Full Transcript for New York Comic Con 2026 Toy News & Highlights

00:05:24.879 case, I need you to open up more glass cases 00:05:24.879 --> 00:05:28.819 for me. And then I become this person's problem 00:05:28.819 --> 00:05:31.899 for the next, you know, however long it takes 00:05:31.899 --> 00:05:34.500 me to say, well, I need four figures out of this 00:05:34.500 --> 00:05:37.279 one. I need four figures out of this one. And 00:05:37.279 --> 00:05:38.959 then I need a few more figures out of this one. 00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:40.819 Three different cases this poor person had to 00:05:40.819 --> 00:05:45.779 open up for me. to get the stuff out that I ended 00:05:45.779 --> 00:05:50.610 up buying. And again, this stuff isn't in cases 00:05:50.610 --> 00:05:53.689 because people are bad and people steal. It's 00:05:53.689 --> 00:05:56.689 in cases because Walmart will not pay enough 00:05:56.689 --> 00:06:00.790 human beings to properly cover this section of 00:06:00.790 --> 00:06:05.189 the store. And that again is the case everywhere. 00:06:05.860 --> 00:06:09.259 And it's garbage and it's making people's lives 00:06:09.259 --> 00:06:13.459 miserable because the employees who do have jobs, 00:06:13.800 --> 00:06:18.800 are so badly overworked. And look, you may scoff 00:06:18.800 --> 00:06:21.660 at my definition of overworked. You may think, 00:06:21.660 --> 00:06:24.000 well, I've seen them standing around back there. 00:06:24.139 --> 00:06:28.319 Oh, so you shouldn't have a few minutes of time. 00:06:28.910 --> 00:06:31.490 During your shift, where you actually get to 00:06:31.490 --> 00:06:34.009 breathe and maybe don't have anything specific 00:06:34.009 --> 00:06:37.449 to do, you're supposed to be just working to 00:06:37.449 --> 00:06:39.750 the bone every second that you're on the clock. 00:06:40.029 --> 00:06:43.449 Well, guess what? You've been fucking brainwashed 00:06:43.449 --> 00:06:47.970 by America. If you think that's reasonable, if 00:06:47.970 --> 00:06:50.550 you think every second that you're on the clock 00:06:50.550 --> 00:06:54.310 must be productive for the company, then you've 00:06:54.310 --> 00:07:00.439 been brainwashed. Congratulations. I've got a 00:07:00.439 --> 00:07:02.279 lot more to say on this topic, but we're not 00:07:02.279 --> 00:07:04.459 going to do it right here because I also want 00:07:04.459 --> 00:07:06.800 to talk about, speaking of being brainwashed, 00:07:06.920 --> 00:07:10.139 I love me some pop culture and I love me some 00:07:10.139 --> 00:07:15.839 Marvel. Vision Quest has started. The first two 00:07:15.839 --> 00:07:20.060 episodes are available now on Disney Plus. Corporate 00:07:20.060 --> 00:07:23.740 brainwashing, there it is. I'm not immune. I'm 00:07:23.740 --> 00:07:26.379 observing things. I've spent the last few years... 00:07:27.560 --> 00:07:30.060 with my mind more open than it has ever been 00:07:30.060 --> 00:07:34.839 and actually analyzing things on a level that 00:07:34.839 --> 00:07:38.420 I never have in my life, much to my regret.

I 00:07:38.420 --> 00:07:41.759 wish I had listened more closely to all the punk 00:07:41.759 --> 00:07:44.000 and hip -hop that I loved so much when I was 00:07:44.000 --> 00:07:46.920 growing up. But it just did, for whatever reason, 00:07:46.959 --> 00:07:50.779 it didn't penetrate. But now it is. But anyway, 00:07:51.000 --> 00:07:55.060 you can also enjoy the fruits of corporations 00:07:55.060 --> 00:07:58.259 because we're all in it. We're all in the boiling 00:07:58.259 --> 00:08:02.120 pot. So you might as well stop every once in 00:08:02.120 --> 00:08:05.220 a while and just take some enjoyment out of the 00:08:05.220 --> 00:08:09.540 system that has been created. So Vision Quest 00:08:09.540 --> 00:08:12.819 started. And I'll be honest with you, I wasn't 00:08:12.819 --> 00:08:17.709 excited about it. Lanterns just concluded. And 00:08:17.709 --> 00:08:22.329 while the last episode felt more like a post... 00:08:23.079 --> 00:08:26.399 uh oh shoot what's an epilogue last episode really 00:08:26.399 --> 00:08:28.639 felt more like an epilogue than a climax to me 00:08:28.639 --> 00:08:32.379 but overall lanterns was fantastic the performances 00:08:32.379 --> 00:08:34.539 were amazing it was a great story i thoroughly 00:08:34.539 --> 00:08:39.159 enjoyed it and i wasn't that excited for vision 00:08:39.159 --> 00:08:42.840 quest because marvel has had its ups and downs 00:08:42.840 --> 00:08:44.720 over the last well ever since i've talked about 00:08:44.720 --> 00:08:47.779 this before but uh Ever since Endgame, Marvel 00:08:47.779 --> 00:08:50.080 has really had ups and downs. Some of the stuff 00:08:50.080 --> 00:08:52.799 has been great and some of it has been, in my 00:08:52.799 --> 00:08:57.820 opinion, objectively bad. So Vision Quest, even 00:08:57.820 --> 00:09:00.000 though I loved WandaVision and think it absolutely 00:09:00.000 --> 00:09:02.600 can be held up as one of the high points of the 00:09:02.600 --> 00:09:06.169 MCU, I wasn't super stoked for Vision Quest because 00:09:06.169 --> 00:09:09.330 I don't know where we are with Marvel. I don't 00:09:09.330 --> 00:09:13.299 know. Well, we don't know. We don't know. We 00:09:13.299 --> 00:09:15.320 don't know what Doomsday is going to be like. 00:09:15.700 --> 00:09:18.019 People have their thoughts about it. I have my 00:09:18.019 --> 00:09:21.559 thoughts. I'm excited for it. We talk about that 00:09:21.559 --> 00:09:23.139 a little bit more during the episode. Which, 00:09:23.159 --> 00:09:26.059 by the way, today's episode is me and Christian 00:09:26.059 --> 00:09:27.980 and Schweck talking about some stuff from New 00:09:27.980 --> 00:09:30.139 York Comic Con. It's a lot of fun. Even if you're 00:09:30.139 --> 00:09:31.919 not a toy collector, I think we have a lot of 00:09:31.919 --> 00:09:34.960 fun conversations. We don't just analyze figures. 00:09:35.120 --> 00:09:39.769 We talk about everything. So, Vision Quest. I 00:09:39.769 --> 00:09:43.940 am fucking delighted. The first two episodes 00:09:43.940 --> 00:09:49.799 were so good. I was blown away. And maybe a little 00:09:49.799 --> 00:09:53.399 bit of it was that my bar was set lower. So I 00:09:53.399 --> 00:09:55.600 enjoyed it like even more than I would have. 00:09:55.740 --> 00:10:00.259 But I got to tell you, it is great. It delivered 00:10:00.259 --> 00:10:03.940 so much more than I expected. And I don't want 00:10:03.940 --> 00:10:06.480 to spoil anything because I was so delighted 00:10:06.480 --> 00:10:10.730 by the things that I did not know. We all know, 00:10:10.850 --> 00:10:14.159 or at least you should know, that James Spader 00:10:14.159 --> 00:10:20.009 is in it as Ultron. Although it's this really 00:10:20.009 --> 00:10:22.350 interesting thing where he's in a human form, 00:10:22.529 --> 00:10:26.509 which is James Spader, who looks awesome. I wish 00:10:26.509 --> 00:10:28.929 I could look that cool when I'm James Spader's 00:10:28.929 --> 00:10:35.990 age. He's amazing. And I think Paul Bettany is 00:10:35.990 --> 00:10:38.929 fantastic in this. And he's got a tough role. 00:10:40.190 --> 00:10:43.629 But James Spader is going to steal every show 00:10:43.629 --> 00:10:48.610 he's in. He just is. And there's another character 00:10:48.610 --> 00:10:51.490 that I didn't know was in it. Because I've said 00:10:51.490 --> 00:10:54.250 this lots and I'll probably continue to say it 00:10:54.250 --> 00:10:57.090 until this show stops being a thing. I've really 00:10:57.090 --> 00:11:00.950 withdrawn from trailers, from information, from 00:11:00.950 --> 00:11:03.909 behind the scenes. I don't want to know any more 00:11:03.909 --> 00:11:07.740 than I have to when I watch something. So I didn't 00:11:07.740 --> 00:11:10.940 know this character was in this. and was delighted 00:11:10.940 --> 00:11:15.740 at the portrayal, this person's performance also 00:11:15.740 --> 00:11:19.210 stole the show. I'll just say this. If you're 00:11:19.210 --> 00:11:21.230 familiar with wrestling, there is a character 00:11:21.230 --> 00:11:23.929 in Vision Quest that is essentially L .A. Knight. 00:11:25.289 --> 00:11:28.529 And I wasn't ready for it. I wasn't expecting 00:11:28.529 --> 00:11:30.870 it. And that actually sums up a lot of how I 00:11:30.870 --> 00:11:33.110 feel about Vision Quest is I wasn't expecting 00:11:33.110 --> 00:11:36.990 it to be any of what it is. And that's part of 00:11:36.990 --> 00:11:41.980 my delight is it's so... I didn't necessarily 00:11:41.980 --> 00:11:45.519 have specific expectations, but I thought it 00:11:45.519 --> 00:11:47.519 was going to be a little more character -driven, 00:11:47.700 --> 00:11:52.659 a little more dramatic, a little quieter. And 00:11:52.659 --> 00:11:57.340 it is not. And I'm very happy. Very, very happy. 00:11:58.379 --> 00:12:00.919 So check out Vision Quest. I think you'll enjoy 00:12:00.919 --> 00:12:04.279 it. Other stuff, because it's October. We need 00:12:04.279 -->

00:12:07.179 to be talking spooky. We need to be getting spooky. 00:12:07.360 --> 00:12:12.000 And I wish I had... Excuse me, I wish I had a 00:12:12.000 --> 00:12:14.080 little more specifically spooky content for the 00:12:14.080 --> 00:12:16.759 channel and for the podcast this month. It just 00:12:16.759 --> 00:12:19.179 hasn't worked out that way. You will be getting 00:12:19.179 --> 00:12:22.980 a Resident Evil episode very soon now. It may 00:12:22.980 --> 00:12:25.100 end up being the last episode of October because 00:12:25.100 --> 00:12:26.700 I've got something else in the works that I may 00:12:26.700 --> 00:12:29.240 have to record before I release that. But the 00:12:29.240 --> 00:12:31.360 Resident Evil episode, it's already... And I'm 00:12:31.360 --> 00:12:32.879 not talking about the movie review that we did. 00:12:32.960 --> 00:12:35.220 I'm talking about a 30th anniversary celebration 00:12:35.220 --> 00:12:38.840 type of episode. It's already recorded. I just 00:12:38.840 --> 00:12:41.309 have to make sure everything... drops in the 00:12:41.309 --> 00:12:43.230 schedule the way i want before i release it but 00:12:43.230 --> 00:12:45.429 it will absolutely be out before the end of october 00:12:45.429 --> 00:12:48.149 uh you know unless stephen king calls me up and 00:12:48.149 --> 00:12:50.090 is like dave i'd really like to talk to you and 00:12:50.090 --> 00:12:52.169 then you know we'll we'll bump resident resident 00:12:52.169 --> 00:12:58.269 evil uh but talking about spooky stuff i decided 00:12:58.269 --> 00:13:00.429 i've been having a lot of trouble i think i mentioned 00:13:00.429 --> 00:13:04.450 this last intro that i watched so much of the 00:13:04.450 --> 00:13:09.639 standard horror fair last year that I don't want 00:13:09.639 --> 00:13:12.139 to rewatch Nightmare on Elm Street again. I'm 00:13:12.139 --> 00:13:14.340 currently having this whole thing about slasher 00:13:14.340 --> 00:13:16.879 movies where like Friday the 13th or Sleepaway 00:13:16.879 --> 00:13:19.200 Camp or like some of the standard slasher movies 00:13:19.200 --> 00:13:22.500 to me is not Halloween content, which is a whole 00:13:22.500 --> 00:13:24.399 other conversation that I think could be had. 00:13:24.779 --> 00:13:27.559 So as far as just looking for spooky movies, 00:13:27.659 --> 00:13:29.379 because to me, Halloween, I feel like there has 00:13:29.379 --> 00:13:31.399 to be something a little supernatural about it 00:13:31.399 --> 00:13:35.799 for it to be Halloween -y for me. So I settled 00:13:35.799 --> 00:13:37.440 on, you know what, I think I haven't watched 00:13:37.440 --> 00:13:40.440 the Hellraiser movies in a while. I certainly 00:13:40.440 --> 00:13:44.740 haven't watched the post -Bloodline movies in 00:13:44.740 --> 00:13:47.600 a while. I believe I've seen all of them once, 00:13:47.600 --> 00:13:51.460 and that's it. So I decided I want to revisit 00:13:51.460 --> 00:13:55.879 Hellraiser. So far, I have rewatched the first 00:13:55.879 --> 00:14:00.350 one, which is... still just as creepy and fantastic 00:14:00.350 --> 00:14:02.409 as it was the first time i saw it it's to me 00:14:02.409 --> 00:14:04.830 it's one of the legitimately scary horror movies 00:14:04.830 --> 00:14:09.149 it's one that still affects me to this day no 00:14:09.149 --> 00:14:12.210 matter how many times i've watched it it's it's 00:14:12.210 --> 00:14:17.889 phenomenal hellraiser 2 which came out while 00:14:17.889 --> 00:14:20.250 i was still discovering so like hellraiser 2 00:14:20.250 --> 00:14:25.549 already existed by the time i was aware of Hellraiser 00:14:25.549 --> 00:14:27.210 and watched the movies. Because it took me a 00:14:27.210 --> 00:14:29.610 while to watch the first Hellraiser because just 00:14:29.610 --> 00:14:33.529 Pinhead was so creepy and unnerving to me. It 00:14:33.529 --> 00:14:37.570 took me a little while. So Hellraiser 2 was already 00:14:37.570 --> 00:14:40.190 part of the canon by the time I discovered Hellraiser. 00:14:40.289 --> 00:14:46.559 So I watched it as this existing thing. Only 00:14:46.559 --> 00:14:50.840 this time did I realize that Hellraiser 2 is 00:14:50.840 --> 00:14:53.559 actually kind of a shitty movie. Because in my 00:14:53.559 --> 00:14:56.860 head, the first Hellraiser and Hellraiser 2 were 00:14:56.860 --> 00:14:59.559 like great movies and everything after has been 00:14:59.559 --> 00:15:01.559 diminishing returns to one extent or another. 00:15:01.720 --> 00:15:04.600 While I've enjoyed all of them, except for one, 00:15:04.840 --> 00:15:11.649 they've just, you know, whatever. But re -watching 00:15:11.649 --> 00:15:15.070 Hellraiser 2 this time, and my mind is just more 00:15:15.070 --> 00:15:19.269 generally analytical right now, I realized Hellraiser 00:15:19.269 --> 00:15:21.370 2 is also, it's just kind of a piece of shit. 00:15:21.490 --> 00:15:26.269 It's entertaining, don't get me wrong, but it's 00:15:26.269 --> 00:15:29.889 just not that good. And then Hellraiser 3, I 00:15:29.889 --> 00:15:33.610 have not re -watched yet because I only have 00:15:33.610 --> 00:15:35.830 it on DVD. I don't want to watch the DVD. I want 00:15:35.830 --> 00:15:38.870 to watch the high quality. cut of it, but it's 00:15:38.870 --> 00:15:41.429 very expensive to purchase right now. So I'm 00:15:41.429 --> 00:15:43.090 just going to skip Hellraiser 3 because I've 00:15:43.090 --> 00:15:44.769 actually watched it kind of recently because 00:15:44.769 --> 00:15:48.429 it's not a good movie. I love Hellraiser 3. It 00:15:48.429 --> 00:15:50.470 was the first R -rated movie I saw in the theater. 00:15:51.610 --> 00:15:54.889 I love it. It's bad, but I love it. And then 00:15:54.889 --> 00:15:57.610 Hellraiser 4, I have always thought was a great 00:15:57.610 --> 00:16:01.149 concept, just not executed very well. I rewatched 00:16:01.149 --> 00:16:02.769 it the other night and I still feel that way. 00:16:03.450 -->

00:16:06.750 Although it blew my mind that Adam Scott is in 00:16:06.750 --> 00:16:10.490 it. So it's been so long since I watched Hellraiser 00:16:10.490 --> 00:16:15.309 4, or Hellraiser Bloodline, that Adam Scott is 00:16:15.309 --> 00:16:18.549 a different place in my consciousness now than 00:16:18.549 --> 00:16:21.190 the last time I watched that movie. He pops on 00:16:21.190 --> 00:16:23.730 the screen and I was like, what the fuck? And 00:16:23.730 --> 00:16:28.139 it's hilarious. So I still love the concept of 00:16:28.139 --> 00:16:30.220 Hellraiser Bloodline. It's just not executed 00:16:30.220 --> 00:16:33.059 super well. And I will be moving into the other 00:16:33.059 --> 00:16:37.139 movies. I bought a four movie set of the next 00:16:37.139 --> 00:16:39.460 four. Well, it's Hellraiser 4 and then the three 00:16:39.460 --> 00:16:43.019 that came after it. And then I'm going to have 00:16:43.019 --> 00:16:44.820 to track down a couple of other ones because 00:16:44.820 --> 00:16:47.240 there are way more Hellraiser movies than whatever 00:16:47.240 --> 00:16:49.860 you're thinking right now. There are more Hellraiser 00:16:49.860 --> 00:16:53.809 movies than that. Because there is the one that 00:16:53.809 --> 00:16:56.230 was like the auditor or whatever that I thought 00:16:56.230 --> 00:17:00.710 was fantastic. And then there's the most recent 00:17:00.710 --> 00:17:07.220 remake that was done by, I can't remember his 00:17:07.220 --> 00:17:10.440 name right now. Our pal Arian from the show is 00:17:10.440 --> 00:17:13.220 actually friends with him. I did not like it 00:17:13.220 --> 00:17:17.059 at all. But I suppose I'll rewatch it because 00:17:17.190 --> 00:17:20.410 I give everything another chance. It's one of 00:17:20.410 --> 00:17:24.640 my failings. As a person. So anyway, that's what's 00:17:24.640 --> 00:17:26.500 happening with me, spooky -wise, is I'm watching 00:17:26.500 --> 00:17:28.500 all the Hellraisers and I ordered the Hellraiser 00:17:28.500 --> 00:17:30.420 video game because our pal Ryan Cadaver said 00:17:30.420 --> 00:17:33.559 it's great. So that's on the way. And also, it 00:17:33.559 --> 00:17:36.140 was only $40, which is great for a video game 00:17:36.140 --> 00:17:38.440 nowadays. So I'm excited about that. I'll have 00:17:38.440 --> 00:17:40.400 a report on that maybe next episode if I have 00:17:40.400 --> 00:17:42.180 time to play it, which I don't know if that's 00:17:42.180 --> 00:17:44.400 going to happen because I didn't even get around 00:17:44.400 --> 00:17:47.319 to talking about the Deltron 3030 show that I 00:17:47.319 --> 00:17:52.880 went to Sunday night that was a musical... extravaganza 00:17:52.880 --> 00:17:55.960 the likes of which i've rarely seen absolutely 00:17:55.960 --> 00:17:59.440 a special night something i will never forget 00:17:59.440 --> 00:18:02.380 uh but we talk about it a little bit on the show 00:18:02.380 --> 00:18:05.279 so you know what let's get down to business it's 00:18:05.279 --> 00:18:08.359 time to talk with christian and schwack about 00:18:08.359 --> 00:18:16.420 new york comic -con 2026 enjoy welcome to the 00:18:16.420 --> 00:18:18.400 newest episode of the needless things podcast 00:18:18.400 --> 00:18:21.549 i'm your host Dave West, and I'm being joined 00:18:21.549 --> 00:18:24.210 by the Needless Things Head of Research, Ryan 00:18:24.210 --> 00:18:28.549 Schweck. Good to see you all tonight. And Audible 00:18:28.549 --> 00:18:32.730 Interludes Head of Research, Legion Cub. Howdy, 00:18:32.769 --> 00:18:36.859 everybody. Two nights in a row, you're having 00:18:36.859 --> 00:18:39.519 to adjust to completely different intros. I know, 00:18:39.559 --> 00:18:42.920 it throws me off. When the music started, I was 00:18:42.920 --> 00:18:45.930 like, wait a minute, what's going on? Well, and 00:18:45.930 --> 00:18:48.470 plus this music is only like eight seconds. Yeah. 00:18:48.589 --> 00:18:51.650 It's completely different. And this is a completely 00:18:51.650 --> 00:18:53.349 different show from Audible Interlude because 00:18:53.349 --> 00:18:55.970 what we're going to be doing tonight is talking 00:18:55.970 --> 00:18:59.210 about the non -G .I. Joe stuff that we saw at 00:18:59.210 --> 00:19:02.240 New York Comic Con. 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Oh, 00:19:37.710 --> 00:19:41.049 there you go. Right now. Always wait for a sale. 00:19:41.329 --> 00:19:45.319 Always wait for a sale. So we're going to be 00:19:45.319 --> 00:19:48.640 talking about New York Comic Con. And I got to 00:19:48.640 --> 00:19:51.859 say, though, so going into New York Comic Con, 00:19:51.960 --> 00:19:54.359 we got a couple of reveals last week that made 00:19:54.359 --> 00:19:59.309 me feel like, OK, between these couple of neat 00:19:59.309 --> 00:20:02.269 things and then we knew that Mattel was going 00:20:02.269 --> 00:20:05.450 to be revealing their DC product. I hit you guys 00:20:05.450 --> 00:20:08.920 up and I was like, we got to do a show. It was 00:20:08.920 --> 00:20:12.200 supposed

