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Worlds Collide! The SDCC 2025 Crossover Episode with Between 2 Sentinels
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What happens when two irresistible forces meet head on with two immovable objects? We have no idea, but this is what happens when two different toy shows become one to talk all about (and maybe speculate a bit) the upcoming San Diego Comic Con, SH Figuarts Cyclops, and so, so much more. Listen as the boys of AIC are joined by J-Shot and Matchu from Between 2 Sentinels in this re-broadcasting of their epic crossover!
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Transcript
Introduction to Adventures in Collecting
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Speaker
Are you ready, kids? Get your parents permission, check your mailbox and grab your shopping cart. It's time for the Adventures in Collecting podcast. I'm Eric.
00:00:15
Speaker
And I'm Dave. Welcome to Adventures in Collecting, where we talk toy news, culture and hauls, along with our journeys as collectors.
Weather Woes and Humor
00:00:30
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It's Wednesday, my dudes, and honestly, it is way too hot to be this excited and energetic. its If you're on the East Coast, you feel me. It is just like, I think I said it yesterday, yeah Shrek is in my shorts arguing with my ass as to who Swamp It is right now. But anyway, my excitement for tonight's episode is keeping me cool as we are going hang out with some bodacious bros.
00:00:52
Speaker
We are going to hang out with Eric and Dave of the AIC podcast. So let's let's stop screwing around and just get to it. There's lots to talk about. Batsu, cue that intro. Get out of my smoke!
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Speaker
I cut you off there.
00:01:22
Speaker
cut you off there really That's OK. Half the reason I do that stuff is so you you looked really focused. Yeah, no. I'm looking at my it the streamer thing. And I'm pretty sure that I'm hardwired in, but it's registering as
Community Interactions and Beard-off Challenge
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Wi-Fi.
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So yeah but ah let me know if I'm potatoing. so We'll let you know if you're potatoing. Speaking of potatoing, it is Wednesday, my dudes, and it's about 112 degrees, so you can go outside cook your own potato if you really feel like it.
00:01:52
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ah But tonight, it's episode 124 of ah a i po with the AIC Podcast. This is crazy. Between Two Sentinels with AIC Podcast. What the hell are we doing? Who am i Where are we? Let's start over.
00:02:05
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We're roasting. It's Wednesday, but I'm sorry. ah
00:02:10
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Anywho, besides it being a billion degrees outside, what's going with you, Matu? How's your week? Oh, nothing. Like I said, like we were talking a little bit right before the stream. I had like just taken a short nap while sitting here. just reclined the chair and didn't realize that the ah thermostat was registered, was reading the air conditioning unit in my window as like, you know, it's getting cold in here. Let's turn on the heat.
00:02:37
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So while I was passed out, the heat was on. And when I woke up, I was just like, all right, I need to change my shirt and peel myself off this chair because it canceled out the air conditioner, which was just like, oh, but now it's finally getting cold because I turned off the heat.
00:02:56
Speaker
Good. I'm surprised it didn't just like start ah a storm inside your house, right? You get a cold front and a warm front coming together. Yeah. Yeah. yeah so just raining in there um i would ask you what you got but i know that the guys behind the stage here want to uh want to show up some toys too so why don't we check in with the chat and then we'll we'll go through some toys yeah right let's see let's see who's here let's see who's checking in we got don checking in saying hello there we got highly posable of course saying yo good evening everybody and we were we were on last friday is that a week already yeah
00:03:26
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Oh, a lot of fun with those guys. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sure. I'm sure we'll come back if they'll let us. So, you know, but don't forget to check them out on Friday nights and also ah barely poseable on Mondays.
00:03:39
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We got jelly figs. What's going on? Jelly figs. Bearded bills is here. What it do you do, baby? Paul Morales is here. We got a Twitter. Yeah. Well, you know, we never claimed to be professional, but he's also hitting us with the.
00:03:54
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Sup nerds. think we're going to you and Chaney to do conflicting, not conflicting. There you go. Different, different red two voices. ah Bearded says, well, J shot finally admit he is in fact digs figs. Well, watch who finally let bearded be the third sentinel, even though it is, he is not even close to being as sexy tune in tonight to find out.
00:04:16
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That's a lot of pressure. You're too sexy for this show. That's a problem. Yeah. Too sexy. And I feel like digs and I are Bernie Sanders and, uh,
00:04:27
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What's his name? Larry David, right? We're just close enough related. Yeah. I'm sure if we went through the gene pool, we probably. Yeah. Yeah. Rensi wants a beard off. So there you go.
00:04:40
Speaker
Let's see. There you go. So we bring bearded in. There you go. We'll bring bearded in. We'll do a beard off. Let's see. We got D.Blakes is here. What's going on, D.Blake? ah ju do do Get out of my swamp. with Guys backstage hanging out.
00:04:54
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Jurassic Jester is here. I know he's excited about the Mattel release today for San Diego. We got Flashpoint Collector saying, Machu, how's it going?
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It's going. Sorry, J-Shot. I'm pretty sure he meant to ask you too. It's your show. It's okay. I'm just here for the ride. It's good. ah Steve is here seeing your biggest fans. We need the fans. Bring on the fans.
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ah Is it potato or potato?
Giveaway Announcements and Toy Photography
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i don't know. Let's see. E. McNail is here. what's ah what We got Slide 9. What up, fellas? That's a new name. Love that. And Jurassic Jester says, beard off sounds too sexy.
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And last but not least, No Chewy. Yeah, there's a lot of bearded people here coming in. So No Chewy is here. Of course, you can check out No Chewy. on the TPC podcast on Monday nights, uh, on the TPC top 10 with the toy daddies and the baggy red shorts baggy red shorts every once in a while.
00:05:49
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Not this week. Next week, we're going to do baggy red short. So, uh, yeah, that's it. There you go. um Okay. Flash point. How are you?
00:06:02
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Told you. Told you. mentor we do We're a ridiculous show. We're a ridiculous show. No, Anyway, let's add to the ridiculousness. Let's bring an Eric and David.
00:06:15
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Do some hanging out. What up, guys? Hey, hey. hey So I think you guys are staying cool. I heard beard off and I was like, I'm ready to win. There you go.
00:06:27
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I was going to say ah beard versus beard versus beard versus beard match. And I'll be the referee. I was going to say Eric went the other way. He heard beard off and quickly shaved. Yeah. Yeah. Well, thank you guys for being here. Beards and all or not beards and all. And, you know.
00:06:42
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And we we we were talking backstage before you are East Coast. So you are you are feeling this. What is it? It's like 96 and it's eight o'clock at night. So, yeah yeah, yeah. I'm pretty sure it was 96 at 8 a.m. this morning. Yeah, I'm on the roof I'm on the top floor with the air conditioner on and I am sweating.
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So that's Eric's Eric's in his attic with a bucket of fish heads. That's a reference yeah nice. Well, then and daughtership I am the evil one that they lock in the attic. Yeah. you are board you depends Depends on which daughter you ask. that's There's my clone. There's Diggs checking in. There you go. Johnny's here to beard battle to the death. oh That might be a little too finite for us.
00:07:26
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We like each other too much to do that. Yeah. yeah yeah a little it's A little too fineite little too finite. so um But gentlemen, this has been a long time coming. We've been trying to make this work. I'm excited to finally get you guys on and and hang out.
00:07:40
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Talk some toys, which, you know, we were saying before, there's a lot going on, especially with San Diego right around the corner. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. This is is a long time coming. i Absolutely love you guys. You know, one of our one of our favorite shows out there. So it's very exciting to ah to to be to be part of it, to to be between the ah the Sentinels.
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Well, we're excited to have you guys on between two Sentinels. yeah Yes, we are the we are the meat between two sides of the house. We are always the buns. That's how that works. but The bearded buns. Love it. The bearded... Oh, God. Love it. We're going off the rails quickly.
00:08:17
Speaker
um But no, dude, like, it's been really cool because you guys are, you know, obviously you guys are local, so we've been, you know, we've met up a couple times at different areas. We always seem to run into each other at our favorite spot, Chubsy's. yeah You know, we we honor our tribal chief, Chubsy Wubsy. If you guys watched Chatmigo's last night, D13, Chris did an amazing impression of Chubsy. He was, like, spot on. But...
00:08:40
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ah but Yeah, it's been really cool. And I feel like there's been this like healthy rivalry between us in like a positive way that I'm probably only making up in my my own head. I think you are.
00:08:52
Speaker
I'm totally it totally. ammp But it's OK. I love it. It's like good. It's like I think you build a rivalry with everybody in your head. Everybody. Everybody. I've never gotten that vibe from you there. So we do. There is a funny story, though, about about like a ah situation similar to this. So are you guys familiar with the Reluctant Adult podcast?
00:09:10
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yeah course Yeah, yeah. So when they first started, they had they just started this joke. um ah I don't know whether they picked our names out of a hat or how they did it, but they were like, we need a rivalry. There aren't enough rivalries in this community. So they legit tried to start a fabricated rivalry with us and would tag us. and like This was before like the advent of AI because like they have like fully leaned into using... using a ton of AI, um which I give Paul a shit for all the time.
00:09:37
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um But i they ah yeah, they they tried to like create a rivalry with us to where it eventually came to a head where we had like an AIC podcast versus the Reluctive Adult podcast episode. Yeah. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, like there was no actual rivalry. So we just got on and just like, you know, we're laughing for basically an hour and a half.
00:09:56
Speaker
Well, I remember it the first time being like, what's going on? Like, what are these? What's up with these dudes? Like, can we do something like they do something? Oh, my God. It was so funny. Yeah. I was so confused.
00:10:12
Speaker
And then Eric was like, no, listen, it's and I'm like, oh, all right. so it's all it's It's all part of the shtick. Yeah. It's all funny. Yeah. No, I was thinking like, yeah you got you know you guys always seem to be like a step ahead of us, right? So like I can think of two instances, like we went to New York Toy Fair and we were hanging out, you know, we got we got the opportunity to meet Todd, right? We're talking with Todd and then like my phone goes off maybe 20 minutes after we stopped talking to him and it's like you with the interview with Todd.
00:10:40
Speaker
I'm like, what the hell? How come he got the interview? And then, um, and then we went to the Chubsey thing with, uh, with Mr. Stevie. Yeah. And I had messaged Mr. Stevie and been like, Hey, is it cool if I grab you for five minutes for an interview?
00:10:53
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And he was like, well, you know, I want to keep his head. I was like, cool. No pressure. No nothing. And then it's like, there you guys are setting up the live interview. And i was like, It was like, oh, man, and he's always just two steps ahead. He's he's the Batman to my Green Lantern. All right. So the Stevie thing is really funny because i you know obviously like had been in touch with him and Chubbzy. Stevie yeah was one of our first like proper guests on on the the pod, like going way back like pandemic times. Right.
00:11:21
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um mean Steve. Steve was very early. So, you know, we've been and we've been in touch with him for a very long time now, like a very long time in the terms of like this. Right. So for years.
00:11:32
Speaker
And when he was playing the Chubsey thing, I was like, hey, you know, ah if you're if you're going to be at the store, you know, if we could you know have time to do an interview, like I don't want to set up anything formal. Like, I'll bring my stuff just in case we'll kind of just play it by ear because I actually mentioned you guys by name. I was like,
00:11:48
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I don't want to step on, you know, the between two sentinel's toes. I know they're going to be there too. I don't want to, I like, don't want to put you in an awkward position. And, you know, I just kind of asked him in passing. I was like, do you want to set up something real quick or no? Like, like yes or no. And he was just like, all right, let's do it.
