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Welcome to Audible Interlude, a G .I. Joe podcast.
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I'm your host, Dave West, codename Phantom Troublemaker.
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And I am your co -host, Noel Wood, codename Crapshoot.
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And I'm your Cobra intern who did not realize
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that Iceberg was old enough to have sank the
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Titanic? Codename Legion Cub. In other words,
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it's cold in Florida, folks. I was just talking
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to somebody the other day and they were talking
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about flurries being in the air and they were
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afraid it was ash coming down from a volcano
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customer service. So every once in a while, the
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channel. If it's Monday night, you can catch
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all kinds of different toy reviews there. My
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review of Mara and I have to apologize. Because
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I am absolutely positive that I have referred
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to her as Mara. It is entirely possible all three
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of us might have referred to her as Mara at different
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times. I'm not sure I've always said Mara, but...
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Have you? Okay. I know there's no way. With all
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of the different oceanic, mer -oriented characters,
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there's no way I haven't said Mara at some point.
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I think I've only referred to her as the other
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woman. But my review of the Reaction Plus Mara
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finally goes up tomorrow. I had other plans,
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but the weather delayed three different deliveries
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that I've got coming in. But that's okay because
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I've still got a pile of stuff that needs to
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be reviewed, including those Reaction Plus figures.
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But check out the Needless Things YouTube channel.
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Like, subscribe, share. Schedule -wise... Our
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review of G .I. Joe number 18 is available wherever
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you get your podcasts. The first appearance of
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Roadblock, the first non -appearance of Noel,
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as far as a comic review goes. No, it was another
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one like a month ago. During the Dreadnought
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War. Was there? Okay, I remembered there being
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one where you weren't going to be here and then
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we realized like, oh wait, we can record this
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on Thursday. Yeah, I think that was my last trip
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to Southern California. Okay, yeah, once again,
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that's just for you, Noel, and your difficult
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life traveling. I feel so bad for you. Yeah,
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actually, we'll share this. So you sent us a
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message. You know, you were out in San Diego,
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and you sent us a message. about how oh this
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has messed up my plans because the super seven
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store is closed or gone or whatever oh i just
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laughed and laughed but yeah like we just i just
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apparently missed it i the message on i think
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instagrams was like december 31st oh yeah they've
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been talking about it for months i mean it's
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it's been a while yeah uh and uh schedule wise
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so G .I. Joe number 18, which is no free. Still
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pretty good. Not as good as it could have been,
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though. And the audible rumble also minus Noel.
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But with Chris Scott from Grindhouse Toys taking
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over the co -hosting duties and. It is the most
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insane rumble yet. I can't remember who I was
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telling because this week has been kind of a
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blur, but it said it is the G .I. Joe equivalent
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of the ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny.
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Like, it just left wrestling and became this
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anything goes martial arts wrestling. Yeah. I
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haven't got a chance to listen to it yet. Spoilers,
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everybody dies. I haven't got a chance to listen
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to it yet. I imagine it was probably better than
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both of the actual Royal Rumbles that happened
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over this past weekend put together. Oh, 100%.
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I mean, that's a low bar. I'm making that claim.
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I enjoyed the Women's Rumble. It was just too
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long. And the winner was not particularly satisfying.
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But the Women's Rumble itself, I thought, was
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really entertaining. They could have cut about
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20 minutes off of it. and had a different winner.
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And I like, I was like, why is it an hour and
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a half into this show? And we're still into the
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first match. Crazy. Um, so anyway, uh, and so
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check out the audible rumble, which by the way,
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so crazy that for the first time, uh, I put it
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on YouTube. Normally we don't do that with the
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audio episodes. But I just felt like it needed
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to go up there. So you can check out the video
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or the audio version of the Audible Rumble from
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last week. And then finally, our next live stream
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is February the 16th. So put it on your calendars.
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And it's worth mentioning that Toy Fair will
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be underway. So we will have all of the G .I.
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Joe related news and adjacent. from Toy Fair
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on that live stream. And then a couple of days
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later, probably a live stream, but I'm not positive.
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I'm waiting to hear back on something. But we'll
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be doing a Needless Things Toy Fair recap for
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all of the not GI Joes. Well, not all of, for
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our favorite of the not GI Joe stuff. So Needless
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Things YouTube channel, check it out. We have
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a lot of fun here. So I don't have anything like
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follow -up wise, as far as stuff we've discussed
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recently or, or, I mean, there haven't been any
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pre -orders and there's not really anything that
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we need to go back and take a look at. So I think
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we can get straight into the news and it, it,
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when it rains, it pours. It never fails when
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we're looking at like, okay. We're going to have,
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hopefully, G .I. Joe Day stuff. Because we didn't
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know until Sunday when Hasbro put it up on Instagram
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whether or not they were going to do anything
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for G .I. Joe Day. And then they did, and they
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had a ton of reveals. And then, of course, there's,
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oh, we've got updates from Call Sign Longbow
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and Skeletron and this and that. Now we're loaded
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with news. So let's go ahead and get to it. All
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right. actually this is this is how unsure we
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were that we would have any news to talk about
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uh my because i have to send out show notes before
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the weekend because i want you guys to have a
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heads up of what we're going to talk about and
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whatever else so at the time when i sent this
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the only bullet point we had was staring contest
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i was well i got the email i had to actually
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just google something real quick just to make
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sure that there wasn't some like thing that was
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out there in the news. I quickly figured out
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what the reference was. There's no news. All
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right, but we got lots of news. So first, we're
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going to start with this. And we don't often
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talk about, I mean, this is beyond third party.
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This is literally just a guy on Etsy. But every
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once in a while, there's something there that
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catches my eye, like that G .I. Joe ATV. thing
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that i got last year and i figure we need to
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talk about this if only for our pal tom .henry
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have you guys seen this 3d printed classified
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fang no and that looks really good like that
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is the closest to a fang i've seen of any 3d
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printed or even third -party stuff I like the
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blue. I like the color variations. And then you
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can see here, Cobra Commander in there. So the
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fit is solid for the figures. But when you zoom
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into it, you can see that 3D printed texture
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on it, which I know some people that's fine.
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For me, I can't. I can't. I can't do it. But
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it's $79 .99. So if you need a placeholder fang,
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that's for this kind of thing. what it'll cost
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when it comes out for classified so that's actually
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i think a really good deal so uh that is greebler
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elf which is pretty clever name uh on on etsy
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greebler elf you know what i should probably
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have uh kept that link to put it in the comments
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here never even occurred to me oh you know what
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else oh hang on oh where'd my qr code go oh boo
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stream yard boo had a qr code uploaded uh that
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we can throw up in the corner of the screen and
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uh i don't know where it went but that's okay
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all right so there is uh the fang classified
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scale fang by greebler elf i like the blue also
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yeah it's surprising that they've because they've
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done a couple of fangs throughout the years surprisingly
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never did one in blue What have... Okay, they
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did the Dreadnought fang. Did they do one on
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the 25th line? I mean, they did a fang, but I
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don't think they did anything other than black.
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I could absolutely be wrong about that. But it
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does seem crazy. Well, let's not talk about that.
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And that was not blue, even though it made us
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blue. Yeah, it is kind of crazy that they haven't
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done Crimson Fang, Arctic Fang. But I don't believe
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there's anything other. And tell us in the comments,
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please. I don't believe there's anything other
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than the Dreadnought and the Black. Interesting.
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Although, you know what? I've got to bring up
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the Facebook group because I really like this
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comment. As often happens in the Audible Army
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Facebook group. A little speculation, a little
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conversation came up, and somebody made a comment
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about a Fang. They get talked about a lot. Man,
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I don't remember what it was under, but I said,
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why not the flock of Fang's 12 -pack? Uh -huh.
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uh python patrol fang a crimson fang uh why not
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a sky patrol fang just do it up 12 fangs for
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i think it was 799 .99 is the number i threw
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out there oh here it is here it is uh wreck ship
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said why not two fangs And I said, why stop at
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two? Hasbro, Hasbro Pulse, HasLab, and the G
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.I. Joe Classified team are proud to present,
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after years of fan demand, the flock of fangs.
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That's right. A dozen fangs in every colorway
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you could want. Crimson Fang, Python Patrol Fang,
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Tiger Fang, Sky Patrol Fang, and so much more.
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All of this can be yours for the low, low price
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of $9 .99. Place your pre -order today. That's
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right. I originally was going to do $7 .99. And
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then I realized, like, No, we're in 2026, pal.
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Tariffs, this is going to be $1 ,000 worth of
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fangs. Grando fang. But yeah, very surprising
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that, you know, maybe not in a box set, but over
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the years we haven't seen more fang colors. All
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right. Moving on. Let me put my notes back where
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they belong. Oh, hey, you know what I'm going
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to do while I'm here in the Audible Army? facebook
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group uh i am going to put the link in the chat
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so if you're watching us live the link to the
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facebook group is going in the chat right now
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and there you go all right let's get back on
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task here Call sign Longbow, one of our long
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-awaited O -Ring projects. They've got an update,
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of course, for the end of January. They have
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a new production timeline. And as you're looking
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at on the screen, if you're watching us live,
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this month they have the proof card for Guru
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Spetsnaz to share. As they covered in previous
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months, these proof cards are used to make sure
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the cards are the correct size, colors, and layout.
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proof car, uh, proof cards that were bonuses
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for an album pre -order like these kinds of things.
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I've got one of these, uh, they made them for
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the Cobra Warlord, uh, for Joe Fest last year.
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So that they're neat as a, just a standalone
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item, but it's cool to see the process of one,
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what this card is going to look like. Uh, and
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it's, you know, it's bringing the vibes. It's
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bringing the nostalgia. So they met with their
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factory project manager this week, and he shared
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an updated estimated timeline for production
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on the latest round of figures. These dates are,
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of course, estimates provided by the factory.
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You know, the original estimates were we would
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have these, what, three years ago or something.
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So, yeah, we would know how this stuff goes.
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We've talked enough creators on the Needless
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Things podcast now to understand that back and
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forth with the factory is... It's tough. It's
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serious stuff. So, Lancer and Krasny Ninja final
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samples should be available around the end of
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March. If those are approved with no major issues,
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production would likely commence in April on
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these two figures. Uptown Volk Outlaw and Gru
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Spetsnaz. Additional modifications are being
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worked on at the model shop. If things proceed
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smoothly, production is expected sometime in
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June or July for these four. And then the remaining
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items, which are the henchmen, the adapt trooper,
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steel web shock trooper, MTF retro ops and resupply
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pack. Their project manager has already communicated
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the corrections for these figures to the model
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shop so that they match the modifications made
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to the others. If all goes as planned. tooling
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on these figures would begin in late summer early
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fall and uh yeah i mean that's that's quite a
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timeline but i gotta imagine it's kind of crushing
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uh to the grindstone folks to have to report
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you know we'll have an update this time next
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year on those last five uh items or four items
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no five items five items It's got to be rough.
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But also, I mean, we've met all these people.
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You can talk to them all at Joe Fest, Joe Lanta,
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these conventions. You can shoot them a message
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on Instagram. They're good people working really
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hard on this stuff. It's very close to their
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hearts. And for them to have kept the passion
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for these projects going for this amount of time,
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it's just going to make the end product so worthwhile.
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Speaking of timelines, take a look at that Skeletron.
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Yeah. So, Christian, when you first saw this,
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what was your reaction? I mean, just like now,
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I'm speechless. it has such a not quite a 70s
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vibe but a throwback vibe to it like it looks
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like something that would be on a on the cover
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of like a war tales of terror magazine oh yeah
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totally you know what i mean yeah it's just such
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a great unique look and i mean obviously inspiration
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for it beyond the original figure there's all
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kinds of pop culture things you can you can see
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here but at the same time it feels like an original
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creation i can't wait to get it in yeah i get
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a bit of a terminator skeleton meme from it as
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well uh oh yeah yeah uh let's see okay so They've
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been in communication with the factory over the
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last month and shared some information that is
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of interest as they push for completion of the
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4 -inch and 6 -inch Skeletron figures. And that's
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something worth remembering is that this is coming
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in two different scales, similar to the Wolf
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Troopers. The factory will be relocating to a
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much larger facility in the spring. The factory
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has hired additional tooling expertise and a
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very positive impact has already been experienced
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with tooling speed, quality, and overall success.
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While a larger manufacturing facility will certainly
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be helpful to all the toy makers who share use
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of this facility or this factory, the tooling
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process itself has easily been the most significant
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and continuous bottleneck over the course of
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this project. And we know, again, from talking
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to all these creators, we know that because a
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lot of these guys are using that same factory.
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The fact that they're upgrading. They're going
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to have a larger facility, be able to work on
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more things. Very exciting. It means we're going
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to see a lot of this stuff really start getting
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more efficient. Taking the upcoming Chinese New
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Year shutdown, the pending factory move, and
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the tooling improvements all under consideration,
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we've been provided a schedule that places fulfillment
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of both the 6 -inch and 4 -inch Skeletron figures
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into third quarter of this year. As you well
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know, providing accurate product delivery estimates
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has been the most difficult part of this campaign,
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and we will continue to be transparent with the
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information we are provided. And that's to their
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credit. They all have been very transparent about
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the process. So on the one hand, it's a little
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disappointing that we've got quite a few more
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months to wait before we get these Skeletron
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figures in hand. But at the same time, it will
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be worth the wait. And I kind of like this stuff
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being spread out. I like that I got to savor
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each portion of the RoboSkull delivery as opposed
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to having just this big pile of stuff at once
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that I'm opening, reviewing, and not really getting
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to enjoy it. I kind of like the spread out time.
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Now, I'm not going to lie. I didn't need it to
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be this spread out, but I do like a little window
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between shipments. And then finally, speaking...
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of chris scott from grindhouse toys who was our
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guest co -host for the audible rumble uh we've
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got some updates over here he will be at toylanta
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march 27th through the 29th uh i will i will
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know i'm sure you'll be there i'll be there as
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well just sort of hanging out i don't i don't
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think we've got anything programmed this year
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which is totally fine by me uh well we've got
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to look at the world war hell packaging which
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chris talked about uh in his opening on the Rumble.
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They're still awaiting their first check models
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for World War Hell. They're hoping they'll have
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them to display at Toylanta. So that means there
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could be some actual, like, nice early figures
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at Toylanta for people to look at. Kenny's New
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Year's about to begin, and so we should get them
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after our factory partners get back from their
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holiday. We'll keep you posted as we get more
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information. They've received questions about
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Backerkit, which we talked about also in the
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Audible Rumble. The backer kit, he had a meeting
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with them last week and just trying to figure
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it out. Shouldn't be too much longer. And then
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the VHS packaging, this team has been cranking
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out the nostalgic goodness. These are still work
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in progress and early peaks behind the curtain.
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So things can and will change. There's no wear
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or stickers yet. So if you've seen Grindhouse
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Toys other releases, you know that there's always
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like those VHS boxes. There's always some nice
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wear. It's all... originally done stuff. It's,
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it's really beautiful product. So what we're
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looking at here doesn't have the wear applied
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and it's not the final product, but it gives
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you a little taste of what this packaging is
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going to look like. And on the left, you see
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the outer VHS box. This is, we're looking at
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right now, Captain Winchester by Brian Sauer.
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And then on the right is the interior packaging,
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which is going to look like an actual video cassette.
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And then have the figure visible in the window.
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And then all the accessories and everything will
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be inside that interior box. So this is like
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a full, it's going to be like opening a VHS tape.
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Next up is Sergeant Graves by Shane Pierce with
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a new Sergeant Graves logo by Jason Bendinew.
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It looks awesome. And I love that, you know,
00:24:06.609 --> 00:24:08.450
we talked about back when Classified was doing
00:24:08.450 --> 00:24:11.799
this, having the different artists. work on the
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packaging to give each figure its own identity
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and style uh which was a mixed bag with classified
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I think if we're being honest but I love it here
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where each character he's got a different artist
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working on each one and it really does have its
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own personality but they all have a really cool
00:24:32.599 --> 00:24:40.700
throwback feel uh and then finally Sergeant Specter
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by Tim Barron with the connecting spine art by
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Mark Pennington. So if you look in the middle
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of the VHS box portion of this, you can see when
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you line all of the figures from the first wave
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up on your shelf or all the boxes. there will
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be a mural on the side, kind of like the old
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WrestleMania box sets or the Star Trek VHS box
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set with the Enterprise on the side. So very,
00:25:07.130 --> 00:25:09.490
very cool feature there. And that art is by Mark
00:25:09.490 --> 00:25:14.490
Pennington. And I love this weird translucent
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blue cassette. Yes. After my many years of working
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in a video store, getting some nice flashbacks
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of when you get the special tapes that were clear
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or orange or something like that. You know, and
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I'm trying to remember. I remember a green Ninja
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Turtles, I think. But I don't remember different
00:25:42.789 --> 00:25:47.190
color cassettes being. as common as you would
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think no no they were they were very rare so
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like it felt special when you got one um except
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for like I think all the Nickelodeon releases
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were done in orange they were all orange that's
00:25:58.410 --> 00:26:01.529
right yeah yeah but occasionally you got one
00:26:01.529 --> 00:26:04.549
that would be a translucent or um or even like
00:26:04.549 --> 00:26:07.349
you'd get like a a case a slip cover like one
00:26:07.349 --> 00:26:08.910
of my favorites was the Johnny mnemonic cover
00:26:08.910 --> 00:26:13.029
because it was a clear slip cover that had like,
00:26:13.089 --> 00:26:15.789
you could see the tape in the character's head.
00:26:16.210 --> 00:26:19.809
So stuff like that was always fun. That's cool.
00:26:19.950 --> 00:26:23.410
That's cool, man. That, that would be, that would
00:26:23.410 --> 00:26:26.190
be a fun episode to do for the channel. Like
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best VHS packaging. I'm going to make a note.
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All right. So that is our update for world war
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hell, which is top of my list right now for.
00:26:39.950 --> 00:26:42.410
toy anticipation obviously very excited about
00:26:42.410 --> 00:26:44.609
operation monster force everything going on there
00:26:44.609 --> 00:26:48.289
uh but we've got you know we've got products
00:26:48.289 --> 00:26:50.650
in hand now and we know it's awesome and what's
00:26:50.650 --> 00:26:54.470
coming is coming and there's like when it's a
00:26:54.470 --> 00:26:58.509
brand new product there's a different kind of
00:26:58.509 --> 00:27:02.789
anticipation for it you know uh yorktown joe
00:27:02.789 --> 00:27:06.910
has a question and i apologize i cannot remember
00:27:06.910 --> 00:27:10.230
if we talked about this before the rumble um
00:27:10.230 --> 00:27:13.950
but uh he asked will these be available in backer
00:27:13.950 --> 00:27:17.029
kit later i want that sergeant specter but had
00:27:17.029 --> 00:27:19.509
too many pre -orders hitting during this campaign
00:27:19.509 --> 00:27:21.890
yeah that's that's what we were talking about
00:27:21.890 --> 00:27:24.750
before he's setting up the backer kit now uh
00:27:24.750 --> 00:27:28.490
and and just like these other campaigns well
00:27:28.490 --> 00:27:30.329
you know what okay no i don't want to speak for
00:27:30.329 --> 00:27:37.180
chris because We didn't specify that because
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I was probably assuming all the figures would
00:27:40.720 --> 00:27:42.859
be available, and he's probably assuming everybody
00:27:42.859 --> 00:27:46.099
knows the figures would be available, but I don't
00:27:46.099 --> 00:27:50.599
think we've discussed it. So I will say this,
00:27:50.619 --> 00:27:54.259
Yorktown Joe, I expect that all of the figures
00:27:54.259 --> 00:27:56.200
from the Kickstarter will be available in the
00:27:56.200 --> 00:27:59.099
backer kit, but I'm not going to confirm it.
00:27:59.720 --> 00:28:03.599
Pop over to... Pop over to the Instagram and
00:28:03.599 --> 00:28:05.140
just leave him a comment on one of the posts
00:28:05.140 --> 00:28:09.460
asking about it. Although the backer kit, I believe,
00:28:09.519 --> 00:28:12.619
will probably be up within the month. So we'll
00:28:12.619 --> 00:28:22.859
all know before too long anyway. All right. Sorry,
00:28:22.940 --> 00:28:24.720
got to make those notes. That's a good show idea.
00:28:26.000 --> 00:28:30.799
All right. Next up. Ooh, this one. This was one
00:28:30.799 --> 00:28:34.069
of those announcements. That initially I got
00:28:34.069 --> 00:28:37.089
so excited and then I started thinking about
00:28:37.089 --> 00:28:40.150
the reality of what it was and just ended up
00:28:40.150 --> 00:28:46.309
with, oh, because Street Fighter is coming back
00:28:46.309 --> 00:28:51.049
to Hasbro. And my first thought was, well, back
00:28:51.049 --> 00:28:54.630
in the day, that was part of the G .I. Joe line.
00:28:55.509 --> 00:28:59.559
So at the very least, like. These'll look awesome
00:28:59.559 --> 00:29:01.480
beside classified figures. You know, I'm certainly
00:29:01.480 --> 00:29:03.619
not expecting, well, I don't know. They could
00:29:03.619 --> 00:29:06.480
do a GI Joe street fighter crossover again, but
00:29:06.480 --> 00:29:13.160
here's the problem. Uh, as we're aware, Hasbro
00:29:13.160 --> 00:29:17.759
has two different six inches scales. They've
00:29:17.759 --> 00:29:21.359
got the classified Marvel legends scale, which
00:29:21.359 --> 00:29:24.660
is larger. And then they've got their movie scale,
00:29:24.859 --> 00:29:29.859
which is, uh, ghostbusters star wars black series
00:29:29.859 --> 00:29:32.359
and other movie properties that they've done
00:29:32.359 --> 00:29:35.519
and uh indiana jones they're they're smaller
00:29:35.519 --> 00:29:41.480
they do not mesh with classified so every bit
00:29:41.480 --> 00:29:44.400
of interest i had in this street fighter license
00:29:44.400 --> 00:29:49.140
just went none at none now if it was going to
00:29:49.140 --> 00:29:50.880
be compatible with classified which it still
00:29:50.880 --> 00:29:54.240
could be but i doubt it uh there's a good chance
00:29:54.240 --> 00:29:55.779
i would buy a bunch of these because imagine
00:29:55.779 --> 00:30:01.890
having classified style figures of the street
00:30:01.890 --> 00:30:03.670
fighter characters like that would look awesome
00:30:03.670 --> 00:30:05.930
especially considering who's playing them in
00:30:05.930 --> 00:30:08.049
the movie because this is for the movie yeah
00:30:08.049 --> 00:30:10.730
and they'd be probably because i mean with the
00:30:10.730 --> 00:30:13.809
gi joe street fighter figures we got those were
00:30:13.809 --> 00:30:16.829
with a couple of exceptions mostly cobbled together
00:30:16.829 --> 00:30:20.809
from previous moles right whereas i think these
00:30:20.809 --> 00:30:27.279
would be all new tooling yay Brian Fabian with
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the super chat enjoy the show and glad to support
00:30:30.420 --> 00:30:35.140
you guys keep up the great work yo Joe thank
00:30:35.140 --> 00:30:37.420
you we appreciate it that is awesome thank you
00:30:37.420 --> 00:30:43.490
so much um yeah no you were saying like it was
00:30:43.490 --> 00:30:46.650
mostly kitbash stuff kitbash repaints minus like
00:30:46.650 --> 00:30:49.710
heads and like say you know e honda's body obviously
00:30:49.710 --> 00:30:54.990
right but this this whatever this is i'm positive
00:30:54.990 --> 00:30:58.029
would be new to even if it is yeah you know to
00:30:58.029 --> 00:30:59.369
go with classified it's gonna be new tooling
00:30:59.369 --> 00:31:00.730
because they've got to base it off these new
00:31:00.730 --> 00:31:05.329
portraits uh although now that i'm thinking about
00:31:05.329 --> 00:31:07.829
it we don't even know that this will be 1 12th
00:31:07.829 --> 00:31:11.000
scale They may, this may end up being part of,
00:31:11.019 --> 00:31:12.519
cause they mentioned in the, let me read the
00:31:12.519 --> 00:31:15.319
press release. Okay. Some of the press release.
00:31:15.420 --> 00:31:17.539
Don't worry. I'm not reading the whole thing.
00:31:17.940 --> 00:31:21.859
Completely unnecessary. Hasbro announced a new
00:31:21.859 --> 00:31:23.720
licensing partnership with legendary entertainment
00:31:23.720 --> 00:31:26.220
time to the highly anticipated live action street
00:31:26.220 --> 00:31:28.759
fighter movie arriving in theaters, October 16th,
00:31:28.759 --> 00:31:32.720
2026. Oh, and by the way, if you have not watched
00:31:32.720 --> 00:31:35.400
the teaser trailer for the new street fighter
00:31:35.400 --> 00:31:39.680
movie, please watch it. It looks like the dumbest
00:31:39.680 --> 00:31:41.960
thing I've ever seen, and I could not be more
00:31:41.960 --> 00:31:48.279
excited for it. And the cast is crazy. Yeah.
00:31:48.420 --> 00:31:53.500
It's crazy. Cody Rhodes is the only one that's
00:31:53.500 --> 00:31:56.420
popping into my head right now. Well, isn't Roman
00:31:56.420 --> 00:31:59.700
Reigns, Jason Momoa? There's a bunch of people
00:31:59.700 --> 00:32:04.480
in it. Yeah, Jason Momoa. Okay, here we go. I
00:32:04.480 --> 00:32:09.160
just brought it up because I need to know. So,
00:32:09.160 --> 00:32:12.299
yeah, Roman Reigns as Akuma. Cody Rhodes as Guile.
00:32:12.880 --> 00:32:16.359
Andrew Koji as Ryu. If you remember, he was Storm
00:32:16.359 --> 00:32:22.339
Shadow. Jason Momoa as Blanka, or Blanka, or
00:32:22.339 --> 00:32:27.259
whatever it is. Absolutely crazy. And it just
00:32:27.259 --> 00:32:32.839
looks like so much dumb fun. Very excited for
00:32:32.839 --> 00:32:36.880
this. But the figures have... and eric andre
00:32:36.880 --> 00:32:41.339
as don salvage between that and the master universe
00:32:41.339 --> 00:32:44.799
street fighter movie yeah like i feel like between
00:32:44.799 --> 00:32:47.099
that and the master of the universe trailer i
00:32:47.099 --> 00:32:48.640
mean we we don't know what the movie is going
00:32:48.640 --> 00:32:50.759
to be like but i feel like right they've started
00:32:50.759 --> 00:32:53.319
they're finally starting to get kind of where
00:32:53.319 --> 00:32:55.880
how to approach these properties hopefully for
00:32:55.880 --> 00:32:57.900
live action movies hope so because they both
00:32:57.900 --> 00:32:59.900
both of them that's a that's a good comparison
00:32:59.900 --> 00:33:05.599
too because tonally they they are similar and
00:33:05.599 --> 00:33:09.440
i think what they should be oh also david desmalchian
00:33:09.440 --> 00:33:17.559
is in bison yes kills me 50 cent is balrog i
00:33:17.559 --> 00:33:21.240
mean this it's it's it could be one of the worst
00:33:21.240 --> 00:33:24.640
movies ever be ever made but i will bet you a
00:33:24.640 --> 00:33:27.920
paycheck it'll be entertaining yeah it ain't
00:33:27.920 --> 00:33:32.390
gonna be boring But anyway, so let's get back
00:33:32.390 --> 00:33:34.329
to the press release. Again, not going to read
00:33:34.329 --> 00:33:36.450
the whole thing, but Hasbro's legacy with the
00:33:36.450 --> 00:33:38.289
Street Fighter franchise stretches back to the
00:33:38.289 --> 00:33:40.210
arcade -era phenomenon Street Fighter II, the
00:33:40.210 --> 00:33:42.329
World Warrior, when the company created a popular
00:33:42.329 --> 00:33:44.349
line of action figures, vehicles, and play sets.
00:33:44.730 --> 00:33:46.829
It's just interesting to me that they specified
00:33:46.829 --> 00:33:49.130
action figures, vehicles, and play sets. Not
00:33:49.130 --> 00:33:51.009
that I think they're going to deliver that necessarily,
00:33:51.390 --> 00:33:53.869
or at least not in a collector -friendly format.
00:33:54.170 --> 00:33:57.200
We could very well see... Something like what
00:33:57.200 --> 00:33:58.940
they're doing with Marvel, where they've got
00:33:58.940 --> 00:34:01.400
the, you know, the smaller figures with the vehicles.
00:34:01.460 --> 00:34:04.480
And I don't know that they've done play sets
00:34:04.480 --> 00:34:08.300
for those. I mean, come on. They just did a Tron
00:34:08.300 --> 00:34:12.380
HasLab. They got to do a Street Fighter HasLab
00:34:12.380 --> 00:34:17.320
to give us finally the Eco Warriors Toxo Lab.
00:34:17.539 --> 00:34:19.880
Because that was repainted for Street Fighter.
00:34:20.079 --> 00:34:23.239
Yeah. Yeah. But, you know, as far as we know.
00:34:23.769 --> 00:34:27.710
this could be spoiler there. That's, that's how
00:34:27.710 --> 00:34:34.010
we're getting our thunder machine. You know what?
00:34:34.030 --> 00:34:36.590
I wouldn't even be mad at that. If they know,
00:34:36.650 --> 00:34:39.750
if they did, if they use the budget that they're
00:34:39.750 --> 00:34:42.789
going to have for street fighter to tool up the
00:34:42.789 --> 00:34:47.150
thunder machine and, or think about what if they
00:34:47.150 --> 00:34:49.449
do it as part of their three, seven, five thing,
00:34:49.489 --> 00:34:54.179
you know, speaking of Tron, they could do, There
00:34:54.179 --> 00:34:56.880
are a lot of interesting possibilities, but I
00:34:56.880 --> 00:35:01.800
am, I guess, pre -disappointed without any facts
00:35:01.800 --> 00:35:04.639
to support it that they're probably not going
00:35:04.639 --> 00:35:07.960
to do anything that's part of classified, even
00:35:07.960 --> 00:35:13.340
though it's right there. All right. Next up.
00:35:13.340 --> 00:35:16.179
Next up is still Hasbro news, but it's the big,
00:35:16.179 --> 00:35:19.920
big news that we got on Sunday. And we're going
00:35:19.920 --> 00:35:24.059
to start with, you know what, Noel? Why don't
00:35:24.059 --> 00:35:30.239
you do the honors? Hey, I know that guy. Yeah.
00:35:30.420 --> 00:35:34.940
So we got a bunch of classified drops, a bunch
00:35:34.940 --> 00:35:39.860
of digital renders on Sunday. And of course you
00:35:39.860 --> 00:35:42.039
can't, we've been talking about him for a while.
00:35:42.199 --> 00:35:44.800
I'm surprised we got the render before we even
00:35:44.800 --> 00:35:47.119
got a name reveal or anything, but this was one
00:35:47.119 --> 00:35:48.940
of the ones we were saying, one of the last figures.
