & Target Exclusives
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like the bedsheets in the pillowcase that I had, like with the bricks and the colors.
00:14:06
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And I love the I love the weapon tree, too, like it has like the pop out weapon tree. They clearly, clearly a labor of love, clearly. And Raphael being the only turtle in this line is obvious for the reason that if you are a comic guy, I mean, you have the red head. So, yep, that's that's my news. Very cool.
00:14:29
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So let's let's very quickly run through halls. I actually only have I have two things. Since since the last episode, I picked up America's ass, the the Captain America from the first Avengers or how he appears in the flashbacks and endgame spoiler alert. So I picked up him.
00:14:51
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at Walmart and now I'm kind of on the hook for the rest of that set because I kind of want to build the the Lebowski bro Thor.
00:15:01
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And I also found the Vintage Collection Sith Trooper at Target as part of that Wave 2. I forget what Wave they're actually calling it. Depends on which website you read. But it's the Wave with the Sith Trooper, the Jawa, the Yavin Ceremony Leia.
00:15:23
Speaker
I think it's the Shadow Troopers in that as well. But yeah, I picked up the Sith Troopers, so I'm really happy to have that, but those are really only two things I got since the last episode. I vaguely remember where I left off last episode, so we'll just go with, if any of this is a repeat,
00:15:41
Speaker
I apologize. It's been two weeks. So I found the Target exclusive WWE Asuka Elite, the network spotlight one. Very great figure. Very cool to find it. Very happy I found it. Got the Ali Chase, the Elite Chase, because I'm going to start getting the cruiserweights and anyone who's been on 205 Live. You're welcome.
00:16:09
Speaker
Thank you, Eric, or was currently in this kind of most recent run of it. I found a Ruby Riot Basic, which factors into something later. And then to talk about the cruiserweight collection, I found
00:16:28
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I found actually both versions of Aria Daivari, but I'm going to hang on to the chase with the Black Tights because it's the chase, basically. So I'm going to stick with that one. And kind of tying back into the Ruby Riot figure, I found the Target-exclusive Liv Morgan, which I couldn't believe I found it, but I found it.
00:16:56
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And so once the Sarah Logan basic comes out, I will have the entire riot squad. Congratulations. I'm two thirds of the way there, but thank you. Not also Dave, because also Dave is your father,
Star Wars Figures & Personal Collection Joy
00:17:10
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Dave. What about you? What are you buying? What have you bought lately?
00:17:15
Speaker
So this is something I purchased over the internet but received today. My most recent haul, which I will be hauling home with me. So Eric of the Adventures in Collecting podcast. I know him.
00:17:28
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You are him. Look deep inside yourself and you'll find an Eric. All of you listening. And that's the lesson learned today. I think that's the nicest thing you've ever said to me. I don't even know what I said. Anyway. That's the moral of the podcast today. Yeah. Look inside yourself and you'll find an Eric. And please don't call the police.
00:17:48
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uh sorry um this is all cool on my podcast probably edited out of yours i'm sorry anyway so i uh got a uh jawa and what is it what do they call it outworld jawa off world off world jawa which i don't know if you knew this but um when i was collecting three and three quarter star wars figures i would just collect what i loved which was um the bounty hunters
00:18:17
Speaker
clone troopers stormtroopers, which I always collect but uh, I had every single three and three quarter Jawa like every available one and also I'd collect all the astromechs I still have a shot glass holder that just is every different astromech from like a little bit of time so
00:18:34
Speaker
Just having a new Jawa and knowing a fresh Jawa that just decided to stroll up in the club in some navy blue I'm so excited for that Sith trooper all in red Get ready, baby I'm thinking that he's gonna take his helmet off and be a clone of Anakin Skywalker or Luke or something shit That's my I didn't know we were going going this way with the conversation. This is just what I'm saying This is just what I feel in my heart
00:19:01
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um yeah because they're they're Sith troopers and usually they're clones there's got to be a reason they're Sith troopers other than just like
00:19:09
Speaker
you know, Adam Driver's just like, no, that was sick, so. And then the Mandalorian carbonized collection, which is beautiful. Just be careful. I've heard that some of those figures, the carbonized ones, fiddling with them too much is causing some of the paint to chip. Well, whatever. He's had a
Halloween Horror Toys Focus
00:19:30
Speaker
hard fight. I'm going to fiddle as much as I can. He's going to fiddle against the dark side and the light side. He's a bounty hunter.
00:19:36
Speaker
So this is the special Halloween episode. So we thought for our first Halloween and our first Halloween episode as a podcast, we have to talk about horror toys and we have to talk about toys in horror movies. And there is just so much out there.
