Aug. 14, 2025

Epic Tales of TMNT Toys with Pixel Dan!

In this episode Justin and Eric are speaking to Toy Collector and and Author of the new book The Toys of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1988-1993, Pixel Dan!

From collecting toys and his role as an influencer in the hobby, Dan talks about what to expect about his upcoming book, and how it's set apart from others.

With some great conversations about Toys, Masters of the Universe, TMNT, and Transformers among many others. We talk about his recent trip to San Diego Comic con and all the toys from Mondo to Neca and Playmates!

Check out Our Guest on Youtube @PixelDan and look for the pre-order for his book here @shopthepower-con.com and follow our guest on Instagram @PixelDan.

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Welcome back to Epic Tales from the Sewers,

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hopefully your favorite

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Ninja Turtles podcast with our two hosts.

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I am Justin,

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and with me as always is my co-host,

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Mr. Eric Will.

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How you doing, Eric?

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I'm doing okay.

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How about you, Justin?

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How are you doing?

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I'm excited, man.

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We've got another toy-centric episode.

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I'm super excited.

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My wife is scared,

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so she knows that I'm going

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to be talking about Ninja Turtles toys,

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so you know.

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But this is a big one for us.

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Our guest tonight is a toy

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hunter and author.

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He also sometimes goes by

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Prince Pixor of Toyfar,

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which is his canonic name

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in the Masters of the

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Universe comic universe.

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He has written the

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definitive book on

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collecting Motu Masters of

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the Universe action figures

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called The Toys of He-Man

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and the Masters of the Universe.

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His new book is available

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for pre-order right now

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called The Toys of Teenage

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Mutant Ninja Turtles,

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Please welcome our guest, Pixel Dan.

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Hey, guys.

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Thank you.

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That was good.

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That was nice, man.

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That was a great intro.

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Thank you so much for having me on.

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I really appreciate it.

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Thanks for joining us.

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We're all huge, huge turtle heads.

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And I mean,

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you can see I'm all action figure.

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I've got my turtles over

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here and mostly Batman and

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Hellboy and Fraggle Rock over there.

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So, you know, it's

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love it love it yeah good

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stuff eric's got a fair a

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fair amount as well so we

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we're uh we're fans of your

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work we could say oh thank

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you thank you very much man

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appreciate that so um as as

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a kind of like a a big time

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toy hunter what's your

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origin story like with uh

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with action figures I I

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figure we may have to go

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back to masters of the

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universe first on this one because

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I'm guessing we're of the same vintage.

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So I was going to say comes first.

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There's no avoiding He-Man,

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unfortunately in these conversations.

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Yeah, that's,

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that's definitely where it

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starts for me because, um,

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so I was born in eighty two,

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which coincidentally is the

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same year He-Man was born

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because that's the year the

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action figure line came out.

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Uh,

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but of course the filmation animated

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series came out a few years

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later and I was right at

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the right age to get hooked by that.

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Um,

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and it's one of those things that I

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shared, uh,

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with my mom because my mom

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and me watched He-Man together.

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She bought me all the toys together.

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We saw Secret of the Sword

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at the theater together,

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the live action movie.

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So Masters of the Universe

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was like my first toy love.

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It was the first fandom.

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I guess I was part of growing up as a kid,

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but with Masters winding

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down in eighty seven,

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that was right in time for

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something else to rise up

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in nineteen eighty eight.

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which I was the perfect age for.

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Six years old,

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probably going into first grade, right?

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Ninja Turtles became it at that point.

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So He-Man was my earliest love,

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but Turtles dominated a lot

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of my childhood.

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That was a big, big portion of it.

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And as you guys know,

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I don't think anybody...

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that didn't live during that

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era really understands just

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like the hold that turtles

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had on all of us back then.

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I mean, it was, it was massive.

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It was so cool.

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So, so, uh,

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turtles and He-Man were my childhood and,

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you know, I fell out of toys in my teens.

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Like I feel like is a pretty

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common story with a lot of us.

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And the thing that kind of

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lured me back to toys was in ninety five.

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when the star Wars power of

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the force figures came out.

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Okay.

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All right.

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Yeah.

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And I always kind of make

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the joke that I feel like

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in some shape or form,

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star Wars seems to be the

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gateway drug to toy

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collecting for a lot of people.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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That's true.

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That's true.

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Yeah.

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So I, uh, I was a teenager.

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I was in high school,

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but I really wanted those

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star Wars figures.

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Like I was seeing them in

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store and I was really drawn to them.

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So I, of course I became, um,

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Like, well, I'm a collector.

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So I bought them and kept

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them in the package and

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hung them on the wall in my bedroom.

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And so that was like my,

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the late nineties was all

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about those Star Wars figures as I was,

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you know, going,

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finishing up high school and everything.

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And then,

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You're all excited.

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Cause you got like the

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special edition law gray from Kenner and,

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you know, dude, it was insane the way,

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like I would be hunting for

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that stuff too.

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And like the internet was

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like brand new at that time.

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Right.

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For a lot of us.

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So I started like,

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that was my first

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introduction to peeking

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into like people talking

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about that kind of stuff.

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And,

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learning about like the weird variants.

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Like there's a Boba Fett

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with only half a circle

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painted on his hand.

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I got to find that, you know,

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weird stuff like that.

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So it was really starting to like, I was,

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I was becoming a toy collector.

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Right.

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Even if I didn't know quite

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what that was yet,

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that's what was happening.

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And then in two thousand is

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when the He-Man

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commemorative series figures came out.

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Yep.

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And that was like,

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Oh my God.

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Cause like that brought it all back.

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Like that was like, that's my childhood.

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That's nostalgia.

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And like,

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this was back when Walmart still

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had layaway and I didn't know.

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And I was like, yeah.

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Right.

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So this was two thousand.

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I was fresh out of high school.

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I wasn't making a lot of money.

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So I found all those He-Man

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figures at Walmart and I

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put them all on layaway and

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I paid them off.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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until I could get them so I

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feel like that that feels

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like the first like real

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moment of like oh my god I

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gotta have these I gotta

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and then that it just took

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off from there because then

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it was suddenly I'm on ebay

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all the time rebuying my

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old ninja turtles toys

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rebuying my old he-man toys

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getting into all the new

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stuff marvel legends came

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out shortly after that

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The mode to relaunch the two

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thousand two series turtles

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relaunch of the two

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thousand three series.

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It was all over at that point.

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Right.

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Like that was it.

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I was I was full on.

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The gates are open.

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So that leads to like Club

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Eternia and all that,

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like in that Maddie collector era.

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So, yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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DC Universe classics.

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Yeah, man.

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I was I was all about that, too.

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that's when they started

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noticing that there is like

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a collector market, right?

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So things are really

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starting to be aimed

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directly at us and

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targeting our nostalgia and

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they've been doing it ever since.

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So with,

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with the original masters of the universe,

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you wrote a whole book on it with this.

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What was something that was

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kind of like unique about

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masters of the universe

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that maybe the layman may not know?

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Ooh.

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Yeah.

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So I guess Masters of the

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Universe is kind of,

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and maybe a lot of people

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do realize this at one point,

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but you know,

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Masters of the Universe as a

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toy line debuted before

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there was media to go with it.

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It was a line of action

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figures for about two years

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before that Filmation cartoon came out.

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And it was, in fact, it,

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along with Transformers,

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were the first toy lines to

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get a cartoon series,

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which in turn was like- I

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think they legally had to produce it,

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right?

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Yeah, yeah.

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Well,

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because that was right around the

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time that the laws changed

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and it made it so that that

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could happen because what

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they had to do though is

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there had to be some sort

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of educational value to it,

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which is why you have the

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morals at the end of the episode.

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And I think there were rules

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where they couldn't technically put like,

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He-Man toy commercials

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airing during that cartoon.

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Now,

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certainly other toy lines got

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advertised during the cartoon, right?

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But the cartoon itself was

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an advertisement for those toys.

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And it's one of those things

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where you look at it nowadays,

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it's like everything has to

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be based on some form of

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media to get a toy line, right?

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Like toy lines.

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Yeah, it's opposite now.

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Like, and that was one of the things like,

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it's,

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it's such a mixed feeling for me in

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the sense that like,

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obviously I love the He-Man

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cartoon and the Ninja

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Turtles cartoon and all

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that stuff is amazing.

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And I'm glad we got all that stuff,

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but I do feel like there was a lot more,

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I don't even want to say

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creativity because there's

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so many creative toy makers

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out there today, but it felt like, um,

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there was a lot more leeway

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to put random things in toy

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stores to see what would

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sell without it having to

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have a cartoon or a movie

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associated with it.

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They sold us robots that

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turned into rocks.

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I mean, yeah, yeah, yeah, rock words.

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I mean,

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I got all these inhumanoids behind me.

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Yeah.

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Walking into the toy store

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in the eighties and

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nineties was so different than it is now,

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because it was one of those

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times where like,

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you never knew what you

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were going to find.

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There was always something

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new to discover and it was exciting.

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And you didn't always like

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having a cartoon was cool,

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but you didn't always need that.

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Sometimes it was just about

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like finding the cool toy and look at,

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at the artwork on the

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package and reading the bio

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on the back to learn about

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these characters.

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And like,

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I feel like that is something that,

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still kind of exists in the

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indie toy world but

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certainly isn't as

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prominent in toy stores

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like walmart and target

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being kind of our only

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options for toys these days

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they don't have a lot of

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dedicated space so they

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want to make sure the

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things they put in there

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are things they're going to

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sell so of course it's just

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all the same old stuff

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right it's it's always hot

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wheel it's always barbie

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it's always marvel it's

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always you know transformers turtles

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all cool stuff,

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but I miss the originality

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of the eighties and nineties.

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It's funny because it's kind of like, it's,

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it's flip-flopped a little bit.

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Like, um,

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I remember when monster high came out,

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right.

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And my kids were like really

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into it and all that.

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I'm like, wow,

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this is so unique and everything.

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Like, yeah, that was like this Avenue.

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And I'm like, well,

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there's different avenues

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that they're going into

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because they see that, you know, Oh,

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well Barbie sell.

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What if we had a fashion doll?

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And if you look at like,

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I know this is a tangent, Eric,

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I'm sorry.

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Um,

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But if you look at, like,

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the toys that are, like, the top,

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you know, ten sellers, like,

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the majority of them are, like, you know,

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girls' fashion doll toys.

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Like, and I say girls' for anybody, but,

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you know, like, that sort of thing.

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And it's, like,

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the difference between that and, like,

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the next closest thing or even Lego,

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which is, like, fifth down the line,

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is staggering.

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I don't know if you guys know this,

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but Tamagotchi still outsells, like,

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almost every toy out there.

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That's a while.

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I had no idea.

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Did you blow your mind?

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That is crazy.

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Oh, my gosh.

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Yeah,

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I just did all this research on toys

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and stuff.

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We were talking about Care

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Bears and Cabbage Patch and all that.

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And it's like, oh, my God.

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You'd think Barbie would be huge up there.

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But it's like, no,

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the company that does Bratz is huge.

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And Rainbow Girls or whatever it is.

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It's like, wow, they sell that well?

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I thought that was clearance stuff.

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Nope.

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That's wild.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So so creativity is the end.

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So Masters of the Universe creativity.

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I remember having a book on

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record with like this crazy

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song at the end where it's like, you know,

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the story ends and, you know,

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you hear the sound of the

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chime and then you change the page.

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And then at the end,

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they have this whole song at the end.

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And I'm like, oh, my God, like that.

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It's crazy because there's

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nothing like that right now.

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Now it's like, oh, stuff.

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I want to get the app or go

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on and get this.

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And you can,

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you can play as your favorite character.

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It's like, well,

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we had that and I had to go

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to the library to get that

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or like my one cousin that

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had it or something, you know,

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books on tape and books on record.

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Yeah.

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Like even, even like the,

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the talent fighter and point

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dread play set came with a record.

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Like a record was packaged

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with that toy that like

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told the story of this

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amazing play set that you just bought.

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Like stuff like that was so

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immersive back then when we were kids,

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it really built out the world for us.

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Now I'm going to hit you

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with a deep question here because as I,

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and then I'll move on to turtle stuff,

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but we know, we know you're, you're,

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you're a personnel and

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you've got a nice voice and all that.

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If you were to vocalize,

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if you were going to do a

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character for masters of the universe,

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what character would you do the voice of?

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So I, I feel like the,

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tell me it's goat man.

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That's a good one.

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But along the same vein,

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I feel like my answer has

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to be Mosquito because he's like my,

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he's my favorite toy from

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the original line and he's

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never appeared in any animation.

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So he's never had a really,

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he's never had a voice.

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And,

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and I've often thought like what he

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would sound like.

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And I, I'm not like a voice.

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I don't think I could do voices,

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but I feel like he would

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have to have kind of like that.

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high, buzzy, like, you know,

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you think about a mosquito

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buzzing in your ear.

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So there would have to be... Yeah, right,

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because Merman's got that... You know,

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he always had that real bubbly voice.

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So, like,

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Mosquito would have to be very

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exaggerated like that with, like,

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the high pitch,

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like... When he's talking.

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I just don't know.

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I don't know.

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Oh, hell yeah.

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I'm loving it.

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Eric, who would you be?

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You give off Ram Man vibes.

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Ram Man.

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I don't know Ram Man vibes.

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I don't know.

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I feel like I'd be more into

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the bad guy more than anything.

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Yeah.

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I don't know why.

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I get the vibe of Skeletor.

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I don't know why.

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Yeah.

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I would crush Goatman.

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Do it.

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What's your Goatman voice sound like?

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Oh, well, he's mute.

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No, it's good.

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you would crush it yeah I

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love all those old voices

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like Oppenheimer and all

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that doing that I'll get

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you you buffoon you know

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like Beastman and you know

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those are good impressions

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that's what we do here man

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so that's why we ask you

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must have been a fan of the

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Masters of the Universe

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crossover with Turtles did

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you get a chance to read the comic

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so I I haven't read the um I

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have the first issue and I

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wanted to pick up the rest

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before I read through it

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but I haven't read the full

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issue I've only read like

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the mini comics that come

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with the toys the the

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fourth one came out so all

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of them all of them I need

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I need to grab on the swing

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yeah we won't spoil it we

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won't spoil that's good

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that's good the story was

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what was interesting it was

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good yeah was it good good

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I liked it a lot yeah good

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I think the only one so far

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that I've liked more than

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that is the crossover of stranger things,

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which should not have worked,

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but was frigging amazing.

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Cool.

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That's cool.

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So, but,

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but I'll tell you the funny thing is we,

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we got advanced copies

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because our good friend,

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Mike Ruth was a cover

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artist on one of them.

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And we went to granite state

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con last year.

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We picked up a copy.

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And there we were the next

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morning in our hotel room,

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sitting like two little

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kids reading the comic next

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to each other.

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And I'm going, Oh, and he's like, dude,

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that's the best.

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It was awesome.

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So it did have a little birdie toe is that,

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that this, uh,

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this series was actually

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going to happen in a comic book.

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I mean, yeah, we did know,

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we kind of did know that.

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I mean, nice.

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It is pretty fun.

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Um,

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So that that's probably all

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I'll ask you about masters

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of the universe.

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It's just,

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that's always been an important

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one for me to going back.

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Like it's,

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it's a little rough watching them,

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but I still love the

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rotoscope and like the

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opening is so iconic.

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Oh yeah, absolutely.

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And the transformation scene

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will always get me like always.

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It doesn't matter how silly

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or corny that show is when he transforms.

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It's like, it's like, I'm a kid.

