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Gotta Go Fast! 30 Years of Sonic the Hedgehog Feat. Craigsstuff
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TAKE THIS EGGMAN! With the release of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 in theaters and the subsequent 30th anniversary of the world's most famous animated hedgehog, Craigsstuff joins Dave and Erik to talk all things Sonic the Hedgehog.
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Managing Kids' Arts Supplies
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I've got kids at home, Dave. Yes, you do in fact have children. They love doing arts and crafts, but it's a pain by the time I go into seven different drawers for the supplies they need and get everything ready, the interest and their attention is gone. Well, that's a waste of time.
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Your coupon code will be activated at checkout. Now let's make art. 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.
00:01:26
Speaker
I'm Eric.
Podcast Introduction
00:01:27
Speaker
And I'm Dave. Welcome to Adventures in Collecting, where we talk toy news, culture, and halls. Along with our journeys as collectors. Hello, everybody, and welcome back to Adventures in Collecting. Hi. Dave, we're back. We're back. And we got to go fast. We do.
00:01:57
Speaker
It's late. Well, it's late, but it's also... But it's also early. We're gonna get... Now you have no idea when this happened. I'm so confused right now.
Sonic the Hedgehog 30th Anniversary
00:02:14
Speaker
I was thinking, Dave, that we have to go fast because we're gonna be talking about a particular little blue blur today.
00:02:31
Speaker
That's good green hill little green hole zone action. Yeah in case in case Dave song did not give it away That's right. We're gonna be talking about I guess you could say the most famous blue blur Sonic the Hedgehog we're headed into a
00:02:48
Speaker
I mean, we've extended the celebration of his 30th anniversary into 2022.
Sonic Memories and Mishaps
00:02:53
Speaker
There's lots of fun things happening, like a brand new movie that will be out by the time this podcast is out. And to be perfectly honest with you, Dave and I, we're big Sonic fans. We've been playing the games, going back to the Genesis and whatnot. But we couldn't talk about Sonic without inviting a friend of the pod and resident Sonic the Hedgehog expert.
00:03:17
Speaker
Uh, Craig of Craig stuff, Craig, Eric, not burying the lead running that lead through large hoops by pressing the down button only to get hit by a large, only to get hit by a little crab person and then losing all his rings only to get three of them back. But then tails comes by in a, in a biplane and picks me up.
Big the Cat and Sonic Characters
00:03:48
Speaker
And Craig is that is his tales in the biplane in this scenario. Craig, welcome back to it. I would have hoped that I was big the cat. Frog. I like big the cat. Hi, how are you guys? Yeah, I don't. Dave, do you know who big the cat is? Is that is that beyond your your realm of knowledge? I end with Sonic like three and Knuckles.
00:04:16
Speaker
Okay. Yeah. So you didn't, you didn't make it into the, the, the 3d, uh, like dream cast. I feel like I have, like, was, was there one on PlayStation two, uh, was the shadow game on place? Shadow game was on PlayStation
Shadow the Hedgehog: Expectations vs. Reality
00:04:34
Speaker
two. Yes. I think I have that and I don't think I ever opened it.
00:04:39
Speaker
Well, if you're looking to get rid of the copy, I'll take that off your hands. I was never in my life more excited for a video game than Shadow the Hedgehog. And then when it came out, I was very disappointed. Doesn't he have like, you like shoot guns in that game, right? You do shoot guns. And as a child, I was an edgelord, a big time edgelord.
00:05:03
Speaker
And like, like my favorite characters are Venom and Shadow. And if you're familiar with both of those characters, they're literally the same thing. Yeah. Evil Shadow or Evil Sonic, Evil Spider-Man.
Character Comparisons: Venom vs. Shadow
00:05:17
Speaker
Same exact character. They're black. They're black and white. Like, I mean, they're the same thing. And how do you get Shadow edgy or you give them guns? I feel like I got that on clearance.
00:05:31
Speaker
I had it a day one for GameCube. And I was like, Oh, this exists for this. Okay. It was like that era of what's on clearance at like whatever store. That's like a $10 game that I can get. Oh, cool. All right. I'll grab this.
00:05:54
Speaker
It's not a good game. Even as a kid, it wasn't a good game. And usually I'm more lenient about video games back when I was a kid, but I didn't like it then. Well, Sonic, and we'll get into it. We're going to cover our recent pickups like we usually do.
Sonic Adventure 2 Mechanics
00:06:12
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But the one thing that I like thinking about that era, when that game came out and that was on the heels of what Sonic Adventure 2, right? Yeah.
00:06:23
Speaker
you think about sonic and he's had these like he's always had these kind of like fun reinventions like that time period was like everyone had to go out and get soaps because sonic was like sonic and and they made it like part of the game mechanic like sonic and shadow were like grinding on their soaps on on rails as they were you know running down stuff and then like the snowboard and i was gonna say i wouldn't call i wouldn't call anything that any of the reinventing to sonic fun
00:06:53
Speaker
tiresome. I mean, it's I love Sonic Adventure 2. That's where that's that's where I actually fell in love with Sonic was Adventure 2. But.
Sonic Game Mechanics Discussion
00:07:05
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Is it is it that good of a it's it's a very broken game. I mean, if you if you try to play it now, it's doesn't work that well. And I had more patience back then, I think. I mean, that's that's the case for all those games, though.
00:07:21
Speaker
But yes, Dave, to answer your question, Sonic, like, wore branded soaps. Like, he was wearing soaps in the game. And that started with the first Sonic Adventure. Because there was like a new mechanic where you could jump and grind on rails with your soaps. Which is cool. That was, that was a fun mechanic. Are soaps the name of the sneaker? I'm not a shoe person. Yeah. They were a brand of sneaker that had this, um,
00:07:50
Speaker
like in the in the I guess what would it be the instep of your your foot these like metal plate you had these metal plates so that way in in real life like you could run up to you know a railing and and grind it and just like run up and jump on it and grind I was like I'll be honest like freestyle walking you know like
00:08:18
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I'm a little upset. I wasn't aware that it was you could do it in real life Cuz yeah, I might have done it Like do you remember Healy's like it was like of course. I remember Healy's. Yeah, so like he was the precursor to those Yeah, Healy seems too dangerous. I feel like I could land on top of a bar I would probably fall and break everything but I
00:08:41
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I think I would fall immediately with Heelys, whereas I would be able to run and jump and then fall once I hit the bar. But I feel like I'd be doing a little bit more with the soaps, as you will. Yeah. Isn't the mechanic of Heelys though, like if you walk in them, it doesn't activate the wheel. But if you like kind of go back on your heel, it activates the wheel.
00:09:11
Speaker
Yeah, from my understanding, like the reason why they're called Heelys is like you have, at any time I've seen anybody doing it, like their toes are pointed up in the air. So yeah, I believe, yeah, you have to, um, it's almost like, uh, like those motorcycles that have that extra, like, um, like the wheelie bar when like they lean back on that thing and like that extra wheel is kind of like hidden there. It's, it's almost, uh, it's almost like that.
00:09:42
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know. I feel like the fact that Craig, the fact that your take is that you're you'd be more worried about falling on Heelys than jumping up onto a rail like over stairs is safer. I don't know. I don't know how to process that because I'd much rather fall in my ass from ground level. I feel like I have a better chance of sticking the landing, though. I feel like I don't know. I don't know.
00:10:11
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Maybe you're right. No, it's definitely more dangerous. But I feel I feel more confident that I could maybe from playing so many sonic games. And I think like back in the day, too, they made like the red and white ones like they made like I could be wrong. This could be like a Mandela effect. I know he had soaps in the game, but I'm pretty sure that there was a cross brand like in real life where you could get sonic soaps. I think that was a thing.