00:19:54
Speaker
To talk about I think the the most iconic toy in in all of movies a horror movies when it comes to You know toy characters would probably be
Chucky's Horror Icon Status & Child's Play
00:20:06
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chucky right? I hate that guy
00:20:09
Speaker
So I recently, I think, am I the only one here who saw The New Child's play? Probably. Yeah. So Mark Hamill voices Chucky in The New Child's play. And I remember when the trailer for it came out, I was just thinking like, oh, this is a bad idea. This looks like shit. It was actually pretty cool. They took an interesting twist on it, but
00:20:31
Speaker
not nearly as iconic as the original Chucky. I mean, you just, you can't touch it. Now you said, I'm pointing to not also Dave, but just Dave, Dave. I'm back to also Dave. You're back to also Dave? My dad's name is Wayne, so I coughed out there. So why do you hate Chucky?
00:20:51
Speaker
Um, I love horror movies and it only comes from Wayne. Uh, he had every Stephen King book and I was like a very afraid child and I would see the spines of all these books. I remember the monkey shines the soft cover spine. Like it's ingrained in my memory. I was always afraid I would, uh, stay up late with my uncle guy.
00:21:14
Speaker
That's really his name. It's very generic. But Uncle Guy would like put on horror movies and if I didn't know how they ended, I'd freak out. And out of all those movies, all the Freddy's and Jason's and everything, I remember seeing anything with a doll or toy that came to life scared the shit out of me.
00:21:34
Speaker
So it's actually only until 2019 this year that I talked with a bunch of people, our friend Rusty from the comic shop and Matt from our podcast, that I realized I'd never seen the first child's play all the way through in one sitting because it had only been through TV and it only been like scared as a kid. But like as a kid, I need to like when it came on, I'd have to watch it through to the end because I'm like, I have to see how it ends. And that's how like my heart love started. And we sat down and watched it all the way through.
00:22:02
Speaker
It's pretty good, but I feel like it's one of the things where a lot of times your imagination, especially the imagination of a child, builds something up to be such a greater impact and character than what you expect. Still really good, but still nowhere near the horrifying character in my nightmares.
00:22:24
Speaker
And I mean, that's that's interesting too, because right, like, you know, we're toy collectors, we play with toys as a kid.
Haunted Toys Theme in Movies
00:22:31
Speaker
And now I'll get into my introduction to Chucky in a second. But like, as a kid, you know, you think about your toys and like the one of the worst things imaginable is your toy trying to kill you. Right. Like the thing that you play with every day.
00:22:44
Speaker
What's interesting for me- Talking Tina. Talking Tina. Yeah. Being born in 1988, my introduction to Chucky, I think the first one I saw was probably Child's Play 3, which at that point, he is more comedic than he is scary. He has surpassed that horror movie, because even by two, really, he was more funny than he was scary. In one.
00:23:13
Speaker
Watching it now when he's like like oh me bitch But but you have to you have to remember though like if you're if the first one you see is three and I Correct me if I'm wrong market different doesn't he doesn't kill somebody with literally like a yardstick and I think so. Yeah Is that the military school? Yeah, it's a military school one
00:23:35
Speaker
Um, so that was my first introduction to him. And I remember going back and watching the first one and going like, Whoa, like, like even like that young thing, like totally, this is so different. It's like if your first Nightmare on Elm Street is Nightmare on Elm Street, like four. Yeah.
00:23:51
Speaker
Yeah, and he, you know, welcome the prime time, bitch. You know, that's three. That's three. Yeah. Yeah. But still, even in that one, like, you know, yeah, those characters seem to I don't know what it is about those horror movies from like the 80s where like they figured out that the characters are more entertaining if they were funny rather than them being like villain, like just straight up villains like Jason X. Jason X is basically the now that's what I call music of Friday, the 13th movies.
00:24:17
Speaker
where they just added space and they just took all their favorite kills and fun concepts and made them space. They just redid it again, but put their greatest hits in one compact disc. Along with a little bit of BDSM. Of course. Because they were like, what do people love now? It's the early 2000s. Yeah. Blade's hot. Let's put a corset on this bad boy. There's a whole part of that movie where there's a discussion going into the Android characters nipples.
00:24:46
Speaker
Yeah. And how her nipples are designed to look like real nipples. Yeah. But yes, there is that precedent, like, I don't know which character, probably Freddie was probably the character that started with where they decided that like they, you know. The popularity become too much where there was, you know, Freddie toys and the TV show and all this stuff. Wasn't he in like music videos?
00:25:12
Speaker
Yeah, Freddie hadn't had a music video or two. I work at a private school and I wore my Freddie sweater, my first Halloween there. And a bunch of kids walked up and said, why are you wearing a Christmas sweater on Halloween? Only this year did I realize, like, isn't that someone was like, isn't Freddie a child murderer? He is. He is, in fact, a child murderer. Like, that is actually what he is. Yeah, that's what sweater I'm not wearing in school anymore.
00:25:42
Speaker
No, but you'll wear a regular sweater with a Freddy pin on it instead. Yeah. Well, I have a big. Yeah, I got stuff. So so aside from aside from Chucky, right, there's you actually mentioned talking Tina. So like going back even before Chucky to the Twilight Zone. Yeah. There were toys trying to kill us in black and white on TV. I.
