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Geek as well as on geekcastradio .com. So it's
been a little bit since there's been an episode.
So what's been new with you before we jump into
it? What's been new with me? Let's see. I've
been losing my mind. My health is going down
the drain and I think I'm going to die. So business
as usual. Yeah, pretty much. Same shit, different
day. Yep. So with that. Funny guy. Yeah, we're
trying to end Podcaster Meets World this year.
yes we're we're going no no there's no try we're
going to do it that's that's no there's no try
because if we end it next i think if we end it
next year it'll be 10 years since we started
that damn show i think that's what it is because
i think we started it in 2016 Because we had
the top 100 TV shows in 2015 and it came in at
number 50 out of the 100 TV shows that were listed.
And we both scoffed at that and we're like, what
the hell are you talking about? 50 out of 100.
Easily top 25. I mean, come on. I mean, some
episodes do deserve that, but. Yeah, but. But
yes, we are working on getting Podcaster Meets
World going and finishing that up. Yeah, episode
zero was February 2nd, 2016. This is the funny
thing about that podcast, folks. I'm sorry. Steve's
going to go on his 3D printing love fest here
in a little while. So I'm going to go on my podcast
love fest here now. February 2nd, 2016. You know
when the first episode aired? No. April 28th.
April 28th, 2018. Okay, took us two years. To
actually get going. This is supposed to be a
15, 20 episode mini podcast that should have
taken us a year at best. It's taken us almost
10 between episode three and episode four, 2018
to 2021. I mean, you know, there was that whole
thing in the middle there that happened after,
you know, 2019, but you know, it is what it is.
We love the show. We love doing the podcast or
whatever, but just other things were more important
when it came to podcasting. We had transformer
stuff. We had, Altered Geek stuff. We had other
stuff. Well, I had a lot of job situation stuff
between 2016 and like two years ago. Yeah. At
least now you're settled. Hopefully. Hopefully.
For the most part. Hopefully. You never know.
You never know. But yeah, I mean, so we're working
on that, working on a very... other shows um
i'm waiting for side projects to die down at
time to actually properly revive the cyber dragon
ball and m wire i mean i did put out a new cyber
dragon ball episode like a week or two ago uh
by the time of this recording but uh yeah i would
like to do it more consistently yeah well that's
so i'm kind of waiting consistent is key yeah
Yeah. And so I'm waiting until some other stuff
kind of goes by the wayside. So, yeah. So without
further ado, we've got some some movie stuff.
We've got trailers. We've got a movie that I
watched on Netflix recently. Something with the
Avengers and a toy discussion. So since you brought
up the trailers, why don't you kick it off with
that first? All right, trailers. This will be
quick, easy, and painless, folks, I promise.
Since, you know, we don't really talk about sports
around here on the Geekcast Radio Network all
that often. I mean, we did have the sports gal
pal on here. We interviewed her a number of years
ago now. I was born and bred in Boston, Massachusetts.
Boston sports is in my blood. It always has been
in my blood. So whenever anything Boston sports
pops up anywhere, my ears perk up, my eyes bug
out and we're like, what, what's this? Um, currently
I believe it's supposed to be a nine episode
thing on max. Just like how Netflix has The Last
Dance, which is the Michael Jordan Chicago Bulls
special thing that they did for that. Max has
Celtic City going through the Celtics history.
So I'm currently watching that. Coming up April
8th, Netflix is going to be doing The Clubhouse
a year with the Red Sox. So they're going to
be doing that. So I put the trailer for Celtic
City out there in the show notes and I put the
trailer out for Clubhouse there. Celtic City,
as of this recording, just released episode five.
So I'll be probably watching that as soon as
we're done recording here. And it's just one
of those things where like the Celtics, when
they started, I wasn't even born. So getting
to watch that part of history in sports, getting
to actually watch what Bill Russell and John
Havlicek and everybody else did in Boston for
the city, for the fans, for the sport of basketball
in the NBA. I mean, the Celtics were the early
dynasty in the NBA. kind of thing and the red
socks are are the red socks so you know it is
what it is um but i just i love seeing that stuff
and i love watching it it just that's just what
i'm enjoying watching right now when it comes
to certain stuff and i'm watching other stuff
and other things but mostly like i'm watching
that like i know unless i wrangle in one of my
cousins or something i'm pretty sure i'm not
going to get anybody to do a celtic city podcast
with me you know so that i'm watching actually
to watch to enjoy the thing and i don't feel
like i have because it's a history thing for
me like i said and you know it just is so it's
not something i feel like i have to podcast about
other than talking about it here now where it's
like Oh, this is cool. I can sit back, relax,
enjoy this and not have to do all the podcast
prep stuff to then talk about what I watched
kind of thing. And I'm not complaining about
it. It's not a complaint at all. I'm just saying
it's very rare that I get to do that these days
because most of the stuff that I watch. I watch
so we can talk about it. And I just, we just
recorded, yeah, we just recorded, we just recorded
Podcaster Meets World episode 13. Didn't we mention
Wedding Crashers in that episode? Yeah, we did
because Corey and Topanga were Wedding Crashers.