00:35:50.679 --> 00:35:53.000
I think this was the last one between 82 and
00:35:53.000 --> 00:35:54.760
86 that we hadn't got yet that wasn't a vehicle
00:35:54.760 --> 00:35:58.179
driver. So we're finally getting airtight. And
00:35:58.179 --> 00:36:00.940
he looks exactly what I would expect a classified
00:36:00.940 --> 00:36:04.199
airtight to look like. I don't know if his helmet's
00:36:04.199 --> 00:36:07.619
removable. Right. That's what I wondered. But,
00:36:07.639 --> 00:36:11.219
I mean, it looks like it could be. But then again,
00:36:11.460 --> 00:36:13.559
they would often, like with another one we're
00:36:13.559 --> 00:36:15.340
going to see, if you have a removable helmet,
00:36:15.400 --> 00:36:18.920
it will often be. next to it in the render so
00:36:18.920 --> 00:36:25.400
i think if i'm remembering i don't think wetsuit
00:36:25.400 --> 00:36:29.900
had his helmet off in the first render we saw
00:36:29.900 --> 00:36:33.559
of him okay i i and i could be wrong about that
00:36:33.559 --> 00:36:37.559
i think though that wetsuit was like this yeah
00:36:37.559 --> 00:36:42.639
okay well i said it would make serious yeah and
00:36:42.639 --> 00:36:45.039
it would make sense because it looks like I don't
00:36:45.039 --> 00:36:47.579
think that all that is one piece with the piping
00:36:47.579 --> 00:36:49.559
and all that going to his back. So I presume
00:36:49.559 --> 00:36:51.800
that that's probably just there to give you a
00:36:51.800 --> 00:36:54.920
better idea of it. A few modifications from the
00:36:54.920 --> 00:36:58.460
original. He's got a holster, a drop holster
00:36:58.460 --> 00:37:00.460
on his leg. And then he's got knee pads, which
00:37:00.460 --> 00:37:03.039
are all things that, you know, it can only enhance
00:37:03.039 --> 00:37:06.039
airtight. Because I just always felt like from
00:37:06.039 --> 00:37:10.300
the waist down, he was kind of blah. And, you
00:37:10.300 --> 00:37:13.210
know, did a pretty... perfect update on the little
00:37:13.210 --> 00:37:17.289
sniffer and his backpack. Although the first
00:37:17.289 --> 00:37:19.630
thing when I looked at that backpack and y 'all
00:37:19.630 --> 00:37:22.030
old internet people can probably vouch for this.
00:37:22.170 --> 00:37:24.210
All I knew is that first thing I saw that I got
00:37:24.210 --> 00:37:26.849
a goat see in my head. So if you don't know what
00:37:26.849 --> 00:37:35.889
that is, Oh no, look it up. Shame on you. Wow.
00:37:37.309 --> 00:37:41.230
Yeah, you're right. yeah he looks he looks great
00:37:41.230 --> 00:37:43.449
the colors are wonderful i love the fact that
00:37:43.449 --> 00:37:46.889
they didn't uh they didn't completely change
00:37:46.889 --> 00:37:50.030
the sniffer which i'm glad you said at first
00:37:50.030 --> 00:37:51.730
because i can't ever remember the name of it
00:37:51.730 --> 00:37:57.230
even though it's the most obvious name but uh
00:37:57.230 --> 00:38:01.269
yeah he looks great there's a part of me that
00:38:01.269 --> 00:38:05.789
might have liked his coveralls to be a little
00:38:05.789 --> 00:38:10.159
bulkier but I don't think that's a correct thought
00:38:10.159 --> 00:38:16.780
because this isn't, you know, it just doesn't
00:38:16.780 --> 00:38:18.440
need to be, it doesn't need to look like a hazmat
00:38:18.440 --> 00:38:20.400
suit. That's not what this is. This is a field
00:38:20.400 --> 00:38:22.559
operative. This is like, but, but in my head,
00:38:22.579 --> 00:38:24.099
I think that's what I keep going to is like,
00:38:24.099 --> 00:38:25.940
it'd be kind of cool if he was almost like mole
00:38:25.940 --> 00:38:31.139
ready, but I kind of had the same thought crossed
00:38:31.139 --> 00:38:32.639
my mind. But then when you look at the details,
00:38:34.300 --> 00:38:36.639
unlike the original airtight figure, he does
00:38:36.639 --> 00:38:41.159
have pockets on his legs. He does have actual
00:38:41.159 --> 00:38:45.119
pockets on his waist, but also pouches on the
00:38:45.119 --> 00:38:52.900
side. Not a hazmat suit necessarily, but it looks
00:38:52.900 --> 00:38:58.539
great. A $300 airtight. Or a hazlab airtight.
00:38:59.239 --> 00:39:07.349
Oh my gosh. So next up, Real quick, Kevin Riddle
00:39:07.349 --> 00:39:10.869
popped in with, it is removable per full force.
00:39:11.030 --> 00:39:14.230
However, I do not recommend using full force
00:39:14.230 --> 00:39:17.090
on your figures because they might break. Keep
00:39:17.090 --> 00:39:19.849
up that neck peg first, and then you can just
00:39:19.849 --> 00:39:23.690
gently pop it. Anything's removable if you believe
00:39:23.690 --> 00:39:28.070
in yourself. I just hope that he does have the
00:39:28.070 --> 00:39:31.429
receding hairline. That's my ask. And that's
00:39:31.429 --> 00:39:35.159
where... friend of the pod brett white popped
00:39:35.159 --> 00:39:42.260
in with using norman osborne head yeah absolutely
00:39:42.260 --> 00:39:47.179
which as a matter of fact it just so happens
00:39:47.179 --> 00:39:51.400
i've got a little hall of heads on my uh desk
00:39:51.400 --> 00:39:55.639
here if you will and look who is sitting right
00:39:55.639 --> 00:39:57.840
there although he's looking he's looking a little
00:39:57.840 --> 00:40:01.699
sour to be airtight like i don't see airtight
00:40:01.699 --> 00:40:07.179
being like quite mean mugging like that but uh
00:40:07.179 --> 00:40:11.480
yeah that's funny and out on the desk all right
00:40:11.480 --> 00:40:13.719
christian i'm gonna let you uh lead us off on
00:40:13.719 --> 00:40:23.730
the next one the hydro viper oh um okay so the
00:40:23.730 --> 00:40:26.650
first thing i noticed is look at the eyes remember
00:40:26.650 --> 00:40:29.909
how when they revealed copperhead like because
00:40:29.909 --> 00:40:32.789
of that full mask like the crazy eyes are what
00:40:32.789 --> 00:40:36.190
stuck out and it's not even just that he has
00:40:36.190 --> 00:40:39.590
like these crazy eyes we'll see you know once
00:40:39.590 --> 00:40:43.070
we we see a physical copy but look at the dark
00:40:43.070 --> 00:40:46.030
well he almost looks like the frag viper like
00:40:46.030 --> 00:40:47.889
he's got the same thing going on as the frag
00:40:47.889 --> 00:40:51.010
viper and and i you know i meant to go look at
00:40:51.010 --> 00:40:54.329
the file card to see because i think by this
00:40:54.329 --> 00:40:56.889
point in the line most of the cobra troops were
00:40:56.889 --> 00:41:00.090
getting like genetically modified in some way
00:41:00.090 --> 00:41:02.949
or something and i i forgot to go back and look
00:41:02.949 --> 00:41:04.590
at it so if anybody wants to bring up the file
00:41:04.590 --> 00:41:08.210
card here i you know what and i keep talking
00:41:08.210 --> 00:41:10.869
and i'll look i looked i didn't read the file
00:41:10.869 --> 00:41:15.889
card but i did have to go back to yojo .com to
00:41:15.889 --> 00:41:18.829
look at the original figure because of the knife
00:41:19.469 --> 00:41:22.289
and i'll i'll mention that in a second uh but
00:41:22.289 --> 00:41:30.550
i love the the clawed um fins i think they look
00:41:30.550 --> 00:41:35.309
really cool the mask fantastic i mean we're getting
00:41:35.309 --> 00:41:41.730
a manta ray in the gi joe line um it looks like
00:41:41.730 --> 00:41:45.170
you know it's just a slug uh but that's okay
00:41:45.170 --> 00:41:47.849
because i don't necessarily need an articulated
00:41:48.829 --> 00:41:54.269
manta ray um he has his harpoon pistol and then
00:41:54.269 --> 00:41:59.650
his dagger knife which again this this goes back
00:41:59.650 --> 00:42:04.230
to um giving credit uh to the years of being
00:42:04.230 --> 00:42:09.210
on the show and how um i noticed things but his
00:42:09.210 --> 00:42:15.630
knife that is an almost an exact copy of of darkon's
00:42:15.630 --> 00:42:20.820
knife from the super joe And I thought, oh, is
00:42:20.820 --> 00:42:23.659
this possibly them hinting at something? And
00:42:23.659 --> 00:42:25.260
I went back and looked at the original figure
00:42:25.260 --> 00:42:28.420
and no, that's the exact same design. Yeah, the
00:42:28.420 --> 00:42:31.820
accessories are just about all identical to the
00:42:31.820 --> 00:42:35.679
original figure with upgrades, obviously. Although
00:42:35.679 --> 00:42:39.500
this is, and I presume even though he has a pet,
00:42:39.599 --> 00:42:41.780
he's not quite a pet because that's not large
00:42:41.780 --> 00:42:46.449
enough and articulated enough to be a pet. If
00:42:46.449 --> 00:42:48.309
there were ever an opportunity to throw in an
00:42:48.309 --> 00:42:51.630
extra pair of hands, this would be the one. That's
00:42:51.630 --> 00:42:55.710
in my notes. Okay, well, first, I'd like to correct
00:42:55.710 --> 00:42:57.449
everybody. The proper scientific name for that
00:42:57.449 --> 00:43:02.969
creature is Majestic Undersea Flap Flap. Noel,
00:43:06.909 --> 00:43:14.500
I'm glad you got that. So, yeah, my next note
00:43:14.500 --> 00:43:17.980
on this was swappable hands would be cool. Because
00:43:17.980 --> 00:43:22.699
I like the monster hand, but now you've just
00:43:22.699 --> 00:43:24.940
got a monster hand. Well, and that's identical
00:43:24.940 --> 00:43:27.619
to how the original figure was. It was his left
00:43:27.619 --> 00:43:30.059
hand, it was the webbed claw hand, and then the
00:43:30.059 --> 00:43:34.099
right hand had a fist. Or, you know, had a holster
00:43:34.099 --> 00:43:38.829
hand. But that was almost 40 years ago. better
00:43:38.829 --> 00:43:41.630
but at the same time and this is the this is
00:43:41.630 --> 00:43:46.030
what i got to is uh swappable hands would be
00:43:46.030 --> 00:43:49.550
cool however there's nothing i would remove from
00:43:49.550 --> 00:43:53.030
this loadout like there's nowhere to fit swappable
00:43:53.030 --> 00:43:57.510
hands in here so i get it yeah uh the mask is
00:43:57.510 --> 00:44:00.949
absolutely incredible yeah i i they have achieved
00:44:00.949 --> 00:44:07.809
what the original toy was trying for uh i would
00:44:07.809 --> 00:44:10.170
like it if it were well we don't know this is
00:44:10.170 --> 00:44:12.010
a render we don't know what the final product
00:44:12.010 --> 00:44:14.369
will look like but i would like it if it were
00:44:14.369 --> 00:44:18.150
a little brighter purple it still looks great
00:44:18.150 --> 00:44:20.949
and the purple and red combo is really nice but
00:44:20.949 --> 00:44:22.630
if it were just a little brighter and that's
00:44:22.630 --> 00:44:25.269
something i we or i've said about a lot of the
00:44:25.269 --> 00:44:28.570
classified figures is like just just up the vibrancy
00:44:28.570 --> 00:44:32.429
just a little bit just a little more everything
00:44:32.429 --> 00:44:34.530
i feel like could stand to be a little brighter
00:44:34.530 --> 00:44:39.559
yeah Well, the chat has let us know that they
00:44:39.559 --> 00:44:43.059
are surgically and chemically altered to be able
00:44:43.059 --> 00:44:46.559
to withstand the pressures of the deep, which
00:44:46.559 --> 00:44:49.840
makes them... To withstand nitrogen narcosis.
00:44:51.219 --> 00:44:55.739
Yep. I knew I would get tongue -tied over reading
00:44:55.739 --> 00:44:59.679
that, and I'm not even going to try with the
00:44:59.679 --> 00:45:03.320
fat production. Oh, okay. Well, wait. No, this
00:45:03.320 --> 00:45:06.579
explains... The synthetic webs are implanted
00:45:06.579 --> 00:45:09.260
between their fingers and subcutaneous fat production
00:45:09.260 --> 00:45:12.079
is stimulated by chemical injections to provide
00:45:12.079 --> 00:45:16.440
natural insulation. This is crazy. Yeah. Next
00:45:16.440 --> 00:45:18.739
time I go to the living seas at Epcot, I'm going
00:45:18.739 --> 00:45:23.260
to ask them about all of these terms. Yes. You
00:45:23.260 --> 00:45:24.980
know, you're going to ask, can you do this to
00:45:24.980 --> 00:45:29.059
me? Like, can we make a, can we make a, uh, Cobra
00:45:29.059 --> 00:45:33.260
intern eel? Also, for our comic reading fans,
00:45:33.800 --> 00:45:37.219
Nowhere Man Child said G .I. Joe European Missions
00:45:37.219 --> 00:45:43.239
issue 14 made Hydro Viper his only appearance
00:45:43.239 --> 00:45:45.340
in the 80s. So I'm going to be tracking that
00:45:45.340 --> 00:45:52.500
down to read it. Very cool. Okay. Well, you know
00:45:52.500 --> 00:45:54.400
what, Christian, you're going to continue on
00:45:54.400 --> 00:46:02.420
because this is your guy. Oh. My gosh. So so
00:46:02.420 --> 00:46:08.500
listeners, keep in mind this. So the last two
00:46:08.500 --> 00:46:11.659
weeks I have been on an early morning schedule
00:46:11.659 --> 00:46:14.559
at work. I'm usually a night guy. So I've been
00:46:14.559 --> 00:46:16.679
getting to work at like five o 'clock in the
00:46:16.679 --> 00:46:21.219
morning. So when all of these pictures came through,
00:46:21.300 --> 00:46:24.480
I was incredibly busy at the moment, incredibly
00:46:24.480 --> 00:46:30.559
tired, waiting to get my second wind. This hit,
00:46:30.679 --> 00:46:35.340
and I was like, oh, yeah, let's go. If you were
00:46:35.340 --> 00:46:41.599
going to update Overkill, man, I love everything
00:46:41.599 --> 00:46:44.260
about this. I'm hoping when we see the physical
00:46:44.260 --> 00:46:46.940
copy, the few critiques I have about his legs
00:46:46.940 --> 00:46:52.239
maybe get touched. But I love the head sculpt,
00:46:52.460 --> 00:46:56.280
the chest design. Obviously, they're not going
00:46:56.280 --> 00:46:59.380
with the clear piece, which is fine. Brittle
00:46:59.380 --> 00:47:03.539
plastic. But you can clearly see the hinges.
00:47:03.659 --> 00:47:06.159
So it's going to open up, have the gun inside.
00:47:06.400 --> 00:47:12.079
I also like without that clear green or the,
00:47:12.099 --> 00:47:15.440
you know, the clear piece that the shape of his
00:47:15.440 --> 00:47:21.260
armor, it looks like a Python head. Yeah. Which
00:47:21.260 --> 00:47:25.519
is, I think adds a whole other dimension to him.
00:47:27.760 --> 00:47:31.619
For fans of the original figure, I also really
00:47:31.619 --> 00:47:35.300
appreciate that they made the claw attachment.
00:47:36.500 --> 00:47:39.880
With the original figure, that laser pistol and
00:47:39.880 --> 00:47:44.579
the claw was one piece. And it's really big and
00:47:44.579 --> 00:47:49.039
not my favorite way to display him. And it just
00:47:49.039 --> 00:47:54.519
looks unwieldy. It doesn't look cool. And I get
00:47:54.519 --> 00:47:57.679
what they were going for. But yeah, it's not
00:47:57.679 --> 00:48:02.719
my favorite accessory. So I'm glad that they
00:48:02.719 --> 00:48:06.679
made it so that you can do the claw on as a separate
00:48:06.679 --> 00:48:12.679
piece. Brett White says, I will be very much
00:48:12.679 --> 00:48:14.739
in my feelings if Overkill doesn't come with
00:48:14.739 --> 00:48:18.320
a giant backpack. That is the one thing I think
00:48:18.320 --> 00:48:24.269
that he is missing. but i highly doubt we're
00:48:24.269 --> 00:48:27.130
gonna get it but 3d printers out there just know
00:48:27.130 --> 00:48:31.769
i was just going to say take my money right here
00:48:31.769 --> 00:48:35.750
gridiron gridiron probably already has some kind
00:48:35.750 --> 00:48:38.610
of big imagine what they they might do they turn
00:48:38.610 --> 00:48:41.429
that big backpack into like a weapons chest or
00:48:41.429 --> 00:48:45.289
something oh open up and you just make sounds
00:48:45.289 --> 00:48:47.230
like the original one did and then you know you
00:48:47.230 --> 00:48:49.730
could repaint it for all the figures that'll
00:48:49.730 --> 00:48:51.730
eventually be like what were the sonic fighter
00:48:51.730 --> 00:48:55.570
you know repaints eventually yeah i mean that
00:48:55.570 --> 00:48:59.409
that would be cool i wouldn't mind it it wouldn't
00:48:59.409 --> 00:49:02.949
be permanently attached like the uh the original
00:49:02.949 --> 00:49:05.150
because some of them were some of them were not
00:49:05.150 --> 00:49:07.989
well this was from the first ones though the
00:49:07.989 --> 00:49:10.769
talking battle commanders and it was permanently
00:49:10.769 --> 00:49:15.659
attacked Well, again, nothing is permanently
00:49:15.659 --> 00:49:18.460
attached if you believe in yourself. If you have
00:49:18.460 --> 00:49:19.780
a screwdriver, nothing's permanently attached.
00:49:20.280 --> 00:49:24.480
This is a figure that I have waited for for a
00:49:24.480 --> 00:49:28.400
very long time in this line. And with this render,
00:49:28.699 --> 00:49:32.300
I am super happy and I am really, really excited.
00:49:32.519 --> 00:49:35.019
I cannot wait to see the actual physical copy.
00:49:36.099 --> 00:49:40.619
Now, I love that they added the rivets across
00:49:40.619 --> 00:49:44.570
the top. The thigh part of his leg. Where that
00:49:44.570 --> 00:49:48.389
swivel joint is. Because. When you look at the
00:49:48.389 --> 00:49:51.630
render. It does give me a little bit. Slaughter's
00:49:51.630 --> 00:49:56.050
Marauders. Slaughter vibes. Of looking like he's
00:49:56.050 --> 00:50:01.250
wearing gold leggings. So I do hope. That the
00:50:01.250 --> 00:50:05.670
physical copy. There's more sort of like. Straight
00:50:05.670 --> 00:50:08.570
lines. On those legs. As opposed to curved. To
00:50:08.570 --> 00:50:12.650
give it a little more robotic feel. um but also
00:50:12.650 --> 00:50:15.929
in hand being able to see like those rivets and
00:50:15.929 --> 00:50:18.369
all that extra detail they put in will also probably
00:50:18.369 --> 00:50:24.730
help with that yeah this one is a must -have
00:50:24.730 --> 00:50:28.289
this this is when classified gets weird and what's
00:50:28.289 --> 00:50:30.309
funny is they got weird but it's stuck to pretty
00:50:30.309 --> 00:50:33.090
much the original design which is what makes
00:50:33.090 --> 00:50:37.179
this so weird uh the The weapons being multiple
00:50:37.179 --> 00:50:39.219
pieces. Where it looks like you can clip the
00:50:39.219 --> 00:50:42.219
laser onto the wrist. And plug in the claw. Or
00:50:42.219 --> 00:50:45.980
the. I'm not going to say sword. Laser dagger.
00:50:46.280 --> 00:50:49.380
I don't know. So you can do whichever you want.
00:50:49.500 --> 00:50:55.039
And then his cannon. Is redesigned from the original.
00:50:55.119 --> 00:50:59.300
But I think looks much cooler. Like it's similar.
00:50:59.400 --> 00:51:02.920
It evokes it. It's an updated design. And that
00:51:02.920 --> 00:51:06.639
bright green. I mean you know. i love it yep
00:51:06.639 --> 00:51:10.940
it's great this is a hideous color combination
00:51:10.940 --> 00:51:21.400
and i am here for it uh next up oh it's a mystery
00:51:21.400 --> 00:51:26.179
figure uh and it is a new character apparently
00:51:27.079 --> 00:51:29.539
yeah everyone thinks this is a what this is a
00:51:29.539 --> 00:51:31.159
wild bill retro but i'm like well they would
00:51:31.159 --> 00:51:34.139
not do a wild bill retro as a silhouetted figure
00:51:34.139 --> 00:51:36.860
i don't think at all right well and they wouldn't
00:51:36.860 --> 00:51:39.920
the retros don't get this background like retros
00:51:39.920 --> 00:51:42.159
look different when they do the renders for those
00:51:42.159 --> 00:51:46.280
um you know what now that i said i just figured
00:51:46.280 --> 00:51:51.820
it was the gi joe overwatch mashup because that
00:51:51.820 --> 00:51:55.800
is totally mccree silhouette and i am so curious
00:51:56.619 --> 00:52:00.380
Oh, wait, hang on. It's Cad Bane. That's who
00:52:00.380 --> 00:52:03.760
it is. I forgot something about Overkill. This
00:52:03.760 --> 00:52:08.539
gold face, I wonder if that might pop off and
00:52:08.539 --> 00:52:11.679
there's something under there. It kind of just
00:52:11.679 --> 00:52:16.000
looks like that to me. Not that there should
00:52:16.000 --> 00:52:20.119
be, but there could be. Right. All right. Back
00:52:20.119 --> 00:52:22.500
to this guy. So, all right. I'm really annoyed
00:52:22.500 --> 00:52:29.539
because his tank. beat me to uh what i was going
00:52:29.539 --> 00:52:34.699
to say with some ai video that they did but noel
00:52:34.699 --> 00:52:38.019
you might even remember this years and years
00:52:38.019 --> 00:52:45.219
ago i was not a fan of gold head destro uh so
00:52:45.219 --> 00:52:49.440
because i thought it was funny i stuck an extra
00:52:49.440 --> 00:52:54.639
wild bill cowboy hat on this version two Destro
00:52:54.639 --> 00:52:58.659
and gave him, gave him a couple of blasters and
00:52:58.659 --> 00:53:03.880
called him Rootin' Tootin' Destro. And you, when
00:53:03.880 --> 00:53:05.980
you were over, you may have seen him in that
00:53:05.980 --> 00:53:09.940
2009, the flying vehicle, the Cobra flying vehicle.
00:53:10.780 --> 00:53:16.099
He's hanging out the door like this. So that,
00:53:16.119 --> 00:53:18.619
that is the Rootin' Tootin' Destro that I've
00:53:18.619 --> 00:53:26.019
had since like 2010 or something. So. The other
00:53:26.019 --> 00:53:28.460
thought that I had for this one. Looks like Rootin'
00:53:28.460 --> 00:53:31.380
Tootin' Destro. Yeah, yeah. You can even see.
00:53:31.719 --> 00:53:34.400
I mean, clearly the inspiration here is the man
00:53:34.400 --> 00:53:37.780
with no name. He's got, it looks like he's got
00:53:37.780 --> 00:53:41.039
the poncho. If you look at the outline right
00:53:41.039 --> 00:53:46.940
there. What was your thought, Noel? No, my thought,
00:53:47.019 --> 00:53:48.420
and I'm surprised I hadn't seen anybody comment
00:53:48.420 --> 00:53:52.159
on this, is Wong from the October Guard. But
00:53:52.159 --> 00:53:54.559
I don't think that they would have led with Wong
00:53:54.559 --> 00:53:56.079
if you're going to do October Guard figures.
00:53:56.380 --> 00:54:03.300
Never, never lead with Wong. Well, as always,
00:54:03.780 --> 00:54:06.860
coming through with the direct line to Lenny,
00:54:06.860 --> 00:54:10.480
Wreck Ship says, I asked Lenny why we have to
00:54:10.480 --> 00:54:14.300
unlock. render reveals now and he laughed and
00:54:14.300 --> 00:54:16.960
just said it's a new character that will require
00:54:16.960 --> 00:54:20.340
more explanation now turn out the light and go
00:54:20.340 --> 00:54:25.059
to sleep but what's interesting here is if you
00:54:25.059 --> 00:54:28.340
notice those are not cowboy boots those are like
00:54:28.340 --> 00:54:33.320
big clunky combat style boots so while the upper
00:54:33.320 --> 00:54:36.699
you know knees and up basically look like it
00:54:36.699 --> 00:54:38.639
could well okay the other thing i noticed is
00:54:38.639 --> 00:54:42.239
look at his right wrist Uh, there's something
00:54:42.239 --> 00:54:44.480
there and I don't know if maybe it's just a sheath
00:54:44.480 --> 00:54:48.800
for that knife, but it looks potentially a little
00:54:48.800 --> 00:54:55.599
componenty or something. So very interesting.
00:54:55.619 --> 00:54:58.179
And look, I'll be honest. I'm excited to see
00:54:58.179 --> 00:55:01.059
something new. That's like just completely out
00:55:01.059 --> 00:55:04.739
of the classified team's imagination because
00:55:04.739 --> 00:55:07.949
they've earned it. Yeah, I'm glad that they're
00:55:07.949 --> 00:55:11.210
able to do that and create new characters. I'm
00:55:11.210 --> 00:55:13.210
not necessarily going to buy all the new characters
00:55:13.210 --> 00:55:16.309
they come up with, but the idea that, you know,
00:55:16.309 --> 00:55:18.969
we're not just doing retro nostalgia. There's
00:55:18.969 --> 00:55:21.230
a lot of that here, but you know what? We can
00:55:21.230 --> 00:55:22.610
throw some new stuff in there and create some
00:55:22.610 --> 00:55:25.789
new lore while we're at it. Well, and look, every
00:55:25.789 --> 00:55:31.630
other Joe line since the original. the people
00:55:31.630 --> 00:55:33.909
running the line have been able to make their
00:55:33.909 --> 00:55:37.429
mark and introduce new characters because fans
00:55:37.429 --> 00:55:42.829
weren't so sensitive to things back then. So
00:55:42.829 --> 00:55:44.809
they could do stuff. I mean, that's how we got
00:55:44.809 --> 00:55:50.650
Scalpel and all those characters from 2002 -ish.
00:55:51.710 --> 00:55:54.050
So, of course, the classified team should be
00:55:54.050 --> 00:55:56.809
able to come up with some new characters for
00:55:56.809 --> 00:55:58.809
the line, for the franchise, and leave their
00:55:58.809 --> 00:56:02.789
mark. On history, basically. So I think this
00:56:02.789 --> 00:56:05.650
is great. I'm excited to see it. Whatever it
00:56:05.650 --> 00:56:17.510
is. All right. Next up. Oh, yeah. This excited
00:56:17.510 --> 00:56:22.110
me. We had gotten the name drop on these. But
00:56:22.110 --> 00:56:25.550
when that happens. we're left with, well, what
00:56:25.550 --> 00:56:26.650
are they going to look like? Are they going to
00:56:26.650 --> 00:56:28.289
be true to the originals? Are they going to be
00:56:28.289 --> 00:56:30.210
minor updates? They're going to be completely
00:56:30.210 --> 00:56:33.610
different. And the first thing I want to point
00:56:33.610 --> 00:56:39.429
out, because when this was dropped, I saw many,
00:56:39.530 --> 00:56:43.869
many places Taurus should be way bigger. And
00:56:43.869 --> 00:56:46.829
I understand where that thought comes from because
00:56:46.829 --> 00:56:50.670
he looks like a strong man, but Taurus is an
00:56:50.670 --> 00:56:54.739
acrobat. And I don't agree that he should be
00:56:54.739 --> 00:57:03.280
big. I think he should be lean like this. I think
00:57:03.280 --> 00:57:06.199
Red Dog looks great. He's got a big build, looks
00:57:06.199 --> 00:57:08.400
like a football player. Comes with a football
00:57:08.400 --> 00:57:14.920
and a tee, which I'll put in a bin, but I think
00:57:14.920 --> 00:57:16.599
it's really neat. I think it's a good inclusion.
00:57:19.780 --> 00:57:21.840
And he's got a throwing hand for the football.
00:57:26.250 --> 00:57:28.269
Do you guys have any thoughts about these two?
00:57:29.849 --> 00:57:32.170
I've already been trying to think of interesting
00:57:32.170 --> 00:57:36.710
ways to use not the football, but that football
00:57:36.710 --> 00:57:44.489
stand for fighting photos. Because whoever would
00:57:44.489 --> 00:57:47.750
have thought that we would get a football kickstand.
00:57:48.949 --> 00:57:53.760
Yeah. In our G .I. Joe action figure line. Is
00:57:53.760 --> 00:57:55.440
it a kickstand? I thought they were called a
00:57:55.440 --> 00:58:00.780
tee. I don't know. Do I ever look or sound like
00:58:00.780 --> 00:58:02.800
or make any of you think that I pay attention?
00:58:03.780 --> 00:58:06.619
You said kickstand with authority, and I thought,
00:58:06.639 --> 00:58:09.119
oh, I might be wrong about that. I think it is
00:58:09.119 --> 00:58:12.300
tee. But, you know, to me, this is just getting
00:58:12.300 --> 00:58:15.920
that tee and that football mold ready so they
00:58:15.920 --> 00:58:20.480
can do a fridge figure down the line. Or Captain
00:58:20.480 --> 00:58:25.500
Gridiron. gridiron i need that football gun so
00:58:25.500 --> 00:58:30.300
and this is noel is a baseball fan uh with hardball
00:58:30.300 --> 00:58:34.619
he should i mean reasonably come with you know
00:58:34.619 --> 00:58:38.340
big lob has basketball red dog comes with football
00:58:38.340 --> 00:58:41.619
so realistically hardball should have a baseball
00:58:41.619 --> 00:58:44.340
bat in the baseball if not a catcher's mitt also
00:58:44.340 --> 00:58:46.920
well he has the you know he has the baseball
00:58:46.920 --> 00:58:54.559
shooting cannon It's supposed to shoot baseball
00:58:54.559 --> 00:58:57.699
grenades. Maybe he'll come with that and little
00:58:57.699 --> 00:59:00.340
grenades that are etched like baseballs. I feel
00:59:00.340 --> 00:59:04.460
like they kind of have to. The accessories look
00:59:04.460 --> 00:59:07.900
great. I love that we've got some extra blades
00:59:07.900 --> 00:59:11.199
for Taurus. Red Dog has an additional because
00:59:11.199 --> 00:59:17.000
he's got the mace or club or whatever the gnaws
00:59:17.000 --> 00:59:19.980
on in the movie. but they've given a little extra
00:59:19.980 --> 00:59:22.420
something here too. And what's surprising to
00:59:22.420 --> 00:59:28.300
me is I believe all four of those weapons are
00:59:28.300 --> 00:59:32.079
new tooling. Because my first thought was that
00:59:32.079 --> 00:59:36.780
Taurus's axe came with slice and dice, but I
00:59:36.780 --> 00:59:38.760
think it's a little different from what came
00:59:38.760 --> 00:59:44.980
with them. I'm not positive. uh i would rather
00:59:44.980 --> 00:59:51.760
have the joe rifle than the stalker rifle or
00:59:51.760 --> 00:59:55.039
the i guess snow job rifle the xm whatever it
00:59:55.039 --> 00:59:57.119
is i can't ever remember the name of that stupid
00:59:57.119 --> 01:00:00.820
thing standard issue joe rifle yeah i would rather
01:00:00.820 --> 01:00:03.880
have that than stalker's uh rifle but everything
01:00:03.880 --> 01:00:08.199
else is great this is a great set uh i'm i'm
01:00:08.199 --> 01:00:14.239
in Oh, I wouldn't. Here's my controversial take.