00:26:06
Speaker
I'm almost ashamed that we didn't that I didn't take the time to look and see like what like the first like killer toy was. But, you know, it's probably talking to you now. Yeah. I mean, you know, and that's and that, of course, has been parodied. Right. Because the Simpsons triage of horror. Yeah. With the Krusty doll. Yeah.
00:26:24
Speaker
You know, my name is Krusty, and I don't like you. You know, like, that concept, you know, pulling the string on a doll, you know, there were a lot of Twilight Zone episodes. Like, I remember as a kid that, like, used to really fuck with me.
00:26:37
Speaker
You know, like, like now, of course, it's it's become more of like an easily watchable thing because we're kind of desensitized the way they're still great. Oh, they're awesome. But, you know, it is a great early example of like a toy trying to kill you. And and, you know, to to call back to Dave, Dave's podcast to calling all creeps. You guys have done how many episodes now on on Arlstein's favorite killer toy dummy? Oh, I mean, oh, on the dummy.
00:27:05
Speaker
one.
00:27:25
Speaker
creepy to begin with. Like even if you look at the ones that like like the howdy duties. Oh, you look at those now and it's a little disturbing. So my older brother, I was going to say that was Cliff Robertson. I had to make sure. So my older brother bought me a like.
00:27:42
Speaker
I don't know who makes it. Some branded dummy company makes us sloppy now, like from the book. So he bought it for me for Christmas and I was like, oh, we made some funny videos for the podcast. And then I put it into a backpack to bring home. And that is lived in that backpack in my trunk ever since. Nice. Did you did either of you see the newest toy story?
00:28:01
Speaker
No, there is a ventriloquist dummy that looks almost exactly like Slappy that plays a big role in the
Creepy Ventriloquist Dummies in Toy Story
00:28:08
Speaker
movie. There's there's like a talking doll that plays kind of like the villain role in the new toy story. She's she's like a talking Tina type doll and she has like goons that protect her and they're all like Slappy ventriloquist dummies. That's awesome. And they live in this like in this like podunk town in an antique store.
00:28:31
Speaker
So when the toys wander into the antique store, actually, because Woody sees the lamp that Bo Peep used to live on. Well, now I don't have to watch the movie. I'm not going to spoil the whole thing, but the bad guys in the movie are a group of creepy ventriloquist dummies. That's horrifying. Yeah, and it's effective. When I took my daughter to go see it at the time she was three, when that scene came up, she was like,
00:28:56
Speaker
Like visibly was like I do not like this. You ever think Toy Story is just about ghosts that possess toys? You know like There are some throughout the history of Toy Story. There are some pretty like creepy moments in those movies.
00:29:13
Speaker
Like, whether it's like, you know, the stereotypical like weird, you know, collector with cheese doodle fingers that's, you know, selling figures on eBay or they even did they did a Halloween short. They did the the Toy Story of Terror.
00:29:32
Speaker
Which has some, you know, some creepy moments in it, but... It's great though. It's so funny. What's his name? Timothy Dalton, right? Plays the voice of Mr. Pricklepants and he's teaching all the toys, like the tropes of horror movies. Like, oh, and like, you know, this is the perfect time, you know, during a thunderstorm where you get a flat tire on the side of the road and the car while they're in the trunk gets a flat tire and they stop at a hotel.
00:29:56
Speaker
And he's like, and this is where every perfect horror movie starts. And the toys start getting picked off one by one the way they would in like, you know, typical horror movie fashion.
Annabelle Movies & Local Hauntings
00:30:05
Speaker
When they start getting stolen by like the pet of the guy who owns the creepy hotel. Yep. The hotel owners iguana starts stealing all the figures and he's e-banging them.
00:30:17
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, between that or even in the first Toy Story movie with the part where Woody and the rest of the toys break like toy law and they, you know, they scar Sid and inevitably cause years of psychotherapy. Because he becomes a garbage man. Yes. That's right. Yeah.
00:30:41
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which I'm not saying that if you are in that profession that you become that, but you just like, you know, so all freaked out by toys. So you're not saying that all garbage or all sanitation workers were tortured by their toys at one point in their life. Um, no, I'm going to say that garbage men are fine, but I'm a garbage man myself. It has nothing to do with sanitation work. And I could speak to that.
00:31:04
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So we have we have Toy Story, we have Talking Tina, we have Chucky. Another big one is Annabelle, right? Mm hmm. So I I was way behind on those movies. I actually just watched them this year. All of them. First one's good.
00:31:19
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First one was really good. Second one was kind of shitty, but still kind of good. The new one is the best one. The first Annabelle movie is more about Charles Manson than it is the doll. Yeah, which was surprised. And you know what? So again, we're in New Jersey, so we're in kind of like the the hotbed of where the the Warrens kind of worked. You know, they
00:31:44
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The what's the one the house that was in New York? Amityville, Amityville is in New York. So it's you know, it's literally like a drive, a short drive away from from where we're recording. But they're they're now defunct museum was in Connecticut, which is where like the real Annabelle lived. And I after I watched the Annabelle movies, I looked it up.