00:12:03
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But like I fully was did not want to be like, did not want us to be those guys that were like, yeah, I know that there are other streamers and podcasters and other parts of community here. But like, you know, so I kind of just like let it happen.
Convention Stories and Collectible Craze
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But ah as I'm wearing his shirt, I just wear it. Jesus Christ. let We get in it all. That's fine. Yeah. I don't want to sit on those toes. I want to kick him in the chest and get him out of here. yeah i just got to wipe my face off a little bit. No, I'm.
00:12:32
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I completely forgot I was wearing this. ah but ah But yeah, so it's really funny that that was the... Because we had the complete opposite perspective where it was like, we don't want to be those guys. And, you know...
00:12:46
Speaker
yeah i I look at it as like, it's a, it's like I say, and it's like a, it's a fun rivalry, right? Like, okay. Like, you know, not, not even like a rivalry, right? It's like, okay, you know, we gotta, gotta be on our toes. He probably messaged them first, you know, type of thing. So meanwhile, I had no idea what was going on. I was just shopping for toys. I somehow ended up in the background of your stream.
00:13:06
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That's like trying to get something in the back. Just like, excuse me, excuse Let me see what's in the back there. What else do you got? You know, Black Series better. Excuse me. yeah so Now the other side of the coin, right? Like I look, Machu, I look at your photography specifically and I feel like I'm always like looking at your shots like, damn, how could I do what he's doing? It's so good. Thank you. You know, because even before before doing the toy stuff, like, I mean, I was I was looking at your toy photography. There was a couple of people in the community that before we started doing unboxings or anything, and it it was just a podcast of like, you know, Dave and I talking to each other and I hadn't even
00:13:41
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thought of doing toy photography in any way, shape or form. We hadn't even thought of really doing interviews other than with like now. It was um it was just it like, you know, so the some of your your work was just like blew my mind.
00:13:54
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So thanks. And continues to to this day. I kind of slowed down a little bit, though. That's the thing. I don't I'm always trying to figure out some trying to figure out something new, but it's I'm not getting anything lately.
00:14:06
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you know and just the The other thing I think is like pretty amazing too is just like the thought process that goes into like how anyone who does toy photography thinks like I remember we're sitting waiting for I it must have been the Hasbro panel. Oh, yeah. When we were. Yeah. Yeah.
00:14:26
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And all of a sudden it's like Eric and Machu and D Blake just sitting there like closing stuff. And I'm like, wait, it does that like like I know you can move stuff, but like like that.
00:14:37
Speaker
yeah I think D-Blake's just got the SHF the ah say jeff three Fighter figures, right? Yep. yeah just And you you had that pop-up stool thing. Yeah. like yeah I'm like, well, I'll just post figures. And then the crowd started to form, and I'm like, what's going yeah yeah it's ah It's you guys. That's what's going on.
00:14:58
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said Speaking of D-Blake, he's trying to start some beef here is in the chats. He's got the AIC is greater than B2S, and then he's saying... Eric said there is no comparison.
00:15:12
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He's trying to start. so be He's just trying to sell science. He started a beef to sell science. That's what he's doing. So but I got I can't I can't take it off right now because of where it is, but I've got his Chubsy Wubsy sign right here. I'm pointing to it.
00:15:24
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And keep stuff where I know where that is. Yes. And his Spider-Man one is down here. So all over I have his Toymigos one right there. Nice. i Yeah. Other other friends of the of the pods. is Yeah.
00:15:38
Speaker
So I get a couple other people checking in. We got KJ Smith is here. What's going on, kg no KJ? KJ. KJ. Yeah. My tongue got in the way of my eye tooth. Couldn't see what I was saying. Mario's here. What's going on, Mario?
00:15:49
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And let's see what we got. Uh... And it looks like Jester's calling me out. He says, Diggs donated a figure for the Nexus showcase. Take a pic of a waifu figure and post it. Tag the Collection Nexus. There you go.
00:16:01
Speaker
So, and don't forget to check out Jurassic Jester and the Collection Nexus on Monday nights. ah They're on late. Like, really late for the East Coast guys. But, you know, go check them out.
00:16:12
Speaker
There you go. That's everybody. Yeah, awesome. Yeah. Ransu's putting in that stuff, and I'm not allowed to read. So, we yeah we've we've still we've got a giveaway going on right now so if anyone in the chat has not entered yet on la boo boo ever heard of it um so we're try not to we're we're giving away a a la boo boo have a seat i will make this joke here because i always do it it's it's mace windu's favorite la boo boo because it has a seat um
00:16:47
Speaker
a Yeah. So if you want to win ah a labubu, have a seat ah at AIC underscore podcast on, on Instagram, you can head over there. ah We're doing it throughout the month of, ah of June. So you've got five days. Five days. Yeah.
00:17:04
Speaker
So i we ship anywhere in the U S math. I'm going to do. So if you have a U S if you are over 18 and can prove it or otherwise,
00:17:16
Speaker
I don't know. um And have a U.S. mailing address. you You can enter. So go ah go go and enter. And i we could give ah we could give a hint that our next month's giveaway, our July giveaway, will be a super one.
00:17:30
Speaker
Oh. oh Super one. It will be a super platinum giveaway. There we go. I'm going with that. Super platinum giveaway.
00:17:42
Speaker
So do do with that what you will. But... ah But yeah, so five days left. Go go win yourself a labubu or try to win a labubu. Don't pay $60 for one until you know that you lost this giveaway.
00:17:55
Speaker
Is that how much they're going for? Is that for real? So I went to Vietnam for work. Yes, I remember you telling me that. Yeah, yeah. And I went to a Pop Mart in Vietnam and they had a whole case of those.
00:18:07
Speaker
So I was that needed souvenirs for like my my two daughters, some of their friends, you know ah cousins. And I was like, oh, there's six in here. And the entire case was like 70 bucks ah with the conversion.
00:18:22
Speaker
So I bought a case and I bought like two extra ones. So I figured i'll you know I'll use one as a giveaway or something. And not realizing actually how popular they were. like you know, shame on me, I guess I should have bought more.
00:18:34
Speaker
But um yeah, I I bought a whole case and and plus two gave them out to some of, you know, some people at home. And hey, Kev, you mentioned the boo boo. And look at you. Immediately he was here.
00:18:49
Speaker
His yeah ears perked up. I think it's really hot where he is, too. It was like even hotter. i think it was 115 degrees in Toronto or some shit like that. so Is that like Celsius, though? No, no, no. Like 47 Celsius. ke Kev, check my math. I think it was 40.
00:19:06
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115 degrees Celsius. I'm pretty sure they would not be there right now. Yeah. yeah okay yeah yeah Dave's done doing math, so he's don't ask him to do it. Yeah, yeah don't. I'm... But yeah, I had no idea about this like really like I knew that they existed, but had no idea how popular they were. And when I saw how much they were they were going for.
00:19:28
Speaker
Yeah, I I ah I should have bought more. it's It's funny because I had no idea what they were. And then as soon as you came back and mentioned them, like I saw people that I know who are also like, you know,
00:19:42
Speaker
People of adult age just like got a little boo boo got as like 15 people on my Instagram feed of people I used to work with. And I'm like, what? Like, I didn't know this thing was a thing.
00:19:53
Speaker
i opened one and put it on my bag. Yeah. I mean, I know my sister has some and I know Yoko was collecting them, too. But like that other than that, and it just like blew up.
00:20:04
Speaker
Out of nowhere, you know? Yeah. I was going to say, i feel like Tenny was the first one to message me about them. and i was like, what are these things? Like, I'm yeah okay. You know? You were afraid to say. so I was. I was. that didn't know what it was.
00:20:15
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, I got that. How do you not know what this is? And I'm like. Yeah. Now they're doing crossovers with Naruto. I don't know what's happening. So yeah I was when I was in Target, like i think it was like last week I was I was just, you know, walking down the toilet to see what they had.
00:20:29
Speaker
And there are these two adults that are just scouring the shelves and they're complaining about like, you know, it's a bunch of these scalpers that are just fine, trying finding them and selling them on eBay. I'm just trying to find little boo boo for my kid. And I'm like, I'm pretty sure you won't find a little boo boo in Target.
00:20:44
Speaker
yeah And then I went to the collector section to check NECA and then they go over there like can't find a little booboo anywhere here. Where do they keep these booboo's at? I'm like, I'm pretty sure they don't sell them here, but they do have a Pop Mart in ah the American Dream Ball. And that's probably your best bet of finding them.
00:21:05
Speaker
Yep. what and What would be a really great piece of content video is bringing a labubu into Target with you during like a really popular. I mean, like, I got one. I got the last one. how Oh, my God. Or leaving your empty case there. Just be like, oh, there must have been some here. Now people are just constantly. Oh, man. That would have been great, too. I already threw that thing out, though.
00:21:29
Speaker
like Like the ah people who are like now stealing Pokemon card carts. like i've I've seen that all over my feed. the The one guy who got arrested and who was resisting arrest. That was crazy.
00:21:42
Speaker
just What are you here for? People loading up carts and then somebody else just swipes the cart. like Oh, yeah, I've seen that, too. So Machu was talking about Dave. There was a guy at a card show that was trying to swipe from the one of the tables at a card show. Oh, I see that on Instagram, too. And he got, like, pounced.
00:22:00
Speaker
Yeah, there was, like, four cops on him. you know like right why Like, why would you do that? Like, it's... I don't know why for the same reason that people swap figs and, you know, rip open the the the booster pack boxes at that Target and take the packs out. mean, like a person selling like cards is is just like it's a some dude like.
00:22:22
Speaker
Yeah, but ah imagine sitting in in that jail cell and everybody's you know like, what are waiting
Collectible Theft and NECA Discussions
00:22:31
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Bulbasaur. Bulbasaur. Bulbasaur.
00:22:33
Speaker
Try to steal a Bulbasaur. very Try to steal a Gen jim Mint 9. Oh, man. Oh, we got Enders checking in. What's going on, Enders? Hey, Rubenbrock is here.
00:22:47
Speaker
ah Kevin says he's got bots scouring streams for Lububu Talk. That's how he's got it. Oh, so that's how we can get an extra viewer. Just keep saying LaBubu. Just keep saying LaBubu. LaBubu.
00:22:58
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LaBubu. There you LaBubu. ah KJ says, Maine is humid AF. Massachusetts. Oh, Massachusetts, sorry. i It's okay. Yeah, whatever.
00:23:11
Speaker
ah Up there hot. It's up there. It's up there. New England. It's 100.4 where Kevin is. wants to Let's I think you should just make one beard. if You probably make one. They sell like Lou Boo Boo accessories. You could dress your Lou Boo Boo. I'm surprised that nobody has a weird beard bearded thing for it.
00:23:33
Speaker
This is not the conversation I thought we would have tonight. ah Steve killing it with the dad joke saying, is there a la yogi buddy to go? Hey, Lou Boo Oh, I was. Hold on.
00:23:45
Speaker
Comes with a picket.
00:23:49
Speaker
Perfect. There you go. Perfect. Twice. Nick's Figs is here. What's going on, Nick's Figs? Let's see. And yeah, I think that's everybody.
00:23:59
Speaker
ah Let's see. Dom says, I saw a video where guy sold fake Pokemon cards. They were going to lock the doors until they go. It's not that serious, guys. You know, it's not that serious. It's not that serious. He says until he tries to track down a turtle figure and beat somebody. Yeah. Anyway. ah Imagine the smell in that room is the part that hit, though.