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Every time, you know?

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I go back to, like,

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there's two things about that movie,

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like the live-action movie I love,

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which is Sarat and Blade.

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Like, those two characters, I'd be like,

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write me a movie about

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those two characters.

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And I know Sarat died, but,

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like... I was so bummed when Sarat died.

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I loved Sarat as a kid.

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I thought he was such... He

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was the coolest-looking of

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all the new characters in the movie.

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I loved his toy.

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And then when he died, I was like, what?

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Like, what the hell is this?

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No!

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Yeah.

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And Blade was so cool.

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I was glad when they came

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out with that like a special edition.

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I'm like, this is amazing.

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Yeah.

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Finally, something for me.

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There's all kinds of stuff for me.

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But, you know, it's all for.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Everything.

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All of it's for me.

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Everything's for you.

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Let's see what I have.

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So we talked about your origin story.

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So getting into turtles and

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all that at that formative age.

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So the cartoon was kind of a

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gateway for you.

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Let's talk about your first

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Ninja Turtles toys that you got there.

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Did you start out with

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everything like He-Man?

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Were you soft heads?

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Like, how did that work?

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So my very first figure,

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I can still remember the

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day that I got it.

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Very first figure was Donatello.

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Okay.

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Donatello.

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And we,

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I remember it was a summer day and

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we were shopping at a Hills

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department store.

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I don't know if anybody remembers Hills.

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You're in Midwest with me.

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Did you guys have Hills in Chicago?

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I'm a Connecticut guy, so I mean.

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Oh, so you're, okay.

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So when I was looking at

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Bradley's or Caldor, so show.

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Okay.

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So Hills would be like a

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Midwest type Caldor type store,

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I think is the best way.

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It was a, it was amazing.

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The thing I always remember

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about them was their toy

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section was like unmatched.

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It was Meyer.

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Now Meyer's pretty cool.

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We had Meyer's cool.

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Yeah.

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So we,

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I did a lot of toy shopping at Hills

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when I was younger, when it was here.

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And I remember it was a

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summer day and I remember my mom was,

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pulling it off the shelf and

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showing it to me and going,

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look at this Ninja turtles.

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Do you like this?

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And I was like, yeah, this is really cool.

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And she bought it for me.

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And I,

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and I always specifically remember

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that it was a summer day

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because I remember it was

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one of those days where we ran in town.

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We did a bunch of errands.

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Then we came home and like,

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we set up one of those like

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little kiddie swimming

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pools in the backyard.

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And like I played in the

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pool and then came inside for lunch.

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And my mom laid a beach

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towel down in the living room,

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gave me lunch, turned on the TV.

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and then gave me my new Donatello figure.

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And I sat there and opened

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it and played with it while watching TV.

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Like that is burned in my memory.

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It's amazing.

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Like, I just remember.

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What the hell is this hook thing?

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Yeah.

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I'm certain I lost those

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extra weapons immediately.

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Like,

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this one looks like a weird place to

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pizza.

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Yeah.

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But that, that was like,

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I got hooked real fast.

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Cause once I got that one,

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I fell in love and it,

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it was,

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it could not have been very long

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before I had at least all four of the,

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the main, you know, the turtles and,

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and then Christmases from

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that point forward,

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like the next several years,

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Christmases were turtle Christmases.

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Like that's what I got.

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So it was cool.

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It was a cool time.

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It was neat.

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I remember when, um,

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all that stuff was coming out and, um,

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you know, I,

00:19:08.663 --> 00:19:10.864
I think I had gotten like the first three,

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um, and I didn't have a Michelangelo and,

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um,

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I ended up getting a

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Michelangelo like for my birthday,

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like a couple of months

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later or something.

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But to this day,

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my Michelangelo has two left feet.

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And if I had left him in the

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box or something like that, you know,

00:19:26.009 --> 00:19:26.951
cause he's a soft head with

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two left legs.

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I still have him.

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You know,

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he's just hanging out with his two left.

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So wild.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I'm like,

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I was wondering if you have run

00:19:35.472 --> 00:19:35.932
into anything,

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was that a production error?

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Was it just like a one-off

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or it's gotta be just a factory error.

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And that, that stuff happens, right.

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They just got assembled

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wrong in the factory,

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but that certainly makes

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for a unique piece.

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Oh yeah.

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I mean, on card,

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that would have been really cool.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I mean, it was your childhood one.

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So obviously you will.

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Exactly.

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Yeah.

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So I'm, I'm still holding onto him.

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He still doesn't stand up.

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Well, you know,

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I'll tell you guys.

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I don't know how it was for you,

00:20:01.401 --> 00:20:03.042
but with my Michelangelo and all that,

00:20:03.282 --> 00:20:05.625
I was absolutely adamant

00:20:05.664 --> 00:20:07.487
that nobody was touching my nunchucks.

00:20:07.708 --> 00:20:08.107
Nobody.

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I'm not touching these.

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I'm leaving them like that.

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They're going to be cherry.

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Sure enough,

00:20:12.352 --> 00:20:13.814
my friend comes over and breaks them.

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Yeah, mine broke too.

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I you know what else I

00:20:18.304 --> 00:20:20.045
always remember my first

00:20:20.144 --> 00:20:21.505
rafael figure that I had as

00:20:21.525 --> 00:20:22.585
a kid because he was a soft

00:20:22.625 --> 00:20:24.365
head yeah uh the mouth

00:20:24.425 --> 00:20:26.945
split so like oh wow like

00:20:26.965 --> 00:20:28.186
there was just literally a

00:20:28.247 --> 00:20:29.346
split in the mouth like I

00:20:29.366 --> 00:20:30.646
could squeeze his head and

00:20:30.686 --> 00:20:31.748
make it look like he was

00:20:31.807 --> 00:20:33.107
talking because like that's

00:20:33.127 --> 00:20:34.508
kind of cool actually so

00:20:34.548 --> 00:20:35.548
like yeah and like it

00:20:35.567 --> 00:20:36.709
didn't ever bother me as a

00:20:36.769 --> 00:20:37.788
kid because I'd be like but

00:20:37.808 --> 00:20:42.170
that yeah it just played so much yeah

00:20:42.622 --> 00:20:44.063
That's one of those funny things, too.

00:20:44.123 --> 00:20:45.483
Like when they replaced them

00:20:45.503 --> 00:20:46.324
with the hard heads,

00:20:46.443 --> 00:20:47.565
I thought it was like I

00:20:47.585 --> 00:20:48.246
thought it was better.

00:20:48.425 --> 00:20:48.685
I'm like,

00:20:48.766 --> 00:20:49.946
I kind of like this a lot better

00:20:49.987 --> 00:20:51.166
where it's like you've got like that.

00:20:51.186 --> 00:20:52.788
I don't have to worry about like, oh,

00:20:52.848 --> 00:20:54.288
his head came off or something like that,

00:20:54.308 --> 00:20:55.549
because that did happen

00:20:55.589 --> 00:20:56.590
occasionally with them.

00:20:56.631 --> 00:20:57.411
And, you know,

00:20:57.471 --> 00:20:59.011
like if you ever got him wet or something,

00:20:59.051 --> 00:21:00.393
it would get like water in there.

00:21:00.452 --> 00:21:01.933
So what's your take on that?

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Do you do you like the soft

00:21:03.055 --> 00:21:04.536
heads better than the the.

00:21:04.840 --> 00:21:08.123
hardheads um I think I only

00:21:08.863 --> 00:21:10.284
only like as a collector in

00:21:10.304 --> 00:21:11.423
the sense that like yeah

00:21:11.443 --> 00:21:12.204
these are the original

00:21:12.244 --> 00:21:13.785
releases right yeah but I

00:21:13.825 --> 00:21:14.965
think you're right about

00:21:15.006 --> 00:21:15.965
the hardheads being the

00:21:16.026 --> 00:21:17.227
better versions and that's

00:21:17.267 --> 00:21:18.448
the exact reason they made

00:21:18.488 --> 00:21:19.688
the switch like they made

00:21:19.728 --> 00:21:21.588
the switch because they're

00:21:21.628 --> 00:21:22.490
more durable and they're

00:21:22.509 --> 00:21:23.109
going to last and that's

00:21:23.150 --> 00:21:24.270
why all the other figures

00:21:24.310 --> 00:21:25.330
in the rest of the line are

00:21:25.351 --> 00:21:27.092
hardheads right they that

00:21:27.112 --> 00:21:27.852
was like a course

00:21:27.872 --> 00:21:29.252
correction very early on in

00:21:29.272 --> 00:21:31.294
the line so I I think

00:21:31.856 --> 00:21:32.636
I definitely think the hard

00:21:32.656 --> 00:21:34.998
heads were the better made toys.

00:21:35.337 --> 00:21:36.218
Oh, yeah, for sure.

00:21:36.678 --> 00:21:37.578
The soft heads are always

00:21:37.598 --> 00:21:38.939
going to be like collector.

00:21:39.298 --> 00:21:42.160
Like, yeah, these are the originals.

00:21:42.720 --> 00:21:43.599
Is there is there a

00:21:43.640 --> 00:21:45.000
particular turtle that they

00:21:45.020 --> 00:21:46.221
made too many of that?

00:21:46.260 --> 00:21:47.320
It's like somewhere there's

00:21:47.340 --> 00:21:49.442
a landfill like full of the E.T.

00:21:49.501 --> 00:21:50.201
Atari game,

00:21:50.221 --> 00:21:51.982
but it's just one particular turtle.

00:21:52.363 --> 00:21:53.583
Like, is there any of those out there?

00:21:54.286 --> 00:21:55.287
I don't think there's like

00:21:55.547 --> 00:21:56.968
one turtle that has too

00:21:56.988 --> 00:21:58.009
many because they've got to,

00:21:58.469 --> 00:21:59.891
except for Donatello,

00:22:00.010 --> 00:22:01.432
they've got to be pretty equal.

00:22:01.511 --> 00:22:01.872
Right?

00:22:01.912 --> 00:22:04.354
Like, cause I think the three, I mean,

00:22:04.374 --> 00:22:05.375
they made a lot of Donnie's

00:22:05.394 --> 00:22:06.215
in the original line.

00:22:06.316 --> 00:22:07.196
I feel like the,

00:22:07.237 --> 00:22:08.637
the sewer swimming Donnie would,

00:22:08.758 --> 00:22:10.459
would be that guy where it's like, Oh man,

00:22:10.479 --> 00:22:11.700
there's so many of him.

00:22:11.759 --> 00:22:12.641
You're totally right.

00:22:12.661 --> 00:22:13.101
Broken.

00:22:13.362 --> 00:22:15.282
He's always broken and he's everywhere.

00:22:15.363 --> 00:22:16.483
You're totally right.

00:22:18.165 --> 00:22:18.266
Well,

00:22:18.286 --> 00:22:19.306
I was just wondering if you ran

00:22:19.326 --> 00:22:20.406
across anything like that

00:22:20.426 --> 00:22:22.328
and you're in your, um, you know, um,

00:22:22.861 --> 00:22:23.080
you're,

00:22:23.121 --> 00:22:24.182
you're writing the book and all that,

00:22:24.202 --> 00:22:25.344
your research, you're like, Oh,

00:22:25.384 --> 00:22:26.105
it seems like they,

00:22:26.184 --> 00:22:27.066
they just completely

00:22:27.145 --> 00:22:28.146
overproduced this one.

00:22:28.186 --> 00:22:30.549
And, you know, that's a great question,

00:22:30.789 --> 00:22:31.190
but like,

00:22:31.351 --> 00:22:32.592
I don't think there's anything like that,

00:22:32.612 --> 00:22:33.993
that really stands out to me.

00:22:34.374 --> 00:22:35.535
What, you know, what's funny.

00:22:35.996 --> 00:22:36.435
And I mean,

00:22:36.455 --> 00:22:37.577
if we want to kind of pivot to

00:22:37.617 --> 00:22:39.599
that sort of conversation, but what's,

00:22:39.759 --> 00:22:42.163
what I found funny is, um,

00:22:43.069 --> 00:22:44.971
when I was traveling to doing photography,

00:22:45.251 --> 00:22:47.433
cause I relied on a lot of

00:22:47.453 --> 00:22:48.795
fans in the turtles community,

00:22:49.115 --> 00:22:50.336
just like I did with the He-Man book.

00:22:50.376 --> 00:22:51.917
Like that's one thing I'm

00:22:51.978 --> 00:22:54.000
really proud of with these books is I,

00:22:54.019 --> 00:22:55.020
they're a community effort.

00:22:55.060 --> 00:22:56.482
Like I can't do this alone.

00:22:56.682 --> 00:22:57.983
And so many people came

00:22:58.023 --> 00:22:58.805
together to help me.

00:22:59.913 --> 00:23:01.234
for the He-Man one and now

00:23:01.295 --> 00:23:02.896
doing the same thing for the Turtles one.

00:23:03.396 --> 00:23:05.117
So I traveled a lot and

00:23:05.157 --> 00:23:06.898
visited collectors based on

00:23:06.979 --> 00:23:07.980
recommendations.

00:23:08.800 --> 00:23:09.902
I have to give a massive shout out,

00:23:09.942 --> 00:23:11.762
obviously, to John Coleman,

00:23:11.803 --> 00:23:13.844
who basically was my

00:23:13.903 --> 00:23:15.244
right-hand man through this whole book.

00:23:15.586 --> 00:23:17.027
He had so much stuff and so

00:23:17.067 --> 00:23:17.666
much knowledge.

00:23:18.448 --> 00:23:19.407
But the thing that I thought

00:23:19.428 --> 00:23:22.089
was so funny is while I'm

00:23:22.150 --> 00:23:24.172
traveling along with my checklist,

00:23:25.088 --> 00:23:25.910
checking things off,

00:23:25.950 --> 00:23:26.711
making sure we're getting

00:23:26.750 --> 00:23:28.012
everything photographed.

00:23:28.653 --> 00:23:30.696
It was so much easier to

00:23:30.737 --> 00:23:33.121
photograph the rare stuff

00:23:33.902 --> 00:23:35.364
than it was the common

00:23:35.423 --> 00:23:37.307
stuff because every

00:23:37.346 --> 00:23:39.529
collector has the rare stuff.

00:23:41.144 --> 00:23:42.605
they're so like every

00:23:42.645 --> 00:23:44.007
collector's like here's my

00:23:44.027 --> 00:23:45.386
scratch here's my hot spot

00:23:45.446 --> 00:23:46.647
here's my troll turtles

00:23:46.688 --> 00:23:47.709
here's my trench coats

00:23:47.749 --> 00:23:49.209
here's my this and it's

00:23:49.229 --> 00:23:50.670
like cool I need all of

00:23:50.710 --> 00:23:51.830
these random turtle

00:23:51.851 --> 00:23:52.750
variants I need the

00:23:52.810 --> 00:23:54.192
mutations figures oh I

00:23:54.211 --> 00:23:55.833
don't buy those and then

00:23:56.732 --> 00:23:57.713
and then and then like the

00:23:57.753 --> 00:23:59.214
vehicles especially the

00:23:59.295 --> 00:24:00.655
vehicles was the hardest

00:24:00.675 --> 00:24:01.736
thing for me to complete

00:24:02.517 --> 00:24:03.416
and I totally get that

00:24:03.457 --> 00:24:05.417
because like well vehicles

00:24:05.897 --> 00:24:06.959
think about it as a collector

00:24:07.877 --> 00:24:08.618
vehicles take up a lot of

00:24:08.659 --> 00:24:10.660
space in your collection, right?