01:00:14.340 --> 01:00:16.639
I wouldn't have minded either one of these or
01:00:16.639 --> 01:00:20.880
both having a bunch of tattoos. Especially Red
01:00:20.880 --> 01:00:23.739
Dog. Like if we're going for a modern football
01:00:23.739 --> 01:00:28.639
player look. Oh, yeah. But that's a budgetary
01:00:28.639 --> 01:00:35.500
expense. So, you know, I get it. All right. Noel,
01:00:35.800 --> 01:00:39.059
back to you. What are we looking at? What are
01:00:39.059 --> 01:00:42.059
we looking at? Oh, what are we looking at? uh
01:00:42.059 --> 01:00:47.239
we are looking at zanya with her swamp skier
01:00:47.239 --> 01:00:49.599
her chameleon which uh we got the tease of the
01:00:49.599 --> 01:00:52.880
chameleon previously so we were curious as to
01:00:52.880 --> 01:00:55.539
are you getting another zartan and we know we're
01:00:55.539 --> 01:00:57.579
getting ninja force zartan but he doesn't really
01:00:57.579 --> 01:01:00.719
make sense on a chameleon but uh you know this
01:01:00.719 --> 01:01:04.480
is the way to do zanya i suppose um is to put
01:01:04.480 --> 01:01:07.579
her on the chameleon which uh so the chameleon
01:01:09.679 --> 01:01:12.500
To me, I'm looking at this vehicle and it doesn't
01:01:12.500 --> 01:01:14.360
quite look like my original chameleon, but what
01:01:14.360 --> 01:01:17.300
it does look like is an actual chameleon, which
01:01:17.300 --> 01:01:25.659
is why I love it. The shape of the vehicle itself
01:01:25.659 --> 01:01:28.579
looks like an actual chameleon. Like the body
01:01:28.579 --> 01:01:33.579
style. Okay. But it does look a little bit different
01:01:33.579 --> 01:01:36.719
from the original. When I think about the original,
01:01:36.780 --> 01:01:40.030
it feels like... almost like a motorcycle like
01:01:40.030 --> 01:01:42.150
it was kit bashed from a motorcycle and just
01:01:42.150 --> 01:01:44.670
put into this bin and this one actually looks
01:01:44.670 --> 01:01:47.369
like it's a little bit more of a you know a specialized
01:01:47.369 --> 01:01:52.329
vehicle um but no i think she looks great um
01:01:52.329 --> 01:01:55.230
she looks like a very tiny figure as most of
01:01:55.230 --> 01:01:59.030
the female figures are so uh we'll see you know
01:01:59.030 --> 01:02:02.880
how she actually looks in real life um But yeah,
01:02:03.000 --> 01:02:07.119
good load out there. The pistol, I was like,
01:02:07.199 --> 01:02:11.340
does she come with Megatron? Yeah, the color
01:02:11.340 --> 01:02:15.099
on that immediately. It just needs the stock.
01:02:16.360 --> 01:02:19.639
We got the mask, got a couple pairs of removable
01:02:19.639 --> 01:02:22.500
glasses, which, you know, I don't know if those
01:02:22.500 --> 01:02:26.019
are glasses or goggles. Well, one looks like
01:02:26.019 --> 01:02:30.500
goggles, one looks like sunglasses. Yeah. and
01:02:30.500 --> 01:02:34.179
then your little helmet, your little vintage
01:02:34.179 --> 01:02:37.559
flight helmet. But yeah, it's cool that we're
01:02:37.559 --> 01:02:40.099
actually getting her. Now, I said this before
01:02:40.099 --> 01:02:43.019
about the fists, about getting swappable hands
01:02:43.019 --> 01:02:45.420
with the Hydra Viper would have been nice. There's
01:02:45.420 --> 01:02:47.619
not really much of a point of getting these swappable
01:02:47.619 --> 01:02:49.400
hands when they're almost identical. They're
01:02:49.400 --> 01:02:51.360
just fists, but they're not much different than
01:02:51.360 --> 01:02:56.079
her weapon -carrying hands here. So save the
01:02:56.079 --> 01:02:58.760
two fists in Zanya, put them in the Hydra Viper.
01:02:59.260 --> 01:03:04.500
Problem solved. I don't like the weapons loadout
01:03:04.500 --> 01:03:09.000
because these are all reused from male figures
01:03:09.000 --> 01:03:13.179
and they're going to be giant. Look at this picture.
01:03:13.320 --> 01:03:16.639
They're too big. They're too big for her. I wish
01:03:16.639 --> 01:03:19.900
they would make some larger women in this line
01:03:19.900 --> 01:03:23.980
because the little tiny waif is getting kind
01:03:23.980 --> 01:03:29.440
of old. But otherwise... And for this character,
01:03:29.559 --> 01:03:31.760
it's perhaps more appropriate than it is with
01:03:31.760 --> 01:03:33.699
some of the other ones. Yeah. If they ever do
01:03:33.699 --> 01:03:35.659
a Heart Ranger figure, that figure should be
01:03:35.659 --> 01:03:41.440
bigger. Yes, I agree. Otherwise, though, I think
01:03:41.440 --> 01:03:44.340
she looks absolutely perfect. I love the tank
01:03:44.340 --> 01:03:48.980
girl looking old school helmet. It looks like,
01:03:49.039 --> 01:03:51.219
like I said, swappable goggles and sunglasses.
01:03:52.320 --> 01:03:55.360
And then it also looks like that hockey mask.
01:03:57.420 --> 01:04:00.559
Might be it's either got hair in it or something.
01:04:00.699 --> 01:04:03.380
I don't know. I'm curious to see how that functions.
01:04:03.440 --> 01:04:07.099
I guess maybe her hair comes off. Yeah, I wasn't
01:04:07.099 --> 01:04:10.199
sure if the hair comes off and that replaces
01:04:10.199 --> 01:04:12.579
it or if it's a completely different head. I
01:04:12.579 --> 01:04:14.719
don't think it's a different head. Right. Yeah,
01:04:14.760 --> 01:04:15.980
I don't know. It would be interesting to see.
01:04:16.179 --> 01:04:24.019
But I think she looks great. That chameleon is
01:04:24.019 --> 01:04:28.230
going to have to grow on me. I don't, as of right
01:04:28.230 --> 01:04:32.969
now with this single from the side, flat looking
01:04:32.969 --> 01:04:36.329
image, uh, I don't care for it. It's angular.
01:04:36.750 --> 01:04:39.949
We'll see. Yeah. And, and that's really, it,
01:04:39.949 --> 01:04:42.130
it, it looks like, and that's because it's a
01:04:42.130 --> 01:04:44.590
render. We haven't seen the full thing. It looks
01:04:44.590 --> 01:04:47.289
so flat and yeah, I don't, the angles of it.
01:04:47.329 --> 01:04:48.989
Cause the other, the, the original was nice and
01:04:48.989 --> 01:04:54.989
rounded. Uh, this, it just doesn't look good
01:04:54.989 --> 01:04:58.900
to me. but we'll see it'll look better underneath
01:04:58.900 --> 01:05:03.500
that that gets me i i'm hoping once we see the
01:05:03.500 --> 01:05:08.519
physical version that that just pops more because
01:05:08.519 --> 01:05:11.960
it it that black doesn't look like oh you know
01:05:11.960 --> 01:05:15.079
this is empty space right it looks original it
01:05:15.079 --> 01:05:19.559
looks like this is still part of the body and
01:05:19.559 --> 01:05:23.539
so yeah the the engine just almost looks like
01:05:23.539 --> 01:05:30.099
it's decaled on yeah yeah and it'll it'll look
01:05:30.099 --> 01:05:31.739
better once we see something with some actual
01:05:31.739 --> 01:05:37.119
dimensionality to it so i have faith i will end
01:05:37.119 --> 01:05:42.860
up liking it but as of now i do not noel this
01:05:42.860 --> 01:05:45.849
question is directed towards you Nowhere Man
01:05:45.849 --> 01:05:49.030
Child asking, that's an October Guard Dana headpiece
01:05:49.030 --> 01:05:51.409
too, right? There you go. Maybe this is how we're
01:05:51.409 --> 01:05:53.610
going to slowly introduce our October Guard in
01:05:53.610 --> 01:05:56.530
is by molding accessories for other characters.
01:05:58.530 --> 01:06:01.010
And eventually a horror show will get a larger
01:06:01.010 --> 01:06:08.650
version of that helmet. Man, that's my guy. Did
01:06:08.650 --> 01:06:11.889
he show up? Did he return in this year's Audible
01:06:11.889 --> 01:06:14.309
Rumble? You'll have to listen or watch to find
01:06:14.309 --> 01:06:22.039
out. And finally, Ninja Force Zartan. So many
01:06:22.039 --> 01:06:26.519
people's dreams are coming true. Pixel Dan. He
01:06:26.519 --> 01:06:33.380
looks great. I don't love the open sheaths. I
01:06:33.380 --> 01:06:35.579
never do. Oh, yeah. And actually, I wanted to
01:06:35.579 --> 01:06:39.579
mention, I hope Taurus, his web gear has some
01:06:39.579 --> 01:06:45.599
storage for those blades on the back. uh but
01:06:45.599 --> 01:06:48.280
zartan does have storage he's got uh again those
01:06:48.280 --> 01:06:51.659
open sheaths which i just don't won't ever love
01:06:51.659 --> 01:06:57.940
but those swords are a little shorter so it maybe
01:06:57.940 --> 01:07:01.340
won't be as egregious as like a katana you know
01:07:01.340 --> 01:07:04.420
four fifths of a katana length just uncovered
01:07:04.420 --> 01:07:07.000
this works a little better i like the additional
01:07:07.000 --> 01:07:09.400
because the sword on the left i believe is is
01:07:09.400 --> 01:07:11.400
pretty much what the original figure came with
01:07:11.400 --> 01:07:16.039
well let's keep in mind too This Zartan keeps
01:07:16.039 --> 01:07:19.139
two swords or daggers, I think in this case,
01:07:19.239 --> 01:07:24.460
just going across one leg. So practicality on
01:07:24.460 --> 01:07:26.460
the way that you're storing your swords, it's
01:07:26.460 --> 01:07:29.960
already, you have to keep that element. So you
01:07:29.960 --> 01:07:32.480
might as well just have willy nilly blades poking
01:07:32.480 --> 01:07:35.719
out everywhere. So what's most clever about this?
01:07:35.760 --> 01:07:37.760
So when I first saw this, I looked at that compound
01:07:37.760 --> 01:07:41.460
bow and I hated, hated, hated it because I can't
01:07:41.460 --> 01:07:47.769
stand. a posed drawn bow like that then i realized
01:07:47.769 --> 01:07:51.349
that is a replacement bow string up on the top
01:07:51.349 --> 01:08:00.090
right so you will be that is very clever engineering
01:08:00.090 --> 01:08:06.289
um so when you you can pop the drawn one out
01:08:06.289 --> 01:08:09.429
and just have it normal like the other Storm
01:08:09.429 --> 01:08:11.989
Shadow ones. And also impressive that they didn't
01:08:11.989 --> 01:08:16.270
just reuse one of Storm Shadow's compound bows.
01:08:16.590 --> 01:08:21.890
Yeah. So you get the quiver full of arrows that
01:08:21.890 --> 01:08:29.890
I guess will plug into his back. We'll see. I
01:08:29.890 --> 01:08:32.750
do wish that they had gone a little brighter
01:08:32.750 --> 01:08:36.810
with the pants. I agree. And really gone with
01:08:36.810 --> 01:08:41.710
the full... Constructagon green color. Always
01:08:41.710 --> 01:08:46.289
brighter. Always go brighter. He's got the two
01:08:46.289 --> 01:08:49.029
knives that go into that thigh pouch. I'd be
01:08:49.029 --> 01:08:52.890
very interested to see what that looks like in
01:08:52.890 --> 01:08:55.390
execution, but I'm so glad they did it because
01:08:55.390 --> 01:08:57.270
we talked about that since we've been talking
01:08:57.270 --> 01:08:59.630
about the possibility of this version of Zartan.
01:09:00.529 --> 01:09:02.770
We have speculated on, well, how do they make
01:09:02.770 --> 01:09:07.960
that not dumb? You can't, but that's part of
01:09:07.960 --> 01:09:13.600
the appeal. So, yeah, looks absolutely great.
01:09:13.680 --> 01:09:17.399
Exactly like I would want Ninja Force Sartan
01:09:17.399 --> 01:09:21.960
to look. Yes, this will be one. You know, I normally
01:09:21.960 --> 01:09:27.180
keep my purchases within that like 82 to 87 updates.
01:09:29.039 --> 01:09:31.899
range i'm gonna have to explore the 90s for this
01:09:31.899 --> 01:09:37.939
one for sure well he's he has become kind of
01:09:37.939 --> 01:09:43.899
an iconic i i would say that this look is sort
01:09:43.899 --> 01:09:47.420
of the representation of that era that that our
01:09:47.420 --> 01:09:54.039
age group of joe fans uh you know who didn't
01:09:54.039 --> 01:09:56.479
pay any attention after 87 or 88 for the most
01:09:56.479 --> 01:10:01.510
part uh He's become like the figurehead initially
01:10:01.510 --> 01:10:04.229
in a negative way, but now has been embraced
01:10:04.229 --> 01:10:08.229
and is like, I guess, symbolic of that whole
01:10:08.229 --> 01:10:13.590
90s era of like, oh, this stuff's actually a
01:10:13.590 --> 01:10:16.390
lot of fun. And see, this was my younger brother,
01:10:16.510 --> 01:10:19.649
Zartan. And I remember when he got him, I was
01:10:19.649 --> 01:10:24.890
like, oh, they finally made other than the leg
01:10:24.890 --> 01:10:27.609
sword. storage i was like they finally made a
01:10:27.609 --> 01:10:31.069
cool zartan like because i've said before like
01:10:31.069 --> 01:10:35.050
the original zartan isn't bad just to me his
01:10:35.050 --> 01:10:37.329
face scope looks like someone who got stung by
01:10:37.329 --> 01:10:43.470
a bee and has an allergy and ninja fort zartan
01:10:43.470 --> 01:10:47.470
with the mohawk like he looked like an angry
01:10:47.470 --> 01:10:50.850
biker dude he to me he looked like the leader
01:10:50.850 --> 01:10:57.100
of the dreadnoughts so um this will be my Zartan
01:10:57.100 --> 01:11:01.659
going on the shelf. I wouldn't mind seeing a
01:11:01.659 --> 01:11:05.579
mashup of this. Cause I, you know what? I hadn't
01:11:05.579 --> 01:11:08.279
even thought about like, oh yeah, this looks
01:11:08.279 --> 01:11:12.300
more like a biker for whatever reason than the
01:11:12.300 --> 01:11:15.640
original Zartan. Like this gear in a way makes
01:11:15.640 --> 01:11:18.159
more sense. I wouldn't mind seeing a mashup of
01:11:18.159 --> 01:11:23.289
like this Zartan with the hood in. Colors that
01:11:23.289 --> 01:11:25.409
are more muted than this, but brighter than the
01:11:25.409 --> 01:11:29.430
original. That could be very cool to see. Almost
01:11:29.430 --> 01:11:38.609
like Renegades Sartan. So yeah, a lot of very
01:11:38.609 --> 01:11:41.829
exciting. Let's just run back through them real
01:11:41.829 --> 01:11:51.550
quick. Everything here is great classified. I
01:11:51.550 --> 01:11:54.449
mean, it all looks really good. They're all exciting
01:11:54.449 --> 01:11:59.029
names. There's nothing in here that's a dud.
01:11:59.850 --> 01:12:02.949
Like this is all stuff that we've talked about.
01:12:03.029 --> 01:12:05.029
We've been excited to see, I mean, except for
01:12:05.029 --> 01:12:08.489
the unknown figure, whatever that is. But it's
01:12:08.489 --> 01:12:10.869
all stuff that we've speculated about here on
01:12:10.869 --> 01:12:13.770
the show extensively. There's nothing in here
01:12:13.770 --> 01:12:17.130
that's a, eh, we'll see or whatever. Like this
01:12:17.130 --> 01:12:22.100
is all, this is a really solid. group of announcements
01:12:22.100 --> 01:12:27.819
i think so are we are we all in agreement gi
01:12:27.819 --> 01:12:33.880
joe day 2026 thumbs up yes yeah and you know
01:12:33.880 --> 01:12:36.720
we didn't get we didn't get a live stream we
01:12:36.720 --> 01:12:40.460
didn't get like a lot of you know lore but we
01:12:40.460 --> 01:12:44.239
got we got six pictures and some little brief
01:12:44.239 --> 01:12:47.000
descriptions and lots to talk about so that's
01:12:47.000 --> 01:12:49.880
really what it matters what matters Yeah, and
01:12:49.880 --> 01:12:53.560
Toy Fair is only like what? Two weeks. Two weeks
01:12:53.560 --> 01:12:58.039
away. So I figured that's why we didn't get any
01:12:58.039 --> 01:13:02.939
kind of live stream or pre -recorded because
01:13:02.939 --> 01:13:05.159
they're just going to talk all about this at
01:13:05.159 --> 01:13:12.159
Toy Fair. Yeah. Well, that is all the news we
01:13:12.159 --> 01:13:14.779
got for this week. It is time now for everybody's
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First up! Wreck Ship 85. Now that Airtight has
01:13:50.289 --> 01:13:53.529
finally been revealed, who is the next character
01:13:53.529 --> 01:13:56.109
that you guys think is the most glaring omission
01:13:56.109 --> 01:14:01.489
still in Classified? I mean, the finally is a
01:14:01.489 --> 01:14:04.609
little... I don't know that he's a finally, just
01:14:04.609 --> 01:14:07.989
because we're only five years into a line that
01:14:07.989 --> 01:14:14.369
lasted from 1963 to technically, I guess, 2017.
01:14:14.770 --> 01:14:18.140
They were potentially... introducing new characters.
01:14:18.260 --> 01:14:23.939
So hundreds of characters still to go. I don't
01:14:23.939 --> 01:14:25.840
know. What do you think, Christian? Who are we
01:14:25.840 --> 01:14:30.399
missing? The Heat Viper. I'm surprised that we
01:14:30.399 --> 01:14:34.140
got a... Remember, he was my favorite troop builder
01:14:34.140 --> 01:14:38.539
of 2025, but I'm surprised that we got a Frag
01:14:38.539 --> 01:14:47.739
Viper before we got a Heat Viper. I would say
01:14:47.739 --> 01:14:51.000
right now the most glaring omission is Destro,
01:14:51.140 --> 01:14:55.920
Iron Grenadier Destro. It's freaking bizarre
01:14:55.920 --> 01:14:59.119
that we've got his troops and we don't have him.
01:14:59.920 --> 01:15:02.539
And it's not necessarily that he's super high
01:15:02.539 --> 01:15:05.260
on my want list. I just think it's really, really
01:15:05.260 --> 01:15:08.979
strange that we haven't seen him. And I wonder
01:15:08.979 --> 01:15:12.560
if they feel like because they did the Prophet
01:15:12.560 --> 01:15:16.760
Director Destro. that they kind of felt for,
01:15:16.819 --> 01:15:20.560
or perhaps for longer than they should have,
01:15:20.760 --> 01:15:23.659
they felt like that profit director Destro kind
01:15:23.659 --> 01:15:29.640
of filled that hole. My thought on him was that
01:15:29.640 --> 01:15:32.560
they may have decided to pivot once the vehicle
01:15:32.560 --> 01:15:35.500
started selling more and they were able to put
01:15:35.500 --> 01:15:37.439
more out that maybe they were going to release
01:15:37.439 --> 01:15:39.539
him as a single figure. Then they decided maybe
01:15:39.539 --> 01:15:42.279
we should pack him in with a spoiler or something.
01:15:42.319 --> 01:15:45.260
And so there's more. research coming but because
01:15:45.260 --> 01:15:47.460
yeah it seemed obvious that he was gonna get
01:15:47.460 --> 01:15:49.220
released like two years ago when we started seeing
01:15:49.220 --> 01:15:53.279
iron grenadiers yeah yeah yeah he was my first
01:15:53.279 --> 01:15:55.380
choice as well but since you said him i'll say
01:15:55.380 --> 01:15:57.560
flash because we don't have flash yet oh yeah
01:15:57.560 --> 01:16:01.399
yeah yeah good call good call that'll make somebody
01:16:01.399 --> 01:16:05.960
very happy name dropped was he no no i don't
01:16:05.960 --> 01:16:09.739
okay i don't think he's been name dropped but
01:16:09.739 --> 01:16:14.670
we got his gear with Glinda. What's her face?
01:16:14.829 --> 01:16:19.229
Yeah, Glinda. Yeah, so he and, well, Grand Slam,
01:16:19.310 --> 01:16:22.750
who will presumably be released as a partial
01:16:22.750 --> 01:16:27.310
repaint of, you know, of Flash eventually. They're
01:16:27.310 --> 01:16:30.189
the last 013s we don't have. And when Zap comes
01:16:30.189 --> 01:16:38.109
out. All right. Next up, Silent Interlude, who
01:16:38.109 --> 01:16:42.420
wrote a novel. In one of your interviews with
01:16:42.420 --> 01:16:44.439
Brian Flynn, he mentioned that he wasn't going
01:16:44.439 --> 01:16:46.640
to be making anything that had already been made
01:16:46.640 --> 01:16:49.380
in a particular format. You recently referenced
01:16:49.380 --> 01:16:51.819
it talking about international redos or something
01:16:51.819 --> 01:16:54.279
of the ilk. I remember him saying it, but I figured
01:16:54.279 --> 01:16:56.699
that was a true at the time, but things change
01:16:56.699 --> 01:16:59.239
situation after we saw the reaction plus line
01:16:59.239 --> 01:17:02.239
produce. Duke and Cobra Commander, almost identical
01:17:02.239 --> 01:17:05.100
to the Hasbro Retro 2 pack and extremely similar
01:17:05.100 --> 01:17:07.800
to the vintage versions. The first Serpentor,
01:17:07.899 --> 01:17:09.800
who was again very close to the original and
01:17:09.800 --> 01:17:13.439
comic pack versions. Tiger Force Duke, etc. At
01:17:13.439 --> 01:17:15.380
this point, it doesn't really seem like a rule
01:17:15.380 --> 01:17:18.140
to not remake anything, or if it is, the bar
01:17:18.140 --> 01:17:20.659
for what has to be different is pretty low. Why
01:17:20.659 --> 01:17:23.760
couldn't we see a Cobra De Aco or Mortal? They'd
01:17:23.760 --> 01:17:25.319
be different enough from the vintage versions
01:17:25.319 --> 01:17:28.220
that no one would be confused. Maybe invert colors
01:17:28.220 --> 01:17:33.569
somewhere. So there's a lot there. This could
01:17:33.569 --> 01:17:36.670
have been our whole next episode. So I will say
01:17:36.670 --> 01:17:41.050
that that interview with Brian Flynn was from
01:17:41.050 --> 01:17:45.729
last year. And it is possible that things change,
01:17:45.789 --> 01:17:48.109
but I do not believe that to be the case because
01:17:48.109 --> 01:17:50.670
the Duke and Cobra Commander you referenced are
01:17:50.670 --> 01:17:54.050
not at all identical to the Hasbro Retro 2 -pack.
01:17:54.109 --> 01:17:58.579
And this is speaking from my perspective. The
01:17:58.579 --> 01:18:02.880
Serpentor, the Reaction Plus Serpentor is not
01:18:02.880 --> 01:18:05.760
very close to the original and comic pack versions.
01:18:05.880 --> 01:18:12.060
This is how I see these things. This is the Duke
01:18:12.060 --> 01:18:15.199
and Cobra Commander from Reaction Plus are modeled
01:18:15.199 --> 01:18:19.579
on the Sunbow characters. They aesthetically
01:18:19.579 --> 01:18:24.560
are nowhere near. The ones Hasbro produced that
01:18:24.560 --> 01:18:27.720
were essentially recolors of the original Duke
01:18:27.720 --> 01:18:29.819
and Cobra Commander figures with minor tooling
01:18:29.819 --> 01:18:32.659
changes, but they were Sunbow colors. They were
01:18:32.659 --> 01:18:35.479
not Sunbow aesthetic. And that to me is extremely
01:18:35.479 --> 01:18:38.100
different. Same thing with Serpentor. And Tiger
01:18:38.100 --> 01:18:39.960
Force Duke is a completely different color scheme
01:18:39.960 --> 01:18:46.000
than the Hasbro one. But I will say that's the
01:18:46.000 --> 01:18:48.399
one that comes closest to really kind of baffling
01:18:48.399 --> 01:18:53.939
me because why do that? It's just weird. And
01:18:53.939 --> 01:18:55.819
I get it. They wanted to repaint out of it. Sure.
01:18:56.199 --> 01:18:58.479
But go in a different direction. So that one
01:18:58.479 --> 01:19:03.899
is strange given their, their rules. But I believe
01:19:03.899 --> 01:19:08.579
that the idea is, you know, they're going to
01:19:08.579 --> 01:19:09.899
base it on the animation and they're going to
01:19:09.899 --> 01:19:12.779
base it on the comic book. So that's their way
01:19:12.779 --> 01:19:14.920
to do characters like Duke and Cobra commander,
01:19:15.119 --> 01:19:19.460
but to remake because Cobra, Cobra to echo, which
01:19:19.460 --> 01:19:22.439
I'm probably mispronouncing. Sorry. I specifically
01:19:22.439 --> 01:19:25.399
asked him about that one, and the answer was
01:19:25.399 --> 01:19:29.600
no. We are not remaking any of those figures
01:19:29.600 --> 01:19:32.180
because they exist on the market, and it's not
01:19:32.180 --> 01:19:34.939
even necessarily about confusion just so much
01:19:34.939 --> 01:19:37.060
as it's already been done. He doesn't have any
01:19:37.060 --> 01:19:39.920
interest in doing it again. Now, things may change.
01:19:40.260 --> 01:19:44.220
Somebody is going to do Super 7 has different
01:19:44.220 --> 01:19:47.880
ownership now. We don't know. And that's the
01:19:47.880 --> 01:19:50.260
short answer to this is we don't really know.
01:19:51.020 --> 01:19:53.500
But the long answer is what I just said in that,
01:19:53.500 --> 01:19:56.859
that the examples that you provided to, to my
01:19:56.859 --> 01:19:59.539
eye and to their eye are very different from
01:19:59.539 --> 01:20:02.979
anything that's been made before. Do you guys
01:20:02.979 --> 01:20:08.020
have any other thoughts on that? No, other than
01:20:08.020 --> 01:20:10.819
I want them. So I'm right there with you signing
01:20:10.819 --> 01:20:14.100
interlude, but I'm going to keep my fingers crossed
01:20:14.100 --> 01:20:16.979
that, that it eventually changes. Yeah, because,
01:20:17.079 --> 01:20:19.199
hey, man, if we can get me a gaucho in this line
01:20:19.199 --> 01:20:20.960
at some point in time, I'll be a happy person.
01:20:22.279 --> 01:20:24.420
Yeah, I mean, I would love to see all that. But
01:20:24.420 --> 01:20:28.899
I do believe Brian Flynn himself would very specifically
01:20:28.899 --> 01:20:33.000
be against that. But, I mean, the idea of doing
01:20:33.000 --> 01:20:35.720
recolors or something or minor tooling changes,
01:20:35.899 --> 01:20:38.380
I don't know. And that would be the other thing
01:20:38.380 --> 01:20:42.619
you got to think about is if he is against reproducing
01:20:42.619 --> 01:20:45.439
those at all. Is he really going to invest time
01:20:45.439 --> 01:20:49.000
in doing workarounds? You know what I mean? Like,
01:20:49.000 --> 01:20:52.100
if he doesn't want to do it anyway, so I don't
01:20:52.100 --> 01:21:00.579
know. That's the short answer. Tom .Henry, I
01:21:00.579 --> 01:21:02.939
hope you saw that fang action earlier. That was
01:21:02.939 --> 01:21:06.279
just for you. I know it's not a hydro sled, but
01:21:06.279 --> 01:21:10.300
you got to be patient. When I told the guy, oh,
01:21:10.319 --> 01:21:11.840
wait, no, Christian, you're taking this one.
01:21:12.359 --> 01:21:16.659
Yep. When I told the guy at my LCS that my choice
01:21:16.659 --> 01:21:21.100
for the cover variant with roadblock, my choice
01:21:21.100 --> 01:21:25.739
was for the cover variant. I told you this is.
01:21:25.840 --> 01:21:29.699
Yep. I don't get it. He set aside the chameleon
01:21:29.699 --> 01:21:32.479
cover for me. It made me wonder if the Energon
01:21:32.479 --> 01:21:35.720
universe is bringing in new fans. I've seen my
01:21:35.720 --> 01:21:39.060
cover choices go from 10 in the miniseries era
01:21:39.060 --> 01:21:42.140
to two currently. They don't even make the wall
01:21:42.140 --> 01:21:44.739
these days. I'm hoping it's just my local comic
01:21:44.739 --> 01:21:49.300
shop, which is very magic focused. Okay, so Tom
01:21:49.300 --> 01:21:52.680
.Henry, thank you for this question. I actually
01:21:52.680 --> 01:21:55.979
loved it because you used all the same lingo.
01:21:56.510 --> 01:22:03.149
As my old manager at Sci -Fi World. So kudos.
01:22:03.189 --> 01:22:07.550
It was giving me the warm fuzzies. So he is talking
01:22:07.550 --> 01:22:14.350
about with the G .I. Joe issue number 18, the
01:22:14.350 --> 01:22:19.250
roadblock issue. He wanted the variant cover
01:22:19.250 --> 01:22:22.430
that had roadblock on it. His store did not have
01:22:22.430 --> 01:22:27.640
it. Now, I know. But mostly with Skybound, the
01:22:27.640 --> 01:22:33.800
stores in the past were able to, you know, order
01:22:33.800 --> 01:22:37.699
whatever variants they wanted. I don't know if
01:22:37.699 --> 01:22:39.439
that is still the same. I was trying to look
01:22:39.439 --> 01:22:43.039
online to see it. You know, in some cases with
01:22:43.039 --> 01:22:46.000
comics, it's like, oh, your store has to order
01:22:46.000 --> 01:22:50.479
100 copies and they'll get, then they get a copy
01:22:50.479 --> 01:22:57.260
of this cover. I don't know. I feel like Skybound
01:22:57.260 --> 01:22:59.640
still pretty much does equal printing for all
01:22:59.640 --> 01:23:03.140
of the covers. As far as bringing in new fans,
01:23:03.600 --> 01:23:12.460
yes, it seems to be doing that. So as I learned,
01:23:12.520 --> 01:23:17.659
one of the very sad things about Diamond collapsing,
01:23:18.140 --> 01:23:22.300
even though they were a monopoly, is that...