00:24:17
Speaker
Yeah. Oh, yeah. o Yeah. Yeah. um I know that we were we were chatting about ah Superman before we we started the stream. You picked up one of the other ones. Yeah. You were showing how scary of the faceplate is when you this. Hang on.
00:24:34
Speaker
Hang on. I'll do it. I'll get it out. Hold on. Yeah. There you go. It's not magnetic. so like it's And it's not as easy to swap as like a ah an SH Figure Arts plate.
00:24:46
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But like... okay
00:24:51
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It's like a weird question. yeah It's so good. It's it looks like a Dick Tracy villain. I might yeah might display it like this. You know, what's interesting is I don't know if it's coming across really on camera other than the gaping hole in the middle of his head.
00:25:07
Speaker
the The inverted like features. the the yeah The curl is actually like tucked underneath ah the face. So like it's weird when you take the face off because it makes the face like a really the face plate is like a really odd shape in order to. Yeah.
00:25:27
Speaker
like um deal with his face. Oh, it lines up with the hairline. Yeah, it's very interesting. Oh, interesting. Oh, yeah, so it's like cut.
00:25:38
Speaker
Oh. and And I will say, in terms of the faces, like I like this neutral one the best, but um this neutral one is pretty good, and so is this neutral one, because they gave you three neutral faces with this figure.
00:25:54
Speaker
did you Did you just get screwed? Or does that like... No, no. like up with three i looked i looked I looked it up first. The second one looks like he's like furrowing his brow a little bit.
00:26:06
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And then you get laser. get conjunctivitis Superman. ah Up for three weeks Superman. Yeah. yeah No, no laser eye effect to pour it into that. But we do get we do get the heat. Like this is like post.
00:26:21
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This is post coital heat vision. so Superman's been running hard like he's on. He's on a bender. Yeah, I really I really don't. It is the brow. OK, so the brow.
00:26:34
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right. The brow in this one is slightly more furrowed than the brow in this one. That's the difference. And then I think the most serious face you get is is the dirtied one, right? Like the.
00:26:48
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Yeah. Because yeah serious he looks. Yeah, that is a very serious. That's a serious face. He's like, I just want to shower, man. You also yeah you also get a really interesting. So you get like one fist, right? And then you get the flying hands.
00:27:04
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Oh, OK. Yeah. Yeah. yeah right together yeah You get one wide open sea grip. That's it. Like a really like. So he like chokeslam somebody with this thing. Right. um But yeah, I do. I honestly, though, like jokes aside, I do think this is a really cool figure. um Like it it looks it looks really good. I mean, they're they're they've come a long way. The ankles don't have much better that like hideous ball joint on them anymore that like the original Superman had.
00:27:33
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um And this one is chokeslam in hand instead of like his murdering fist like the last movies. and then And then he's got the wired cape. So, yeah, I almost got got in Target the other day because I saw just the standard release of this, the like $25 one.
00:27:51
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And I was like, oh, that's fine. I could deal without, I guess, without having crypto because I i hadn't, you know, I missed the preorder and stuff on this, which, you know, the crypto is pretty cool. Crypto is cool, yeah. um But ah the regular the regular release, which is the same one as the dirty one that you have, ah only has the rubber cape.
00:28:09
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yeah't have this It doesn't have the soft goods cape, which is kind of a bummer. He also has the the choke slamming hand and the flight. Okay, same hand configuration. Just dirty. Yeah.
00:28:21
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i mean I wonder if the choke slam is going to be you know important in the movie. so Steve says, holy Superman. ah che It looks like the people who do press editing.
00:28:34
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It does have like a ah Boardwalk Empire type of vibe to it. like i who may it May it haunt all your night all your dreams. yeah thanks sir We'll be looking for that in the movie.
00:28:47
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Have you seen... the ah Which figure was it? Metamorpho? Yes, everywhere. Yeah, he's everywhere. Can't get enough of him, huh?
00:28:59
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the ah The Alfred figure from Styler? He comes with a ton of hands. ton of hands. That you can use on that Superman. Oh, that's a good point. I wonder if it's the same skin tone.
00:29:10
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I think it's really close. Okay. That's a good... that's a good ah and There's a couple of him hanging around that are at my local Target. so it's ah And if you ever wanted a Jeremy Irons, like it's a good lightness. It's a really good lightness.
00:29:25
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And it's got that cool. ah He's got a cool like work apron, too, and a bunch of little tools. Yeah, there's there's a lot of lot going on with that figure. There's a lot to like about that figure. Yeah. Put the pink eyed Superman face on his chokeslam hand and a belt around his face. her Whoa. OK. Oh, my. All right, Steve.
00:29:43
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Steve, Steve. I stopped reading that one out loud. i' had to give a better about a ah boy i would just say I've had to get better about reading them through before putting them on stage. Yeah. He said this. He should change the logo on his shirt.
00:30:00
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Did you guys pick up anything else? Anything anything else but on your desk? let's I mean, I did pick up this. i haven't opened it yet. um So speaking of our friends at Chubsy Wubsy, I picked up the ah the Evil Dead 2-pack.
00:30:16
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ah twopac So, ah from NECA. Nice. That looks really good. Yeah, this thing is this thing is awesome. It's, so... it's ah so it's from ah It's from the first film, so you've got Ash and Cheryl.
00:30:32
Speaker
Love getting like the non-main characters. we don't We don't get that enough in like the horror line. Usually it's just kind of the mains. yeah um But really cool. like that He's covered in blood.
00:30:43
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um Chris Ramo, the packaging designer over NECA, did an awesome job too with the the box art on this. yeah I love like the glossy windows and stuff. like I like that they switched over to these matte finishes because um you could shoot on them.
00:30:57
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which is really nice. So like, know, even on the inside, the the insert, I believe, is the cabin. I'll open it so we can look. But ah yeah, it know it Matt, but it also looks like it has a varnish on it, too.
00:31:08
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Yep. The only thing I found was that ultimate stone cold, which Eric was showing off before. Oh, dude, I'm waiting for that one. Yeah. See, Lego the inside of the cabin.
00:31:20
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is out is that it's at such a high DPI that they're they're printing these inserts out of that you can shoot on them, which is amazing. That's really good. Yeah. Steve says if that second head sculpt looks like Ash was looking to one side. Yeah. And then he does that a lot in the movie. So that's a good kind of nod to he Bruce Campbell is. He has a very exaggerated like. Yeah.
00:31:42
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Yeah, the panic look that he does. when they They do the extreme close-up. yep Yeah. And you get until he just you get the various like versions of Cheryl and in just demon form.
00:31:53
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Yeah. He looks like he found a little boo-boo. He did. Oh, and I just realized, too, she's got the hand with the pencil. was going to ask. I was going to ask. My ankle immediately hurt when you showed Cheryl.
00:32:09
Speaker
Oh, man. Yep, and you can you can recreate it. so Agent Varian is here. What's going on, dude? How's going? What's going on, Georgie? I picked up one of the early Ashes, but that 2-pack got me interested.
00:32:23
Speaker
i actually The only other Ash I have is the Ash from the other 2-pack. The one with him and the... um The Evil Dead 2 one? Yeah, the Evil Dead 2 one where it's him and the the the ah the dude in like the the tan and brown striped shirt that turns into a demon. I'm blanking on his name.
00:32:38
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think it Brad or something, right? It was weird. Yeah, it is. It's like Brad or Mark or something like that. but yeah, I have I have that's the only other Ash that I have. So um I'm excited to have this one. You know, it's got that slightly younger, you know, Evil Dead yeah one look to it. So yeah.
00:32:53
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Yeah, that's the the one I have has the it comes with the the recorder like when they play the tape and the economic comment and stuff. I was like, was I don't know how much more I need to this, but. yeahp ah I'm a sucker for the horror stuff. I actually love Evil Dead more than any of the other ones too because it's just like serious horror movie.
00:33:13
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yeah You mean the first one, right? you're saying Yeah. yeah yeah yeah It's serious, but it's not, right? like i mean you know There's always that that flavor to it with whatever you put Bruce Campbell in with Sam Raimi, which you know of course is everything.
00:33:26
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um so But yeah but like once 2 and Army of Darkness kind of they've really dialed up the like comedy aspect. Yeah, they leaned into it. Now, once you get a budget. Yeah. Once you get a budget. Yeah, it had rules.
00:33:41
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Yeah, exactly. Really good. Really good. There's a really good Bruce Campbell. Yeah. And you can and you could do one of those like really close up shots, too, with like a, you know, a nice like ah depth of field and get that like warped look. Yeah, that's that's awesome.
00:33:56
Speaker
Somebody needs to do a Jack trades, Jackable trades custom. There's a deep cut. It's a four two. and briscoe county i was gonna say down yeah dave dave would love some briscoe county figures i would love a briscoe county figure watch is like what are you nerds talking about so nerds
00:34:17
Speaker
ums we when i went to uh comic-con was a few years back it was when ash versus evil dead first aired um they had the whole thing they had the whole setup at like comic-con they have the uh his oh with the car and everything yeah yeah his caravan there and then uh at hammerstein they showed wound up showing like the first episode stuff like that but uh have it's gonna be hard to see here but um the evil dead 2 poster art oh wow here oh um that's cool which got me like an autographed poster like it would
00:34:55
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that's cool Like they were like, oh, no, come back tomorrow at like nine to this area. And I was able to go to the meet and greet. And Bruce was like, oh, can I take a picture of that? And apparently he has like an album of whenever somebody shows him an evil dead tooth tattoo or an evil dead tattoo.
00:35:12
Speaker
That's that's actually pretty cool. So now you're somewhere in a book in Bruce Campbell's house. Yep. I mean, I'm in Bruce Campbell's phone somewhere. Yeah. sorry Bruce Campbell's phone in his camera roll. That's something to brag about.
00:35:23
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um grew up Yeah. Groovy. Yeah. groovy yeah Yeah, groovy.
00:35:28
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ah ah All right, you primitive screwheads. What's up? ah So we talked a little bit about Studio Comic Con. Wait, J-Shot, did you get anything in this week? Yeah, yeah. What did you get? Sorry, sorry, sorry. What did you guys get? right i and The only thing I got this week was I got the i got a phone booth from ah Grime City. Ooh. It's kind of his his part two. That's not Clark Kent.
00:35:53
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It's not Clark Kent. It's Casey Jones pretending to be Clark Kent. ah But yeah, this is, it's, it's his V2. So it comes with the, I'm going to take Casey out for a second.
00:36:05
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The closing doors. It comes the closing door. So, but yeah, the door kind of floats a little bit, but that's awesome it's really, it's really cool. It's really detailed, of course, with him and, you know, the light on the top and stuff. So yeah, I'm digging it.
00:36:18
Speaker
That's awesome. You need George Carlin to go in there. I'll take a George Conlon figure. Yeah, take a George Conlon figure. Let's see. i Warren says he just got that three months ago from Grime City. Well, okay, maybe it's not as new as I thought. Yes, he is is very pricey, but but yeah, he does good work.
00:36:41
Speaker
oh Dave slipped into Bruce's DMs. No, not even. Oh, uh, homeless Joe. Yes. Homeless Joe would work in there too. Yes. I agree.
00:36:53
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I don't have that figure. Do you guys get that figure? You guys, do you guys go like, i don't want to call it, but I guess third party, right? Where it's like not mainstream character kind of stuff. Um, I mean, homeless Joe wasn't a third party. He was a Mexico figure.