00:10:39
Speaker
I could be looking this up right now, but I'm not. I am looking this up. I am. So while while you guys are looking that up, just a little bit of there's one piece item piece of housekeeping that I wanted to do before we jumped into our halls.
Golden Peely Figures Giveaway
00:10:57
Speaker
Right now, we have a super cool giveaway going on on Instagram. It's going through the giveaway ends on
00:11:08
Speaker
Uh, Friday, May 6th, I, the, the amazing folks at jazzwares hooked us up with, um, two of the, uh, what would have been New York toy fair, exclusive three inch, uh, micro legendary series, golden Peely figures. Um, they would have been exclusively given out at toy fair as toy fair did not happen. Um, they, they sent.
00:11:35
Speaker
the 250 that they made kind of like out into the world to, you know, various outlets. And we were fortunate enough to get a few. So we were giving two of them away on our Instagram. So if you if you're listening to this, and you are not yet following us on Instagram, you should do that. So at a need to because it's in the rules. Yeah, and get kicked out.
00:11:59
Speaker
At AIC underscore podcast on on Instagram There will be a highlight on our profile page that way you don't have to go and and dig to find the post But I'm definitely enter for that giveaway. These are this is like the first Like real super limited thing that we've had an opportunity to help out with so we're very excited They are really cool figures
00:12:22
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And, and yeah, like it's a, it's a piece of, uh, of, of toy fair history. So it's, it's a, it's a one of two 50. Um, yeah. So when this, this episode airs, the, the, uh, the, the giveaway will still be going again. That's that at AIC underscore podcast on Instagram. Look for that, that giveaway highlight there on the profile page and, uh, and enter to win a super cool golden Peely. The full rules are on.
00:12:49
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the post, but you do have to be following us. Yes. Let's be honest, there's nothing cooler than a golden banana. Not only is it a golden banana, but it's a golden banana that has the Toy Fair logo on his butt. Oh my god. Wow. It's pretty cool. I'm looking at one right now, actually. I think this was before they even had the blisters ready, because it's literally in a poly bag with the card in it.
00:13:18
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Yeah, really, really cool golden, really cool golden banana.
Recent Toy Pickups
00:13:24
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So, go get yourself a chance to win a golden banana. With that, let's head into our pickups. Who would like to go first? Just top line it. So, some of the recent things that you've picked up that you're digging at the moment.
00:13:47
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Literally just came in the mail today, the new Captain America Marvel Legends, the retro carded 20th anniversary one. The 20th anniversary one. I haven't opened it yet. It literally just came in the mail. But I'm very backlogged on figures to open anyway.
00:14:08
Speaker
I'm excited about that one. I think the shield effects look really cool. The packaging on these are gorgeous, by the way. They're really cool because now I have all three of them. I got Hulk a couple of days ago and then Iron Man I think last week came in the mail. Man, they're nice. I love how they're using the Paul Harding Marvel in the 70s head sculpts. He did this fun little digital series of
00:14:38
Speaker
Marvel characters in like 70s aesthetic and the head sculpt on the newest doc strange one of the heads or one of the head sculpts on the newest doc strange the Tony Stark the Hulk they're all from that that series that that he did and you know and you know he worked on the scope for the legend see him so it's it's cool to kind of see them in that those kind of like
00:15:06
Speaker
come to life, if you will. So that's why these figures, these three figures are fantastic is what you're saying? Yes. Because they look like the classic versions of the characters. It looks so classic that it's like, that's, that's what makes them look so good, especially that's the strange. I mean, that's my favorite figure, Legends figure this year. Easy. Yeah, I normally don't don't get the comic figures, but I had to pick that one up because it was so good.
00:15:35
Speaker
What about you guys?
Toy Customization Tips
00:15:37
Speaker
Um, so, you know, I wanted to take the opportunity. I started to dip my toes a little bit into some, some customization. Um, so I picked up the, uh, the three jokers Batman, uh, along with the three jokers criminal and three jokers clown, um, variants of the joker and
00:16:04
Speaker
This started with Batman. There's there's a there's a great creator on Instagram. I'm going to pull up his name because I don't want to screw it up. It is o dot g dot underscore trilogy. I believe he's from the south. I want to say he's in maybe like Missouri in that that region. And he does these really great
00:16:33
Speaker
of like Instagram post reviews where a lot of times he's taking a stock figure and making just kind of a lot of times subtle changes like like he'll take a McFarland figure and he'll repaint the eyes so they're not looking off to the side um you know he'll make these kind of like little you know subtle paint hits to figures of things that were like missing right um
00:16:55
Speaker
But I saw that he had taken the drifter, it was a post about the drifter Bruce Wayne from the new, the Batman series. And he turned, somehow managed to turn this figure into Bob from the 89 Batman film. And I was blown away. And in that picture, he had the three jokers Batman.
00:17:19
Speaker
Painted like an 89 Batman and and if you don't know what this three jokers Batman figure looks like He has the classic yellow and black if you were familiar with you know the 89 the the 89 Batman suit he has that that kind of emblem on his chest, but he is in the gray and black kind of like comic book look but Looking at that figure and looking at him painted. I just kind of realized how like
00:17:49
Speaker
It's a really good sculpt and like a really good base to make like kind of like an iconic Batman figure. So I figured, you know, I've seen enough videos and stuff online of people customizing things. So I'd give it a, I'd give it a shot. And, uh, I picked up that Batman. I picked up a, uh, a, uh, uh, a faux leather wired Cape from eBay from, uh, Oh, Oh gee. It's like, Oh.
00:18:17
Speaker
dot g dot underscore trilogy. Picked up a cape from eBay and and went to town on this Batman figure. So I took them all, I, you know, boil them, pop them all apart. I painted the trunks black because the trunks were actually gray. I gave him upper thigh cuts. I watched a bunch of YouTube videos to figure out how to do that, which was actually it was terrifying, you know, because you're heating up a figure and then
00:18:47
Speaker
cutting the leg into two different pieces, so that was terrifying until I didn't realize how easy it was. Heated up the cape, got the cape off, put the cloth cape on, and was really, really happy with the outcome. I think it's an awesome Batman figure. It's something completely out of the norm for me, because I'm pretty much like
00:19:09
Speaker
I'm stock. I'll do some kit bashing here and there. I'll give a figure somebody else's head or give an existing body a different head to update the look. But I've never taken a figure apart to this extent and worked on it and painted it. So once I had this Batman done, I needed a Joker to go with it. And I really love the comic book cover versions of the Golden Age Joker. So purple suit.
00:19:38
Speaker
green shirt, black bolo tie thing. And I was looking and I saw that they had the three jokers, clown and criminal jokers. And the criminal has the suit on, but kind of doesn't have the zany face. He has more of a stoic look. But then the clown joker has the green shirt and the crazy face. So what I ended up doing was it ended up being
00:20:07
Speaker
pretty much a straight kit bash where I took them apart, gave the criminal, the clowns, green shirt and head, and then I added a little bit of black paint in some areas where I just needed to fill some things in. I ended up having this really cool Golden Age Joker to go with Batman. So now the only thing I really would like for him, I would love to do a soft goods wired trench coat, but I can't find a purple
00:20:33
Speaker
soft goods wired trench coat for this scale. Anything I seem to find is for like a Mezco Joker, which is substantially smaller than this. So I know the trench coat is going to look ridiculous, but if you hear this and you know anywhere to get a wired purple trench coat for a McFarland figure, please let me know because
00:20:54
Speaker
I would love to add it to the collection. Yeah, and we posted pictures of these customs on our feed. So take a look and let us know what you think. But that's what I've been kind of taking up the time with lately. I feel like there have been just boxes every day. That's how I feel. Because every pre-order is just shipping now.