01:23:22.520 --> 01:23:25.479
The sales info for comics is actually now a little
01:23:25.479 --> 01:23:29.600
harder to get because you're buying from so many
01:23:29.600 --> 01:23:33.539
different sources. But I was able to find out
01:23:33.539 --> 01:23:41.560
that in December of 2025, of the top 150 comics,
01:23:42.100 --> 01:23:47.500
three Image Comics made it. Now, only one made
01:23:47.500 --> 01:23:52.220
it in the top 50, and that was Invincible Universe
01:23:52.220 --> 01:23:57.159
Battle Beast. But the other two that were from
01:23:57.159 --> 01:24:06.199
50 to 150 were G .I. Joe and Transformers. So
01:24:06.199 --> 01:24:13.220
for a non -Big 2 comic to still be, you know,
01:24:13.220 --> 01:24:17.479
cracking those numbers, That's a really good
01:24:17.479 --> 01:24:24.159
sign. As far as and I'm saying this to all of
01:24:24.159 --> 01:24:26.920
our listeners, if you're going to your shop and
01:24:26.920 --> 01:24:30.279
you're not seeing the Skybound comics on the
01:24:30.279 --> 01:24:33.880
wall or a .k .a. the shelves, let them know,
01:24:34.039 --> 01:24:39.180
you know, they do their orders two months in
01:24:39.180 --> 01:24:43.659
advance. So give them a call. Let them know that,
01:24:43.699 --> 01:24:47.609
you know, you're. you're wanting your your skybound
01:24:47.609 --> 01:24:51.909
universe or energon universe is the case maybe
01:24:51.909 --> 01:24:58.569
um if they're not ordering enough like you know
01:24:58.569 --> 01:25:00.789
if it's a small shop and maybe they cater more
01:25:00.789 --> 01:25:04.710
to gamers maybe they're not ordering a lot of
01:25:04.710 --> 01:25:08.289
the different variant comics but again call them
01:25:08.289 --> 01:25:12.229
in advance and say look i've seen you know this
01:25:12.229 --> 01:25:16.100
cover this variant cover of Duke shaking hands
01:25:16.100 --> 01:25:20.479
with Optimus Prime playing chess, and what would
01:25:20.479 --> 01:25:25.260
it take to get that? So with comic shops, speak
01:25:25.260 --> 01:25:28.279
with your wallet, but also speak with your wallet
01:25:28.279 --> 01:25:34.279
two months in advance. Throw up Tom Henry's most
01:25:34.279 --> 01:25:38.260
recent comment as a follow -up. No, not that
01:25:38.260 --> 01:25:41.300
one. I mean, that's fine, but. Oh, wait, which
01:25:41.300 --> 01:25:45.420
one? Ah, here we go. Sorry. Most recent. Most
01:25:45.420 --> 01:25:48.479
recent. Oh, sorry. Chat was scrolling and I did
01:25:48.479 --> 01:25:52.720
not scroll with it. I need to write these after
01:25:52.720 --> 01:25:59.699
I've had coffee. I was, I could not figure out.
01:26:00.359 --> 01:26:03.479
what he's talking about. I couldn't figure it
01:26:03.479 --> 01:26:05.420
out the first time I read it, but then a couple
01:26:05.420 --> 01:26:08.300
hours later, after I had had some coffee, I could
01:26:08.300 --> 01:26:13.779
decipher it. Maybe Tom .Henry, maybe we're just
01:26:13.779 --> 01:26:16.579
on the same wavelength when I am sleep -deprived
01:26:16.579 --> 01:26:20.539
then, because Dave sent a message saying one
01:26:20.539 --> 01:26:23.399
of the two of you will have to tackle. this question
01:26:23.399 --> 01:26:26.500
because i read it it doesn't make sense i didn't
01:26:26.500 --> 01:26:28.659
say it didn't make sense i said i don't understand
01:26:28.659 --> 01:26:31.840
oh there you go sorry i was not assigning blame
01:26:31.840 --> 01:26:37.939
i was right i was open but i uh was running downstairs
01:26:37.939 --> 01:26:42.859
to our storage i tell and just in the brief run
01:26:42.859 --> 01:26:46.659
down the stairwell i read that and i was like
01:26:46.659 --> 01:26:49.680
oh this makes perfect sense you like i mean seriously
01:26:49.680 --> 01:26:51.880
it was like 30 seconds later you were like no
01:26:51.880 --> 01:26:58.500
i got it uh so uh there you go good information
01:26:58.500 --> 01:27:01.460
and the important thing here is you know go to
01:27:01.460 --> 01:27:02.939
your local comic shop and let them know what
01:27:02.939 --> 01:27:05.060
you need that's that's the big thing whether
01:27:05.060 --> 01:27:09.500
it's gi joe or anything else um oh wait but i
01:27:09.500 --> 01:27:13.810
do i oh One of Tom's comments. My comic book
01:27:13.810 --> 01:27:16.109
store owner doesn't know any of the G .I. Joe
01:27:16.109 --> 01:27:20.829
characters. Shame on him. He had roadblock, but
01:27:20.829 --> 01:27:24.810
assumed chameleon was roadblock. Roadblock wishes
01:27:24.810 --> 01:27:30.430
that he had cakes that tasty. Yeah. To be fair,
01:27:30.649 --> 01:27:35.909
she does have a roadblock going on there. All
01:27:35.909 --> 01:27:39.189
right. next up and i forgot to crop it so it
01:27:39.189 --> 01:27:41.890
still says for you which by the way instagram
01:27:41.890 --> 01:27:45.149
uh i don't need most recent i don't need for
01:27:45.149 --> 01:27:47.109
you i don't need anything just show me the freaking
01:27:47.109 --> 01:27:51.409
comments i don't get all of these services that
01:27:51.409 --> 01:27:55.289
are like for you we think you'd like these shut
01:27:55.289 --> 01:27:57.229
up i don't care what you think i'd like i just
01:27:57.229 --> 01:27:59.930
want to see the information i'm here for ridiculous
01:27:59.930 --> 01:28:04.699
anyway ed at the beach Will we ever get a general
01:28:04.699 --> 01:28:08.159
flag or general Austin in classified or maybe
01:28:08.159 --> 01:28:11.779
the jugglers? I mean, the only real answer to
01:28:11.779 --> 01:28:13.920
this is anything is possible. They've said that
01:28:13.920 --> 01:28:16.100
they're going to pull from the history of Joe,
01:28:16.260 --> 01:28:18.460
that anything is possible at this point. That's
01:28:18.460 --> 01:28:21.859
how successful the line has been. Uh, so yeah.
01:28:21.939 --> 01:28:25.060
And I mean, especially with operation monster
01:28:25.060 --> 01:28:28.520
force providing some, some really nice looking
01:28:28.520 --> 01:28:34.020
general figures, you know, I gotta think. And
01:28:34.020 --> 01:28:36.739
Lenny's going to take that as a challenge. Hey,
01:28:36.760 --> 01:28:38.800
we got a general flag in the original, you know,
01:28:38.800 --> 01:28:41.380
the original American hero line. Granted, he's
01:28:41.380 --> 01:28:43.939
not the general flag that we wanted. Right, right.
01:28:44.079 --> 01:28:46.199
But, you know, at least we've gotten that figure
01:28:46.199 --> 01:28:50.579
out before. But, yeah, I mean, I got to think,
01:28:50.760 --> 01:28:54.800
you know, Lenny is not going to let all of these
01:28:54.800 --> 01:28:58.680
dress suit figures that Fresh Monkey Fiction
01:28:58.680 --> 01:29:02.699
is putting out or dress uniform figures, whatever.
01:29:03.390 --> 01:29:06.369
uh he's not gonna let that go unanswered and
01:29:06.369 --> 01:29:08.430
i i mean in the most friendly competitive way
01:29:08.430 --> 01:29:14.670
possible but there's no way we don't see some
01:29:14.670 --> 01:29:18.409
kind of suited soldier in the next i would say
01:29:18.409 --> 01:29:24.329
by the end of 2026 i bet we get at least a render
01:29:24.329 --> 01:29:31.449
of whether it's uh dress gung -ho or something
01:29:31.449 --> 01:29:34.430
like that or an actual you know general flag
01:29:34.430 --> 01:29:37.390
or general austin or something i bet we see one
01:29:37.390 --> 01:29:39.909
before the end of this year i'm gonna i'll make
01:29:39.909 --> 01:29:43.590
that call because you mentioned it shout out
01:29:43.590 --> 01:29:46.329
to operation monster force if you guys haven't
01:29:46.329 --> 01:29:50.229
seen the general figure there is an alternate
01:29:50.229 --> 01:29:55.390
head that sure is a movable fighting action man
01:29:55.390 --> 01:29:59.789
with a beard Dude, that figure is killing me
01:29:59.789 --> 01:30:01.630
because every time I look at it on the shelf,
01:30:01.689 --> 01:30:03.930
I think about the other heads that I know because
01:30:03.930 --> 01:30:09.170
they're all great. Stupid tariffs because I'm
01:30:09.170 --> 01:30:11.829
like, I want another one, but not right now.
01:30:11.850 --> 01:30:14.569
There's too much. Right, right. Well, and that's
01:30:14.569 --> 01:30:16.569
what happens is like, I'm like, ah, when, when
01:30:16.569 --> 01:30:19.369
things slow down, I'll, I'll circle back around
01:30:19.369 --> 01:30:21.510
and maybe grab another one of those, which was
01:30:21.510 --> 01:30:24.390
my plan with the reaction plus Royal guards.
01:30:24.729 --> 01:30:27.630
And I, I, I ended up with two, but my plan had
01:30:27.630 --> 01:30:29.729
been okay. Anytime that I know there's like a
01:30:29.729 --> 01:30:33.149
little leeway, I'm just going to order another
01:30:33.149 --> 01:30:35.109
one. And the next time it came around, the price
01:30:35.109 --> 01:30:38.289
had gone up on them. And now they're good anyway.
01:30:38.710 --> 01:30:43.300
I'll say, I mean, look, probably. But we don't
01:30:43.300 --> 01:30:49.880
know. All right, last one. Yorktown Joe. Who
01:30:49.880 --> 01:30:53.760
is excited for the mystery character Star Wars
01:30:53.760 --> 01:31:02.159
crossover, Cad Bane? Okay. Just kidding, but
01:31:02.159 --> 01:31:04.520
glad to see an homage to a silhouette cross cell
01:31:04.520 --> 01:31:07.000
on an explosion background. And that's the portion
01:31:07.000 --> 01:31:13.139
of this that I hadn't really thought about. That,
01:31:13.139 --> 01:31:16.020
you know, we used to see this frequently in the
01:31:16.020 --> 01:31:19.579
real American hero line. And I had not considered
01:31:19.579 --> 01:31:21.579
that they hadn't done it in classified. And it's
01:31:21.579 --> 01:31:26.300
funny how the stuff that we're. That we took
01:31:26.300 --> 01:31:33.579
for granted back then. Seems weird now. As a
01:31:33.579 --> 01:31:39.119
kid, it used to drive me crazy. I never liked
01:31:39.119 --> 01:31:41.500
it. Star Wars did it too. And I just thought
01:31:41.500 --> 01:31:45.939
that was a crime. Now, I can't remember off the
01:31:45.939 --> 01:31:47.979
top of my head because I can't totally picture
01:31:47.979 --> 01:31:51.439
one of those. Because Super 7 did that as well
01:31:51.439 --> 01:31:54.000
with the reaction line. I don't think we've seen
01:31:54.000 --> 01:31:55.939
it in Reaction Plus yet. But the reaction line,
01:31:56.020 --> 01:31:59.319
they did that as well. But it was a generic silhouette.
01:32:00.199 --> 01:32:03.680
It wasn't like this, what we looked at tonight.
01:32:04.260 --> 01:32:07.439
It would just be a generic silhouette. Is that
01:32:07.439 --> 01:32:09.739
what the brands did back in the day? Or was it
01:32:09.739 --> 01:32:12.880
the actual shape of the character? I don't remember.
01:32:13.920 --> 01:32:16.699
So for the Star Wars ones, now granted, they
01:32:16.699 --> 01:32:22.600
were doing it initially to keep the Ewoks a surprise.
01:32:23.220 --> 01:32:27.979
But it looks like someone just blotted out the
01:32:27.979 --> 01:32:33.520
shape. So it wasn't a generic, you know. body
01:32:33.520 --> 01:32:35.760
shape or whatever it was like they traced the
01:32:35.760 --> 01:32:39.060
outline and then filled it in with black so it
01:32:39.060 --> 01:32:43.819
looked more blobby okay i'll have to when we're
01:32:43.819 --> 01:32:45.460
done i'm gonna go look some of these up because
01:32:45.460 --> 01:32:47.960
it's it's a really interesting point that i hadn't
01:32:47.960 --> 01:32:50.619
thought about and i i personally would like to
01:32:50.619 --> 01:32:53.180
see more of it because really it's potentially
01:32:53.180 --> 01:32:57.560
another step they could add in to make the production
01:32:57.560 --> 01:33:01.960
time seem more broken up because you know now
01:33:01.960 --> 01:33:07.380
we get name reveal render reveal like diorama
01:33:07.380 --> 01:33:12.159
photo reveal and then pre -order so we sort of
01:33:12.159 --> 01:33:15.020
have four stages it wouldn't be terrible to add
01:33:15.020 --> 01:33:18.800
a fifth stage in there that you could alternate
01:33:18.800 --> 01:33:20.939
from time to time with a name reveal like they've
01:33:20.939 --> 01:33:23.239
done with this i think that would be kind of
01:33:23.239 --> 01:33:28.260
fun talking yeah yeah Okay, so I'm sure you've
01:33:28.260 --> 01:33:30.039
already covered the speculation by now, so I'll
01:33:30.039 --> 01:33:32.140
just thank you for another great show in advance.
01:33:32.460 --> 01:33:34.680
Well, thank you, Yorktown Joe. You've always
01:33:34.680 --> 01:33:37.220
been a great contributor to the show. We appreciate
01:33:37.220 --> 01:33:40.979
your support, and anytime you provide a sound
01:33:40.979 --> 01:33:43.779
off or whatever else, it's always good stuff
01:33:43.779 --> 01:33:50.180
worthy of conversing about. And so now the final
01:33:50.180 --> 01:33:57.550
segment of the show. Hopefully, I didn't... I
01:33:57.550 --> 01:33:59.430
didn't plan for this one, so I'm having to do
01:33:59.430 --> 01:34:01.590
an emergency backup. Do you guys have Joe and
01:34:01.590 --> 01:34:03.850
tell? Okay, good. Well, it's in the show notes.
01:34:03.890 --> 01:34:06.130
I should have been ready. But like I said, there
01:34:06.130 --> 01:34:11.069
was a lot of laundry today. So now it's time
01:34:11.069 --> 01:34:14.470
for Joe and tell where each of us has something
01:34:14.470 --> 01:34:20.329
to share with the camera. Who wants to go? I'll
01:34:20.329 --> 01:34:22.109
go last because mine's going to take a minute.
01:34:22.649 --> 01:34:26.569
Who wants it? Noel, you want to? Sure. All right.
01:34:28.010 --> 01:34:31.770
I, uh, I just returned from, uh, you know, a
01:34:31.770 --> 01:34:35.649
little, a little trip. And so my Joe Intel is
01:34:35.649 --> 01:34:39.670
this right here. Ooh, I recognize that. Yes.
01:34:39.810 --> 01:34:43.069
This is, this is the rocket to a conquest X 13.
01:34:43.649 --> 01:34:46.729
Um, and it's not that impressive. You know, I've
01:34:46.729 --> 01:34:49.909
got several others vehicles around, but, um,
01:34:50.640 --> 01:34:55.380
I was in San Diego for the last week. On Saturday,
01:34:55.539 --> 01:35:01.119
I went to the Coin -Op Game Room on 30th Street
01:35:01.119 --> 01:35:04.180
and then down to Part -Time Lover, which is a
01:35:04.180 --> 01:35:07.789
Japanese -style listening bar. Oh. Fantastic
01:35:07.789 --> 01:35:10.649
place. If you're in the San Diego area, there's
01:35:10.649 --> 01:35:12.310
actually several Japanese -style listening bars,
01:35:12.409 --> 01:35:15.869
and I definitely recommend Convoy Listening Bar
01:35:15.869 --> 01:35:19.609
if you get a chance. But this was at a shop that
01:35:19.609 --> 01:35:22.489
is in between those two places. called Replay
01:35:22.489 --> 01:35:28.090
Toys. It is on 2948 University Avenue and 30th
01:35:28.090 --> 01:35:30.710
Street in San Diego. It's a wonderful little
01:35:30.710 --> 01:35:34.210
toy store because they do have a lot of little
01:35:34.210 --> 01:35:37.390
trinkety toys, but they've also got new stuff
01:35:37.390 --> 01:35:41.090
and then used stuff. And it's one of those places
01:35:41.090 --> 01:35:42.630
where I kind of walked in and I was like, all
01:35:42.630 --> 01:35:43.989
right, there's a few things here. They got a
01:35:43.989 --> 01:35:45.989
few vintage Star Wars figures over here in a
01:35:45.989 --> 01:35:49.850
case. oh, there's some Joe stuff. Not much. A
01:35:49.850 --> 01:35:53.609
few loose figures, mostly modern and Valor versus
01:35:53.609 --> 01:35:58.909
Venom era stuff. But when I was purchasing this,
01:35:59.050 --> 01:36:00.789
which was in a bin of things that said, G .I.
01:36:00.810 --> 01:36:03.329
Joe accessories, 50 cents to a dollar. And I
01:36:03.329 --> 01:36:04.810
took it up to the cashier and I said, this was
01:36:04.810 --> 01:36:06.069
in a bin that said 50 cents to a dollar. She
01:36:06.069 --> 01:36:08.550
goes, looks like 50 cents to me. So that was
01:36:08.550 --> 01:36:14.140
my price for it. Nice. She goes, we don't. We
01:36:14.140 --> 01:36:15.579
don't have a lot of G .I. Joe stuff out now,
01:36:15.680 --> 01:36:17.399
but we have a whole bunch of stuff we just haven't
01:36:17.399 --> 01:36:19.039
had a chance to put back. So hopefully you can
01:36:19.039 --> 01:36:20.340
come back soon. I was like, well, unfortunately,
01:36:20.420 --> 01:36:24.579
I don't live in the area. Your knoll pulls out.
01:36:26.159 --> 01:36:28.899
Well, they apparently have an eBay site as well.
01:36:28.960 --> 01:36:31.260
So they do list stuff on eBay from time to time.
01:36:31.800 --> 01:36:33.739
But if you are in the San Diego area, it's a
01:36:33.739 --> 01:36:36.399
great little shop. Unfortunately, as I said,
01:36:36.420 --> 01:36:38.300
I did not get to go to Super 7 because they're
01:36:38.300 --> 01:36:41.300
closed down. I did not get to go to Now or Never
01:36:41.300 --> 01:36:43.340
Comics, which I went to last time I was out.
01:36:43.369 --> 01:36:44.729
out there, which is actually a great little shop.
01:36:44.890 --> 01:36:46.789
And there's a new place opening up that was right
01:36:46.789 --> 01:36:49.590
in the gas lamp called Dampire, D -A -J -A -M
01:36:49.590 --> 01:36:52.289
-P -I -R -E, that appears to have not opened
01:36:52.289 --> 01:36:55.149
yet. But it's another, like, comic and toy shop
01:36:55.149 --> 01:36:57.609
down there. So, yeah, definitely recommend Replay
01:36:57.609 --> 01:36:59.949
Toys. I told them that I would give them a shout
01:36:59.949 --> 01:37:02.829
-out on our show here tonight. So this is them.
01:37:03.029 --> 01:37:06.050
And I definitely also recommend them because
01:37:06.050 --> 01:37:10.310
they like their whiskey neat or their water at
01:37:10.310 --> 01:37:13.039
room temperature. if you get what i'm saying
01:37:13.039 --> 01:37:21.239
well all right christian oh whoa what just happened
01:37:21.239 --> 01:37:25.619
i i just clicked on christian in a little blue
01:37:25.619 --> 01:37:36.140
square oh okay all right so um this is not finished
01:37:36.140 --> 01:37:43.699
however um uh my good for whoops my there we
01:37:43.699 --> 01:37:48.159
go my good friend wes uh who is also part of
01:37:48.159 --> 01:37:51.560
the facebook group uh has started 3d printing
01:37:51.560 --> 01:37:55.420
and one of the things that i had talked to him
01:37:55.420 --> 01:38:00.000
about many many many times is of course wanting
01:38:00.000 --> 01:38:10.760
a cobra bunker not a a porta potty So check it
01:38:10.760 --> 01:38:16.939
out. Wow. Yeah. So I've been painting it with
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what little bits of free time I have. So I still
01:38:21.359 --> 01:38:27.739
have a long ways to go. Also, I think it's mad,
01:38:27.899 --> 01:38:33.199
mad dog tattoos. I think on eBay does one 12th
01:38:33.199 --> 01:38:37.800
water slide. um decals for these so i ordered
01:38:37.800 --> 01:38:43.239
those but uh just to give you an idea of the
01:38:43.239 --> 01:38:48.880
scale there is a classified figure nice so once
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i finish getting it all painted and getting the
01:38:52.100 --> 01:38:57.430
grass added to it um Then I'm going to glue everything
01:38:57.430 --> 01:38:59.630
together to make it one solid piece. But I'm
01:38:59.630 --> 01:39:02.609
super, super excited and happy to add an actual
01:39:02.609 --> 01:39:06.770
Cobra bunker to my classified collection. And
01:39:06.770 --> 01:39:10.890
check out Wes's other work in the Facebook group.
01:39:12.789 --> 01:39:18.930
So having that in hand, if Hasbro were to produce
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that, how much do you think it would be? Cause
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that's a big piece of real estate. It, it is,
01:39:28.210 --> 01:39:32.550
but it still doesn't use a lot to me. I don't
01:39:32.550 --> 01:39:34.789
think it uses a lot of plastic. Most of the plastic
01:39:34.789 --> 01:39:39.789
is in the base pieces either. Yeah. And I would
01:39:39.789 --> 01:39:41.550
wonder if they'd even do the base, if they were
01:39:41.550 --> 01:39:45.090
to put that out, if they were to put a figure
01:39:45.090 --> 01:39:50.800
with it, I mean, I would pay $75. I didn't ask
01:39:50.800 --> 01:39:52.539
what you'd pay. I asked what you think they'd
01:39:52.539 --> 01:39:56.199
charge. What I think Hasbro would pay. Considering
01:39:56.199 --> 01:39:58.220
the size, I think they would charge what they
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charge for the vamp and the stinger. Well, we
01:40:03.779 --> 01:40:10.899
may or may not ever find out. All right. So as
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I said, I got kind of busy today and kind of
01:40:13.640 --> 01:40:15.159
forgot about Joe and tell, but that's okay. Cause
01:40:15.159 --> 01:40:17.199
I've got a whole stack of reaction plus figures
01:40:17.199 --> 01:40:20.680
just waiting to be opened up. And they don't,
01:40:20.680 --> 01:40:22.840
they're there. They just don't make the best
01:40:22.840 --> 01:40:25.199
full reviews all the time. And this one, especially
01:40:25.199 --> 01:40:28.520
because I've got the reaction version of this
01:40:28.520 --> 01:40:32.880
figure, but it is a fancy it's Cobra commander
01:40:32.880 --> 01:40:36.460
enemy leader. And I like that. They don't change
01:40:36.460 --> 01:40:39.529
the designation up. Like it's not. Cobra Commander
01:40:39.529 --> 01:40:43.390
with cape. They don't change the title. They
01:40:43.390 --> 01:40:45.850
all just still say Cobra Commander, enemy leader,
01:40:46.010 --> 01:40:49.550
but as you can see, the accessories listed on
01:40:49.550 --> 01:40:51.609
the side, just like they were back in the day,
01:40:51.649 --> 01:40:55.489
include scepter and cape. Really nice looking
01:40:55.489 --> 01:40:58.289
card art that has been, I believe the reaction
01:40:58.289 --> 01:41:02.170
figure had the same card art, but we also may
01:41:02.170 --> 01:41:04.270
think of this as 70s boogie Cobra Commander.
01:41:06.409 --> 01:41:08.430
uh file card on the back but nothing we haven't
01:41:08.430 --> 01:41:12.350
seen before so let's open him up and check him
01:41:12.350 --> 01:41:15.250
out i also like that the pose on the cover is
01:41:15.250 --> 01:41:17.590
kind of reminds me of the target lady played
01:41:17.590 --> 01:41:25.310
by kristen wigg on snl there's the exclusive
01:41:25.310 --> 01:41:32.380
variant lady cobra commander That would be the
01:41:32.380 --> 01:41:36.800
fall convention exclusive. What is the Target
01:41:36.800 --> 01:41:40.680
geek out? Target geek out is the one that they
01:41:40.680 --> 01:41:47.140
do. It'd be a geek out exclusive. Cape's nice
01:41:47.140 --> 01:41:51.699
and thick. I do like their soft goods are so
01:41:51.699 --> 01:41:55.359
odd because initially, when you first look at
01:41:55.359 --> 01:41:57.600
them, they almost kind of look like they're just
01:41:57.600 --> 01:42:00.680
Christmas ribbon or something. It doesn't...
01:42:00.840 --> 01:42:05.239
look durable, but then you get your hands on
01:42:05.239 --> 01:42:09.399
it. It feels nice. It's got that red lining in
01:42:09.399 --> 01:42:11.579
it. It's got a nice shine to it. Like it looks
01:42:11.579 --> 01:42:14.539
Cobra Commander capey. It looks appropriate for
01:42:14.539 --> 01:42:17.579
the guy. This one does have a ball jointed head.
01:42:18.380 --> 01:42:22.899
So that is a nice addition. All the joints are
01:42:22.899 --> 01:42:24.420
good. The plastic is great. I mean, these figures
01:42:24.420 --> 01:42:27.380
feel great, but every single time, and I hate
01:42:27.380 --> 01:42:30.710
having to repeat it. but not everybody sees everything
01:42:30.710 --> 01:42:36.250
I put out. I don't like the silver rivets. I
01:42:36.250 --> 01:42:39.310
wish they would switch to the color matching
01:42:39.310 --> 01:42:42.210
like they did on the Universal Monsters in the
01:42:42.210 --> 01:42:46.189
Back to the Future. The little cobra emblems,
01:42:46.189 --> 01:42:51.390
the clasps on his cape are amazing. A little
01:42:51.390 --> 01:42:54.270
gold detail there, and they're actual little
01:42:54.270 --> 01:42:57.850
separate pieces. It's not just like a tampo.
01:42:58.960 --> 01:43:02.140
looks great he's actually in hand i will say
01:43:02.140 --> 01:43:04.140
because this was one of those if you guys remember
01:43:04.140 --> 01:43:10.000
uh i was four or six figures behind on these
01:43:10.000 --> 01:43:14.819
and and not just not buying like arctic snake
01:43:14.819 --> 01:43:18.239
eyes or whatever and then the fomo hit me and
01:43:18.239 --> 01:43:20.920
i ordered a bunch in one shot i think super seven
01:43:20.920 --> 01:43:23.279
had like a it was either a free shipping or a
01:43:23.279 --> 01:43:25.140
buy four get one free or something like that
01:43:25.850 --> 01:43:27.890
And this is one of the ones that I was less than
01:43:27.890 --> 01:43:31.270
enthusiastic about. But I got to say, this might
01:43:31.270 --> 01:43:35.590
be the best O -ring Cobra Commander. Or my favorite.
01:43:35.649 --> 01:43:39.210
I'll say my favorite. Best is objective. But
01:43:39.210 --> 01:43:43.430
the cape is so good and so fun. And those little,
01:43:43.569 --> 01:43:46.109
just something about the little cape clasps looks
01:43:46.109 --> 01:43:50.409
so good. Yeah, I was super excited to get that
01:43:50.409 --> 01:43:54.220
figure on the shelf because... when you know
01:43:54.220 --> 01:43:57.199
cobra commander such just like a bombastic grandiose
01:43:57.199 --> 01:44:00.279
character and none of the figures that they've
01:44:00.279 --> 01:44:03.720
ever made really do him that justice but with
01:44:03.720 --> 01:44:05.979
that cape and that scepter and just you know
01:44:05.979 --> 01:44:08.640
putting him that pose yeah that's the one i wanted
01:44:08.640 --> 01:44:16.079
yeah it's great this is well okay aside from
01:44:16.079 --> 01:44:22.600
the cobra law cobra commander uh this this is
01:44:22.600 --> 01:44:24.319
my new favorite cobra commander figure that's
01:44:24.319 --> 01:44:28.079
awesome great job super seven just color those
01:44:28.079 --> 01:44:32.699
rivets please please put aside your your personal
01:44:32.699 --> 01:44:39.680
uh incorrect aesthetic opinions and put some
01:44:39.680 --> 01:44:42.119
color in those rivets and as i said before like
01:44:42.119 --> 01:44:45.260
they've done such a fantastic job matching the
01:44:45.260 --> 01:44:48.000
paint of the rivets on those back to the future
01:44:48.000 --> 01:44:51.260
figures that there's no there's no reason they
01:44:51.260 --> 01:44:52.680
shouldn't be able to do the same thing for these
01:44:52.680 --> 01:44:57.840
figures and yeah it's a process they can manage
01:44:57.840 --> 01:45:02.939
yeah so let's move it to joe i i will i i will
01:45:02.939 --> 01:45:05.529
deal with it I will deal with these mismatched
01:45:05.529 --> 01:45:08.310
figures in my collection. I'll make that sacrifice
01:45:08.310 --> 01:45:11.310
if you'll just color those things. All right,
01:45:11.350 --> 01:45:14.489
that is all the show we got for you this week.
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Christian, where can we find that toy photography
01:45:18.310 --> 01:45:21.449
you do so well? You can find me on Instagram
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and Blue Sky under the name Legion Cub. And Noel,
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why don't you tell us a little bit about the
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Welcome to Audible Interlude, a G .I. Joe podcast.
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I'm your host, Dave West, codename Phantom Troublemaker.
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review of Mara and I have to apologize. Because
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I am absolutely positive that I have referred
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to her as Mara. It is entirely possible all three
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of us might have referred to her as Mara at different
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times. I'm not sure I've always said Mara, but...
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Have you? Okay. I know there's no way. With all
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of the different oceanic, mer -oriented characters,
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there's no way I haven't said Mara at some point.
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I think I've only referred to her as the other
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woman. But my review of the Reaction Plus Mara
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finally goes up tomorrow. I had other plans,
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but the weather delayed three different deliveries
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that I've got coming in. But that's okay because
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I've still got a pile of stuff that needs to
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be reviewed, including those Reaction Plus figures.
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But check out the Needless Things YouTube channel.