00:37:07
Speaker
Oh, was he? Yeah. Oh, I thought he was a he was a third party thing. Oh, is Oh, no, I'm thinking of the wrong – yeah. You're thinking of – yeah, you're thinking of g the G.I. Yeah.
00:37:19
Speaker
I'm, like, looking around to see if I have anything, like, on hand. He is a third party. You know, it's not that I – I buy too much stuff as it is. Like, if I open the door to the third party stuff, it just – Stop it.
00:37:35
Speaker
It's just ah it's it's not a good it would not be a good move for me. Yeah. I mean, like I have a couple like, you know, toy pizza things, but yeah but that's not that's indie. That's different. That's like an indie toy maker.
00:37:49
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You know, here's a third party. so yeah, and it looks awesome. ah That's cool. How mad he is. Comes with three bit, three different mad faces.
00:38:02
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And you got a light up eye. what Oh, whoa. Did you just turn those on with a magnet? Yep. That's cool. Magnets. How do they work? oh Whoa. and think i rival yeah I think I left this on because the be the the light the eyes are not as bright.
00:38:22
Speaker
think I might have accidentally left it on after a stream. but And what? it just have like a little watch battery in it somewhere? Yeah, it's in it. Yeah, let me see if can pull it. But where's his face hole?
00:38:33
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Where's his face hole? this all cover It's too hot. The mechanisms. Oh, there we go. It's sticking.
00:38:47
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So there. Oh, OK. Got it. Got it. Yeah. he's now he's a robot Now he's a robot Superman. Yeah. yeah Henrock, you got wall XD corners?
00:38:59
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Already? WTF, mate. What the hell? What the hell? How'd that happen? All right. Well, fine. Clearly, High School Creations has a favorite.
00:39:11
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So look at that. All right. All right. I see. I see what we're doing here. Well, guess they started another rivalry on the stream tonight. There you go. There you go. Uh-oh. You can't start a rivalry with him. can't. I didn't play a rematch with Henrock.
00:39:24
Speaker
No, no. I was going to start it with Mikey. but yeah oh oh yeah Yeah, yeah. Yeah, go ahead. a Agent says be careful. hey hey go ahead. Go at it. Yeah, it's fine. Be careful posing. I see around if he's heard some QC.
00:39:38
Speaker
Yeah, I saw that there was ah some like stuff, but I think yours has been pretty solid for a while, right? Yeah, I've been posing around a lot. I'm not hand-handing the figure either. But now the battery is not turning off, so now I don't know what to do.
00:39:52
Speaker
Just take out the battery, I guess, right? that's yeahby Yeah, I think that's the that's the move and that's the move. Luckily, it does come with one extra battery, so I don't have to go out and buy another one. sure you grab few extra somewhere.
00:40:06
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Yeah. um So one of the things that I wanted to bring up with you guys yeah ah specifically today, right? by the The San Diego Comic-Con ah Mattel Creations like mega dump of exclusives.
00:40:22
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Because personally, I think there's one release in there. While it's not necessarily for me and something that like I would get in my collection, i think when i was going I think it is going to be the thing to beat in terms of coolest exclusives. Oh, cool.
00:40:38
Speaker
Well, I got it here. So you tell me where you want to go. Are you talking about the exclusive Pauline? Yeah. I mean, that's cool. That's the one. That's the one. That's the one that did it for me. Perfect timing for Pauline with the Nansa coming out.
00:40:53
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No, I mean, dress the Jurassic World team over there. Yeah. It has been just kind of like year after year of banger from them, right? Like they going back to the thing. And the faces are swappable on it.
00:41:06
Speaker
Yeah, I noticed that. walk so and and the faces are swappable on it like you yeah i noticed the whole it it's just so like they they understand it right because like right um um i think the biggest biggest legitimate complaint with any convention exclusive whether it's new york whether it's san diego is like when it's somebody or something that is critical to a collection like when it's like a character yeah that has never been released in any other you know form or function and the only way you can get it is through this and it's like
00:41:41
Speaker
You know, like ah Serpentor is is a great example of like a kind of crappy con exclusive because it's such an integral figure and we they haven't re-released it again.
00:41:54
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Like that's that's it. And it wasn't like that big, you know, in terms of like they've released bigger stuff at retail in terms of. you know offering, but like, this is the kind of wackiness that a, a comic-con exclusive should be because it is so cool and so distinctly weird and and distinctly San Diego to the end of the movie. Yeah. and And plays into like, and, and, and historically they've done the same thing. Like the Jimmy Buffett one last year was unbelievable.
00:42:23
Speaker
And it was shaving cream can, the shaving cream can with Nedra. The ah this the sex alert sexy Jeff Goldblum, um where the packaging looked like the book. Yeah, the the director Spielberg won. And then Gennaro getting eaten on the on the toilet. and toilet you know um They've just done such a good job with their
Comic-Con Exclusives and Collectible Design
00:42:46
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exclusives. like They get it.
00:42:47
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They understand. Mattel in general is is really good about that. Because even the Cena is... you know, is awesome because it's like unless you collect every single scene, a figure or collect every single ultimate edition. Sorry, Dave. um You you don't need that figure unless you're like a hardcore scene, a fan, because there's nothing all of those belts have been you know put out before. There's no new face sculpts in there.
00:43:13
Speaker
You can get a different version of the champ is here. Sina it's just like for a hardcore collector and it doesn't leave anybody yeah on the outside looking in, which is great. But I can see literally watch this commercial all day.
00:43:25
Speaker
Yeah. What's funny is I was at the WrestleMania the night or the raw the night after WrestleMania 29. So like that figure to me, oh I was there too. I think that. Yeah. Yeah.
00:43:38
Speaker
um With everybody s singing Fandango's theme song. Yeah, yeah, I was there. Yeah, i was there. That scene is that night. So it's a. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a cool one to have anyway.
00:43:53
Speaker
I still haven't even seen it. Can we can we can we look at that? Yeah, yeah got it right now. Pulled it up. The only thing I was going add is that for the the I don't see it. mark yeah it's uh good good the classic that's the only cita figure i bought was that the invisible one the ah the see-through one um i love though that the t-rex comes with its own exclusive like it comes with the version of the exclusive did you guys see that you notice that yep yeah that was a cool little touch too oh But yeah, this scene, the scene is great. You know, it's it's one of the world titles like more than world titles. I think it's got the is it all the world titles or does it have the championship too?
00:44:31
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No, I think it's all the world titles. Oh, OK. Oh, you're right. You're right. You're right. Yeah. It's been given him the US too.
00:44:41
Speaker
Well, isn't US spinner belt coming with that three pack? It is. Oh, is it just elites then? Yeah, those are just the elites. Yeah. the And it's it's the three, the prototype, the doctor thugonomics and the ah and you can't you can't see me.
00:44:58
Speaker
So yeah, it's the three like versions of Cena. But that this is like one of the best Ultimate Edition bodies that they have done. know, like it looks like him. It's proportionate. It's it's ah i it's great grumps got me in the chat with the with the John che John Chena. John Chena.
00:45:16
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john chi
00:45:20
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um but yeah i it's ah it's ah another like though great exclusive because yeah it's cena and jorts if you are a basic like you know like average collector you don't need this like you really don't but it's it's really cool for the hardcore fans i still might pick this one up anyway yeah and now a word from our sponsors
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00:46:30
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And now, back to the show. I going to say the only thing that we you know, I know, Matt, you've been disappointed with with Attell in the past is that they don't have a lot of their exclusives there. Yes.
00:46:43
Speaker
Yeah. At San Diego, it's a lot of online order. Yeah. that is like, yeah i think i think well, I think he I think the Shawn Michaels was supposed to originally be there. Yes. okay Yes. And then something happened where they didn't have him in like in on site.
00:46:58
Speaker
So you had to order it online. But like I walked in and I'm like, I walk into the the Mattel booth and I'm like, right, I want to get the Shawn Michaels figure because this is like the boyhood dream. WrestleMania 12. This is what got me into wrestling.
00:47:12
Speaker
And they're like, oh, you just you got to order it online. I'm like, what do you mean? I flew all the way here. Just to get this figure. This is one of the only times I've ever seen Matt get like angry at somebody else like for no reason. But I'm here now.
00:47:28
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Why can't I buy it? like Just scan the QR code. don't want to scan a code. I was waiting for to like, you know who I am? I'll pose it for you. I'll pose it for you.
00:47:41
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ah I missed Tom's comment saying I'm kind of glad I could pass in the scene as seen as an exclusive is like McFarland to Batman as exclusive. That's actually pretty solid. You know, I think in any other year that comment would be like on the money, but get they they actually like timed this right. Like I got to give it to them. They have been.
00:47:59
Speaker
um They've done a good job with this final. Yeah. The last time is now kind of here. It's it's very much so like last year. love him, hate him, don't want to talk about him, whatever, but like celebrating like the year of Hulk Hogan and the 40th anniversary of Hulkamania, they did a very good job of cranking out every goddamn version of the Hulkster you could possibly want. And most that you may not even. Yeah. yeah um They've done a really good job of doing that this year with Cena. Getting everything out there um in a timely...
00:48:36
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fashion which is not easy i mean that's just it's not not an easy feat to do and everything's been you know with the exception of the um the last time is now like the the wrestlemania cena uh i know like walmart was canceling a bunch of those orders yeah that's a day mine got canceled i was like mine did as well Yeah, so not not quite sure what's happening with that, ah but I know, too, it's supposed to go up on Chop WWE as well. Yeah, at some point. So, you know, my guess is that...
00:49:10
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maybe the allotment needed to be split and they didn't do that in advance. And, you know, they just can't fulfill everything on Walmart.com because it's got to go to shop WWE to v too pure assumption, but it's what it kind of seems like based on that initial press release that was put out for that figure. So my switch arrived. So I'll, I'll take the Sina cancellation.
00:49:32
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Yeah. Wicked Fat is in the chat. and He's also apparently talking the third person. i dig it. Also here. There you go. I like that it rhymed, too. so but Yeah, that's why I dig it. You're okay with it? All right. We'll let it slide. We'll let aside it slide. It's a cancel culture, i right?
00:49:49
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Were there any other reveals here today? i mean, i do I do love, you know, but Teth does a good job with these, like, you know, the Fisher Price kind Yeah, the little people. There's been a bunch of turtles that have been released, which I love.
00:50:03
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ah The fact that it's got head pool is hysterical. ah But these were cool. That's when time's fall. Yeah, that's what I was going to to.
00:50:13
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Computer's skipping here. ah Yeah, this was really cool. Yeah, it's very cool. yeah it's very cool It would be cool if there was a what call ah secondary sign hidden in there right at the end. where it says For the Lone Pine Mall. well pine mall Yeah, this is a cool look. oh They do good job with these too. They're doing a lot more of the Fast Furious ones I haven't seen coming out. Have you opened your DeLorean yet?
00:50:41
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Nope. Haven't even taken it out of the box. so The Orca is cool too. The orca. Where's the jaws? Yeah. Down that one. There you Yeah. yeah I saw actually see this one.
00:50:52
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This was to look more like, oh, it's like a, it's like a micro machine. ah It's it's Hot Wheels, but it's it's Hot Wheels. Sorry. It's a boat. It's the orca. Is it's micro machine? The jaws is there too.
00:51:05
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Yep. There he is. He showed up. You get Bruce. You get Bruce. i There. I think this would probably round out the team and T crossover, right? I think they're almost done with this. That was a cool box.
00:51:19
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Yeah, it was a really cool box. Box is really cool. It's almost like Super Shredder, like because they already did the Skeletor Shredder, like the basic release. Yeah. But this is almost like like super shredder Skeletor, which is really neat.