I think so. Yes, yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because
they crashed, because she's in the second half
of season six. They're preparing for their wedding,
and they go to this fancy wedding where the bride's
father is trying to bribe Corey. One million
dollars! And I brought up the movie Wedding Crashers,
and I just looked on Netflix. Guess what's on
Netflix? Wedding Crashers. Guess what has a 20th
anniversary this year? Wedding Crashers. Wedding
Crashers. New episode of Studio 2009 coming later
this year. Oh, God. So, yeah, Celtic City is
on now on Max. If you have Max, if you want to
learn about the Boston Celtics and the history
of that, like I said, there's that. And then
the clubhouse for the Red Sox. I'm interested
to see that, the clubhouse thing, because a year
with the Red Sox, I don't know where that's going
to, I don't know. I got to look at that trailer
again because I'm not sure where exactly in the
history that that is, if that's current or if
that's whatever. Because last year, for the 20th
anniversary since the Red Sox did the big comeback
in 2004, last year Netflix did the special The
Comeback, revisiting and talking about the history
of the big comeback against the Yankees and the
fact that the Red Sox won the 2004 World Series.
I'm not sure what exactly. I don't remember off
the top of my head about the clubhouse, but I'm
very excited for that. So yeah, trailers. Yay!
Yeah, and then speaking of trailers, I thought
it was kind of funny that we finally got YouTube
cracking down on those garbage fake trailers
and their monetizations. I saw news on that earlier
and I was ecstatic. I was like, oh, finally.
There's only one fake trailer I've ever actively
enjoyed. And that's the one with old Superman,
old Batman. It's all this old combination of
footage of movies that have already been out.
kind of thing it it's an old old you know which
one i'm talking if you see it if i send it to
you later you'll know within two seconds oh yeah
i remember this uh that's the i don't do fake
trailers i don't want like we don't get political
on the geekcaster network folks but i'm gonna
say this anyway i don't care what kind of news
it is i don't care what industry of news it is
i don't want fake shit in my news I don't want
fake stuff in my trailers. I want the real stuff.
I get it. People are excited. I get it. People
want to make like, there's a difference in a
fake trailer and a, and a, and somebody wanting
to do their own thing with like, like a, I don't
know much, but I guess it's an homage. I don't
know. Don't do it, folks. Don't try to make shit
up that isn't already there, please. I mean,
not with trailers. Don't try to like. Give me
an example of a fake trailer you saw recently.
Hmm. It's it's more so just like the stuff like
they they try and like I've seen some of the
Avengers or Marvel related stuff. on on youtube
specifically and you can like they splice different
stuff together or then you've got the ai stuff
where they've kind of created it um i don't know
i can't tell one specifically but i've i've seen
a few of them when i'm actively trying to find
a legit trailer yeah and it's it's highly frustrating
especially when you're trying to see something
legit Like it would be one thing if they just
labeled it, you know, like fan trailer. Just
right off the bat instead of trying to like actively.
But I'm glad that they. They're demonetizing
those because honestly. I know it's not like
their commentary. It's not like they're adding
something. They're just creating. I mean, yeah,
they're fun if that you're into that. But I mean,
I I'm not. and again like like i said that one
that's the justice league because the the whole
point of the old superhero one that i'm talking
about is it's it's like i don't think it was
it might have been christopher reeve i don't
think it was but it was like christopher reeve
michael keaton yeah it was and um wonder woman
linda carter uh it was all of them but that was
like That was done like 14, 15 years ago from
stuff that had already been out. What you're
talking about is people trying to fit together
things that either aren't released yet or just
making up their own stuff. And it's like, yeah,
I mean, I don't mind the ones that like they
somebody used AI to create from with Christopher
Reeve, Michael Keaton and Linda Carter and. um
john wesley ship and you know all those guys
like creating the justice league from like the
90s or like you know earlier than that like i
was fine with that like because that that was
just you can tell it's fake and it was just it
was different but like the ones that are trying
to pass off as a modern movie coming out now
that's that's where i kind of I'm like, OK, that's
not. But yeah, that's. It's one of those things
that I'm just not fond of in general. Yeah, me
either. Now I'm going to skip along because I'll
touch on the action figure stuff later. Should
we do the Marvel or the electric state? Well,
let's do the Marvel because it kind of ties into
the movie stuff. Electric State we can do in
a minute. But the Marvel, I don't know about
you, but if I see a certain thing one too many
times in a short time span, I'm like, okay, I'm
sick of this already. Did you know I finally
watched The Social Network? Oh, did you really?