00:24:10.680 --> 00:24:11.780
They take up a lot of shelf

00:24:11.820 --> 00:24:14.702
space and there are so many

00:24:14.762 --> 00:24:16.344
vehicles in the turtles line.

00:24:16.443 --> 00:24:18.464
It's kind of nuts.

00:24:19.125 --> 00:24:21.446
So that was literally like

00:24:21.507 --> 00:24:22.988
the last thing that we were

00:24:23.048 --> 00:24:26.391
tracking down is like all of the vehicles,

00:24:26.490 --> 00:24:27.631
especially because they all

00:24:27.671 --> 00:24:29.732
have so many stickers and

00:24:29.833 --> 00:24:31.953
so many accessories and

00:24:31.993 --> 00:24:32.835
making sure that you're

00:24:32.875 --> 00:24:34.536
getting the best looking

00:24:34.855 --> 00:24:37.238
piece you can get of it to photograph and

00:24:37.761 --> 00:24:39.303
It was the biggest challenge

00:24:39.462 --> 00:24:40.344
was tracking down the

00:24:40.403 --> 00:24:42.644
vehicles like rare stuff I

00:24:42.704 --> 00:24:44.965
nailed at the beginning of the project.

00:24:45.105 --> 00:24:47.146
It was it was the common

00:24:47.207 --> 00:24:48.548
vehicles that were the

00:24:48.567 --> 00:24:49.588
hardest thing to track down

00:24:49.648 --> 00:24:50.209
and photograph.

00:24:50.229 --> 00:24:50.288
Wow.

00:24:50.308 --> 00:24:50.750
Yeah.

00:24:50.869 --> 00:24:51.349
Wow.

00:24:51.769 --> 00:24:52.289
Yeah.

00:24:52.349 --> 00:24:53.070
Because, I mean,

00:24:53.090 --> 00:24:55.751
I I had I had read we were

00:24:55.771 --> 00:24:56.673
talking about this offline,

00:24:56.692 --> 00:24:58.933
but the the rad plastic

00:24:58.973 --> 00:25:00.234
book by Chris Fawcett,

00:25:00.595 --> 00:25:02.016
I didn't know about like the jet.

00:25:02.753 --> 00:25:04.193
know the um like the bubble

00:25:04.233 --> 00:25:05.115
jet that dropped like the

00:25:05.134 --> 00:25:06.275
smoke bomb like I had no

00:25:06.315 --> 00:25:07.476
idea about that thing yeah

00:25:07.536 --> 00:25:09.395
I've seen it you know I

00:25:09.415 --> 00:25:10.696
know this is crazy you know

00:25:10.757 --> 00:25:11.376
I didn't know about that

00:25:11.396 --> 00:25:12.396
until I was a collector I

00:25:12.457 --> 00:25:13.336
certainly never saw that

00:25:13.396 --> 00:25:14.738
one as a kid but I love the

00:25:14.798 --> 00:25:16.357
idea like it comes with

00:25:16.377 --> 00:25:18.078
that little solution so

00:25:18.118 --> 00:25:19.159
that like it just like

00:25:19.298 --> 00:25:20.339
fills the bubbles with

00:25:20.400 --> 00:25:21.640
smoke and like they drop

00:25:21.680 --> 00:25:22.380
and pop and you get the

00:25:22.400 --> 00:25:24.280
little smoke plume it's really cool

00:25:26.105 --> 00:25:28.268
It seems like everybody had a cheapskate,

00:25:28.307 --> 00:25:29.890
everybody had a foot ski, so it's like,

00:25:29.970 --> 00:25:31.371
I imagine those are like, oh, okay,

00:25:31.411 --> 00:25:33.292
those are a dime a dozen, but, you know,

00:25:33.333 --> 00:25:36.757
then, like, what about, like, oh, well,

00:25:36.836 --> 00:25:38.519
I think you had a Technodrome, but,

00:25:38.679 --> 00:25:39.140
you know.

00:25:39.319 --> 00:25:40.641
I had a Technodrome, right,

00:25:40.701 --> 00:25:43.023
but it was like, so...

00:25:44.281 --> 00:25:45.903
things like uh what the

00:25:46.042 --> 00:25:48.884
psycho cycle got released

00:25:48.923 --> 00:25:50.183
three different times as

00:25:50.243 --> 00:25:51.523
three different vehicles

00:25:51.544 --> 00:25:52.464
where they just kind of

00:25:52.505 --> 00:25:54.484
changed the colors and like

00:25:55.086 --> 00:25:56.205
made it for a different

00:25:56.246 --> 00:25:57.946
character in a sense which

00:25:58.007 --> 00:25:58.906
was something I didn't

00:25:58.967 --> 00:26:00.207
realize until we were

00:26:00.227 --> 00:26:02.268
really photographing and then like

00:26:03.086 --> 00:26:04.605
the little vulture that sits on it.

00:26:04.645 --> 00:26:06.886
Like sometimes he's glued on

00:26:06.926 --> 00:26:07.747
and sometimes he's a

00:26:07.787 --> 00:26:09.847
removable little buddy accessory.

00:26:09.928 --> 00:26:11.288
And it's like things like

00:26:11.327 --> 00:26:12.548
that is what was so

00:26:12.669 --> 00:26:13.808
interesting to me while we

00:26:13.828 --> 00:26:14.608
were going through.

00:26:14.689 --> 00:26:16.109
And, and again,

00:26:16.150 --> 00:26:17.190
like John was a huge help

00:26:17.210 --> 00:26:17.869
in that department.

00:26:17.930 --> 00:26:20.250
Cause that, that man knows his variants.

00:26:20.270 --> 00:26:23.352
So he was, so yeah, that's right.

00:26:23.372 --> 00:26:24.432
That was, so yeah, we got to,

00:26:24.451 --> 00:26:25.532
we got to talk about that too.

00:26:25.573 --> 00:26:25.873
Cause that,

00:26:25.992 --> 00:26:28.313
that's why that book came about

00:26:28.913 --> 00:26:29.933
was because, um,

00:26:30.599 --> 00:26:31.681
While we were going through this,

00:26:31.961 --> 00:26:34.182
obviously... And I'm sorry

00:26:34.221 --> 00:26:35.363
if I'm hijacking this and

00:26:35.403 --> 00:26:37.223
going straight into the book stuff.

00:26:37.384 --> 00:26:39.085
This is literally what this show is about.

00:26:39.125 --> 00:26:44.887
Oh, we're losing you again.

00:26:45.567 --> 00:26:46.288
We're losing you!

00:26:46.409 --> 00:26:48.670
No!

00:26:48.690 --> 00:26:54.032
Give it a tap.

00:26:54.053 --> 00:26:55.814
Just tap it in?

00:26:55.874 --> 00:26:59.075
Just tap it in.

00:26:59.134 --> 00:26:59.915
All right, go ahead, Trey.

00:27:00.696 --> 00:27:02.337
Nope, still sounds weird.

00:27:02.718 --> 00:27:03.719
It all sounds weird.

00:27:03.739 --> 00:27:04.779
I'm sorry, guys.

00:27:05.019 --> 00:27:06.601
I don't know what's happening.

00:27:06.641 --> 00:27:07.821
Move your mouse, maybe.

00:27:08.903 --> 00:27:10.844
Yeah, that's what I'm like.

00:27:10.864 --> 00:27:18.628
Checking my connection here.

00:27:18.669 --> 00:27:20.089
Can you hear me now?

00:27:20.130 --> 00:27:22.951
Is it better?

00:27:22.971 --> 00:27:23.231
Not yet.

00:27:23.673 --> 00:27:23.873
Not yet?

00:27:23.893 --> 00:27:24.032
Oh, man.

00:27:24.053 --> 00:27:24.232
Let's see.

00:27:24.252 --> 00:27:24.913
I got full signal.

00:27:24.933 --> 00:27:25.773
This is really weird.

00:27:26.474 --> 00:27:27.454
Oh, there it is.

00:27:27.474 --> 00:27:27.976
Is it better?

00:27:28.256 --> 00:27:29.276
Okay.

00:27:29.316 --> 00:27:29.856
You're better now.

00:27:29.876 --> 00:27:30.057
All right.

00:27:30.634 --> 00:27:30.974
Sorry.

00:27:31.154 --> 00:27:32.976
I was gonna say the

00:27:33.016 --> 00:27:34.455
connection must be going in

00:27:34.476 --> 00:27:35.195
and out a little bit.

00:27:35.236 --> 00:27:35.635
I'm sorry.

00:27:36.317 --> 00:27:36.717
That's all right.

00:27:36.757 --> 00:27:37.297
All right.

00:27:37.336 --> 00:27:40.758
So the book, the main book, the whole,

00:27:41.317 --> 00:27:42.758
it's very similar to the

00:27:42.798 --> 00:27:43.959
masters of the universe book.

00:27:44.019 --> 00:27:45.118
If you guys have picked that up,

00:27:45.138 --> 00:27:46.480
but the whole point is

00:27:46.500 --> 00:27:47.940
essentially to be a guide

00:27:48.460 --> 00:27:49.961
to all the released items

00:27:49.980 --> 00:27:50.601
in the toy line.

00:27:50.621 --> 00:27:51.560
So all the action figures,

00:27:51.601 --> 00:27:52.980
all the vehicles, all the play sets.

00:27:53.501 --> 00:27:54.402
So every,

00:27:55.382 --> 00:27:57.222
every figure gets a two page

00:27:57.262 --> 00:27:58.103
spread in this book.

00:27:58.722 --> 00:28:00.144
That has like a nice glamour

00:28:00.164 --> 00:28:01.465
shot of the figure as like

00:28:01.506 --> 00:28:03.367
the big main picture with

00:28:03.508 --> 00:28:05.009
his accessories and everything.

00:28:05.390 --> 00:28:07.152
Then you get turnarounds of the figure.

00:28:07.192 --> 00:28:09.094
You get accessory shots

00:28:09.253 --> 00:28:10.414
broken apart so you can see

00:28:10.454 --> 00:28:11.476
all the accessories.

00:28:11.896 --> 00:28:13.397
You get an action feature

00:28:13.438 --> 00:28:14.859
demonstration if there's an

00:28:14.980 --> 00:28:15.820
action feature.

00:28:16.161 --> 00:28:17.702
And then you get shots of the card backs.

00:28:18.282 --> 00:28:19.104
But one of the other things

00:28:19.144 --> 00:28:20.064
we wanted to make sure

00:28:20.104 --> 00:28:21.625
we're doing is if there are

00:28:21.825 --> 00:28:23.185
notable variants,

00:28:23.385 --> 00:28:25.448
we want to show the notable variants,

00:28:25.528 --> 00:28:25.788
right?

00:28:26.528 --> 00:28:26.887
There we go.

00:28:26.907 --> 00:28:27.628
This is great.

00:28:28.009 --> 00:28:28.730
And the funny thing about

00:28:28.769 --> 00:28:29.730
this is like this page

00:28:29.769 --> 00:28:30.671
isn't complete yet because

00:28:30.691 --> 00:28:32.311
it doesn't have the variants on it yet.

00:28:32.511 --> 00:28:35.114
But we want to make sure

00:28:35.134 --> 00:28:36.835
that we're showing variants

00:28:36.875 --> 00:28:38.455
when there's notable variants on here.

00:28:40.416 --> 00:28:42.077
The thing is, is like the variant.

00:28:43.035 --> 00:28:45.056
like it's a bottomless pit, right?

00:28:45.115 --> 00:28:46.416
Like it's like,

00:28:46.436 --> 00:28:48.999
there's so much stuff and I

00:28:49.058 --> 00:28:49.900
want to make sure that we

00:28:49.940 --> 00:28:51.280
can fit as much as we can

00:28:51.320 --> 00:28:52.582
in here without taking up

00:28:52.642 --> 00:28:54.303
too much space without cluttering it.

00:28:54.623 --> 00:28:55.644
And I want it to be like a

00:28:55.723 --> 00:28:57.105
really good guide,

00:28:57.625 --> 00:28:58.846
but sometimes there's just

00:28:58.905 --> 00:29:00.646
so much stuff with the variants.

00:29:00.666 --> 00:29:02.107
That's like, you've got to kind of like,

00:29:02.729 --> 00:29:03.788
sometimes I think it's,

00:29:04.049 --> 00:29:05.891
we have to only show the like really,

00:29:05.931 --> 00:29:06.932
really notable ones.

00:29:07.011 --> 00:29:08.353
And then maybe just mention

00:29:08.692 --> 00:29:09.794
there's also this card back

00:29:09.814 --> 00:29:11.414
variant and this card back variant,

00:29:11.454 --> 00:29:11.694
whatever.

00:29:12.015 --> 00:29:13.856
which makes sense yeah right

00:29:14.037 --> 00:29:15.337
so as we were piecing all

00:29:15.357 --> 00:29:16.900
this together and like john

00:29:16.940 --> 00:29:18.101
is like compiling this

00:29:18.201 --> 00:29:20.143
incredible list of variants

00:29:20.943 --> 00:29:21.723
we kind of got to this

00:29:21.763 --> 00:29:23.786
point where we were like we

00:29:23.806 --> 00:29:25.587
should publish that too

00:29:26.288 --> 00:29:28.009
like because because people

00:29:28.069 --> 00:29:29.432
will care about that like

00:29:29.451 --> 00:29:30.393
there's collectors that

00:29:30.432 --> 00:29:31.973
will want that information

00:29:32.515 --> 00:29:34.496
so that's why in addition

00:29:34.516 --> 00:29:35.517
to this main book

00:29:36.357 --> 00:29:36.657
John,

00:29:36.698 --> 00:29:38.259
we're like and it's it's written by

00:29:38.299 --> 00:29:38.980
John Coleman.

00:29:39.019 --> 00:29:40.760
It's like we're crediting it fully to him.

00:29:41.061 --> 00:29:42.221
But it's an it's an optional

00:29:42.261 --> 00:29:43.583
like add on book for an

00:29:43.643 --> 00:29:44.523
extra twenty dollars.

00:29:44.544 --> 00:29:45.464
You get this amazing

00:29:45.565 --> 00:29:47.105
separate book that's like a

00:29:47.346 --> 00:29:49.267
list guide to all the variants,

00:29:49.326 --> 00:29:52.569
all the known variants in this toy line.

00:29:53.410 --> 00:29:54.351
And then it's also going to

00:29:54.391 --> 00:29:55.951
have like it's mostly like

00:29:55.971 --> 00:29:57.073
a black and white list

00:29:57.153 --> 00:29:58.013
because it's meant to be

00:29:58.074 --> 00:29:59.875
like a like a reference,

00:29:59.894 --> 00:30:01.576
like a collector's use it

00:30:01.615 --> 00:30:02.676
when you're out collecting

00:30:02.717 --> 00:30:03.636
or hunting and you

00:30:03.657 --> 00:30:05.618
reference like a go to the toy show and

00:30:05.999 --> 00:30:06.398
Yeah.

00:30:06.818 --> 00:30:08.160
But it also will have a

00:30:08.240 --> 00:30:09.259
section in the middle with

00:30:09.319 --> 00:30:10.819
some full color pages

00:30:11.180 --> 00:30:12.119
showing you a bunch of the

00:30:12.161 --> 00:30:13.441
card back variants that

00:30:13.500 --> 00:30:14.441
exist for the tone.

00:30:14.461 --> 00:30:14.780
Nice.

00:30:15.020 --> 00:30:15.340
So,

00:30:15.861 --> 00:30:18.862
so it is a really awesome companion to

00:30:18.922 --> 00:30:19.501
this book.