to be Sunday night, but I ended up going 00:20:12.200 --> 00:20:14.359 to one of the most incredible musical experiences 00:20:14.359 --> 00:20:21.039 of my life. I got to see Deltron 3030. On apparently 00:20:21.039 --> 00:20:24.480 what is one of only three headlining shows in 00:20:24.480 --> 00:20:26.680 America because they're touring with gorillas 00:20:26.680 --> 00:20:30.380 because they kind of are gorillas. Like all the 00:20:30.380 --> 00:20:33.480 best things about gorillas are in Deltron 3030 00:20:33.480 --> 00:20:35.400 because it's Dan the Automator, Del the Funky 00:20:35.400 --> 00:20:39.460 Homo Sapien and Kid Koala. And it was incredible. 00:20:39.559 --> 00:20:41.440 I'll be talking more about this show at some 00:20:41.440 --> 00:20:44.799 point. But Kid Koala, he does solo shows and 00:20:44.799 --> 00:20:48.660 that guy's just his energy is so much fun. incredible 00:20:48.660 --> 00:20:52.680 show well worth postponing tonight's show uh 00:20:52.680 --> 00:20:56.480 to to tuesday uh to go to that one it was absolutely 00:20:56.480 --> 00:20:58.339 amazing so if you if you have the opportunity 00:20:58.339 --> 00:21:02.559 to see any of them in any form uh go do it but 00:21:02.720 --> 00:21:06.559 so we were really hyped up about what this new 00:21:06.559 --> 00:21:09.160 york comic -con was going to be but i gotta say 00:21:09.160 --> 00:21:11.640 at the end of the day i don't think we really 00:21:11.640 --> 00:21:13.920 have as much to talk about as i thought we would 00:21:14.789 --> 00:21:19.960 i'm glad you said that because Right there with 00:21:19.960 --> 00:21:22.859 you. Leading up to it, I had a lot of anticipation. 00:21:23.940 --> 00:21:29.049 And over the weekend when I was checking the 00:21:29.049 --> 00:21:32.210 news and stuff, I just kind of kept feeling, 00:21:32.410 --> 00:21:36.809 and when is the ball going to drop? Yeah, yeah, 00:21:36.849 --> 00:21:40.289 yeah. When is the big ooh -ah moment? Or when 00:21:40.289 --> 00:21:43.210 are we going to get to see the things we haven't 00:21:43.210 --> 00:21:49.819 already seen back at Toy Fair or San Diego? Yeah, 00:21:49.839 --> 00:21:52.200 I was glad when you asked our favorite three 00:21:52.200 --> 00:21:54.720 for the show, because I don't know that I could 00:21:54.720 --> 00:21:57.819 have got to 10. It would have been a lot of repeats. 00:21:58.599 --> 00:22:00.839 Yeah, it would have been stretching. And even 00:22:00.839 --> 00:22:03.079 with just the three, I'll go ahead and tell everybody, 00:22:03.240 --> 00:22:06.119 we've already got one, not a repeat, but a double 00:22:06.119 --> 00:22:11.740 up. You'll find out what it is. But we do have 00:22:11.740 --> 00:22:14.960 stuff to talk about. The biggest, I think, difference 00:22:14.960 --> 00:22:18.480 in the format we expected is that it appears 00:22:18.480 --> 00:22:23.519 Mattel had a small press only event for those 00:22:23.519 --> 00:22:26.880 dc products so all we've gotten out

of it really 00:22:26.880 --> 00:22:31.440 are a couple of videos not no image galleries 00:22:31.440 --> 00:22:34.980 no extensive details but that's because mattel 00:22:34.980 --> 00:22:38.519 is planning a big live stream on january 1st 00:22:38.519 --> 00:22:42.819 2027 to fully announce everything so we got some 00:22:42.819 --> 00:22:44.460 sneak peeks and we're going to talk about what 00:22:44.460 --> 00:22:48.890 we saw but it was not the big reveal That we 00:22:48.890 --> 00:22:52.799 were expecting it to be. Although there was a 00:22:52.799 --> 00:22:57.119 big reveal. Or an expensive reveal. They were 00:22:57.119 --> 00:23:02.180 all trying to. Jump on. The Mattel DC bandwagon. 00:23:02.240 --> 00:23:06.240 Because there were a lot. Of AI images going 00:23:06.240 --> 00:23:10.259 out. Over the weekend. Claiming to be. From the 00:23:10.259 --> 00:23:15.180 panel. And I. When I was putting my list together. 00:23:15.240 --> 00:23:18.890 I was very happy to see like. Toy News -y. A 00:23:18.890 --> 00:23:22.509 lot of the sites have completely removed all 00:23:22.509 --> 00:23:26.769 that stuff because it was so blatant. Social 00:23:26.769 --> 00:23:30.710 media so much. Like you said, the best thing 00:23:30.710 --> 00:23:33.789 I could find from Mattel was some found footage 00:23:33.789 --> 00:23:38.369 horror movie. Quick jerks of a toy booth. They're 00:23:38.369 --> 00:23:43.430 bad. They're all bad. It's funny how much people 00:23:43.430 --> 00:23:47.369 have stretched that out. Which I say that as 00:23:47.369 --> 00:23:50.769 someone who did an hour plus show with our pal 00:23:50.769 --> 00:23:53.890 Chad about a two minute Star Wars trailer. So, 00:23:53.930 --> 00:23:55.950 I mean, I get it. I understand stretching things 00:23:55.950 --> 00:23:58.309 out and we do still have plenty of plenty to 00:23:58.309 --> 00:24:00.390 talk about. But before we get to the news, just 00:24:00.390 --> 00:24:02.349 to establish ourselves a little bit for anybody 00:24:02.349 --> 00:24:04.589 that may be watching for the first time, I want 00:24:04.589 --> 00:24:06.349 to talk a little bit about our collecting rules. 00:24:06.950 --> 00:24:09.869 And when I say collecting rules, I'm referring 00:24:09.869 --> 00:24:13.859 to things like I did not order. Any of the GI 00:24:13.859 --> 00:24:16.240 Joe classified stuff today, because one of my 00:24:16.240 --> 00:24:19.279 collecting rules is I'm not paying $30 for a 00:24:19.279 --> 00:24:22.099 six inch mass market figure. That was my threshold. 00:24:22.240 --> 00:24:26.900 I thought 25 was my threshold, but since they 00:24:26.900 --> 00:24:30.619 went to 2799 classified has put out enough stuff 00:24:30.619 --> 00:24:33.720 that I like really wanted that I kind of broke 00:24:33.720 --> 00:24:36.519 that rule. But 30 is, is ridiculous. I'm not 00:24:36.519 --> 00:24:40.400 doing it. Do you guys have a, how do you handle 00:24:40.400 --> 00:24:45.279 pricing? I mean, I think you're right. 30 just 00:24:45.279 --> 00:24:51.230 feels different. And it's going to affect my 00:24:51.230 --> 00:24:54.750 collecting way more than the jump to 27 did. 00:24:55.450 --> 00:24:57.869 And even at 27, like if you'd asked me this question 00:24:57.869 --> 00:24:59.549 a couple of weeks ago, I probably would have 00:24:59.549 --> 00:25:02.230 had a different answer. And over the past week 00:25:02.230 --> 00:25:04.430 or two, I've canceled a bunch of pre -orders 00:25:04.430 --> 00:25:06.269 because like I'm really starting to think like, 00:25:06.349 --> 00:25:09.289 do I really need this? And it's just going to 00:25:09.289 --> 00:25:12.920 go on a shelf. Like it's like that. who's that 00:25:12.920 --> 00:25:15.960 minimalist lady that makes you like look at something 00:25:15.960 --> 00:25:18.980 yeah does it bring you joy and then i think is 00:25:18.980 --> 00:25:22.059 this gonna bring me joy in three weeks or am 00:25:22.059 --> 00:25:24.220 i gonna be real excited open it and put it down 00:25:24.220 --> 00:25:27.660 well and you bring up a really good point uh 00:25:27.660 --> 00:25:32.099 because once we we started feeling like this 00:25:32.099 --> 00:25:35.259 30 price point was for sure going to happen i 00:25:35.259 --> 00:25:37.400 did the same thing i went in and canceled some 00:25:37.400 --> 00:25:39.859 of my like 28 pre -orders because i was like 00:25:39.859 --> 00:25:42.809 well if i'm getting out I may as well cut it 00:25:42.809 --> 00:25:44.950 off right now. No point in getting this other 00:25:44.950 --> 00:25:48.150 stuff. This is my stopping point. I had to take 00:25:48.150 --> 00:25:52.019 a hard look at like, I didn't like the Mandalorian 00:25:52.019 --> 00:25:56.200 and Grogu. Why am I spending $120 on all this 00:25:56.200 --> 00:26:04.460 stuff? It's like, goodbye. Yeah. I, for me, it 00:26:05.190 --> 00:26:08.410 really comes down to, do I feel like I'm getting 00:26:08.410 --> 00:26:12.250 the value for my money? Right. Because when, 00:26:13.420 --> 00:26:17.380 I didn't get into six inch figure. Well, classified 00:26:17.380 --> 00:26:20.200 Star Wars black. I didn't get into any of that 00:26:20.200 --> 00:26:23.720 until I started on the podcast. I wasn't even 00:26:23.720 --> 00:26:31.059 in with classified until the Baroness. So I was 00:26:31.059 --> 00:26:33.720 still mainly three and three quarter, but I also 00:26:33.720 --> 00:26:37.039 did a lot of import figures. I did a lot of third 00:26:37.039 --> 00:26:40.960 party transformer figures. So I was, I was paying 00:26:40.960 --> 00:26:46.190 at that time. $40, $50 for a Transformer, which 00:26:46.190 --> 00:26:51.410 I would never do for a Hasbro Transformer. But 00:26:51.410 --> 00:26:53.869 somehow I could justify it when I was like, this 00:26:53.869 --> 00:26:57.529 is a small company making a very limited amount 00:26:57.529 --> 00:27:04.349 of this figure. Or I'm spending $60 on this SH 00:27:04.349 --> 00:27:08.589 Figure

Arts figure from Japan, but the articulation, 00:27:08.589 --> 00:27:13.180 the accessory loadout, the, you know. the 20 00:27:13.180 --> 00:27:18.200 that it comes with like i am getting my value 00:27:18.200 --> 00:27:23.000 when i look at the mass market retail figures 00:27:23.000 --> 00:27:30.190 i'm like i i don't necessarily see 30 worth of 00:27:30.190 --> 00:27:35.369 product in that box well the with the mass market 00:27:35.369 --> 00:27:39.480 retail with because we talk about Well, we're 00:27:39.480 --> 00:27:41.200 going to be talking about Fresh Monkey Fiction 00:27:41.200 --> 00:27:43.720 on this show because they had an event prior 00:27:43.720 --> 00:27:45.359 to Comic -Con that I want to talk about a little 00:27:45.359 --> 00:27:47.359 bit. But when you're talking about things like 00:27:47.359 --> 00:27:52.220 that, you're buying that product because it's 00:27:52.220 --> 00:27:56.099 a good product. But with mass market retail figures, 00:27:56.359 --> 00:28:00.079 I feel like you're buying it because it's the 00:28:00.079 --> 00:28:03.950 best value for that character. Like for this 00:28:03.950 --> 00:28:06.450 price, this is the best Spider -Man I can get. 00:28:06.769 --> 00:28:09.630 You know what I mean? Whereas those other things, 00:28:09.690 --> 00:28:12.609 there's more of a connection with the actual 00:28:12.609 --> 00:28:16.869 product than just this is an inexpensive way 00:28:16.869 --> 00:28:21.829 to get, you know, havoc. Yeah, like when we did 00:28:21.829 --> 00:28:25.549 our last episode, Shwek and I talked about the 00:28:25.549 --> 00:28:28.809 Malice Marvel Legends figure, right? As part 00:28:28.809 --> 00:28:33.410 of their Magic the Gathering wave. And it was 00:28:33.410 --> 00:28:37.160 a $40 figure. And I thought... This is a figure 00:28:37.160 --> 00:28:39.640 that I've wanted so badly for so long. I never 00:28:39.640 --> 00:28:42.640 thought they'd make. I can flip that magic card. 00:28:42.740 --> 00:28:46.259 That magic card is going for like $12. It really 00:28:46.259 --> 00:28:49.039 only knocks her down. It only knocks her down 00:28:49.039 --> 00:28:51.900 to like a $30 figure. And I got to tell you. 00:28:52.200 --> 00:28:55.799 Regular price. It's regular price, but I still 00:28:55.799 --> 00:29:03.470 feel like I got ripped off. I canceled her. It's 00:29:03.470 --> 00:29:05.250 one of the first Marvel Legends figures where 00:29:05.250 --> 00:29:09.789 I opened it and I was so excited. And that excitement 00:29:09.789 --> 00:29:13.809 very quickly went away. I love the figure itself. 00:29:14.269 --> 00:29:18.950 But I was like, how are they justifying charging 00:29:18.950 --> 00:29:25.029 essentially $20, you know, $10, whatever it is, 00:29:25.049 --> 00:29:28.470 making this a $40 figure when in reality, this 00:29:28.470 --> 00:29:33.539 is a $20 figure at most. masters of the universe 00:29:33.539 --> 00:29:37.980 um they don't uh they don't call it masterverse 00:29:37.980

--> 00:29:40.839 anymore what is it new eternia chronicles chronicles 00:29:40.839 --> 00:29:46.359 they come with more than what she did and they're 00:29:46.359 --> 00:29:50.240 23 dollar figures yeah mattel has been a little 00:29:50.240 --> 00:29:52.519 better about because like right now i think the 00:29:52.519 --> 00:29:56.299 wwe stuff is 25 those chronicles are 20 22 99 00:29:56.299 --> 00:30:01.230 or 23 or whatever like mattel seems to be a little 00:30:01.230 --> 00:30:05.900 less ridiculous with the pricing so far. Yeah. 00:30:06.220 --> 00:30:08.680 Well, and that Mal's figure is a perfect example. 00:30:08.900 --> 00:30:12.900 Like I found her in GameStop. And so I had her 00:30:12.900 --> 00:30:15.000 in my hands. I probably looked like a crazy person 00:30:15.000 --> 00:30:17.200 because I was like standing there just staring 00:30:17.200 --> 00:30:19.940 at it. And I remember the thought going through 00:30:19.940 --> 00:30:23.619 my head, like, what are you doing? Like $40 for 00:30:23.619 --> 00:30:27.180 this, you're out of your mind. Yeah. And it's 00:30:27.180 --> 00:30:29.789 a figure I've wanted for years. That's funny. 00:30:29.809 --> 00:30:31.829 I said something very similar last night talking 00:30:31.829 --> 00:30:33.990 about the pile of stuff I had to review. I looked 00:30:33.990 --> 00:30:36.089 at it and like tallied it up in my head and I 00:30:36.089 --> 00:30:41.329 was like, this is dumb. This is really just not 00:30:41.400 --> 00:30:45.490 because it's we're beyond the point of, oh, this 00:30:45.490 --> 00:30:47.549 character is cool. I'll buy that figure like 00:30:47.549 --> 00:30:51.109 this is now a financial commitment. And it's 00:30:51.109 --> 00:30:52.990 not just about the pricing. It's also about the 00:30:52.990 --> 00:30:57.049 price of everything else being so high, which 00:30:57.049 --> 00:31:01.190 hopefully. uh in about a month's time we'll start 00:31:01.190 --> 00:31:04.569 fixing that situation everybody go vote i went 00:31:04.569 --> 00:31:07.069 and voted today took took uh riley to vote for 00:31:07.069 --> 00:31:10.609 the first time oh awesome and there was this 00:31:10.609 --> 00:31:13.490 is the first day of early voting in georgia and 00:31:13.490 --> 00:31:19.150 there was a line people are angry and rightfully 00:31:19.150 --> 00:31:23.279 so uh so yeah but the pricing thing is even if 00:31:23.279 --> 00:31:25.740 we do manage to over the next couple of years 00:31:25.740 --> 00:31:29.000 fix the problem that caused all this high pricing 00:31:29.000 --> 00:31:34.180 it's not going away in that time it's going to 00:31:34.180 --> 00:31:38.980 be five years or longer before pricing really 00:31:38.980 --> 00:31:41.660 comes back down if it ever does i don't think 00:31:41.660 --> 00:31:44.269 they ever will be dealing with i don't either 00:31:44.269 --> 00:31:48.039 well i think there is a possibility of it but 00:31:48.039 --> 00:31:49.779 a lot of things have to happen

just right and 00:31:49.779 --> 00:31:54.140 i will say this uh if we do fix the problem that 00:31:54.140 --> 00:31:57.890 caused all of this You cannot take your foot 00:31:57.890 --> 00:32:01.170 off the gas. There's no breathing a sigh of relief. 00:32:01.470 --> 00:32:04.990 We have to keep going. We have to keep pushing 00:32:04.990 --> 00:32:08.569 because returning to the previous status quo 00:32:08.569 --> 00:32:10.789 was not the answer. We've got to actually make 00:32:10.789 --> 00:32:13.349 progress after everything these people broke. 00:32:14.160 --> 00:32:18.960 But anyway, on to other things. Speaking of things 00:32:18.960 --> 00:32:21.809 that people broke. Later we'll be talking about 00:32:21.809 --> 00:32:28.170 the DCA line of action figures. So there are 00:32:28.170 --> 00:32:29.509 a couple of things that I want to talk about 00:32:29.509 --> 00:32:32.049 that happened before New York Comic Con. First, 00:32:32.289 --> 00:32:35.470 I want to mention this excellent Kickstarter 00:32:35.470 --> 00:32:39.789 from Wandering Planet Toys. Christian, I'm sure 00:32:39.789 --> 00:32:43.269 you've seen this. Yes. The Planetoid Raiders. 00:32:43.869 --> 00:32:46.630 If you're watching live with us, I've got an 00:32:46.630 --> 00:32:49.369 image of eight. Now, there are many more characters 00:32:49.369 --> 00:32:51.289 than this, but these are the eight primary characters 00:32:51.289 --> 00:32:54.450 up on the screen. This Kickstarter is wonderful. 00:32:54.690 --> 00:32:57.309 Word Burglar contributed a song and a figure 00:32:57.309 --> 00:33:00.049 design, which you can order his figure design 00:33:00.049 --> 00:33:02.930 from this Kickstarter, which is what got me. 00:33:03.250 --> 00:33:05.450 I ended up getting his and a couple of other 00:33:05.450 --> 00:33:07.730 figures. And before this is done, I might get 00:33:07.730 --> 00:33:10.769 some more. But these are retro five point of 00:33:10.769 --> 00:33:13.700 articulation, just really wild. weird looking 00:33:13.700 --> 00:33:18.839 space creatures. But check out the planetoid 00:33:18.839 --> 00:33:21.720 Raiders Kickstarter. There are two more days 00:33:21.720 --> 00:33:26.440 to get involved. The figures are, I want to say 00:33:26.440 --> 00:33:28.619 they're 25 bucks a piece, which is about, you 00:33:28.619 --> 00:33:30.619 know, for this size figure about what you're 00:33:30.619 --> 00:33:32.839 looking at nowadays, but they're just so odd. 00:33:32.960 --> 00:33:35.079 I had to get in on this one. So I wanted to bring 00:33:35.079 --> 00:33:37.460 this to everybody's attention. So go check it 00:33:37.460 --> 00:33:43.190 out and related from the same. From Wandering 00:33:43.190 --> 00:33:47.079 Planet Toys, launching very soon, Cryptid Combat, 00:33:47.480 --> 00:33:50.400 which this one is not going to be Kickstarter. 00:33:50.599 --> 00:33:53.940 This is a backer kit funded, which, honestly, 00:33:54.180 --> 00:33:56.420 I don't know the hows and whys