00:51:34
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and It looks like it comes with the throne too, right? like that's ah Is that in it? Yeah. yeah yeah said Yeah. so ah Have you guys seen the He-Man and Feather Cats crossover figures yet?
00:51:48
Speaker
Oh, yeah. They look really good. yeah We got a chance to see those in person at... um At Toy Fair. say Right. ah During the ah the Mattel showcase thing. And that was that was the highlight of the Mattel showcase. Like they had. i Most of their presentation was very. ah like retailer, like buyer driven, like they were talking about, know, like what they're trying to move the needle with and like the, you know, the fall and winter, like around the holiday season.
00:52:18
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So a lot of it was stuff that we had ah ah kind of already seen or like very kid driven, which is totally fine. Like, you know, it it is what is. Not everything can be collector based. But um when they got to the section with the the Masters Universe Thundercats, seeing those in person, they really did a great job with those. Like those arguably like at scale.
00:52:40
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Yeah. could be some of the best Thundercats figures like I think ever. yeah um You know, just because they they they really nailed the colors. The fact that it's kind of a two in one figure you can get to, you can get the original look out of it. um Yeah, it's just really smart.
00:52:58
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It's just very, very smartly done. I got a lot of other stuff. I was about to say, I think you also relit that rivalry in Jayshott's head when you said you saw it in Toy Fair because we we we could not even get into Mattel.
00:53:12
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We weren't allowed into it yet. We weren't allowed in. We we tried. I wish we recorded our attempts. so pretty funny i should add a couple of things that was that was our first time at toy fair we couldn't get it so i the first time know one but pretty pan yeah so first time we ever went to toy fair i didn't right on the edge of the pandemic yeah yeah it was like february of 2020 right yeah yeah so we're we were at like a super spreader event um
00:53:45
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And and and yeah, and everyone had just come from Hong Kong, too. So I mean, like legit, like we were at like a super spreader event. um We get it. You're cool. You even spread COVID before us. That's fine.
00:54:00
Speaker
Oh, my God. um Yeah, no, but I didn't know how Toy Fair worked. So, like, I just walked up to different booths and I was like, hey, can I go look inside? And the Mattel booth or Mattel floor, right? Because they have, like, an entire floor. Yeah. um so We walked in.
00:54:15
Speaker
or i was by myself, actually, the first day. So Dave dave wasn't able to to join me. I walked up to them and I was like, hey, can I come in and see? and they're like, do you have an appointment? I was like, no. And they were like, we'll see you next year. And they, like, slid me a business card and that was it.
00:54:29
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And I, I like didn't know what to do. I was so dejected because it was also the first thing I tried to do. Cause you walk into the Javits and you see giant Mattel logo. You're like, all right, let's, let's go see what's going on over there.
00:54:39
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I know what that is. Yeah. And ah yeah, that was it. Did not get in. Dick says they wouldn't let us in because of your Shawn Michaels about that. They're like, we know you. without yeah You should have done. You should dropped down to your knees. and This is the boyhood dream.
00:54:58
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This is twice now. Mattel is screwed. Yeah, apparently I got a rivalry here and Machi's got one with Patel. That's what's going on. What's up, Brian? How are you, dude? oh um yeah that was is eric canadian yeah i don't know yeah i know what that one was about what are you talking about yeah he just leaked it in there so yeah uh rick dom's in the chat too saying we're gonna need a bigger hot wheel so uh and uh just justin kalax is stopping by too what's going on man uh you can check out his show on saturdays i believe he does his show we're gonna we're gonna join his show in august because that's our first free weekend
00:55:33
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ah it's a but
00:55:39
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Hasbro doesn't even let me in. I have to be Machu's plus one. so i don't even get in for Hasbro. They're like, yeah, Machu, come on in. They're like, who are you? He's my plus one.
00:55:51
Speaker
Actually, this year, I think I was Tenny's plus one last year. so you know yeah That was it yeah at San Diego. That grinds my gears a little bit, but it's okay. Tenny's also got the Lububus. That's why they were like, come in. She was their she was their supplier.
00:56:06
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but We now know the truth. ah What else are you guys excited for this year? What are you got what are you waiting to see? I mean, the big thing is the the the Bondi ones.
00:56:17
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Like, Bondi and Tamachi Nations, they they haven't they haven't announced anything yet. And usually by this this point, I mean, we're... we Yeah, we're I mean, we're less than a month out now. Right. um Yeah. Or just about usually by now we have that. And, you know, like they announced the whole thing with like the ticket process and where the pavilion you got to go to pick up your ticket to get in the line to do the other thing. Right. Like usually all that is out by now.
00:56:41
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um So I'm kind of surprised because like they their stuff is always interesting because it's it's like. a pretty wide array, right? Like you get like a Dragon Ball piece or two, you maybe something from One Piece or Naruto or probably Marvel in there. Yeah. somewhere Sometimes it's a Marvel thing. so I mean, i'm a big Godzilla fan. So like usually there's some sort of kaiju thing and they're still, you know, they're still milking that ah that 70th anniversary of Godzilla, even though like we're well into the 71st year at this point. But like, that's fine.
00:57:10
Speaker
But you've got there's also the re-release Shin Godzilla coming out. Yeah. So I'm really, really hoping there's at least one like good Godzilla piece in there. um I'm a sucker for all the Dragon Ball stuff. I mean, that that the Goku and Gohan on on Nimbus was my favorite San Diego Comic-Con exclusive last year. And it's probably one of my favorite SHF really like releases of all time.
00:57:34
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um Just being able to hit them in like that pose from the the like commercial bumper just like warms my soul. don't even think I want to mine. I want like slug, slimy, like worm version of Shin Godzilla.
00:57:49
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Oh, God. Yeah. From the beginning. Gross Godzilla. What is this? I don't anybody know which one that is.
00:58:00
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so that Have you seen Shin Godzilla? No. Is that the newest one? No. So it's the one. but It's the one prior. Four minus one. yeah Okay. It basically like.
00:58:12
Speaker
Has it's. It's a body horror movie in a yeah hidden in a Godzilla movie. Like Godzilla turns from like, like just mutates from like form to form, but starts as like this gross, like slug worm thing. Yeah.
00:58:29
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And then eventually once like he turns into like his like final form in order to like do the atomic breath is like his jaw dislocate jaw dislocates like an anaconda. It's gross. It's so gross, but I love it.
00:58:42
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he fight doesn't he fire out of his tail too he like pulls up his tail and he like shoots atomic stuff out of his out of his tail yeah yeah it's gonna be in theaters tell me what to do Jesser I definitely plan on seeing it and Yeah, the theater.
00:58:59
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I agree with Jesse. um Definitely, definitely watch Shin Godzilla. yeah And also breaking and um Alamo just announced they've they've partnered up again this year with Toho ah to celebrate got the the anniversary of Godzilla, which is November 3rd or something like that. I think it's Godzilla Day specifically.
00:59:18
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um So they have opened up a theater in the Valley Fair Theater is Godzilla is kaiju themed. Yep. And they have they have all new like Toho, like exclusive Toho merch. And they said there's going to be a whole bunch of stuff happening on November 3rd for Godzilla Day. So if you have an Alamo near you.
00:59:37
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We do. We actually have we have an Alamo like Alamo like five minutes from us. It's actually pretty cool. Yeah, it's it's actually a right between us. Oh, awesome. Yeah. which Which one, if you don't Brooklyn? Well, it's between two sentinels, the the Alamo. So that's definitely it.
00:59:57
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it. Yeah, say I usually go to Yonkers, but yeah, no, it's I think we have the what is we have the Shaolin one, right? Is that what they call it? Yeah. Oh, the Staten Island one. Yeah. Yeah. But it's themed in like Shaolin, like a kung fu flick. So yeah, didn't they have like the RZA help? Wait, they're not all like that.
01:00:17
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No, no, no, each one is different. Yeah. Each one's different. Oh, everyone's. said Yep. Yeah. I didn't know that. Like the one in Yonkers is just like a regular theater. Like it's not like themed.
01:00:28
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um But yeah, some of them are are super themed. I think the Brooklyn one is themed, isn't it? I've been to the Brooklyn one. So I've actually gone to the original before, like the original in Texas, which is really cool to go. That was my first original Alamo.
01:00:39
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Yes. not the Did you go to the basement? or Yes. Yes, I did. We did. We did to the basement. I saw, oh my God, I saw the, we had, it because we had zombies, the drinks. It was the Joaquin Phoenix movie that was out that time period.
01:00:52
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This is years ago. I'm never going to remember the name of that movie. I can't remember what the hell I did yesterday. not going to see it. Yeah, where he was like trying to solve a crime. It was actually was a really good movie. It was a really good movie. I'll I'll effort it while we jump to another question here.
01:01:08
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ah yeah Trevor says he likes this mashup. All right. Take that. Feels like a good but finally something he likes from us. Yeah.
01:01:19
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ah Love, love Trevor. Love Trevor. Oh, and then Wiggy Fat is asking what's on the workbench. So you guys can chat about that way. I try to remember what the hell movie that was that I saw.
01:01:31
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mean I appreciate the Wu-Tang. Was it you were never really here? No, that wasn't it. Oh, man. I'll find it. I'll find it. Okay.
01:01:42
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Yeah, give me a second. Joker. It was a Joker. This is years ago. ah Her is also a a great guest for that. and Inherit Vice. It's Inherit Vice.
01:01:53
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That's what was. Oh, yeah. Yeah. this is a about yeah Yeah. so I don't think I've seen that one. it's it's its It's like a time period piece. so it's It was really good, though. It's so good PTA, too. It's Paul Thomas Anderson, right? Yes. Yep.
01:02:08
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Yep. So it was really good. So, oh, he says, wow, I love everything. Thank I don't know who he's talking it to, but yeah. but Probably not. You get hard hands. Collective everybody. Collective all of us. But yeah, what do you guys got on your workbench? What do you... I mean, I think you showed off that scary Superman...
01:02:29
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a um much still you're you're you're working on now this is like more of a regular more of a custom than you normally custom right like this yeah so i took this i took the suit off of the original spider-man uh custom that i did right with the yamaguchi i didn't sell this the back yet but um so this is the the v toys buck with the uh what you call it the uh sorry a hand fell off uh this is the v toys but the skinny buck right um And I still have the other Spider-Man in with the maximum yeah body.
01:03:05
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Right. But this one is a a skinnier body that I've been trying to tweak a little bit. I've added some sculpt to the actual figure itself to just fill out the suit a little more.
01:03:16
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But I do love the articulation on this. Because he can. How many of the suits you have? You have two? i have two. I have two. Yeah.
01:03:28
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So I'm actually this is a newer suit. So when I finalize this one, I'm going to take this one off and put it on here. Just keep swashing. So I do have I do have two, I guess, custom things on my on my ah bench here. One, i I did take a picture of this the other day, but I i realized I didn't really talk about it that much.
01:03:46
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I painted an Everett Ross body ah all all black and I clipped the tie off. There you go. yeah To make Bully McGuire. So um And he was the figure we all wanted. That is the figure we all wanted. And, you know, I did.
01:04:03
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i don't do a whole lot of customs. He's not doing the point, though. with Well, yes.
Figure Collecting Obsessions
01:04:08
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But that's still good, though. um This is just this is just a black acrylic paint. You know, i just took my time and, you know, did some light coats on it. I did look into the whole like using the Ritt dye.