What did you think? Actually, it wasn't too bad,
but it jumped around too much in the beginning.
Yeah, yeah. Uh, my Mary and I have been jumping
around watching based on a true story films.
Uh huh. So we watched the one about NASA and
you know, the, the origins of the computers and
you know, that they were actually people, you
know, outsmarting, you know, being able to do
the calculations and then they use the computer,
you know, they got all trained on how to use
the giant IBM computers, the size of a room that
barely has enough memory. to compete with your
mouse um and it was that was interesting and
then you know of course we watch the social network
and then i don't know what we're gonna watch
next but i've got a list that we're gonna probably
go through and try and you know uh try and just
kind of enjoy them and then get a little bit
of history with them at the same time, which
is something we've been trying to do more of,
uh, less brain rot and more something with a
substance. Um, not that I don't occasionally
enjoy the, you know, the other stuff, but I'm
going back and watching older things because
one, I haven't watched some of them and two,
uh, it just kind of feels like it's, time to
watch some of them yeah uh but yeah with with
the whole avengers doomsday cast that i mean
you can clearly tell they're not done teasing
who's in it oh no they're not um and i i did
like how at the end of the the teaser that they
had uh robert downey jr at the end kind of going
yep um but I find it funny. The first name is
Hemsworth. Of course. Because, I mean, he's pretty
much the only OG Avenger. Well, outside of Robert,
but Robert is going to be doomed this time. Yeah.
Well, I mean, you got Hawkeye that's still around
and you got the Hulk. Yeah. But the rest of them
are dead. Yeah. And and I'm fine with Hemsworth.
Like, I I'm glad that he's kind of carrying the
torch. And, you know, he's like, I'm happy to
come back for as many films as you'll have me.
And as long as the role is different. And then
we've got Anthony Mackie is his captain. Yeah.
Then we've got the, you know, Vanessa Kirby is
Susan Storm for the new Fantastic Four, which
I'm cautiously optimistic about just because
they're kind of taking the 60s. to kind of differentiate.
Yep. And then you get Ant -Man. Yeah, I could
do it on him. I wish somebody would step on him
already. I'm fine with him being there. And then
we get... Florence Pugh. Yep. The White Widow,
essentially. John Walker. And then we've got
Namor, which he hasn't been in a film yet, right?
Not to my knowledge. Not in the MCU. I could
be wrong, but I don't think so. And then we got
Shang -Chi, which is surprising because that
movie bombed. Then we've got the White Wolf,
Bucky Barnes. He's an OG. I mean, he's not...
You know, I mean, he's not of the original Avenger
film is what I'm getting at. That's what I'm
counting as an OG, like not the fact that he
predates them. Not the original six. Yeah. Yeah.
But he's he's like immediate second tier. Yep.
And then we get the new, you know, Shuri, the
Black Panther. Which I thought that was kind
of just why is just having her play the role
rather than trying to recast. Absolutely. you
know story progression it just makes sense Ben
Grimm the thing and then we get into some X -Men
which Kelsey Grammer is the beast which I loved
the trailer where it was just kind of doing regular
like Avengers music and then it went into like
the X -Men theme like rolled into it it was like
you know and I was like oh this is cool And then
we get Sentry, which I'm not sure who that is.
I think they're from that new anti -hero Marvel
film. I could not tell you off the top of my
head. I can't remember what. It's the new one
that, you know, the White Wolf and all of them
are in. I can't remember the name of it, mostly
because I don't care and I'm not going to see
it. And then we get the new Falcon. Yep. Joaquin
Torres. And then we get the new Johnny Storm.
Yep. And Red Guardian. Yep. Returning. And then
we get M 'Baku. M 'Baku. Yeah, M 'Baku. I'm not
sure who... Was he in the films? Yeah, M 'Baku
is... He's in the Black Panther films. Okay.
Oh, God. I want to say he's in the Black Panther
films. That's OK. And then and then, of course,
then we have ghosts who's again from. The same
film as. As Bucky. Thunderbolts, that's the Thunderbolts,
that's what it is. Yes, that's the all of the
Thunderbolts are here. I'm wondering if they're
going to be the catalyst to start this off. I
think they are because I think somebody said
something about something in the Avengers Doomsday
teaser spoiled Thunderbolts or something. I don't
know. People are just whatever anyway. And then
we get Loki returning. Of course. I wonder which
variant or if this is going to be the one that
was in the Loki TV show. Like almost like he's
connecting the threads to bring all of these
people together. Yeah, probably. But he's an
OG. So I would throw him in there and then we
get the X -Men. We get Patrick Stewart is Professor
X, which. They've killed him three times. Twice
in the Fox universe and once in the MCU. We're
going to go for four. Uh -huh. Yeah. Yeah. Some
people have hinted that this film could be an
X -Men versus the Avengers. I don't think it's
going to be. I think it might start out that
way. Yeah. But they'll quickly, you know, Doom
will enter and they'll be like, we have a common
enemy. Yeah. Like if they were really. So if
if if the Marvel if Marvel Studios and the Marvel
Cinematic Universe really wanted to do an AVX
and Avengers versus X -Men based on the comics.