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Like, subscribe, share. Schedule -wise... Our
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review of G .I. Joe number 18 is available wherever
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you get your podcasts. The first appearance of
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Roadblock, the first non -appearance of Noel,
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as far as a comic review goes. No, it was another
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one like a month ago. During the Dreadnought
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War. Was there? Okay, I remembered there being
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one where you weren't going to be here and then
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we realized like, oh wait, we can record this
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on Thursday. Yeah, I think that was my last trip
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to Southern California. Okay, yeah, once again,
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that's just for you, Noel, and your difficult
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life traveling. I feel so bad for you. Yeah,
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actually, we'll share this. So you sent us a
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message. You know, you were out in San Diego,
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and you sent us a message. about how oh this
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has messed up my plans because the super seven
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store is closed or gone or whatever oh i just
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laughed and laughed but yeah like we just i just
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apparently missed it i the message on i think
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instagrams was like december 31st oh yeah they've
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been talking about it for months i mean it's
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it's been a while yeah uh and uh schedule wise
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so G .I. Joe number 18, which is no free. Still
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pretty good. Not as good as it could have been,
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though. And the audible rumble also minus Noel.
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But with Chris Scott from Grindhouse Toys taking
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over the co -hosting duties and. It is the most
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insane rumble yet. I can't remember who I was
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telling because this week has been kind of a
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blur, but it said it is the G .I. Joe equivalent
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of the ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny.
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Like, it just left wrestling and became this
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anything goes martial arts wrestling. Yeah. I
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haven't got a chance to listen to it yet. Spoilers,
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everybody dies. I haven't got a chance to listen
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to it yet. I imagine it was probably better than
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both of the actual Royal Rumbles that happened
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over this past weekend put together. Oh, 100%.
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I mean, that's a low bar. I'm making that claim.
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I enjoyed the Women's Rumble. It was just too
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long. And the winner was not particularly satisfying.
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But the Women's Rumble itself, I thought, was
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really entertaining. They could have cut about
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20 minutes off of it. and had a different winner.
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And I like, I was like, why is it an hour and
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a half into this show? And we're still into the
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first match. Crazy. Um, so anyway, uh, and so
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check out the audible rumble, which by the way,
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so crazy that for the first time, uh, I put it
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on YouTube. Normally we don't do that with the
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audio episodes. But I just felt like it needed
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to go up there. So you can check out the video
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or the audio version of the Audible Rumble from
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last week. And then finally, our next live stream
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is February the 16th. So put it on your calendars.
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And it's worth mentioning that Toy Fair will
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be underway. So we will have all of the G .I.
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Joe related news and adjacent. from Toy Fair
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on that live stream. And then a couple of days
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later, probably a live stream, but I'm not positive.
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I'm waiting to hear back on something. But we'll
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be doing a Needless Things Toy Fair recap for
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all of the not GI Joes. Well, not all of, for
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our favorite of the not GI Joe stuff. So Needless
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Things YouTube channel, check it out. We have
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a lot of fun here. So I don't have anything like
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follow -up wise, as far as stuff we've discussed
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recently or, or, I mean, there haven't been any
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pre -orders and there's not really anything that
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we need to go back and take a look at. So I think
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we can get straight into the news and it, it,
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when it rains, it pours. It never fails when
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we're looking at like, okay. We're going to have,
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hopefully, G .I. Joe Day stuff. Because we didn't
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know until Sunday when Hasbro put it up on Instagram
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whether or not they were going to do anything
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for G .I. Joe Day. And then they did, and they
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had a ton of reveals. And then, of course, there's,
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oh, we've got updates from Call Sign Longbow
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and Skeletron and this and that. Now we're loaded
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with news. So let's go ahead and get to it. All
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right. actually this is this is how unsure we
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were that we would have any news to talk about
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uh my because i have to send out show notes before
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the weekend because i want you guys to have a
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heads up of what we're going to talk about and
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whatever else so at the time when i sent this
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the only bullet point we had was staring contest
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i was well i got the email i had to actually
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just google something real quick just to make
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sure that there wasn't some like thing that was
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out there in the news. I quickly figured out
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what the reference was. There's no news. All
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right, but we got lots of news. So first, we're
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going to start with this. And we don't often
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talk about, I mean, this is beyond third party.
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This is literally just a guy on Etsy. But every
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once in a while, there's something there that
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catches my eye, like that G .I. Joe ATV. thing
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that i got last year and i figure we need to
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talk about this if only for our pal tom .henry
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have you guys seen this 3d printed classified
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fang no and that looks really good like that
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is the closest to a fang i've seen of any 3d
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printed or even third -party stuff I like the
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blue. I like the color variations. And then you
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can see here, Cobra Commander in there. So the
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fit is solid for the figures. But when you zoom
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into it, you can see that 3D printed texture
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on it, which I know some people that's fine.
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For me, I can't. I can't. I can't do it. But
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it's $79 .99. So if you need a placeholder fang,
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that's for this kind of thing. what it'll cost
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when it comes out for classified so that's actually
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i think a really good deal so uh that is greebler
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elf which is pretty clever name uh on on etsy
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greebler elf you know what i should probably
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have uh kept that link to put it in the comments
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here never even occurred to me oh you know what
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else oh hang on oh where'd my qr code go oh boo
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stream yard boo had a qr code uploaded uh that
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we can throw up in the corner of the screen and
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uh i don't know where it went but that's okay
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all right so there is uh the fang classified
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scale fang by greebler elf i like the blue also
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yeah it's surprising that they've because they've
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done a couple of fangs throughout the years surprisingly
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never did one in blue What have... Okay, they
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did the Dreadnought fang. Did they do one on
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the 25th line? I mean, they did a fang, but I
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don't think they did anything other than black.
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I could absolutely be wrong about that. But it
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does seem crazy. Well, let's not talk about that.
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And that was not blue, even though it made us
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blue. Yeah, it is kind of crazy that they haven't
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done Crimson Fang, Arctic Fang. But I don't believe
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there's anything other. And tell us in the comments,
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please. I don't believe there's anything other
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than the Dreadnought and the Black. Interesting.
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Although, you know what? I've got to bring up
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the Facebook group because I really like this
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comment. As often happens in the Audible Army
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Facebook group. A little speculation, a little
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conversation came up, and somebody made a comment
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about a Fang. They get talked about a lot. Man,
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I don't remember what it was under, but I said,
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why not the flock of Fang's 12 -pack? Uh -huh.
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uh python patrol fang a crimson fang uh why not
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a sky patrol fang just do it up 12 fangs for
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i think it was 799 .99 is the number i threw
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out there oh here it is here it is uh wreck ship
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said why not two fangs And I said, why stop at
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two? Hasbro, Hasbro Pulse, HasLab, and the G
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.I. Joe Classified team are proud to present,
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after years of fan demand, the flock of fangs.
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That's right. A dozen fangs in every colorway
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you could want. Crimson Fang, Python Patrol Fang,
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Tiger Fang, Sky Patrol Fang, and so much more.
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All of this can be yours for the low, low price
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of $9 .99. Place your pre -order today. That's
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right. I originally was going to do $7 .99. And
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then I realized, like, No, we're in 2026, pal.
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Tariffs, this is going to be $1 ,000 worth of
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fangs. Grando fang. But yeah, very surprising
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that, you know, maybe not in a box set, but over
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the years we haven't seen more fang colors. All
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right. Moving on. Let me put my notes back where
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they belong. Oh, hey, you know what I'm going
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to do while I'm here in the Audible Army? facebook
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group uh i am going to put the link in the chat
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so if you're watching us live the link to the
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facebook group is going in the chat right now
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and there you go all right let's get back on
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task here Call sign Longbow, one of our long
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-awaited O -Ring projects. They've got an update,
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of course, for the end of January. They have
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a new production timeline. And as you're looking
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at on the screen, if you're watching us live,
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this month they have the proof card for Guru
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Spetsnaz to share. As they covered in previous
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months, these proof cards are used to make sure
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the cards are the correct size, colors, and layout.
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proof car, uh, proof cards that were bonuses
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for an album pre -order like these kinds of things.
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I've got one of these, uh, they made them for
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the Cobra Warlord, uh, for Joe Fest last year.
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So that they're neat as a, just a standalone
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item, but it's cool to see the process of one,
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what this card is going to look like. Uh, and
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it's, you know, it's bringing the vibes. It's
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bringing the nostalgia. So they met with their
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factory project manager this week, and he shared
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an updated estimated timeline for production
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on the latest round of figures. These dates are,
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of course, estimates provided by the factory.
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You know, the original estimates were we would
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have these, what, three years ago or something.
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So, yeah, we would know how this stuff goes.
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We've talked enough creators on the Needless
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Things podcast now to understand that back and
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forth with the factory is... It's tough. It's
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serious stuff. So, Lancer and Krasny Ninja final
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samples should be available around the end of
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March. If those are approved with no major issues,
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production would likely commence in April on
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these two figures. Uptown Volk Outlaw and Gru
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Spetsnaz. Additional modifications are being
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worked on at the model shop. If things proceed
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smoothly, production is expected sometime in
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June or July for these four. And then the remaining
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items, which are the henchmen, the adapt trooper,
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steel web shock trooper, MTF retro ops and resupply
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pack. Their project manager has already communicated
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the corrections for these figures to the model
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shop so that they match the modifications made
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to the others. If all goes as planned. tooling
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on these figures would begin in late summer early
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fall and uh yeah i mean that's that's quite a
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timeline but i gotta imagine it's kind of crushing
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uh to the grindstone folks to have to report
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you know we'll have an update this time next
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year on those last five uh items or four items
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no five items five items It's got to be rough.
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But also, I mean, we've met all these people.
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You can talk to them all at Joe Fest, Joe Lanta,
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these conventions. You can shoot them a message
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on Instagram. They're good people working really
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hard on this stuff. It's very close to their
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hearts. And for them to have kept the passion
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for these projects going for this amount of time,
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it's just going to make the end product so worthwhile.
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Speaking of timelines, take a look at that Skeletron.
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Yeah. So, Christian, when you first saw this,
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what was your reaction? I mean, just like now,
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I'm speechless. it has such a not quite a 70s
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vibe but a throwback vibe to it like it looks
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like something that would be on a on the cover
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of like a war tales of terror magazine oh yeah
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totally you know what i mean yeah it's just such
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a great unique look and i mean obviously inspiration
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for it beyond the original figure there's all
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kinds of pop culture things you can you can see
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here but at the same time it feels like an original
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creation i can't wait to get it in yeah i get
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a bit of a terminator skeleton meme from it as
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well uh oh yeah yeah uh let's see okay so They've
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been in communication with the factory over the
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last month and shared some information that is
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of interest as they push for completion of the
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4 -inch and 6 -inch Skeletron figures. And that's
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something worth remembering is that this is coming
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in two different scales, similar to the Wolf
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Troopers. The factory will be relocating to a
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much larger facility in the spring. The factory
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has hired additional tooling expertise and a
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very positive impact has already been experienced
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with tooling speed, quality, and overall success.
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While a larger manufacturing facility will certainly
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be helpful to all the toy makers who share use
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of this facility or this factory, the tooling
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process itself has easily been the most significant
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and continuous bottleneck over the course of
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this project. And we know, again, from talking
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to all these creators, we know that because a
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lot of these guys are using that same factory.
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The fact that they're upgrading. They're going
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to have a larger facility, be able to work on
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more things. Very exciting. It means we're going
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to see a lot of this stuff really start getting
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more efficient. Taking the upcoming Chinese New
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Year shutdown, the pending factory move, and
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the tooling improvements all under consideration,
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we've been provided a schedule that places fulfillment
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of both the 6 -inch and 4 -inch Skeletron figures
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into third quarter of this year. As you well
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know, providing accurate product delivery estimates
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has been the most difficult part of this campaign,
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and we will continue to be transparent with the
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information we are provided. And that's to their
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credit. They all have been very transparent about
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the process. So on the one hand, it's a little
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disappointing that we've got quite a few more
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months to wait before we get these Skeletron
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figures in hand. But at the same time, it will
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be worth the wait. And I kind of like this stuff
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being spread out. I like that I got to savor
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each portion of the RoboSkull delivery as opposed
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to having just this big pile of stuff at once
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that I'm opening, reviewing, and not really getting
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to enjoy it. I kind of like the spread out time.
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Now, I'm not going to lie. I didn't need it to
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be this spread out, but I do like a little window
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between shipments. And then finally, speaking...
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of chris scott from grindhouse toys who was our
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guest co -host for the audible rumble uh we've
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got some updates over here he will be at toylanta
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march 27th through the 29th uh i will i will
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know i'm sure you'll be there i'll be there as
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well just sort of hanging out i don't i don't
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think we've got anything programmed this year
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which is totally fine by me uh well we've got
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to look at the world war hell packaging which
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chris talked about uh in his opening on the Rumble.
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They're still awaiting their first check models
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for World War Hell. They're hoping they'll have
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them to display at Toylanta. So that means there
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could be some actual, like, nice early figures
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at Toylanta for people to look at. Kenny's New
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Year's about to begin, and so we should get them
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after our factory partners get back from their
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holiday. We'll keep you posted as we get more
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information. They've received questions about
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Backerkit, which we talked about also in the
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Audible Rumble. The backer kit, he had a meeting
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with them last week and just trying to figure
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it out. Shouldn't be too much longer. And then
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the VHS packaging, this team has been cranking
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out the nostalgic goodness. These are still work
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in progress and early peaks behind the curtain.
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So things can and will change. There's no wear
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or stickers yet. So if you've seen Grindhouse
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Toys other releases, you know that there's always
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like those VHS boxes. There's always some nice
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wear. It's all... originally done stuff. It's,
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it's really beautiful product. So what we're
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looking at here doesn't have the wear applied
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and it's not the final product, but it gives
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you a little taste of what this packaging is
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going to look like. And on the left, you see
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the outer VHS box. This is, we're looking at
00:23:32.230 --> 00:23:34.589
right now, Captain Winchester by Brian Sauer.
00:23:35.170 --> 00:23:37.930
And then on the right is the interior packaging,
00:23:37.990 --> 00:23:40.849
which is going to look like an actual video cassette.
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And then have the figure visible in the window.
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And then all the accessories and everything will
00:23:45.329 --> 00:23:47.769
be inside that interior box. So this is like
00:23:47.769 --> 00:23:50.789
a full, it's going to be like opening a VHS tape.
00:23:54.089 --> 00:23:58.410
Next up is Sergeant Graves by Shane Pierce with
00:23:58.410 --> 00:24:01.450
a new Sergeant Graves logo by Jason Bendinew.
00:24:02.869 --> 00:24:06.589
It looks awesome. And I love that, you know,
00:24:06.609 --> 00:24:08.450
we talked about back when Classified was doing
00:24:08.450 --> 00:24:11.799
this, having the different artists. work on the
00:24:11.799 --> 00:24:13.920
packaging to give each figure its own identity
00:24:13.920 --> 00:24:20.259
and style uh which was a mixed bag with classified
00:24:20.259 --> 00:24:23.660
I think if we're being honest but I love it here
00:24:23.660 --> 00:24:26.500
where each character he's got a different artist
00:24:26.500 --> 00:24:29.180
working on each one and it really does have its
00:24:29.180 --> 00:24:32.599
own personality but they all have a really cool
00:24:32.599 --> 00:24:40.700
throwback feel uh and then finally Sergeant Specter
00:24:40.700 --> 00:24:44.599
by Tim Barron with the connecting spine art by
00:24:44.599 --> 00:24:46.420
Mark Pennington. So if you look in the middle
00:24:46.420 --> 00:24:50.619
of the VHS box portion of this, you can see when
00:24:50.619 --> 00:24:53.599
you line all of the figures from the first wave
00:24:53.599 --> 00:24:57.329
up on your shelf or all the boxes. there will
00:24:57.329 --> 00:25:00.269
be a mural on the side, kind of like the old
00:25:00.269 --> 00:25:04.190
WrestleMania box sets or the Star Trek VHS box
00:25:04.190 --> 00:25:07.029
set with the Enterprise on the side. So very,
00:25:07.130 --> 00:25:09.490
very cool feature there. And that art is by Mark
00:25:09.490 --> 00:25:14.490
Pennington. And I love this weird translucent
00:25:14.490 --> 00:25:21.250
blue cassette. Yes. After my many years of working
00:25:21.250 --> 00:25:25.049
in a video store, getting some nice flashbacks
00:25:25.049 --> 00:25:27.470
of when you get the special tapes that were clear
00:25:27.470 --> 00:25:31.289
or orange or something like that. You know, and
00:25:31.289 --> 00:25:36.670
I'm trying to remember. I remember a green Ninja
00:25:36.670 --> 00:25:42.789
Turtles, I think. But I don't remember different
00:25:42.789 --> 00:25:47.190
color cassettes being. as common as you would
00:25:47.190 --> 00:25:50.369
think no no they were they were very rare so
00:25:50.369 --> 00:25:53.809
like it felt special when you got one um except
00:25:53.809 --> 00:25:55.809
for like I think all the Nickelodeon releases
00:25:55.809 --> 00:25:58.410
were done in orange they were all orange that's
00:25:58.410 --> 00:26:01.529
right yeah yeah but occasionally you got one
00:26:01.529 --> 00:26:04.549
that would be a translucent or um or even like
00:26:04.549 --> 00:26:07.349
you'd get like a a case a slip cover like one
00:26:07.349 --> 00:26:08.910
of my favorites was the Johnny mnemonic cover
00:26:08.910 --> 00:26:13.029
because it was a clear slip cover that had like,
00:26:13.089 --> 00:26:15.789
you could see the tape in the character's head.
00:26:16.210 --> 00:26:19.809
So stuff like that was always fun. That's cool.
00:26:19.950 --> 00:26:23.410
That's cool, man. That, that would be, that would
00:26:23.410 --> 00:26:26.190
be a fun episode to do for the channel. Like
00:26:26.190 --> 00:26:29.690
best VHS packaging. I'm going to make a note.
00:26:30.289 --> 00:26:34.670
All right. So that is our update for world war
00:26:34.670 --> 00:26:39.450
hell, which is top of my list right now for.
00:26:39.950 --> 00:26:42.410
toy anticipation obviously very excited about
00:26:42.410 --> 00:26:44.609
operation monster force everything going on there
00:26:44.609 --> 00:26:48.289
uh but we've got you know we've got products
00:26:48.289 --> 00:26:50.650
in hand now and we know it's awesome and what's
00:26:50.650 --> 00:26:54.470
coming is coming and there's like when it's a
00:26:54.470 --> 00:26:58.509
brand new product there's a different kind of
00:26:58.509 --> 00:27:02.789
anticipation for it you know uh yorktown joe
00:27:02.789 --> 00:27:06.910
has a question and i apologize i cannot remember
00:27:06.910 --> 00:27:10.230
if we talked about this before the rumble um
00:27:10.230 --> 00:27:13.950
but uh he asked will these be available in backer
00:27:13.950 --> 00:27:17.029
kit later i want that sergeant specter but had
00:27:17.029 --> 00:27:19.509
too many pre -orders hitting during this campaign
00:27:19.509 --> 00:27:21.890
yeah that's that's what we were talking about
00:27:21.890 --> 00:27:24.750
before he's setting up the backer kit now uh
00:27:24.750 --> 00:27:28.490
and and just like these other campaigns well
00:27:28.490 --> 00:27:30.329
you know what okay no i don't want to speak for
00:27:30.329 --> 00:27:37.180
chris because We didn't specify that because
00:27:37.180 --> 00:27:40.720
I was probably assuming all the figures would
00:27:40.720 --> 00:27:42.859
be available, and he's probably assuming everybody
00:27:42.859 --> 00:27:46.099
knows the figures would be available, but I don't
00:27:46.099 --> 00:27:50.599
think we've discussed it. So I will say this,
00:27:50.619 --> 00:27:54.259
Yorktown Joe, I expect that all of the figures
00:27:54.259 --> 00:27:56.200
from the Kickstarter will be available in the
00:27:56.200 --> 00:27:59.099
backer kit, but I'm not going to confirm it.
00:27:59.720 --> 00:28:03.599
Pop over to... Pop over to the Instagram and
00:28:03.599 --> 00:28:05.140
just leave him a comment on one of the posts
00:28:05.140 --> 00:28:09.460
asking about it. Although the backer kit, I believe,
00:28:09.519 --> 00:28:12.619
will probably be up within the month. So we'll
00:28:12.619 --> 00:28:22.859
all know before too long anyway. All right. Sorry,
00:28:22.940 --> 00:28:24.720
got to make those notes. That's a good show idea.
00:28:26.000 --> 00:28:30.799
All right. Next up. Ooh, this one. This was one
00:28:30.799 --> 00:28:34.069
of those announcements. That initially I got
00:28:34.069 --> 00:28:37.089
so excited and then I started thinking about
00:28:37.089 --> 00:28:40.150
the reality of what it was and just ended up
00:28:40.150 --> 00:28:46.309
with, oh, because Street Fighter is coming back
00:28:46.309 --> 00:28:51.049
to Hasbro. And my first thought was, well, back
00:28:51.049 --> 00:28:54.630
in the day, that was part of the G .I. Joe line.
00:28:55.509 --> 00:28:59.559
So at the very least, like. These'll look awesome
00:28:59.559 --> 00:29:01.480
beside classified figures. You know, I'm certainly
00:29:01.480 --> 00:29:03.619
not expecting, well, I don't know. They could
00:29:03.619 --> 00:29:06.480
do a GI Joe street fighter crossover again, but
00:29:06.480 --> 00:29:13.160
here's the problem. Uh, as we're aware, Hasbro
00:29:13.160 --> 00:29:17.759
has two different six inches scales. They've
00:29:17.759 --> 00:29:21.359
got the classified Marvel legends scale, which
00:29:21.359 --> 00:29:24.660
is larger. And then they've got their movie scale,
00:29:24.859 --> 00:29:29.859
which is, uh, ghostbusters star wars black series
00:29:29.859 --> 00:29:32.359
and other movie properties that they've done
00:29:32.359 --> 00:29:35.519
and uh indiana jones they're they're smaller
00:29:35.519 --> 00:29:41.480
they do not mesh with classified so every bit
00:29:41.480 --> 00:29:44.400
of interest i had in this street fighter license
00:29:44.400 --> 00:29:49.140
just went none at none now if it was going to
00:29:49.140 --> 00:29:50.880
be compatible with classified which it still
00:29:50.880 --> 00:29:54.240
could be but i doubt it uh there's a good chance
00:29:54.240 --> 00:29:55.779
i would buy a bunch of these because imagine
00:29:55.779 --> 00:30:01.890
having classified style figures of the street
00:30:01.890 --> 00:30:03.670
fighter characters like that would look awesome
00:30:03.670 --> 00:30:05.930
especially considering who's playing them in
00:30:05.930 --> 00:30:08.049
the movie because this is for the movie yeah
00:30:08.049 --> 00:30:10.730
and they'd be probably because i mean with the
00:30:10.730 --> 00:30:13.809
gi joe street fighter figures we got those were
00:30:13.809 --> 00:30:16.829
with a couple of exceptions mostly cobbled together
00:30:16.829 --> 00:30:20.809
from previous moles right whereas i think these
00:30:20.809 --> 00:30:27.279
would be all new tooling yay Brian Fabian with
00:30:27.279 --> 00:30:30.420
the super chat enjoy the show and glad to support
00:30:30.420 --> 00:30:35.140
you guys keep up the great work yo Joe thank
00:30:35.140 --> 00:30:37.420
you we appreciate it that is awesome thank you
00:30:37.420 --> 00:30:43.490
so much um yeah no you were saying like it was
00:30:43.490 --> 00:30:46.650
mostly kitbash stuff kitbash repaints minus like
00:30:46.650 --> 00:30:49.710
heads and like say you know e honda's body obviously
00:30:49.710 --> 00:30:54.990
right but this this whatever this is i'm positive
00:30:54.990 --> 00:30:58.029
would be new to even if it is yeah you know to
00:30:58.029 --> 00:30:59.369
go with classified it's gonna be new tooling
00:30:59.369 --> 00:31:00.730
because they've got to base it off these new
00:31:00.730 --> 00:31:05.329
portraits uh although now that i'm thinking about
00:31:05.329 --> 00:31:07.829
it we don't even know that this will be 1 12th
00:31:07.829 --> 00:31:11.000
scale They may, this may end up being part of,
00:31:11.019 --> 00:31:12.519
cause they mentioned in the, let me read the
00:31:12.519 --> 00:31:15.319
press release. Okay. Some of the press release.
00:31:15.420 --> 00:31:17.539
Don't worry. I'm not reading the whole thing.
00:31:17.940 --> 00:31:21.859
Completely unnecessary. Hasbro announced a new
00:31:21.859 --> 00:31:23.720
licensing partnership with legendary entertainment
00:31:23.720 --> 00:31:26.220
time to the highly anticipated live action street
00:31:26.220 --> 00:31:28.759
fighter movie arriving in theaters, October 16th,
00:31:28.759 --> 00:31:32.720
2026. Oh, and by the way, if you have not watched
00:31:32.720 --> 00:31:35.400
the teaser trailer for the new street fighter
00:31:35.400 --> 00:31:39.680
movie, please watch it. It looks like the dumbest
00:31:39.680 --> 00:31:41.960
thing I've ever seen, and I could not be more
00:31:41.960 --> 00:31:48.279
excited for it. And the cast is crazy. Yeah.
00:31:48.420 --> 00:31:53.500
It's crazy. Cody Rhodes is the only one that's
00:31:53.500 --> 00:31:56.420
popping into my head right now. Well, isn't Roman
00:31:56.420 --> 00:31:59.700
Reigns, Jason Momoa? There's a bunch of people
00:31:59.700 --> 00:32:04.480
in it. Yeah, Jason Momoa. Okay, here we go. I
00:32:04.480 --> 00:32:09.160
just brought it up because I need to know. So,
00:32:09.160 --> 00:32:12.299
yeah, Roman Reigns as Akuma. Cody Rhodes as Guile.
00:32:12.880 --> 00:32:16.359
Andrew Koji as Ryu. If you remember, he was Storm
00:32:16.359 --> 00:32:22.339
Shadow. Jason Momoa as Blanka, or Blanka, or
00:32:22.339 --> 00:32:27.259
whatever it is. Absolutely crazy. And it just
00:32:27.259 --> 00:32:32.839
looks like so much dumb fun. Very excited for
00:32:32.839 --> 00:32:36.880
this. But the figures have... and eric andre
00:32:36.880 --> 00:32:41.339
as don salvage between that and the master universe
00:32:41.339 --> 00:32:44.799
street fighter movie yeah like i feel like between
00:32:44.799 --> 00:32:47.099
that and the master of the universe trailer i
00:32:47.099 --> 00:32:48.640
mean we we don't know what the movie is going
00:32:48.640 --> 00:32:50.759
to be like but i feel like right they've started
00:32:50.759 --> 00:32:53.319
they're finally starting to get kind of where
00:32:53.319 --> 00:32:55.880
how to approach these properties hopefully for
00:32:55.880 --> 00:32:57.900
live action movies hope so because they both
00:32:57.900 --> 00:32:59.900
both of them that's a that's a good comparison
00:32:59.900 --> 00:33:05.599
too because tonally they they are similar and
00:33:05.599 --> 00:33:09.440
i think what they should be oh also david desmalchian
00:33:09.440 --> 00:33:17.559
is in bison yes kills me 50 cent is balrog i
00:33:17.559 --> 00:33:21.240
mean this it's it's it could be one of the worst
00:33:21.240 --> 00:33:24.640
movies ever be ever made but i will bet you a
00:33:24.640 --> 00:33:27.920
paycheck it'll be entertaining yeah it ain't
00:33:27.920 --> 00:33:32.390
gonna be boring But anyway, so let's get back
00:33:32.390 --> 00:33:34.329
to the press release. Again, not going to read
00:33:34.329 --> 00:33:36.450
the whole thing, but Hasbro's legacy with the
00:33:36.450 --> 00:33:38.289
Street Fighter franchise stretches back to the
00:33:38.289 --> 00:33:40.210
arcade -era phenomenon Street Fighter II, the
00:33:40.210 --> 00:33:42.329
World Warrior, when the company created a popular
00:33:42.329 --> 00:33:44.349
line of action figures, vehicles, and play sets.
00:33:44.730 --> 00:33:46.829
It's just interesting to me that they specified
00:33:46.829 --> 00:33:49.130
action figures, vehicles, and play sets. Not
00:33:49.130 --> 00:33:51.009
that I think they're going to deliver that necessarily,
00:33:51.390 --> 00:33:53.869
or at least not in a collector -friendly format.
00:33:54.170 --> 00:33:57.200
We could very well see... Something like what
00:33:57.200 --> 00:33:58.940
they're doing with Marvel, where they've got
00:33:58.940 --> 00:34:01.400
the, you know, the smaller figures with the vehicles.
00:34:01.460 --> 00:34:04.480
And I don't know that they've done play sets
00:34:04.480 --> 00:34:08.300
for those. I mean, come on. They just did a Tron
00:34:08.300 --> 00:34:12.380
HasLab. They got to do a Street Fighter HasLab
00:34:12.380 --> 00:34:17.320
to give us finally the Eco Warriors Toxo Lab.
00:34:17.539 --> 00:34:19.880
Because that was repainted for Street Fighter.
00:34:20.079 --> 00:34:23.239
Yeah. Yeah. But, you know, as far as we know.
00:34:23.769 --> 00:34:27.710
this could be spoiler there. That's, that's how
00:34:27.710 --> 00:34:34.010
we're getting our thunder machine. You know what?
00:34:34.030 --> 00:34:36.590
I wouldn't even be mad at that. If they know,
00:34:36.650 --> 00:34:39.750
if they did, if they use the budget that they're
00:34:39.750 --> 00:34:42.789
going to have for street fighter to tool up the
00:34:42.789 --> 00:34:47.150
thunder machine and, or think about what if they
00:34:47.150 --> 00:34:49.449
do it as part of their three, seven, five thing,
00:34:49.489 --> 00:34:54.179
you know, speaking of Tron, they could do, There
00:34:54.179 --> 00:34:56.880
are a lot of interesting possibilities, but I
00:34:56.880 --> 00:35:01.800
am, I guess, pre -disappointed without any facts
00:35:01.800 --> 00:35:04.639
to support it that they're probably not going
00:35:04.639 --> 00:35:07.960
to do anything that's part of classified, even
00:35:07.960 --> 00:35:13.340
though it's right there. All right. Next up.
00:35:13.340 --> 00:35:16.179
Next up is still Hasbro news, but it's the big,
00:35:16.179 --> 00:35:19.920
big news that we got on Sunday. And we're going
00:35:19.920 --> 00:35:24.059
to start with, you know what, Noel? Why don't
00:35:24.059 --> 00:35:30.239
you do the honors? Hey, I know that guy. Yeah.
00:35:30.420 --> 00:35:34.940
So we got a bunch of classified drops, a bunch
00:35:34.940 --> 00:35:39.860
of digital renders on Sunday. And of course you
00:35:39.860 --> 00:35:42.039
can't, we've been talking about him for a while.
00:35:42.199 --> 00:35:44.800
I'm surprised we got the render before we even
00:35:44.800 --> 00:35:47.119
got a name reveal or anything, but this was one
00:35:47.119 --> 00:35:48.940
of the ones we were saying, one of the last figures.