00:32:06
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Did you guys know that Annabelle was actually a raggedy Ann doll? Yes. I did not know that. I had that doll. The Annabelle doll? No, like I had that raggedy Ann and raggedy Andy. Yeah, it was wasn't it moms and it became like mine and then yours. Yep. Yep. Pass down on their pass down toys. I got everybody's sloppy seconds or thirds when it came to toys. But that's what it's what it's like growing up with older brothers. You know that you have a little brother siblings. Yeah.
00:32:35
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But obviously I held onto my stuff. Sorry, the younger brother. And that's what puts me on a podcast like this. I hung onto my stuff. But yeah, I did not know that it was Raggedy Anne.
00:32:47
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D and and and yeah lady one which is which is crazy like looking at that looking at the header like after watching Annabelle and seeing that like very creepily designed like porcelain like doll you know and like the full dress and everything sitting in that case that says like positively do not open you look up the real pictures and it's it's like a raggedy and sitting in that same glass case with the same positively do not open I actually think the raggedy and doll is more frightening well yeah but it's like
00:33:16
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You know, they probably couldn't get the licensing for it. Can we use Raggedy Anne as the possessed doll? No, absolutely not. Okay, we'll make one up. Yeah, but is that, like, I can't imagine that, like, the people who are in charge of the Raggedy Anne brand at this point, like, when was the last time you saw a Raggedy Anne doll somewhere? I mean, it's still, like, a beloved child's brand. By who, though? Like, I feel like they're children. The people, they were like, oh man, we got two things going for us, Raggedy Anne and Jax.
00:33:46
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Raggedy Ann and Dirt.
Robert the Doll Legend
00:34:06
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Please enlighten us. This is a good one.
00:34:27
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some versions of the legend claim that a young girl of Bahamian descent gave Otto the doll as a gift for retaliation for wrongdoing and people say it's a voodoo doll whatever but other
00:34:43
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legends just claimed that the doll vanished after his house changed ownership and then shortly after they all died. And his death had triggered the doll's supernatural powers and it blamed all of his childhood mishaps on this doll like through like the neighborhood and stuff.
00:35:02
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And they say, since then, it's caused car accidents, broken bones, job loss, divorce, and a cornucopia of other misfortunes. What a phrase, right? Yeah. So Robert the doll, real, real life haunting. If if you if you believe that sort of thing, real life haunted doll.
00:35:22
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Look it up. Interesting. We'll post a picture of it. It's fucking weird. Another good movie with haunted dolls.
Puppet Master Series & Nazi Puppets
00:35:31
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Puppet Master. So big, big series. Like that's like one of those like 90s. There's like 42 of them. Yeah, there's a ton. But like that's one of those ones where I remember looking at the VHS box art like at rental stores going like, I'm not going to watch that because that looks scary.
00:35:49
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They are a little scary. They're basically about like Nazis. So they're Nazi puppets?
00:35:58
Speaker
I know that was the most recent. The most recent was Nazi. But I think it isn't in the original one, like isn't just one of them a Nazi? Well, in the new one, there is one that is a Nazi, but I'm pretty sure the original one is about a man. Was he either like a Holocaust survivor or he was like an ex Nazi that made these dolls and cursed them? It's like a revenge. The original one's like a revenge story. Oh, man. Really, he makes the dolls and they like.
00:36:26
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do his bidding with or without him knowing to whatever.
00:36:32
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I forget they all blend into each other. One Halloween, I watched like four different ones and I just watched the most recent one and they're insane. I just remember like that that time period of horror movies were like you'd go to the, you know, either the mom and pop rental store or like, you know, like a blockbuster or something and always looking at the horror like section for the covers. Yeah. And I remember the
00:37:00
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I remember that cover vividly, along with the Naked Lunch one, where it's a guy with a typewriter for a head. Evil Dead, I always remember. Evil Dead. What was the Robert Englund Phantom of the Opera one? It's an awful movie, but that cover, I remember that cover pretty vividly.
Horror Toys Market & NECA's Pennywise
00:37:19
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We can't get away from actually talking about horror toys.
00:37:25
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That would be kind of important, right? So I know I have displayed in my living room downstairs at all times of the year. They're like three of my favorite action figures ever. I was going to ask, because you decked your house out for Halloween. Yes. But those are staples? Yeah, those are staples. Nice. So the movie maniacs. The original McFarland's. Yeah, the McFarland movie maniacs. Much big ups to my wife.
00:37:54
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who lets those stay up all year round. I have Halloween's Michael Myers, The Nightmare on Elm Street Freddy, and then as much as the movie is just complete and utter dog shit. Isn't it the Jason goes to hell Jason? It is the Jason goes to hell Jason, which is a great looking figure. But oh my god, they could not have picked the worst movie to make it like the first Jason.