of why it's a 00:33:56.420 --> 00:33:58.500 different thing. I'm hoping to talk to the creator 00:33:58.500 --> 00:34:02.640 on this one. This is a new soft vinyl toy project. 00:34:02.880 --> 00:34:06.660 When cryptids battle, who will win? Lovecraft's 00:34:06.660 --> 00:34:09.659 immortal Elder God Cthulhu versus the Mothman 00:34:09.659 --> 00:34:14.170 as the Ultimoth Warrior. These 5 -inch soft vinyl 00:34:14.170 --> 00:34:17.269 Sufubi -style monster toys come from beyond and 00:34:17.269 --> 00:34:21.150 from sculptor Phil Velikan to battle on your 00:34:21.150 --> 00:34:24.250 toy shelf. Now, Christian, I'm sure you can tell 00:34:24.250 --> 00:34:28.010 me, did I pronounce Sufubi correctly? Yes. Yay! 00:34:28.690 --> 00:34:32.230 Good for me. I mean, that's not even a fight. 00:34:34.090 --> 00:34:36.070 No, I mean, it really is. I'm going to sit in 00:34:36.070 --> 00:34:42.559 the corner and start crying in madness. But Cryptid 00:34:42.559 --> 00:34:45.760 Combat, another awesome... And it looks like 00:34:45.760 --> 00:34:47.739 it's just these two figures, which is very cool. 00:34:47.860 --> 00:34:50.079 I like it. Which may be the difference between 00:34:50.079 --> 00:34:52.059 this being a backer kit and a Kickstarter, that 00:34:52.059 --> 00:34:54.780 it's just two figures. But they look really cool. 00:34:54.860 --> 00:34:56.679 Check out pictures online if you're just listening 00:34:56.679 --> 00:34:59.340 to this and not watching it live on the Needless 00:34:59.340 --> 00:35:02.079 Things YouTube channel. Very excited to see these 00:35:02.079 --> 00:35:06.780 come along. All right. Got a little follow -up. 00:35:06.940 --> 00:35:10.000 We did our San Diego Comic -Con episode, and 00:35:10.000 --> 00:35:12.849 there was one item out of... everything we talked 00:35:12.849 --> 00:35:17.590 about that I knew I was going to buy 100%, no 00:35:17.590 --> 00:35:20.650 doubt in my mind. And that was the live Morgan 00:35:20.650 --> 00:35:24.090 and Chucky two pack from Mattel creations. I 00:35:24.090 --> 00:35:25.849 was so stoked for this thing because it actually 00:35:25.849 --> 00:35:30.389 comes from an episode of Chucky. So this, I mean, 00:35:30.409 --> 00:35:33.389 it was a no brainer. And once they revealed the 00:35:33.389 --> 00:35:35.650 full details, it was like even cooler than I 00:35:35.650 --> 00:35:36.849 thought it was going to be. They've all got, 00:35:36.869 --> 00:35:39.929 they've both got swappable face plates. Liv Morgan 00:35:39.929 --> 00:35:42.769 has, when you put cold water on her, blood appears. 00:35:43.250 --> 00:35:49.329 It's really a great set. But it was $65. And 00:35:49.329 --> 00:35:54.739 then with shipping and tax, it was $78. And I 00:35:54.739 --> 00:35:57.139 just decided, no, I guess I'm not going to get 00:35:57.139 --> 00:35:59.440 this. One, because that's too expensive. And 00:35:59.440 --> 00:36:01.719 two, because almost everything that gets put 00:36:01.719 --> 00:36:05.980 up on Mattel Creations ends up marked down, down 00:36:05.980 --> 00:36:09.289 the line. So I'm going to wait and see on this. 00:36:09.349 --> 00:36:10.809 I just want to do a little follow up because 00:36:10.809 --> 00:36:12.730 I was so excited about this set. And then I went 00:36:12.730 --> 00:36:15.829 to buy it and I was like, nah, not going to do 00:36:15.829 --> 00:36:24.829 it. I was like Ryan with the malice figure. It's 00:36:24.829 --> 00:36:27.170 a little more to talk about. Did you guys see 00:36:27.170 --> 00:36:30.070 Fresh Monkey Fiction's presentation at the Big 00:36:30.070 --> 00:36:32.710 Bad? It wasn't Big Bad Workshop. Was it Big Bad 00:36:32.710 --> 00:36:34.610 Storefront? It was like a physical location. 00:36:35.969 --> 00:36:40.170 I haven't had a chance to watch it yet, but I 00:36:40.170 --> 00:36:43.000 saw some photos. Yeah, and that's why we're just 00:36:43.000 --> 00:36:44.699 looking at the photos right now. We've got some 00:36:44.699 --> 00:36:46.679 tooling updates on some of the stuff they've 00:36:46.679 --> 00:36:48.920 been working on. Nothing new here, no big announcements, 00:36:49.059 --> 00:36:52.139 but it's just exciting to see progress. The Rocketeer 00:36:52.139 --> 00:36:54.400 stuff, especially that Betty Page Rocketeer, 00:36:54.400 --> 00:36:58.019 all very cool. Rocketeer is not really in my 00:36:58.019 --> 00:37:02.590 wheelhouse, but it's a license that seems to 00:37:02.590 --> 00:37:06.570 be like toy makers are very passionate about 00:37:06.570 --> 00:37:10.590 the Rocketeer. It seems like every time a new 00:37:10.590 --> 00:37:13.210 toy company starts to get like momentum, they 00:37:13.210 --> 00:37:15.989 pick up that Rocketeer license and then do one 00:37:15.989 --> 00:37:19.050 figure and find out that people don't buy Rocketeer 00:37:19.050 --> 00:37:21.889 toys and move on. But I think the people that 00:37:21.889 --> 00:37:24.949 do, I think it has like, it's a very small audience. 00:37:25.269 --> 00:37:30.889 That audience is dedicated. Yeah. So it's enough 00:37:30.889 --> 00:37:34.030 to get to, you know, to bring that, that cashflow 00:37:34.030 --> 00:37:37.940 in for your next project you want to do. And 00:37:37.940 --> 00:37:43.340 you've made the Rocketeer. It's like doing Popeye 00:37:43.340 --> 00:37:47.900 and the Phantom and Flash Gordon. Exactly. You're 00:37:47.900 --> 00:37:50.199 going to get what's left of the steampunk cosplay 00:37:50.199 --> 00:37:55.460 community. Wow, that's a good point. We really 00:37:55.460 --> 00:37:58.219 don't see them at DragonCon like we used to. 00:37:58.639 --> 00:38:07.400 They ran out of steam. Also saw Miranda Seek 00:38:07.400 --> 00:38:11.579 and the Order from Operation Monster Force. Again, 00:38:12.119 --> 00:38:15.659 just kind of tooling updates. Nice to see. Glad 00:38:15.659 --> 00:38:19.900 they're making progress. And by the way, I don't 00:38:19.900 --> 00:38:21.639 believe any of these have

gone up for pre -order 00:38:21.639 --> 00:38:25.510 yet. So we're just kind of following along. Although 00:38:25.510 --> 00:38:31.699 we did unlock multiple Santa today in the tick. 00:38:32.489 --> 00:38:40.980 ongoing a new warg figure little red riding hood 00:38:40.980 --> 00:38:43.739 minus the soft goods that i believe she's supposed 00:38:43.739 --> 00:38:48.119 to be coming with i'm so excited for that warg 00:38:48.119 --> 00:38:51.340 figure because if you look we are finally getting 00:38:51.340 --> 00:38:56.030 an alternate head with a closed mouth toy company 00:38:56.030 --> 00:38:59.530 you're right we need not every single werewolf 00:38:59.530 --> 00:39:03.030 head sculpt needs to make to look like they stepped 00:39:03.030 --> 00:39:06.130 on a lego i I'm going to have to get multiple 00:39:06.130 --> 00:39:10.929 of them because all of the ones they put out 00:39:10.929 --> 00:39:14.170 previously all have that open mouth. Well, I 00:39:14.170 --> 00:39:16.429 was so excited about the werewolves. And then 00:39:16.429 --> 00:39:18.289 once we got them, you realize it's all the same 00:39:18.289 --> 00:39:21.510 head. So I only have one on the shelf because 00:39:21.510 --> 00:39:26.280 I don't need four werewolves all going. Right. 00:39:29.389 --> 00:39:32.170 And then we've got the other tick figures, Arthur, 00:39:32.389 --> 00:39:35.880 Chairface, Chippendale, and Barry. all available 00:39:35.880 --> 00:39:38.260 for pre -order from big bad right now i pre -ordered 00:39:38.260 --> 00:39:42.159 all i will buy every tick thing they make yeah 00:39:42.320 --> 00:39:48.440 i mean they're the that tick figure is fantastic 00:39:48.440 --> 00:39:53.360 uh very excited about this line ongoing and this 00:39:53.360 --> 00:39:55.199 is clearly something that bill and company are 00:39:55.199 --> 00:39:57.719 passionate about because they have they've really 00:39:57.719 --> 00:40:00.219 done like once they got going they really dove 00:40:00.219 --> 00:40:02.480 into this because this is a You know, to all 00:40:02.480 --> 00:40:05.199 of a sudden have potentially five figures in 00:40:05.199 --> 00:40:12.610 the pipeline is pretty awesome. Actually, you 00:40:12.610 --> 00:40:14.130 know what? I take it back because we had seen 00:40:14.130 --> 00:40:17.110 Stay at Home Mom before because that's the one 00:40:17.110 --> 00:40:18.750 that I initially thought the portrait looked 00:40:18.750 --> 00:40:21.090 kind of like Jessica Biel. I don't know if we 00:40:21.090 --> 00:40:24.170 saw Goth Girl here, though. I don't think so. 00:40:24.909 --> 00:40:29.119 With her middle fingers. Right, right. They did 00:40:29.119 --> 00:40:31.019 all the cheerleaders that were part of the last 00:40:31.019 --> 00:40:37.070 or the first. crowd fun style pre -order thing 00:40:37.070 --> 00:40:39.630 uh but yeah i think goth girl was a new thing 00:40:39.630 --> 00:40:42.829 but i i could just be not recalling she's operating 00:40:42.829 --> 00:40:47.840 goth yeah well there's no color there she's more 00:40:47.840 --> 00:40:50.380 punk girl exactly the middle yeah you're right 00:40:50.380 --> 00:40:53.980 you're right more punk yeah you're right that's 00:40:54.139 --> 00:40:57.219 a good point she should look like uh molly shannon 00:40:57.219 --> 00:41:00.860 from goth talk oh my gosh i would buy goth talk 00:41:00.860 --> 00:41:06.309 figures in a second i absolutely would that would 00:41:06.309 --> 00:41:09.690 be great or i would buy the goths from portlandia 00:41:09.690 --> 00:41:14.730 yeah yeah well you know what it's weird because 00:41:14.730 --> 00:41:17.210 a few companies have had saturday night live 00:41:17.210 --> 00:41:20.369 figure lines over the years and i don't feel 00:41:20.369 --> 00:41:22.809 like anybody's really taken the best advantage 00:41:22.809 --> 00:41:27.690 of it uh let's see here i think we've got a couple 00:41:27.690 --> 00:41:30.849 more fresh monkey fiction oh the news anchors 00:41:34.099 --> 00:41:35.960 Glad to see those coming, although we're pretty 00:41:35.960 --> 00:41:37.960 familiar with that suit body by now. Isn't it 00:41:37.960 --> 00:41:41.480 funny to be excited about suit bodies? It's the 00:41:41.480 --> 00:41:48.019 trap jaw legs of fresh. It is. Yeah. Yeah. And 00:41:48.019 --> 00:41:51.719 then the Raven Society, Harry Houdini and Edgar 00:41:51.719 --> 00:41:54.599 Allan Poe. Now, Christian, I feel like you had 00:41:54.599 --> 00:41:57.539 more information about these than I had at San 00:41:57.539 --> 00:42:04.139 Diego Comic -Con. Yeah, but right now, my brain. 00:42:04.440 --> 00:42:08.539 You had a long day. yes you you're are you gonna 00:42:08.539 --> 00:42:15.159 are you gonna uh chalk today up as a w if you 00:42:15.159 --> 00:42:18.860 know you know if you know you know uh well inside 00:42:18.860 --> 00:42:22.400 baseball there and then the uh frank einstein 00:42:22.400 --> 00:42:25.500 madman figure and i think that that's the hunter 00:42:25.500 --> 00:42:27.460 rose grundle right because that's right off the 00:42:27.460 --> 00:42:33.050 cover so fresh monkey fiction just doing really 00:42:33.050 --> 00:42:37.760 cool stuff and yep At an independent toy company 00:42:37.760 --> 00:42:41.139 pace. And again, figures I will pay more for 00:42:41.139 --> 00:42:45.820 because they're so well done. Yes. Yeah, they're 00:42:45.820 --> 00:42:50.059 so well done. Right, right. If you want a Grendel 00:42:50.059 --> 00:42:52.260 figure, this is where you're going to get a Grendel 00:42:52.260 --> 00:42:54.519 figure. There aren't like options. There's not 00:42:54.519 --> 00:42:57.300 a huge history of Grendel figures. Although I 00:42:57.300 --> 00:43:00.539 will say, and I've said this many times on the 00:43:00.539 --> 00:43:04.960 show, Big Shot Toys. massively underrated action 00:43:04.960 --> 00:43:07.739 figures. I think Diamond bought them out, but 00:43:07.739 --> 00:43:12.320 they did Gravel, Mage,

Madman, Jay and Silent 00:43:12.320 --> 00:43:15.900 Bob. They were those 8 -inch figures. Yeah, yeah, 00:43:15.900 --> 00:43:19.699 yeah. Those were really good. Fantastic figures. 00:43:19.920 --> 00:43:23.579 I've still got all mine. Unfortunately, the ones 00:43:23.579 --> 00:43:25.980 that have white on them have yellowed pretty 00:43:25.980 --> 00:43:29.960 badly. But up until a couple years ago, they 00:43:29.960 --> 00:43:35.809 were still producing Jay and Silent Bob, Grendel. 00:43:36.409 --> 00:43:40.019 I think they might have done another run of Mage. 00:43:40.139 --> 00:43:42.619 I'm not positive. So, I mean, they made a lot 00:43:42.619 --> 00:43:44.500 of them, so they may potentially still be out 00:43:44.500 --> 00:43:46.699 there for reasonable prices. And they're excellent 00:43:46.699 --> 00:43:50.880 action figures. So that's it for Fresh Monkey 00:43:50.880 --> 00:43:54.360 Fiction. Just go check them out. Big Bad Workshop, 00:43:54.619 --> 00:43:56.300 Big Bad Toy Store is the best place to follow 00:43:56.300 --> 00:43:58.059 what they're doing and to get in on it if you 00:43:58.059 --> 00:43:59.659 see anything you like and want to pre -order. 00:44:01.510 --> 00:44:04.590 So this is not in the notes, but I wanted to 00:44:04.590 --> 00:44:07.989 get you guys reaction to this because it really 00:44:07.989 --> 00:44:12.949 something about this figure really is just blowing 00:44:12.949 --> 00:44:17.349 me away. Have you guys seen this in arts? Dark 00:44:17.349 --> 00:44:22.909 Knight Returns Batman. I have not seen it. That's 00:44:22.909 --> 00:44:26.889 nice, though. It is. I have either. Beautiful. 00:44:27.349 --> 00:44:31.639 So in arts, I believe, is a. a more recently 00:44:31.639 --> 00:44:35.539 started company. And this seems to be what they're 00:44:35.539 --> 00:44:41.099 doing. It's almost like they're in the same company 00:44:41.099 --> 00:44:43.940 as like Mezco 112 and some of the other stuff 00:44:43.940 --> 00:44:46.699 like that, only they're just using the soft goods 00:44:46.699 --> 00:44:49.300 for the cape. But I mean, the sculpting on this 00:44:49.300 --> 00:44:53.340 thing, the thickness of it, the size of it, this 00:44:53.340 --> 00:44:56.159 figure is gorgeous. Now, it is very expensive. 00:44:56.679 --> 00:44:59.280 And I forgot, wait, did I put the price in here? 00:44:59.360 --> 00:45:02.880 Hang on. no i forgot to put the price in here 00:45:02.880 --> 00:45:08.550 uh it's it's over a hundo let's see hang on i'm 00:45:08.550 --> 00:45:11.550 looking it up right now because i want to i want 00:45:11.550 --> 00:45:13.510 to have the information here is it six eight 00:45:13.510 --> 00:45:18.849 it's one it's 112 yeah it's 180 it's 112 scale 00:45:18.849 --> 00:45:24.519 uh but it's the way that it's articulated and 00:45:24.519 --> 00:45:26.679 the way that the articulation works into the 00:45:26.679 --> 00:45:30.659 sculpt and just everything about it uh I'm very, 00:45:30.719 --> 00:45:33.960 very impressed, but I am certainly not paying 00:45:33.960 --> 00:45:37.519 $180 for a one 12th scale action figure. No, 00:45:37.519 --> 00:45:40.139 you can get like three Marvel legends for that 00:45:40.139 --> 00:45:47.900 much. So in art, okay. In art started with some, 00:45:47.900 --> 00:45:52.730 some of those animal type figures. Well, they've 00:45:52.730 --> 00:45:56.309 done a Joker before. Oh, wait, everything here 00:45:56.309 --> 00:46:00.809 is a pre -order. That's not a great sign. That 00:46:00.809 --> 00:46:05.079 fills me with confidence. Now, it says Queen 00:46:05.079 --> 00:46:07.400 Studios. I'm wondering if that's Randy Queen 00:46:07.400 --> 00:46:12.170 that used to do, I think, a lot of sculpting. 00:46:14.840 --> 00:46:16.679 I'm not positive. We're getting into territory 00:46:16.679 --> 00:46:18.300 that I really don't know what I'm talking about. 00:46:18.460 --> 00:46:25.599 Okay, that Wukong monkey god action figure. Christian, 00:46:25.679 --> 00:46:27.039 you may remember this one. Hang on, I'm going 00:46:27.039 --> 00:46:32.929 to do a screen share so you can see this. Let's 00:46:32.929 --> 00:46:45.340 see. Yep. That's the same company. Yeah, I just 00:46:45.340 --> 00:46:52.010 looked them up and there's a Wonder Woman statue 00:46:52.010 --> 00:46:56.820 from the first movie that they had sculpted. 00:46:57.710 --> 00:47:01.409 Okay. So, yeah. So they've been around. Figures 00:47:01.409 --> 00:47:04.030 may be a slightly more recent thing for them. 00:47:04.070 --> 00:47:06.190 But whatever the case, this thing just blew me 00:47:06.190 --> 00:47:09.070 away. It looks incredible. It's really the proportions, 00:47:09.349 --> 00:47:14.710 the size of it are so cool. So now let's get. 00:47:15.099 --> 00:47:17.679 into New York Comic Con stuff, and the first 00:47:17.679 --> 00:47:20.719 thing I want to talk about, we're going to pour 00:47:20.719 --> 00:47:27.929 a glass out, acknowledge the loss of DC Comics 00:47:27.929 --> 00:47:32.230 to poor old Todd McFarlane, but Todd McFarlane 00:47:32.230 --> 00:47:35.369 is bouncing back with a huge announcement that 00:47:35.369 --> 00:47:42.650 in 2027, McFarlane Toys is going pinless. Wow. 00:47:43.590 --> 00:47:47.860 I mean, Like on the one hand, welcome to 2023. 00:47:48.679 --> 00:47:54.079 But on the other hand, finally. But for an image 00:47:54.079 --> 00:47:58.920 founder, being this late to the game is par for 00:47:58.920 --> 00:48:06.150 the course. He missed a few deadlines, huh? But 00:48:06.150 --> 00:48:10.590 this is legitimately exciting news because. I 00:48:10.590 --> 00:48:13.409 have other problems with the way McFarlane makes 00:48:13.409 --> 00:48:18.289 figures, but that was the biggest one. So I guess 00:48:18.289 --> 00:48:20.090 a couple of new Spawn figures were announced, 00:48:20.230 --> 00:48:25.210 but that's next year's releases, penniless. So 00:48:25.210 --> 00:48:27.889 just in time to not have DC anymore,