00:35:50.679 --> 00:35:53.000
I think this was the last one between 82 and
00:35:53.000 --> 00:35:54.760
86 that we hadn't got yet that wasn't a vehicle
00:35:54.760 --> 00:35:58.179
driver. So we're finally getting airtight. And
00:35:58.179 --> 00:36:00.940
he looks exactly what I would expect a classified
00:36:00.940 --> 00:36:04.199
airtight to look like. I don't know if his helmet's
00:36:04.199 --> 00:36:07.619
removable. Right. That's what I wondered. But,
00:36:07.639 --> 00:36:11.219
I mean, it looks like it could be. But then again,
00:36:11.460 --> 00:36:13.559
they would often, like with another one we're
00:36:13.559 --> 00:36:15.340
going to see, if you have a removable helmet,
00:36:15.400 --> 00:36:18.920
it will often be. next to it in the render so
00:36:18.920 --> 00:36:25.400
i think if i'm remembering i don't think wetsuit
00:36:25.400 --> 00:36:29.900
had his helmet off in the first render we saw
00:36:29.900 --> 00:36:33.559
of him okay i i and i could be wrong about that
00:36:33.559 --> 00:36:37.559
i think though that wetsuit was like this yeah
00:36:37.559 --> 00:36:42.639
okay well i said it would make serious yeah and
00:36:42.639 --> 00:36:45.039
it would make sense because it looks like I don't
00:36:45.039 --> 00:36:47.579
think that all that is one piece with the piping
00:36:47.579 --> 00:36:49.559
and all that going to his back. So I presume
00:36:49.559 --> 00:36:51.800
that that's probably just there to give you a
00:36:51.800 --> 00:36:54.920
better idea of it. A few modifications from the
00:36:54.920 --> 00:36:58.460
original. He's got a holster, a drop holster
00:36:58.460 --> 00:37:00.460
on his leg. And then he's got knee pads, which
00:37:00.460 --> 00:37:03.039
are all things that, you know, it can only enhance
00:37:03.039 --> 00:37:06.039
airtight. Because I just always felt like from
00:37:06.039 --> 00:37:10.300
the waist down, he was kind of blah. And, you
00:37:10.300 --> 00:37:13.210
know, did a pretty... perfect update on the little
00:37:13.210 --> 00:37:17.289
sniffer and his backpack. Although the first
00:37:17.289 --> 00:37:19.630
thing when I looked at that backpack and y 'all
00:37:19.630 --> 00:37:22.030
old internet people can probably vouch for this.
00:37:22.170 --> 00:37:24.210
All I knew is that first thing I saw that I got
00:37:24.210 --> 00:37:26.849
a goat see in my head. So if you don't know what
00:37:26.849 --> 00:37:35.889
that is, Oh no, look it up. Shame on you. Wow.
00:37:37.309 --> 00:37:41.230
Yeah, you're right. yeah he looks he looks great
00:37:41.230 --> 00:37:43.449
the colors are wonderful i love the fact that
00:37:43.449 --> 00:37:46.889
they didn't uh they didn't completely change
00:37:46.889 --> 00:37:50.030
the sniffer which i'm glad you said at first
00:37:50.030 --> 00:37:51.730
because i can't ever remember the name of it
00:37:51.730 --> 00:37:57.230
even though it's the most obvious name but uh
00:37:57.230 --> 00:38:01.269
yeah he looks great there's a part of me that
00:38:01.269 --> 00:38:05.789
might have liked his coveralls to be a little
00:38:05.789 --> 00:38:10.159
bulkier but I don't think that's a correct thought
00:38:10.159 --> 00:38:16.780
because this isn't, you know, it just doesn't
00:38:16.780 --> 00:38:18.440
need to be, it doesn't need to look like a hazmat
00:38:18.440 --> 00:38:20.400
suit. That's not what this is. This is a field
00:38:20.400 --> 00:38:22.559
operative. This is like, but, but in my head,
00:38:22.579 --> 00:38:24.099
I think that's what I keep going to is like,
00:38:24.099 --> 00:38:25.940
it'd be kind of cool if he was almost like mole
00:38:25.940 --> 00:38:31.139
ready, but I kind of had the same thought crossed
00:38:31.139 --> 00:38:32.639
my mind. But then when you look at the details,
00:38:34.300 --> 00:38:36.639
unlike the original airtight figure, he does
00:38:36.639 --> 00:38:41.159
have pockets on his legs. He does have actual
00:38:41.159 --> 00:38:45.119
pockets on his waist, but also pouches on the
00:38:45.119 --> 00:38:52.900
side. Not a hazmat suit necessarily, but it looks
00:38:52.900 --> 00:38:58.539
great. A $300 airtight. Or a hazlab airtight.
00:38:59.239 --> 00:39:07.349
Oh my gosh. So next up, Real quick, Kevin Riddle
00:39:07.349 --> 00:39:10.869
popped in with, it is removable per full force.
00:39:11.030 --> 00:39:14.230
However, I do not recommend using full force
00:39:14.230 --> 00:39:17.090
on your figures because they might break. Keep
00:39:17.090 --> 00:39:19.849
up that neck peg first, and then you can just
00:39:19.849 --> 00:39:23.690
gently pop it. Anything's removable if you believe
00:39:23.690 --> 00:39:28.070
in yourself. I just hope that he does have the
00:39:28.070 --> 00:39:31.429
receding hairline. That's my ask. And that's
00:39:31.429 --> 00:39:35.159
where... friend of the pod brett white popped
00:39:35.159 --> 00:39:42.260
in with using norman osborne head yeah absolutely
00:39:42.260 --> 00:39:47.179
which as a matter of fact it just so happens
00:39:47.179 --> 00:39:51.400
i've got a little hall of heads on my uh desk
00:39:51.400 --> 00:39:55.639
here if you will and look who is sitting right
00:39:55.639 --> 00:39:57.840
there although he's looking he's looking a little
00:39:57.840 --> 00:40:01.699
sour to be airtight like i don't see airtight
00:40:01.699 --> 00:40:07.179
being like quite mean mugging like that but uh
00:40:07.179 --> 00:40:11.480
yeah that's funny and out on the desk all right
00:40:11.480 --> 00:40:13.719
christian i'm gonna let you uh lead us off on
00:40:13.719 --> 00:40:23.730
the next one the hydro viper oh um okay so the
00:40:23.730 --> 00:40:26.650
first thing i noticed is look at the eyes remember
00:40:26.650 --> 00:40:29.909
how when they revealed copperhead like because
00:40:29.909 --> 00:40:32.789
of that full mask like the crazy eyes are what
00:40:32.789 --> 00:40:36.190
stuck out and it's not even just that he has
00:40:36.190 --> 00:40:39.590
like these crazy eyes we'll see you know once
00:40:39.590 --> 00:40:43.070
we we see a physical copy but look at the dark
00:40:43.070 --> 00:40:46.030
well he almost looks like the frag viper like
00:40:46.030 --> 00:40:47.889
he's got the same thing going on as the frag
00:40:47.889 --> 00:40:51.010
viper and and i you know i meant to go look at
00:40:51.010 --> 00:40:54.329
the file card to see because i think by this
00:40:54.329 --> 00:40:56.889
point in the line most of the cobra troops were
00:40:56.889 --> 00:41:00.090
getting like genetically modified in some way
00:41:00.090 --> 00:41:02.949
or something and i i forgot to go back and look
00:41:02.949 --> 00:41:04.590
at it so if anybody wants to bring up the file
00:41:04.590 --> 00:41:08.210
card here i you know what and i keep talking
00:41:08.210 --> 00:41:10.869
and i'll look i looked i didn't read the file
00:41:10.869 --> 00:41:15.889
card but i did have to go back to yojo .com to
00:41:15.889 --> 00:41:18.829
look at the original figure because of the knife
00:41:19.469 --> 00:41:22.289
and i'll i'll mention that in a second uh but
00:41:22.289 --> 00:41:30.550
i love the the clawed um fins i think they look
00:41:30.550 --> 00:41:35.309
really cool the mask fantastic i mean we're getting
00:41:35.309 --> 00:41:41.730
a manta ray in the gi joe line um it looks like
00:41:41.730 --> 00:41:45.170
you know it's just a slug uh but that's okay
00:41:45.170 --> 00:41:47.849
because i don't necessarily need an articulated
00:41:48.829 --> 00:41:54.269
manta ray um he has his harpoon pistol and then
00:41:54.269 --> 00:41:59.650
his dagger knife which again this this goes back
00:41:59.650 --> 00:42:04.230
to um giving credit uh to the years of being
00:42:04.230 --> 00:42:09.210
on the show and how um i noticed things but his
00:42:09.210 --> 00:42:15.630
knife that is an almost an exact copy of of darkon's
00:42:15.630 --> 00:42:20.820
knife from the super joe And I thought, oh, is
00:42:20.820 --> 00:42:23.659
this possibly them hinting at something? And
00:42:23.659 --> 00:42:25.260
I went back and looked at the original figure
00:42:25.260 --> 00:42:28.420
and no, that's the exact same design. Yeah, the
00:42:28.420 --> 00:42:31.820
accessories are just about all identical to the
00:42:31.820 --> 00:42:35.679
original figure with upgrades, obviously. Although
00:42:35.679 --> 00:42:39.500
this is, and I presume even though he has a pet,
00:42:39.599 --> 00:42:41.780
he's not quite a pet because that's not large
00:42:41.780 --> 00:42:46.449
enough and articulated enough to be a pet. If
00:42:46.449 --> 00:42:48.309
there were ever an opportunity to throw in an
00:42:48.309 --> 00:42:51.630
extra pair of hands, this would be the one. That's
00:42:51.630 --> 00:42:55.710
in my notes. Okay, well, first, I'd like to correct
00:42:55.710 --> 00:42:57.449
everybody. The proper scientific name for that
00:42:57.449 --> 00:43:02.969
creature is Majestic Undersea Flap Flap. Noel,
00:43:06.909 --> 00:43:14.500
I'm glad you got that. So, yeah, my next note
00:43:14.500 --> 00:43:17.980
on this was swappable hands would be cool. Because
00:43:17.980 --> 00:43:22.699
I like the monster hand, but now you've just
00:43:22.699 --> 00:43:24.940
got a monster hand. Well, and that's identical
00:43:24.940 --> 00:43:27.619
to how the original figure was. It was his left
00:43:27.619 --> 00:43:30.059
hand, it was the webbed claw hand, and then the
00:43:30.059 --> 00:43:34.099
right hand had a fist. Or, you know, had a holster
00:43:34.099 --> 00:43:38.829
hand. But that was almost 40 years ago. better
00:43:38.829 --> 00:43:41.630
but at the same time and this is the this is
00:43:41.630 --> 00:43:46.030
what i got to is uh swappable hands would be
00:43:46.030 --> 00:43:49.550
cool however there's nothing i would remove from
00:43:49.550 --> 00:43:53.030
this loadout like there's nowhere to fit swappable
00:43:53.030 --> 00:43:57.510
hands in here so i get it yeah uh the mask is
00:43:57.510 --> 00:44:00.949
absolutely incredible yeah i i they have achieved
00:44:00.949 --> 00:44:07.809
what the original toy was trying for uh i would
00:44:07.809 --> 00:44:10.170
like it if it were well we don't know this is
00:44:10.170 --> 00:44:12.010
a render we don't know what the final product
00:44:12.010 --> 00:44:14.369
will look like but i would like it if it were
00:44:14.369 --> 00:44:18.150
a little brighter purple it still looks great
00:44:18.150 --> 00:44:20.949
and the purple and red combo is really nice but
00:44:20.949 --> 00:44:22.630
if it were just a little brighter and that's
00:44:22.630 --> 00:44:25.269
something i we or i've said about a lot of the
00:44:25.269 --> 00:44:28.570
classified figures is like just just up the vibrancy
00:44:28.570 --> 00:44:32.429
just a little bit just a little more everything
00:44:32.429 --> 00:44:34.530
i feel like could stand to be a little brighter
00:44:34.530 --> 00:44:39.559
yeah Well, the chat has let us know that they
00:44:39.559 --> 00:44:43.059
are surgically and chemically altered to be able
00:44:43.059 --> 00:44:46.559
to withstand the pressures of the deep, which
00:44:46.559 --> 00:44:49.840
makes them... To withstand nitrogen narcosis.
00:44:51.219 --> 00:44:55.739
Yep. I knew I would get tongue -tied over reading
00:44:55.739 --> 00:44:59.679
that, and I'm not even going to try with the
00:44:59.679 --> 00:45:03.320
fat production. Oh, okay. Well, wait. No, this
00:45:03.320 --> 00:45:06.579
explains... The synthetic webs are implanted
00:45:06.579 --> 00:45:09.260
between their fingers and subcutaneous fat production
00:45:09.260 --> 00:45:12.079
is stimulated by chemical injections to provide
00:45:12.079 --> 00:45:16.440
natural insulation. This is crazy. Yeah. Next
00:45:16.440 --> 00:45:18.739
time I go to the living seas at Epcot, I'm going
00:45:18.739 --> 00:45:23.260
to ask them about all of these terms. Yes. You
00:45:23.260 --> 00:45:24.980
know, you're going to ask, can you do this to
00:45:24.980 --> 00:45:29.059
me? Like, can we make a, can we make a, uh, Cobra
00:45:29.059 --> 00:45:33.260
intern eel? Also, for our comic reading fans,
00:45:33.800 --> 00:45:37.219
Nowhere Man Child said G .I. Joe European Missions
00:45:37.219 --> 00:45:43.239
issue 14 made Hydro Viper his only appearance
00:45:43.239 --> 00:45:45.340
in the 80s. So I'm going to be tracking that
00:45:45.340 --> 00:45:52.500
down to read it. Very cool. Okay. Well, you know
00:45:52.500 --> 00:45:54.400
what, Christian, you're going to continue on
00:45:54.400 --> 00:46:02.420
because this is your guy. Oh. My gosh. So so
00:46:02.420 --> 00:46:08.500
listeners, keep in mind this. So the last two
00:46:08.500 --> 00:46:11.659
weeks I have been on an early morning schedule
00:46:11.659 --> 00:46:14.559
at work. I'm usually a night guy. So I've been
00:46:14.559 --> 00:46:16.679
getting to work at like five o 'clock in the
00:46:16.679 --> 00:46:21.219
morning. So when all of these pictures came through,
00:46:21.300 --> 00:46:24.480
I was incredibly busy at the moment, incredibly
00:46:24.480 --> 00:46:30.559
tired, waiting to get my second wind. This hit,
00:46:30.679 --> 00:46:35.340
and I was like, oh, yeah, let's go. If you were
00:46:35.340 --> 00:46:41.599
going to update Overkill, man, I love everything
00:46:41.599 --> 00:46:44.260
about this. I'm hoping when we see the physical
00:46:44.260 --> 00:46:46.940
copy, the few critiques I have about his legs
00:46:46.940 --> 00:46:52.239
maybe get touched. But I love the head sculpt,
00:46:52.460 --> 00:46:56.280
the chest design. Obviously, they're not going
00:46:56.280 --> 00:46:59.380
with the clear piece, which is fine. Brittle
00:46:59.380 --> 00:47:03.539
plastic. But you can clearly see the hinges.
00:47:03.659 --> 00:47:06.159
So it's going to open up, have the gun inside.
00:47:06.400 --> 00:47:12.079
I also like without that clear green or the,
00:47:12.099 --> 00:47:15.440
you know, the clear piece that the shape of his
00:47:15.440 --> 00:47:21.260
armor, it looks like a Python head. Yeah. Which
00:47:21.260 --> 00:47:25.519
is, I think adds a whole other dimension to him.
00:47:27.760 --> 00:47:31.619
For fans of the original figure, I also really
00:47:31.619 --> 00:47:35.300
appreciate that they made the claw attachment.
00:47:36.500 --> 00:47:39.880
With the original figure, that laser pistol and
00:47:39.880 --> 00:47:44.579
the claw was one piece. And it's really big and
00:47:44.579 --> 00:47:49.039
not my favorite way to display him. And it just
00:47:49.039 --> 00:47:54.519
looks unwieldy. It doesn't look cool. And I get
00:47:54.519 --> 00:47:57.679
what they were going for. But yeah, it's not
00:47:57.679 --> 00:48:02.719
my favorite accessory. So I'm glad that they
00:48:02.719 --> 00:48:06.679
made it so that you can do the claw on as a separate
00:48:06.679 --> 00:48:12.679
piece. Brett White says, I will be very much
00:48:12.679 --> 00:48:14.739
in my feelings if Overkill doesn't come with
00:48:14.739 --> 00:48:18.320
a giant backpack. That is the one thing I think
00:48:18.320 --> 00:48:24.269
that he is missing. but i highly doubt we're
00:48:24.269 --> 00:48:27.130
gonna get it but 3d printers out there just know
00:48:27.130 --> 00:48:31.769
i was just going to say take my money right here
00:48:31.769 --> 00:48:35.750
gridiron gridiron probably already has some kind
00:48:35.750 --> 00:48:38.610
of big imagine what they they might do they turn
00:48:38.610 --> 00:48:41.429
that big backpack into like a weapons chest or
00:48:41.429 --> 00:48:45.289
something oh open up and you just make sounds
00:48:45.289 --> 00:48:47.230
like the original one did and then you know you
00:48:47.230 --> 00:48:49.730
could repaint it for all the figures that'll
00:48:49.730 --> 00:48:51.730
eventually be like what were the sonic fighter
00:48:51.730 --> 00:48:55.570
you know repaints eventually yeah i mean that
00:48:55.570 --> 00:48:59.409
that would be cool i wouldn't mind it it wouldn't
00:48:59.409 --> 00:49:02.949
be permanently attached like the uh the original
00:49:02.949 --> 00:49:05.150
because some of them were some of them were not
00:49:05.150 --> 00:49:07.989
well this was from the first ones though the
00:49:07.989 --> 00:49:10.769
talking battle commanders and it was permanently
00:49:10.769 --> 00:49:15.659
attacked Well, again, nothing is permanently
00:49:15.659 --> 00:49:18.460
attached if you believe in yourself. If you have
00:49:18.460 --> 00:49:19.780
a screwdriver, nothing's permanently attached.
00:49:20.280 --> 00:49:24.480
This is a figure that I have waited for for a
00:49:24.480 --> 00:49:28.400
very long time in this line. And with this render,
00:49:28.699 --> 00:49:32.300
I am super happy and I am really, really excited.
00:49:32.519 --> 00:49:35.019
I cannot wait to see the actual physical copy.
00:49:36.099 --> 00:49:40.619
Now, I love that they added the rivets across
00:49:40.619 --> 00:49:44.570
the top. The thigh part of his leg. Where that
00:49:44.570 --> 00:49:48.389
swivel joint is. Because. When you look at the
00:49:48.389 --> 00:49:51.630
render. It does give me a little bit. Slaughter's
00:49:51.630 --> 00:49:56.050
Marauders. Slaughter vibes. Of looking like he's
00:49:56.050 --> 00:50:01.250
wearing gold leggings. So I do hope. That the
00:50:01.250 --> 00:50:05.670
physical copy. There's more sort of like. Straight
00:50:05.670 --> 00:50:08.570
lines. On those legs. As opposed to curved. To
00:50:08.570 --> 00:50:12.650
give it a little more robotic feel. um but also
00:50:12.650 --> 00:50:15.929
in hand being able to see like those rivets and
00:50:15.929 --> 00:50:18.369
all that extra detail they put in will also probably
00:50:18.369 --> 00:50:24.730
help with that yeah this one is a must -have
00:50:24.730 --> 00:50:28.289
this this is when classified gets weird and what's
00:50:28.289 --> 00:50:30.309
funny is they got weird but it's stuck to pretty
00:50:30.309 --> 00:50:33.090
much the original design which is what makes
00:50:33.090 --> 00:50:37.179
this so weird uh the The weapons being multiple
00:50:37.179 --> 00:50:39.219
pieces. Where it looks like you can clip the
00:50:39.219 --> 00:50:42.219
laser onto the wrist. And plug in the claw. Or
00:50:42.219 --> 00:50:45.980
the. I'm not going to say sword. Laser dagger.
00:50:46.280 --> 00:50:49.380
I don't know. So you can do whichever you want.
00:50:49.500 --> 00:50:55.039
And then his cannon. Is redesigned from the original.
00:50:55.119 --> 00:50:59.300
But I think looks much cooler. Like it's similar.
00:50:59.400 --> 00:51:02.920
It evokes it. It's an updated design. And that
00:51:02.920 --> 00:51:06.639
bright green. I mean you know. i love it yep
00:51:06.639 --> 00:51:10.940
it's great this is a hideous color combination
00:51:10.940 --> 00:51:21.400
and i am here for it uh next up oh it's a mystery
00:51:21.400 --> 00:51:26.179
figure uh and it is a new character apparently
00:51:27.079 --> 00:51:29.539
yeah everyone thinks this is a what this is a
00:51:29.539 --> 00:51:31.159
wild bill retro but i'm like well they would
00:51:31.159 --> 00:51:34.139
not do a wild bill retro as a silhouetted figure
00:51:34.139 --> 00:51:36.860
i don't think at all right well and they wouldn't
00:51:36.860 --> 00:51:39.920
the retros don't get this background like retros
00:51:39.920 --> 00:51:42.159
look different when they do the renders for those
00:51:42.159 --> 00:51:46.280
um you know what now that i said i just figured
00:51:46.280 --> 00:51:51.820
it was the gi joe overwatch mashup because that
00:51:51.820 --> 00:51:55.800
is totally mccree silhouette and i am so curious
00:51:56.619 --> 00:52:00.380
Oh, wait, hang on. It's Cad Bane. That's who
00:52:00.380 --> 00:52:03.760
it is. I forgot something about Overkill. This
00:52:03.760 --> 00:52:08.539
gold face, I wonder if that might pop off and
00:52:08.539 --> 00:52:11.679
there's something under there. It kind of just
00:52:11.679 --> 00:52:16.000
looks like that to me. Not that there should
00:52:16.000 --> 00:52:20.119
be, but there could be. Right. All right. Back
00:52:20.119 --> 00:52:22.500
to this guy. So, all right. I'm really annoyed
00:52:22.500 --> 00:52:29.539
because his tank. beat me to uh what i was going
00:52:29.539 --> 00:52:34.699
to say with some ai video that they did but noel
00:52:34.699 --> 00:52:38.019
you might even remember this years and years
00:52:38.019 --> 00:52:45.219
ago i was not a fan of gold head destro uh so
00:52:45.219 --> 00:52:49.440
because i thought it was funny i stuck an extra
00:52:49.440 --> 00:52:54.639
wild bill cowboy hat on this version two Destro
00:52:54.639 --> 00:52:58.659
and gave him, gave him a couple of blasters and
00:52:58.659 --> 00:53:03.880
called him Rootin' Tootin' Destro. And you, when
00:53:03.880 --> 00:53:05.980
you were over, you may have seen him in that
00:53:05.980 --> 00:53:09.940
2009, the flying vehicle, the Cobra flying vehicle.
00:53:10.780 --> 00:53:16.099
He's hanging out the door like this. So that,
00:53:16.119 --> 00:53:18.619
that is the Rootin' Tootin' Destro that I've
00:53:18.619 --> 00:53:26.019
had since like 2010 or something. So. The other
00:53:26.019 --> 00:53:28.460
thought that I had for this one. Looks like Rootin'
00:53:28.460 --> 00:53:31.380
Tootin' Destro. Yeah, yeah. You can even see.
00:53:31.719 --> 00:53:34.400
I mean, clearly the inspiration here is the man
00:53:34.400 --> 00:53:37.780
with no name. He's got, it looks like he's got
00:53:37.780 --> 00:53:41.039
the poncho. If you look at the outline right
00:53:41.039 --> 00:53:46.940
there. What was your thought, Noel? No, my thought,
00:53:47.019 --> 00:53:48.420
and I'm surprised I hadn't seen anybody comment
00:53:48.420 --> 00:53:52.159
on this, is Wong from the October Guard. But
00:53:52.159 --> 00:53:54.559
I don't think that they would have led with Wong
00:53:54.559 --> 00:53:56.079
if you're going to do October Guard figures.
00:53:56.380 --> 00:54:03.300
Never, never lead with Wong. Well, as always,
00:54:03.780 --> 00:54:06.860
coming through with the direct line to Lenny,
00:54:06.860 --> 00:54:10.480
Wreck Ship says, I asked Lenny why we have to
00:54:10.480 --> 00:54:14.300
unlock. render reveals now and he laughed and
00:54:14.300 --> 00:54:16.960
just said it's a new character that will require
00:54:16.960 --> 00:54:20.340
more explanation now turn out the light and go
00:54:20.340 --> 00:54:25.059
to sleep but what's interesting here is if you
00:54:25.059 --> 00:54:28.340
notice those are not cowboy boots those are like
00:54:28.340 --> 00:54:33.320
big clunky combat style boots so while the upper
00:54:33.320 --> 00:54:36.699
you know knees and up basically look like it
00:54:36.699 --> 00:54:38.639
could well okay the other thing i noticed is
00:54:38.639 --> 00:54:42.239
look at his right wrist Uh, there's something
00:54:42.239 --> 00:54:44.480
there and I don't know if maybe it's just a sheath
00:54:44.480 --> 00:54:48.800
for that knife, but it looks potentially a little
00:54:48.800 --> 00:54:55.599
componenty or something. So very interesting.
00:54:55.619 --> 00:54:58.179
And look, I'll be honest. I'm excited to see
00:54:58.179 --> 00:55:01.059
something new. That's like just completely out
00:55:01.059 --> 00:55:04.739
of the classified team's imagination because
00:55:04.739 --> 00:55:07.949
they've earned it. Yeah, I'm glad that they're
00:55:07.949 --> 00:55:11.210
able to do that and create new characters. I'm
00:55:11.210 --> 00:55:13.210
not necessarily going to buy all the new characters
00:55:13.210 --> 00:55:16.309
they come up with, but the idea that, you know,
00:55:16.309 --> 00:55:18.969
we're not just doing retro nostalgia. There's
00:55:18.969 --> 00:55:21.230
a lot of that here, but you know what? We can
00:55:21.230 --> 00:55:22.610
throw some new stuff in there and create some
00:55:22.610 --> 00:55:25.789
new lore while we're at it. Well, and look, every
00:55:25.789 --> 00:55:31.630
other Joe line since the original. the people
00:55:31.630 --> 00:55:33.909
running the line have been able to make their
00:55:33.909 --> 00:55:37.429
mark and introduce new characters because fans
00:55:37.429 --> 00:55:42.829
weren't so sensitive to things back then. So
00:55:42.829 --> 00:55:44.809
they could do stuff. I mean, that's how we got
00:55:44.809 --> 00:55:50.650
Scalpel and all those characters from 2002 -ish.
00:55:51.710 --> 00:55:54.050
So, of course, the classified team should be
00:55:54.050 --> 00:55:56.809
able to come up with some new characters for
00:55:56.809 --> 00:55:58.809
the line, for the franchise, and leave their
00:55:58.809 --> 00:56:02.789
mark. On history, basically. So I think this
00:56:02.789 --> 00:56:05.650
is great. I'm excited to see it. Whatever it
00:56:05.650 --> 00:56:17.510
is. All right. Next up. Oh, yeah. This excited
00:56:17.510 --> 00:56:22.110
me. We had gotten the name drop on these. But
00:56:22.110 --> 00:56:25.550
when that happens. we're left with, well, what
00:56:25.550 --> 00:56:26.650
are they going to look like? Are they going to
00:56:26.650 --> 00:56:28.289
be true to the originals? Are they going to be
00:56:28.289 --> 00:56:30.210
minor updates? They're going to be completely
00:56:30.210 --> 00:56:33.610
different. And the first thing I want to point
00:56:33.610 --> 00:56:39.429
out, because when this was dropped, I saw many,
00:56:39.530 --> 00:56:43.869
many places Taurus should be way bigger. And
00:56:43.869 --> 00:56:46.829
I understand where that thought comes from because
00:56:46.829 --> 00:56:50.670
he looks like a strong man, but Taurus is an
00:56:50.670 --> 00:56:54.739
acrobat. And I don't agree that he should be
00:56:54.739 --> 00:57:03.280
big. I think he should be lean like this. I think
00:57:03.280 --> 00:57:06.199
Red Dog looks great. He's got a big build, looks
00:57:06.199 --> 00:57:08.400
like a football player. Comes with a football
00:57:08.400 --> 00:57:14.920
and a tee, which I'll put in a bin, but I think
00:57:14.920 --> 00:57:16.599
it's really neat. I think it's a good inclusion.
00:57:19.780 --> 00:57:21.840
And he's got a throwing hand for the football.
00:57:26.250 --> 00:57:28.269
Do you guys have any thoughts about these two?
00:57:29.849 --> 00:57:32.170
I've already been trying to think of interesting
00:57:32.170 --> 00:57:36.710
ways to use not the football, but that football
00:57:36.710 --> 00:57:44.489
stand for fighting photos. Because whoever would
00:57:44.489 --> 00:57:47.750
have thought that we would get a football kickstand.
00:57:48.949 --> 00:57:53.760
Yeah. In our G .I. Joe action figure line. Is
00:57:53.760 --> 00:57:55.440
it a kickstand? I thought they were called a
00:57:55.440 --> 00:58:00.780
tee. I don't know. Do I ever look or sound like
00:58:00.780 --> 00:58:02.800
or make any of you think that I pay attention?
00:58:03.780 --> 00:58:06.619
You said kickstand with authority, and I thought,
00:58:06.639 --> 00:58:09.119
oh, I might be wrong about that. I think it is
00:58:09.119 --> 00:58:12.300
tee. But, you know, to me, this is just getting
00:58:12.300 --> 00:58:15.920
that tee and that football mold ready so they
00:58:15.920 --> 00:58:20.480
can do a fridge figure down the line. Or Captain
00:58:20.480 --> 00:58:25.500
Gridiron. gridiron i need that football gun so
00:58:25.500 --> 00:58:30.300
and this is noel is a baseball fan uh with hardball
00:58:30.300 --> 00:58:34.619
he should i mean reasonably come with you know
00:58:34.619 --> 00:58:38.340
big lob has basketball red dog comes with football
00:58:38.340 --> 00:58:41.619
so realistically hardball should have a baseball
00:58:41.619 --> 00:58:44.340
bat in the baseball if not a catcher's mitt also
00:58:44.340 --> 00:58:46.920
well he has the you know he has the baseball
00:58:46.920 --> 00:58:54.559
shooting cannon It's supposed to shoot baseball
00:58:54.559 --> 00:58:57.699
grenades. Maybe he'll come with that and little
00:58:57.699 --> 00:59:00.340
grenades that are etched like baseballs. I feel
00:59:00.340 --> 00:59:04.460
like they kind of have to. The accessories look
00:59:04.460 --> 00:59:07.900
great. I love that we've got some extra blades
00:59:07.900 --> 00:59:11.199
for Taurus. Red Dog has an additional because
00:59:11.199 --> 00:59:17.000
he's got the mace or club or whatever the gnaws
00:59:17.000 --> 00:59:19.980
on in the movie. but they've given a little extra
00:59:19.980 --> 00:59:22.420
something here too. And what's surprising to
00:59:22.420 --> 00:59:28.300
me is I believe all four of those weapons are
00:59:28.300 --> 00:59:32.079
new tooling. Because my first thought was that
00:59:32.079 --> 00:59:36.780
Taurus's axe came with slice and dice, but I
00:59:36.780 --> 00:59:38.760
think it's a little different from what came
00:59:38.760 --> 00:59:44.980
with them. I'm not positive. uh i would rather
00:59:44.980 --> 00:59:51.760
have the joe rifle than the stalker rifle or
00:59:51.760 --> 00:59:55.039
the i guess snow job rifle the xm whatever it
00:59:55.039 --> 00:59:57.119
is i can't ever remember the name of that stupid
00:59:57.119 --> 01:00:00.820
thing standard issue joe rifle yeah i would rather
01:00:00.820 --> 01:00:03.880
have that than stalker's uh rifle but everything
01:00:03.880 --> 01:00:08.199
else is great this is a great set uh i'm i'm
01:00:08.199 --> 01:00:14.239
in Oh, I wouldn't. Here's my controversial take.