00:38:18
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I think it was at the time because it was right after the switch to new line. It was the only one they had the rights to make. I always forget that Friday the 13th has those super weird rights issues. Halloween now has one of the worst. Yeah, because the new ones are universal.
00:38:38
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Right, the new Halloween movies are universal. Yeah. Well, no, I think it's all the same. Yeah, but it's the same producer. Is it? Yeah. Oh, yeah, because it's it's all a cop and it was Malek Akkad. Yeah. And now his I think it's his son. No, that's the son. Yeah.
00:38:54
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Yep. Funny story about the Jason goes to hell figure Funko did the mystery minis, the horror mystery minis, which I collected all the first wave. And for the second wave, I just wanted specific ones that I can never find Jason goes to hell Jason. So a guy who comes to the comic shop came in and he's like here, I do you need Jason? And I'm like, yeah, the next time he came in, he gave it to me. And he was just like, I have a million people keep giving them to me.
00:39:20
Speaker
And I'm like, why? And I'm like, I know you're a big Friday 13th fan. And he's just like, it's the Jason I designed. And yeah, so wait a shit on my buddy. So wait, he designed the figure or he designed for the movie for the movie? Yeah. Man, I would have if he was at all involved in the in any other aspect of that story, I have so many questions for him. He worked on the original.
00:39:47
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The original Friday the 13th. Yeah, because that was when So that was there's like a whole lot going on with the Friday the 13th like rights issues and stuff like that, but that was That was the first one at New Line, which is why it's called Jason Goes to Hell not Friday the 13th part 9. Yeah but Sean Cunningham was the wrote and directed the original Friday the 13th and
00:40:15
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Um, or actually Victor Miller wrote it, but Sean Cunningham directed it. And, um, which is where the rights issues are living now. Um, but basically that was his first one where he got the rights from Paramount and was able to bring it to new line. Uh, yeah. Cause in that movie, there was that whole like loosely veiled attempt to connect evil dead.
00:40:41
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and Nightmare on Elm Street and, you know, because, like, the Necronomicon was in the movie for a hot second and Freddy's Glove at the end pulls the mask. Oh, yeah. Well, that was new line again. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That movie is a mess because the next movie was supposed to be Freddy versus Jason, which was eventually made. But and a good like was fun. It was fun. Yeah, it was fun. It was. But that's what you wanted. Yeah.
00:41:08
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But there have been, there is an incredible market for horror toys.
NECA Figures at Major Retailers
00:41:14
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Incredible. NECA is doing some of the coolest shit ever. I absolutely love the Pennywise figures that they've been putting out, the various faces. I have one at my desk at work, I have the one that has Georgie's severed arm, and he's got that grin.
00:41:34
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The the Jason's are all fantastic. Yeah, I who's the one that did the was it the GameStop exclusive one where it's the the NES Jason, but you open the box and the box is like one of those reading cards that plays the music from the game. So the original one was a San Diego Comic Con exclusive.
00:41:52
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and it got super expensive so they re-released one as a Toys R Us exclusive and that's the one that sang and it also came with the severed head of Jason's mother which is you can find in the game and then you get an item there too yeah but that you get the sweater and that's how you beat the game well you don't need it to beat the game but it makes it very very easy that game's insanely hard
00:42:17
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I love that game. Oh, it's so it's so much fun. That's one that's like actually fun to lose. Yeah. My buddy Carl. We tried to beat that game and all your friends are dead. Yes. We tried to beat that game so much at our like our darkest hour together in life. We're like so we would meet up and play it on the NES and our rule was we had to beat it.
00:42:40
Speaker
NES style. So, no internet. The only tips that we could get were from friends and be like, hey, your older brother played us yet? Or we should have done magazines, but... Yeah, you should have gotten the Nintendo... I think there was a Nintendo Power that had... It might have been a game pro. I don't remember.
00:42:55
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But that's why I have the Jason tattoo on my leg is in the NES colors. That's such that's such a cool. I have the eight bit pop of the NES colors. And I'm a very strongly hate Funko, but I do. Hot take. I do not like Funko. Hot take on this podcast. I.
00:43:20
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more power to them for everything they're doing.
Funko's Horror Pops
00:43:23
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So happy that they found success. The designers and stuff on it are awesome guys. They're like a lot of fans living their dream, but Funko itself, I mean, it's okay. It's fine. Not your thing. Not my thing. That's what I'm going to say.
00:43:40
Speaker
But yeah, speaking of Funkos though, they have made some awesome horror pops. I think that's probably one of their biggest... Yeah, there's that one Comic Con exclusive, Jason Unmasked, where it was like $1,000 now at this point. They actually, as of today, the 24th... I don't have it. They did like a throwback Thursday to some horror pops they put out. I think it was just Freddie and Jason.