Wrestling and Exclusive Figures
00:21:22
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
00:21:25
Speaker
So like the Exploding Barbed Wire, AEW Blood and Guts came. There was a whole bunch of stuff in a picture from WrestleMania Weekend. Like a lot of the GameStop WWE pops came from this past series or this current series. Walmart Alexa Bliss showed up.
00:21:56
Speaker
The three major pod Remco figures that I ordered showed up. Just a whole bunch of stuff like I could name things all day. But one that that came most recently. Was the. Well, actually, I got my Disney Parks exclusive 50th anniversary castle, which is cool. That the Lego. No, that's the Funko. Oh, OK.
00:22:25
Speaker
It's the, uh, it has a gold and silver Mickey, um, to signify that it's the park exclusive one. And then, uh, I want the Lego set of that, the, the, the, the castle. Oh, it's, it's an awesome Lego set. I've been like, I tried, I tried to stay away from Legos, but yeah, I do really want that set. Didn't they just put out a smaller version? Yes, there is a smaller version. I go big or go home. That's, that's.
00:22:53
Speaker
Yeah, because you get more characters with it. It's worth just getting the big one. I've seen where you display, though, Craig. Where the hell are you going to put that full-sized castle? I don't know where I put everything. The dream, you know, I don't know. Yeah, I know that feeling. I'll figure it out one day. You have to take over the basement where the drum set is. I just have to move out. That's what I have to do.
00:23:26
Speaker
But anyway, I got a WWE Hollywood, Walmart exclusive. They live. Roddy Piper finally came. I'm so jealous. My my preorder from July is still sitting there is delayed. How I mean, I was going to say how I guess, well, the one that NECA did is a cloth one, right? Yeah, this has this has a soft good shirt.
00:23:49
Speaker
And it's a the NECA one that they did is technically an eight inch figure. Okay, gotcha. Yeah, this is normal WWE elite scale. Yes, like NECA has that like the the Elvira that they just put out is is in the eight inch scale. Yeah. I mean, it's wild that they made this, to be honest.
00:24:13
Speaker
I think it's so cool that they're doing. Yeah, I love it. I think it's so funny, especially the like the doing the Scorpion King rock and like, yeah, that's the other one that I really want. And I'm I ordered the Andre the Roman Reigns from from Hobbs and Shaw. He he I don't even I didn't even know his character had a name. He was just there. He did a spear spear with the rock. And then like.
00:24:40
Speaker
It's just funny. Honestly, I kind of want that figure for the head sculpt because it's got that that that like Roman Reigns grin. Like I know, like, obviously he's a good guy in that film, but he's still like in the ring. Does that. Like, does that smile? And I think it would be great. Like, I know people are going to do the head swap, but if if if that one
00:25:06
Speaker
warms pegs and heads into clearance territory. I might, I might pick it up for just for the head sculpt on it. Cause yeah, like, I mean, he, Roman Reigns is, he's like the best, best thing going pretty much in wrestling right now. And the more heads and expressions that I can have on that figure of his, uh, so I may get that for, for the man bun and the grin.
00:25:32
Speaker
I just really hope that that line gets deep enough that we get a deluxe scorpion king rock with the scorpion body and bad CGI.
Movie Figures and Collectibles
00:25:48
Speaker
I have good news. It's done after the second series. Yeah, I was going to say that it was a two and done. Yeah, that's too bad. As we could have had a really cool figure that like the face looked really like they painted it so so it looked like bad CGI. It would have been really cool. That'd be amazing. Like like one like the like Jasper is making the master chief that looks like he's pixelated. Exactly. Yeah. So I'm sure they could figure it out.
00:26:16
Speaker
Yeah, that would be. I think we talked about the Hollywood's way back when when Steve was on. Yeah. And I mean, the whole like he said, the whole impetus for that line was to get that Piper figure made. And because that was like kind of the pitch prototype. I mean, they could have just done that. Yeah. Well, that and the Scorpion King and it would have been. I mean, the the the the scene is good. It's just.
00:26:46
Speaker
What's the other with the rock? The rock. Yeah. First one. Yeah. It's Hobbs. Yeah. I mean, it's again, it's one of those things where like the one I wish it was fast five Hobbs, though, to be honest. Oh, like with the goatee and the. Yeah. I mean. Yeah, there actually isn't a modern rock figure with a with a goatee, isn't there? There hasn't been one.
00:27:14
Speaker
I was gonna say you could always head-swap him, but... Nah. Well, it's a completely different outfit, too. He's in the tactical gear in Fast Five. Oh, yeah, it's true. Yeah. Well, if, again, you could technically make that figure if you get, like, a shield Seth Rollins, or shield Roman Reigns. Start, start, uh, start kitbashing things. I don't want it that expensively bad.
00:27:44
Speaker
But yeah, they, uh, you know, unfortunately with, and this is the thing that we brought up with that, that Hollywood elites line, like the ones that people would really want to see come out of it. Aren't part of that studio. So like, you can't get like suburban commando.
00:28:01
Speaker
Hulk Hogan. You can't get Zeus. What about like the marine one, two, three, four, five, and maybe six? Did they have six of those? Seven? They did have six, I think. Well, it would start off as Cena and then it would be the Miz, right? And the Miz take over. Randy Orton, I think, was in one. And then was it Ted D.B. Asi Jr.? Yeah, Ted D.B. Asi Jr. was in one. I'd want a Sino Evil Kane. Yeah, that would roll.
00:28:29
Speaker
I want Mayor Kane. Um, you know, I think they did a corporate Kane basic. Yeah, that's really all you would need, which is pretty much what, what, what you would, what you'd be looking at. I want it, but I'd keep it in package and I want it to say like mayor of wherever he's the mayor of. It's like may and Tennessee mayor of Tennessee. So yeah.
00:28:55
Speaker
Glenn, Glenn, uh, what's his last name? Jacob's right here. Glenn. Jacob's mayor mayor. Glenn Jacobs. I liked that. Undertaker made that joke during the, during this hall of fame. Uh, acceptance was like Kane. Oh wait. No, he wants me to call him. Mr. Mayor. I thought that was funny. That was, that was good on him. Um, yeah. I'm trying to think if there was anything else that I wanted to, oh, there was one, there was one other thing
Super 7 and Disney Figures
00:29:22
Speaker
I wanted to shout out. So, um,
00:29:25
Speaker
I picked up another Super 7 Ultimates figure. So I picked up Ultimate Conan, the Barbarian. I got the War Paint one. So our friend of the pod Kyle over at Super 7 actually worked on that figure and I had no idea before I bought it. So I saw Toy Bro's review of it, Jared over at Toy Bro.
00:29:51
Speaker
it just it looked fantastic and honestly like I love that movie and I when I think of that movie I think of him in the war paint like that's just my favorite look of his from the various you know outfits that he wears across the film um but there were like some issues with the first two so like they're weird like the likeness wasn't great it looked like a little too shiny there was some
00:30:14
Speaker
issues with like the plastic being different colors, you know, even like in the torso, like the torso has that ab crunch. So in some of them, like, I want to say it was like the, the iconic pose version of the figure had like two different color plastics. It just like none of them looked great. And then when I saw the pictures of this one, I was like, Oh, it looks like they, you know, they kind of like revamped the entire thing. And it turns out that they did because Kyle redid Arnold's likeness and
00:30:42
Speaker
you know, redid the deco and the sculpt and everything from, from toes up on, uh, on this new war paint edition. And it looks fantastic. Um, to the point where like, I'm already saying for my, my list, like for, for the first half of the year, it's easy top 10 candidate. Um, absolutely fantastic figure. If you, if you see it in stock, um, I think it goes for like 45.