00:30:19.602 --> 00:30:19.781
Like,

00:30:19.821 --> 00:30:21.182
so the main book is still going to

00:30:21.202 --> 00:30:22.702
have variant information in there,

00:30:22.982 --> 00:30:24.063
but if you really want to

00:30:24.083 --> 00:30:25.304
get deep with it and in the

00:30:25.344 --> 00:30:26.364
nitty gritty and you care

00:30:26.384 --> 00:30:27.084
about that stuff,

00:30:27.503 --> 00:30:29.545
you should also pick up John's book,

00:30:29.904 --> 00:30:31.605
which is at the same website here.

00:30:31.625 --> 00:30:33.025
They're being pre-ordered together.

00:30:33.786 --> 00:30:34.445
Cause then you'll get all

00:30:34.465 --> 00:30:35.346
that information too.

00:30:36.163 --> 00:30:37.404
So how many pizza points

00:30:37.424 --> 00:30:41.866
does it cost to get your book?

00:30:41.946 --> 00:30:43.407
We should have set something up like that.

00:30:43.448 --> 00:30:45.888
Send me some pizza points.

00:30:45.909 --> 00:30:47.990
So the main book is a sixty

00:30:48.030 --> 00:30:49.010
nine ninety nine is the

00:30:49.030 --> 00:30:49.672
price of the book.

00:30:49.692 --> 00:30:51.633
And that's over six hundred pages.

00:30:51.712 --> 00:30:56.634
I'm sorry.

00:30:56.674 --> 00:30:59.596
Your mic is going out again.

00:30:59.737 --> 00:31:01.397
I'm going to tap maybe.

00:31:01.498 --> 00:31:02.499
Tap, tap, tap.

00:31:06.723 --> 00:31:08.424
It must just be something with StreamYard.

00:31:08.464 --> 00:31:10.464
So it seems to be just coming and going.

00:31:10.746 --> 00:31:14.507
So for the audio listeners right now,

00:31:14.547 --> 00:31:16.146
I put up a page of the book up here.

00:31:16.186 --> 00:31:17.027
It's Mondo Gecko.

00:31:17.086 --> 00:31:18.928
So we could see here and it

00:31:18.948 --> 00:31:20.588
shows the card back in like

00:31:20.648 --> 00:31:22.709
mint on card and then the back of it.

00:31:22.969 --> 00:31:24.950
And it's got like a bio.

00:31:25.210 --> 00:31:26.589
It shows all the accessories

00:31:26.750 --> 00:31:28.931
and just kind of like front, side,

00:31:28.971 --> 00:31:30.811
back versions of Mondo.

00:31:31.192 --> 00:31:32.092
It's really cool.

00:31:32.352 --> 00:31:33.073
Really cool looking.

00:31:33.472 --> 00:31:34.532
Vibrant yellow color.

00:31:37.205 --> 00:31:40.126
Thank you.

00:31:40.166 --> 00:31:40.426
Thank you.

00:31:40.487 --> 00:31:43.087
Is my audio sounding okay now?

00:31:43.107 --> 00:31:43.528
No, not yet.

00:31:43.548 --> 00:31:43.887
Let me try.

00:31:43.949 --> 00:31:44.229
Hold on.

00:31:44.249 --> 00:31:51.211
Let me try something here.

00:31:51.311 --> 00:31:51.771
Oh, nice.

00:31:52.031 --> 00:31:52.352
Try it.

00:31:53.512 --> 00:31:54.012
I think you're back.

00:31:54.032 --> 00:31:55.192
Am I back?

00:31:55.894 --> 00:31:56.493
Yep, you're back.

00:31:56.733 --> 00:31:56.933
Okay.

00:31:57.054 --> 00:31:57.653
Yep.

00:31:57.753 --> 00:31:59.434
Okay, cool.

00:32:00.596 --> 00:32:01.115
Oh, there you go.

00:32:05.075 --> 00:32:05.674
Switch to one of my other

00:32:05.695 --> 00:32:06.935
routers to see if that fixes the problem.

00:32:07.436 --> 00:32:10.700
I'm sorry.

00:32:11.539 --> 00:32:12.340
It's all good, man.

00:32:12.401 --> 00:32:13.501
It's all good, man.

00:32:13.561 --> 00:32:14.422
It's like every time I think

00:32:14.442 --> 00:32:15.303
I got this all good,

00:32:15.343 --> 00:32:16.703
it's like something else.

00:32:17.924 --> 00:32:19.066
There's always going to be

00:32:19.105 --> 00:32:20.307
technical difficulties.

00:32:20.626 --> 00:32:21.347
Always happens.

00:32:21.887 --> 00:32:26.152
Yeah, it's podcasting, you know.

00:32:26.332 --> 00:32:27.792
We'll keep it rolling in the meantime.

00:32:28.032 --> 00:32:28.773
So, you know.

00:32:30.376 --> 00:32:30.936
We'll make it work.

00:32:30.977 --> 00:32:33.178
But, yeah, I mean, the book looks great.

00:32:33.218 --> 00:32:34.417
Like, there's a couple pages here.

00:32:34.458 --> 00:32:35.478
I've got the Mondo one.

00:32:36.419 --> 00:32:36.818
Let's see.

00:32:36.878 --> 00:32:38.378
I'll pull up the other one, which was,

00:32:39.058 --> 00:32:41.200
I think, I, of course,

00:32:41.240 --> 00:32:42.619
pulled out the Leonardo one.

00:32:43.019 --> 00:32:43.900
Big surprise.

00:32:46.340 --> 00:32:47.020
Let's see if I can.

00:32:47.040 --> 00:32:48.521
That one's a good example, too,

00:32:48.561 --> 00:32:49.902
because that will actually show.

00:32:51.279 --> 00:32:52.299
the variants and stuff on

00:32:52.319 --> 00:32:54.401
here there we go okay yeah

00:32:54.480 --> 00:32:57.303
yeah so here you can see

00:32:57.462 --> 00:32:58.603
we've got the comparison

00:32:58.623 --> 00:33:00.663
like um hardhead softhead

00:33:01.325 --> 00:33:02.244
so it kind of gives you the

00:33:02.265 --> 00:33:03.546
turnarounds too to show how

00:33:03.586 --> 00:33:04.365
you can see the difference

00:33:04.385 --> 00:33:05.385
between the hardhead and

00:33:05.405 --> 00:33:06.666
the softhead and then if

00:33:06.707 --> 00:33:07.626
you look at the weapon

00:33:07.666 --> 00:33:09.367
breakdown up there you'll

00:33:09.387 --> 00:33:10.449
notice that it shows the

00:33:10.548 --> 00:33:12.088
ninja star variants because

00:33:12.108 --> 00:33:14.049
there is a pointed star and

00:33:14.130 --> 00:33:15.570
a rounded tip star

00:33:16.041 --> 00:33:17.063
I had no idea.

00:33:17.222 --> 00:33:18.503
I just thought they were all around.

00:33:20.165 --> 00:33:20.526
Yeah, yeah.

00:33:20.566 --> 00:33:21.027
So it shows the two

00:33:21.047 --> 00:33:22.028
different types up there.

00:33:22.468 --> 00:33:24.150
And then down under the card

00:33:24.170 --> 00:33:25.049
back over there,

00:33:25.351 --> 00:33:26.692
you can see that little list that's

00:33:32.114 --> 00:33:34.134
down the different card back

00:33:34.154 --> 00:33:35.035
variants that you could

00:33:35.055 --> 00:33:36.914
find for this particular figure.

00:33:36.934 --> 00:33:37.496
Like the one we have a

00:33:37.536 --> 00:33:38.976
picture of here is the one

00:33:38.996 --> 00:33:40.615
that has the pop-up display in it.

00:33:40.635 --> 00:33:41.396
So it's got that little

00:33:41.436 --> 00:33:43.836
burst on there that says, hey kids,

00:33:43.896 --> 00:33:45.698
mutant pop-up display included.

00:33:47.117 --> 00:33:50.298
Because the ten packs here, especially

00:33:50.538 --> 00:33:52.039
this first wave like those

00:33:52.059 --> 00:33:53.461
got reissued a whole bunch

00:33:53.582 --> 00:33:54.362
and so there's so many

00:33:54.382 --> 00:33:55.103
different card back

00:33:55.123 --> 00:33:56.584
variations of these

00:33:56.644 --> 00:33:59.026
original ten figures but

00:33:59.046 --> 00:34:00.067
that's kind of what I was

00:34:00.106 --> 00:34:00.827
talking about where we

00:34:00.847 --> 00:34:01.909
wanted to make sure we like

00:34:01.949 --> 00:34:03.309
at least at the very least

00:34:03.349 --> 00:34:04.671
if we can't squeeze photos

00:34:04.730 --> 00:34:05.872
in we want to make sure

00:34:05.892 --> 00:34:07.272
we're listing it so people

00:34:07.313 --> 00:34:09.295
can see oh there's all

00:34:09.315 --> 00:34:10.416
these variants that exist

00:34:10.896 --> 00:34:12.577
it looks it looks fantastic

00:34:12.677 --> 00:34:14.378
and I mean just just to be

00:34:14.458 --> 00:34:16.300
able to look at like the

00:34:16.360 --> 00:34:18.583
regular mint on card card back like

00:34:18.902 --> 00:34:19.744
where it's like oh this

00:34:19.844 --> 00:34:21.005
one's not ripped up or

00:34:21.025 --> 00:34:22.045
there's anything like

00:34:22.065 --> 00:34:22.865
someone didn't cut the

00:34:22.945 --> 00:34:24.427
pizza point out or anything

00:34:24.507 --> 00:34:26.387
it's it's gorgeous and that

00:34:26.427 --> 00:34:27.588
original artwork is just

00:34:27.628 --> 00:34:29.490
fantastic it's it's iconic

00:34:30.851 --> 00:34:32.672
absolutely it's so good and

00:34:32.713 --> 00:34:33.333
see how we even

00:34:33.393 --> 00:34:34.253
demonstrated like the

00:34:34.273 --> 00:34:35.875
weapons rack like so yeah I

00:34:36.034 --> 00:34:37.516
didn't realize that the

00:34:37.536 --> 00:34:39.077
little spur thing is meant

00:34:39.097 --> 00:34:40.759
to be a weapons rack for a

00:34:41.978 --> 00:34:42.940
And they don't work great,

00:34:43.260 --> 00:34:44.880
but that's what it's supposed to be.

00:34:44.940 --> 00:34:45.800
And so we kind of tried to

00:34:45.840 --> 00:34:47.041
do a little bit of

00:34:47.061 --> 00:34:48.163
photography to show how you

00:34:48.222 --> 00:34:49.664
could maybe lay the weapons

00:34:50.103 --> 00:34:51.244
on the weapons rack there.

00:34:51.284 --> 00:34:52.985
So yeah, we had some fun with these.

00:34:53.045 --> 00:34:54.485
And then of course the

00:34:54.525 --> 00:34:55.626
written part is basically

00:34:55.666 --> 00:34:57.648
like me reviewing all the toys.

00:34:57.668 --> 00:34:58.407
So it's like a nice little

00:34:58.608 --> 00:35:00.088
read up of all the figures

00:35:00.128 --> 00:35:02.329
in there as well that goes along with it.

00:35:03.271 --> 00:35:04.532
We're doing our very best to

00:35:04.552 --> 00:35:05.713
be as thorough as possible.

00:35:05.733 --> 00:35:07.653
We've taken thousands of photos.

00:35:08.014 --> 00:35:09.795
So it's all original photography,

00:35:10.036 --> 00:35:11.836
all original photography,

00:35:11.936 --> 00:35:13.418
all touched up really nice

00:35:13.478 --> 00:35:15.818
by my partner on the book, Val Staples,

00:35:16.000 --> 00:35:16.940
and some other team members

00:35:16.960 --> 00:35:17.780
we've got that are really

00:35:17.820 --> 00:35:19.641
good at photo restorations

00:35:19.681 --> 00:35:20.242
just to make sure

00:35:20.282 --> 00:35:21.884
everything looks as crisp and nice.

00:35:21.983 --> 00:35:22.643
It looks beautiful.

00:35:23.344 --> 00:35:24.644
Yeah, it does.

00:35:24.885 --> 00:35:25.505
It looks great.

00:35:26.045 --> 00:35:27.226
It does look great.

00:35:27.447 --> 00:35:27.786
I mean,

00:35:28.467 --> 00:35:30.528
I'm looking at it right now about

00:35:30.548 --> 00:35:31.429
as good as I can get it

00:35:32.496 --> 00:35:33.856
Um, but I mean, it looks,

00:35:34.016 --> 00:35:38.181
it definitely looks crisp and it's yeah.

00:35:38.300 --> 00:35:41.922
I mean, beautiful site too bad.

00:35:41.943 --> 00:35:43.525
We don't have one though.

00:35:44.065 --> 00:35:44.664
Don't have what?

00:35:45.306 --> 00:35:46.367
Don't have a Raphael one

00:35:46.387 --> 00:35:47.266
that you're going to put up.

00:35:49.289 --> 00:35:49.509
Yeah.

00:35:49.588 --> 00:35:50.250
I think the other one,

00:35:50.389 --> 00:35:51.610
the other one he sent was worm.

00:35:51.971 --> 00:35:52.972
So that was the other one.

00:35:53.032 --> 00:35:54.572
So, um, you know,

00:35:55.014 --> 00:35:56.855
But it's really nice,

00:35:56.934 --> 00:35:58.195
and it is different because

00:35:58.414 --> 00:35:59.775
we were talking about Rad Plastic.

00:35:59.795 --> 00:36:00.556
It's definitely different

00:36:00.576 --> 00:36:01.536
because that's more of like

00:36:01.556 --> 00:36:02.536
the inception of it,

00:36:02.956 --> 00:36:04.496
the build of them and all that.

00:36:04.556 --> 00:36:06.557
So this one's different.

00:36:07.378 --> 00:36:07.759
It's cool.

00:36:07.918 --> 00:36:09.518
This book is great, too.

00:36:09.639 --> 00:36:10.340
I love Rad Plastic.

00:36:10.360 --> 00:36:11.840
I interviewed Chris when he

00:36:11.880 --> 00:36:13.059
was first putting that book out,

00:36:13.081 --> 00:36:13.800
and we actually talked

00:36:13.820 --> 00:36:15.840
about this book because I

00:36:15.882 --> 00:36:17.141
was working on this book at the time.

00:36:18.101 --> 00:36:18.262
Yeah,

00:36:18.322 --> 00:36:20.063
his book is like – because I get

00:36:20.163 --> 00:36:20.782
asked this a lot,

00:36:20.802 --> 00:36:21.563
like what's the difference

00:36:21.583 --> 00:36:22.804
between this and Rad Plastic?

00:36:23.483 --> 00:36:24.965
And the difference is

00:36:25.005 --> 00:36:26.085
basically what you said.

00:36:26.105 --> 00:36:27.686
Like Chris's book is sort of

00:36:27.746 --> 00:36:31.947
like the art of designing the toy line.

00:36:32.407 --> 00:36:33.867
It's got a lot of prototype

00:36:33.887 --> 00:36:34.927
stuff in there and never

00:36:34.947 --> 00:36:37.409
before seen stuff and

00:36:37.728 --> 00:36:40.190
concept pieces and unreleased stuff.

00:36:40.710 --> 00:36:43.210
And that's kind of the focus of his book.

00:36:43.291 --> 00:36:45.672
It tells a story and shows

00:36:45.731 --> 00:36:47.172
all this amazing art that

00:36:47.192 --> 00:36:48.552
went into creating the toy line.