01:04:21
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to like dye the whole figure black um i honestly still might go back and try that with another everett ross body i i i i bought i think the figure i own more of in any duplicate form or fashion is is everett ross from that that uh black panther 2 or black yeah black panther 2 wave um because when he hit 10 it's just like 10 12 bucks you get and you didn't even get those like ollies right that was nope i could you could get one right now on amazon for 12 bucks like every Every now and then I'm like, I'm bored. I'll just go order another Everett Ross.
01:04:54
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He's not even good enough for Ollie's. It's like when people were ordering retro rings and just like making different rings. and And when I did, so I did go, we don't have an Ollie's really near us in New Jersey. It's an hour away. yeah when When I go,
01:05:08
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ah Sometimes I have to go to Tampa for work. ah my My company has an office in Tampa and there is an Ollie's right next to the office. Like it's practically walking distance. in And I'm not going to lie. When I went there, I did come home with five Everett Ross figures. So, just so I just keep getting them.
01:05:24
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and Did you expense it? Did you work expensive? No, no, no, no. But they were $5 each. So i was fine. i mean, I guess the good thing about driving to the Ollie's down in South Jersey is there's a Walmart across the street.
01:05:35
Speaker
Yes. Yeah, there is. That's the one um where, what's figure. I think it's technically Middletown. Yes. Yeah. Yep. That's where I got all those red, the track suits.
01:05:46
Speaker
Yep. Yes. And then the the other, thank you again for that, by the way. yeah And then the other thing I got today. So ah one of my biggest pet peeves with the WWE figures is i I love the attention to detail of getting the titles with um the custom plates on it.
01:06:06
Speaker
But one of the things I do for my displays all the time is I just put whoever is the current champion like just out. So I like having these generic titles. And there's this guy ah that I found years ago on on Instagram, um Turnquist Fig Belts.
01:06:23
Speaker
Yes, I've seen yeah I've seen their work really good. He makes unbelievable. And I mean, like they are. They're Velcro. They're felt on the inside, so they don't scratch, you know, scratch or stain up your figures.
01:06:37
Speaker
um He does even like the details on the like the like little grommets on the side. These are all 3D printed and hand painted. um i got this in today along with the um the women's. eye United States champion championship. So, um, I'm now like caught up. I have all with the exception of the speed belt. I don't, I don't have the the speed belt yet. don't, don't know. There's not Saul Ruka either. So I don't know if I'm going to worry about that one, but, um, but now thanks to him, I, I do have all of the current titles, um, in generic form with just the, the w WWE, which is the fed plates on the side.
01:07:16
Speaker
Um, um, And yeah, they're they're just they're so they're so well built. ah They hold up there. They scale amazingly like he he just he does such a good job with these.
01:07:26
Speaker
How much do they go for? if You don't mind me asking. It varies. So it depends on depends on the belt, depends on the the size and everything. It also depends on how many you order. Like he'll, he'll, he'll work with you.
01:07:38
Speaker
Um, the wait list for them are really long and he does this whole thing through like discord where you got to go on discord. You got to sign up for his discord and you got to go through the, uh, the comments and everything. Um, but, uh, and, and get on the wait list, but it's totally worth it. Like I've been waiting.
01:07:54
Speaker
I want to say it's probably almost six months for these to be to be perfectly honest with you. But um the thing is, once he makes them and like he makes a bunch of them, he gets like a bunch out at once.
01:08:06
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ah So, um but yeah, definitely check out his work. i Yeah. Turin quiz fig belts. Love, love this dude. And I think he's on, if you're on, not on Instagram and you're only on, and you're only on X, I think he's ah the red Daniels.
01:08:22
Speaker
I think is his, is his handle there. So yeah. Awesome. Awesome stuff though. Awesome stuff. You've, uh, you've been able to agent variant. He's like, you know, this is going to make, he doesn't even like wrestling like and he'll do custom stuff for you too. So I don't know if you guys follow, um, collect horror on Instagram.
01:08:41
Speaker
Um, he's another just amazing photographer. Great, great dude. i he did this whole like sewer slam wrestling fig fed that, um,
01:08:52
Speaker
that he, uh, that he put together and he made him a custom like sewer slam title that looks like a, uh, looks like a sewer lid. Uh, yeah, he'll do, he'll do custom stuff for you too. So, um, you know, I know I'm looking in the back there, Machu, and I see you got Hulk is is in the corner. So if you're, if you're doing like Machu wrestling, he'll make you a, make you a custom belt.
01:09:15
Speaker
We should, we should do it for the, uh, what's it called? We do with toy daddies that they rig every year. Oh, the yeah top five. top Yeah, the figure your thing. Yeah. What is I wanted to. Yeah.
01:09:29
Speaker
I also wanted to show off this. I got from Prime to the first. Oh, yeah. What's here? Which one? you Yeah. ah I got the Marvel versus Capcom. Nice. I had to. Yeah. The light is a little too bright that it's overexposed. I need to order more from him. I only have yeah one.
01:09:46
Speaker
It slides in the back. Oh, that's so cool. I have a very early ah cab from him. I have a. um What's the what's the urban legend game that supposedly was like a polybius polybius. Yeah, he made me a polybius cab.
01:10:02
Speaker
Nice. um But it doesn't light up or anything like that. The ones that he's making now are just. Yeah. Next. He's getting better. fine i figure out what i put point With all with all the NPC ah figures coming out.
01:10:14
Speaker
Yeah. i Like slide it out to and make your own if you wanted to. You know, well, I was thinking to last year, like because you have that and you have the back. Like you put the the Osmo in there, you get a cool like front. Good shot. Yeah. Good. Yeah. yeah yeah I was thinking about that the other day. I was like, that's a good one. Yeah. And if you put a filter on it to make it look like the back of a CR, almost that effect from Wreck-It Ralph.
01:10:38
Speaker
Yeah. Where they're looking at people through tattoos in your brain. Yeah. one I like that. That's awesome. Yeah, I got to order more from him. i would love a um an X-Men cab, like a four player X-Men cab. and And I've seen he's done them before. And also he does the friggin episode one Pepsi machines, which are awesome.
01:10:57
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yeah yeah Yeah, I have a bunch of his stuff like from the like, just like seeing the progression of each one, you know, like, yeah, I have the turtles one. I have I have a regular Street Fighter two.
01:11:10
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Well, like seeing how he's like He's evolved right each time. Yeah. mean, mine is, I think, mostly foam board. Yeah. as they say one of The first first one was foam.
01:11:21
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yeah Yeah. And then he moved to like, I guess this is like and MDF or wood. Right. That looks so good. Yeah. I got it. I got to order another one from him. It's been it's been too long.
01:11:33
Speaker
That and with all these games getting re-released too. like and yeah And the figures. like you can you can now like Soon you'll be able to have your Marvel vs. Capcom figures playing Marvel
Arcade Game Legends and Event Excitement
01:11:43
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vs. Capcom. You have yeah your Jada Street Fighter figures lined up next to those new Game Reverse Marvel Legends ones. and you could be You could take the most meta photo ever. It'd be better if did Batman bra and Superman playing Marvel vs. Capcom. Yeah.
01:11:59
Speaker
I thought a bad idea. Batman and Scorpion. but yeah just get them all in there we'll just sneak them all in uh wicked fat says i should make one for the youtube wrestling pancheese used to do winner takes a 112 belt i love that we could do that too we need a tag team belt yeah uh does the game give your figure seizure like the arcade game did in real life Oh, Polybius? Yeah, allegedly.
01:12:24
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i I don't even know what this game is I'm going to have to look this up. Spell it. P-O-L-P-O-Y-B-I-U-S, right?
01:12:34
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Yeah.
01:12:37
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It's one of those, it's like the OG creepypasta. Yep, yep. I don't even know what creepypasta is, but all right. that I'm going to have to dive into this. a Weird. Okay. Honestly, if you want if you want to get your full story of it, ah on YouTube, Angry Video Game Nerd. was going say the AVGN episode. Yeah, the Angry Video Game Nerd Halloween special about Polybius.
01:13:01
Speaker
You'll get everything you need. Okay. it's and youll And you'll have a good time, too. I was going to say, you'll you'll actually very much enjoy it. Yeah, I think that's the best thing he's done ever.
01:13:13
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so It's one of them. Yeah. um But yeah yeah, great video. Yeah. but i Meanwhile, dicking around. I did. I did finish opening this. and Oh, no, I can't put it down.
01:13:26
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How did you manage to do that while talking and not make a single sound? Is that good? I turned my mic off for a little bit and ripped some ah some the mic on zip ties.
01:13:38
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Yeah, I got a little button here. just turned it off and made some noise. Then. yeah You didn't miss a beat, though, either. there you go. It was good. That was impressive. But we are coming up on our time tier two. And I know that, Eric, I know that you're in the attic. and So I want to make sure that you don't overheat. Appreciate it. Appreciate it. Yeah. But what's next for you guys? i mean, like, what's you know what's the next what's the next drop? What's the next interview? What's the next exclusive?
01:14:01
Speaker
What are you beating us next? So here's the funny thing. We don't plan that far in advance. You're giving giving us way too much credit. um The thing that's really great about toy people is they're kind of around most of the time. yeah So ah we we really only book a week or two out.
01:14:19
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um ah no next ah next up we have ah we have well in case you missed this we'll re-air it so this will be on our feed on monday there you go which will be really great um and then we're we headed to kind of con season so i know um uh kyle wadaga uh is looking to come back on and talk talk to us uh see what he's been up to since uh since his his unfortunate recent news but uh
01:14:51
Speaker
You know, he'll be he'll be on with us ah before Comic-Con. um i think that's the next guest that we have lined up. But then, you know, well we always but kind of wait to see what happens at San Diego Comic-Con and and ah and see what kind of.
01:15:05
Speaker
React. Yep. who Who we need to talk to, who who needs to explain themselves. um And then ah the big thing for for us this summer, too, is, you know, with SummerSlam being in our backyard, quite literally. Yes. um We're I don't know if you guys got tickets or planning on going, but we're we're going.
01:15:23
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Oh, OK. So that's to exciting for me because I've never been to a PLE pay-per-view. I've been vi to Ron Smackdown and all that. So, um yeah, I'm excited to see what they have there. Figure reveals. GCGCW is coming to town. So, yep.
01:15:41
Speaker
Are you going like as press or you just bought tickets? But know that you've done. i was gonna say you've done some really cool stuff with the wrestling. you kind community in the toy community too. actually did. I do want to bring that up a little bit. Like, cause I remember there was a clip where you were like asking questions and I don't remember who really called you out about it. And I was like, I was like, this is great. That was the best. So we,
01:16:02
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but so we We we managed to get in on the press press list for for AW for access to like just get in as press.
01:16:14
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It initially did not include access to the scrum like it just it was just like, hey, a press ticket, you know, here you go And then like they came back around basically and we're like, here, put the sticker on your badge. And we're like, this is get us into the scrum. And they were like, yeah.
01:16:33
Speaker
So we're like, OK, well, we're going to we look at each other. we're like, we're only going to ask toy questions. Yeah. Like, that's going to be the thing. i am shameless. So I'll raise my hand every single goddamn time.
01:16:44
Speaker
Yeah. And and, i you know, the only one we were kind of intimidated by was Don Callis a little bit. Yeah. well we Well, we just could. Did we? We didn't even get to ask him a question. i don't know. We didn't. because I was like.
01:16:56
Speaker
Don Callis is going to call us out. And I had a question. I had the best question for him. I had that that. That man has been in the wrestling world for God. What? At like 30 years at this point, probably longer.