00:31:09
Speaker
I got it at Entertainment Earth when they were doing that 10% off of in stock orders over 25 or whatever it was. Definitely worth the full price on it. If you see that and you're looking for a Conan for your collection, it's an easy get. Yeah, I got a Super 7 Ultimate recently that's in the top 10 as well. Sorcerer's Apprentice, Mickey from Fantasia.
00:31:38
Speaker
I saw you got that. I'm waiting on mine. I'm very excited for it. It's really cool. I have the Nendoroid, so I was like, do I really need the Super 7 one? Then they had posted updated images of them. Originally, I thought it looked weak, but then they posted actual production shots and not the
00:32:03
Speaker
I guess the 3D renderings and the production shots look so much better. So I was like, OK, well, I think I'm going to get it. And then, you know, I placed an order through the shop and then, you know, it's coming at some point. I don't know what. Well, looks like they did a really good job with the soft goods on that. And that's what you really needed to like. You need the sleeves to sit the right way. You need the hands. Yeah. Yeah. Couple of heads comes with the broom.
00:32:33
Speaker
fold in the bucket like there's a little I think it's like a heavy box so it almost feels like there's a stand or something in there I mean they are hefty figures like just in general like well but it's remember it's in scale the ultimates are all in scale oh so Mickey is he's significantly shorter Mickey is Mickey size yeah oh man so that means Pinocchio must be really small right cuz he would imagine he'll be bigger than Mickey
00:33:05
Speaker
Yeah, actually, yeah, if they're if they're in scale with each other. Yeah, I'm trying to think now. That's interesting. I didn't close close. I didn't realize they were doing. Well, I guess it makes sense. That all the Disney characters would be in scale with each other. Yeah. Well, all the Ultimates are in scale with each other. Oh, like across, you're saying across the board. So so they're OK. I don't know how true that is, though, is like. I mean, you put like Michelangelo next to like
00:33:35
Speaker
Conan I feel like they're probably the same height in the figure form right and And you would think the turtles are supposed to be Teenagers and they're also shorter usually right aren't they usually shorter than like April guys I thought they were no I thought they were no in the cartoon well See, that's the thing. It's weird with that because They're they're based on the toys. Yeah, like they're turtles and
00:34:04
Speaker
I would say the turtles are probably their own thing, because they're really kind of based off of what Playmates was doing. And in those, April is smaller than the turtles. But there are other ultimates. So the only other ultimates I have of theirs, I have the Mac Cardona and Brian Myers ultimates, the wrestling ones. And Conan is in scale with them.
00:34:33
Speaker
I think they all, if I remember hearing correctly, technically are in scale with each other. So it also means that you can use Conan and your fig feds. If you're, if you have a wrestling figure fed, which I mean, Drew McIntyre brings the sword to the ring. So I can't Conan. I was like, what the heck is a fig fed?
00:35:05
Speaker
I'm sorry.
Collecting Wrestling Figures
00:35:07
Speaker
I'm not, I'm not up on the wrestling action figure lingo. Listen, you can, you can have a fig fed for anything kind of a Marvel legends, fig fed. You can, you, you can have, you can have a mythic legions, fig fed Craig. You could, you could do it. I should get, I should just get a ring. Just buy, I gotta buy a ring. That's how it starts. Yeah.
00:35:32
Speaker
I won't buy any wrestlers but I used to actually when I when I was working with Toys R Us I was because you know, of course, you know, I like wrestling I mean I haven't been watching it recent more recently last couple of years I still keep up with it just kind of what's going on, but I was so I was buying wrestling figures at one point and then I was like I gotta stop Basically when the shield was huge is when I was buying wrestling figures Yeah, I
00:36:02
Speaker
This is this is a whole other can of worms, but like I I need to I need to reestablish where my guardrails are with wrestling figures because it's getting a little. It's getting a little. It'll do that. It's getting a little hairy over here. I'm driving on both sides of the road. I've I've driven off the cliff back up it. I'm I'm I'm I'm in like outer space at this point. I don't even know what's going on. You know, I'm I'm I'm pretty good.
00:36:32
Speaker
I'm pretty good everywhere else, pretty good everywhere else. But for some reason, I just, I cannot, I cannot stick to my guns with, with the wrestling figures because I'm watching so much of it, especially now with my daughter that like stuff will happen on TV. And, and honestly, like what it boils down to boils down to for me is like my version of playing with them is, is shooting them and like,
00:37:01
Speaker
There's stuff that's happening on TV, and I'm like, I really need a Finn Balor. I'm like, I really need a ricochet. And then I find myself scrolling through Mercari, looking for Lucy's. And I'm messaging people, could you send better pictures of their head and back? Because I want to see how many nicks I'm going to have to take off with acetone.
00:37:28
Speaker
Yeah, it's but it's it's it's bad. Like it's it's getting. I wouldn't say it's bad. It's it's getting. It's getting hairy, though. I need to. Yeah, I need to reestablish some rules. I just get whoever. I think I've kind of said, like, all right, it's got to be like a gimmick change or something. Different. Except for the AEW is where I have like every retail non chase so far. Yeah. Yeah. Wrestling figures. It's tough.
00:37:57
Speaker
It was really easy for me to establish guardrails with, with like McFarlane and NECA even as much as NECA does and GI Joe and, and, you know, Star Wars figures. But like, I'm having, I'm struggling to find restraint with, uh, with wrestling figures. I'm really struggling between AEW and WWE. And now a word from our sponsors. And now back to the show.
00:38:25
Speaker
Speaking of GI Joe, are those Super 7, um, reaction, like, I'm a computer? That's real, right?
GI Joe and Internet Meme Figures
00:38:35
Speaker
Those are real, yeah. Oh yeah, alright, I need to get that then. That stuff went over my head completely. You guys sent me the videos and I watched it and I was like, okay. It did nothing for me.
00:38:52
Speaker
The only the only one of those I would have gotten but they didn't do it because they would have had to put profanity on the On the packaging was if they did a pork chop sandwiches one That would have been an instant Instant purchase, but they were not putting an f-bomb on the on the package So yeah, yeah, those are 100% real um
00:39:16
Speaker
like classic, like early internet meme culture videos. It's like way early. It's like the first meme. Um, yeah, brilliant. And that's the kind of stuff like that, that super seven should be doing with, with the license, like that really like leaning into
00:39:35
Speaker
the kind of internet culture end of things and like really leaning into the Sunbo, a real American hero stuff, which is, which is what they're doing. And those figures, regardless of how you feel about the price point for a, you know, three and three quarter inch, you know, five POA kind of style figure. Um, cause then they come in at like about 20 bucks now a piece. Um, the colors pop on them. Yeah, but you're also not taking those off the card, like,
00:40:05
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, there are some people that are. I've already seen like army builder pictures of, you know, like Cobra Troopers and stuff. So like, why the meme ones? Yeah, the meme ones. Yeah. Because the whole point is the card. Yeah. Yeah. Um, anything else before we we move on?
Hot Toys Venom Unboxing
00:40:28
Speaker
No, I mean, real quick, I got the I got the hot toys venom.