00:36:49.273 --> 00:36:50.653
My book is a reference to

00:36:50.733 --> 00:36:51.974
everything that was released.

00:36:52.173 --> 00:36:53.755
So every item that got

00:36:53.795 --> 00:36:55.655
released has a page in the

00:36:55.695 --> 00:36:57.195
book and it shows what it is.

00:36:57.675 --> 00:36:59.777
So both great books that

00:36:59.817 --> 00:37:00.936
serve different purposes

00:37:00.978 --> 00:37:02.297
for the same amazing toy line.

00:37:04.739 --> 00:37:06.239
So this is an interesting

00:37:06.278 --> 00:37:07.340
question that I came up

00:37:07.760 --> 00:37:08.940
with because you've now

00:37:08.981 --> 00:37:10.081
seen everything that

00:37:10.121 --> 00:37:11.300
Playmates has to offer.

00:37:12.362 --> 00:37:13.402
They have some really

00:37:13.601 --> 00:37:14.963
unconventional accessories

00:37:15.043 --> 00:37:15.543
over the years.

00:37:15.864 --> 00:37:17.331
What's the strangest or most

00:37:17.371 --> 00:37:18.797
surprising accessory that

00:37:18.817 --> 00:37:19.981
you've seen from the line?

00:37:20.682 --> 00:37:22.445
oh my goodness oh put me on

00:37:22.465 --> 00:37:24.585
the spot let me see um you

00:37:24.606 --> 00:37:25.467
can think about it if you

00:37:25.507 --> 00:37:27.309
want to so I'm kind of

00:37:27.329 --> 00:37:28.389
looking I'm kind of looking

00:37:28.750 --> 00:37:31.132
so I I love and this is

00:37:31.152 --> 00:37:32.592
something and I feel like

00:37:32.612 --> 00:37:34.414
these have kind of come a

00:37:34.434 --> 00:37:35.394
lot because they've gotten

00:37:35.414 --> 00:37:36.695
a lot more popular the last

00:37:36.735 --> 00:37:37.376
couple years with

00:37:37.416 --> 00:37:38.797
collectors but I really

00:37:38.858 --> 00:37:39.679
really fell in love with

00:37:39.699 --> 00:37:40.679
the adventure series

00:37:40.699 --> 00:37:42.760
turtles specifically the

00:37:42.981 --> 00:37:44.623
the deep sea diver leonardo

00:37:44.643 --> 00:37:45.884
with the big ox

00:37:47.824 --> 00:37:48.545
octopus yeah yeah that one

00:37:48.784 --> 00:37:50.505
is amazing because first of

00:37:50.525 --> 00:37:52.086
all the big squishy octopus

00:37:52.106 --> 00:37:52.867
that's like a water

00:37:52.907 --> 00:37:54.088
squirter buddy that's

00:37:54.148 --> 00:37:55.108
clinging onto him is

00:37:55.168 --> 00:37:57.050
hilarious but I also love

00:37:57.090 --> 00:37:58.230
the head sculpt on that

00:37:58.250 --> 00:38:00.411
figure because he's like he

00:38:00.431 --> 00:38:01.371
looks like he's holding his

00:38:01.431 --> 00:38:02.592
breath like he's wearing

00:38:03.393 --> 00:38:04.614
he's wearing like scuba

00:38:04.653 --> 00:38:05.994
gear but he's got his big

00:38:06.054 --> 00:38:07.835
puffy cheeks and you know

00:38:07.855 --> 00:38:08.896
he's holding his breath and

00:38:08.936 --> 00:38:10.856
it's just the weirdest most

00:38:15.179 --> 00:38:16.260
variants I mean there's some

00:38:16.721 --> 00:38:19.360
fun yeah but I love that

00:38:19.440 --> 00:38:20.521
one so much and he became

00:38:20.601 --> 00:38:22.663
one of my favorites um and

00:38:22.682 --> 00:38:23.842
which I have I'm looking at

00:38:23.862 --> 00:38:24.483
him because he's over here

00:38:24.523 --> 00:38:26.623
because I made sure I got

00:38:26.704 --> 00:38:28.605
one for my collection uh

00:38:28.644 --> 00:38:30.764
after that and I also

00:38:30.864 --> 00:38:32.985
really really love this

00:38:33.025 --> 00:38:34.867
isn't like I wouldn't put

00:38:34.887 --> 00:38:35.646
this in like the weird

00:38:35.686 --> 00:38:36.746
category I know that's what

00:38:36.766 --> 00:38:38.947
you asked but I I love the little

00:38:42.688 --> 00:38:43.909
Yeah, those are cool.

00:38:44.028 --> 00:38:45.610
Yeah, definitely.

00:38:45.690 --> 00:38:46.371
I'm sitting here talking

00:38:46.391 --> 00:38:47.271
about stuff that's not even

00:38:47.311 --> 00:38:48.132
in this book because it's

00:38:48.253 --> 00:38:49.432
like at the end of the line.

00:38:49.452 --> 00:38:53.215
So it's like volume two.

00:38:53.275 --> 00:38:54.556
I've been photographing everything.

00:38:55.597 --> 00:38:56.579
But like those,

00:38:57.039 --> 00:38:59.039
there's something about those I love,

00:38:59.079 --> 00:39:00.460
especially the Donatello

00:39:00.722 --> 00:39:02.202
because he's like all black.

00:39:02.222 --> 00:39:04.083
He's like a jet black figure with

00:39:05.793 --> 00:39:06.494
it but then like the

00:39:06.534 --> 00:39:08.335
metallics like chrome

00:39:08.396 --> 00:39:10.637
silver armor and the wings

00:39:10.657 --> 00:39:12.338
like he just looks so cool

00:39:12.639 --> 00:39:13.820
yeah they're so they're so

00:39:13.880 --> 00:39:16.623
metal so metal yeah it's a

00:39:16.702 --> 00:39:17.764
weird variant there's so

00:39:17.804 --> 00:39:18.965
many variants of the of the

00:39:18.985 --> 00:39:19.885
turtles in the slime but

00:39:19.925 --> 00:39:20.907
that's just one that I look

00:39:20.927 --> 00:39:23.489
at and I go yeah that's

00:39:23.588 --> 00:39:24.750
that's just awesome like

00:39:24.789 --> 00:39:26.110
whoever created that is

00:39:26.170 --> 00:39:27.231
like that's that's good

00:39:27.251 --> 00:39:28.393
stuff man I love it

00:39:29.235 --> 00:39:29.356
Now,

00:39:29.416 --> 00:39:31.179
you've mentioned Donatello quite a few

00:39:31.239 --> 00:39:31.619
times.

00:39:32.199 --> 00:39:39.027
I believe that you're a Raphael guy.

00:39:39.188 --> 00:39:39.668
I am a Raphael guy.

00:39:39.688 --> 00:39:40.128
Isn't that weird?

00:39:40.148 --> 00:39:43.313
You know what the funny thing is?

00:39:43.373 --> 00:39:44.795
Purple is one of my favorite colors.

00:39:45.034 --> 00:39:46.315
I've always been drawn to...

00:39:48.222 --> 00:39:49.644
other especially yeah purple

00:39:49.664 --> 00:39:50.945
and black yeah purple and

00:39:50.965 --> 00:39:52.327
black looks so good on toys

00:39:53.389 --> 00:39:54.449
uh so anytime there's like

00:39:54.469 --> 00:39:55.411
a toy that's got those

00:39:55.451 --> 00:39:56.632
colors I love like a

00:39:56.672 --> 00:39:58.072
warrior wing donatello like

00:39:58.153 --> 00:39:59.574
obviously yeah yeah I just

00:39:59.594 --> 00:40:01.077
think it looks so cool so

00:40:01.117 --> 00:40:01.998
it is really funny that

00:40:02.038 --> 00:40:03.298
like I always feel

00:40:03.398 --> 00:40:04.500
rap's my favorite and I

00:40:04.539 --> 00:40:05.400
think that's just because

00:40:05.440 --> 00:40:07.420
as a kid I was I was a

00:40:07.521 --> 00:40:09.382
rough kid I was a Wolverine

00:40:09.422 --> 00:40:10.782
kid apparently I was into

00:40:10.822 --> 00:40:13.324
the grumpy angry guys right

00:40:13.403 --> 00:40:14.463
I don't know why because

00:40:14.483 --> 00:40:15.704
that's not my personality

00:40:15.764 --> 00:40:16.985
maybe that's why maybe

00:40:17.045 --> 00:40:18.646
that's why I don't know but

00:40:20.567 --> 00:40:21.927
I like Donnie's style

00:40:26.760 --> 00:40:28.340
Yeah, no, I'm with you on there.

00:40:28.380 --> 00:40:28.981
And, you know,

00:40:29.001 --> 00:40:30.001
a lot of people will tell me

00:40:30.021 --> 00:40:31.242
that they're Donnie fans

00:40:31.463 --> 00:40:33.224
specifically because of, you know,

00:40:33.244 --> 00:40:33.923
the video games.

00:40:34.425 --> 00:40:35.824
You know, it's just playing there.

00:40:35.864 --> 00:40:36.746
So I get that.

00:40:36.766 --> 00:40:37.726
That's great.

00:40:40.148 --> 00:40:41.228
Donnie was the best in the

00:40:41.248 --> 00:40:42.489
first two games for sure.

00:40:42.690 --> 00:40:43.170
Hands down.

00:40:43.190 --> 00:40:43.409
For sure.

00:40:45.422 --> 00:40:46.063
We were talking about

00:40:46.123 --> 00:40:48.143
variants earlier in your

00:40:48.204 --> 00:40:49.224
book or on your videos.

00:40:49.284 --> 00:40:50.485
Like if you've seen some of

00:40:50.505 --> 00:40:51.266
these variants or

00:40:51.346 --> 00:40:52.367
prototypes or even like

00:40:52.427 --> 00:40:54.208
packaging oddities,

00:40:54.527 --> 00:40:55.869
have you ever come across anything?

00:40:55.889 --> 00:40:56.909
And then you're like, yup,

00:40:56.989 --> 00:40:58.690
that's now Canon, you know, like that,

00:40:58.731 --> 00:40:59.831
that Boba Fett that had

00:40:59.871 --> 00:41:00.952
like the half painted circle.

00:41:00.972 --> 00:41:01.693
That's now Canon.

00:41:02.132 --> 00:41:02.672
Is there anything that

00:41:02.733 --> 00:41:03.793
exists like that for you

00:41:03.813 --> 00:41:05.335
with all the hunting that you've done?

00:41:07.016 --> 00:41:09.657
that I've kind of put a stamp on.

00:41:09.677 --> 00:41:12.139
Yeah, and now you're like, yeah,

00:41:12.159 --> 00:41:13.478
that's the thing.

00:41:14.619 --> 00:41:15.139
I think,

00:41:15.159 --> 00:41:16.099
and I'm going to give all credit

00:41:16.119 --> 00:41:17.300
to John on this, right,

00:41:17.320 --> 00:41:18.221
but I'm pretty sure that's

00:41:18.240 --> 00:41:19.181
what John's kind of hoping

00:41:19.201 --> 00:41:20.882
this book is going to do for a while.

00:41:20.981 --> 00:41:22.302
Oh, okay.

00:41:22.702 --> 00:41:23.523
Because he's been working

00:41:23.543 --> 00:41:24.242
real hard on that,

00:41:24.262 --> 00:41:25.543
and he also works a lot

00:41:25.563 --> 00:41:26.623
with a lot of the other fans.

00:41:26.804 --> 00:41:28.784
He's making sure that his

00:41:28.864 --> 00:41:30.846
information is matching other people's,

00:41:30.925 --> 00:41:31.865
and the cool thing

00:41:40.617 --> 00:41:41.759
We've had some discussions

00:41:41.798 --> 00:41:43.681
about some things where we

00:41:43.721 --> 00:41:45.882
always have the, I call them,

00:41:45.902 --> 00:41:46.882
they're not arguments,

00:41:47.083 --> 00:41:49.184
but we do have like back

00:41:49.264 --> 00:41:51.086
and forth sometimes where he's like, look,

00:41:51.106 --> 00:41:52.268
this is definitely a variant.

00:41:52.288 --> 00:41:54.208
And I go, that's, no, it's not.

00:41:54.268 --> 00:41:54.889
That's just,

00:41:55.911 --> 00:41:57.331
because there's always that fine line,

00:41:57.391 --> 00:41:57.552
right?

00:41:57.572 --> 00:41:59.313
Like, is it a variant or is it just like,

00:41:59.353 --> 00:42:01.175
did the factory not use

00:42:01.235 --> 00:42:02.876
enough of that color that day?

00:42:02.936 --> 00:42:04.378
And maybe it's a little, like,

00:42:04.418 --> 00:42:06.780
is it really a variant or, you know?

00:42:09.197 --> 00:42:09.858
Was it a mistake?

00:42:09.878 --> 00:42:10.418
Was it a mess up?

00:42:10.438 --> 00:42:10.878
Yeah, I get it.

00:42:12.641 --> 00:42:13.641
So one of the ones that he

00:42:13.661 --> 00:42:18.244
was very excited by was Metalhead,

00:42:18.925 --> 00:42:21.188
because we have found some

00:42:21.228 --> 00:42:22.228
versions of Metalhead where

00:42:22.268 --> 00:42:25.851
the eyes are clear instead of the red.

00:42:26.032 --> 00:42:27.273
Interesting.

00:42:27.932 --> 00:42:28.793
It's almost like they just

00:42:28.813 --> 00:42:30.474
didn't put the red dye in

00:42:30.514 --> 00:42:32.257
the clear brain and eye

00:42:32.277 --> 00:42:33.597
piece for the light piping,

00:42:33.657 --> 00:42:35.179
and it's more clear than it is black.

00:42:37.320 --> 00:42:39.563
He kept showing me pictures,

00:42:39.623 --> 00:42:40.646
and I was like, I don't know.

00:42:40.746 --> 00:42:42.126
I think it's just faded.

00:42:42.347 --> 00:42:44.269
I don't think that's really a variant.

00:42:44.811 --> 00:42:46.032
But he ended up getting a

00:42:46.052 --> 00:42:47.153
hold of one that is just

00:42:47.193 --> 00:42:48.956
straight crystal clear.

00:42:49.878 --> 00:42:51.260
You can tell that it's clear.

00:42:51.760 --> 00:42:54.224
So I was like, okay, I think you're right.

00:42:54.264 --> 00:42:55.204
We'll put it in there.

00:42:57.054 --> 00:42:58.596
Like, he was really proud of that one.

00:42:58.635 --> 00:42:59.916
He's really proud of that one.

00:43:00.177 --> 00:43:01.318
Yeah, I would think so.

00:43:01.338 --> 00:43:02.137
And, I mean, you know,

00:43:02.518 --> 00:43:04.139
that's one that if there's

00:43:04.219 --> 00:43:05.460
more than one of it out there,

00:43:05.501 --> 00:43:06.981
it's got to make sense as a variant,

00:43:07.021 --> 00:43:07.242
right?

00:43:07.262 --> 00:43:09.163
Yeah, and that's the thing.

00:43:09.224 --> 00:43:10.905
He's found more than one.

00:43:10.925 --> 00:43:12.346
Yeah, because that's always the question.

00:43:12.365 --> 00:43:12.525
Like,

00:43:12.606 --> 00:43:14.086
is it a variant or was it a factory

00:43:14.166 --> 00:43:14.327
error?

00:43:14.367 --> 00:43:15.128
Like, Mikey, what's the two ways,

00:43:15.188 --> 00:43:17.389
you know?