01:17:09
Speaker
I think and the man's only had one action figure. And it was when he was the Jackal and it came with a Kurgan figure in the the Jack's Bone Crunchers. And I was going to ask him, like, you know, you are ah ah prominent figure in this in this industry. You are you've been on across multiple organizations. You you know you manage some of the ah the most powerful people in the business. Why do you only have one action figure?
01:17:38
Speaker
And I was going to see what he said. Well, Dom has it. So in case you're wondering, Dom has that figure. so I have that figure, too. i have it veryric good I have it in a Tupperware container downstairs. um But yeah yeah. Getting yelled at by Mercedes. That was fun. getting we We broke and MVP.
01:17:55
Speaker
That's my... that's my my like hit He was... Because, like, you know, like I collect, um I get it. Well, also, does right. Like you have this weird with these scrums. You have some people that answer the answer, the questions, in you know, kayfabe, they're in character.
01:18:11
Speaker
And then you have other other, you know, talent that that doesn't like Daniel Garcia was a perfect example of like somebody that was just answering it as him, like as Daniel Garcia, the person. Right. Um, And Dave asked a question. Mercedes in character. Mercedes was in character. MVP was trying very hard to stay in character. And between like his initial reaction and the fact that Bobby Lashley very quickly realized like they let toy bloggers in here.
01:18:37
Speaker
Oh, my God. They're only asking questions about toys like you you could see on his face. he was dying on the inside and wanted like wanted to contribute and was just like, nope, and MVP, you're this is all you. Just left him out there to die. was like, you're not a real you're not a real reporter.
01:18:58
Speaker
The only people he didn't do that to us. Yeah, it was so funny. It was so fun. And like, like, i I've never been more nervous than I was sitting in that room surrounded by like, I mean, we have people from like ESPN in front of us and like, you know like real like real journalists.
01:19:16
Speaker
There's somebody from like the Observer in there. Like it was. yeah And then they cut away to us and it's like, so wrestling figures and like even Tony Khan, we got to talk to like Tony Khan about wrestling figures. It was wild. but And he was like, thank you for asking those questions. Like, it's cool to see experts in a field. And I'm like, experts. I was like, great. yeah where do think so are you go A multimillionaire just called me an expert in the field. Good. I'm good. There you go.
01:19:40
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. You can hang your hat on that. ah That's awesome. That's cool. Yeah. the Daniel Garcia answer got picked up by like, actual wrestling news sites like yeah sports. cut I think picked it up. Yeah, it was weird. Yeah, it was so weird. Like there were people in the chat like, what how come they're not asking real questions?
01:19:59
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I remember I was like, these are the realest questions anybody asked. I was scrolling through my Instagram feed and all of a sudden like I and then i i see I hear your name pop up and I'm like, I know them.
01:20:11
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know that. I was like, these are actually business questions, though. and i like having a j the title I think KJ wants you guys to do a giveaway though. KJ's always asking for a giveaway, but there is a giveaway. there's There's your giveaway that's happening that I'm going to share again so that KJ knows he can go win a Lububu. He can head over to your page and and check out the giveaway there. so There you KJ. There you go, KJ.
01:20:40
Speaker
and okayji Go, ah go with a little boo-boo. And they give it with give him you can give it away on your stream. Yeah. We just keep you giving away. once it's Once it's yours, you can do whatever you want to do with yeah so There you We'd love you to enjoy it. However, that works for you.
01:21:00
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yeah Yeah, he's going to make 60 bucks on it and then go buy a Marvel Legends. That's what he's going do. It's like two and a half Marvel Legends. Yeah, it's a San Diego exclusive. Well, it depends. It depends if it's, you know.
01:21:12
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It's almost Donkey Kong Bonanza. Like it could either be a maximum or a box. Yeah. Yeah. It's almost done. We didn't even. There it is. There it is. My baby.
01:21:24
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We didn't even talk about what I wanted to talk about. want to talk about? What do you want talk about? Yeah, let's go. Cyclops. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Cyclops. Yes.
01:21:35
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Out of. Forget left left field at a left galaxy.
Character Line Expansions and Collecting Gateway
01:21:39
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Who knew? As strange as Arxys making a new Marvel fighting game, here was yeah MVC Cyclops from Figgy Arts.
01:21:51
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And they dropped it on Sunday, right? And like, Yimbo... I was watching Yimbo's stream with the... It was him and No Chilling. And they were just catching up with the chat, which takes forever because Yimbo's like 20 minutes behind.
01:22:02
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Well, I was like, screw the chat. Go to Insta Tomashi right now. and they just announced Cyclops. And like, this was just like blowing up all over the place. Everybody was losing their minds.
01:22:13
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Yeah, this was one of those really... i don't I don't know if this has ever happened to you guys. Like... you as, as people who share like toy news and stuff like that, I like just happened to look at my phone, saw the picture and it was like posted 45 seconds ago. And I was like, Oh sweet Jesus. And like immediately like taking screenshots and like putting a post together.
01:22:33
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um never for anything useful. No, no, There's no rivalry. There's no rivalry. I just happened to be looking at my phone when it went up 45 seconds ago. The closest that happened was like my, my fiance and I were talking about the guy who lived behind the bikes and Toys R Us.
01:22:51
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And there's a movie about it. That's coming out. just police like The trailer just got today. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. we that's the yeahy roof man ru man yeah Yeah, he's hiding i don't realize he's hiding from the cops and stuff.
01:23:07
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Wicked said he's so hyped for this, he probably won't buy it, but he's interested in the rest of the line. And I know that's that's the question here, right? Like, is what else are they going to do? ah Cable was on the same leak list as Cyclops. Interesting. That'd be cool. yeah So this is part of, from my understanding at least, this is part of their just their Game Reverse collection, which is not...
01:23:27
Speaker
is all of the game stuff that they do. So like Tekken, not Pac, I guess that's SH Figure Arts. Yeah. um I don't know if that has the game reverse tag though, because that's like their own, that's Bandai Namco's own. don Yeah, I don't think that has the game reverse.
01:23:43
Speaker
Yeah. yeah um But I think this is, the game reverse stuff is is kind of their catch all for anything that's like arcade. um Like it's not the same as like,
01:23:55
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Yeah. um But yeah, the the one thing that like, you know, and I'm sure most of the people in the chat in your chat here know I love that post with that is sticking his ass out.
01:24:06
Speaker
It's great. yeah yeah shakeky so It's from the game. It's I know. I know it is. It is. So they made her nasty. It is. on You know, I know a lot of people are looking at this and looking at like the colors and the expressions and the accessories and like the posability and everything.
01:24:22
Speaker
Just please, for the love of God, like listen, listen now. If you haven't already like realized, SH figure arts are so much smaller than your legends. This will not scale ever, no matter how hard you try, matter how hard you want it to scale with your Marvel Legends, it won't. So please, for the love of God, do not buy this thinking it will do that. You will be very upset.
01:24:45
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I will say that when I saw this, I was super excited. And then I was just like, wait a sec. Like somebody dropped it in the chat in one of my our chats that like, hey, this is, you know, ah only 145 millimeters tall, which is 5.7 inches. Yeah.
01:25:01
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And like at first I was just like, oh, man, this is not going to scale with anything. Well, like you could still you can still work with it in photos, right? Like you can do that. Yeah.
01:25:12
Speaker
Yeah. But the other thing is I was talking to 796 Studios and he brought it to my attention. He's like, what if this is just like an introduction to a line where they might, you know, like what if they want scale it down so they could do bigger stuff like Ascent and Orange or Chuck or Not?
01:25:31
Speaker
And I was just like, wait a second. OK, so I'm wrong for like getting mad that it was short, but like maybe I'll keep an open mind if this is the beginning of a line of game reverse figures that have their own scale.
01:25:45
Speaker
Yep. here Yeah, I mean, I'm for it. I would get, ah you know, I would recommend this if basically with two people, you know one, somebody who really just loves the X-Men and Cyclops and, you know, like just wants another version of their favorite character. Obviously, this is like a great thing for a collection like that.
01:26:04
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um and then two is like if you are primarily an sh figure arts collector and you want stuff that will scale with your like pretty well with your other sh figure arts like this is this is your jam you know that this will work um but we've all seen both sides of like the tamashi nations bandai spirits thing right where some lines they go super deep right like you get every character you could ever want plus some, you know, you look at Dragon Ball Z, you look at one piece, um, what they're doing with Naruto now, right? Like they, when they go deep, they do go really deep and into those lines. And if this is the case with that, and we know that they have the license with Marvel, right? Like they'll put out, you know, Deadpool and Wolverine, like they've put out, you know, movie figures from Marvel for years, which means that they have access to the IP. So,
01:26:54
Speaker
It SHF was what actually got me back into collecting. Right. Like i was primarily MCU like I only got MCU figures like that was what I only got. And then, yeah, I think Jay shot. You're the one who actually got me into getting legends because of the build figures and stuff like that.
01:27:13
Speaker
The build figures. Yeah. and And back in the day, it was like for the price of one of these figures, you could get five, you know, back then. Right. For a for a hundred dollar figure, you could get four or five. legends back then so yeah uh uh storm did street fighter right storm history fighter yeah yeah storm collector yes yeah yeah they had uh they had more of combat yeah yeah uh so yeah yep oh yeah well and storm's got these for marina now yeah the 30 we're at 35 price point ones mm-hmm
01:27:47
Speaker
I would imagine Wolverine's going to be shorter, right? If they're going to keep the scale, right? It'll definitely be shorter. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. One Sixth Year just says he wants to see Joy Toy do X-Men.
01:27:58
Speaker
Oh, jeez. I'd be, you know what though? I'd be, if they're going to do it, I want to see them kind of do what they did with the turtle line where it's like, take their own take on, like make their own take on it. So it's not just like another, like what what would they do? Like, could they do like a gritty kind of version of that?
01:28:12
Speaker
Yeah. And then Henrock asking, does SHF actually finish a line? But I think, you know, uh, To your point, Eric, like they for some lines, they go deep and they just keep yeah you know cranking out figures. So they also have like a lot of properties that are perpetual.
01:28:29
Speaker
Yep. Like there is no end. Yeah. I mean, like, will they ever finish? Well, what is a finished Dragon Ball Z line even look like? Right. Right. Or like one piece or like Godzilla or like. Yeah.
01:28:42
Speaker
But like, i mean I mean, you look back. at the The thing is, like some of their lines, right, have been going on for so long now, like Godzilla, for instance, right? Like there are characters that they re-release and redo and completely re-engineer.
01:28:54
Speaker
And people don't even realize that, like that figure came out six, seven, eight years ago, like, you know, um a Mothra, for instance, right? Like. you know, because the line has gone on for so long and engineering has changed and what they're able to do and, you know,
01:29:10
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i you know, quality and, and, and articulation, they go back and they revisit figures just like yeah pretty much every other, you know, and Ryan in the chat there just shouted out, right? Like yeah Marvel, Marvel legends, right? Like, yeah. don't finish team there It's true. Yeah. It does take time. You gotta, to you got to you gotta, you gotta give it time. And you also, also, if you want them to finish the line, you gotta, you gotta buy their product. Yeah. You got to support it.
01:29:35
Speaker
It's the only way that's the only way to keep going. you know, it's the same the same like, you know, phrase that everyone likes to throw around in kind of a negative sense. The the like vote with your dollar sort of thing yeah with these lines.