they'll 00:48:27.889 --> 00:48:31.190 be moving to that. And what I wanted to ask you 00:48:31.190 --> 00:48:34.980 guys, well, one. Is everything just going to 00:48:34.980 --> 00:48:37.340 be $50 now? Because both of those new Spawn figures 00:48:37.340 --> 00:48:41.719 are $50. They've got that new Elite style they're 00:48:41.719 --> 00:48:44.219 doing that are $50, like the God of War figure 00:48:44.219 --> 00:48:47.639 and some of the video game figures they're doing 00:48:47.639 --> 00:48:50.579 are $50 figures. Do you think that's just going 00:48:50.579 --> 00:48:52.420 to be their price? Oh, the Image figures are 00:48:52.420 --> 00:48:56.219 all $50. Is that just going to be the price point? 00:48:56.460 --> 00:48:59.159 Because that's crazy. I saw one of the Image 00:48:59.159 --> 00:49:05.650 figures at a Walmart recently. I didn't pay attention 00:49:05.650 --> 00:49:07.869 to the price because I have no interest in them. 00:49:11.260 --> 00:49:14.539 If they had just done them. I hope he has a dedicated 00:49:14.539 --> 00:49:19.519 fan base. He does. He does. And I think the Venn 00:49:19.519 --> 00:49:24.320 diagram of Snyder Bros and McFarlane Bros is 00:49:24.320 --> 00:49:28.039 a circle. Yeah. Because it seems like the same 00:49:28.039 --> 00:49:35.250 kinds of people crazily defending. those things 00:49:35.250 --> 00:49:37.690 in the same way Mattel should have just let him 00:49:37.690 --> 00:49:40.489 keep that license like they'll take all of DC 00:49:40.489 --> 00:49:48.320 except for the Snyderverse so but this is exciting 00:49:48.320 --> 00:49:51.139 because there are some things if he does them 00:49:51.139 --> 00:49:52.800 at a reasonable price like those image figures 00:49:52.800 --> 00:49:54.519 if those were just regular price if they were 00:49:54.519 --> 00:49:57.320 25 bucks and they were penniless I would have 00:49:57.320 --> 00:49:59.119 bought them because that's a nostalgia point 00:49:59.119 --> 00:50:02.190 for me like Shadowhawk Savage Dragon if he could 00:50:02.190 --> 00:50:06.329 do Wildcats, like I'd get that stuff. Cause that 00:50:06.329 --> 00:50:10.230 was like, I was in it then, you know? Yeah. I 00:50:10.230 --> 00:50:13.329 would definitely get those Wildcat figures. That'd 00:50:13.329 --> 00:50:15.369 be great. Well, if they looked like the originals 00:50:15.369 --> 00:50:18.190 and not like some of the newer designs that I, 00:50:18.230 --> 00:50:21.630 honestly, I don't know what business wise, I 00:50:21.630 --> 00:50:23.730 don't know what's better for them to make, but 00:50:23.730 --> 00:50:26.730 Dave wise, I want the ones that I actually recognize. 00:50:27.349 --> 00:50:31.519 Although does DC own. Oh, DC does own Wildstorms. 00:50:31.960 --> 00:50:37.480 All the Wildstorms. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, 00:50:37.480 --> 00:50:40.380 there's a limit to what he can. Although, potentially, 00:50:40.760 --> 00:50:44.300 I don't know. Maybe it's not worth speculating 00:50:44.300 --> 00:50:49.909 on. But what I wanted to ask you guys, having 00:50:50.199 --> 00:50:53.460 lost the DC license, obviously McFarlane needs 00:50:53.460 --> 00:50:57.809 to have something lined up to replace that revenue 00:50:57.809 --> 00:51:01.889 stream. are some big licenses he could potentially 00:51:01.889 --> 00:51:04.670 go after or perhaps already have and be ready 00:51:04.670 --> 00:51:08.269 to announce. I think the smart things going, 00:51:08.409 --> 00:51:13.090 the smart thing for him is to just continue outside 00:51:13.090 --> 00:51:15.230 of like whatever spawn stuff he does. But if 00:51:15.230 --> 00:51:17.949 we're talking about like IP outside of, of his 00:51:17.949 --> 00:51:24.389 studio, just turn out a video game figures, do 00:51:24.389 --> 00:51:29.559 the God of war do, you know, because again, It 00:51:29.559 --> 00:51:31.679 may not be a massive audience that's going to 00:51:31.679 --> 00:51:33.980 carry wave after wave after wave of figures, 00:51:34.099 --> 00:51:37.340 but they're going to buy that Kratos because 00:51:37.340 --> 00:51:40.820 it's an awesome looking Kratos. And then, okay, 00:51:40.880 --> 00:51:44.510 boom. Now you can, you know, make the next thing 00:51:44.510 --> 00:51:47.210 that you want to, but it's like make one really 00:51:47.210 --> 00:51:52.309 cool kick butt figure from this game or two and 00:51:52.309 --> 00:51:56.150 move on to the next one. That was actually along 00:51:56.150 --> 00:51:58.510 the lines of what I was going to say is I think 00:51:58.510 --> 00:52:02.989 he needs to go hard after video games that aren't 00:52:02.989 --> 00:52:07.090 being serviced with action figures, toys, other 00:52:07.090 --> 00:52:11.449 licensed stuff like that. And like, for example, 00:52:11.670 --> 00:52:14.449 there's a new Resident Evil game coming out sometime 00:52:14.449 --> 00:52:17.050 in the next year or so. If he could get that 00:52:17.050 --> 00:52:21.489 Resident Evil license and finally deliver, look, 00:52:21.630 --> 00:52:26.250 do. his weird seven inch scale do little page 00:52:26.250 --> 00:52:28.969 punchers so you can just make tons of zombies 00:52:28.969 --> 00:52:32.670 like get that license do every scale you can 00:52:32.670 --> 00:52:35.789 and people would lose their minds because resident 00:52:35.789 --> 00:52:40.309 evil is a bizarrely underserved audience as far 00:52:40.309 --> 00:52:45.210 as merchandise goes yeah i mean i think min farland's 00:52:45.210 --> 00:52:48.230 gonna have to reposition himself again back to 00:52:48.789 --> 00:52:52.769 a purely collector line focus like he's moving 00:52:52.769 --> 00:52:54.829 off the main aisle of target and he's moving 00:52:54.829 --> 00:52:58.130 to the back wall and so he's gonna have to get 00:52:58.130 --> 00:53:03.289 higher i guess premium figures for more licenses 00:53:03.289 --> 00:53:08.090 and and i don't know what kind of license he 00:53:08.090 --> 00:53:10.369 could even because a video no

video game license 00:53:10.369 --> 00:53:13.070 i i don't think because he had fortnite for a 00:53:13.070 --> 00:53:16.190 while and that's that's gone now I don't know 00:53:16.190 --> 00:53:18.489 that there's a video game license that gets him 00:53:18.489 --> 00:53:24.170 back into the actual toy aisle. They would never 00:53:24.170 --> 00:53:29.880 do it. But if somehow or other he could convince 00:53:29.880 --> 00:53:34.340 Nintendo to do Twisted Nintendo like he used 00:53:34.340 --> 00:53:37.400 to do with all those figures in the 90s and early 00:53:37.400 --> 00:53:42.639 2000s. Like, here's Twisted Kid Icarus and Ice 00:53:42.639 --> 00:53:47.250 Climbers. So you want... Princess Peach all chained 00:53:47.250 --> 00:53:51.989 up with a mask on and Toad pulling on her. You're 00:53:51.989 --> 00:53:54.469 looking for some figures you buy and don't make 00:53:54.469 --> 00:53:59.610 eye contact with. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I like Zelda. 00:54:01.690 --> 00:54:07.070 So that's McFarlane's news out of New York Comic 00:54:07.070 --> 00:54:09.849 Con. And look, regardless of how I feel about 00:54:09.849 --> 00:54:11.969 some of the decisions that that company makes. 00:54:12.539 --> 00:54:15.460 as far as how they make figures, I will always 00:54:15.460 --> 00:54:17.219 respect them for their place in the industry 00:54:17.219 --> 00:54:19.460 and for how they've gotten us to where we are 00:54:19.460 --> 00:54:25.130 today. Next up, we've got some Marvel Legends 00:54:25.130 --> 00:54:28.949 stuff that I want to talk about. You guys, what 00:54:28.949 --> 00:54:33.059 the heck is this? Garbage is what that is. Ooh, 00:54:33.320 --> 00:54:37.219 don't hold back. Look how awful. So concept, 00:54:37.300 --> 00:54:41.559 concept do? The movie's not even out yet and 00:54:41.559 --> 00:54:45.510 we're doing concept figures? It's a concept of 00:54:45.510 --> 00:54:49.309 a sale. Here's my gut on this one. From what 00:54:49.309 --> 00:54:52.070 I have seen, this is, like they said, the original 00:54:52.070 --> 00:54:55.409 concept of Doom. I think this is one of the first 00:54:55.409 --> 00:54:59.590 figures they went to produce. And so they had 00:54:59.590 --> 00:55:04.980 the sculpt already. And plans changed. Yep. Oh, 00:55:05.219 --> 00:55:12.210 okay. And do you think... They might have, which 00:55:12.210 --> 00:55:14.630 it's really funny if this is the case, which 00:55:14.630 --> 00:55:17.429 it probably isn't. It's funny that they actually 00:55:17.429 --> 00:55:19.530 are making a figure of this. Do you think they 00:55:19.530 --> 00:55:22.110 diverted from this look because of the militaristic 00:55:22.110 --> 00:55:27.119 sort of fascist looking uniform? And they were 00:55:27.119 --> 00:55:28.659 like, maybe we don't want to put that in the 00:55:28.659 --> 00:55:34.469 movie. Possibly. I think they wanted to make 00:55:34.469 --> 00:55:40.769 doom more. Do me sorcerer. Do me. Yeah. And one 00:55:40.769 --> 00:55:42.429 of the reasons I think this too, like if you 00:55:42.429 --> 00:55:45.489 look at the mask and fantastic four in the post 00:55:45.489 --> 00:55:49.969 credit scenes, it is very different from the 00:55:49.969 --> 00:55:52.730 mask we've seen in the trailer. And it looks 00:55:52.730 --> 00:55:56.670 more plain like this one does. Yeah. Yeah. That's 00:55:56.670 --> 00:55:59.250 a good point. Well, I know. Yeah. If he's got 00:55:59.250 --> 00:56:01.809 his three, look, we're going to go, we're going 00:56:01.809 --> 00:56:04.010 to do a little speculation here. This isn't spoilers 00:56:04.010 --> 00:56:05.650 because none of us know anything about anything. 00:56:06.500 --> 00:56:09.059 So have you seen that? I think it's a European 00:56:09.059 --> 00:56:12.539 movie poster with Doom with the three, apparently 00:56:12.539 --> 00:56:15.599 like witches behind him. Yeah. Yeah. They've 00:56:15.599 --> 00:56:17.639 shown the witch costumes were on display at San 00:56:17.639 --> 00:56:21.800 Diego. Yeah. Okay. So I'm assuming one of them 00:56:21.800 --> 00:56:24.599 is the red one is probably Wanda, right? Yeah. 00:56:24.679 --> 00:56:29.960 Most people think it's Wanda, Clea, and who's 00:56:29.960 --> 00:56:36.769 the other one? Oh, Sylvie. Then there is in the 00:56:36.769 --> 00:56:40.690 trailer, a fourth one we know about. Oh my gosh. 00:56:40.710 --> 00:56:43.409 The fourth one is a male and has an indention 00:56:43.409 --> 00:56:46.170 in the middle of his forehead. And so people 00:56:46.170 --> 00:56:49.340 think that's strange, which would follow through 00:56:49.340 --> 00:56:54.090 the horse that he works for. Okay. Interesting. 00:56:55.119 --> 00:57:00.250 So I, I love concept art. figures i really love 00:57:00.250 --> 00:57:01.730 what they've done with the sketchbook series 00:57:01.730 --> 00:57:03.949 and masters of the universe origins i just got 00:57:03.949 --> 00:57:06.789 the new man at arms and it's awesome have you 00:57:06.789 --> 00:57:11.110 guys seen that one yeah the big like blocky thick 00:57:11.110 --> 00:57:16.159 armor oh it's great um i do like to think though 00:57:16.159 --> 00:57:19.099 you're right like downey came out on set dressed 00:57:19.099 --> 00:57:23.079 in this and people went yeah right right yeah 00:57:23.079 --> 00:57:30.519 too much not now not now Yeah, I guess I would 00:57:30.519 --> 00:57:33.460 have to see it in live action because I literally 00:57:33.460 --> 00:57:36.780 am not trying to be sarcastic. This is the first 00:57:36.780 --> 00:57:43.940 time I have seen this image. Yeah, because anything, 00:57:44.400 --> 00:57:48.869 I'm excited to see the movie. And I say that 00:57:48.869 --> 00:57:52.489 with as much excitement in my voice as I am to 00:57:52.489 --> 00:57:57.230 see the movie. But anything, any Marvel Legend 00:57:57.230 --> 00:58:00.300 figures related to the movie? I just skipped 00:58:00.300 --> 00:58:02.340 right past because I wanted to see what stuff

00:58:02.340 --> 00:58:06.880 based around the comics. I see what I see this. 00:58:07.300 --> 00:58:10.679 And I again, I'm not trying to be sarcastic. 00:58:11.360 --> 00:58:17.760 I see Smoking Jacket Wonder Man like that. That's 00:58:17.760 --> 00:58:21.159 that sculpt. And I'm just like, they just took 00:58:21.159 --> 00:58:26.900 some extra gold pieces or yellow even. um not 00:58:26.900 --> 00:58:31.260 really yeah the yellow is slapped it on it yeah 00:58:31.260 --> 00:58:34.559 the yellow is not great the black pants are not 00:58:34.559 --> 00:58:38.440 great yeah but my point was this is just an interesting 00:58:38.440 --> 00:58:40.880 thing to be coming out and and to be clear i 00:58:40.880 --> 00:58:44.179 am very excited for that movie now i understand 00:58:44.179 --> 00:58:49.159 that excitement may not be warranted but i mean 00:58:49.159 --> 00:58:51.519 i'm i'm hyped just because of how crazy it looks 00:58:53.130 --> 00:58:56.389 uh all right next up i was very excited to see 00:58:56.389 --> 00:59:00.219 this friendly neighborhood spider -man spider 00:59:00.219 --> 00:59:04.820 -man and rhino two -pack because they had this 00:59:04.820 --> 00:59:07.360 spider -man kind of stuck in the display throughout 00:59:07.360 --> 00:59:10.079 the weekend it kept moving around and as soon 00:59:10.079 --> 00:59:14.349 as i saw it i didn't i didn't necessarily think 00:59:14.349 --> 00:59:17.750 oh it's it's that spider -man i just thought 00:59:17.750 --> 00:59:20.369 i really really like that spider -man because 00:59:20.369 --> 00:59:24.769 i like a skinnier like i like more of a a younger 00:59:24.769 --> 00:59:27.530 spider -man i just that look is because everybody's 00:59:27.530 --> 00:59:29.769 big and muscular you like a younger gentleman 00:59:29.769 --> 00:59:35.150 when spider -man gets big and muscular he just 00:59:35.150 --> 00:59:38.769 looks like everybody else you know it's nice 00:59:38.769 --> 00:59:42.050 when he looks different from all the other superheroes 00:59:42.050 --> 00:59:44.449 so this and it looks great it's got unmasked 00:59:44.449 --> 00:59:47.730 uh an unmasked portrait got two different portraits 00:59:47.730 --> 00:59:50.739 for rhino It is very much in the cartoon style, 00:59:50.960 --> 00:59:52.780 so this is not something, well, for me, this 00:59:52.780 --> 00:59:54.719 is not something that would blend with my Marvel 00:59:54.719 --> 00:59:57.280 Legends, but I think they look great. Have you 00:59:57.280 --> 01:00:02.960 seen the production photos of them using the 01:00:02.960 --> 01:00:07.260 web with this set? No, no, I haven't. It is great. 01:00:07.340 --> 01:00:11.400 So the web is designed, the several pieces to 01:00:11.400 --> 01:00:14.179 stick on Rhino and for him to stand behind him 01:00:14.179 --> 01:00:17.929 and hold it like on the cartoon. Oh, wow. There 01:00:17.929 --> 01:00:20.929 was some good thought gone into how the set's 01:00:20.929 --> 01:00:26.909 designed. Well, and I love this because it has 01:00:26.909 --> 01:00:29.909 the cartoon aesthetics. They look different. 01:00:30.050 --> 01:00:33.929 They're more exciting, dynamic figures. It's 01:00:33.929 --> 01:00:36.230 a great cartoon, if you haven't watched it. Oh, 01:00:36.230 --> 01:00:38.269 it is. Oh, it's absolutely fantastic. And the 01:00:38.269 --> 01:00:43.360 second season, is it January? I think so. I think 01:00:43.360 --> 01:00:46.099 it's not super far off. Oh, you know what I just 01:00:46.099 --> 01:00:48.579 realized? As soon as we're done here, we've got 01:00:48.579 --> 01:00:50.340 a show to watch. Or I'm going to be watching 01:00:50.340 --> 01:00:53.820 it anyway. Two episodes. Two episodes, yeah. 01:00:54.829 --> 01:00:57.929 All right, and then one more Marvel Legends thing, 01:00:57.989 --> 01:01:00.489 unless you guys have something else. Well, your 01:01:00.489 --> 01:01:05.670 picks are different from this. So that's a pretty 01:01:05.670 --> 01:01:11.199 fast reissue, isn't it? Yeah. Or is that Wolverine 01:01:11.199 --> 01:01:15.739 older than I think it is? He's a little older, 01:01:15.880 --> 01:01:20.280 but it wasn't hard to get. And it was weird that 01:01:20.280 --> 01:01:24.039 they announced it by saying, this is your second 01:01:24.039 --> 01:01:26.360 chance to get them. But you're right. It's not 01:01:26.360 --> 01:01:33.170 that old. And do people still love Astonishing 01:01:33.170 --> 01:01:38.159 X -Men that much? I mean, I do. I mean, I like 01:01:38.159 --> 01:01:43.480 it. I know the problems involved with it now. 01:01:43.579 --> 01:01:46.900 But, I mean, I still have. It's another big nostalgia 01:01:46.900 --> 01:01:51.099 for me. You guys discussed Cyclops and Wolverine 01:01:51.099 --> 01:01:53.420 and their tumultuous relationship. I'll be right 01:01:53.420 --> 01:01:57.570 back. Well, people may not know, but Cyclops 01:01:57.570 --> 01:02:00.309 is my favorite Marvel hero. Are you serious? 01:02:00.690 --> 01:02:05.530 Yes. I don't mean that in a bad way. It's just, 01:02:05.610 --> 01:02:07.909 of all the years that I worked in comic shops, 01:02:08.369 --> 01:02:13.050 that is a very... I can probably count on one 01:02:13.050 --> 01:02:16.539 hand the number of people that would ever say 01:02:16.539 --> 01:02:20.380 that. Impressive. I get a lot of trash for it, 01:02:20.400 --> 01:02:25.079 but I love Cyclops. I just do. And this goes 01:02:25.079 --> 01:02:29.519 back before Astonishing, which is when people 01:02:29.519 --> 01:02:33.440 that do like Cyclops, it tends to have started 01:02:33.440 --> 01:02:36.579 there, but you were on the Cyclops bandwagon 01:02:36.579 --> 01:02:40.340 long before that. His powers are always on. He 01:02:40.340 --> 01:02:43.019 has to be straight laced because he's constantly 01:02:43.019 --> 01:02:45.460 shooting lasers from the punch dimension. And 01:02:45.460 --> 01:02:47.539 I don't care if they try to recon it. I love 01:02:47.539 -->