They would market it as Avengers versus X -Men.
They would not market it as Avengers Doomsday
going into Avengers Secret. The whole point of
Doomsday is leading into Secret Wars because
Doctor Doom had a whole big to do with the Secret
War. Secret War is the next big Avengers thing.
So I would love to see that. I think that would
be super cool if they adapted. the avx comics
into the live action marvel cinematic universe
but i think you're right i think it's gonna be
you know it's it's gonna kind of be like uh world's
finest i don't trust you you don't trust me oh
crap lex and joker teamed up we have to work
together yeah it's gonna be something like that
and um Yeah. So, I mean, I see that happening.
And then we get Ian McKellen coming back as Magneto.
Yeah. Which is the first time since like Days
of Future Past. Yeah. And then we get Alan Cumming
coming back as Nightcrawler. Yeah. Which is cool.
And Rebecca Romijn coming back as Mystique. And
then Donut Lord. Yes. James Marsden as Cyclops.
It's funny because somebody posted they're like,
OK, there was a meme going around earlier. I
don't remember what day it was. It was probably
a couple of days ago. So they showed Jason Marsden
in a car driving with the bunny, you know, having
hot. And then it was him in the car again or
the truck with Sonic the Hedgehog sitting next
to him. And somebody was like, they're like,
give this to me, Disney. And it's got Cyclops
sitting in there with Rocket. Yeah. In the, in
the image for doomsday, like as a joke. And it's
like, it kind of makes sense. Like he's kind
of typecast as the guy that's got the CG animal
friend. Yeah. And the funny thing is, is I remember
I just saw a clip the other day. I think it was
at the Sonic three premiere. Where somebody asked
him. So donut Lord in X -Men. he's like no no
i don't know what you're talking about it was
those rumors had been going around i think ever
since he first starred in the first sonic movie
like whether he would return or not as cyclops
and i'm glad he's returning because honestly
there's nobody else i can see in hollywood that
could play that role better than he does even
though he only had the Three or however many
films he was in. I don't remember. He was only
in those three. He wasn't in Days of Future Past,
was he? No, he was already dead. People kept
saying he was and I'm like, he was not there.
No, he was not there. But yeah, I personally,
I hope that I hope that for Magneto and Cyclops,
they give them. The proper comic attire. Yeah.
Like they did Wolverine and Gambit. I'm personally
hoping that they do this. Because, I mean, Professor
X already has the chair. They used it in Multiverse
of Madness. Yep. So there's no reason why they
won't do the rest of them. I think they've come
to the realization that people want it. Yeah.
And it will happen. um well and and jackman said
he said recently over when when uh deadpool wolverine
happened he's like somebody asked him how does
it feel being in that suit he goes oh it feels
fine it feels great i don't know what i was thinking
25 years ago he's like i wish we would have done
this 25 years ago yeah exactly um but yeah i
think it's cool that they're all they're all
reprising they're all coming back and then we
get gambit finally coming back and and then we
of course jump over to Pedro Pascal as Mr. Fantastic
and then we get Robert Downey Jr. and then it
you know this is now in production and then people
were like well where's Doctor Strange where's
Hawkeye where's Hulk where's Spider -Man where's
Wolverine and Deadpool and you know these others
and I'm like so Part of me thinks that they're
not done revealing. Right. Part of me wonders
if they're going to pull like a Mark Hamill in
The Force Awakens where some of these show up
at the end. Yeah. Part of me also wonders if
the Avengers and the X -Men like the X -Men are
drawn into this battle because the Avengers are
failing so poorly against Doom, who is probably
playing like he's Tony Stark. Oh, yeah. And almost
doing like Justice League Doom, where the whole
initiative that Batman has to take down the rest
of the leaguers, I'm wondering if Doom is tearing
them apart from the inside and the X -Men are
drawn in by Loki to fix things. And in doing
so, they have to bring all these other Avengers
that aren't there. But I also get the vibe that...
Every time the Avengers are in a fight and Hawkeye
is not there, they lose. That's true. So I'm
thinking Doomsday is going to be them losing.