00:43:17.429 --> 00:43:18.990
Yeah, is it just a factory error?

00:43:19.010 --> 00:43:19.231
Yeah.

00:43:19.871 --> 00:43:20.472
Yeah,

00:43:20.492 --> 00:43:22.393
so that's always because we want to

00:43:22.432 --> 00:43:24.094
make sure that we're as

00:43:24.114 --> 00:43:25.454
accurate as possible, too.

00:43:25.514 --> 00:43:26.335
We don't want to just, like,

00:43:26.394 --> 00:43:27.376
make up a bunch of stuff.

00:43:27.436 --> 00:43:28.757
Yeah, yeah, exactly.

00:43:28.797 --> 00:43:29.577
We don't want to look like

00:43:29.617 --> 00:43:30.978
we're making up a bunch of stuff.

00:43:31.018 --> 00:43:32.679
So that's why I have to have

00:43:32.699 --> 00:43:34.278
these kind of arguments

00:43:34.318 --> 00:43:36.039
with Chad sometimes where I'm like,

00:43:36.119 --> 00:43:37.721
all right, let's not get carried away.

00:43:38.181 --> 00:43:40.543
In this community, Dan, I mean, come on.

00:43:40.643 --> 00:43:40.902
You know,

00:43:40.963 --> 00:43:42.724
it's like where people step over

00:43:42.784 --> 00:43:43.664
someone to get, like,

00:43:43.684 --> 00:43:44.985
a grappling hook that was a

00:43:45.085 --> 00:43:46.746
part of an action figure.

00:43:47.045 --> 00:43:47.306
Yeah.

00:43:48.483 --> 00:43:49.545
It's a dangerous,

00:43:49.625 --> 00:43:51.507
it's like Wild West out there, you know?

00:43:51.527 --> 00:43:51.867
It's crazy.

00:43:51.887 --> 00:43:52.628
Yeah,

00:43:52.688 --> 00:43:54.048
but we do our best to make sure we're,

00:43:54.068 --> 00:43:56.210
like, basing it all on reality, you know?

00:43:56.231 --> 00:43:56.431
We're, like,

00:43:56.510 --> 00:43:57.291
we're trying to find as many

00:43:57.331 --> 00:44:00.393
facts as we can before, like, yeah,

00:44:00.414 --> 00:44:02.896
this is definitely a variant.

00:44:02.976 --> 00:44:03.536
Let's put it in there.

00:44:03.556 --> 00:44:04.438
Have you run into any

00:44:04.478 --> 00:44:06.159
criticisms or anything in your work?

00:44:06.199 --> 00:44:07.480
Like, is there anything that's kind of,

00:44:07.519 --> 00:44:09.101
like, gotten in the way of something?

00:44:09.181 --> 00:44:10.682
Like, you said, maybe, like,

00:44:10.702 --> 00:44:11.764
an argument about, like,

00:44:11.784 --> 00:44:12.625
a variant or not?

00:44:12.864 --> 00:44:14.025
Anything that's kind of, like,

00:44:15.527 --> 00:44:16.288
been an obstacle?

00:44:17.742 --> 00:44:20.626
No, not as far as, like, making this goes,

00:44:20.726 --> 00:44:21.286
I don't think.

00:44:21.327 --> 00:44:23.108
Like, we definitely,

00:44:24.170 --> 00:44:25.632
because I don't even go on arguments.

00:44:25.672 --> 00:44:27.114
We have disagreements sometimes.

00:44:27.333 --> 00:44:30.739
And it's one of those things where, like,

00:44:30.838 --> 00:44:32.161
I always want to, like,

00:44:33.202 --> 00:44:34.684
I need to surround myself with,

00:44:37.824 --> 00:44:39.664
offering opinions, right?

00:44:39.704 --> 00:44:40.706
Because I need to hear that

00:44:40.726 --> 00:44:41.565
stuff sometimes.

00:44:41.606 --> 00:44:43.027
And if I am wrong about something,

00:44:43.086 --> 00:44:44.007
I want to be told I'm wrong

00:44:44.068 --> 00:44:44.807
about something.

00:44:45.528 --> 00:44:46.449
But vice versa,

00:44:46.530 --> 00:44:48.331
like I also need to be able to go, okay,

00:44:48.371 --> 00:44:48.791
hold on.

00:44:49.331 --> 00:44:50.592
I don't want to do it that way.

00:44:51.273 --> 00:44:53.574
I think, I think we need to, you know,

00:44:53.614 --> 00:44:54.534
but we always have really

00:44:54.554 --> 00:44:55.534
good discussions about it.

00:44:55.574 --> 00:44:57.255
John has been an excellent

00:44:57.297 --> 00:44:58.077
partner on this.

00:44:58.137 --> 00:44:58.577
And of course,

00:44:59.858 --> 00:45:00.918
was my partner on the book

00:45:00.938 --> 00:45:01.639
too book as well.

00:45:01.679 --> 00:45:03.721
Like we all work together really,

00:45:03.780 --> 00:45:04.380
really well.

00:45:04.400 --> 00:45:06.541
So we haven't had any real obstacles.

00:45:06.603 --> 00:45:07.182
I wouldn't say.

00:45:08.365 --> 00:45:10.449
You are known for your fair reviews.

00:45:10.969 --> 00:45:11.710
That's the thing.

00:45:11.731 --> 00:45:13.673
It's like even-handed

00:45:14.695 --> 00:45:16.478
reviews where it's like it

00:45:16.518 --> 00:45:17.278
doesn't seem like you're

00:45:17.298 --> 00:45:18.760
beholden to NECA or

00:45:18.780 --> 00:45:20.003
something like that because it's like

00:45:20.389 --> 00:45:21.771
You're like, hey, I like this,

00:45:21.831 --> 00:45:23.231
but there's the drawback.

00:45:23.391 --> 00:45:24.351
Here's the comparison.

00:45:24.391 --> 00:45:25.431
That sort of stuff like that.

00:45:25.452 --> 00:45:26.032
I always do my best.

00:45:26.132 --> 00:45:28.974
If there's something I don't like,

00:45:29.014 --> 00:45:29.974
I make sure I tell people I

00:45:29.994 --> 00:45:30.454
don't like it.

00:45:30.474 --> 00:45:31.855
That doesn't mean that other

00:45:31.914 --> 00:45:33.815
people won't like it.

00:45:33.976 --> 00:45:34.476
I fully agree.

00:45:34.516 --> 00:45:39.559
I always try to keep it balanced.

00:45:39.579 --> 00:45:41.119
Do you collect all the

00:45:41.159 --> 00:45:42.460
current versions of

00:45:42.681 --> 00:45:43.380
everything that's coming

00:45:43.440 --> 00:45:44.041
out with Turtles?

00:45:44.081 --> 00:45:45.442
Do you get literally everything?

00:45:45.461 --> 00:45:45.581
Yes.

00:45:46.775 --> 00:45:49.177
yeah thank god I tapped out

00:45:49.197 --> 00:45:51.159
a long time ago it just got

00:45:51.179 --> 00:45:53.402
to be too much I uh I

00:45:53.422 --> 00:45:54.782
cherry pick a lot of it now

00:45:55.163 --> 00:45:56.405
um there's so much good

00:45:56.425 --> 00:45:59.246
stuff and gosh man even

00:45:59.268 --> 00:46:00.188
just with the stuff we just

00:46:00.228 --> 00:46:02.771
saw at comic-con like I am

00:46:02.851 --> 00:46:03.472
if we're talking about the

00:46:03.492 --> 00:46:04.773
negative stuff I'm so into

00:46:04.793 --> 00:46:06.213
the figures that they're

00:46:06.233 --> 00:46:08.717
doing oh yeah yeah those look amazing

00:46:09.594 --> 00:46:10.635
I'm so into the Stan Sakai

00:46:10.655 --> 00:46:12.197
turtles that they're doing.

00:46:13.197 --> 00:46:14.717
Like so many of that.

00:46:14.757 --> 00:46:16.860
So much of that stuff looks so good.

00:46:17.539 --> 00:46:21.523
Because we all have so many turtles.

00:46:21.543 --> 00:46:22.523
I've heard a lot of people

00:46:22.563 --> 00:46:24.003
fatigued about the tune

00:46:24.043 --> 00:46:25.144
line and all that.

00:46:25.204 --> 00:46:27.746
But I think like if that's for you,

00:46:27.947 --> 00:46:28.507
stick with it.

00:46:28.786 --> 00:46:30.507
You know, like just go with it.

00:46:30.588 --> 00:46:32.028
It's like if that's what you want to get.

00:46:32.068 --> 00:46:33.150
Like I'm an Archie guy.

00:46:33.170 --> 00:46:35.010
Like I go after Archie and Last Ronin.

00:46:35.349 --> 00:46:37.371
I don't go after the movie stuff, you know,

00:46:37.431 --> 00:46:39.512
but I do go after the

00:46:40.574 --> 00:46:42.554
monsters because those are amazing.

00:46:43.034 --> 00:46:45.197
But, you know, it's a cherry pick.

00:46:46.476 --> 00:46:47.577
Well, that's the good thing about it,

00:46:47.617 --> 00:46:47.958
right?

00:46:47.998 --> 00:46:48.998
Like, yeah,

00:46:49.039 --> 00:46:50.860
there are so many options out there.

00:46:51.260 --> 00:46:52.722
And between all of the toy

00:46:52.742 --> 00:46:53.842
companies doing Turtles,

00:46:53.862 --> 00:46:55.202
they're all doing different

00:46:55.543 --> 00:46:57.945
eras and different versions.

00:46:58.625 --> 00:46:59.945
So there's something out

00:46:59.985 --> 00:47:01.027
there for everybody.

00:47:07.943 --> 00:47:09.364
Did you get the super seven

00:47:09.605 --> 00:47:11.186
two thousand three series of turtles?

00:47:12.998 --> 00:47:13.498
No, you didn't.

00:47:13.518 --> 00:47:16.001
Yeah, I didn't get it either.

00:47:16.340 --> 00:47:17.101
Sorry, Jay.

00:47:18.762 --> 00:47:19.664
I keep hearing such good

00:47:19.704 --> 00:47:20.704
things about them and they

00:47:20.764 --> 00:47:21.605
look really cool.

00:47:21.644 --> 00:47:22.686
And I also just like,

00:47:23.206 --> 00:47:24.467
I want to support the fact

00:47:24.487 --> 00:47:25.447
that we're finally getting

00:47:25.608 --> 00:47:28.050
something new for the E-Tree era.

00:47:28.630 --> 00:47:28.971
Yes.

00:47:29.391 --> 00:47:31.213
There's just been so much stuff and like,

00:47:31.233 --> 00:47:31.632
you know,

00:47:32.333 --> 00:47:34.074
I'm picking and choosing a lot more.

00:47:34.114 --> 00:47:35.976
So I just, I haven't yet,

00:47:36.036 --> 00:47:38.099
but I probably will at some point.

00:47:40.068 --> 00:47:40.688
Yeah,

00:47:40.708 --> 00:47:42.630
I did that with the Masters of

00:47:42.710 --> 00:47:43.389
Universe line.

00:47:43.811 --> 00:47:44.971
Like, there's a couple that were, like,

00:47:45.010 --> 00:47:46.152
super choice, and I'm like,

00:47:46.431 --> 00:47:48.172
I am definitely getting this April O'Neil,

00:47:48.251 --> 00:47:49.773
you know, as the sorceress.

00:47:49.793 --> 00:47:50.753
Yeah, that's rad.

00:47:51.134 --> 00:47:52.934
You know, like, some of these I had to get,

00:47:53.114 --> 00:47:53.894
you know, when I saw them.

00:47:53.914 --> 00:47:54.695
But, you know,

00:47:54.715 --> 00:47:56.615
maybe I didn't get the Casey, you know,

00:47:57.175 --> 00:47:58.956
or the Man-at-Arms or stuff.

00:47:58.996 --> 00:47:59.876
It's like, all right,

00:47:59.896 --> 00:48:01.318
I've got fourteen Skeletors.

00:48:01.677 --> 00:48:02.798
Maybe I didn't need that one,

00:48:02.818 --> 00:48:04.438
but I got the Shredder one, you know,

00:48:04.478 --> 00:48:06.039
that's like Shredder Skeletor, so...

00:48:08.791 --> 00:48:09.632
The one in the front,

00:48:09.652 --> 00:48:10.614
the Comic-Con version.

00:48:13.735 --> 00:48:14.556
Yeah.

00:48:14.577 --> 00:48:16.177
Yeah, he's pretty cool.

00:48:16.278 --> 00:48:19.021
That's the one I was thinking about.

00:48:19.822 --> 00:48:20.882
Yeah, he's pretty cool.

00:48:20.922 --> 00:48:23.063
I think he's glow-in-the-dark, too.

00:48:23.164 --> 00:48:24.385
All that fun stuff.

00:48:24.666 --> 00:48:28.228
Not quite scare-glow, but, you know.

00:48:28.248 --> 00:48:31.871
Yeah, I'm like, come on, guys.

00:48:31.911 --> 00:48:32.632
What are you doing to me?

00:48:34.217 --> 00:48:35.318
I'm still over here waiting

00:48:35.358 --> 00:48:36.117
for my goat man.

00:48:36.358 --> 00:48:37.438
So, you know,

00:48:37.458 --> 00:48:38.139
I know they did a good

00:48:38.159 --> 00:48:39.438
filmation version of him.

00:48:39.559 --> 00:48:41.378
So, you know, but I just,

00:48:41.518 --> 00:48:42.619
I remember seeing him in those,

00:48:42.719 --> 00:48:44.320
those early paintings and all that.

00:48:44.360 --> 00:48:45.559
I'm like, who's this guy?

00:48:45.820 --> 00:48:47.840
And then he's a nothing burger, you know,

00:48:50.840 --> 00:48:51.400
is he real?

00:48:51.420 --> 00:48:52.181
Oh, that's cool.

00:48:52.501 --> 00:48:52.702
Yeah.

00:48:53.641 --> 00:48:55.581
I love Kevin Smith put him in revelations.

00:48:55.621 --> 00:48:57.922
So it's such a weird,

00:48:57.943 --> 00:48:58.802
obscure character to

00:48:58.842 --> 00:48:59.943
suddenly be getting all

00:48:59.983 --> 00:49:01.362
kinds of love from all

00:49:01.443 --> 00:49:03.324
these different media projects.

00:49:03.344 --> 00:49:03.903
It's funny.

00:49:04.103 --> 00:49:05.403
well it's that and like

00:49:05.443 --> 00:49:06.704
Clamp Champ and I'm like oh

00:49:06.764 --> 00:49:07.744
wow well they killed him

00:49:07.784 --> 00:49:10.364
pretty quick yeah he never

00:49:10.505 --> 00:49:11.184
appeared in the original

00:49:11.204 --> 00:49:11.905
cartoon that was like his

00:49:12.005 --> 00:49:13.306
first animated appearance

00:49:13.606 --> 00:49:14.425
oh I didn't know that I

00:49:14.445 --> 00:49:15.726
thought he was in like the

00:49:15.766 --> 00:49:16.786
Christmas special or

00:49:16.806 --> 00:49:20.947
something so so you're

00:49:20.967 --> 00:49:21.827
excited about the Stan

00:49:21.867 --> 00:49:23.088
Sakai ones they look really

00:49:23.128 --> 00:49:25.708
good I saw some really cool

00:49:25.768 --> 00:49:27.068
stuff coming out of Mondo

00:49:27.469 --> 00:49:28.668
Mondo looked awesome I saw

00:49:28.688 --> 00:49:30.768
your video on that the one

00:49:30.889 --> 00:49:33.250
six scale Donatello looks amazing

00:49:33.847 --> 00:49:35.030
That looks crazy.