00:40:33
Speaker
Which, oh, I, yeah, I started, I started watching your unboxing of that. I did, I did do try to, or I did a live stream on Instagram for my unboxing of that. It's cool. Great packaging. Yeah. I was just freaking falling apart. This is hot toys. Why is the package falling apart? It's a good thing. I opened the thing.
00:41:01
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, but the figure looks great. It does. It does look great. And and I still like the design of Venom from the movie, despite how much I hate the movie. So I had to get it. Not getting car. They did. I'm drawing my line. My guardrail is up. I'm surprised. I'm surprised. I mean, the carnage design was great, though. Yeah, but it's like five hundred dollars. I'm like, all right. Oh, my God. I'm OK. You know.
00:41:32
Speaker
I mean, that's one thing that like, spoiler alert, I still can't believe they killed Carnage. Yeah, that's why somebody doesn't have a clue what's going on over there. And I mean, I'm already aware of what happened in Morbius, so I'm not.
Sony's Spider-Man Villains Strategy
00:41:47
Speaker
I didn't see it and I don't plan to. Oh, that's when I'll wait for when it comes out on.
00:41:55
Speaker
you know, on home release, I don't need to go to a theater to see that. Yeah, exactly. As soon as they cast Woody Harrelson as, which I will say like,
00:42:05
Speaker
He was great as Cletus Cassidy, like he is a good Cletus Cassidy, but you don't cast an actor like that in a role like that with longevity in mind. So like, as soon as I saw that they had casted, you know, and he like shows up at the end of the first Venom, I was like, great. They're going to kill a villain that like major Spider-Man Venom villain. After one movie, there's no shot. He makes it out of Venom two alive.
00:42:31
Speaker
Yeah, because you'd want someone who's younger to play the role. Yeah, and not as expensive. You're already running up the budget with literally everyone else in that movie. And there's no shot. You're getting Woody Harrelson to be Cletus Cassidy for even a trilogy's worth of movies, let alone
00:42:52
Speaker
You know, but that isn't how you use Carnage anyway. Carnage's whole deal in Spider-Man was that he was too strong for Spider-Man to take on alone. Yeah. So like Venom beat him by himself. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, that movie was dumb. And I you know, I honestly like truthfully, I enjoy the Tom Hardy Venom. Like I could.
00:43:22
Speaker
As much as I loved No Way Home, I was truly bummed at the realization of, like, we're never gonna see that, like, Tom Hardy venom in MCU. Like, they left a way to get venom into the MCU, which, fine. Someone else will play him. But I am bummed because I know
00:43:47
Speaker
You have your thoughts about him in terms of like his goofy factor. But I think he plays really well. And like I can watch Tom Hardy act with Tom Hardy all day. I can look I can look past that if the movie itself is is good. And that that's the thing. It wasn't because I laughed at a couple of moments. I'm not going to lie. I you know, I agree. And I actually like Tom Hardy. It's fine is that he brought, you know, but.
00:44:15
Speaker
It's just the movie itself, which is not good. There was no plot. Nothing happened. Especially the second one. Especially, yes. The only reason I even enjoyed the second one more is because Carnage was in it. Yeah. So he was a quote-unquote more memorable villain than Riot, but that's only because Carnage is a name. Mm-hmm.
00:44:41
Speaker
If it was riot, if he was gray instead of red, it would have been just as, you know, it would have been worse, basically. Yeah, it's a hot mess. It's a shame, but like, you know, it's one of those things where I don't see a way where Sony sells the Spider-Man rights back to Disney. Like, I just, I don't see it because even as bad as they're saying this Morbius movie is,
00:45:11
Speaker
It's still made a ton of money. So, yeah, what are you gonna do? We have to suffer through the forced multiverse. In live action Spider-Man.
00:45:28
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Speaking of live-action adaptations of very famous characters, as mentioned at the top of the show, we're going to talk a little bit about Sonic the Hedgehog.
New Sonic Movie and Franchise Impact
00:45:47
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00:46:04
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00:46:30
Speaker
the world of gaming and toys and television and now movies. And he's kind of always been... toyetic. Like, there's always been a lot toyetic about, I think, at least about Sonic and the world that he's in. Sonic's a merch machine. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I mean, he's a blue hedgehog. That's like instant, like a Prince of Plushes, just
00:46:58
Speaker
get all the plush Sonic toys you can out there. But I feel like it was a little while before we got like actual like toy toys of Sonic. Yeah, I mean, there was plush back in the day and you know, I'm sure there were figurines and you know, you could get the toothbrushes and the Pez dispensers and all that other stuff for forever. But yeah, probably. It wasn't until like. Maybe like the
00:47:28
Speaker
like 2000 I don't know so I want to say like seven ish where we really got like oh adventure adventure I guess had had like some some toys I guess you can call them action figures but a lot of them were like bendy figures yeah so after that um
00:47:44
Speaker
The first thing that comes to my mind from that same time period was when the Sonic Adventure game, like you had mentioned, that was the new game that was out. The first real toy experience that I had with Sonic the Hedgehog was those VMUs and the Tamagotchi-esque Chao Garden game that you could play on the VMU.
00:48:11
Speaker
Unfortunately, I did have a Dreamcast growing up, but obviously I was very familiar with that. For me, actually, because I loved the Chao Garden.
Sega Games and Sonic 3D Challenges
00:48:24
Speaker
I was obsessed with that in Adventure 2, but they eventually made a version of something like that similar for the Game Boy, actually, where you could take your Chao and put it in, I think it was Sonic Advance.
00:48:40
Speaker
Yeah, it was I was going to say it was the Game Boy Advance because you use the same the connector to the GameCube. Yeah. So that that was my similar thing. But yeah, you know, that was. But yeah, it's hard to go back to the VMU. No, it's it's funny because I actually didn't have we didn't have a Dreamcast either. But I had one. Oh, excuse me. Well, no, you'll believe that. Yeah, you can believe it.
00:49:10
Speaker
Um, past guest and, uh, and, and one of our very good friends, Heather's boyfriend. Um, yeah, he, he had a dream cast and I spent so much time at his house that I actually had my own VMU that I would just bring over to his house. Uh, from when we played any kind of dream cast games, uh, ready to rumble Sonic, anything. But, uh, yeah, we had the child garden and I remember carrying that dumb little memory card around with me and it had the little, uh,
00:49:40
Speaker
little black and white screen and I had my little chow on there. Yeah, I remember Heather's boyfriend and you being like you were like you had the genesis and then like he had. The subsequent systems, if that makes sense. Yep, yep. It's so weird is like I actually did not have. Any of the main. Sega consoles growing up.
00:50:10
Speaker
which is so weird because I'm such a big Sonic fan. I had a game gear. That was what that was. That was my Sega console. So I had Sonic and Sonic two, I guess, on the game gear, which were different versions of the games, though. Yeah, yeah, that's pretty different. That's very, very much. But my cousins had I don't know if I've ever told you about my cousins and Sonic. Eric, I don't know if I mentioned it to you.
00:50:35
Speaker
No, so I used to go to my cousin's house, you know, for whatever reason holidays and just go in there. My cousins had all the at all the systems because though their uncle. So other side of the family not not related to me is one of the two guys who actually started Sega.