01:02:52.239 the punch dimension. Oh, let me tell you. Speaking 01:02:52.239 --> 01:02:56.199 of retcons, let me tell you the terrible retcon 01:02:56.199 --> 01:02:59.139 I came up with today. Riley and I were having 01:02:59.139 --> 01:03:02.019 lunch and just kind of throwing comic book ideas 01:03:02.019 --> 01:03:05.420 back and forth. I came up with the terrible retcon 01:03:05.420 --> 01:03:10.789 of Uncle Ben. didn't actually die he faked his 01:03:10.789 --> 01:03:14.130 own death to teach peter a lesson because he 01:03:14.130 --> 01:03:17.210 was so disgusted with how irresponsible peter 01:03:17.210 --> 01:03:20.769 was being so he's been alive this whole time 01:03:20.769 --> 01:03:24.309 hiding out so that spider -man could be the best 01:03:24.309 --> 01:03:27.269 hero he could be well i and i don't know if you 01:03:27.269 --> 01:03:29.429 keep up with comics do you know that aunt may 01:03:29.429 --> 01:03:33.510 has a son now that is alive And we just found 01:03:33.510 --> 01:03:36.389 him. It's something. We just found out that Dave 01:03:36.389 --> 01:03:41.389 has secretly billed Jemis all those years. So 01:03:41.389 --> 01:03:43.690 what I wanted to do was grab that Wolverine. 01:03:44.010 --> 01:03:47.150 And this is how recent that astonishing Wolverine 01:03:47.150 --> 01:03:49.809 is. This is the original, and it is penless. 01:03:50.349 --> 01:03:54.150 So it's not like that update is even fixing. 01:03:54.690 --> 01:03:56.510 And I understand they want to get it back out 01:03:56.510 --> 01:03:59.110 there, but it's not like it's even fixing a problem 01:03:59.110 --> 01:04:03.190 or anything. It's just... Let's put it back out. 01:04:03.909 --> 01:04:09.409 Actually, the quickest turnaround was the Marvel 01:04:09.409 --> 01:04:15.170 versus Capcom two -pack Psylocke that they did 01:04:15.170 --> 01:04:23.869 with less than a year. Any more Marvel Legends? 01:04:24.780 --> 01:04:28.039 Other than any picks you may have. There wasn't 01:04:28.039 --> 01:04:31.800 any new news that stuck out, like all the really 01:04:31.800 --> 01:04:36.230 cool stuff we saw earlier. Yeah, I mean, we got 01:04:36.230 --> 01:04:40.750 the X -Men 97 wave, which is... Oh, yeah, yeah. 01:04:41.730 --> 01:04:45.449 Fine. I really like X -Men 97. I'm just not getting 01:04:45.449 --> 01:04:49.309 the toys. No, and if... I did think that was 01:04:49.309 --> 01:04:51.489 a good thing for the people that want that version 01:04:51.489 --> 01:04:55.829 of Havoc and Polaris, because the secondary market 01:04:55.829 --> 01:04:59.489 figures on the X -Factor costume versions of 01:04:59.489 --> 01:05:03.570 them is still ridiculously high. So you just, 01:05:03.670 --> 01:05:06.230 you know, you... recently put out strong guy 01:05:06.230 --> 01:05:09.389 you put out wolf's pain in that that outfit so 01:05:09.389 --> 01:05:12.030 they're not going to completely match but you 01:05:12.030 --> 01:05:14.989 know if you don't want to pay 100 bucks yeah 01:05:15.050 --> 01:05:18.530 then you can pay close to 100 and that's that's 01:05:18.530 --> 01:05:21.329 my problem with the 97 stuff is i can't put it 01:05:21.329 --> 01:05:24.170 next aside from the sentinel i can't put it next 01:05:24.170 --> 01:05:27.869 to it's just too aesthetically different for 01:05:27.869 --> 01:05:33.409 me i want to talk about these the vintage collection 01:05:33.409 --> 01:05:37.849 three pack that was shown of Trapper Wolf, Carson 01:05:37.849 --> 01:05:41.710 Teva. And apparently her name is Frog Lady. Frog 01:05:41.710 --> 01:05:45.070 Lady. Yeah. Frog Lady. So this is something I 01:05:45.070 --> 01:05:47.929 would have bought in a second a few years ago, 01:05:48.030 --> 01:05:52.570 you know, back when this came out. But now my 01:05:52.570 --> 01:05:56.070 interest is, well, I already have a Carson Teva 01:05:56.070 --> 01:05:59.389 with the jacket, but I wouldn't be opposed to 01:05:59.389 --> 01:06:02.170 buying another one for 10 or 12 bucks. But this 01:06:02.170 --> 01:06:06.750 set's probably going to be $75. I don't have 01:06:06.750 --> 01:06:10.849 a... It'll come with a bent car. Oh, my gosh. 01:06:10.849 --> 01:06:14.190 Just shove it in a box. Unbelievable. If you're 01:06:14.190 --> 01:06:15.909 following Needless Things channel on Instagram, 01:06:16.030 --> 01:06:19.269 you can see how the last multi -pack I ordered 01:06:19.269 --> 01:06:24.929 arrived. And we don't... Interesting thing. All 01:06:24.929 --> 01:06:27.929 of the official Hasbro press release stuff that 01:06:27.929 --> 01:06:30.829 always gets sent out after these, no prices on 01:06:30.829 --> 01:06:37.719 anything this time. wise move but my guess is 01:06:37.719 --> 01:06:40.440 this is going to be like 70 75 bucks and yeah 01:06:40.440 --> 01:06:43.059 i'm just there's no way 10 or 12 bucks a piece 01:06:43.059 --> 01:06:47.760 i'm buying anything new they make but for these 01:06:47.760 --> 01:06:51.099 prices i'm just i'm out i'll start buying vintage 01:06:51.099 --> 01:06:54.050 stuff you know because that's the that's the 01:06:54.050 --> 01:07:03.010 range that we're in now let's get into some mattel 01:07:03.010 --> 01:07:06.050 oh wait my slides might be out of order which 01:07:06.050 --> 01:07:07.670 is fine. We'll just do it a little differently 01:07:07.670 --> 01:07:10.480 then. Okay. Yeah. We're going to go in a little 01:07:10.480 --> 01:07:11.940 different order. So let's start with Mattel. 01:07:12.380 --> 01:07:14.619 This is the big boy. This was the thing that 01:07:14.619 --> 01:07:16.780 actually went up for pre -order because I was 01:07:16.780 --> 01:07:21.340 under the impression that the first wave was 01:07:21.340 --> 01:07:23.579 also going to go up for pre -order this weekend. 01:07:23.599 --> 01:07:27.780 And that didn't happen. But here it is. Hush 01:07:27.780 --> 01:07:32.510 Batman with the bat signal and rooftop steaming 01:07:32.510 --> 01:07:37.610 rooftop diorama. And

I'm sorry to report, toe 01:07:37.610 --> 01:07:41.519 joints. I was about to bring that up. I like 01:07:41.519 --> 01:07:45.690 a toe joint. I don't like a toe joint, but I 01:07:45.690 --> 01:07:47.730 especially don't like a toe joint that looks 01:07:47.730 --> 01:07:51.769 like it has a visible pen for some reason. Are 01:07:51.769 --> 01:07:55.550 you kidding me? But that's where some of the 01:07:55.550 --> 01:08:02.159 conversations about what photos were AI and which 01:08:02.159 --> 01:08:07.849 ones weren't because... Some photos showed pins. 01:08:08.889 --> 01:08:14.150 Some photos showed no pins on the figure. So 01:08:14.150 --> 01:08:18.899 I'm like, I need Mattel to put out just some 01:08:18.899 --> 01:08:23.090 really good images and be like, hey, here you 01:08:23.090 --> 01:08:27.649 go. I would be very comfortable guaranteeing 01:08:27.649 --> 01:08:30.590 that the DC figures are going to be pinless because 01:08:30.590 --> 01:08:34.350 nothing else Mattel makes has pins. but this 01:08:34.350 --> 01:08:38.029 is Mattel's photo from the product listing, and 01:08:38.029 --> 01:08:41.569 there is a visible pin in that toe joint. Now, 01:08:41.729 --> 01:08:45.310 the WWE Elite figures, they have toe joints, 01:08:45.470 --> 01:08:49.500 right? Well, okay, so what happened, the Ultimate 01:08:49.500 --> 01:08:54.359 figures have toe joints, and sometimes, rather 01:08:54.359 --> 01:08:57.840 than doing new tooling for somebody's boot, they'll 01:08:57.840 --> 01:09:00.579 use one of the Ultimate figures' boots, because 01:09:00.579 --> 01:09:03.829 it's cheaper. to do that because all all of those 01:09:03.829 --> 01:09:06.170 parts and and they've been you know i say nothing 01:09:06.170 --> 01:09:11.170 mattel puts out his has pens there may be a few 01:09:11.170 --> 01:09:14.930 like wwe parts they're still using that they 01:09:14.930 --> 01:09:17.729 haven't cycled out yet because they have you 01:09:17.729 --> 01:09:23.689 know six different bicep sizes uh eight different 01:09:23.689 --> 01:09:26.310 sets of legs and as they it takes some time to 01:09:26.310 --> 01:09:29.319 cycle through all the body sizes But they've 01:09:29.319 --> 01:09:31.060 been certainly moving towards making everything 01:09:31.060 --> 01:09:34.560 pinless. Do any of them have pinless toes that 01:09:34.560 --> 01:09:37.289 you know of? Do you get those? You know what? 01:09:37.329 --> 01:09:40.250 I can't remember off the top of my head what 01:09:41.109 --> 01:09:45.890 the last... Have I got any... No, I packed up 01:09:45.890 --> 01:09:50.210 all my 112th scale, or really more like 110th 01:09:50.210 --> 01:09:52.329 scale wrestling stuff. I'm just not getting them 01:09:52.329 --> 01:09:57.659 anymore. No, I don't have... Okay, hang on. You 01:09:57.659 --> 01:10:02.670 guys, discuss Batman. I do like that we're getting 01:10:02.670 --> 01:10:09.300 a bat signal. Like, I am a diorama guy. I'm not 01:10:09.300 --> 01:10:14.689 happy with

the price point. Because while I do 01:10:14.689 --> 01:10:21.390 love a diorama, I am not a gimmick guy. If you 01:10:21.390 --> 01:10:23.050 guys listen to Audible Interlude, you will hear 01:10:23.050 --> 01:10:25.770 me say this about Haslabs all the time. Like, 01:10:25.789 --> 01:10:30.109 you know, I don't need a light -up display inside 01:10:30.109 --> 01:10:35.029 a vehicle. that i'm not gonna really use so while 01:10:35.029 --> 01:10:40.229 that smoky effect is cool for the moment are 01:10:40.229 --> 01:10:43.430 you are you just leaving that run it can you 01:10:43.430 --> 01:10:45.550 turn that into like one of those oil incense 01:10:45.550 --> 01:10:50.449 burners so batman fights crime and makes your 01:10:50.449 --> 01:10:54.189 your room smell like lemongrass or should it 01:10:54.189 --> 01:10:57.399 smell like gotham Well, that's what I was going 01:10:57.399 --> 01:10:59.720 to say. In a few years, it's going to smell like 01:10:59.720 --> 01:11:02.100 Gotham because you're going to have black mold 01:11:02.100 --> 01:11:05.439 growing inside your Batman toy. Or you could 01:11:05.439 --> 01:11:07.819 just pee in it and then it would smell like downtown 01:11:07.819 --> 01:11:12.680 Atlanta. Or put like some bait cartridges in 01:11:12.680 --> 01:11:18.340 it. So I went and grabbed, this is the most recent 01:11:18.340 --> 01:11:20.739 WWE Elite I've gotten. It's one of the older 01:11:20.739 --> 01:11:23.500 ones. It's a CM Punk from Money in the Bank. 01:11:24.119 --> 01:11:27.260 And he still has pins in his thighs, so they 01:11:27.260 --> 01:11:29.779 hadn't cycled those out yet. And he does have 01:11:29.779 --> 01:11:32.680 the toe joints, and they have pins. But there 01:11:32.680 --> 01:11:34.739 have been a lot of Ultimate figures since they 01:11:34.739 --> 01:11:36.579 did this one, so I don't know what their progress 01:11:36.579 --> 01:11:40.239 is on eliminating pins on these. But I know that, 01:11:40.340 --> 01:11:42.840 well, and he's even still got the old swivel 01:11:42.840 --> 01:11:45.880 cut joint waist rather than the ball joint that 01:11:45.880 --> 01:11:51.149 they've moved to recently. But I just don't put 01:11:51.149 --> 01:11:56.319 toe joints in figures. I don't like it. Just 01:11:56.319 --> 01:12:01.420 for me. For me. I think this figure looks really 01:12:01.420 --> 01:12:05.140 good. The first thing it reminded me of, though, 01:12:05.199 --> 01:12:08.319 with the proportions and the shading, is the 01:12:08.319 --> 01:12:12.199 first wave of DC Universe heroes. And I love 01:12:12.199 --> 01:12:15.899 that Batman. Yeah. I freaking love that Batman 01:12:15.899 --> 01:12:18.279 figure. It's one of my favorites. So when I saw 01:12:18.279 --> 01:12:23.119 this, I was like, wow, that's what I want. Yeah, 01:12:23.180 --> 01:12:26.779 I was hoping the roof for $100 would be a little 01:12:26.779 --> 01:12:30.869 bigger. But at the same time, I don't need a 01:12:30.869 --> 01:12:32.550 giant roof. I mean, I'm probably not going to 01:12:32.550 --> 01:12:36.779 get this unless I find it on Super Sale. Yeah, 01:12:36.920 --> 01:12:39.420 if like everything else on Mattel Creations, 01:12:39.439 --> 01:12:42.340 it hits 50 % off at some point, I'll grab it 01:12:42.340 --> 01:12:44.859 for sure. Because I really do like this Batman 01:12:44.859 --> 01:12:47.739 a lot. It's got the soft goods cape with the 01:12:47.739 --> 01:12:50.840 wire in it for posing. If you notice... the the 01:12:50.840 --> 01:12:53.880 belt buckle is actually it's gold like it's metallic 01:12:53.880 --> 01:12:56.380 gold it's not just the yellow like the paint 01:12:56.380 --> 01:12:59.699 on this looks fantastic uh which we'll talk a 01:12:59.699 --> 01:13:01.220 little bit more about that when we talk about 01:13:01.220 --> 01:13:04.060 some of the other dc figures uh but here's the 01:13:04.060 --> 01:13:05.680 if you're watching on the needless things youtube 01:13:05.680 --> 01:13:09.079 channel here's the parts count so it looks like 01:13:09.079 --> 01:13:13.020 he's got a batarang in his hand but not a removable 01:13:13.020 --> 01:13:18.140 batarang which is a weird call yeah i would expect 01:13:18.140 --> 01:13:21.880 a little more accessories with this give them 01:13:21.880 --> 01:13:25.340 a rope yeah or give them the grappling gun but 01:13:25.689 --> 01:13:31.189 i i can mentally i can work my way through how 01:13:31.189 --> 01:13:33.029 they got to a hundred dollars because that's 01:13:33.029 --> 01:13:36.109 probably a thirty dollar figure if not more because 01:13:36.109 --> 01:13:38.250 we still don't know price points for any of this 01:13:38.250 --> 01:13:42.649 other than this you know for the line uh and 01:13:42.649 --> 01:13:44.609 then the you know the rooftop with the light 01:13:44.609 --> 01:13:47.289 up back signal with whatever the heating element 01:13:47.289 --> 01:13:50.810 is or what like i I can see how they got to a 01:13:50.810 --> 01:13:53.970 hundred bucks. I'm not going to buy it for that. 01:13:54.819 --> 01:14:03.300 That's my thing is like cool. Yes. If you, if 01:14:03.810 --> 01:14:07.989 you took out that heating element, I mean, to 01:14:07.989 --> 01:14:10.270 me, even personally take out the light in the 01:14:10.270 --> 01:14:13.850 bat signal, but I get more people would turn 01:14:13.850 --> 01:14:17.850 on the bat signal and leave that on. If you're 01:14:17.850 --> 01:14:23.699 going to get this down to like a 65, $69 .99 01:14:23.699 --> 01:14:29.420 price point, you'd sell so much more of these. 01:14:30.279 --> 01:14:35.640 But for me, if you're doing this sort of set 01:14:35.640 --> 01:14:39.739 and you're making that batch signal, I need it 01:14:39.739 --> 01:14:44.670 to light up. And I wonder if you're already doing 01:14:44.670 --> 01:14:47.270 some kind of electronics, like if adding another 01:14:47.270 --> 01:14:51.859 feature is really not that big a deal. I don't 01:14:51.859 -->

01:14:56.359 know. I don't know. Yeah, I forgot that old Bat 01:14:56.359 --> 01:14:58.720 -Signal Mattel did. I think it was Mattel. Oh, 01:14:58.720 --> 01:15:01.319 I've got a bunch. Yeah, they look real similar. 01:15:01.899 --> 01:15:05.739 I've still got the Dark Knight one that they 01:15:05.739 --> 01:15:08.239 did. I think it came... It was a Build -A -Thing, 01:15:08.359 --> 01:15:12.140 wasn't it? Yep, it was. And then I've got some 01:15:12.140 --> 01:15:14.680 other one that they did. I don't... That's the 01:15:14.680 --> 01:15:16.260 other part of it, is I just don't need a Bat 01:15:16.260 --> 01:15:20.520 -Signal. Yeah. And as much as I do think this 01:15:20.520 --> 01:15:24.720 set is neat... I do not think it's the, holy 01:15:24.720 --> 01:15:28.100 shit, I have to have this. What a way to kick 01:15:28.100 --> 01:15:32.100 off this line that they maybe were hoping it 01:15:32.100 --> 01:15:36.619 would be. Let's talk about some of the other 01:15:36.619 --> 01:15:42.449 things. This is appeal to the masses. I guess. 01:15:42.970 --> 01:15:47.770 Figure. I just think there's, I don't know. This 01:15:47.770 --> 01:15:50.270 is an appeal to the guy that talks to you for 01:15:50.270 --> 01:15:53.529 an hour about how if Batman has 24 hours, he 01:15:53.529 --> 01:15:56.270 can beat anybody. It's like, that's who's buying 01:15:56.270 --> 01:15:59.699 this figure. Yeah, yeah. Well, let's move on 01:15:59.699 --> 01:16:04.939 to some other DC stuff. And I think I mentioned 01:16:04.939 --> 01:16:06.380 it at the beginning of the show, but I'll go 01:16:06.380 --> 01:16:08.140 ahead and say it again, is that Mattel announced 01:16:08.140 --> 01:16:11.060 on January 1st, 2027, there will be a Mattel 01:16:11.060 --> 01:16:14.680 Creations livestream unveiling full wave lineups, 01:16:14.680 --> 01:16:17.439 character rosters, and pre -order dates across 01:16:17.439 --> 01:16:23.880 all tiers. So what we're looking at here is the 01:16:23.880 --> 01:16:27.359 Wonder Woman that was on display. And again, 01:16:27.460 --> 01:16:30.539 talking to Riley earlier, we were speculating 01:16:30.539 --> 01:16:34.199 that... These might not be completely finished 01:16:34.199 --> 01:16:40.699 product. Yeah. I hope not. Okay. Let's get into 01:16:40.699 --> 01:16:44.199 it. What do we think of this Wonder Woman? I 01:16:44.199 --> 01:16:46.560 like the figure overall. I don't like the yellow. 01:16:46.899 --> 01:16:53.720 The gold. Yeah. And the lasso. Well, actually, 01:16:53.859 --> 01:17:00.779 okay. Unpopular opinion. But I don't like Wonder 01:17:00.779 --> 01:17:04.850 Woman coming with swords. violence is a last 01:17:04.850 --> 01:17:08.529 resort for wonder woman and i get that that's 01:17:08.529 --> 01:17:10.630 how they make her popular for all the dude bros 01:17:10.630 --> 01:17:16.310 out there but i think that the lasso having the 01:17:16.310 --> 01:17:21.390 the actual rope mixed with a hard plastic coil 01:17:21.390 --> 01:17:25.729 it you see too much of the difference between 01:17:25.729 --> 01:17:28.250 the two oh is that what that is is it a coil 01:17:28.250 --> 01:17:30.930 i have zoomed in on it so many times oh yeah 01:17:32.770 --> 01:17:36.250 part of the lasso but i thought it was i don't 01:17:36.250 --> 01:17:40.770 know yeah like make it one or the other right 01:17:40.770 --> 01:17:44.850 this looks like a kid's toy correct and then 01:17:44.850 --> 01:17:48.229 that's my issue with the yellow is especially 01:17:48.229 --> 01:17:51.029 when you look at the batman there's so much shading 01:17:51.029 --> 01:17:55.590 on him um the paint job is phenomenal and this 01:17:55.590 --> 01:18:01.779 is very flat like this is um like if you were 01:18:01.779 --> 01:18:05.800 making a a figure of a cartoon version of Wonder 01:18:05.800 --> 01:18:09.039 Woman, and I mean that in a compliment, that's 01:18:09.039 --> 01:18:11.720 how you would paint this Wonder Woman figure. 01:18:12.000 --> 01:18:15.119 It looks like the last wave of Mattel when they 01:18:15.119 --> 01:18:18.479 were doing the direct from the movies, the cartoon 01:18:18.479 --> 01:18:23.979 movies they were doing. This figure does not 01:18:24.069 --> 01:18:33.310 match that Batman figure. It does not. But yeah, 01:18:33.369 --> 01:18:34.890 Christian, if you're getting ready to say you'd 01:18:34.890 --> 01:18:38.529 100 % buy this, if there was a cartoon team to 01:18:38.529 --> 01:18:43.439 go with it. No, I was going to say, we are so 01:18:43.439 --> 01:18:46.079 starved for good Wonder Woman figures. Well, 01:18:46.119 --> 01:18:51.720 yeah. I 100 % would buy her, but I would immediately 01:18:51.720 --> 01:18:54.520 start to do some repainting. And I shouldn't 01:18:54.520 --> 01:18:58.850 have to do that for what they're calling a legacy 01:18:58.850 --> 01:19:03.560 figure. Right, right. I'll say this right now 01:19:03.560 --> 01:19:08.590 before we even cover what we know to be coming. 01:19:09.470 --> 01:19:11.390 I would have come right out of the gate with 01:19:11.390 --> 01:19:13.529 like the best Joker figure ever made because 01:19:13.529 --> 01:19:18.850 there are so few good Joker figures. There's 01:19:18.850 --> 01:19:22.090 always some weird. They're looking at the ground 01:19:22.090 --> 01:19:25.210 or their proportions are wonky or they sculpted 01:19:25.210 --> 01:19:28.210 their elbows like very. There are very, very 01:19:28.210 --> 01:19:30.630 few good Jokers. You know what made me the most 01:19:30.630 --> 01:19:32.850 excited, though, when I saw this picture the 01:19:32.850 --> 01:19:36.609 first time? is if you look behind wonder woman 01:19:36.609 --> 01:19:40.409 you get a batman and the outsiders era black 01:19:40.409 --> 01:19:43.609 lightning figure in the line and not a modern 01:19:43.609 --> 01:19:49.300 take on him yes dc yes this is how you you get 01:19:49.300 --> 01:19:54.100 my money and and i do feel like well let's let's 01:19:54.100