01:29:46
Speaker
the you know, if if this if this Cyclops, which I believe goes up for preorder on July 1st. um Oh, yeah, it's right there. Yeah. Yeah. you know If this does gangbusters, that's going to send the message that, like hey, you know let's do more of these. more um And and like the development cycle on an SH Figure Arts figure is a little bit longer than like your standard like action figure.
01:30:11
Speaker
So like I know a lot of people were saying, too, like, oh, you know it's timing. They put this out because they knew the Marvel Legends team was putting out their gamer you know Game Reverse figures. ah that has to be honestly like a pure coincidence because the development cycle on this for them to have timed that yeah because if you think about it the yeah the the re-release of all those games on that capcom collection was over almost announced a year over a year ago yeah yeah so i would say it probably has more to do with that than anything right
01:30:44
Speaker
yeah yeah like And like the other thing is, is um I feel like Gamerverse, it's also not only targets just us toy collectors, but also the video, you know, people who are into video games apps.
01:30:58
Speaker
Absolutely. And this is this was the argument that I made. I'm so glad you said that because this was the argument that I made when that entire Gamerverse wave of Spider-Man Marvel Legends came out. And a lot of people like completely lost their shit over it. Like, oh, who is this for?
01:31:13
Speaker
And it's like, How are you going to ensure that more people like more new people come to the action figure collecting world than there are today. Like you've got to find ways to open up those floodgates and find other people.
01:31:28
Speaker
And you know, for sure, with Spider-Man being the the the the incredibly well-selling game that it was, both of them, Spider-Man 1 and 2 and Miles for that matter. yeah Like, you know that people are going to buy a couple of those mint on card and they're going to put them next to their PlayStation on display.
01:31:45
Speaker
yeah And guess what? Maybe a couple of them are going to open it and go like, oh, these are really cool. cool Yeah. I like Spider-Man. Let me get more Spider-Man. Yep. Yep. yep No, you're right. You're right. And I like what Ryan says, too, here. He says, you know, buy what you love and you'll get more of what you love. And it's true. You know, if if we do that, I also think, you know, the fact that he is a little bit or these guys are a little bit smaller, you're missing prime opportunity to scale him even better with the Hasbro, with the Haslab Sentinels.
01:32:12
Speaker
Like, you know, those bigger figures, they look big, they look even more. more massive and or even like imagine just like a video game sized Sentinel like it's well, yeah, it's not much. It's it's not like it would be a huge, huge figure.
01:32:27
Speaker
Yeah, if you think because he had to be on the same screen, like right. right If you think about it, it would probably leave the same size Sentinel. It would probably be around the same size as like that gamer versus Venom. Or Juggernaut. Or Juggernaut.
01:32:40
Speaker
Yeah, like the deluxe legend. Those are huge, but you've got to think about it. They've got to fit on that screen. right like Yeah, the jugger ah the the Sentinel was probably like a little bit hunched in in in the game, right?
01:32:53
Speaker
yeah But imagine SHF making that. like You know the quality is going to be really good. And and that can go straight ah and that can be a premium Bandai exclusive. They don't have to worry about retailers and stuff for that, like the same thing that they did with that they're doing with the guru, um the Mechian and, you know, that they did with with ah ah the big ass dragon from from Namek. I don't know. i'm I'm blanking on the name all of a sudden.
01:33:17
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um But yeah, like they they will put out. ah Parangu? Paranga. Paranga. Paranga. There we go. We got there. We um we got there. Yeah. like they they They're known for doing those bigger pieces with like lights and effects. and Yeah. I mean, I think this is really... yeah and i think it's really good for... I think it's a healthy addition.
01:33:40
Speaker
you know um I'm also a big proponent of like competition, you know forcing other companies to do better and you know think about things a little bit differently. So... You know, i I see absolutely nothing wrong wrong with this. And on top of it, I think it's a gorgeous figure.
01:33:55
Speaker
I know people are a little hard on people are a little hard on the crotch area, um you know, because of the way of the articulation cuts. It does make him look like he's wearing a thong like, you know, the elephant in the room here. But I still think it's a the elephant wearing a thong in the room here. yeah um But I still think it's a it's a great figure. Like, it's just it's great.
01:34:15
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He's trying to wear a thong, but his mom wouldn't let him. That's what it is. so you know And we got a very generous $5 super hat here from Detour, the one and only Detour Custom, saying, sup, bros? Gameverse has completely revived my Hasbro chase.
01:34:28
Speaker
There you go. That's what we're talking about, right? Like, you're getting you know people back into things and stuff like that. So Old Grubby Nerd does want to ask, is he short compared to other SHF Marvel figures?
01:34:41
Speaker
tough to say yeah i mean yeah if you compare him to um it is going to be smaller than the mc it's the as yeah yeah right and it's definitely yeah it's definitely shorter than the spider verse figures because these are giant yeah yeah yeah they're mad over the shorts it's great um yeah no that it is going to be smaller than peter b by the way um the the the the spider verse figures are in scale with each other and nothing else.
01:35:15
Speaker
Yes. So, um, that's, yeah. yeah if If you're going to do a line, like to that point, right. If you're going to create a line of these, then that's okay. Right. Like if this was a one-off, then I'd be like, okay, yeah. Like why would you make it shorter? But to the point of, if this is going to so kickstart something, yep it makes sense. Right. It's, it's scaling with this other line. So, yeah and there's not a lot of is cables. The next one cable is going to be like,
01:35:39
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Thick compared to him. Yeah, it should be and should be about a head taller. So, yeah. um Yeah. And I mean, it's this is not meant to scale with the movie, the movie stuff like ah like no chewing said in the chat. he's he's shorter than than final swing Spider-Man, um which in your brain probably hurts.
01:35:58
Speaker
Like, but like. also like that's not what this is for right you know also if they get around to making that game reverse spider-man he's gonna be tiny compared to yeah especially everybody else i would love a spider i haven't seen anybody do it yet and i'm honestly thinking like i've not even tried myself with the maximum spider-man but has there been a spider-man that can hit that like that standard like crouching fighting pose from the maximum does yeah he can get there like this one where he's like doing this of thing yeah yeah yeah i haven't tried yet because i i only i recently restarted playing the games um i picked up the collection for like 25 bucks on amazon and i was playing it the other night as spider-man and i was like he is really close to the ground just wondering if there's a figure that could do that yeah so i have to i have to try yeah
01:36:46
Speaker
I feel like Macho's doing it right now. It's exactly what he's doing. So we're going to have to stall a little bit so he gets that going there. Ogre Bidart City's probably in the Kamen Rider scales.
01:36:58
Speaker
Karen Raider. I think you're Kamen Rider, but yeah, we'll go. Karen Raider sounds good too. ah Constantly asking for managers and stuff. i yeah know i We can say you can hit that pose with Pizza Spider-Man. So there you go. Oh, okay. All right.
01:37:15
Speaker
A little little pose off going. ah Oh, sorry. We can't steal that. That's from the Toy Daddies. They stole it from me. They stole it from me. Karen Raider's superpower is asking for the manager. I love it. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah damn. yeah All right. Yeah, he could he could get there.
01:37:31
Speaker
That's awesome. ah Karen Raider. You can't help but stare at his glutes. There you go. Karen Raider is perfect. rest Yes. Yeah. but Karen Raider figure.
01:37:42
Speaker
The target exclusive. Yeah. Hands on their hips and just furious with a bad haircut. Yep. Yeah, that would be dope. I love that. Oh, All right. I don't think we could go anywhere else than Karen Raider. Yeah, that's a good place to end.
01:37:57
Speaker
Great place to end. Good place to end. So, yeah, i Dave, Eric, thank you guys so much for being here. Definitely want to make sure you get a chance to plug the Instagram or the YouTube. um So it's AIC Collectibles on Instagram, and I think it's AIC on YouTube as well, right?
01:38:12
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at So at AIC underscore podcast everywhere. okay So um where wherever wherever you are on social media, we are also there at AIC underscore podcast.
01:38:25
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um Guys from our end, ah yeah this has been an absolute pleasure. is awesome. We got to do this again. We don't get to do other people's shows like often enough. um This was amazing. Thank you so much for hosting us. This was an absolute pleasure. This was a lot of fun. Like we said, it's been a long time coming, so I'm glad that we could do it. Like Batshu said, you're going to have to come back.
01:38:50
Speaker
We'll keep doing these. you know We'll do the crossover streams. and Absolutely. When you guys go lives on Friday, maybe we'll join in too. you know That's a great idea. Great idea. You guys want to see Mac get really mad? We need these guys on Highly Posable.
01:39:01
Speaker
Well. I'm about to put the whole table. Flipping table there. ah Yeah. Hey, you know we're happy to stop by. Like I said, man, this isn't going last forever for me. I'm going to do something stupid and people going to want to talk to me. So until then, if you invite me, I'll show up. So I'm going to ride it out as long as I can.
01:39:19
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That's all of us. If you tell us just a time and they came in in a link, we're there. That's it. Next week is also July 4th. Yep. Yeah. but we I don't know. we just we're gonna Are we going have a stream next week? Are we going to take a break? What do you want to do We're going to do a screw around. Well, July 4th is on Friday. I'm just letting you guys.
01:39:39
Speaker
yeah we We will not be streaming next week. No. Slackers. Matt, you want to a July 4th stream since they won't be on? I'll be watching fireworks. I'm to say, like if highly posable is also... so if If they're going to take if they're goingnna take the day off.
01:39:54
Speaker
If not, I would say maybe have some people pop in. yeah I will be day drinking and sitting on the beach. it could be even better. could be even better Machi, you got anything else coming up this week?
01:40:11
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ah Nothing this week, I don't think. yeah and yeah city We told you not to screw it. That's what we're doing. We're crossing the streets tonight, baby. That's what's happening.
01:40:23
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You got something coming tomorrow. What do you got? We're not talk about it. Maybe we'll find out either tomorrow or next week. We'll see. Stay tuned. We'll see you next week.
01:40:35
Speaker
um I think I'm done for the week. So, you know, again, if anybody needs anything, I'll be available. You're not going to be on Toymigos tomorrow? I don't think I got the call up. I'm still B-Squad on Toymigos. So, working my way up. And with with last last week's lashing from Ernie, I think, you know, I'm sure I'm sitting this one out.
01:40:53
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But, yeah, I'm always available, you know, anytime. Especially the late ones. Bye buy from Whole Face Superman. It's so terrible. It's so terrible. Yeah. Was that like the thing with the people who couldn't look at the back of the iPhone because of the cameras, camera holes?
01:41:10
Speaker
Yeah. What? What? I don't know what you're talking about. Yeah, there's like a phobia of like... Oh, for with like a bunch of holes, right? Yeah. I forgot the name of the actual phobia. I forgot it too.
01:41:22
Speaker
I just remembered it was a thing. Hole-a-phobia? This is terrifying. Anyway, all right. ah Whether you're watching live or on the replay or you're watching on the ASE retelling, it re recast of this, we appreciate the hell out of you guys. We wouldn't be here if it was a fuse. We keep coming back because apparently you guys like this. So we're going to keep coming back and until you don't.
01:41:41
Speaker
I'm just staring at it. Trypopphobia? I don't know. All right, we need to get of here. Trypophobia? i don't know. i Apparently, I got a fear of ending streams. So, appreciate you guys. Go be proud yourselves. Go make some content.
01:41:54
Speaker
Thank you guys for the AIC podcast, Dave. Eric, really appreciate this. And I got to stop staring at Superman. He's scaring the hell out of me. Machu, quick, let's let's get out of here. Let's go home. Bye, everybody. Bye.
01:42:06
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