And then the follow -up film is going to be them
resetting the slate. Yeah. Like full reboot with
Fantastic Four continuing beyond. Yeah, could
be. That's my thought. I hope that Wolverine
gets to kind of finally play with the X -Men
in the costume and, you know, Deadpool and Colossus
and, you know, some of these other guys that
have been there forever. Yeah, absolutely. But
yeah, I mean, obviously they can only afford
so much. So I'm, I'm hoping that we end up with,
with a really good film either way. Just sucks.
I got to wait a year. Oh, it'll go by really
fast. Yes, I know, I know. But then again, 2025
has felt like, you know, we're at the end of
the first three months, it's felt like nine years.
At least to me it has, but... Oh, boy. And in
other movie stuff... Yeah, so I watched The Electric
State on Netflix, which is done by the Russos.
The Russo brothers did it. And I genuinely enjoyed
this film for what it is. And it was very it
felt very original. And fun, like just something
I'd not seen before. Which Netflix seems to be
doing really well at. uh, you know, the Ryan
Reynolds stuff. Um, we've, we've had that, um,
and his variety of films and they've all been
enjoyable. Yeah. And so this one, I sat down
kind of half expecting to enjoy it half thinking
this is going to be stupid. Cause it's a bunch
of, you know, robots running around talking to
humans and green States. And then they, they
explain that, you know, everybody's kind of plugged
in and, you know, living virtually and not actually
living. And I was like, okay, so it's got some
Wally in there. It's got, you know, gamer, you
know, that film. And, uh, it was just a lot of
things going on in it. And I, I love how the
robots felt like they were real, like they were,
authentically there we had some I don't know
there was a lot of throwbacks just a lot of stuff
that was fun that kind of felt like 80s and 90s
to it yeah so it kind of made me you know I was
like oh I'm kind of at home here and then Chris
Pratt kind of reminded me of he kind of reminded
me of like a Han Solo type character but for
a modern era so The voice acting was fun and
kind of on spot. Stanley Tucci is like the bad
guy. And then Giancarlo Esposito, I can't pronounce
his name right, but he played Colonel Bradbury.
He plays bad guys a lot and everything. But he's
kind of a bounty hunter in this film. And I felt
like he did. really well with what he was given
and then we had um of course like the main characters
the Millie Bobby Brown who's from Stranger Things
and the Enola Holmes have Chris Pratt Guardians
of the Galaxy and Jurassic World and you know
the list goes on and on Jason Alexander was at
the beginning uh Woody Harrelson he plays Mr.
Peanut which was great uh I don't know. Hearing
some of these older legends playing some of the
robots was just a lot of fun. Brian Cox playing
Popfly, which is he's a baseball bot that shoots
baseballs, but he also falls asleep a lot. Jeez.
I don't know. I found the movie to just be fun
in general and just a lot going on. uh, Herman,
that's Chris Pratt's character's friend is Anthony
Mackie. Yep. So I'm like, you got the Marvel
connection there. There you go. Yep. Um, and,
uh, yeah. So, I mean, just, just overall, it
was just, it was a lot of fun to watch. without
giving too much away, especially because you
haven't seen it. And then, you know, I, I want
people to genuinely just go watch it because
again, it was, it was fun in a different way
than a lot of the crap that seems to be coming
out or rehashes. Yeah. I'll give it a watch.
Uh, the funny thing is, is that, uh, when, um,
when I read the, uh, the basic plot of the film,
I was like, huh. So just this line, where it's
like, With the help of Center CEO Ethan Skate,
who developed Neurocaster technology that allowed
humans to upload their minds into drone robots,
that reminded me of a... amazon prime tv series
that debuted in 2020 that we were supposed to
discuss on whatever show we were supposed to
discuss it on you remember upload yep is it very
similar so upload in 20 no it's it's not exactly
similar but it it it's it doesn't have to do
with robots it has to do with death unfortunately
In 2033, humans can upload themselves into virtual
afterlife of their choosing. When computer programmer
Nathan Brown dies prematurely, he is uploaded
to the very expensive Lakeview, but then finds
himself under the thumb of his possessive still
-living girlfriend Ingrid. As Nathan adjusts
to the pros and cons of digital heaven, he bonds
with Nora, his living customer service rep. Nora
struggles with the pressures of her job, her
dying father, who does not want to be uploaded,
and her growing feelings for Nathan, while slowly
coming to the belief that Nathan was actually
murdered. Upload is supposedly getting a fourth
and final season. At some point, according to
this, as of 2024, it has not had its fourth and
final season yet. It's got three seasons at this
point. So, yeah, interesting. I don't know. I
remember when this first hit Amazon. Again, I
know we're talking about Electric State, but...
i remember when this first hit amazon prime and
karen and i had watched it and we watched that
first episode we were just like oh my god this
is hilarious like this is a show we should be
podcasting about even though it's about death
and dying and afterlife and what just the hilarity
and the the dude uploads himself to the digital
afterlife and the first thing he wants to do
Is pee all over the wall. Because he can. Because
he's dead. And it doesn't matter. So anyway.