--> 01:19:57.819 talk about the waves and we've uh we kind of 01:19:57.819 --> 01:20:01.260 pieced this together from stuff online and from 01:20:01.260 --> 01:20:03.399 what was available there and this is unfortunately 01:20:03.399 --> 01:20:06.819 this is the only image i've got because all that's 01:20:06.819 --> 01:20:09.520 out there is a bunch of janky video like mattel 01:20:09.520 --> 01:20:12.279 didn't release images and i believe what this 01:20:12.279 --> 01:20:17.000 was was a closed press room because you kept 01:20:17.000 --> 01:20:20.470 seeing these referred to as leaks And I was like, 01:20:20.529 --> 01:20:22.090 what do you mean leaks? They were on display 01:20:22.090 --> 01:20:24.069 in New York comic -con, but I don't think that 01:20:24.069 --> 01:20:26.430 was the case. I think this was a small press 01:20:26.430 --> 01:20:28.210 gathering where they let people get a little 01:20:28.210 --> 01:20:30.989 bit of video just to get a little buzz going. 01:20:31.529 --> 01:20:33.689 And that was it. I don't believe this was meant 01:20:33.689 --> 01:20:37.430 as any kind of official reveal. This was, this 01:20:37.430 --> 01:20:40.489 was, it's, you know, we talk about how intentional 01:20:40.489 --> 01:20:43.369 leaks happen with classified. And I think that's 01:20:43.369 --> 01:20:44.869 basically what this was. And they're probably 01:20:44.869 --> 01:20:46.970 looking for feedback on this stuff as well. So 01:20:46.970 --> 01:20:51.810 we'll, we're happy to be providing. So it looks 01:20:51.810 --> 01:20:56.430 like the first wave, and if you guys have different 01:20:56.430 --> 01:20:59.069 speculation or different information, feel free 01:20:59.069 --> 01:21:02.909 to jump in. But it appears that the first wave 01:21:02.909 --> 01:21:08.140 is going to be an absolute wave with Batman, 01:21:08.439 --> 01:21:12.079 Catwoman, Flash, Hawkman, and an absolute Bane 01:21:12.079 --> 01:21:15.979 Build -A -Figure. Now, the exciting thing about 01:21:15.979 --> 01:21:19.329 that is that's going back to the old... at the 01:21:19.329 --> 01:21:22.109 end of the line Mattel method of four figures 01:21:22.109 --> 01:21:26.380 for a build a figure. And that to me is very 01:21:26.380 --> 01:21:31.560 good news. Yeah. If you look at the boxes behind 01:21:31.560 --> 01:21:37.619 them, it has an O2 on it on all three boxes. 01:21:38.239 --> 01:21:42.239 See it. And so like there's thoughts that they're 01:21:42.239 --> 01:21:44.800 going to indicate waves like that. So you'll 01:21:44.800 --> 01:21:49.619 get a number of waves. I like that a lot more. 01:21:50.220 --> 01:21:52.819 then a big picture of the build a figure like 01:21:52.819 --> 01:21:59.449 on every side. Yeah. So that is in theory, the 01:21:59.449 --> 01:22:01.510 first wave, nothing, none of this is officially 01:22:01.510 --> 01:22:03.289 announced, but you can piece things together. 01:22:04.149 --> 01:22:06.689 Uh, it looks like the second wave is going to 01:22:06.689 --> 01:22:10.090 be this wonder woman, that black lightning, uh, 01:22:10.210 --> 01:22:12.850 how Jordan green lantern. And then there's a 01:22:12.850 --> 01:22:15.449 little confusion. We know it appears the build 01:22:15.449 --> 01:22:18.010 a figure is Mongol and that Mongol figure looks 01:22:18.010 --> 01:22:23.619 awesome. Yeah. But then we've got two different 01:22:23.619 --> 01:22:27.079 Supermans that showed up. One of them is this, 01:22:27.159 --> 01:22:30.310 I guess that's the solar suit? Yeah. Or is that 01:22:30.310 --> 01:22:34.359 a regeneration suit? What is that? That's the, 01:22:34.539 --> 01:22:37.939 I can't remember. Because he's got a cape. Do 01:22:37.939 --> 01:22:39.560 you remember? He's got a cape. He shouldn't have 01:22:39.560 --> 01:22:44.130 a cape. That's what I thought. And if you look 01:22:44.130 --> 01:22:46.970 at him. And he's got more hair versus the long 01:22:46.970 --> 01:22:49.109 hair of the Oh yeah, right. He should have a 01:22:49.109 --> 01:22:52.850 mullet too, shouldn't he? So, yeah, I don't know 01:22:52.850 --> 01:22:54.729 what the deal is with that Superman, but then 01:22:54.729 --> 01:22:56.909 the other one shown was an Earth 2 Superman, 01:22:57.029 --> 01:23:01.369 but it supports our idea that these aren't really 01:23:01.369 --> 01:23:03.550 finished because he doesn't have the gray in 01:23:03.550 --> 01:23:06.930 his hair. Like, he doesn't look like a finished 01:23:06.930 --> 01:23:19.149 figure. Yeah. But also, that told me DC has faith 01:23:19.149 --> 01:23:23.380 in the line. one of my big beefs when McFarlane 01:23:23.380 --> 01:23:26.180 started out with the DC license was just how 01:23:26.180 --> 01:23:30.239 many Batman variants they were putting in there. 01:23:30.300 --> 01:23:33.479 But to me, it seemed like these were, were pointless 01:23:33.479 --> 01:23:36.560 Batman variants. Like they weren't necessarily 01:23:36.560 --> 01:23:39.779 like, you know, comic driven. It was like, this 01:23:39.779 --> 01:23:42.899 is a cool Batman design, but saying like, you 01:23:42.899 --> 01:23:45.619 know, we know Superman is a heavy hitter. So 01:23:45.619 --> 01:23:47.359 we're going to include him in another way, but 01:23:47.359 --> 01:23:50.979 we're going to give you earth. two superman for 01:23:50.979 --> 01:23:55.500 all you cats who never got a jsa era superman 01:23:55.500 --> 01:24:02.140 for your jsa classics figures like okay i can 01:24:02.140 --> 01:24:04.479 assume now hopefully we're going to be getting 01:24:04.479 --> 01:24:11.000 more earth two versions of figures so just looking 01:24:11.000 --> 01:24:13.359 at those figures that we just talked about what 01:24:13.359 --> 01:24:16.220 are your what's your overall sense of them i 01:24:19.770 --> 01:24:24.119 want to see one in person because i've read And 01:24:24.119 --> 01:24:27.199 again, you know, without them putting out press 01:24:27.199 --> 01:24:30.640 release that these are 6 .5

inches. They're not. 01:24:31.220 --> 01:24:34.079 I think I saw somebody hold a Spider -Man up 01:24:34.079 --> 01:24:37.199 to the Batman. And so they are a little bigger, 01:24:37.340 --> 01:24:41.579 but not terrible. Well, but I see that Spider 01:24:41.579 --> 01:24:46.779 -Man should be shorter than Batman. Yeah. Because 01:24:46.779 --> 01:24:50.100 Marvel Legends are not 112th scale. They're a 01:24:50.100 --> 01:24:54.010 little bigger than 112th scale. I'm hoping that. 01:24:54.369 --> 01:24:56.229 And I think these pictures help me a little bit 01:24:56.229 --> 01:24:58.430 that they are close enough that I'm going to 01:24:58.430 --> 01:25:01.109 sneak them into my DC universe collection. Cause 01:25:01.109 --> 01:25:08.029 I'm not starting over. Especially if you've already 01:25:08.029 --> 01:25:13.029 mixed the DC multiverse stuff from the end and 01:25:13.029 --> 01:25:19.189 with classics, which I did. Yeah. So with, with 01:25:19.189 --> 01:25:23.529 recent, you know, developments, cause look at 01:25:23.529 --> 01:25:26.659 how old, dc classics is like when i got back 01:25:26.659 --> 01:25:29.100 into marvel legends and i started messing around 01:25:29.100 --> 01:25:31.340 with them and then i got my bin of dc classic 01:25:31.340 --> 01:25:35.899 figures out i was like oh i i don't feel inspired 01:25:35.899 --> 01:25:39.460 to take photos of these because the hips i am 01:25:39.460 --> 01:25:45.659 now reminded of bad bad bad so every well i might 01:25:45.659 --> 01:25:52.739 not know all in on this new line um i would you 01:25:52.739 --> 01:25:56.859 know The characters I want, I see this as an 01:25:56.859 --> 01:26:00.199 upgrade, and I would get them and sell off my 01:26:00.199 --> 01:26:07.050 classics. Really, the only problem I had with 01:26:07.050 --> 01:26:12.369 classics was the hips. The female figures are 01:26:12.369 --> 01:26:16.449 terrible. The what? The female figures are terrible. 01:26:17.109 --> 01:26:20.050 Karen Carpenter has more meat on her, and she's 01:26:20.050 --> 01:26:22.939 been dead a very, very, very long time. you're 01:26:22.939 --> 01:26:25.180 right that's a very good point is that they're 01:26:25.180 --> 01:26:28.970 very but that's a problem with all female figures 01:26:28.970 --> 01:26:35.210 classified wwe like they're all everybody seems 01:26:35.210 --> 01:26:38.670 to think that females are just generally way 01:26:38.670 --> 01:26:42.359 more petite than they actually are like especially 01:26:42.359 --> 01:26:46.260 athletes and superheroes and stuff over the last 01:26:46.260 --> 01:26:49.279 few years i think marvel legends has gotten much 01:26:49.279 --> 01:26:53.189 better and this wonder woman shows me okay they 01:26:53.189 --> 01:26:58.470 can make a female superhero buck yeah i mean 01:26:58.470 --> 01:27:01.770 that cheetah from dc universe classics i feel 01:27:01.770 --> 01:27:03.970 like if you look at it it's gonna break it's 01:27:03.970 --> 01:27:09.409 so

like skinny uh and then we some other things 01:27:09.409 --> 01:27:13.130 that were shown were batman this is from i didn't 01:27:13.130 --> 01:27:16.149 even know this apparently dc's current thing 01:27:16.149 --> 01:27:21.050 is all in uh and they showed batman robin flash 01:27:21.050 --> 01:27:26.359 and john stewart from, I guess, current DC. I 01:27:26.359 --> 01:27:29.000 mean, they looked good. I wouldn't be interested 01:27:29.000 --> 01:27:31.739 in that because comic books got too expensive 01:27:31.739 --> 01:27:36.859 for me years ago. But I think it's good that 01:27:36.859 --> 01:27:41.619 they're doing all eras of DC. And I'll get some 01:27:41.619 --> 01:27:43.619 of those absolute figures. I'll get absolute 01:27:43.619 --> 01:27:47.159 Batman. I'll get absolute Superman. I don't love 01:27:47.159 --> 01:27:49.720 Flash or Green Lantern. I might get the Catwoman. 01:27:51.109 --> 01:27:53.750 I'll probably get the Batman just to review it 01:27:53.750 --> 01:27:55.310 and just because it's going to be one of the 01:27:55.310 --> 01:27:59.149 first things that comes out from this line. But 01:27:59.149 --> 01:28:02.470 I don't know much. I've heard Absolutes very, 01:28:02.590 --> 01:28:04.329 very good, but I don't really know much about 01:28:04.329 --> 01:28:08.350 it. I'm going to be looking very closely at the 01:28:08.550 --> 01:28:14.729 legacy stuff. The stuff from the eras when I 01:28:14.729 --> 01:28:18.050 was reading to see what they do and how necessary 01:28:18.050 --> 01:28:21.560 I feel it is. Because when going into New York 01:28:21.560 --> 01:28:24.420 Comic Con weekend, I thought there was a possibility 01:28:24.420 --> 01:28:26.819 I was going to be hauling all of my DC Universe 01:28:26.819 --> 01:28:30.579 classics to Retro Toy Con to try and move them 01:28:30.579 --> 01:28:33.800 before they completely lose value. But having 01:28:33.800 --> 01:28:36.560 seen what they showed, I like the figures, don't 01:28:36.560 --> 01:28:39.760 get me wrong, but they're not so revolutionary 01:28:39.760 --> 01:28:44.539 that I'm like ready to just dump classics. I 01:28:44.539 --> 01:28:48.649 was happy to hear. at the press release where 01:28:48.649 --> 01:28:53.989 they showed the production naked box of the premium 01:28:53.989 --> 01:28:58.390 and the legacy that they have confirmed all heads 01:28:58.390 --> 01:29:03.149 are swappable all hands are swappable and so 01:29:03.149 --> 01:29:04.710 they're kind of helping people out I thought 01:29:04.710 --> 01:29:07.489 they even said the arms yes yeah the arms are 01:29:07.489 --> 01:29:11.600 too like if you want to make composite Superman 01:29:11.600 --> 01:29:19.630 you absolutely can they have been using wwe to 01:29:19.630 --> 01:29:24.630 develop this line for like three years now because 01:29:24.630 --> 01:29:26.890 you can look at every innovation they've made 01:29:26.890 --> 01:29:29.949 in their wwe lines and it's all here in this 01:29:29.949 -->

01:29:32.170 line which is one of the reasons i was so excited 01:29:32.170 --> 01:29:35.270 about this line because uh even though they don't 01:29:35.270 --> 01:29:39.380 i don't necessarily want those wrestling figures 01:29:39.380 --> 01:29:44.199 anymore but they're great figures like design 01:29:44.199 --> 01:29:48.159 wise the evolution that you've seen from 2011 01:29:48.159 --> 01:29:53.239 to now in that wwe line is incredible so what 01:29:53.239 --> 01:29:55.640 we're seeing here is the culmination of everything 01:29:55.640 --> 01:29:58.359 that they've developed and that is very exciting 01:29:58.359 --> 01:30:01.300 yeah i am excited too because i've seen i think 01:30:01.300 --> 01:30:03.920 i talked about this on the other one that a local 01:30:03.920 --> 01:30:06.319 toy shop showed me where you can order them on 01:30:06.319 --> 01:30:09.399 the computer and yeah you have like a whole list 01:30:09.399 --> 01:30:12.520 yeah there's gonna be accessory packs there's 01:30:12.520 --> 01:30:16.720 gonna be vehicles like it's a huge release come 01:30:16.720 --> 01:30:20.829 january well some some of the people that are 01:30:20.829 --> 01:30:23.310 working on this line have been waiting literally 01:30:23.310 --> 01:30:28.229 their entire lives to do this stuff so it's it's 01:30:28.229 --> 01:30:32.880 in good hands all right let's move on to i'll 01:30:32.880 --> 01:30:35.060 go ahead and just drop it now my best in show 01:30:35.060 --> 01:30:40.829 now what we're looking at is nacelle toys star 01:30:40.829 --> 01:30:44.770 trek wave 3 which is the original uh series wave 01:30:44.770 --> 01:30:46.869 that's coming out with the pieces of the enterprise 01:30:46.869 --> 01:30:51.890 bridge uh we're looking at sulu but that's sulu 01:30:51.890 --> 01:30:54.670 it's not my best in show as great as he looks 01:30:54.670 --> 01:30:57.970 and as exciting as it is that we've gotten two 01:30:57.970 --> 01:31:03.000 sulu figures in the first three waves uh my best 01:31:03.000 --> 01:31:07.359 in show could also be a best in show at the alpha 01:31:07.359 --> 01:31:13.039 centauri kennel club dog show they are making 01:31:13.039 --> 01:31:20.630 a figure of the Alpha 177 canine from The Enemy 01:31:20.630 --> 01:31:24.090 Within, where they literally just put this furry 01:31:24.090 --> 01:31:28.029 sleeping bag and a horn on an actual real dog 01:31:28.029 --> 01:31:31.770 to make an alien dog. It's one of my favorite 01:31:31.770 --> 01:31:33.909 things ever in science fiction, and the fact 01:31:33.909 --> 01:31:37.529 that they're doing a figure of it is great. It 01:31:37.529 --> 01:31:41.510 also includes his living plant Beauregard from 01:31:41.510 --> 01:31:44.550 The Man Trap, which is definitely not a glove 01:31:44.550 --> 01:31:50.189 puppet. That's an alien. The man trap is where 01:31:50.189 --> 01:31:54.489 Sulu likes to go on the weekends when he's not 01:31:54.489 --> 01:31:58.470 driving the Enterprise. It's just

a club I go 01:31:58.470 --> 01:32:05.390 to. They've got great food. It's fine. So we 01:32:05.390 --> 01:32:08.189 saw a couple more Star Trek things. The newest 01:32:08.189 --> 01:32:13.369 versions or newest updates on the... Oh man, 01:32:13.430 --> 01:32:15.680 I put this stuff out of order. Hang on. Let me 01:32:15.680 --> 01:32:17.140 figure out where I put it. While you're looking 01:32:17.140 --> 01:32:22.159 at that, I didn't include it in any of my best 01:32:22.159 --> 01:32:24.920 stuff because they announced it right before 01:32:24.920 --> 01:32:29.439 the con, but nacelles, biker mice from Mars, 01:32:29.779 --> 01:32:34.720 Judge Dredd. Judge Dredd. Mashup. That thing, 01:32:34.920 --> 01:32:39.779 it is beautiful. It's so nice. Okay. All right. 01:32:40.779 --> 01:32:43.600 I thought you were going to show the Lucille 01:32:43.600 --> 01:32:47.819 Ball figure. Well, we're getting there. I didn't 01:32:47.819 --> 01:32:50.020 move those. Okay, so first up, here's the Gene 01:32:50.020 --> 01:32:53.840 Roddenberry that comes with the captain's chair, 01:32:54.039 --> 01:32:57.319 or a special golden captain's chair, a small 01:32:57.319 --> 01:32:59.359 model of the Enterprise, which is really, really 01:32:59.359 --> 01:33:02.319 cool, and a typewriter, the script, some different 01:33:02.319 --> 01:33:08.289 hands. And if they had offered, because I believe 01:33:08.289 --> 01:33:10.560 these are going to be a two -pack. with Lucille 01:33:10.560 --> 01:33:13.260 Ball and Gene Roddenberry. And I wouldn't necessarily 01:33:13.260 --> 01:33:15.779 have wanted the Gene Roddenberry because as much 01:33:15.779 --> 01:33:18.300 as we love his creation, he's not really the 01:33:18.300 --> 01:33:21.840 best human ever. But those accessories put this 01:33:21.840 --> 01:33:25.180 over the top for me. I really love it. But then 01:33:25.180 --> 01:33:28.159 this, truly the star of the show, Lucille Ball, 01:33:28.439 --> 01:33:33.720 with the check and the pen in hand, this is a 01:33:33.720 --> 01:33:39.050 must -have. And it's fantastic that Nacelle's 01:33:39.050 --> 01:33:41.329 paying tribute to her. for her hand in making 01:33:41.329 --> 01:33:47.039 Star Trek happen. Yeah, I'm just so impressed 01:33:47.039 --> 01:33:49.300 with everything they're doing with this line. 01:33:49.439 --> 01:33:54.970 Yeah. They've got a vision, and I really appreciate 01:33:54.970 --> 01:33:58.149 that they do. Now, it is still weird to hear 01:33:58.149 --> 01:34:01.069 Brian Volkweis talk about how, well, we've already 01:34:01.069 --> 01:34:03.329 got a Kirk, so here's the thing to go beside 01:34:03.329 --> 01:34:05.329 him. And I'm like, you're talking about a four 01:34:05.329 --> 01:34:08.350 -inch Kirk and a six -and -a -half -inch Spock. 01:34:08.369 --> 01:34:11.930 What are we doing here? You know I can't handle 01:34:11.930 --> 01:34:18.380 that kind of logic. All right. So there's Wonder 01:34:18.380 --> 01:34:20.500 Woman. Now we're back where we wanted to be. 01:34:20.960 --> 01:34:24.800 And we are going to pick our favorite things 01:34:24.800 --> 01:34:27.920 that we saw from New York Comic Con. And we're 01:34:27.920 --> 01:34:34.770 going to start with Ryan, your first pick. Tell 01:34:34.770 --> 01:34:38.810 us about this gentleman. Oh, it's so good. So 01:34:38.810 --> 01:34:43.649 it's Nega. They are... doing a line of christmas 01:34:43.649 --> 01:34:48.470 figures apparently why not they had a ghost face 01:34:48.470 --> 01:34:54.170 in a um like a santa costume which was fine that 01:34:54.329 --> 01:34:57.449 was fine but here we have our lovely leather 01:34:57.449 --> 01:35:03.229 face chopping the turkey for christmas and they 01:35:03.229 --> 01:35:06.390 forgot to take the innards out Here's what my 01:35:06.390 --> 01:35:08.329 first thought of this figure was. When I first 01:35:08.329 --> 01:35:10.510 flashed by it, I was like, is that Clark Griswold? 01:35:10.729 --> 01:35:15.550 I was like, no. But they've done that. I've got 01:35:15.550 --> 01:35:19.670 their Clark Griswold figure that they did. Well, 01:35:19.670 --> 01:35:21.609 they did two. They did one with the chainsaw 01:35:21.609 --> 01:35:24.630 and then they did one with the sweater and the 01:35:24.630 --> 01:35:28.949 hat and the lollipop. I just love it. I think 01:35:28.949 --> 01:35:31.909 it's so great. I will definitely buy it. I love 01:35:31.909 --> 01:35:37.899 the tie. I do wish they'd just made his shirt 01:35:37.899 --> 01:35:40.550 white. Because if you're going to do something 01:35:40.550 --> 01:35:43.510 this silly anyway, because the problem is the 01:35:43.510 --> 01:35:45.989 face and the hands and the shirt all kind of 01:35:45.989 --> 01:35:50.390 bleed together. And I think it could pop a little 01:35:50.390 --> 01:35:52.890 more if that shirt was white or some other color. 01:35:53.149 --> 01:35:55.189 I'm pretty sure Lord Grace doesn't own a white 01:35:55.189 --> 01:35:57.310 shirt. I was going to say, yeah, the blood stains 01:35:57.310 --> 01:35:59.729 on a white shirt are just going to be impossible 01:35:59.729 --> 01:36:04.579 to get out. Why are we... two nights in a row 01:36:04.579 --> 01:36:06.800 now we're talking about bloodstains and a white 01:36:06.800 --> 01:36:10.989 shirt what's wrong with us uh but yeah this this 01:36:10.989 --> 01:36:13.609 is great and depending on pricing this this is 01:36:13.609 --> 01:36:16.029 probably a buy for me as well because i've got 01:36:16.029 --> 01:36:19.270 a whole table of santa figures i put out or christmas 01:36:19.270 --> 01:36:21.850 figures i put out every year at christmas and 01:36:21.850 --> 01:36:25.850 i think old leather deserves to to go uh in there 01:36:25.850 --> 01:36:28.189 with him because i mean look isn't he really 01:36:28.189 --> 01:36:31.470 the victim he was just trying to hang out in 01:36:31.470 --> 01:36:34.859 his house Can't a man be in his house? What if 01:36:34.859 -->