00:50:55
Speaker
Oh, his name is, uh, so your, so their uncle actually worked for Nintendo, but Sega, like the, the, like my uncle works for Nintendo. Like they actually had works was started. He was literally, it was, his name is David, David Rosen. You can look it up. Him and this, uh, a Japanese man, uh, cause he ended up moving to Japan and they started the company. Uh, although he was more or less out of it, I think by the time
00:51:24
Speaker
that stuff rolled around, like the Sonic and the, I think he was still part of the company, but I don't think he was making like decisions anymore. I think he was more, he may have just been like collecting a paycheck at that point. Um, although I've never met him, so I don't know any of this, if that is true. Uh, but I'm pretty sure, cause I know he's not with part of the company at this point anymore. Uh,
00:51:50
Speaker
But they had everything. So going to their house, they had, you know, we used to play the Genesis a lot and eventually the Dreamcast. I feel like they had a Saturn, they had like all that other stuff, but I feel like we didn't really play it that much just because I think I was so into like Sonic Spinball and Sonic and Knuckles. And then on the Dreamcast, we used to play like Power Stone and
00:52:18
Speaker
Power so good. That kind of stuff. Michael Jackson Moonwalker on the Genesis. So we had we had the Sega Genesis and then I eventually I had the 32 X, which. Later on in life, thank goodness I had that 32 X that we got that on clearance. Led me to one of the. Well, I think I've talked about it on the show before, but a story for another time. But yeah, like the the
00:52:48
Speaker
We used to borrow games from our cousin all the time. And he had, Dave, he had a Sega CD? Right? Yeah. Sega Saturn? Yeah, he had one of the other ones. No, CD. One of the other, it was the CD. And I remember playing that god-awful 3D Sonic game. 3D Blast? Is that the one? Yeah. Oof. I've played it on the, like, it's one of the collections. I know I played it. It's so bad. I mean,
00:53:18
Speaker
like pushing the envelope at the time because like 3d platforming was not a thing um but like yeah unplayably bad even then i can't imagine trying to play that now all i remember was it had really cool like uh cutscenes because they were they were animated or no that was
00:53:37
Speaker
Sonic Sonic CD. You think of Sonic CD? Sonic CD. Sonic CD is the one with that had the opening get cut. See the Sonic Boom song. Sonic Sonic CD rules. It's a regular Sonic CD is really good. Yeah. Yeah. Is 3D Blast is the it's also the first appearance of Amy and I believe Metal Sonic. Yeah, those animatics are still awesome. They're like the cartoon that. Oh, yeah. So cool. Very, very well done.
00:54:08
Speaker
But, uh, but yeah, like, so, so yeah, that was my earliest touch point with, I mean, other than having Sonic on the Genesis, like in terms of, of kind of really experiencing like a toy version of Sonic was the, the, uh, the Tamagotchi esque VMU.
Collecting Sonic and Mario Figures
00:54:26
Speaker
And then I think around that time.
00:54:30
Speaker
to your point was when we started to get real action figures. And prior to the now, you know, Jax having them, it was jazzwares. Yeah, it was jazzwares. Yes, that's actually it was actually jazzwares Sonic was the first was really I would say my first like collecting like really collecting toys was was jazzwares Sonic. Which because that came out around the 20th anniversary for Sonic.
00:54:59
Speaker
was when jazzwares had the license. So I got really into the 20th anniversary line when that was coming out and I was collecting it kind of going forward. And I had almost like a ton of them up until a couple, like right around COVID, where I started, you know, I was like, some of these are really expensive and I was out of work. So I was like, well, let me sell a few of these figures because not only do I have time because I'm not doing anything,
00:55:28
Speaker
they're also they're really expensive. So I was just like, let me just like dump some of my the at least the boxed ones I had a bunch out of inbox, which I kind of regret now because they've gone up even more. Now, now those figures were they mostly where they kind of
00:55:46
Speaker
Because honestly, I don't remember. I was not paying attention to them at that time, to be perfectly honest with you. Were they kind of the same way that Jax is dealing with it? Were there a combination of classic Sonic and more modern Sonic? Yes, and modern. Were you getting Sonic with the neckerchief? Well, that was the Sonic boom once, which was from that TV show.
00:56:14
Speaker
Which I actually did not collect any of those I was kind of done with it by then Because they had come out with pretty much everybody so I had pretty much every figure every at least every character At least that they had come out with the only one I don't have anymore is blaze blaze the cat from sonic rush Which I did have but I had kept it in box and it was selling for too much I couldn't I couldn't warrant opening the thing
00:56:45
Speaker
Have they ever made any of the characters from Knuckles Chaotix? Yes, I have all I do still have all three of them. Actually, they're the jazzwares version. It was a three pack and it came with Vector Charmy and Espio and Espio is coming out. They just announced Jax is doing an Espio. Oh, awesome. Oh, actually, yeah, I saw that at WonderCon, right? They announced a four inch one, which I'm very excited for.
00:57:10
Speaker
because I still have all my loose jazzwares ones. Um, but I really, really like the Jax, uh, orange cause they're, they are a little, they're bigger. And I think Jax is doing a better job. I mean, obviously with time, obviously products get better and better too. So, you know, yeah, I think it's, I think it's wild that.
00:57:31
Speaker
You know, like, again, going back to kind of the earliest memories of Sonic, it was always like, you know, Sega does what Nintendon't, right? And like Sonic and Mario have forever been, uh, you know, enemies until they, you know, started doing the Olympic games, games together and started making like, you know, kind of like,
00:57:52
Speaker
you know, Sega stopped producing hardware and only produce software. So Sega stuff started showing up on Nintendo. And now the same toy company produces Nintendo produces Mario and Sonic figures. So like it's. It's just want to say I am a at least a one time gold medalist. My friends and I, we played every we would play every year Mario and Sonic at this at the Olympic Games. I'm a one time gold medalist.
00:58:22
Speaker
I think a two-time bronze and a one-time silver, I think. Well, we're happy. And this is out of three, so I came in last place a couple times. Well, as wine breaks, we know a gold medalist when we see one, so we're happy to be in the presence of another gold medalist. You're also actually in the presence of the world's biggest Sonic fan. I mean, that we knew. That's why you're here. I have a trophy.
00:59:13
Speaker
I'll send you a picture. I'll send you a picture. I'll send you a picture. I'll send you a picture. I'll send you a picture. I'll send you a picture.
00:59:14
Speaker
So he said I would, he's a horrible person, by the way. He said I would either lose the weight or die by 2024. That's what he put an expiration date. Well, in all fairness, Craig, you have you have lost quite a bit of weight. So and I lost the weight. So I guess I'm no longer the world's biggest Sonic fan. So the trophy is an invalid. You're going to have to you're going to have to add an asterisk to your to your trophy. Just bust out a Sharpie and draw a little asterisk and then
00:59:42
Speaker
on the bottom right, you know, still the biggest fan, just no longer the largest. I was going to, my plan was to, once I hit my goal weight, was to take the trophy and like, to film a video smashing it, kind of like the scene from, what the hell's that movie? Office Space? Yeah. I mean, I hate to see a good trophy go to waste, but, you know, content is content, so.
01:00:11
Speaker
Yeah, plus it's like a curse almost. The expiration date on there is getting close. We're getting very close. No, but you lost the weight already. You already beat the expiration date. It was either lose the weight or die by that date, and you already lost the weight.
01:00:28
Speaker
It's true. You beat it. You beat the curse. It still scares me. As I look at it, right, it's behind my computer monitor. I could see the strong man sticking up from the top of the trophy. So the trophy guy who made this was so happy with it. It's literally like a strong man trophy with a bunch of like hamburgers and like ice cream cone stickers like glued to it.
01:00:55
Speaker
Yeah, I think you need to send me a picture of this. Because when I was in your display cave, I did not catch this trophy. I'll send a picture. Yeah. So the other kind of progression of Sonic, right, he made the jump from video games.