00:49:35.050 --> 00:49:38.273
I love the story with that.

00:49:38.293 --> 00:49:40.297
Like, did you hear them tell the story of,

00:49:40.376 --> 00:49:42.079
like, what that toy line is?

00:49:42.559 --> 00:49:44.302
Yeah, like, they were writing essays about,

00:49:44.342 --> 00:49:45.724
like, what the world looks like,

00:49:45.744 --> 00:49:47.407
and it's all nineties technology,

00:49:47.427 --> 00:49:49.148
and it's this really big, like,

00:49:49.619 --> 00:49:49.978
They're like, oh,

00:49:50.018 --> 00:49:51.161
it's going to be the Mondoverse.

00:49:51.360 --> 00:49:51.681
Like, oh,

00:49:51.721 --> 00:49:52.663
that's so cool that they're

00:49:52.682 --> 00:49:53.483
letting them do that.

00:49:53.844 --> 00:49:54.985
They're essentially, like,

00:49:55.125 --> 00:49:56.507
writing a story that takes

00:49:56.567 --> 00:49:57.989
place in the movie universe

00:49:58.228 --> 00:50:00.291
after those movies.

00:50:00.992 --> 00:50:02.052
And they're kind of saying, like,

00:50:02.114 --> 00:50:04.456
what if that Shredder, the movie Shredder,

00:50:05.137 --> 00:50:05.898
meant Greg?

00:50:06.619 --> 00:50:08.240
And got the Dimension X stuff.

00:50:12.244 --> 00:50:13.664
Dimension X stuff happening.

00:50:13.684 --> 00:50:14.925
And that's what they're doing.

00:50:14.985 --> 00:50:18.608
And they got full approval

00:50:18.628 --> 00:50:20.429
from Viacom to just go on with it.

00:50:20.449 --> 00:50:21.831
So they're just creating a

00:50:21.891 --> 00:50:23.932
new movie essentially with their toys.

00:50:23.952 --> 00:50:25.673
That's really cool.

00:50:25.793 --> 00:50:26.715
I think it's great.

00:50:27.014 --> 00:50:28.155
And the sculpts look amazing.

00:50:28.635 --> 00:50:29.896
I thought, and Eric,

00:50:30.317 --> 00:50:31.719
you've seen the Call of

00:50:31.759 --> 00:50:33.059
Duty versions of the Turtles.

00:50:33.719 --> 00:50:35.360
This new Donatello looks

00:50:35.400 --> 00:50:38.003
kind of like that Call of Duty version.

00:50:39.623 --> 00:50:41.686
It also kind of looks like Injustice.

00:50:50.469 --> 00:50:52.811
I mean, but to be honest with you,

00:50:52.831 --> 00:50:53.670
they're actually coming out

00:50:53.690 --> 00:50:56.072
with the figures for the Fortnite ones,

00:50:56.112 --> 00:50:56.353
too.

00:50:56.994 --> 00:50:58.295
Yeah, yeah.

00:50:58.474 --> 00:50:59.516
Those are great designs.

00:50:59.576 --> 00:51:00.737
They look so much like those

00:51:00.797 --> 00:51:01.836
Joy Toy versions.

00:51:02.538 --> 00:51:03.619
Yeah.

00:51:03.679 --> 00:51:04.760
I mean, the Call of Duty, I mean,

00:51:04.800 --> 00:51:07.822
they look cool and everything, but,

00:51:08.081 --> 00:51:10.403
I mean... I don't play the game.

00:51:10.423 --> 00:51:10.824
I don't know.

00:51:11.445 --> 00:51:12.005
Call of Duty...

00:51:13.023 --> 00:51:15.925
along with Beavis and Butthead, so,

00:51:15.945 --> 00:51:16.125
I mean.

00:51:16.144 --> 00:51:16.985
Well, you're exactly right.

00:51:17.105 --> 00:51:17.445
I mean,

00:51:17.465 --> 00:51:18.945
Beavis and Butthead got a Mondo

00:51:19.025 --> 00:51:20.144
release as well, so.

00:51:20.204 --> 00:51:23.425
Yeah.

00:51:23.465 --> 00:51:23.905
Good call, Eric.

00:51:23.925 --> 00:51:25.525
Yeah, it's like they're right there.

00:51:25.565 --> 00:51:26.346
They're hitting us in that

00:51:26.385 --> 00:51:27.266
nineties nostalgia, you know.

00:51:27.286 --> 00:51:27.387
Yeah.

00:51:27.407 --> 00:51:29.527
They're trying to.

00:51:30.887 --> 00:51:34.047
Yeah.

00:51:34.128 --> 00:51:34.568
Trying to.

00:51:34.648 --> 00:51:34.847
Trying to.

00:51:34.867 --> 00:51:35.228
But it's good.

00:51:35.867 --> 00:51:36.827
I'm glad that we're seeing

00:51:36.867 --> 00:51:37.628
some of this stuff.

00:51:37.768 --> 00:51:38.648
You know,

00:51:38.668 --> 00:51:39.989
it's like sometimes you just get

00:51:40.009 --> 00:51:40.969
like stale and,

00:51:41.708 --> 00:51:43.913
I feel like it's amazing

00:51:43.932 --> 00:51:45.936
that we're getting a Garfellow, you know,

00:51:45.956 --> 00:51:47.119
like the Garfield one.

00:51:47.280 --> 00:51:47.360
Yeah.

00:51:48.463 --> 00:51:49.403
I bought the plush as soon

00:51:49.423 --> 00:51:50.264
as I saw that thing.

00:51:50.284 --> 00:51:51.284
I'm like, this is amazing.

00:51:52.786 --> 00:51:54.565
That was my favorite Turtles

00:51:54.666 --> 00:51:56.887
reveal at Comic-Con.

00:51:57.248 --> 00:51:59.248
Just because I was so surprised by it.

00:51:59.268 --> 00:52:01.088
When I walked up to that case and saw that,

00:52:01.168 --> 00:52:03.750
I was like... I felt like I

00:52:03.809 --> 00:52:04.731
had to have known that was

00:52:04.771 --> 00:52:05.911
coming because of that

00:52:05.951 --> 00:52:07.331
plush that you just talked about.

00:52:07.411 --> 00:52:12.373
I remember when I saw that, I was like, oh,

00:52:12.454 --> 00:52:13.474
a figure can't be far

00:52:13.514 --> 00:52:14.954
behind if they're doing a plush.

00:52:23.385 --> 00:52:26.088
I look at some of the

00:52:26.108 --> 00:52:27.451
weirder stuff and I always

00:52:27.490 --> 00:52:28.751
blame Aaron Hazari.

00:52:29.152 --> 00:52:30.894
And I say, I bet Aaron did this.

00:52:31.255 --> 00:52:32.376
I bet Aaron did that.

00:52:33.543 --> 00:52:34.822
And that's just the whole thing.

00:52:35.264 --> 00:52:36.364
And I was listening to your

00:52:36.384 --> 00:52:37.123
video where they were

00:52:37.164 --> 00:52:39.224
talking about the Visit

00:52:39.264 --> 00:52:41.465
Swamp shirt with the palm tree on it.

00:52:41.565 --> 00:52:42.666
And I'm like, yep,

00:52:42.806 --> 00:52:43.865
Aaron is just hilarious.

00:52:44.106 --> 00:52:44.666
I love that splash, too,

00:52:44.686 --> 00:52:49.766
because he's got the two

00:52:49.907 --> 00:52:51.728
different shoes on.

00:52:52.047 --> 00:52:53.307
He's wearing a flip-flop.

00:52:53.327 --> 00:52:53.467
Yeah,

00:52:53.487 --> 00:52:55.389
it's got that kind of classic look to it.

00:52:55.688 --> 00:52:56.590
feels like such a classic

00:52:56.630 --> 00:52:57.630
turtles thing right they've

00:52:57.670 --> 00:52:59.452
always got like one shoe

00:52:59.512 --> 00:53:00.853
where it's like the toes

00:53:01.112 --> 00:53:02.795
are busting out of it I

00:53:02.815 --> 00:53:04.295
think that's the ryan brown

00:53:04.496 --> 00:53:06.137
influence where like ryan

00:53:06.177 --> 00:53:07.318
brown said you always had

00:53:07.338 --> 00:53:08.239
to have this and then it

00:53:08.278 --> 00:53:10.001
got to like dan burger said

00:53:10.021 --> 00:53:10.760
you always have to do it

00:53:10.780 --> 00:53:11.762
like that now so it's like

00:53:12.021 --> 00:53:12.963
those are the two guys that

00:53:13.003 --> 00:53:13.963
are like yeah it's just got

00:53:13.983 --> 00:53:14.744
to be like this so yeah

00:53:14.764 --> 00:53:17.425
that's awesome I love it

00:53:17.447 --> 00:53:18.827
that is that's so much fun

00:53:19.447 --> 00:53:20.929
no I mean so so the book

00:53:20.969 --> 00:53:22.510
sounds sounds amazing I'm

00:53:22.550 --> 00:53:24.152
definitely going to get in on this um

00:53:25.351 --> 00:53:26.512
One thing that we always

00:53:26.731 --> 00:53:28.094
like to ask our guests about,

00:53:28.114 --> 00:53:29.615
because we're talking about Ninja Turtles,

00:53:29.956 --> 00:53:31.438
we got to talk about pizza.

00:53:33.860 --> 00:53:34.961
I know you're another

00:53:35.021 --> 00:53:36.985
Illinois guy and all that with pizza.

00:53:37.704 --> 00:53:37.945
What's...

00:53:38.737 --> 00:53:40.818
What's your favorite topping on pizza?

00:53:40.858 --> 00:53:44.760
Favorite topping?

00:53:44.800 --> 00:53:45.880
It could be deep dish or it

00:53:45.920 --> 00:53:47.161
could be thin crust.

00:53:47.222 --> 00:53:48.463
It could be any way that you like it.

00:53:50.003 --> 00:53:51.204
I prefer just like a regular

00:53:51.224 --> 00:53:52.125
old hand toss.

00:53:52.425 --> 00:53:53.704
Honestly, like deep dish is great.

00:53:53.724 --> 00:53:55.525
Chicago style is nice every now and then.

00:53:55.987 --> 00:53:57.867
Yeah, it's a once in a while thing.

00:53:57.887 --> 00:53:59.688
It's like a casserole more

00:53:59.708 --> 00:54:00.489
than it is a pizza.

00:54:01.849 --> 00:54:05.271
It's a casserole with sauce on it.

00:54:05.291 --> 00:54:06.793
Detroit style deep dishes.

00:54:07.344 --> 00:54:08.664
I like Detroit style too, man.

00:54:09.246 --> 00:54:09.885
I'm with you.

00:54:10.086 --> 00:54:10.487
I'm with you.

00:54:10.507 --> 00:54:12.789
That nice crust on the outside.

00:54:14.451 --> 00:54:15.130
This is Dan.

00:54:15.170 --> 00:54:16.492
Let's hear what Dan likes.

00:54:17.793 --> 00:54:19.554
I like a nice hand-tossed pizza,

00:54:19.614 --> 00:54:20.996
and I've always been a big

00:54:21.016 --> 00:54:23.259
fan of chicken on pizza.

00:54:23.539 --> 00:54:23.958
Really?

00:54:24.320 --> 00:54:25.161
Okay.

00:54:25.440 --> 00:54:26.702
I like a lot of meats too,

00:54:26.742 --> 00:54:28.923
so like chicken and bacon

00:54:29.324 --> 00:54:31.306
and pepperoni and sausage,

00:54:31.326 --> 00:54:33.047
like pile that on top of a pizza.

00:54:36.097 --> 00:54:36.896
all that protein okay all

00:54:36.916 --> 00:54:38.016
right it's like a meat

00:54:38.036 --> 00:54:39.197
lovers pizza with some

00:54:39.257 --> 00:54:40.257
chicken on it and all that

00:54:41.438 --> 00:54:42.398
that sounds kind of like

00:54:42.418 --> 00:54:43.438
that one that we had at

00:54:43.518 --> 00:54:45.018
granite uh eric a little

00:54:45.039 --> 00:54:47.619
bit yeah that's good and

00:54:47.659 --> 00:54:49.240
now the uh the the

00:54:49.280 --> 00:54:50.380
inevitable question eric

00:54:50.400 --> 00:54:51.240
would you like to ask him

00:54:52.021 --> 00:54:53.742
yeah the the pineapple and

00:54:53.782 --> 00:54:54.762
pizza what do you think

00:54:54.782 --> 00:54:57.222
about that crime or not crime

00:55:01.445 --> 00:55:01.905
All right.

00:55:02.045 --> 00:55:02.327
Hey,

00:55:02.967 --> 00:55:04.590
you're loving this one because he said

00:55:04.670 --> 00:55:05.911
Raph and no pineapple,

00:55:05.972 --> 00:55:07.735
so the points go to you, Eric.

00:55:07.775 --> 00:55:11.420
I'm winning right now.

00:55:11.561 --> 00:55:12.021
I love it.

00:55:15.878 --> 00:55:16.498
That's great.

00:55:16.579 --> 00:55:17.219
Yeah.

00:55:18.079 --> 00:55:19.159
I definitely like pizza.

00:55:19.219 --> 00:55:20.719
Some of our former guests,

00:55:20.820 --> 00:55:23.121
including the shredder, Francois Chow,

00:55:23.181 --> 00:55:24.061
likes it.

00:55:25.320 --> 00:55:26.702
But you are definitely in

00:55:26.722 --> 00:55:28.561
the other category of folks

00:55:28.581 --> 00:55:29.481
that don't like pineapples.

00:55:29.501 --> 00:55:29.742
That's okay.

00:55:29.762 --> 00:55:30.503
I'm not in a warm pineapple.

00:55:30.543 --> 00:55:38.103
I'm not in a warm pineapple.

00:55:38.204 --> 00:55:39.184
I don't know what it is.

00:55:39.244 --> 00:55:40.284
Eric can't get past it.

00:55:40.324 --> 00:55:41.804
So I'd say you can nice and

00:55:41.824 --> 00:55:42.585
you can grill it and then

00:55:42.684 --> 00:55:43.525
you can put it on it.

00:55:43.585 --> 00:55:44.525
But, you know, so...

00:55:45.362 --> 00:55:45.742
I don't know.

00:55:46.802 --> 00:55:48.163
I've grilled it before, too.

00:55:48.543 --> 00:55:49.103
I've grilled it.

00:55:49.244 --> 00:55:50.603
I've put it on hamburger.

00:55:50.684 --> 00:55:51.304
I put it on like

00:55:51.324 --> 00:55:52.405
cheeseburgers and stuff and

00:55:52.425 --> 00:55:53.565
hamburgers or whatever.

00:55:54.306 --> 00:55:56.365
And I just I don't I don't understand.

00:55:57.086 --> 00:55:57.467
I get it.

00:55:57.646 --> 00:55:58.246
I get it.

00:55:58.367 --> 00:55:58.786
It's fine.

00:55:58.847 --> 00:55:59.288
It's the thing.

00:55:59.987 --> 00:56:00.148
Eric,

00:56:00.668 --> 00:56:01.909
what kind of questions do you have

00:56:01.929 --> 00:56:02.429
for Dan?