01:00:14.340 --> 01:00:16.639
I wouldn't have minded either one of these or
01:00:16.639 --> 01:00:20.880
both having a bunch of tattoos. Especially Red
01:00:20.880 --> 01:00:23.739
Dog. Like if we're going for a modern football
01:00:23.739 --> 01:00:28.639
player look. Oh, yeah. But that's a budgetary
01:00:28.639 --> 01:00:35.500
expense. So, you know, I get it. All right. Noel,
01:00:35.800 --> 01:00:39.059
back to you. What are we looking at? What are
01:00:39.059 --> 01:00:42.059
we looking at? Oh, what are we looking at? uh
01:00:42.059 --> 01:00:47.239
we are looking at zanya with her swamp skier
01:00:47.239 --> 01:00:49.599
her chameleon which uh we got the tease of the
01:00:49.599 --> 01:00:52.880
chameleon previously so we were curious as to
01:00:52.880 --> 01:00:55.539
are you getting another zartan and we know we're
01:00:55.539 --> 01:00:57.579
getting ninja force zartan but he doesn't really
01:00:57.579 --> 01:01:00.719
make sense on a chameleon but uh you know this
01:01:00.719 --> 01:01:04.480
is the way to do zanya i suppose um is to put
01:01:04.480 --> 01:01:07.579
her on the chameleon which uh so the chameleon
01:01:09.679 --> 01:01:12.500
To me, I'm looking at this vehicle and it doesn't
01:01:12.500 --> 01:01:14.360
quite look like my original chameleon, but what
01:01:14.360 --> 01:01:17.300
it does look like is an actual chameleon, which
01:01:17.300 --> 01:01:25.659
is why I love it. The shape of the vehicle itself
01:01:25.659 --> 01:01:28.579
looks like an actual chameleon. Like the body
01:01:28.579 --> 01:01:33.579
style. Okay. But it does look a little bit different
01:01:33.579 --> 01:01:36.719
from the original. When I think about the original,
01:01:36.780 --> 01:01:40.030
it feels like... almost like a motorcycle like
01:01:40.030 --> 01:01:42.150
it was kit bashed from a motorcycle and just
01:01:42.150 --> 01:01:44.670
put into this bin and this one actually looks
01:01:44.670 --> 01:01:47.369
like it's a little bit more of a you know a specialized
01:01:47.369 --> 01:01:52.329
vehicle um but no i think she looks great um
01:01:52.329 --> 01:01:55.230
she looks like a very tiny figure as most of
01:01:55.230 --> 01:01:59.030
the female figures are so uh we'll see you know
01:01:59.030 --> 01:02:02.880
how she actually looks in real life um But yeah,
01:02:03.000 --> 01:02:07.119
good load out there. The pistol, I was like,
01:02:07.199 --> 01:02:11.340
does she come with Megatron? Yeah, the color
01:02:11.340 --> 01:02:15.099
on that immediately. It just needs the stock.
01:02:16.360 --> 01:02:19.639
We got the mask, got a couple pairs of removable
01:02:19.639 --> 01:02:22.500
glasses, which, you know, I don't know if those
01:02:22.500 --> 01:02:26.019
are glasses or goggles. Well, one looks like
01:02:26.019 --> 01:02:30.500
goggles, one looks like sunglasses. Yeah. and
01:02:30.500 --> 01:02:34.179
then your little helmet, your little vintage
01:02:34.179 --> 01:02:37.559
flight helmet. But yeah, it's cool that we're
01:02:37.559 --> 01:02:40.099
actually getting her. Now, I said this before
01:02:40.099 --> 01:02:43.019
about the fists, about getting swappable hands
01:02:43.019 --> 01:02:45.420
with the Hydra Viper would have been nice. There's
01:02:45.420 --> 01:02:47.619
not really much of a point of getting these swappable
01:02:47.619 --> 01:02:49.400
hands when they're almost identical. They're
01:02:49.400 --> 01:02:51.360
just fists, but they're not much different than
01:02:51.360 --> 01:02:56.079
her weapon -carrying hands here. So save the
01:02:56.079 --> 01:02:58.760
two fists in Zanya, put them in the Hydra Viper.
01:02:59.260 --> 01:03:04.500
Problem solved. I don't like the weapons loadout
01:03:04.500 --> 01:03:09.000
because these are all reused from male figures
01:03:09.000 --> 01:03:13.179
and they're going to be giant. Look at this picture.
01:03:13.320 --> 01:03:16.639
They're too big. They're too big for her. I wish
01:03:16.639 --> 01:03:19.900
they would make some larger women in this line
01:03:19.900 --> 01:03:23.980
because the little tiny waif is getting kind
01:03:23.980 --> 01:03:29.440
of old. But otherwise... And for this character,
01:03:29.559 --> 01:03:31.760
it's perhaps more appropriate than it is with
01:03:31.760 --> 01:03:33.699
some of the other ones. Yeah. If they ever do
01:03:33.699 --> 01:03:35.659
a Heart Ranger figure, that figure should be
01:03:35.659 --> 01:03:41.440
bigger. Yes, I agree. Otherwise, though, I think
01:03:41.440 --> 01:03:44.340
she looks absolutely perfect. I love the tank
01:03:44.340 --> 01:03:48.980
girl looking old school helmet. It looks like,
01:03:49.039 --> 01:03:51.219
like I said, swappable goggles and sunglasses.
01:03:52.320 --> 01:03:55.360
And then it also looks like that hockey mask.
01:03:57.420 --> 01:04:00.559
Might be it's either got hair in it or something.
01:04:00.699 --> 01:04:03.380
I don't know. I'm curious to see how that functions.
01:04:03.440 --> 01:04:07.099
I guess maybe her hair comes off. Yeah, I wasn't
01:04:07.099 --> 01:04:10.199
sure if the hair comes off and that replaces
01:04:10.199 --> 01:04:12.579
it or if it's a completely different head. I
01:04:12.579 --> 01:04:14.719
don't think it's a different head. Right. Yeah,
01:04:14.760 --> 01:04:15.980
I don't know. It would be interesting to see.
01:04:16.179 --> 01:04:24.019
But I think she looks great. That chameleon is
01:04:24.019 --> 01:04:28.230
going to have to grow on me. I don't, as of right
01:04:28.230 --> 01:04:32.969
now with this single from the side, flat looking
01:04:32.969 --> 01:04:36.329
image, uh, I don't care for it. It's angular.
01:04:36.750 --> 01:04:39.949
We'll see. Yeah. And, and that's really, it,
01:04:39.949 --> 01:04:42.130
it, it looks like, and that's because it's a
01:04:42.130 --> 01:04:44.590
render. We haven't seen the full thing. It looks
01:04:44.590 --> 01:04:47.289
so flat and yeah, I don't, the angles of it.
01:04:47.329 --> 01:04:48.989
Cause the other, the, the original was nice and
01:04:48.989 --> 01:04:54.989
rounded. Uh, this, it just doesn't look good
01:04:54.989 --> 01:04:58.900
to me. but we'll see it'll look better underneath
01:04:58.900 --> 01:05:03.500
that that gets me i i'm hoping once we see the
01:05:03.500 --> 01:05:08.519
physical version that that just pops more because
01:05:08.519 --> 01:05:11.960
it it that black doesn't look like oh you know
01:05:11.960 --> 01:05:15.079
this is empty space right it looks original it
01:05:15.079 --> 01:05:19.559
looks like this is still part of the body and
01:05:19.559 --> 01:05:23.539
so yeah the the engine just almost looks like
01:05:23.539 --> 01:05:30.099
it's decaled on yeah yeah and it'll it'll look
01:05:30.099 --> 01:05:31.739
better once we see something with some actual
01:05:31.739 --> 01:05:37.119
dimensionality to it so i have faith i will end
01:05:37.119 --> 01:05:42.860
up liking it but as of now i do not noel this
01:05:42.860 --> 01:05:45.849
question is directed towards you Nowhere Man
01:05:45.849 --> 01:05:49.030
Child asking, that's an October Guard Dana headpiece
01:05:49.030 --> 01:05:51.409
too, right? There you go. Maybe this is how we're
01:05:51.409 --> 01:05:53.610
going to slowly introduce our October Guard in
01:05:53.610 --> 01:05:56.530
is by molding accessories for other characters.
01:05:58.530 --> 01:06:01.010
And eventually a horror show will get a larger
01:06:01.010 --> 01:06:08.650
version of that helmet. Man, that's my guy. Did
01:06:08.650 --> 01:06:11.889
he show up? Did he return in this year's Audible
01:06:11.889 --> 01:06:14.309
Rumble? You'll have to listen or watch to find
01:06:14.309 --> 01:06:22.039
out. And finally, Ninja Force Zartan. So many
01:06:22.039 --> 01:06:26.519
people's dreams are coming true. Pixel Dan. He
01:06:26.519 --> 01:06:33.380
looks great. I don't love the open sheaths. I
01:06:33.380 --> 01:06:35.579
never do. Oh, yeah. And actually, I wanted to
01:06:35.579 --> 01:06:39.579
mention, I hope Taurus, his web gear has some
01:06:39.579 --> 01:06:45.599
storage for those blades on the back. uh but
01:06:45.599 --> 01:06:48.280
zartan does have storage he's got uh again those
01:06:48.280 --> 01:06:51.659
open sheaths which i just don't won't ever love
01:06:51.659 --> 01:06:57.940
but those swords are a little shorter so it maybe
01:06:57.940 --> 01:07:01.340
won't be as egregious as like a katana you know
01:07:01.340 --> 01:07:04.420
four fifths of a katana length just uncovered
01:07:04.420 --> 01:07:07.000
this works a little better i like the additional
01:07:07.000 --> 01:07:09.400
because the sword on the left i believe is is
01:07:09.400 --> 01:07:11.400
pretty much what the original figure came with
01:07:11.400 --> 01:07:16.039
well let's keep in mind too This Zartan keeps
01:07:16.039 --> 01:07:19.139
two swords or daggers, I think in this case,
01:07:19.239 --> 01:07:24.460
just going across one leg. So practicality on
01:07:24.460 --> 01:07:26.460
the way that you're storing your swords, it's
01:07:26.460 --> 01:07:29.960
already, you have to keep that element. So you
01:07:29.960 --> 01:07:32.480
might as well just have willy nilly blades poking
01:07:32.480 --> 01:07:35.719
out everywhere. So what's most clever about this?
01:07:35.760 --> 01:07:37.760
So when I first saw this, I looked at that compound
01:07:37.760 --> 01:07:41.460
bow and I hated, hated, hated it because I can't
01:07:41.460 --> 01:07:47.769
stand. a posed drawn bow like that then i realized
01:07:47.769 --> 01:07:51.349
that is a replacement bow string up on the top
01:07:51.349 --> 01:08:00.090
right so you will be that is very clever engineering
01:08:00.090 --> 01:08:06.289
um so when you you can pop the drawn one out
01:08:06.289 --> 01:08:09.429
and just have it normal like the other Storm
01:08:09.429 --> 01:08:11.989
Shadow ones. And also impressive that they didn't
01:08:11.989 --> 01:08:16.270
just reuse one of Storm Shadow's compound bows.
01:08:16.590 --> 01:08:21.890
Yeah. So you get the quiver full of arrows that
01:08:21.890 --> 01:08:29.890
I guess will plug into his back. We'll see. I
01:08:29.890 --> 01:08:32.750
do wish that they had gone a little brighter
01:08:32.750 --> 01:08:36.810
with the pants. I agree. And really gone with
01:08:36.810 --> 01:08:41.710
the full... Constructagon green color. Always
01:08:41.710 --> 01:08:46.289
brighter. Always go brighter. He's got the two
01:08:46.289 --> 01:08:49.029
knives that go into that thigh pouch. I'd be
01:08:49.029 --> 01:08:52.890
very interested to see what that looks like in
01:08:52.890 --> 01:08:55.390
execution, but I'm so glad they did it because
01:08:55.390 --> 01:08:57.270
we talked about that since we've been talking
01:08:57.270 --> 01:08:59.630
about the possibility of this version of Zartan.
01:09:00.529 --> 01:09:02.770
We have speculated on, well, how do they make
01:09:02.770 --> 01:09:07.960
that not dumb? You can't, but that's part of
01:09:07.960 --> 01:09:13.600
the appeal. So, yeah, looks absolutely great.
01:09:13.680 --> 01:09:17.399
Exactly like I would want Ninja Force Sartan
01:09:17.399 --> 01:09:21.960
to look. Yes, this will be one. You know, I normally
01:09:21.960 --> 01:09:27.180
keep my purchases within that like 82 to 87 updates.
01:09:29.039 --> 01:09:31.899
range i'm gonna have to explore the 90s for this
01:09:31.899 --> 01:09:37.939
one for sure well he's he has become kind of
01:09:37.939 --> 01:09:43.899
an iconic i i would say that this look is sort
01:09:43.899 --> 01:09:47.420
of the representation of that era that that our
01:09:47.420 --> 01:09:54.039
age group of joe fans uh you know who didn't
01:09:54.039 --> 01:09:56.479
pay any attention after 87 or 88 for the most
01:09:56.479 --> 01:10:01.510
part uh He's become like the figurehead initially
01:10:01.510 --> 01:10:04.229
in a negative way, but now has been embraced
01:10:04.229 --> 01:10:08.229
and is like, I guess, symbolic of that whole
01:10:08.229 --> 01:10:13.590
90s era of like, oh, this stuff's actually a
01:10:13.590 --> 01:10:16.390
lot of fun. And see, this was my younger brother,
01:10:16.510 --> 01:10:19.649
Zartan. And I remember when he got him, I was
01:10:19.649 --> 01:10:24.890
like, oh, they finally made other than the leg
01:10:24.890 --> 01:10:27.609
sword. storage i was like they finally made a
01:10:27.609 --> 01:10:31.069
cool zartan like because i've said before like
01:10:31.069 --> 01:10:35.050
the original zartan isn't bad just to me his
01:10:35.050 --> 01:10:37.329
face scope looks like someone who got stung by
01:10:37.329 --> 01:10:43.470
a bee and has an allergy and ninja fort zartan
01:10:43.470 --> 01:10:47.470
with the mohawk like he looked like an angry
01:10:47.470 --> 01:10:50.850
biker dude he to me he looked like the leader
01:10:50.850 --> 01:10:57.100
of the dreadnoughts so um this will be my Zartan
01:10:57.100 --> 01:11:01.659
going on the shelf. I wouldn't mind seeing a
01:11:01.659 --> 01:11:05.579
mashup of this. Cause I, you know what? I hadn't
01:11:05.579 --> 01:11:08.279
even thought about like, oh yeah, this looks
01:11:08.279 --> 01:11:12.300
more like a biker for whatever reason than the
01:11:12.300 --> 01:11:15.640
original Zartan. Like this gear in a way makes
01:11:15.640 --> 01:11:18.159
more sense. I wouldn't mind seeing a mashup of
01:11:18.159 --> 01:11:23.289
like this Zartan with the hood in. Colors that
01:11:23.289 --> 01:11:25.409
are more muted than this, but brighter than the
01:11:25.409 --> 01:11:29.430
original. That could be very cool to see. Almost
01:11:29.430 --> 01:11:38.609
like Renegades Sartan. So yeah, a lot of very
01:11:38.609 --> 01:11:41.829
exciting. Let's just run back through them real
01:11:41.829 --> 01:11:51.550
quick. Everything here is great classified. I
01:11:51.550 --> 01:11:54.449
mean, it all looks really good. They're all exciting
01:11:54.449 --> 01:11:59.029
names. There's nothing in here that's a dud.
01:11:59.850 --> 01:12:02.949
Like this is all stuff that we've talked about.
01:12:03.029 --> 01:12:05.029
We've been excited to see, I mean, except for
01:12:05.029 --> 01:12:08.489
the unknown figure, whatever that is. But it's
01:12:08.489 --> 01:12:10.869
all stuff that we've speculated about here on
01:12:10.869 --> 01:12:13.770
the show extensively. There's nothing in here
01:12:13.770 --> 01:12:17.130
that's a, eh, we'll see or whatever. Like this
01:12:17.130 --> 01:12:22.100
is all, this is a really solid. group of announcements
01:12:22.100 --> 01:12:27.819
i think so are we are we all in agreement gi
01:12:27.819 --> 01:12:33.880
joe day 2026 thumbs up yes yeah and you know
01:12:33.880 --> 01:12:36.720
we didn't get we didn't get a live stream we
01:12:36.720 --> 01:12:40.460
didn't get like a lot of you know lore but we
01:12:40.460 --> 01:12:44.239
got we got six pictures and some little brief
01:12:44.239 --> 01:12:47.000
descriptions and lots to talk about so that's
01:12:47.000 --> 01:12:49.880
really what it matters what matters Yeah, and
01:12:49.880 --> 01:12:53.560
Toy Fair is only like what? Two weeks. Two weeks
01:12:53.560 --> 01:12:58.039
away. So I figured that's why we didn't get any
01:12:58.039 --> 01:13:02.939
kind of live stream or pre -recorded because
01:13:02.939 --> 01:13:05.159
they're just going to talk all about this at
01:13:05.159 --> 01:13:12.159
Toy Fair. Yeah. Well, that is all the news we
01:13:12.159 --> 01:13:14.779
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01:13:56.109 --> 01:14:01.489
still in Classified? I mean, the finally is a
01:14:01.489 --> 01:14:04.609
little... I don't know that he's a finally, just
01:14:04.609 --> 01:14:07.989
because we're only five years into a line that
01:14:07.989 --> 01:14:14.369
lasted from 1963 to technically, I guess, 2017.
01:14:14.770 --> 01:14:18.140
They were potentially... introducing new characters.
01:14:18.260 --> 01:14:23.939
So hundreds of characters still to go. I don't
01:14:23.939 --> 01:14:25.840
know. What do you think, Christian? Who are we
01:14:25.840 --> 01:14:30.399
missing? The Heat Viper. I'm surprised that we
01:14:30.399 --> 01:14:34.140
got a... Remember, he was my favorite troop builder
01:14:34.140 --> 01:14:38.539
of 2025, but I'm surprised that we got a Frag
01:14:38.539 --> 01:14:47.739
Viper before we got a Heat Viper. I would say
01:14:47.739 --> 01:14:51.000
right now the most glaring omission is Destro,
01:14:51.140 --> 01:14:55.920
Iron Grenadier Destro. It's freaking bizarre
01:14:55.920 --> 01:14:59.119
that we've got his troops and we don't have him.
01:14:59.920 --> 01:15:02.539
And it's not necessarily that he's super high
01:15:02.539 --> 01:15:05.260
on my want list. I just think it's really, really
01:15:05.260 --> 01:15:08.979
strange that we haven't seen him. And I wonder
01:15:08.979 --> 01:15:12.560
if they feel like because they did the Prophet
01:15:12.560 --> 01:15:16.760
Director Destro. that they kind of felt for,
01:15:16.819 --> 01:15:20.560
or perhaps for longer than they should have,
01:15:20.760 --> 01:15:23.659
they felt like that profit director Destro kind
01:15:23.659 --> 01:15:29.640
of filled that hole. My thought on him was that
01:15:29.640 --> 01:15:32.560
they may have decided to pivot once the vehicle
01:15:32.560 --> 01:15:35.500
started selling more and they were able to put
01:15:35.500 --> 01:15:37.439
more out that maybe they were going to release
01:15:37.439 --> 01:15:39.539
him as a single figure. Then they decided maybe
01:15:39.539 --> 01:15:42.279
we should pack him in with a spoiler or something.
01:15:42.319 --> 01:15:45.260
And so there's more. research coming but because
01:15:45.260 --> 01:15:47.460
yeah it seemed obvious that he was gonna get
01:15:47.460 --> 01:15:49.220
released like two years ago when we started seeing
01:15:49.220 --> 01:15:53.279
iron grenadiers yeah yeah yeah he was my first
01:15:53.279 --> 01:15:55.380
choice as well but since you said him i'll say
01:15:55.380 --> 01:15:57.560
flash because we don't have flash yet oh yeah
01:15:57.560 --> 01:16:01.399
yeah yeah good call good call that'll make somebody
01:16:01.399 --> 01:16:05.960
very happy name dropped was he no no i don't
01:16:05.960 --> 01:16:09.739
okay i don't think he's been name dropped but
01:16:09.739 --> 01:16:14.670
we got his gear with Glinda. What's her face?
01:16:14.829 --> 01:16:19.229
Yeah, Glinda. Yeah, so he and, well, Grand Slam,
01:16:19.310 --> 01:16:22.750
who will presumably be released as a partial
01:16:22.750 --> 01:16:27.310
repaint of, you know, of Flash eventually. They're
01:16:27.310 --> 01:16:30.189
the last 013s we don't have. And when Zap comes
01:16:30.189 --> 01:16:38.109
out. All right. Next up, Silent Interlude, who
01:16:38.109 --> 01:16:42.420
wrote a novel. In one of your interviews with
01:16:42.420 --> 01:16:44.439
Brian Flynn, he mentioned that he wasn't going
01:16:44.439 --> 01:16:46.640
to be making anything that had already been made
01:16:46.640 --> 01:16:49.380
in a particular format. You recently referenced
01:16:49.380 --> 01:16:51.819
it talking about international redos or something
01:16:51.819 --> 01:16:54.279
of the ilk. I remember him saying it, but I figured
01:16:54.279 --> 01:16:56.699
that was a true at the time, but things change
01:16:56.699 --> 01:16:59.239
situation after we saw the reaction plus line
01:16:59.239 --> 01:17:02.239
produce. Duke and Cobra Commander, almost identical
01:17:02.239 --> 01:17:05.100
to the Hasbro Retro 2 pack and extremely similar
01:17:05.100 --> 01:17:07.800
to the vintage versions. The first Serpentor,
01:17:07.899 --> 01:17:09.800
who was again very close to the original and
01:17:09.800 --> 01:17:13.439
comic pack versions. Tiger Force Duke, etc. At
01:17:13.439 --> 01:17:15.380
this point, it doesn't really seem like a rule
01:17:15.380 --> 01:17:18.140
to not remake anything, or if it is, the bar
01:17:18.140 --> 01:17:20.659
for what has to be different is pretty low. Why
01:17:20.659 --> 01:17:23.760
couldn't we see a Cobra De Aco or Mortal? They'd
01:17:23.760 --> 01:17:25.319
be different enough from the vintage versions
01:17:25.319 --> 01:17:28.220
that no one would be confused. Maybe invert colors
01:17:28.220 --> 01:17:33.569
somewhere. So there's a lot there. This could
01:17:33.569 --> 01:17:36.670
have been our whole next episode. So I will say
01:17:36.670 --> 01:17:41.050
that that interview with Brian Flynn was from
01:17:41.050 --> 01:17:45.729
last year. And it is possible that things change,
01:17:45.789 --> 01:17:48.109
but I do not believe that to be the case because
01:17:48.109 --> 01:17:50.670
the Duke and Cobra Commander you referenced are
01:17:50.670 --> 01:17:54.050
not at all identical to the Hasbro Retro 2 -pack.
01:17:54.109 --> 01:17:58.579
And this is speaking from my perspective. The
01:17:58.579 --> 01:18:02.880
Serpentor, the Reaction Plus Serpentor is not
01:18:02.880 --> 01:18:05.760
very close to the original and comic pack versions.
01:18:05.880 --> 01:18:12.060
This is how I see these things. This is the Duke
01:18:12.060 --> 01:18:15.199
and Cobra Commander from Reaction Plus are modeled
01:18:15.199 --> 01:18:19.579
on the Sunbow characters. They aesthetically
01:18:19.579 --> 01:18:24.560
are nowhere near. The ones Hasbro produced that
01:18:24.560 --> 01:18:27.720
were essentially recolors of the original Duke
01:18:27.720 --> 01:18:29.819
and Cobra Commander figures with minor tooling
01:18:29.819 --> 01:18:32.659
changes, but they were Sunbow colors. They were
01:18:32.659 --> 01:18:35.479
not Sunbow aesthetic. And that to me is extremely
01:18:35.479 --> 01:18:38.100
different. Same thing with Serpentor. And Tiger
01:18:38.100 --> 01:18:39.960
Force Duke is a completely different color scheme
01:18:39.960 --> 01:18:46.000
than the Hasbro one. But I will say that's the
01:18:46.000 --> 01:18:48.399
one that comes closest to really kind of baffling
01:18:48.399 --> 01:18:53.939
me because why do that? It's just weird. And
01:18:53.939 --> 01:18:55.819
I get it. They wanted to repaint out of it. Sure.
01:18:56.199 --> 01:18:58.479
But go in a different direction. So that one
01:18:58.479 --> 01:19:03.899
is strange given their, their rules. But I believe
01:19:03.899 --> 01:19:08.579
that the idea is, you know, they're going to
01:19:08.579 --> 01:19:09.899
base it on the animation and they're going to
01:19:09.899 --> 01:19:12.779
base it on the comic book. So that's their way
01:19:12.779 --> 01:19:14.920
to do characters like Duke and Cobra commander,
01:19:15.119 --> 01:19:19.460
but to remake because Cobra, Cobra to echo, which
01:19:19.460 --> 01:19:22.439
I'm probably mispronouncing. Sorry. I specifically
01:19:22.439 --> 01:19:25.399
asked him about that one, and the answer was
01:19:25.399 --> 01:19:29.600
no. We are not remaking any of those figures
01:19:29.600 --> 01:19:32.180
because they exist on the market, and it's not
01:19:32.180 --> 01:19:34.939
even necessarily about confusion just so much
01:19:34.939 --> 01:19:37.060
as it's already been done. He doesn't have any
01:19:37.060 --> 01:19:39.920
interest in doing it again. Now, things may change.
01:19:40.260 --> 01:19:44.220
Somebody is going to do Super 7 has different
01:19:44.220 --> 01:19:47.880
ownership now. We don't know. And that's the
01:19:47.880 --> 01:19:50.260
short answer to this is we don't really know.
01:19:51.020 --> 01:19:53.500
But the long answer is what I just said in that,
01:19:53.500 --> 01:19:56.859
that the examples that you provided to, to my
01:19:56.859 --> 01:19:59.539
eye and to their eye are very different from
01:19:59.539 --> 01:20:02.979
anything that's been made before. Do you guys
01:20:02.979 --> 01:20:08.020
have any other thoughts on that? No, other than
01:20:08.020 --> 01:20:10.819
I want them. So I'm right there with you signing
01:20:10.819 --> 01:20:14.100
interlude, but I'm going to keep my fingers crossed
01:20:14.100 --> 01:20:16.979
that, that it eventually changes. Yeah, because,
01:20:17.079 --> 01:20:19.199
hey, man, if we can get me a gaucho in this line
01:20:19.199 --> 01:20:20.960
at some point in time, I'll be a happy person.
01:20:22.279 --> 01:20:24.420
Yeah, I mean, I would love to see all that. But
01:20:24.420 --> 01:20:28.899
I do believe Brian Flynn himself would very specifically
01:20:28.899 --> 01:20:33.000
be against that. But, I mean, the idea of doing
01:20:33.000 --> 01:20:35.720
recolors or something or minor tooling changes,
01:20:35.899 --> 01:20:38.380
I don't know. And that would be the other thing
01:20:38.380 --> 01:20:42.619
you got to think about is if he is against reproducing
01:20:42.619 --> 01:20:45.439
those at all. Is he really going to invest time
01:20:45.439 --> 01:20:49.000
in doing workarounds? You know what I mean? Like,
01:20:49.000 --> 01:20:52.100
if he doesn't want to do it anyway, so I don't
01:20:52.100 --> 01:21:00.579
know. That's the short answer. Tom .Henry, I
01:21:00.579 --> 01:21:02.939
hope you saw that fang action earlier. That was
01:21:02.939 --> 01:21:06.279
just for you. I know it's not a hydro sled, but
01:21:06.279 --> 01:21:10.300
you got to be patient. When I told the guy, oh,
01:21:10.319 --> 01:21:11.840
wait, no, Christian, you're taking this one.
01:21:12.359 --> 01:21:16.659
Yep. When I told the guy at my LCS that my choice
01:21:16.659 --> 01:21:21.100
for the cover variant with roadblock, my choice
01:21:21.100 --> 01:21:25.739
was for the cover variant. I told you this is.
01:21:25.840 --> 01:21:29.699
Yep. I don't get it. He set aside the chameleon
01:21:29.699 --> 01:21:32.479
cover for me. It made me wonder if the Energon
01:21:32.479 --> 01:21:35.720
universe is bringing in new fans. I've seen my
01:21:35.720 --> 01:21:39.060
cover choices go from 10 in the miniseries era
01:21:39.060 --> 01:21:42.140
to two currently. They don't even make the wall
01:21:42.140 --> 01:21:44.739
these days. I'm hoping it's just my local comic
01:21:44.739 --> 01:21:49.300
shop, which is very magic focused. Okay, so Tom
01:21:49.300 --> 01:21:52.680
.Henry, thank you for this question. I actually
01:21:52.680 --> 01:21:55.979
loved it because you used all the same lingo.
01:21:56.510 --> 01:22:03.149
As my old manager at Sci -Fi World. So kudos.
01:22:03.189 --> 01:22:07.550
It was giving me the warm fuzzies. So he is talking
01:22:07.550 --> 01:22:14.350
about with the G .I. Joe issue number 18, the
01:22:14.350 --> 01:22:19.250
roadblock issue. He wanted the variant cover
01:22:19.250 --> 01:22:22.430
that had roadblock on it. His store did not have
01:22:22.430 --> 01:22:27.640
it. Now, I know. But mostly with Skybound, the
01:22:27.640 --> 01:22:33.800
stores in the past were able to, you know, order
01:22:33.800 --> 01:22:37.699
whatever variants they wanted. I don't know if
01:22:37.699 --> 01:22:39.439
that is still the same. I was trying to look
01:22:39.439 --> 01:22:43.039
online to see it. You know, in some cases with
01:22:43.039 --> 01:22:46.000
comics, it's like, oh, your store has to order
01:22:46.000 --> 01:22:50.479
100 copies and they'll get, then they get a copy
01:22:50.479 --> 01:22:57.260
of this cover. I don't know. I feel like Skybound
01:22:57.260 --> 01:22:59.640
still pretty much does equal printing for all
01:22:59.640 --> 01:23:03.140
of the covers. As far as bringing in new fans,
01:23:03.600 --> 01:23:12.460
yes, it seems to be doing that. So as I learned,
01:23:12.520 --> 01:23:17.659
one of the very sad things about Diamond collapsing,
01:23:18.140 --> 01:23:22.300
even though they were a monopoly, is that...