00:44:10
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Yeah, they showed Freddy and Jason, but I think it was three different iterations of each, and they're all exclusives of some kind. Yeah, it was the regular Jason, the Roy, and the unmasked.
00:44:21
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and then the Freddy's world. I think it was an 8-bit, there was an 8-bit JSON in there too. Oh maybe, maybe it was the 8-bit JSON then. Because they did a, I think I have, so the normal original JSON. I have the NES JSON of the normal colors, the NES JSON of the NES colors, the NES DORB.
00:44:43
Speaker
of Jason, the normal dorb. Remember when they tried to make that happen? Yes. I have the mystery mini, every mystery mini Jason, including the eight bit of the NES colors, which was the chase, which was like such a low ratio. Yes. And it's incredible how it happened. I bought so much at the comic shop.
Super7's Nostalgic Horror Designs
00:45:01
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We were having a sale. There was the last one in the entire store and they were like, you kind of have to buy it. And that was the one like after forever as it goes. Yeah.
00:45:10
Speaker
And then also I have the Funko when they did the reaction figures, which thank God Super Seven took them back. That's kind of why I'm... Funko's, yeah, it's a whole story with Super Seven and them, but yeah, that I have the any New York Comic Con exclusive, NES Jason. Yeah, I wanted that one.
00:45:31
Speaker
So I am while we're talking about Super Seven and like that kind of reaction series, I don't know if you guys if you're following us on social media, which, by the way, plug AIC underscore podcast, follow us on Instagram and Twitter. We post all kinds of shit.
00:45:50
Speaker
throughout the week, you know, anything that we're finding. But you're one of two. What was that? You're on stuff. I see stuff first from AIC underscore pod. Damn Instagram. Damn straight. So one of my favorite follows on our account is killer bootlegs. And he recently came across this this mold for a from 1978.
00:46:13
Speaker
for the shape, Michael Myers. And it was in that like that four inch scale, like three and three quarter scale, you know, five points of articulation style figure of Michael Myers, the shape. Think like like a G.I. Joe. Yeah. And they're they're putting, you know, he's putting it out from from my from what I can tell, you know, he's going to do a production of them, you know, a small production. But he did a test print.
00:46:39
Speaker
Like he gave away like a test print with like a full test print like card and everything. You know, it was a raffle. So it was like a $10 entry. I 100% was like, take my money. I can't wait for him to put out that that actual figure. It's it's such a cool story that it never got made, you know, for obvious reasons. Like if you go to his account and you scroll back and you look at the actual post, I think we actually reposted that post so you could probably find it on ours too.
00:47:08
Speaker
But the alien figures, which Super Seven wound up making. Yep. Pretty much the story of reaction figures, too. They had they found the original sculpt or the original alien that they would not put out because they wouldn't put out toys for a rated R move. Yep. And that's the whole thing. They were like, you know, people don't you know, parents didn't want their kids to have. Well, they were ready to do it. That was. Yeah. RoboCop kind of broke that mold. Yeah. They didn't want to have an action figure of a guy that was running around slashing teenagers.
00:47:39
Speaker
But it's an awesome looking figure. I can't wait to see the final product. There was a Rambo cartoon. I had those. Yeah. I remember those. They had the like the big like human style almost like a box here in a way. Yeah. They weren't human style. They were more like the booby Japanese style in a way. Kind of. Yeah. I remember I do remember them though. They had some great accessories. They had like really great. Like I remember this big helicopter and there was the Jeep as well. Yep. Were they cool?
00:48:09
Speaker
Were they? I think they may have been Remco. Remco has some incredible things, including the Universal Monsters figures, which so good. Yeah. And speaking of which, we were during the first half of this podcast, we were watching the Creature from the Black Lagoon in the background, which I know is is one of also Dave's. Well, Migo did the Universal Monsters, too. They did. They did the big cloth figures. But the little three and three quarter figures were all the Remco boys.
00:48:39
Speaker
Well, they weren't three and three quarters. They were more like, I want to say the, the Rambo's were like six. Oh no. The Rambo's were big. Yeah, they were six inch scale. They did wrestling too, but like generic. Yeah, the AWA. No, they were AWA. They weren't generic. I have no idea. That's what they were. That's what they reminded me of. They were the same type of figures as those. Cause I remember you had a couple of those. Oh man. Yeah. They were Remco. Remco was Remco. I wish I had those AWA figures in good shape, but.
00:49:08
Speaker
I had Sean Michaels, let's just put it that way. If you look up on eBay how much Sean Michaels is in that individual series, played with that figure a lot. But also Dave, you have quite an affinity for all swamp type monster figures. I do. So Swamp Thing, Man Thing and Creature, right? Yes.
Creature from the Black Lagoon & Book Recommendation
00:49:37
Speaker
So I know you showed me a picture beforehand, but how did you how did you fall into the creature from the Black Lagoon? It's a long story. It was kind of the thing where the movie that I'd seen in the past and then found a new meaning for at like a darker time in my life and then just kind of like leaned into it real hard and started watching it a lot. It was kind of like the perfect movie to have in the background with like stuff going on, which is ironic that we did that now.