00:56:02.489 --> 00:56:03.969
Do you have any questions

00:56:03.989 --> 00:56:07.210
about his book or Masters of the Universe,

00:56:07.231 --> 00:56:08.231
which we've talked about a lot?

00:56:08.391 --> 00:56:08.590
I know.

00:56:10.612 --> 00:56:11.112
I lost.

00:56:11.291 --> 00:56:12.632
I really just lost him, too.

00:56:15.688 --> 00:56:17.590
So, variants.

00:56:19.391 --> 00:56:20.150
I don't know.

00:56:20.231 --> 00:56:21.992
If anybody knows anything about variants,

00:56:22.012 --> 00:56:22.893
it's definitely me.

00:56:25.213 --> 00:56:27.434
When it comes to the last round, what is,

00:56:27.755 --> 00:56:28.275
like,

00:56:30.155 --> 00:56:32.538
one of the most rarest variants that

00:56:32.557 --> 00:56:35.898
you have ever held in your hand?

00:56:36.079 --> 00:56:36.679
Oh, okay.

00:56:36.760 --> 00:56:37.179
Interesting.

00:56:41.186 --> 00:56:41.606
It can't be,

00:56:41.666 --> 00:56:42.967
it doesn't have to be turtles

00:56:43.027 --> 00:56:43.987
or anything like that.

00:56:44.327 --> 00:56:46.268
If it's a prototype or something like that,

00:56:46.349 --> 00:56:47.469
I mean, whatever it is,

00:56:47.489 --> 00:56:49.771
just what is it that, that, I mean,

00:56:49.851 --> 00:56:50.871
you obviously you've been

00:56:50.891 --> 00:56:51.711
around toys a lot.

00:56:52.311 --> 00:56:54.152
So, I mean,

00:56:54.452 --> 00:56:56.673
and what is the rarest thing

00:56:56.693 --> 00:56:58.054
that you've ever held in your hand?

00:56:58.074 --> 00:57:01.896
The rarest thing I've ever held in my hand,

00:57:01.936 --> 00:57:03.378
that is tough.

00:57:08.974 --> 00:57:11.454
Are we talking prototypes and stuff too,

00:57:11.534 --> 00:57:13.175
or an actual variant of

00:57:13.215 --> 00:57:16.378
something that's been released?

00:57:16.458 --> 00:57:19.958
I guess dealer's choice, right?

00:57:19.998 --> 00:57:22.679
We'll go dealer's choice on that.

00:57:23.541 --> 00:57:27.061
The rarest thing that you've ever had,

00:57:27.101 --> 00:57:28.483
it doesn't matter if it's money-wise,

00:57:28.503 --> 00:57:30.164
that meant a lot to you.

00:57:30.224 --> 00:57:32.625
How about that?

00:57:32.644 --> 00:57:35.365
That you wanted to hold on to.

00:57:40.293 --> 00:57:43.936
Okay, I'm going to go with,

00:57:44.498 --> 00:57:46.460
it's got the masters of the universe.

00:57:46.539 --> 00:57:48.541
I've got a couple of really,

00:57:48.601 --> 00:57:52.146
really rare pieces in my

00:57:52.186 --> 00:57:53.407
collection that I'm pretty

00:57:53.427 --> 00:57:54.307
proud of having.

00:57:54.869 --> 00:57:57.572
I think I have two.

00:57:57.911 --> 00:57:59.914
I'm going to throw out two, okay?

00:58:04.451 --> 00:58:07.313
carded ink pack, which is, like,

00:58:07.373 --> 00:58:11.114
originally released He-Man from Takara.

00:58:12.115 --> 00:58:13.255
It just came out of Japan.

00:58:13.476 --> 00:58:14.257
No kidding.

00:58:15.378 --> 00:58:16.257
Okay.

00:58:17.278 --> 00:58:18.018
Super rare.

00:58:18.179 --> 00:58:20.079
Like, those are just, like, not out there.

00:58:20.179 --> 00:58:21.221
And this was carded.

00:58:21.240 --> 00:58:22.981
It has the Takara logo on it.

00:58:23.563 --> 00:58:23.702
Wow.

00:58:23.762 --> 00:58:27.425
That's my baby, man, because it's, like,

00:58:27.664 --> 00:58:29.085
one of my all-time favorite figures,

00:58:29.106 --> 00:58:29.425
and it's, like,

00:58:29.445 --> 00:58:31.146
a really rare carded version of it.

00:58:31.286 --> 00:58:32.027
I love it so much.

00:58:32.068 --> 00:58:32.208
Nice.

00:58:33.128 --> 00:58:33.947
And then the other one is

00:58:34.007 --> 00:58:36.009
probably the striped tail battle cat.

00:58:37.030 --> 00:58:40.170
If you're not aware, battle cat,

00:58:41.891 --> 00:58:45.012
I don't know how many are out there,

00:58:45.331 --> 00:58:46.532
but there's not very many.

00:58:47.052 --> 00:58:48.313
The speculation is that it's

00:58:48.333 --> 00:58:49.954
like an early market version.

00:58:50.313 --> 00:58:51.514
They painted stripes on the

00:58:51.554 --> 00:58:53.755
tail and very quickly

00:58:53.835 --> 00:58:54.956
removed that paint app.

00:58:55.396 --> 00:58:57.076
So most battle cats you see

00:58:57.115 --> 00:58:58.577
and like ninety nine point

00:58:58.617 --> 00:58:59.717
nine percent of battle cats

00:58:59.737 --> 00:59:01.438
you find just have a straight green tail.

00:59:02.759 --> 00:59:03.940
a handful of them out there

00:59:03.960 --> 00:59:07.842
with yellow stripes, and I have one.

00:59:08.963 --> 00:59:09.762
Battle Cat's one of my

00:59:09.782 --> 00:59:11.384
all-time favorite toys ever,

00:59:11.884 --> 00:59:14.065
so that's one of my favorite pieces.

00:59:14.166 --> 00:59:15.505
I love that toy so much.

00:59:15.525 --> 00:59:16.507
Did you have the bouncing

00:59:16.547 --> 00:59:17.626
Battle Cat as a kid?

00:59:19.608 --> 00:59:20.708
No, my kids haven't.

00:59:22.818 --> 00:59:23.699
I remember getting that in

00:59:23.759 --> 00:59:24.880
nineteen eighty four.

00:59:25.119 --> 00:59:26.019
So I remember.

00:59:26.521 --> 00:59:26.860
Yeah.

00:59:26.960 --> 00:59:27.762
Oh, absolutely.

00:59:27.802 --> 00:59:30.523
I didn't know this when I was a kid,

00:59:30.744 --> 00:59:31.923
but when I was a collector,

00:59:31.963 --> 00:59:32.824
I found out about it.

00:59:32.885 --> 00:59:34.585
And when I like literally

00:59:34.746 --> 00:59:36.827
when I found out I was my wife,

00:59:36.947 --> 00:59:38.289
I were expecting our first kid.

00:59:38.668 --> 00:59:39.389
I was like,

00:59:39.509 --> 00:59:40.929
I must own Bouncing Battle Cat.

00:59:41.110 --> 00:59:41.570
Yes.

00:59:41.791 --> 00:59:42.190
Yeah.

00:59:42.592 --> 00:59:43.831
I will have Bouncing Battle Cat.

00:59:43.851 --> 00:59:46.434
So I got it.

00:59:46.474 --> 00:59:48.175
So both of my kids have played with it.

00:59:48.596 --> 00:59:49.016
That's good.

00:59:49.096 --> 00:59:51.436
Oh, that's that's so fantastic.

00:59:51.557 --> 00:59:52.018
Oh, my God.

00:59:52.378 --> 00:59:53.177
We're going to have to have

00:59:53.197 --> 00:59:54.278
you on again so we can talk

00:59:54.298 --> 00:59:55.119
more about toys.

00:59:55.199 --> 00:59:57.119
But, I mean, this has been a blast.

00:59:57.179 --> 00:59:58.619
Like, just learn about the book.

00:59:59.559 --> 01:00:00.701
I'm going to put the book up

01:00:00.740 --> 01:00:02.081
so folks can see it.

01:00:02.101 --> 01:00:04.021
The book is called Pixel Dan

01:00:04.061 --> 01:00:05.161
Presents the Toys of

01:00:05.222 --> 01:00:06.461
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,

01:00:08.902 --> 01:00:09.864
And spoiler alert,

01:00:10.525 --> 01:00:11.286
we found out there's going

01:00:11.306 --> 01:00:12.646
to be a second volume,

01:00:12.927 --> 01:00:14.309
but obviously it says volume one.

01:00:14.389 --> 01:00:15.150
You'd think there's going to

01:00:15.170 --> 01:00:16.070
be a volume two.

01:00:16.090 --> 01:00:19.114
I was going to say,

01:00:19.215 --> 01:00:20.036
I'll address that real quick too,

01:00:20.056 --> 01:00:21.376
because I've had a lot of people ask me,

01:00:21.416 --> 01:00:22.938
like, why would you cut it off there?

01:00:22.958 --> 01:00:23.619
And the

01:00:23.920 --> 01:00:25.121
the answer is,

01:00:25.820 --> 01:00:26.882
do you know how many toys

01:00:26.902 --> 01:00:28.103
are in that original toy line?

01:00:28.282 --> 01:00:29.322
There's a lot of toys.

01:00:29.342 --> 01:00:31.844
That toy line went like a decade.

01:00:32.284 --> 01:00:33.425
And this book right here is

01:00:33.485 --> 01:00:35.106
already over six hundred pages.

01:00:35.306 --> 01:00:36.967
I could not fit an entire

01:00:37.007 --> 01:00:38.929
toy line in one book doing

01:00:38.989 --> 01:00:40.010
it the way we're doing it.

01:00:40.030 --> 01:00:41.351
So it just made sense to

01:00:41.391 --> 01:00:42.911
break it up into two volumes.

01:00:43.411 --> 01:00:46.233
We were already working on all of it.

01:00:46.954 --> 01:00:50.976
So as long as this one sells, hint, hint,

01:00:51.277 --> 01:00:51.336
we

01:00:51.536 --> 01:00:52.396
you're rolling right out

01:00:52.416 --> 01:00:54.637
with volume two probably

01:00:54.677 --> 01:00:56.539
next year right after it so

01:00:56.599 --> 01:00:57.320
that way you'll have the

01:00:57.380 --> 01:00:59.240
full vintage toy line in a

01:00:59.280 --> 01:01:00.681
two volume set and then if

01:01:00.701 --> 01:01:02.302
there's interest I can

01:01:02.362 --> 01:01:03.603
always keep going with

01:01:03.643 --> 01:01:04.943
another volume we can go

01:01:04.983 --> 01:01:06.003
into two k three or

01:01:06.023 --> 01:01:08.525
whatever oh wow you gotta

01:01:08.545 --> 01:01:10.326
see uh you know you guys

01:01:10.346 --> 01:01:11.206
gotta show me how much you

01:01:11.246 --> 01:01:13.126
want it uh buying this book

01:01:14.659 --> 01:01:14.778
Now,

01:01:14.838 --> 01:01:17.682
I've seen a link for the preorder on

01:01:18.143 --> 01:01:18.585
Facebook,

01:01:18.625 --> 01:01:19.585
but I've also seen it on

01:01:19.666 --> 01:01:23.552
shop.thepower-con.com

01:01:23.791 --> 01:01:24.994
backslash collections.

01:01:25.434 --> 01:01:26.655
So you can check it out there.

01:01:26.717 --> 01:01:30.963
So I think the website is power-con.com.

01:01:32.349 --> 01:01:33.351
get to it there or you can

01:01:33.371 --> 01:01:36.251
just go to toys of tmnt.com

01:01:36.311 --> 01:01:37.192
and that goes straight to

01:01:37.211 --> 01:01:38.472
the actual book sale yeah

01:01:38.813 --> 01:01:39.833
but it's hosted through the

01:01:39.873 --> 01:01:41.134
power con website because

01:01:41.534 --> 01:01:42.275
my partner in the book

01:01:42.295 --> 01:01:43.434
house staples also runs

01:01:43.474 --> 01:01:44.815
powercon so we already had

01:01:44.835 --> 01:01:45.996
a storefront set up there

01:01:46.016 --> 01:01:47.157
it was just easier to like

01:01:47.197 --> 01:01:49.018
build even better uh

01:01:49.097 --> 01:01:50.619
turtles book sales through

01:01:50.639 --> 01:01:52.679
the already existing store site so

01:01:53.679 --> 01:01:54.521
The pre-orders,

01:01:54.661 --> 01:01:55.501
it's important to know that

01:01:55.521 --> 01:01:57.001
the pre-orders run through

01:01:57.101 --> 01:01:58.581
August seventeenth because

01:01:58.621 --> 01:01:59.561
this is when we need to

01:01:59.581 --> 01:02:00.583
make sure we have our

01:02:01.282 --> 01:02:02.744
minimum that we want to

01:02:02.804 --> 01:02:04.503
send to the printers to get printed.

01:02:04.724 --> 01:02:05.625
So I would really,

01:02:05.664 --> 01:02:07.045
really urge you to pre-order it.

01:02:07.065 --> 01:02:08.306
That would help us out a ton.

01:02:08.865 --> 01:02:10.367
to print right now to be

01:02:10.387 --> 01:02:11.108
able to get the book

01:02:11.208 --> 01:02:14.409
printed and john's variant

01:02:14.469 --> 01:02:15.510
guide that we're talking

01:02:15.530 --> 01:02:17.492
about as well as a special

01:02:17.532 --> 01:02:18.492
edition version of this

01:02:18.512 --> 01:02:20.373
which has got like a faux

01:02:20.733 --> 01:02:22.494
leather green bound book

01:02:22.514 --> 01:02:23.876
it's very sharp looking

01:02:24.635 --> 01:02:26.056
yeah so that one in the

01:02:26.077 --> 01:02:27.858
variant guide or pre-order

01:02:27.918 --> 01:02:29.820
exclusive so those are made

01:02:29.840 --> 01:02:31.181
to order so if you want

01:02:31.300 --> 01:02:32.661
either of those versions

01:02:33.101 --> 01:02:34.382
you gotta pre-order them

01:02:34.722 --> 01:02:35.583
because we're doing those

01:02:35.623 --> 01:02:37.085
made to order so please

01:02:37.704 --> 01:02:39.385
Pre-order, spread the word,

01:02:39.445 --> 01:02:40.706
let everybody know about these.

01:02:40.947 --> 01:02:42.867
I would really, really appreciate it.

01:02:43.387 --> 01:02:44.068
Yeah, definitely.

01:02:44.869 --> 01:02:46.829
We appreciate you.

01:02:47.090 --> 01:02:47.730
Folks,

01:02:47.750 --> 01:02:50.291
you can check out our pizza recipe next.

01:02:50.311 --> 01:02:52.012
I'm going to do that right

01:02:52.032 --> 01:02:53.253
after we say goodbye to our guest.

01:02:53.653 --> 01:02:54.713
But you can be sure to

01:02:54.753 --> 01:02:57.014
follow him at PixelDan on YouTube.

01:02:57.115 --> 01:03:00.097
That's Pixel-Dan or at

01:03:00.157 --> 01:03:01.577
PixelDan on Instagram.

01:03:02.215 --> 01:03:03.420
And with that, we'll let you go,

01:03:03.460 --> 01:03:04.583
and I'll be right back with

01:03:04.623 --> 01:03:05.867
your pizza recipe of the day.

01:03:06.429 --> 01:03:06.731
Bye, guys.

01:03:06.811 --> 01:03:08.777
Appreciate you guys.

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