01:36:36.979 this was he's wearing before they showed up? 01:36:37.000 --> 01:36:42.579 They were sitting down for Christmas. That's 01:36:42.579 --> 01:36:45.899 kind of a crappy chainsaw. Chainsaws are bigger 01:36:45.899 --> 01:36:49.779 than that. Well, he uses a lot of different chainsaws. 01:36:49.880 --> 01:36:52.640 Look, if you're carving a turkey, you go for 01:36:52.640 --> 01:36:55.819 the dinner chainsaw. That is true. You don't 01:36:55.819 --> 01:37:00.680 bring out the big part three saw his family saw. 01:37:01.090 --> 01:37:03.789 Yeah, that's the eco electric chainsaw. He saves 01:37:03.789 --> 01:37:06.329 the Husker Varner for teenagers. That one plugs 01:37:06.329 --> 01:37:11.970 in. Yeah. It's got a USB charge on it. All right. 01:37:11.989 --> 01:37:15.909 So next up, you guys can fight this one out because 01:37:15.909 --> 01:37:20.529 you both picked it. Christian, you can talk about 01:37:20.529 --> 01:37:29.520 it first. Yep. So Jabba's Palace is my absolutely 01:37:29.840 --> 01:37:36.729 100 % favorite bit of Star Wars to ever be put 01:37:36.729 --> 01:37:44.579 on film. And as a kid, getting the aliens that 01:37:44.579 --> 01:37:47.100 were in Jabba's palace was more important to 01:37:47.100 --> 01:37:49.779 me than getting the aliens that were in the cantina. 01:37:49.859 --> 01:37:54.319 The cantina aliens were cool, but Jabba's were 01:37:54.319 --> 01:38:00.140 just... I mean, obviously, times have changed, 01:38:00.180 --> 01:38:03.039 but a little more bizarre. This is a... I'm sorry, 01:38:03.119 --> 01:38:06.020 it's not Tessek. It's Squid Head, because he 01:38:06.020 --> 01:38:11.159 literally has a squid for a head, and he's an 01:38:11.159 --> 01:38:15.819 accountant. Mm -hmm. And later has his brain 01:38:15.819 --> 01:38:21.140 put in a bow -mare monk. Yeah. Yeah? Well, formerly 01:38:21.140 --> 01:38:28.520 that happened. Well, yes. So, when I was a kid, 01:38:28.600 --> 01:38:31.840 the difference between the Cantina aliens and 01:38:32.250 --> 01:38:34.270 Jabba's aliens, whether it was the palace or 01:38:34.270 --> 01:38:39.810 the sail barge, was that the figures of the Cantina 01:38:39.810 --> 01:38:43.630 aliens, none of them looked right. But all of 01:38:43.630 --> 01:38:47.170 the Jabba aliens looked pretty much like they 01:38:47.170 --> 01:38:50.210 looked on screen. To me as a kid, that was a 01:38:50.210 --> 01:38:55.989 big noticeable difference. And as a kid, lore, 01:38:56.569 --> 01:39:00.710 canon, none of that meant anything to young... 01:39:01.010 --> 01:39:03.329 christian because a cool figure is a cool figure 01:39:03.329 --> 01:39:08.880 and squid head was absolutely one of my most 01:39:08.880 --> 01:39:12.119 favorite and he he ended up becoming part of 01:39:12.119 --> 01:39:14.380 the rebellion because it didn't matter whose 01:39:14.380 --> 01:39:19.840 whose house i was going to he always went and 01:39:19.840 --> 01:39:22.300 and he was always part of the story and

the only 01:39:22.300 --> 01:39:26.060 way to do that was you know to make him a good 01:39:26.060 --> 01:39:30.300 guy for a while until you know Cannon became 01:39:30.300 --> 01:39:34.979 my master. No. The Rebellion had accounting needs 01:39:34.979 --> 01:39:41.119 also. So, Ryan, you also picked Squid Head. What 01:39:41.119 --> 01:39:45.000 was your reasoning? Yeah, I mean, like Chris 01:39:45.000 --> 01:39:48.659 said, we needed Java Sail Barge aliens. There's 01:39:48.659 --> 01:39:52.619 so many, and Black Series has had a drought of 01:39:52.619 --> 01:39:58.760 OT aliens for quite a while now. I appreciate 01:39:58.760 --> 01:40:01.779 that they're saying with this new relaunch or 01:40:01.779 --> 01:40:04.680 whatever they're calling it, we're getting one 01:40:04.930 --> 01:40:10.000 figure per movie in each wave, which they were 01:40:10.000 --> 01:40:11.520 quick to say, yeah, we'll get to the sequels 01:40:11.520 --> 01:40:14.319 later. I was going to say, there are more than 01:40:14.319 --> 01:40:17.840 six movies, unfortunately. Yeah, they said that, 01:40:17.840 --> 01:40:19.619 and they're like, sequels will come out next 01:40:19.619 --> 01:40:24.359 year maybe. But I think it's a good idea, and 01:40:24.359 --> 01:40:26.779 they're going to give us an updated Luke on the 01:40:26.779 --> 01:40:31.239 new body, which is great. That IG -88's being 01:40:31.239 --> 01:40:33.260 remade, which is great, because that first IG 01:40:33.260 --> 01:40:38.199 -88's a piece of garbage. Obviously, the Padme 01:40:38.199 --> 01:40:44.130 is the best figure they've ever made. It's got, 01:40:44.229 --> 01:40:47.750 like, telescoping legs or something? It does. 01:40:48.850 --> 01:40:52.829 And what's crazy they've announced with the new 01:40:52.829 --> 01:40:56.390 wave, the Stormtrooper that's coming out, you 01:40:56.390 --> 01:40:59.770 can change how tall he is. I saw that. Speaking 01:40:59.770 --> 01:41:05.010 of telescoping. And so, you know, at 30, am I 01:41:05.010 --> 01:41:09.319 going to be more choosy of what I get? Yes. But 01:41:09.319 --> 01:41:12.760 I think this is a good sign. They know they need 01:41:12.760 --> 01:41:16.140 to start putting out more OT characters. Now 01:41:16.140 --> 01:41:18.979 give me a 9 -up, because it's trying me absolutely 01:41:18.979 --> 01:41:24.350 nuts. Very quickly followed by a 10, because 01:41:24.350 --> 01:41:30.930 I'm a 10 -up is my guy. And Lobot. Where's Lobot? 01:41:33.149 --> 01:41:39.289 All right. So my first pick were the Peanuts 01:41:39.289 --> 01:41:43.689 Deluxe figures. And it's not so much that they're 01:41:43.689 --> 01:41:45.470 Peanuts figures because I've got some of the 01:41:45.470 --> 01:41:47.289 reaction ones and I'm kind of good with those. 01:41:47.390 --> 01:41:51.630 I don't really need like super articulated Peanuts 01:41:52.109 --> 01:41:55.210 figures. But it's exciting to me because they 01:41:55.210 --> 01:41:57.390 seem to be moving forward with

these Deluxe figures 01:41:57.390 --> 01:42:01.510 on Amazon. For $25. Because I got the Megatron. 01:42:01.670 --> 01:42:05.869 Which is great. And review coming soon. Right 01:42:05.869 --> 01:42:07.250 here on the Needless Things YouTube channel. 01:42:07.979 --> 01:42:10.939 And these are $25 a piece on Amazon. Now if you 01:42:10.939 --> 01:42:13.750 order them from Super 7. They're $30. I was going 01:42:13.750 --> 01:42:16.989 to say. Because at Target. The Thundercats Deluxe 01:42:16.989 --> 01:42:21.970 are $30. Yeah. These Amazon ones. Megatron was 01:42:21.970 --> 01:42:25.770 $25. And the big VHS case was $25. And these 01:42:25.770 --> 01:42:29.479 were both $25. So that is very exciting because 01:42:29.479 --> 01:42:32.979 I've been saying for years that I wish Super 01:42:32.979 --> 01:42:35.520 7 would just switch some of their stuff to deluxe 01:42:35.520 --> 01:42:39.989 because I don't need all the extra stuff. So 01:42:39.989 --> 01:42:44.079 I'm very excited about this. All right, Ryan, 01:42:44.239 --> 01:42:50.220 you're up next. Oh, yeah. So I think on the San 01:42:50.220 --> 01:42:55.079 Diego episode, I picked another figure in this 01:42:55.079 --> 01:42:58.449 line, which is the Shogun Horror from... I'm 01:42:58.449 --> 01:43:02.909 going to say it wrong, Takatuku Toys. And the 01:43:02.909 --> 01:43:06.630 first one revealed the Jason. That's the one 01:43:06.630 --> 01:43:08.710 I showed was the Jason. Yeah, that's right. That's 01:43:08.710 --> 01:43:12.010 right. And at New York Comic Con, they showed 01:43:12.010 --> 01:43:16.250 the ghost face and the leather face. And I just 01:43:16.250 --> 01:43:20.970 love the designs on these. I like the Scream 01:43:20.970 --> 01:43:23.729 movies a lot. I think this is a really good interpretation 01:43:23.729 --> 01:43:29.439 of it. Well, and it works, the Scream mask. with 01:43:29.439 --> 01:43:33.479 that aesthetic very nicely like the horns look 01:43:33.479 --> 01:43:37.420 good the shape of it like it uh it looks good 01:43:37.420 --> 01:43:39.039 it's a great looking figure and i didn't see 01:43:39.039 --> 01:43:41.039 this so when you sent me this picture i was really 01:43:41.039 --> 01:43:45.460 surprised yeah i i like this line because they've 01:43:45.460 --> 01:43:49.369 done sometimes when people do kind of interpretations 01:43:49.369 --> 01:43:53.420 they lose the I don't know. What's the word? 01:43:53.479 --> 01:43:55.439 Like the essence of the character. And they're 01:43:55.439 --> 01:43:58.260 not doing that with these Shogun toys. Like that 01:43:58.260 --> 01:44:01.079 is clearly Ghostface. Yeah. He's just dressed 01:44:01.079 --> 01:44:05.140 as a samurai today. Which is something that could 01:44:05.140 --> 01:44:15.800 happen. All right. Christian. Yes. So I believe 01:44:15.800 --> 01:44:18.199 we got the announcement of the Darkwing Duck 01:44:18.199 --> 01:44:23.829 figures. But I don't remember if I. san diego 01:44:23.829 --> 01:44:25.489 they had shown them or maybe they were just sort 01:44:25.489 --> 01:44:29.069 of cutouts next to the uh duck tales figures 01:44:29.069 --> 01:44:38.470 um and and man megawatt just he looks so good 01:44:38.470 --> 01:44:41.550 like i look at this photo and i can hear his 01:44:41.550 --> 01:44:46.409 voice in my head yeah and i very much like disney 01:44:46.470 --> 01:44:50.090 afternoon like give me all of the duck tales 01:44:50.090 --> 01:44:54.300 figures give me Everyone in Darkwing Duck, Gimme 01:44:54.300 --> 01:44:59.119 Gummy Bears. Oh, man. I'm hoping, hoping, hoping 01:44:59.119 --> 01:45:04.390 that they can continue this Darkwing line. And 01:45:04.390 --> 01:45:08.779 there are so many cool villain designs. And I'm 01:45:08.779 --> 01:45:14.539 glad they started with Megawatt instead of, oh, 01:45:16.399 --> 01:45:20.260 my gosh, my brain just went blank. Negaduck, 01:45:20.380 --> 01:45:26.739 the reverse Darkwing Duck. Yeah, yeah. But this 01:45:26.739 --> 01:45:31.520 just looks so great. The eyes, the little sprinkles 01:45:31.520 --> 01:45:35.420 of hair. Yeah, he's perfect. He's perfect. And 01:45:35.420 --> 01:45:37.640 I'll tell you, they're going to get me with the 01:45:37.640 --> 01:45:41.159 DuckTales figures, which really stinks because 01:45:41.159 --> 01:45:44.199 they're getting me with Sesame Street. They're 01:45:44.199 --> 01:45:47.840 getting me with Muppets. Like, NECA is really 01:45:48.930 --> 01:45:54.500 doing some special stuff. Yeah. All right, let's 01:45:54.500 --> 01:46:01.180 see here. believe i'm next i am next and this 01:46:01.180 --> 01:46:04.979 so i talk about a mezco product every one of 01:46:04.979 --> 01:46:07.140 these we do whether i'm gonna buy it or not i 01:46:07.140 --> 01:46:09.640 can talk about like just how awesome it looks 01:46:09.640 --> 01:46:12.500 this is what i'm gonna buy because the chinese 01:46:12.500 --> 01:46:15.520 hopping ghosts or chinese hopping vampires or 01:46:15.520 --> 01:46:19.399 what the mythology of that i love it uh there's 01:46:19.399 --> 01:46:21.739 a takashi miike movie called the happiness of 01:46:21.739 --> 01:46:24.789 the katakuris that if you have not seen it you 01:46:24.789 --> 01:46:29.090 must i love this mythology it's one of the weirder 01:46:29.090 --> 01:46:31.409 little pieces of folklore from around the world 01:46:31.409 --> 01:46:35.989 so this is the uh 112 collective jiangshi hopping 01:46:35.989 --> 01:46:39.930 vampire and i am whenever this goes up for pre 01:46:39.930 --> 01:46:45.229 -order i'm i'm on it the second it goes up and 01:46:45.229 --> 01:46:48.890 if you don't know about uh chinese hopping ghost 01:46:48.890 --> 01:46:53.199 slash hopping vampires uh look it up there are 01:46:53.199 --> 01:46:55.920 actually a lot more movies than just that but 01:46:55.920 --> 01:47:01.439 it's it's there's something as silly as it seems 01:47:01.439 --> 01:47:05.779 there is something really massively creepy

about 01:47:05.779 --> 01:47:09.319 the way that they move and everything so i was 01:47:09.319 --> 01:47:12.220 very excited to see to me this is on par with 01:47:12.220 --> 01:47:16.640 that diabolic 112 figure that they did as far 01:47:16.640 --> 01:47:19.579 as nobody's ever going to do this i'm never going 01:47:19.579 --> 01:47:23.119 to have like a figure like this And here they 01:47:23.119 --> 01:47:25.060 are doing it. So I'm very excited about this 01:47:25.060 --> 01:47:27.560 deal. The only other thing now I think would 01:47:27.560 --> 01:47:30.159 be if they did a blue demon figure like in one 01:47:30.159 --> 01:47:33.220 12, that would blow my mind in the same way. 01:47:35.369 --> 01:47:41.329 All right. I can't remember whose this was. This 01:47:41.329 --> 01:47:46.890 is mine. Okay. Yeah. So NECA is doing an ultimate 01:47:46.890 --> 01:47:51.289 Elvira and Elvira mistress of the dark is one 01:47:51.289 --> 01:47:55.640 of my. Top five, I would have to say, movies 01:47:55.640 --> 01:47:59.260 of all time. I watch this probably every single 01:47:59.260 --> 01:48:02.520 week. Like when I'm sitting and editing, I have 01:48:02.520 --> 01:48:05.319 a rotation of films that I put on. And this is 01:48:05.319 --> 01:48:07.800 one that is always in there. And we have gotten 01:48:07.800 --> 01:48:11.000 a lot of Elvira figures from NECA. But we're 01:48:11.000 --> 01:48:16.300 finally getting her with the pot monster. She 01:48:16.300 --> 01:48:23.840 comes with Gonk. like they got me with the ultimate 01:48:23.840 --> 01:48:26.000 peewee Herman that they did, you know, by throwing 01:48:26.000 --> 01:48:29.460 in the extra puppet accessories. And I think 01:48:29.460 --> 01:48:32.220 it was like one new face sculpt. And this one 01:48:32.220 --> 01:48:34.199 we're getting the three other face sculpts that 01:48:34.199 --> 01:48:37.779 came with the other versions of the Elvira figure 01:48:37.779 --> 01:48:45.699 alternate hands. So yeah, I am, I am all about 01:48:45.699 --> 01:48:49.430 this. Yeah, this is great. Cause I've got, as 01:48:49.430 --> 01:48:52.829 I showed, I've got one of the eight inch. clothed 01:48:52.829 --> 01:48:54.949 ones that they did which granted this one is 01:48:54.949 --> 01:48:58.149 essentially the same figure just smaller uh and 01:48:58.149 --> 01:49:01.310 it's it's great although it does tend to she's 01:49:01.310 --> 01:49:05.750 a little top heavy she she is but i found um 01:49:05.750 --> 01:49:11.810 as appropriate neca put out you know like a a 01:49:11.810 --> 01:49:14.170 thing of stands that you could buy like yeah 01:49:14.170 --> 01:49:18.229 they're 10 bucks and they're larger size i put 01:49:18.229 --> 01:49:23.270 her on one of those no issues yeah So yeah, this 01:49:23.270 --> 01:49:25.890 is a must -have. 100%. Although I will say this. 01:49:26.529 --> 01:49:30.770 I got the first Pee -wee figure. I love it. But 01:49:30.770 --> 01:49:37.260 the likenesses on her and on Pee -wee feel a 01:49:37.260 --> 01:49:42.720 little cartoony to me. They don't look as much 01:49:42.720 --> 01:49:45.779 like real people as some of NECA's other products. 01:49:46.600 --> 01:49:50.579 They don't look like Paul Rubens and Cassandra 01:49:50.579 --> 01:49:54.289 Peterson. They look like... if Elvira and Pee 01:49:54.289 --> 01:50:03.430 -wee were even more hyper -real. Oh, okay. To 01:50:03.430 --> 01:50:08.050 me, the portraits look a little odd. I agree 01:50:08.050 --> 01:50:11.949 with you that the portraits aren't as, I think, 01:50:12.029 --> 01:50:16.930 like, detail -sculpted like some of the other 01:50:16.930 --> 01:50:20.369 NECA figures, but I feel like they look like 01:50:20.369 --> 01:50:26.329 toy versions. Yes, yes, that and that's what 01:50:26.329 --> 01:50:29.609 it is, is the other other figures they do look 01:50:29.609 --> 01:50:32.189 like little tiny versions of people. These look 01:50:32.189 --> 01:50:35.449 like toys of Peewee and Elvira that you just 01:50:35.449 --> 01:50:38.649 nailed it. Exactly what it is. And I they're 01:50:38.649 --> 01:50:41.550 great. And I'm happy to have I'll be happy to 01:50:41.550 --> 01:50:43.750 get this one. I'm happy to have the Peewee. But 01:50:43.750 --> 01:50:47.170 it is a little odd because I want to put them 01:50:47.170 --> 01:50:50.289 on the shelf next to the other ones. And they 01:50:50.289 --> 01:50:54.319 kind of you know, you know how I am. Well, I 01:50:54.319 --> 01:51:01.199 have the 8 -inch clothed version of her with 01:51:01.199 --> 01:51:05.680 my Pee Wee, with my Vincent Price, and my 80s 01:51:05.680 --> 01:51:08.699 Alf, because I just feel like they fit so well 01:51:08.699 --> 01:51:13.619 together. It's Pee Wee's Halloween Christmas 01:51:13.619 --> 01:51:17.810 special. You know, I'm surprised they didn't 01:51:17.810 --> 01:51:22.840 do an 8 -inch Pee Wee. Because I feel like they 01:51:22.840 --> 01:51:24.800 could do a really good job with this dude, and 01:51:24.800 --> 01:51:30.250 that would be like a nice -looking figure. Let's 01:51:30.250 --> 01:51:32.829 see. I want to make sure I didn't skip over. 01:51:34.060 --> 01:51:36.399 Okay, okay. I see what happened here. All right, 01:51:36.420 --> 01:51:42.569 next up. This one is mine, and it's Gonzo from 01:51:42.569 --> 01:51:45.510 The Muppet Show. It is an absolute must -have. 01:51:45.529 --> 01:51:47.670 He's in his purple tuxedo. He's got Carmilla 01:51:47.670 --> 01:51:50.770 with him. He's got the tire that he attempts 01:51:50.770 --> 01:51:56.329 to eat. It's beautiful. It's perfect. I cannot 01:51:56.329 --> 01:51:58.590 believe after all these years of talking about 01:51:58.590 --> 01:52:02.350 it, NECA finally has Muppets. And look how expressive 01:52:02.350 --> 01:52:07.029 his face is. He's got two different mouths and 01:52:07.029 --> 01:52:10.409 two different eyes. So the way you can combine 01:52:10.409 --> 01:52:13.729 them is... And look at that. I didn't