00:50:04
Speaker
Um, and also like just a creature that I always really appreciated. Uh, which if you're, if you're into, um, novels and feminism and history of the, of a film, check out, um, Lady from the Black Lagoon.
00:50:22
Speaker
which was written by Mallory O'Mara, which came out recently. And that's about the female that actually designed the creature from the Vodka Goon and how it was basically all the credit was taken from her. But it's a really interesting story about women in film, and especially like the horror genre back when, but
00:50:41
Speaker
Um, yeah, so it's just, it kind of grew from there, my love for the movie. And then the figures before were, there weren't too many. I mean, basically you had the Remco figures, you had the, um, like you're saying the Migos. Um, and then those two figures, universal monster figures really just
00:51:02
Speaker
in a way of like horror figure nostalgia just spanned into this crazy thing where that Migo style figure has been remade by so many different companies.
Remco's Universal Monsters Influence
00:51:12
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Like you can get the Migo figure from NECA, you can get it from I mean like a number of different people and then the Remco figure is basically just what Funko and Super 7 put out for the Universal Monsters and are continuing to do this new sculpts. And some of those Remco figures like I'm thinking like the AWA figures were in like human scale.
00:51:32
Speaker
But these were these were basically they looked just like they would fit right with your kenner star wars figures Yeah, yes rimco and they also came with uh, if you had those playsets they would have that it was like
00:51:46
Speaker
the same material they would use to make the carrying cases, not the Star Wars one, those are like hard plastic, but you know that like vinyl wrapped? Oh yeah, like the Hot Wheels cases. Yes, but they actually, Remco came out with a Universal Monsters like haunted house carrying case, and it was like a playset that you could use with them too, made out of that material. Oh no shit, so like if you popped it open, it was... Yeah, like trap doors and stuff.
00:52:13
Speaker
But yeah, and then even they did the glow-in-the-dark figures, which even if you go to Super 7 now, they have the Misfits fiends that I've been picking up and they did a Remco homage that's all glow-in-the-dark with that awesome card art that Remco had on those monsters. You have the big face, bright colors on a stark black contrast. Looks like an album cover is awesome.
00:52:34
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Yeah, Super 7 is doing really great work with all of those brands. Everything. From baseball, which we talked about on last episode, to all the horror stuff, to everything in between.
00:52:47
Speaker
And I think they have multiple, well, they have some sort of New Japan figures coming up. But if you're to believe rumor, it's going to be reaction style and then like Mattel elite style. Yeah. That'd be incredible. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. They've grown. It's just them and NECA. I mean, they've come from just like they're just fans like us. Yeah. Make what they want. And it's like that's why I think collecting toys is so exciting right now.
00:53:14
Speaker
I mean, like, I'm sure everyone has like their thing, right? Like the thing that you you enjoy collecting the most. So for me, you know, the Star Wars and the Marvel figures. But I actually spend more time in a store looking at the stuff that I don't buy. Yeah. And like admire like like I was I went I went to Target and I went over to like that area where they have the neckers and the pops like over by like the the DVDs and Blu-rays and video games.
00:53:44
Speaker
And I spent like a solid 20 minutes the other day just looking at the various like Jason's. Yeah, they had and the arm and I saw that posted the video one of my favorite movies, pseudo horror movies. It's now, you know, has new toys coming out that those Christmas gremlins. Oh, yeah. Like that is such a cool set with them with like the scarves and like it's just they're doing, you know, they're doing some really great work. And and they're not.
00:54:12
Speaker
secondary market, they're not like, if you wanted to jump in at any time, they're not the hardest.
Supporting NECA & Retail Challenges
00:54:20
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No, and they come across and they're finally, after years of partnering with Target, they're finally available on target.com, which is huge, like as of only a few weeks ago, better prices too. Yeah.
00:54:32
Speaker
The only thing is that if you can, this is not like a plug, but as a collector, if you need to buy neck of stuff, find the mom and pop comic shops, find the local places, because the markup sometimes, the price of getting them into a big box retailer from a smaller, uh, places is tough.
00:54:50
Speaker
Yeah. If you need to get them at Target, buy them there because, you know, you want to support so that they know, you know, people are buying so they can continue. But I mean, sometimes that that dairy exclusive GameStop, it figured the penny wise, the the retail for it was thirty five dollars. Yeah.
00:55:13
Speaker
And like 25 is the normal, has always been the normal NECA price, which is crazy that it was just 10 more dollars. And that's what all the prices are at GameStop for them. It's just, I mean, we don't think about like these little guys were like, oh yeah, of course I need to pay more money for it because this is the Darth Plagueis that came out in the Vintage series and it's this one and that's because it's Darth Plagueis. We don't think about that it's made out of like oil and...