Electric State. Yes. I will watch Electric State.
And I will report back next week. Because it
does look really fun. Like you're saying. I saw
the trailer earlier. And yeah. No. So very cool.
Very cool. I'm just. I'm kind of over Pratt at
this point. I am too, but he does really well
on this. I mean, it's him. So, I mean, you know
what you're getting. Yeah. But yeah, I mean,
it was just it was fun and I wasn't expecting
it. Cool. That's good. That's awesome. Looking
forward to it. So with that aside. Getting into
toy talk. Yes, toy talk. So in a previous episode,
I brought up the Star Trek nacelle figures. And
brought up how wave one, you know, they start
out with some obscure characters. I mean, for
the most part, they're not all obscure. Like
you get Captain Jellicoe. Ronnie Cox which is
tempting enough just to have a figure of the
dude I mean these these are coming out in October
for one and they're like they're 2029 bucks or
whatever which is not bad for what these are
considering how highly detailed and how articulated
like they got the ankle the double jointed knees
twisting you know at the waist the twisting at
the legs the you know ball joint arms and or
arm and leg sockets and then you get the twisting
arms and then you get the you know you can swap
out hands and they come with like usually some
of their key items like jellico you get like
a phaser uh uh pad a book and like some paintings
from picard's thing and then the fish tank like
so they all come with something you know for
display piece and then you get you know like
captain garrett from the enterprise c you get
you know a bunch of other random characters captain
sulu from the excelsior and then um and they
only had eight figures and like the other ones
i mean the only two that were somewhat enticing
for me for this wave were the captain jellicoe
and the captain sulu like the rest i was kind
of like meh um but then i i was like you know
what they need they need kirk from generations
like they need yeah you know they need that for
wave two and then lo and behold i i get up like
this morning and i'm i'm checking online and
i'm like look holy crap well so i i looked like
it was literally the day after we published the
episode that that popped up for that one but
then like today they unveiled the whole line
of wave two and i was going what these are awesome
you know and i mean i'm not gonna buy most of
them but the the main one that's of interest
to me is the uh captain kirk from star trek generations
and it's because he's wearing the vest like that
was that was one it held a special place for
me in my childhood for one because the first
trek film i saw in theater was generations Yeah.
And then I saw the, you know, his outfit and
I was liked the, the design of the vested Kirk
outfit. Cause I'd never seen this one before.
Like he wore one similar in Star Trek two, but
then it wasn't like this was, this was new. And
so I, I just liked the aesthetic. I liked the
color. I like, you know, just the whole thing.
So, um, so anyways, they, the likenesses of these
nacelle figures are spectacular. um they look
just like the actors they look just like they
did in the film for the most part i mean it's
like the equivalent of a masterpiece figure for
a you know a poor person pricing right um they
you know he can clasp his hands behind his back
he comes with uh because in the movie he's cooking
in his house and so he's got this jar of dill
weed so like they of course give him that and
the two eggs that he cracks and then he's got
some firewood and the stump and then the axe
that he's chopping and then the horse so he can
ride a horse and all of these come with the kirk
figure nice and i was like okay this is uh this
is kind of cool like i'm genuinely excited for
this this figure like i this one for sure will
be on my my go -to list like i'm gonna get it
um and then of course they reveal the rest of
the line and they added two more figures to this
line to kind of flesh it out a little bit and
they they kind of made sure they took something
from every generation they took you know kirk
from uh generations they took captain janeway
from the episode year of hell um they took wharf
from generations in the sailor uniform they took
to paul from star trek enterprise season three
and four They took Geordi with the sailor uniform
from Generations. So we get three from Generations
here. We get another from Star Trek The Undiscovered
Country with Valeris, the betrayer. Yes, the
betrayer. And then you get the Romulan commander
from the original episode Balance of Terror,
which was Mark Leonard, who later played Spock's
dad. um carol marcus from star trek to the wrath
of khan we get nog from deep space nine and then
we get uh the character called bem from the animated
series which i'm not familiar with uh but no
i was just like okay this is kind of cool we
got some next generation stuff we got some tos
we got some you know star trek movies we've got
specific episode versions of characters uh from
Enterprise Voyager and Deep Space Nine and the
animated series and so I'm genuinely I'm genuinely
excited to see how well these prototypes show
up and while I'll probably only get the Kirk
from this line I'm excited to see what Nacelle
does because For the first time in ages. I'm
excited about a Star Trek toy. That isn't Playmates
toys like the. The recent resurgence of Playmates
toys into Star Trek like five years ago. The
figures comparing them to the original figures
that came out in the 80s and 90s and early 2000s.