01:23:22.520 --> 01:23:25.479
The sales info for comics is actually now a little
01:23:25.479 --> 01:23:29.600
harder to get because you're buying from so many
01:23:29.600 --> 01:23:33.539
different sources. But I was able to find out
01:23:33.539 --> 01:23:41.560
that in December of 2025, of the top 150 comics,
01:23:42.100 --> 01:23:47.500
three Image Comics made it. Now, only one made
01:23:47.500 --> 01:23:52.220
it in the top 50, and that was Invincible Universe
01:23:52.220 --> 01:23:57.159
Battle Beast. But the other two that were from
01:23:57.159 --> 01:24:06.199
50 to 150 were G .I. Joe and Transformers. So
01:24:06.199 --> 01:24:13.220
for a non -Big 2 comic to still be, you know,
01:24:13.220 --> 01:24:17.479
cracking those numbers, That's a really good
01:24:17.479 --> 01:24:24.159
sign. As far as and I'm saying this to all of
01:24:24.159 --> 01:24:26.920
our listeners, if you're going to your shop and
01:24:26.920 --> 01:24:30.279
you're not seeing the Skybound comics on the
01:24:30.279 --> 01:24:33.880
wall or a .k .a. the shelves, let them know,
01:24:34.039 --> 01:24:39.180
you know, they do their orders two months in
01:24:39.180 --> 01:24:43.659
advance. So give them a call. Let them know that,
01:24:43.699 --> 01:24:47.609
you know, you're. you're wanting your your skybound
01:24:47.609 --> 01:24:51.909
universe or energon universe is the case maybe
01:24:51.909 --> 01:24:58.569
um if they're not ordering enough like you know
01:24:58.569 --> 01:25:00.789
if it's a small shop and maybe they cater more
01:25:00.789 --> 01:25:04.710
to gamers maybe they're not ordering a lot of
01:25:04.710 --> 01:25:08.289
the different variant comics but again call them
01:25:08.289 --> 01:25:12.229
in advance and say look i've seen you know this
01:25:12.229 --> 01:25:16.100
cover this variant cover of Duke shaking hands
01:25:16.100 --> 01:25:20.479
with Optimus Prime playing chess, and what would
01:25:20.479 --> 01:25:25.260
it take to get that? So with comic shops, speak
01:25:25.260 --> 01:25:28.279
with your wallet, but also speak with your wallet
01:25:28.279 --> 01:25:34.279
two months in advance. Throw up Tom Henry's most
01:25:34.279 --> 01:25:38.260
recent comment as a follow -up. No, not that
01:25:38.260 --> 01:25:41.300
one. I mean, that's fine, but. Oh, wait, which
01:25:41.300 --> 01:25:45.420
one? Ah, here we go. Sorry. Most recent. Most
01:25:45.420 --> 01:25:48.479
recent. Oh, sorry. Chat was scrolling and I did
01:25:48.479 --> 01:25:52.720
not scroll with it. I need to write these after
01:25:52.720 --> 01:25:59.699
I've had coffee. I was, I could not figure out.
01:26:00.359 --> 01:26:03.479
what he's talking about. I couldn't figure it
01:26:03.479 --> 01:26:05.420
out the first time I read it, but then a couple
01:26:05.420 --> 01:26:08.300
hours later, after I had had some coffee, I could
01:26:08.300 --> 01:26:13.779
decipher it. Maybe Tom .Henry, maybe we're just
01:26:13.779 --> 01:26:16.579
on the same wavelength when I am sleep -deprived
01:26:16.579 --> 01:26:20.539
then, because Dave sent a message saying one
01:26:20.539 --> 01:26:23.399
of the two of you will have to tackle. this question
01:26:23.399 --> 01:26:26.500
because i read it it doesn't make sense i didn't
01:26:26.500 --> 01:26:28.659
say it didn't make sense i said i don't understand
01:26:28.659 --> 01:26:31.840
oh there you go sorry i was not assigning blame
01:26:31.840 --> 01:26:37.939
i was right i was open but i uh was running downstairs
01:26:37.939 --> 01:26:42.859
to our storage i tell and just in the brief run
01:26:42.859 --> 01:26:46.659
down the stairwell i read that and i was like
01:26:46.659 --> 01:26:49.680
oh this makes perfect sense you like i mean seriously
01:26:49.680 --> 01:26:51.880
it was like 30 seconds later you were like no
01:26:51.880 --> 01:26:58.500
i got it uh so uh there you go good information
01:26:58.500 --> 01:27:01.460
and the important thing here is you know go to
01:27:01.460 --> 01:27:02.939
your local comic shop and let them know what
01:27:02.939 --> 01:27:05.060
you need that's that's the big thing whether
01:27:05.060 --> 01:27:09.500
it's gi joe or anything else um oh wait but i
01:27:09.500 --> 01:27:13.810
do i oh One of Tom's comments. My comic book
01:27:13.810 --> 01:27:16.109
store owner doesn't know any of the G .I. Joe
01:27:16.109 --> 01:27:20.829
characters. Shame on him. He had roadblock, but
01:27:20.829 --> 01:27:24.810
assumed chameleon was roadblock. Roadblock wishes
01:27:24.810 --> 01:27:30.430
that he had cakes that tasty. Yeah. To be fair,
01:27:30.649 --> 01:27:35.909
she does have a roadblock going on there. All
01:27:35.909 --> 01:27:39.189
right. next up and i forgot to crop it so it
01:27:39.189 --> 01:27:41.890
still says for you which by the way instagram
01:27:41.890 --> 01:27:45.149
uh i don't need most recent i don't need for
01:27:45.149 --> 01:27:47.109
you i don't need anything just show me the freaking
01:27:47.109 --> 01:27:51.409
comments i don't get all of these services that
01:27:51.409 --> 01:27:55.289
are like for you we think you'd like these shut
01:27:55.289 --> 01:27:57.229
up i don't care what you think i'd like i just
01:27:57.229 --> 01:27:59.930
want to see the information i'm here for ridiculous
01:27:59.930 --> 01:28:04.699
anyway ed at the beach Will we ever get a general
01:28:04.699 --> 01:28:08.159
flag or general Austin in classified or maybe
01:28:08.159 --> 01:28:11.779
the jugglers? I mean, the only real answer to
01:28:11.779 --> 01:28:13.920
this is anything is possible. They've said that
01:28:13.920 --> 01:28:16.100
they're going to pull from the history of Joe,
01:28:16.260 --> 01:28:18.460
that anything is possible at this point. That's
01:28:18.460 --> 01:28:21.859
how successful the line has been. Uh, so yeah.
01:28:21.939 --> 01:28:25.060
And I mean, especially with operation monster
01:28:25.060 --> 01:28:28.520
force providing some, some really nice looking
01:28:28.520 --> 01:28:34.020
general figures, you know, I gotta think. And
01:28:34.020 --> 01:28:36.739
Lenny's going to take that as a challenge. Hey,
01:28:36.760 --> 01:28:38.800
we got a general flag in the original, you know,
01:28:38.800 --> 01:28:41.380
the original American hero line. Granted, he's
01:28:41.380 --> 01:28:43.939
not the general flag that we wanted. Right, right.
01:28:44.079 --> 01:28:46.199
But, you know, at least we've gotten that figure
01:28:46.199 --> 01:28:50.579
out before. But, yeah, I mean, I got to think,
01:28:50.760 --> 01:28:54.800
you know, Lenny is not going to let all of these
01:28:54.800 --> 01:28:58.680
dress suit figures that Fresh Monkey Fiction
01:28:58.680 --> 01:29:02.699
is putting out or dress uniform figures, whatever.
01:29:03.390 --> 01:29:06.369
uh he's not gonna let that go unanswered and
01:29:06.369 --> 01:29:08.430
i i mean in the most friendly competitive way
01:29:08.430 --> 01:29:14.670
possible but there's no way we don't see some
01:29:14.670 --> 01:29:18.409
kind of suited soldier in the next i would say
01:29:18.409 --> 01:29:24.329
by the end of 2026 i bet we get at least a render
01:29:24.329 --> 01:29:31.449
of whether it's uh dress gung -ho or something
01:29:31.449 --> 01:29:34.430
like that or an actual you know general flag
01:29:34.430 --> 01:29:37.390
or general austin or something i bet we see one
01:29:37.390 --> 01:29:39.909
before the end of this year i'm gonna i'll make
01:29:39.909 --> 01:29:43.590
that call because you mentioned it shout out
01:29:43.590 --> 01:29:46.329
to operation monster force if you guys haven't
01:29:46.329 --> 01:29:50.229
seen the general figure there is an alternate
01:29:50.229 --> 01:29:55.390
head that sure is a movable fighting action man
01:29:55.390 --> 01:29:59.789
with a beard Dude, that figure is killing me
01:29:59.789 --> 01:30:01.630
because every time I look at it on the shelf,
01:30:01.689 --> 01:30:03.930
I think about the other heads that I know because
01:30:03.930 --> 01:30:09.170
they're all great. Stupid tariffs because I'm
01:30:09.170 --> 01:30:11.829
like, I want another one, but not right now.
01:30:11.850 --> 01:30:14.569
There's too much. Right, right. Well, and that's
01:30:14.569 --> 01:30:16.569
what happens is like, I'm like, ah, when, when
01:30:16.569 --> 01:30:19.369
things slow down, I'll, I'll circle back around
01:30:19.369 --> 01:30:21.510
and maybe grab another one of those, which was
01:30:21.510 --> 01:30:24.390
my plan with the reaction plus Royal guards.
01:30:24.729 --> 01:30:27.630
And I, I, I ended up with two, but my plan had
01:30:27.630 --> 01:30:29.729
been okay. Anytime that I know there's like a
01:30:29.729 --> 01:30:33.149
little leeway, I'm just going to order another
01:30:33.149 --> 01:30:35.109
one. And the next time it came around, the price
01:30:35.109 --> 01:30:38.289
had gone up on them. And now they're good anyway.
01:30:38.710 --> 01:30:43.300
I'll say, I mean, look, probably. But we don't
01:30:43.300 --> 01:30:49.880
know. All right, last one. Yorktown Joe. Who
01:30:49.880 --> 01:30:53.760
is excited for the mystery character Star Wars
01:30:53.760 --> 01:31:02.159
crossover, Cad Bane? Okay. Just kidding, but
01:31:02.159 --> 01:31:04.520
glad to see an homage to a silhouette cross cell
01:31:04.520 --> 01:31:07.000
on an explosion background. And that's the portion
01:31:07.000 --> 01:31:13.139
of this that I hadn't really thought about. That,
01:31:13.139 --> 01:31:16.020
you know, we used to see this frequently in the
01:31:16.020 --> 01:31:19.579
real American hero line. And I had not considered
01:31:19.579 --> 01:31:21.579
that they hadn't done it in classified. And it's
01:31:21.579 --> 01:31:26.300
funny how the stuff that we're. That we took
01:31:26.300 --> 01:31:33.579
for granted back then. Seems weird now. As a
01:31:33.579 --> 01:31:39.119
kid, it used to drive me crazy. I never liked
01:31:39.119 --> 01:31:41.500
it. Star Wars did it too. And I just thought
01:31:41.500 --> 01:31:45.939
that was a crime. Now, I can't remember off the
01:31:45.939 --> 01:31:47.979
top of my head because I can't totally picture
01:31:47.979 --> 01:31:51.439
one of those. Because Super 7 did that as well
01:31:51.439 --> 01:31:54.000
with the reaction line. I don't think we've seen
01:31:54.000 --> 01:31:55.939
it in Reaction Plus yet. But the reaction line,
01:31:56.020 --> 01:31:59.319
they did that as well. But it was a generic silhouette.
01:32:00.199 --> 01:32:03.680
It wasn't like this, what we looked at tonight.
01:32:04.260 --> 01:32:07.439
It would just be a generic silhouette. Is that
01:32:07.439 --> 01:32:09.739
what the brands did back in the day? Or was it
01:32:09.739 --> 01:32:12.880
the actual shape of the character? I don't remember.
01:32:13.920 --> 01:32:16.699
So for the Star Wars ones, now granted, they
01:32:16.699 --> 01:32:22.600
were doing it initially to keep the Ewoks a surprise.
01:32:23.220 --> 01:32:27.979
But it looks like someone just blotted out the
01:32:27.979 --> 01:32:33.520
shape. So it wasn't a generic, you know. body
01:32:33.520 --> 01:32:35.760
shape or whatever it was like they traced the
01:32:35.760 --> 01:32:39.060
outline and then filled it in with black so it
01:32:39.060 --> 01:32:43.819
looked more blobby okay i'll have to when we're
01:32:43.819 --> 01:32:45.460
done i'm gonna go look some of these up because
01:32:45.460 --> 01:32:47.960
it's it's a really interesting point that i hadn't
01:32:47.960 --> 01:32:50.619
thought about and i i personally would like to
01:32:50.619 --> 01:32:53.180
see more of it because really it's potentially
01:32:53.180 --> 01:32:57.560
another step they could add in to make the production
01:32:57.560 --> 01:33:01.960
time seem more broken up because you know now
01:33:01.960 --> 01:33:07.380
we get name reveal render reveal like diorama
01:33:07.380 --> 01:33:12.159
photo reveal and then pre -order so we sort of
01:33:12.159 --> 01:33:15.020
have four stages it wouldn't be terrible to add
01:33:15.020 --> 01:33:18.800
a fifth stage in there that you could alternate
01:33:18.800 --> 01:33:20.939
from time to time with a name reveal like they've
01:33:20.939 --> 01:33:23.239
done with this i think that would be kind of
01:33:23.239 --> 01:33:28.260
fun talking yeah yeah Okay, so I'm sure you've
01:33:28.260 --> 01:33:30.039
already covered the speculation by now, so I'll
01:33:30.039 --> 01:33:32.140
just thank you for another great show in advance.
01:33:32.460 --> 01:33:34.680
Well, thank you, Yorktown Joe. You've always
01:33:34.680 --> 01:33:37.220
been a great contributor to the show. We appreciate
01:33:37.220 --> 01:33:40.979
your support, and anytime you provide a sound
01:33:40.979 --> 01:33:43.779
off or whatever else, it's always good stuff
01:33:43.779 --> 01:33:50.180
worthy of conversing about. And so now the final
01:33:50.180 --> 01:33:57.550
segment of the show. Hopefully, I didn't... I
01:33:57.550 --> 01:33:59.430
didn't plan for this one, so I'm having to do
01:33:59.430 --> 01:34:01.590
an emergency backup. Do you guys have Joe and
01:34:01.590 --> 01:34:03.850
tell? Okay, good. Well, it's in the show notes.
01:34:03.890 --> 01:34:06.130
I should have been ready. But like I said, there
01:34:06.130 --> 01:34:11.069
was a lot of laundry today. So now it's time
01:34:11.069 --> 01:34:14.470
for Joe and tell where each of us has something
01:34:14.470 --> 01:34:20.329
to share with the camera. Who wants to go? I'll
01:34:20.329 --> 01:34:22.109
go last because mine's going to take a minute.
01:34:22.649 --> 01:34:26.569
Who wants it? Noel, you want to? Sure. All right.
01:34:28.010 --> 01:34:31.770
I, uh, I just returned from, uh, you know, a
01:34:31.770 --> 01:34:35.649
little, a little trip. And so my Joe Intel is
01:34:35.649 --> 01:34:39.670
this right here. Ooh, I recognize that. Yes.
01:34:39.810 --> 01:34:43.069
This is, this is the rocket to a conquest X 13.
01:34:43.649 --> 01:34:46.729
Um, and it's not that impressive. You know, I've
01:34:46.729 --> 01:34:49.909
got several others vehicles around, but, um,
01:34:50.640 --> 01:34:55.380
I was in San Diego for the last week. On Saturday,
01:34:55.539 --> 01:35:01.119
I went to the Coin -Op Game Room on 30th Street
01:35:01.119 --> 01:35:04.180
and then down to Part -Time Lover, which is a
01:35:04.180 --> 01:35:07.789
Japanese -style listening bar. Oh. Fantastic
01:35:07.789 --> 01:35:10.649
place. If you're in the San Diego area, there's
01:35:10.649 --> 01:35:12.310
actually several Japanese -style listening bars,
01:35:12.409 --> 01:35:15.869
and I definitely recommend Convoy Listening Bar
01:35:15.869 --> 01:35:19.609
if you get a chance. But this was at a shop that
01:35:19.609 --> 01:35:22.489
is in between those two places. called Replay
01:35:22.489 --> 01:35:28.090
Toys. It is on 2948 University Avenue and 30th
01:35:28.090 --> 01:35:30.710
Street in San Diego. It's a wonderful little
01:35:30.710 --> 01:35:34.210
toy store because they do have a lot of little
01:35:34.210 --> 01:35:37.390
trinkety toys, but they've also got new stuff
01:35:37.390 --> 01:35:41.090
and then used stuff. And it's one of those places
01:35:41.090 --> 01:35:42.630
where I kind of walked in and I was like, all
01:35:42.630 --> 01:35:43.989
right, there's a few things here. They got a
01:35:43.989 --> 01:35:45.989
few vintage Star Wars figures over here in a
01:35:45.989 --> 01:35:49.850
case. oh, there's some Joe stuff. Not much. A
01:35:49.850 --> 01:35:53.609
few loose figures, mostly modern and Valor versus
01:35:53.609 --> 01:35:58.909
Venom era stuff. But when I was purchasing this,
01:35:59.050 --> 01:36:00.789
which was in a bin of things that said, G .I.
01:36:00.810 --> 01:36:03.329
Joe accessories, 50 cents to a dollar. And I
01:36:03.329 --> 01:36:04.810
took it up to the cashier and I said, this was
01:36:04.810 --> 01:36:06.069
in a bin that said 50 cents to a dollar. She
01:36:06.069 --> 01:36:08.550
goes, looks like 50 cents to me. So that was
01:36:08.550 --> 01:36:14.140
my price for it. Nice. She goes, we don't. We
01:36:14.140 --> 01:36:15.579
don't have a lot of G .I. Joe stuff out now,
01:36:15.680 --> 01:36:17.399
but we have a whole bunch of stuff we just haven't
01:36:17.399 --> 01:36:19.039
had a chance to put back. So hopefully you can
01:36:19.039 --> 01:36:20.340
come back soon. I was like, well, unfortunately,
01:36:20.420 --> 01:36:24.579
I don't live in the area. Your knoll pulls out.
01:36:26.159 --> 01:36:28.899
Well, they apparently have an eBay site as well.
01:36:28.960 --> 01:36:31.260
So they do list stuff on eBay from time to time.
01:36:31.800 --> 01:36:33.739
But if you are in the San Diego area, it's a
01:36:33.739 --> 01:36:36.399
great little shop. Unfortunately, as I said,
01:36:36.420 --> 01:36:38.300
I did not get to go to Super 7 because they're
01:36:38.300 --> 01:36:41.300
closed down. I did not get to go to Now or Never
01:36:41.300 --> 01:36:43.340
Comics, which I went to last time I was out.
01:36:43.369 --> 01:36:44.729
out there, which is actually a great little shop.
01:36:44.890 --> 01:36:46.789
And there's a new place opening up that was right
01:36:46.789 --> 01:36:49.590
in the gas lamp called Dampire, D -A -J -A -M
01:36:49.590 --> 01:36:52.289
-P -I -R -E, that appears to have not opened
01:36:52.289 --> 01:36:55.149
yet. But it's another, like, comic and toy shop
01:36:55.149 --> 01:36:57.609
down there. So, yeah, definitely recommend Replay
01:36:57.609 --> 01:36:59.949
Toys. I told them that I would give them a shout
01:36:59.949 --> 01:37:02.829
-out on our show here tonight. So this is them.
01:37:03.029 --> 01:37:06.050
And I definitely also recommend them because
01:37:06.050 --> 01:37:10.310
they like their whiskey neat or their water at
01:37:10.310 --> 01:37:13.039
room temperature. if you get what i'm saying
01:37:13.039 --> 01:37:21.239
well all right christian oh whoa what just happened
01:37:21.239 --> 01:37:25.619
i i just clicked on christian in a little blue
01:37:25.619 --> 01:37:36.140
square oh okay all right so um this is not finished
01:37:36.140 --> 01:37:43.699
however um uh my good for whoops my there we
01:37:43.699 --> 01:37:48.159
go my good friend wes uh who is also part of
01:37:48.159 --> 01:37:51.560
the facebook group uh has started 3d printing
01:37:51.560 --> 01:37:55.420
and one of the things that i had talked to him
01:37:55.420 --> 01:38:00.000
about many many many times is of course wanting
01:38:00.000 --> 01:38:10.760
a cobra bunker not a a porta potty So check it
01:38:10.760 --> 01:38:16.939
out. Wow. Yeah. So I've been painting it with
01:38:16.939 --> 01:38:21.359
what little bits of free time I have. So I still
01:38:21.359 --> 01:38:27.739
have a long ways to go. Also, I think it's mad,
01:38:27.899 --> 01:38:33.199
mad dog tattoos. I think on eBay does one 12th
01:38:33.199 --> 01:38:37.800
water slide. um decals for these so i ordered
01:38:37.800 --> 01:38:43.239
those but uh just to give you an idea of the
01:38:43.239 --> 01:38:48.880
scale there is a classified figure nice so once
01:38:48.880 --> 01:38:52.100
i finish getting it all painted and getting the
01:38:52.100 --> 01:38:57.430
grass added to it um Then I'm going to glue everything
01:38:57.430 --> 01:38:59.630
together to make it one solid piece. But I'm
01:38:59.630 --> 01:39:02.609
super, super excited and happy to add an actual
01:39:02.609 --> 01:39:06.770
Cobra bunker to my classified collection. And
01:39:06.770 --> 01:39:10.890
check out Wes's other work in the Facebook group.
01:39:12.789 --> 01:39:18.930
So having that in hand, if Hasbro were to produce
01:39:18.930 --> 01:39:24.850
that, how much do you think it would be? Cause
01:39:24.850 --> 01:39:28.029
that's a big piece of real estate. It, it is,
01:39:28.210 --> 01:39:32.550
but it still doesn't use a lot to me. I don't
01:39:32.550 --> 01:39:34.789
think it uses a lot of plastic. Most of the plastic
01:39:34.789 --> 01:39:39.789
is in the base pieces either. Yeah. And I would
01:39:39.789 --> 01:39:41.550
wonder if they'd even do the base, if they were
01:39:41.550 --> 01:39:45.090
to put that out, if they were to put a figure
01:39:45.090 --> 01:39:50.800
with it, I mean, I would pay $75. I didn't ask
01:39:50.800 --> 01:39:52.539
what you'd pay. I asked what you think they'd
01:39:52.539 --> 01:39:56.199
charge. What I think Hasbro would pay. Considering
01:39:56.199 --> 01:39:58.220
the size, I think they would charge what they
01:39:58.220 --> 01:40:03.779
charge for the vamp and the stinger. Well, we
01:40:03.779 --> 01:40:10.899
may or may not ever find out. All right. So as
01:40:10.899 --> 01:40:13.640
I said, I got kind of busy today and kind of
01:40:13.640 --> 01:40:15.159
forgot about Joe and tell, but that's okay. Cause
01:40:15.159 --> 01:40:17.199
I've got a whole stack of reaction plus figures
01:40:17.199 --> 01:40:20.680
just waiting to be opened up. And they don't,
01:40:20.680 --> 01:40:22.840
they're there. They just don't make the best
01:40:22.840 --> 01:40:25.199
full reviews all the time. And this one, especially
01:40:25.199 --> 01:40:28.520
because I've got the reaction version of this
01:40:28.520 --> 01:40:32.880
figure, but it is a fancy it's Cobra commander
01:40:32.880 --> 01:40:36.460
enemy leader. And I like that. They don't change
01:40:36.460 --> 01:40:39.529
the designation up. Like it's not. Cobra Commander
01:40:39.529 --> 01:40:43.390
with cape. They don't change the title. They
01:40:43.390 --> 01:40:45.850
all just still say Cobra Commander, enemy leader,
01:40:46.010 --> 01:40:49.550
but as you can see, the accessories listed on
01:40:49.550 --> 01:40:51.609
the side, just like they were back in the day,
01:40:51.649 --> 01:40:55.489
include scepter and cape. Really nice looking
01:40:55.489 --> 01:40:58.289
card art that has been, I believe the reaction
01:40:58.289 --> 01:41:02.170
figure had the same card art, but we also may
01:41:02.170 --> 01:41:04.270
think of this as 70s boogie Cobra Commander.
01:41:06.409 --> 01:41:08.430
uh file card on the back but nothing we haven't
01:41:08.430 --> 01:41:12.350
seen before so let's open him up and check him
01:41:12.350 --> 01:41:15.250
out i also like that the pose on the cover is
01:41:15.250 --> 01:41:17.590
kind of reminds me of the target lady played
01:41:17.590 --> 01:41:25.310
by kristen wigg on snl there's the exclusive
01:41:25.310 --> 01:41:32.380
variant lady cobra commander That would be the
01:41:32.380 --> 01:41:36.800
fall convention exclusive. What is the Target
01:41:36.800 --> 01:41:40.680
geek out? Target geek out is the one that they
01:41:40.680 --> 01:41:47.140
do. It'd be a geek out exclusive. Cape's nice
01:41:47.140 --> 01:41:51.699
and thick. I do like their soft goods are so
01:41:51.699 --> 01:41:55.359
odd because initially, when you first look at
01:41:55.359 --> 01:41:57.600
them, they almost kind of look like they're just
01:41:57.600 --> 01:42:00.680
Christmas ribbon or something. It doesn't...
01:42:00.840 --> 01:42:05.239
look durable, but then you get your hands on
01:42:05.239 --> 01:42:09.399
it. It feels nice. It's got that red lining in
01:42:09.399 --> 01:42:11.579
it. It's got a nice shine to it. Like it looks
01:42:11.579 --> 01:42:14.539
Cobra Commander capey. It looks appropriate for
01:42:14.539 --> 01:42:17.579
the guy. This one does have a ball jointed head.
01:42:18.380 --> 01:42:22.899
So that is a nice addition. All the joints are
01:42:22.899 --> 01:42:24.420
good. The plastic is great. I mean, these figures
01:42:24.420 --> 01:42:27.380
feel great, but every single time, and I hate
01:42:27.380 --> 01:42:30.710
having to repeat it. but not everybody sees everything
01:42:30.710 --> 01:42:36.250
I put out. I don't like the silver rivets. I
01:42:36.250 --> 01:42:39.310
wish they would switch to the color matching
01:42:39.310 --> 01:42:42.210
like they did on the Universal Monsters in the
01:42:42.210 --> 01:42:46.189
Back to the Future. The little cobra emblems,
01:42:46.189 --> 01:42:51.390
the clasps on his cape are amazing. A little
01:42:51.390 --> 01:42:54.270
gold detail there, and they're actual little
01:42:54.270 --> 01:42:57.850
separate pieces. It's not just like a tampo.
01:42:58.960 --> 01:43:02.140
looks great he's actually in hand i will say
01:43:02.140 --> 01:43:04.140
because this was one of those if you guys remember
01:43:04.140 --> 01:43:10.000
uh i was four or six figures behind on these
01:43:10.000 --> 01:43:14.819
and and not just not buying like arctic snake
01:43:14.819 --> 01:43:18.239
eyes or whatever and then the fomo hit me and
01:43:18.239 --> 01:43:20.920
i ordered a bunch in one shot i think super seven
01:43:20.920 --> 01:43:23.279
had like a it was either a free shipping or a
01:43:23.279 --> 01:43:25.140
buy four get one free or something like that
01:43:25.850 --> 01:43:27.890
And this is one of the ones that I was less than
01:43:27.890 --> 01:43:31.270
enthusiastic about. But I got to say, this might
01:43:31.270 --> 01:43:35.590
be the best O -ring Cobra Commander. Or my favorite.
01:43:35.649 --> 01:43:39.210
I'll say my favorite. Best is objective. But
01:43:39.210 --> 01:43:43.430
the cape is so good and so fun. And those little,
01:43:43.569 --> 01:43:46.109
just something about the little cape clasps looks
01:43:46.109 --> 01:43:50.409
so good. Yeah, I was super excited to get that
01:43:50.409 --> 01:43:54.220
figure on the shelf because... when you know
01:43:54.220 --> 01:43:57.199
cobra commander such just like a bombastic grandiose
01:43:57.199 --> 01:44:00.279
character and none of the figures that they've
01:44:00.279 --> 01:44:03.720
ever made really do him that justice but with
01:44:03.720 --> 01:44:05.979
that cape and that scepter and just you know
01:44:05.979 --> 01:44:08.640
putting him that pose yeah that's the one i wanted
01:44:08.640 --> 01:44:16.079
yeah it's great this is well okay aside from
01:44:16.079 --> 01:44:22.600
the cobra law cobra commander uh this this is
01:44:22.600 --> 01:44:24.319
my new favorite cobra commander figure that's
01:44:24.319 --> 01:44:28.079
awesome great job super seven just color those
01:44:28.079 --> 01:44:32.699
rivets please please put aside your your personal
01:44:32.699 --> 01:44:39.680
uh incorrect aesthetic opinions and put some
01:44:39.680 --> 01:44:42.119
color in those rivets and as i said before like
01:44:42.119 --> 01:44:45.260
they've done such a fantastic job matching the
01:44:45.260 --> 01:44:48.000
paint of the rivets on those back to the future
01:44:48.000 --> 01:44:51.260
figures that there's no there's no reason they
01:44:51.260 --> 01:44:52.680
shouldn't be able to do the same thing for these
01:44:52.680 --> 01:44:57.840
figures and yeah it's a process they can manage
01:44:57.840 --> 01:45:02.939
yeah so let's move it to joe i i will i i will
01:45:02.939 --> 01:45:05.529
deal with it I will deal with these mismatched
01:45:05.529 --> 01:45:08.310
figures in my collection. I'll make that sacrifice
01:45:08.310 --> 01:45:11.310
if you'll just color those things. All right,
01:45:11.350 --> 01:45:14.489
that is all the show we got for you this week.
01:45:15.170 --> 01:45:18.310
Christian, where can we find that toy photography
01:45:18.310 --> 01:45:21.449
you do so well? You can find me on Instagram
01:45:21.449 --> 01:45:25.609
and Blue Sky under the name Legion Cub. And Noel,
01:45:25.670 --> 01:45:27.069
why don't you tell us a little bit about the
01:45:27.069 --> 01:45:29.689
finest? The Finest is an international G .I.
01:45:29.710 --> 01:45:32.229
Joe costuming club that raises money for our
01:45:32.229 --> 01:45:34.630
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01:45:34.970 --> 01:45:38.470
Check out thefinestcc .com or the Finest Recruitment
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Our music is by Andy Samford of electric meadow
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