Sonic Movie Success and Future Speculations
01:01:13
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With the TV we mentioned that he had a couple different cartoons. But then he was voiced by one of Dave's favorites, Ben Schwartz.
01:01:22
Speaker
Yeah. In a film, in the film version. John Ralphio. Which I think is also notable. One thing that we have to mention about the first film is how the internet can do good when it has a laser focus, right? Because that original version of Sonic that we saw was a terrifying
01:01:49
Speaker
Failure of us so bad That movie would have flopped completely if they didn't change. Oh, I remember being so excited seeing that and then seeing the initial Thing that that was purported to be sonic. It's brutal It was yeah, I was I had I was looking at it with the most open-minded I possibly could cuz I was like, oh, maybe the movie will be good but
01:02:18
Speaker
It was horrifying. It was just horrifying. Yeah. And that's the thing like it. And like you could see like you know we're at the point now where like people have access to the tools to do things and like Photoshop and and you know kind of make like homebrew edits and you had amateurs who were tweaking this thing and like making and again like I know it's not a small tweak because they you know effectively had to go back and like redo
01:02:46
Speaker
you know, all of those, those renders, but, um, you know, showing that just kind of like these small tweaks would make a huge difference in the personality and like the execution of the, the animation. And thank goodness they went back and did that because the movie was a lot of fun. Like the first movie is a lot of fun. I shouldn't say was, it's, it still is a lot of fun and successful. It made a, it made a lot of money and Ben Schwartz, it was a perfect,
01:03:14
Speaker
perfect cast so he was brought he was so good and jen jim carrey is too in the scenery in that movie uh... you know it again that's another one was a jim carrey is doctor obon and click that's weird and then like seeing him it's like all kind of that we're getting this we're getting like this jim carrey we're getting
01:03:37
Speaker
bananas off the wall character actor Jim Carrey and Absolutely nailed it and I can't wait to see by the time this airs the second one will have been out But I cannot wait to go to see him come back from From the the like the warp world as uh as bald like full-on moustachioed robotic
01:04:02
Speaker
I'm so excited for this movie. I haven't seen Batman and I couldn't care less. I just want to see Sonic. I also have not seen Batman and it's not that I don't want to see it. It's that finding. I don't have three hours. Exactly. Like you have when you have one kid. Well, you have a yeah, you have two kids. It's it's perfectly understandable that it's hard to find three hours to go to the movies. Yeah. Like that's even going to be one where like
01:04:29
Speaker
When that comes out at on when that shows up on HBO max that's gonna be a two-nighter probably probably But you know sonic like I'm gonna see if I can get sneak out with Maddie and bring bring her to see it she enjoys the first one too and My boy tails is is in the movie my favorite character from the sonic universe and
01:04:54
Speaker
voiced by the longtime voice actor who's been to Colleen. Can't remember her last name. Holy crap. But she's been doing the character for a long time, which is pretty cool that they didn't replace Tails. Yeah. You know, yeah. And then is that it works, you know, she's perfect for the role. I still I think Idris Elba is is going to be great, too. But I think Tails
01:05:23
Speaker
I think was the right choice to keep that voice. Well, that character has that kind of like, there's a very specific combination of like childlike innocence with Tails, but also Tails is a huge nerd and like, you know, has that like mechanic scientist kind of vibe to him. And that actor just absolutely
01:05:47
Speaker
has encapsulated that for and has kind of figured that out, you know, for at least the last decade, if not longer. So, yeah, I think I think they did the right thing. And plus, it's not like they're not trying to make like a like a super meta movie where like, you know, what's going on with, you know, potentially going on with the Mario movie where they have all of like the big names in it.
01:06:13
Speaker
You know, I think they did make the right choice and let that actor continue doing her bang up job on the character. But I'm excited that the biplane's in it. I'm excited that they made a biplane toy. A tornado. Yeah. Love it.
01:06:35
Speaker
Which I'm still, you know what's funny? I remember you telling me, like, because I was like, I was going to order it. And then you're like, and I'm like, I don't want to pay the shipping. And you're like, just order two and return one. And I'm like, I don't know. And now it's sold out. And now I'm like, crap. I should have done that. You know what? Here's the thing. So it's not produce. So it's not going to waste.
01:06:58
Speaker
if you can afford to take the hit temporarily. And this is just Walmart advice in general, unless you are subscribing to that Walmart plus thing that gives you free shipping, which like more power to you if that's the route you're going, but I can't subscribe to everything. Um, if there, if I cannot make the shipping minimum at Walmart, I absolutely will order two of something to make the, to make the shipping minimum. And in, you know,
01:07:26
Speaker
Again like you know 90% of the time when I do that Actually, I shouldn't say 90% time 100% of the time when I do that I just bring the other one back to my local Walmart return it it ends up on the shelf at Walmart and somebody buys it Like it's it's a win-win for for everybody. I just pay shipping. I can't do it
01:07:47
Speaker
I can't. I cannot. I hate. I refuse to pay shipping. Amazon has spoiled me. And I know I pay $150 or whatever it is a year for Amazon Prime, but I can't. The only times I will pay shipping on a single figure is if I'm ordering directly from like, I paid $8 to ship the Valaverse Sergeant Slaughter because I ordered it directly from Valaverse.
01:08:15
Speaker
or like neck or something yeah like if I'm ordering directly from a manufacturer but I will not pay Walmart shipping I'm sorry just won't do it and like and again it's not like
01:08:31
Speaker
I would feel bad if I was ordering something that was making something go to waste, which is not the case because I'm the one that's driving the Walmart, dropping it off. And literally it goes right on the shelf. And if it's a sought after toy, like, you know, like that tornado set is sold out now. Like who knows that may not make it to shelf.
01:08:51
Speaker
Um, you know, same with like some of the Marvel legends recently that have been exclusive to Walmart. Like some of them did not make it a shelf, but I have gone to Walmarts and have seen John Walker, Captain America's, um, you know, on the pegs, like literally like one or two of them. And it's definitely because somebody ordered two and returned one.
01:09:13
Speaker
So, you know, it's, I think it's, it's just a way to, to kind of, you know, every, every penny counts, every penny counts, especially with the costs of things going up and everything. So, um, if you're looking for a way to, to navigate shipping issues and you can afford to be out of pocket, double the cost of the thing that you want temporarily. I think it's a, it's a fair way to navigate around that shipping, but told you, Craig should order too.
01:09:43
Speaker
And now I'm sitting here and thinking you should have ordered two because I would have taken one Because now I want it comes with tails and he has the goggles on I know I know It's only it is it is the two inch version But it's okay. Oh is it I thought it was the four inch one. No, it's a two inch Oh that I'm glad I didn't get it because I would have wanted the four inch one to go with my See this is the problem though. I I gotta figure out which tails I want to get because I have like the
01:10:12
Speaker
Classic like vintage Sonic so I think I need the classic vintage tails to go with it. I don't know I gotta figure this out Um, they haven't made one yet. Actually. Yeah, they've only made them the modern tails, right? Like the Sonic Adventure era tails I just yeah, you can miss you can always tell like he he looks very much pretty much the same Yeah, but it's like the eyes. He doesn't have the blue eyes. Yeah, I need to I need to hold off That was what I was waiting for. I need to hold so I
01:10:40
Speaker
Um, but yeah, uh, so the new movie's coming out. We got some new characters. I'm sure there will be stingers and teasers for additional ones. Cause like, there's a ton. It's going to be, it's going to be, uh, Rouge the bat. Let's get a jump right to that character. Oh my God. Um, yeah, right. Uh, you gotta, you gotta get the, uh, the CGI, um, this, the CGI, uh, uh,
01:11:09
Speaker
What's the word I'm looking for? Jiggle physics. I was going to say CGI cleavage. That's the word I was, that's her signature look. No, but I think you'll probably get, it would make more sense to have like Amy probably be next.