The ones that they came out with recently, yes,
they have more articulation. Yes, they can physically
sit in a chair without their legs going bow -legged
out like they're trying to spread eagle. It's
like they can actually sit in the chair because
they have the articulation of modern toys, but
they looked like crap. And they were shorter
than the originals. And just felt cheaper. And
I don't know. I'm glad for another company to
take on what Playmates started with and kind
of accelerated. And it's honestly actually, in
my opinion, better than the Art Asylum stuff
that came out years ago. I don't even remember
that stuff. Yeah, I remember it, but it was like
too much out of my price range. At the time,
I mean, now I'm looking back and I'm like, oh,
they were 30 bucks. It's like, but I mean, at
that time, I couldn't afford that for, you know,
a figure. And I was like, I don't I don't I don't
want to. I mean, now I'm like, oh, that's kind
of par for the course. But we've also got Master
Replicas, which has and this is the weird thing.
Nacelle has the rights to Star Trek of old. Anything
predating the reboot of the J .J. Abrams from
2009, everything from 2009 onward is by a different
company, and everything 2005 to the 60s is Nacelle.
Anything from the 60s to 2005, Nacelle can make.
But they can't make anything from any of the
modern Trek series. Interesting. Which is weird.
And they're only allowed to make in America.
Weird. So I'll probably pre -order the Kirk when
he's available for pre -order on their website
because Walmart sells nacelle figures. They sell
the nacelle company figures of biker mice from
Mars. I don't know if I would ever see the Kirk
in store. And so and BBTS doesn't carry this
stuff. These are like exclusive through these
companies. Otherwise, I would just preorder through
them. But. But I'm genuinely excited for what
Nacelle is doing. Master Replicas, on the other
hand, which took the line of the Eagle Moss Star
Trek ships. And they've kind of bought up other
companies that have gone bankrupt or whatever.
Taking the brands like they have some Star Wars
and Star Trek, some Orville, Doctor Who, Battlestar,
like they take a lot of sci -fi properties. They
got the rights to all the modern Star Trek. And
so they have like Picard season three of Worf,
Riker and Picard. And. Looking at them like they
do look pretty close. To the nacelle company
figures. However. They've almost got like an
unrealistic. Look to them that the nacelle company
seems to have captured the exact likeness. And
nacelle companies figures are also like six inch
figures. Master replicas are like four and a
half. So they'll fit more with the playmates.
line but they're fully articulated so they again
it's kind of it's weird I'm interested in some
of those however like I don't know if I'll actually
pull the trigger on any of the new stuff like
from Picard season 3 just because it's another
website that I would have to get crap from if
BBTS had them all I would be happy but they don't
so But yeah, I mean, it's a really weird place
in the toy market, especially when companies
that used to make toys don't make toys and companies
that own licenses to certain brands license them
out to other brands. And then it's a strange
environment we're in. Very, very strange. And
honestly, I'm kind of. I think toy companies
have become like streaming. There's too much
choice to get your toys from everywhere and anywhere.
There's too much choice in streaming to watch
your stuff wherever you want to watch it. Whether
you purchase it on Fandango, whether you stream
it on Netflix, Hulu, wherever, Max, wherever.
Toy companies, same thing. It's like, Hasbro
has this, but they're then licensing this out
to Playmates, or Mattel has this, or Funko has
this, or the guy that created Funko has left
Funko and created this company now, or the guy
that was running Funko for the longest time has
now left Funko, and he's got his own company
now. It just all feels way too splintered, and
I don't know. Remember, folks, because we're
recording this on March 31st, 2025. Tomorrow,
April 1st, everything is a trap. It's a trap.
It's a trap. So the other thing that's kind of
funny, too, is Playmates got the license for
Power Rangers from Hasbro. Yep. And these figures
look like... crap um they so like i i looked
at these and i'm like why would like i mean hasbro
redid the automorphin rangers you know like like
what bandai made back in the day and then um
and then we got of hasbro more recently And then
these ones, they just look weird, like weirdly
proportioned, tiny head. Like, I mean, they don't
even look there's something that just looks odd
to the face and they're called Power Rangers
Reignition. And it's like they're rehashing season
one, season one and two Power Rangers all over
again. And it's like, OK, we've we've had this
beaten to death. Yeah. And it's not like they're
reviving the old Rangers. It's like, no, they're.
they they're rebooting like why make these again
when hasbro just made them yeah really uh now
the benefit here is like i mean they don't have
the the armor coming off on the green ranger
or whatever but they're also coming out with
the zords again so like you if you missed out
on the original dino zords and you know building
them that hasbro came out with you know the crappier
version Or even like kind of I almost equate
them to kind of in the middle. They because they
can shoot out of the saber tooth tiger and the
triceratops. Out of their tail, like they have
a colored blast that comes out. I think they
sell them individually. I don't know that for
certain, but I know that they sell the power
more for they're going to. With. The power coins,
all five power coins and 40 sounds and phrases,
and they're selling the power more for. For 1699.