00:55:38
Speaker
Like how much it cost for shipping and the big box and how many they had to buy to get that and like so Yeah, good point. Yeah, so before we before we wrap it up on on horror toys and and on Halloween I
00:55:55
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Put me on the spot and we'll
Favorite Horror Toys Discussion
00:55:57
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go down the line. I'll kick it off. Favorite horror toy ever. So it could be either a physical toy that you've owned. It could be like a horror toy in a movie. It could be, you know, any of those things. So I'll start my absolute favorite horror toy.
00:56:15
Speaker
ever is actually my my movie maniacs original Michael Myers. Like I just remember getting that that figure in the blister pack that it was in, seeing it on the on the wall. I think I probably got it at the time from like a Suncoast video or one of those places. But I remember that that toy was particularly awesome because that if you remember that those early movie maniacs toys
00:56:45
Speaker
there were some of the most lifelike and most realistic looking ones out there. One, two, they came with this awesome movie poster that was in this, it looked like it was made out of bone, the stand and everything with it. And sadly, I have my Michael Myers on display, but I couldn't tell you what happened to the pumpkin that he came with or that movie poster. But that's still, I love the way that that figure looks. Absolute favorite.
00:57:14
Speaker
Who's next? I always remember you had that Freddy Krueger like soft figure. Oh, that was like a bootleg Freddy Krueger with a broken arm. With the broken arm. Yeah, it was like a bootleg Freddy. I was actually going to say that was probably one of them because that was just so bizarre and so rare and so random. That thing's probably still in mom's basement somewhere. It's somewhere. Probably without the arm though.
00:57:43
Speaker
Um, I like, you know what? I liked what I thought were great and I have one of them and I think you were who got it for me. Um, at one point McFarland put out 3d movie posters. Yeah. Oh yeah. I did get that. And I have nightmare on Elm street.
00:58:02
Speaker
Because they were doing the album posters, too. I had the Master of Puppets Metallica album cover, and then they did the movie posters, too. And they had Alien with the light-up egg. Yes. And... Yeah, no, I definitely... I'm responsible for that. Friday the 13th, I think, was one of them, too. But Nightmare on Elm Street's cool. Rocky Horror. They had a bunch of them. Wasn't it the Friday the 13th Part 3? Because it was the knife coming through the shower. I think they had Part 1, as well.
00:58:32
Speaker
Bad part one, yeah. That's the one I remember. I got you the Nightmare on Elm Street one. 100%, that was me. I completely forgot about them. Also, Dave, what about you? So mine, I thought about, because I figured this question was coming.
00:58:46
Speaker
that and you had two answers to think through. Yeah, but I knew this was my answer, so I just needed to get the name of it. So this is a horror franchise, horror sci-fi, it danced around, but I was a huge fan of miniature figures, anything small that I can carry with me. So I'm going to have to go with Mighty Max Conquers, the Palace of Poison.
00:59:10
Speaker
Oh man, I loved my Mighty Max figures. I love Mighty Max. I actually started recollecting them over the past year and finding different ones. But if you think about it, Mighty Max was a small boy in a red hat who was put into these different horror tropes. First one, Skull Dungeon, where he is basically in a giant skull building with a Frankenstein and an evil doctor. My favorite was- Wasn't it like a red Frankenstein?
00:59:40
Speaker
this one was green green okay there were a bunch of different ones but this one which was my favorite was a snake and it opens up two ways and you basically are in the bottom of a pyramid with a giant scorpion and a mummy that comes out
00:59:56
Speaker
and there's like a catwalk and stuff, but they were just full playsets. I loved playsets. We don't get playsets as much anymore, and if we are getting them, it's a huge $600 deal for collectors. That's crowdfunded. Yeah, and I don't have the space for it.
01:00:12
Speaker
I was never a Masters of the Universe guy until recently watching Toys That Made Us and just kind of really getting invested in it. I had all of those. Yeah. Have you seen the Castle Greyskull that Super 7 did? It's pretty great. It's basically, it's pretty much, you know.
01:00:30
Speaker
It's pound for pound almost. Pound for pound almost the original. I have the original too. At home I was going to repaint it and basically add like boards over the windows and like tag it up and put make like fake like empty 40s at the bottom and make it like it's condemned.
01:00:47
Speaker
But like, I've just had it because I was going to like spray paint it, but the original paint job on those is just like everything was so good. I just have it up on a bookshelf. Yeah, but did you have skull or snake mountain with the microphone? No, I don't have that. It's great. I sold the sticker of the carpet, which is so good. But yeah, so I'd say it's it's my Mighty Max because it's.
01:01:14
Speaker
I mean, it's you as a 90s child put into a horror scenario that you can put in your pocket. I have not thought about Mighty Max in such a long time. Well, if you ever want to come over and play Mighty Max with me, you could be Virgil. He's the tiny owl. Happy Halloween, everybody. Happy Halloween. Bye. Happy Halloween.
01:01:33
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01:01:49
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