01:11:33
Speaker
I think that would make the most sense. And I'll be honest, as much as like we've talked about before, how big of a shadow fan I am. I hope it's Amy. Because number one, she's a female character. Yeah. Right. And it's already there's already three boys. And Amy could throw down like she's Amy, of course, she could throw that giant hammer. She's strong. She's she's always I mean, like. Sonic heroes, I love to play played as Amy, you know.
01:12:02
Speaker
We talked about Sonic Advance before. Amy was my main in Sonic Advance. Oh yeah? She was great in that game. There you go. So I mean, I think that would make the most sense. And Sonic... The problem with Sonic is the more friends he got, the worse the games get. And I just don't want that to happen to the movies. Because the movies have been fabulous. And if they go the same route as the video games,
01:12:32
Speaker
where it's not going to be too long before the movies are bad. I don't know. I mean, but he that you do need a couple more. I think you need a couple more characters either that or you got to transport. I don't know. I don't know. It's tough. It's tough because you can't because if we do if if they do the shot, if it's shadow, then the next movie is going to be the adventure two storyline and it's going to be really weird. And there's going to be the sick Maria in space and the giant lizard and.
01:13:00
Speaker
It just gets really weird. I would love for them to have honestly would be awesome if especially if you know rumor has it like Jim Carrey's talked about it and you know in interviews and stuff that he's he's looking to hang up the Hang up the career and retire from acting
01:13:18
Speaker
Which means you would need, you know, potentially need a new villain, you know, unless they're going to recast with Robotnik, which they could. I mean, it wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility. I read, I read that they won't. Oh, that's what they, uh, that's what they said. But you could do the chaos monster. That would be cool. Like the big, like water, like the water monster. Oh, that'd be pretty cool. Yeah. But, uh, but he's involved with that too, though. He's always involved. Yeah, but you could technically make it like where,
01:13:48
Speaker
You know, it one of his creations kind of like sets it off and you know, he doesn't need to be there to like it's like would effectively be like the aftershock of Robotnik exiting from the storyline and like it leaves the world with this monster to deal with that like Sonic and his friends now have to you know, and then you get super Sonic and you could have this like big fight scene in the city and
01:14:14
Speaker
If I see Supersonic in this movie, I will stand up and shout. I will be so excited. See, if they're gonna do a trilogy, I feel like they need to save Supersonic for the next one. Maybe hint at it, maybe have him be near enough chaos. I don't even know if the chaos emeralds are gonna be in this, but have him be near enough emeralds where you start to see him turn yellow and he's like, whoa, what is this?
01:14:43
Speaker
Like that would be a cool like tease and then have him go, you know, I almost said super saying, have him go supersonic in the, uh, it is, it is the same thing. Um, but have him, have him do supersonic and the, the next one and kind of, and maybe make that it, you know, like you get, you get a trilogy out of this out of these movies and then, you know, they walk away from it, but, um,
01:15:06
Speaker
other way it goes you know they have an incredible roster you know and now with with jacks doing the uh doing the figures i figure a good way to wrap this up is um let's each uh
01:15:21
Speaker
name a figure from the sonic universe that like a specific sonic a specific look or whatever that that you want to see jacks do. And Dave and I are again, like we're not as well versed in this line as you are. So if the figure that we pick happens to exist, Craig, just just let us know. Just jacks or jacks? Let's say it's just jacks. So Dave, do you want to do you want to hit us with one first?
01:15:52
Speaker
Um... I guess, like... I don't know, I know Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles. Um...
01:16:04
Speaker
I guess the guy from the PlayStation game that I've never opened. Shadow. Shadow. They've done. I'm sure it exists. Have they done a shadow? Yeah, they've a few times, actually, because, you know, Jax is Jax is brilliant, by the way. They continue to rerelease characters all the time because it is a kids line. Yeah. So they keep Sonic and Tails have been in the set a bunch of times, like, but they just give him like a new accessory or something like that. Like guns.
01:16:32
Speaker
That's what I want. Oh, yeah. They got to give us this shadow gun accessories. You know, I know they've done, you know, I know they've done knuckles, knuckles. I always thought was cool, but. Well, it was, I mean, that was the best was plugging the games into into that Sonic and Knuckles cart and adding Knuckles to like Sonic two. That was that blew my mind when we were kids. That felt like actual sorcery, how they managed to to pull that off.
01:17:03
Speaker
I guess mine would be, we mentioned him earlier, but I love Big the Cat outside of, I know they've made tales a bunch of times, but I love Big the Cat and just the comic relief of Big the Cat with his fishing pole and his pet frog. I have the jazz where's Big the Cat figure. Yeah, I would want a good four inch Big the Cat.
01:17:32
Speaker
And I have a I have a blush make the cat too He's so great so so Craig if you could get if you could get one figure over to be I Mean there's so many I I mean, I'm a big fan of like deep cuts so like I Think it'd be cool to get the ghost from the but I mean this will never happen the boss from from adventure to
01:18:02
Speaker
I had to actually, I'll be honest, I had to Google his name. I had to look it up because I was like, it was the one in like the Egyptian. Yes. Yeah. Your knuckles fight. Oh my God. That thing terrified me. I had to look it up, though. I didn't remember his name. His name was King, King, King Boo Boo. It makes a terrible sound. If I remember, it's like, boy, boy, like as it's like running around in circles and you got to get like behind it. Yeah, that that boss fight.
01:18:27
Speaker
It's fun. I mean, it's fun, but like it's also terrifying. That's a terrifying. And it would have to be a massive figure. But realistically, like like maybe like cream the rabbit or something like that would be pretty cool. Be a good one. Or like I do want Blaze again, because I don't have the Jax or Jazz wears one anymore. Or maybe even like this. I've never read any of the comic books, but I know like Sally a chord.
01:18:57
Speaker
You know, there is like the comic book character. He's only been in the comics. I feel like you have a much better shot at that than King Boom Boo. Probably. Probably Sally Acorn. She's basically naked. I mean, so Sonic, she's wearing shoes, but she wears just like a jean jacket, open jean jacket.
01:19:21
Speaker
So the furries are all in that stuff. That's the problem with the Sonic fan. The furries love it. I mean, Sonic's wearing gloves and shoes, though. They could easily just put out a character that's rocking a jean jacket. I don't see a problem there. They could. I don't see a problem either. So yeah. So keep an eye out for the Jack's figures. I mean, you have a better shot of seeing them in person at places like GameStop and Target.
01:19:51
Speaker
I guess walmart from time to time but uh targets really where at least in this in our area where we see them the most um And uh, and hopefully the new movie by the time this is out the new movie the reviews will be in and the new movie is fun and everyone is happy but um Before we let you go craig for the evening. Can you can you remind uh our listeners? Where can they find you on instagram and youtube?
01:20:17
Speaker
You can find me at Craig's Stuff on the Gram and also at Craig's Stuff on YouTube. And you can also listen to my podcast, the Disney Dunces, wherever podcasts are, I guess. I think they're on everything. Yeah, I think that's as good of a place as I need to end.
01:20:42
Speaker
And let's hope that there's lots of really cool Sonic the Hedgehog stuff in the future. And we're around 30 years from now to talk about his 60th anniversary. Dave. Yeah. Why don't you sign us off for the evening? OK. Bye, everyone.
01:21:05
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