Which I've never seen it that low. That's not
bad. No, that's not bad at all. And I'm like,
hmm. i'm like you're thinking about it well like
that was one of those like bucket list things
when i was a kid and even when i was a young
adult i was like man i'd love to get my hands
on a power morpher and then like a legit one
like my 3d printed one is nice don't get me wrong
but i i don't like i don't know it'd just be
cool to have like the display item yeah well
it's not just the display item it's you know
what it is i don't i don't know if this will
actually come across in the microphone because
sometimes it won't pick it up but it's the lights
and sounds man i bet that didn't pick anything
up it did not but of course it didn't but no
i mean it's the lights and sounds it's the fact
that it'll look pretty close i mean i have the
i still have the original playmates like communicator
from star trek like the one i bought back in
94 as well as like a couple of other Star Trek
figures I actually owned back in the day. And
then, of course, I've supplemented since then.
But no, I mean, I'm super excited about that.
They're going to come out with the Blade Blaster
for 20 bucks, which will again have sounds and
lights and all that. It's in some regards like
I'm it's nice to see other companies take it
on because somehow these other companies are
making it work. Yep. like they're they're making
the prices down to where people can actually
get some of these things that for whatever reason
hasbro couldn't get cheap and i don't know if
it's like a playmates toys thing like i don't
i really don't know like and it could be where
it's manufactured like i i really don't know
but um i'm kind of excited to you know finally
get my hands on that get my hands on the kirk
figure I find it odd that, again, other companies
are taking on, like these new companies or even
Playmates being as old as they are, taking on
these licenses of these companies that have been
around forever. And they're just kind of tossing
them around to different ones and doing, in some
areas, a better job than the company that owned
the license previously. or produced the toys
previously you know in the case of the power
rangers like yeah the figures were better with
the lightning collection but you know as far
as their accessories they were unaffordable or
you couldn't get your hands on them with uh with
hasbro but playmates it'll be far more likely
that i'll see in the store and then with the
nacelle company again like these are like awesome
figures like i think they'll scale well with
the first contact playmates figures that came
out way back when but uh yeah i mean i'm i'm
super stoked for some aspects of the toy industry
and then i'm and others i'm not so Yeah, absolutely.
The other big thing that I've been keeping my
eye on is in our back end of the website, under
our podcast tab for published podcast episodes.
So far, folks, in almost 16 years, 3 ,979, we
are 21 away from 4 ,000 published podcast episodes.
Bet you never thought we'd get that far. Yep.
Who knows? You never know. I just hope when it
gets to $399 .99 that they don't offer us a discount.
I was going to say, I hope it doesn't start counting
backwards. like wait a minute you can't erase
this don't don't do that hey now but uh but yeah
i i started looking at this uh about the end
of last year when it was somewhere around 3800
and i was like holy crap oh boy but yeah no that's
uh yeah oh yeah i forgot to bring i'll bring
the other thing up next week but i forgot to
bring this up i now have a uh 3d printed decepticon
matrix of leadership thanks to mr megatron over
there I just don't know, out of all the whatever
toys I do have around here that are not Funko
Pops, who can actually hold this damn thing?
I don't think any of them can. Well, one shall
stand, one shall fall. Yes. One shall fall all
over the Matrix. Fall over. You know what Ford
stands for, don't you folks? Frapped on a raw
deal. flip over read details fix or repair daily
how about forward backwards drivers return on
foot that's funny not not my jokes folks al april
al april's auto nims old comedian uh that's funny
out of florida i saw him in louisville kentucky
at the comedy caravan years ago i love that guy's
stuff But yeah, so hope you guys enjoyed this
episode and the discussion that we had on here.
Thank you as always for listening to Altered
Geek. I've been your host, Steve Megatron with
TFG1 Mike. Be sure to check out... I got one
more thing really quick. I'm sorry to interrupt
before I forget, before my brain farts on it.
Again, folks, March 31st, we're recording this.
Happy birthday, Brad Maul. Enjoy your birthday,
even though it's late when you hear this, buddy.
He's a huge listener of ours. I was going to
say at the beginning of the podcast, and I forgot.
My brain sucks. Yeah, yeah, yeah. See, I'm the
worst podcaster. I told you I'm the worst podcaster.
There he is, Brad Mull, longtime listener. Thank
you so much for listening all these years, buddy.
Happy birthday. Hope you had a great birthday.
Okay, now you can go through your outro. Sorry.
Yes, we hope you have a good birthday, sir. Yeah,
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