even notice 01:52:13.729 --> 01:52:16.470 this before. Look at his hair. Yeah. He's got 01:52:16.470 --> 01:52:21.810 different hair as well. Is that eye and hair 01:52:21.810 --> 01:52:25.890 one piece, I wonder? I thought the eyes were 01:52:25.890 --> 01:52:28.149 separate. Like, it's different heads, and then 01:52:28.149 --> 01:52:30.989 you can pop the eyes. I think you're right. I 01:52:30.989 --> 01:52:33.189 think you're right. I think the eyes are the 01:52:33.189 --> 01:52:36.399 only things that swap out. Oh, I've got stuff 01:52:36.399 --> 01:52:39.989 all out of order. All right, hang on. We're going 01:52:39.989 --> 01:52:42.670 crazy tonight. We are going crazy, because we 01:52:42.670 --> 01:52:46.510 can't go to the next one, because Ryan has different 01:52:46.510 --> 01:52:50.789 things to say about that. All right, pardon me 01:52:50.789 --> 01:52:52.989 while I zip through some slides that are not 01:52:52.989 --> 01:52:57.979 in order. oh wait was that okay maybe that oh 01:52:57.979 --> 01:53:02.380 because you guys both chose uh the same one yes 01:53:02.380 --> 01:53:05.479 and then christian you didn't you didn't send 01:53:05.479 --> 01:53:10.909 a nope so we're moving right into my nope doesn't 01:53:10.909 --> 01:53:15.359 have a figure oh what is your nope you can you 01:53:15.359 --> 01:53:18.380 can kick us well no you guys do yours first okay 01:53:18.380 --> 01:53:23.279 and then we'll do my nope okay okay So, Ryan, 01:53:23.479 --> 01:53:26.479 tell us why this is a questionable decision for 01:53:26.479 --> 01:53:29.470 you. Hasbro, get the hell out of here with this. 01:53:30.029 --> 01:53:38.270 So this is the two pack of Trask with Nimrod 01:53:38.270 --> 01:53:43.460 Bastion Sentinel that they are charging seventy 01:53:43.460 --> 01:53:49.579 five dollars for. Freaking crazy. I want that 01:53:49.579 --> 01:53:51.720 Trask figure, even though it's not, you know, 01:53:51.800 --> 01:53:58.779 97 Trask is more a scientist versus a skeezy 01:53:58.779 --> 01:54:01.800 robot politician. But at the same time, like, 01:54:01.840 --> 01:54:03.220 this is probably the only way we're going to 01:54:03.220 --> 01:54:05.180 get. I can't see Marvel Legends putting Trask 01:54:05.180 --> 01:54:09.239 out. I don't know, man, because that was my problem 01:54:09.239 --> 01:54:12.220 with it is I want a Bolivar Trask, but I don't 01:54:12.220 --> 01:54:15.720 want this one. And I want a Bastion, but not 01:54:15.720 --> 01:54:19.199 this one. because these to me i look at these 01:54:19.199 --> 01:54:21.939 these are x -men 97 i cannot put these on my 01:54:21.939 --> 01:54:25.920 shelf and the problem with your bastion is like 01:54:25.920 --> 01:54:29.220 i don't imagine they're going to release him 01:54:29.220 --> 01:54:33.539 because he was the pack -in the bonus figure 01:54:33.539 --> 01:54:38.340 for the sentinel right but they do that yeah 01:54:38.340 --> 01:54:41.319 they that put a little make him a little different 01:54:41.319 --> 01:54:43.460 color oh he's in different packaging because 01:54:43.460 --> 01:54:45.689 they've released All of the figures that came 01:54:45.689 --> 01:54:48.569 with the Star Wars has labs. They've released 01:54:48.569 --> 01:54:51.449 some of the ones that have come with the classified 01:54:51.449 --> 01:54:53.090 ones, although they haven't. You know what's 01:54:53.090 --> 01:54:55.350 interesting? They have not done a his tank driver. 01:54:56.750 --> 01:55:00.189 It just hit me. We fully expected that in the 01:55:00.189 --> 01:55:05.510 main line. But they have used parts from the 01:55:05.640 --> 01:55:11.359 his tank driver for... Have they? Yeah, for... 01:55:11.359 --> 01:55:15.569 I thought it was one of the Dyer. No. Remember, 01:55:15.670 --> 01:55:20.449 we looked, and it was different. Oh. It was different 01:55:20.449 --> 01:55:23.569 boots, I think. I could be wrong, but I think 01:55:23.569 --> 01:55:27.689 we verified, no, these are different. Yeah, I'm 01:55:27.689 --> 01:55:30.609 looking at the parts loadout on this, and this 01:55:30.609 --> 01:55:36.409 is not $75 worth of stuff at all. At all. Yeah, 01:55:36.489 --> 01:55:41.880 that's a respectable nope. All right. My nope 01:55:41.880 --> 01:55:45.989 is... all of the jason universe stuff from neca 01:55:45.989 --> 01:55:51.689 because it just doesn't look right i want some 01:55:51.689 --> 01:55:53.890 of these jasons you know because they've done 01:55:53.890 --> 01:55:56.229 versions here that they have not done in the 01:55:56.229 --> 01:55:59.239 regular line and i would love to put them with 01:55:59.239 --> 01:56:02.000 my regular stuff but these do not these don't 01:56:02.000 --> 01:56:06.539 match they don't look right to me i never played 01:56:06.539 --> 01:56:10.569 that game so i don't care about it and they are 01:56:10.569 --> 01:56:16.390 going all in on this these to me look like wave 01:56:16.390 --> 01:56:22.220 two movie maniacs like they just look stiff and 01:56:22.220 --> 01:56:25.880 yeah there's just something off yeah it's not 01:56:25.880 --> 01:56:28.319 helping that they're not posing them very well 01:56:28.319 --> 01:56:31.720 like these could look a lot more dynamic uh and 01:56:31.720 --> 01:56:35.479 that part of jason's head is too small i agree 01:56:35.479 --> 01:56:42.340 um but yeah this is Well, wait a minute. That 01:56:42.340 --> 01:56:44.340 says part nine, Jason. I guess they don't want 01:56:44.340 --> 01:56:48.880 to call it Jason Goes to Hell. But yeah, I'm 01:56:49.010 --> 01:56:52.130 just not interested. They don't look right to 01:56:52.130 --> 01:56:55.810 me. And unlike some other things, I'm not going 01:56:55.810 --> 01:56:57.750 to buy it because, oh, well, they haven't done 01:56:57.750 --> 01:57:00.189 a Jason Goes to Hell, so I'll get this just to 01:57:00.189 --> 01:57:03.390 have one. Because this isn't going to fit on 01:57:03.390 --> 01:57:07.579 my shelf. It doesn't look the

same. So that's 01:57:07.579 --> 01:57:11.640 a big nope from me. All right, Christian. OK, 01:57:11.640 --> 01:57:17.550 so my nope is something I I thought when I first 01:57:17.550 --> 01:57:22.329 read it was a made up story like somebody was 01:57:22.329 --> 01:57:24.869 trolling and then me being me, I looked into 01:57:24.869 --> 01:57:29.409 it and it was true. My nope is Walmart being 01:57:29.409 --> 01:57:33.560 set up at New York Comic Con. And apparently 01:57:33.560 --> 01:57:35.800 this is the second year in a row. And not only 01:57:35.800 --> 01:57:37.579 did they have a booth where they were selling 01:57:37.579 --> 01:57:40.920 merch, but they did live stream. To promote Walmart 01:57:40.920 --> 01:57:46.800 Collectors Con. Well, they did live streams with 01:57:46.800 --> 01:57:50.720 Brian Flynn. Yeah. With Boss Fight. I didn't 01:57:50.720 --> 01:57:54.560 realize. And all the live streams when they went 01:57:54.560 --> 01:57:56.260 to, well, two of them. I wanted to watch the 01:57:56.260 --> 01:57:58.960 Boss Fight and I wanted to watch the Super 7. 01:57:59.600 --> 01:58:03.439 And I clicked on them and they just shut off. 01:58:03.699 --> 01:58:05.779 Like I couldn't watch them. It didn't work. And 01:58:05.779 --> 01:58:07.680 the same thing happened at San Diego Comic Con. 01:58:07.840 --> 01:58:11.250 So I saw a screenshot of. like the brian flynn 01:58:11.250 --> 01:58:14.689 one and you know i have had a very crazy work 01:58:14.689 --> 01:58:17.770 schedule so it's not like you know wall comic 01:58:17.770 --> 01:58:20.550 -con was happening i was like oh let me pause 01:58:20.550 --> 01:58:25.130 for a moment to be able to yeah yeah i i literally 01:58:25.130 --> 01:58:29.810 had like this brain fog moment of wow i'm really 01:58:29.810 --> 01:58:34.590 surprised that brian flynn is hooking up with 01:58:34.590 --> 01:58:37.109 walmart instead of spending time at new york 01:58:37.109 --> 01:58:40.489 comic -con to promote super seven But no, he 01:58:40.489 --> 01:58:44.210 was like, I don't know. There's just something 01:58:44.210 --> 01:58:47.609 about, and not to sound like old man yells at 01:58:47.609 --> 01:58:53.550 clouds, but Walmart is a mass retailer. And I 01:58:53.550 --> 01:58:57.149 know that's sort of like what San Diego Comic 01:58:57.149 --> 01:59:01.989 -Con has become. But hearing that kind of stuff 01:59:01.989 --> 01:59:04.750 just encroach in all of these conventions. Oh, 01:59:04.750 --> 01:59:10.029 yeah, yeah, yeah. Can we not? You're there. selling 01:59:10.029 --> 01:59:14.430 merch when there are other small vendors that 01:59:14.430 --> 01:59:18.449 are probably selling some of the same stuff. 01:59:18.750 --> 01:59:21.760 I don't know. It just really, really, really 01:59:21.760 --> 01:59:25.100 rubbed me the wrong way. Like, like you do you 01:59:25.100 --> 01:59:28.960 Walmart, but New York comic con, maybe you should 01:59:28.960 --> 01:59:32.800 be more selective because that

booth space could 01:59:32.800 --> 01:59:36.000 have gone to another independent press dealer, 01:59:36.159 --> 01:59:40.729 a small time toy company. That's the problem 01:59:40.729 --> 01:59:43.890 with being a mega corporation and having the 01:59:43.890 --> 01:59:46.909 purchasing power that Walmart has is you don't 01:59:46.909 --> 01:59:51.609 get to say no to Walmart. I'm going to stop. 01:59:54.000 --> 01:59:56.960 I'm going to stop because it's not that. But 01:59:56.960 --> 02:00:00.939 yeah, finding out that they were there, I was 02:00:00.939 --> 02:00:04.899 just absolutely gobsmacked. Like, what are we 02:00:04.899 --> 02:00:08.840 doing? It's gross. Walmart's gross wherever they 02:00:08.840 --> 02:00:12.210 are. why does walmart even need to do this like 02:00:12.210 --> 02:00:16.579 right because they want to cultivate that it's 02:00:16.579 --> 02:00:18.460 the same reason they have that collector section 02:00:18.460 --> 02:00:24.020 they want to cultivate that pop culture uh disposable 02:00:24.020 --> 02:00:26.840 income get them in the back of the store and 02:00:26.840 --> 02:00:28.340 there's a reason the collector section is all 02:00:28.340 --> 02:00:29.920 the way in the back of the store because you 02:00:29.920 --> 02:00:32.539 have to walk past all the other stuff to get 02:00:32.539 --> 02:00:36.380 to it like that's that's why it's there uh so 02:00:36.380 --> 02:00:39.850 i mean that's it's you know Are they advertising, 02:00:40.229 --> 02:00:42.189 come to our store and don't find what you're 02:00:42.189 --> 02:00:45.109 looking for? They're not going to be saying that. 02:00:45.289 --> 02:00:48.170 I don't know. The other thing that I read, and 02:00:48.170 --> 02:00:50.710 again, without having photos or anything, I don't 02:00:50.710 --> 02:00:53.489 know if this part is true, but some of the stuff 02:00:53.489 --> 02:00:57.850 they were selling were graded cards, graded comics. 02:00:58.489 --> 02:01:01.449 Oh, gross. I'm not a fan of that stuff anyway, 02:01:01.649 --> 02:01:05.550 so you as a mass retailer jumping on what I consider 02:01:05.550 --> 02:01:10.159 like the scalping of the hobbies that we love 02:01:10.159 --> 02:01:16.079 just yeah go away well i'm one of my sore spots 02:01:16.079 --> 02:01:18.039 and i've been trying to figure out exactly how 02:01:18.039 --> 02:01:20.859 to approach it or to talk about it to say something 02:01:20.859 --> 02:01:23.239 about it i think i mentioned it on audible interlude 02:01:23.239 --> 02:01:27.119 uh a john cena trading card sold for like 320 02:01:27.119 --> 02:01:32.340 000 and i to me that's a sign that we need to 02:01:32.340 --> 02:01:35.239 just wrap this shit up that civilization didn't 02:01:35.239 --> 02:01:38.640 work because if some, if some fuck hole is out 02:01:38.640 --> 02:01:44.029 there spending enough to buy a house for a family 02:01:44.029 --> 02:01:48.529 on a trading card, we, we fucked up and we're 02:01:48.529 --> 02:01:52.489

so far gone wrong that I don't know if we can 02:01:52.489 --> 02:01:57.430 come back. Late stage capitalism. Right. Right. 02:01:57.590 --> 02:02:00.590 Like that. And I just, I don't even have the. 02:02:01.449 --> 02:02:05.250 It's such a massively abhorrent concept. I don't 02:02:05.250 --> 02:02:07.329 know how to even talk about it because we're 02:02:07.329 --> 02:02:10.250 all into collecting. We all enjoy this meaningless 02:02:10.250 --> 02:02:14.609 junk. So it's difficult to say, wow, that's really 02:02:14.609 --> 02:02:17.189 messed up. I don't know. It's gross. But let's 02:02:17.189 --> 02:02:22.850 end on a happy note. Yes. Let's talk about the 02:02:22.850 --> 02:02:26.970 best company showing who really put their best 02:02:26.970 --> 02:02:29.170 foot forward, made an impression. And granted, 02:02:29.210 --> 02:02:32.390 again, we've had to. sort of renegotiate our 02:02:32.390 --> 02:02:34.869 expectations for what new york comic -con was 02:02:34.869 --> 02:02:39.270 but i think we still saw some cool stuff uh ryan 02:02:39.270 --> 02:02:43.130 what was who impressed you the most not that 02:02:43.130 --> 02:02:45.590 i picked them for any of my picks but i think 02:02:45.590 --> 02:02:49.670 nega took the show um between you did your leather 02:02:49.670 --> 02:02:52.090 face oh yeah yeah i did the leather face yeah 02:02:52.090 --> 02:02:57.670 between those muppet babies sesame street They're 02:02:57.670 --> 02:02:59.949 just expanding in some really cool stuff, and 02:02:59.949 --> 02:03:05.710 it all looks great. Yeah, same for me. NECA was 02:03:05.710 --> 02:03:10.170 the one that had, as you said, with all the interesting 02:03:10.170 --> 02:03:12.970 different licenses that they had on display, 02:03:13.069 --> 02:03:16.710 how excited I am for their stuff versus some 02:03:16.710 --> 02:03:21.449 of the other stuff, and knowing that as of now, 02:03:21.710 --> 02:03:24.989 their price points are not going up. Now, granted. 02:03:25.600 --> 02:03:27.279 Since we're trying to keep the end of the show 02:03:27.279 --> 02:03:29.260 positive, we're not going to talk about this. 02:03:29.760 --> 02:03:31.779 And we're also not going to talk about this. 02:03:33.270 --> 02:03:38.609 But as far as NECA's regular releases, everything 02:03:38.609 --> 02:03:43.770 is still holding at that $37 .99. And for the 02:03:43.770 --> 02:03:47.829 value that they provide, if it does get to $39 02:03:47.829 --> 02:03:50.750 .99, which I believe I actually did see something 02:03:50.750 --> 02:03:57.260 on Big Bad that was that. That's not as big of 02:03:57.260 --> 02:03:59.739 a problem for me. I see the value with those 02:03:59.739 --> 02:04:02.810 figures and with what they're doing. Christian, 02:04:02.869 --> 02:04:08.729 what was your pick? It was NECA. For the same 02:04:08.729 --> 02:04:14.350 reasons that Schweck was mentioning, the pure 02:04:14.670 --> 02:04:18.859 variety of product that they are putting out. 02:04:18.899 --> 02:04:22.720 When I say product, I mean the IPs as far as 02:04:22.720 --> 02:04:25.899 you have everything from horror. to muppet babies 02:04:25.899 --> 02:04:30.380 you have all these varying scales and at those 02:04:30.380 --> 02:04:36.229 price points it you know instead of going the 02:04:36.229 --> 02:04:39.550 star wars black route of yeah this figure is 02:04:39.550 --> 02:04:41.550 one quarter the size of everybody else but we're 02:04:41.550 --> 02:04:44.109 still going to charge you the $30 for him they're 02:04:44.109 --> 02:04:46.810 going yeah these figures are one quarter the 02:04:46.810 --> 02:04:48.750 size of the other figures so we're going to pack 02:04:48.750 --> 02:04:52.430 them too yeah through a package so that you're 02:04:52.430 --> 02:04:57.140 getting your money's worth and Even though I 02:04:57.140 --> 02:05:00.640 didn't order it, I love that their convention 02:05:00.640 --> 02:05:07.140 exclusive was the blue bird of sadness from Follow 02:05:07.140 --> 02:05:10.800 That Bird. Because once Elmo took off, Follow 02:05:10.800 --> 02:05:15.180 That Bird has kind of died, which is so sad. 02:05:15.479 --> 02:05:21.119 So I love seeing them pay homage to that movie. 02:05:21.699 --> 02:05:23.479 and put some product out there that now maybe 02:05:23.479 --> 02:05:26.399 people will start revisiting that movie again. 02:05:26.880 --> 02:05:29.579 I do wish he had a sad face, though, so I can 02:05:29.579 --> 02:05:36.100 make him sing the song. Oh, the Steve brothers. 02:05:39.020 --> 02:05:42.319 I'll just say this as far as the NECA stuff goes. 02:05:42.420 --> 02:05:46.659 Christian, I cannot wait to see your Puppet Master 02:05:46.659 --> 02:05:52.789 versus Muppet Babies. And where can we find that 02:05:52.789 --> 02:05:54.810 toy photography and where else can we find you 02:05:54.810 --> 02:05:58.109 online? You can find me on Instagram and blue 02:05:58.109 --> 02:06:02.020 sky under the name Legion cub. And Ryan, you've 02:06:02.020 --> 02:06:03.979 got some stuff going on in the world of star 02:06:03.979 --> 02:06:07.319 Wars. Yep. You can find me as one of the co -hosts 02:06:07.319 --> 02:06:10.640 with Chad and Beth, who appears on needless things 02:06:10.640 --> 02:06:14.619 at execute chapter 66, a star Wars fiction podcast 02:06:14.619 --> 02:06:19.119 where we look at books and everything else. And 02:06:19.119 --> 02:06:22.920 you will see all of us in the coming months because 02:06:22.920 --> 02:06:27.760 Hasbro Palooza is coming back in November and 02:06:27.760 --> 02:06:32.859 December. So be ready for a couple more because 02:06:32.859 --> 02:06:35.840 it's that time of year. We got to celebrate nostalgia 02:06:35.840 --> 02:06:38.079 and celebrate the past even more than we usually 02:06:38.079 --> 02:06:40.579 do. So that's all the show we got for you right 02:06:40.579 --> 02:06:42.859 now. 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