may not be suitable for children under 13 years of age. Viewer discretion is advised. Hey, what's going on guys? Patriot Prime here once again with another episode of The Sit Wrap. And first and foremost, happy Thanksgiving to everybody. We are what? T minus two hours from turkey day. And actually we're not even having any turkey this year. We said we're going ham everything else and we're leaving the bird in the freezer. So tonight my special guest is another member of the figure action team. This is Zero. I met him at TFCon during my infamous hockey one chip challenge. This gentleman right here ate the chip like a normal person eats ice cubes, didn't faze him a bit. He actually went and got hot wings after it was all said and done. Zero, how are you doing tonight? Hey, I'm doing fantastic. Well, first of all, thanks for having me on. Long time viewer and really glad to be here. Also really thankful. It is turkey day Eve. I'm really excited for Thanksgiving. We get our hybrid traditional Thanksgiving with we go to my girlfriend's side and they are like first generation Italians. So we're going to have a lot of good one of those meals. So it's going to be a good day. Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays. So we're actually hosting this year. So my wife got off at noon today. She's been home working, getting the house clean and everything. Get everything spick and span so we can put that illusion up that we have this wonderful clean house with a seven year old running around. So that's the first time we've hosted a holiday. I guess since Dylan popped out. Good luck. So I don't know. I guess that's going to be my parents tomorrow. I guess we may do her parents the next day and do that multi Thanksgiving. Those are fun to do. I know Black Friday. I'm sleeping in. I don't do that anymore. That's what the internet's for. Yeah. Well, they've had deals all week. They've had deals all month for that matter. So I don't really think anything's being being missed by going out and, you know, I've got the few things I wanted to get. And that's the day off, man. I'm going to sleep in. Oh yeah. Enjoy it. You know, I was thinking earlier, I don't have any new figures coming in this month. I've got a lot of pre-orders coming out, but there's nothing new coming in till February and March. Wow. So I guess you guys are going to have to put up with Toy Hacks and G1 for the month of December. I think the last official one I'm getting is Tigatron. And I think that's going to be like the last. I mean, I got a couple masterpieces coming in.  And I ordered that. Have you seen the sniper rifle? The sniper rifle transfer I ordered here? Yeah. So he may come in in December, but we will see. I'm looking forward to the review on that because I don't know anybody else that's getting it, except maybe Deluxe. And Deluxe, if you're watching and I know there's that stigma that oh, Deluxe gets everything. But I'm really looking forward to seeing how that turns out because I love Nerf guns.  And it all started out like, hey, guys, look at this. Next thing you know, it's Kato throwing up, well, here's a link here. Here's a link here. Here's AliExpress. And next thing, I got a green one. I got a blue one. It was like the whole crew got one.  The influencers, rather. If you're missing out and the influencers are saying, oh, yeah, that's that's the thing. It's like a TF Con. He's in my photo booth over here. Let me grab him. I got that Archcore figure that everybody was getting. And that thing is so cool. I've never heard of it before. And Kato showed it off, but he kept it in the box. And not until his review. And I was like, oh man, I should have grabbed one of those. Now, Brandon, I still have my stealth bomber Megatron. I haven't reviewed him yet. I think you'll enjoy that one. The transformation. I mean, it's it's challenging. But once you do it a couple of times, you get it. But this this is a joy to transform. So that thing just looks so cool. I like the Mad Max aspect to it. Yeah, that bumper. Oh, man. Yeah. And and it's just the materials are awesome. Awesome. Oh, wow. Oh, elites. I have a special brand new super chat I created yesterday. So nobody has seen this one yet. This is going to be a hoot. Ah, let's see. He just saw one for $100 at his comic shops. Everybody's bragging on Unite Warriors. Well, Night Cyclonus. What cyclonus is on the brain for some reason? Superior. Big difference. Now, with they're doing them for legacy, I think people are going to be purging all that combiner wars and Unite Warriors sets. Oh, yeah. Of course, I have a feeling just judging by the description, I think the new combiner like the menisaur, for example, is going to be just like the magic square when I bought maybe a little bit. I see no problem with that. No, me neither. And I've got so many people complain, why is menisaur the trailer? I'm like, why not? If they can take Motor Master as just the cab, still transforming to look like Motor Master in figure mode, and they want to use the trailer to make menisaur go for it. I got a controversial take on this. Hit me. We haven't started even asking questions yet. Well, outside of that superior, which again, is a little questionable. I don't think Hasbro has ever made a combined figure that was fun to handle. Other than G1, G1s were pretty starting, except for Devastator. That one, when I first got in with such a disappointment, I was like, oh, he looks cool. Since you go to play with him. Actually, I got to take that back because I think the combiner wars Devastator was actually pretty fun to hand. Well, Predaking was for sure. Yeah, Predaking definitely was though. The individual bots suffered for that. Yeah, there hasn't been good individual bots, like I said, along with the combiner since G1. Of course, back then, we didn't have like what we got now to compare it to you. That was right. Letting edge technology back in the day. Right.  You get that Icarus effect where you fly too close to the sun. Oh, yeah. Full survive fan says he's got the generation selects God Neptune. I never pulled the trigger on that one. I couldn't either.  I had so many Peronicons when I was a kid, because I guess that they sold that $1 general. And that was like a, that was like a last minute gift. Like, Hey, here's all the, the sea cons. You can make a Peronicon. I had like three full sets of Peronicons. I had multiple snap traps, but I never had Peronicon until Big Bed Toy Store did their re-release. I think it was 2002. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Elites with a Super Chat already. Elites. Thank you so much. People have been warned. Here's what I made for you guys. This was filmed live at TFCon. Yeah. You think that's bad watching it. That happened in the room we were sitting in. Are you an impractical jokers fan by any chance? Oh yeah. And I saw who you had a picture of with. Well, yes. Um, when we, so that was an evening with Murr. And for those that don't know impractical jokers, highly recommend it. Super funny, true TV. Uh, James Murray, aka Murray, he did a thing at a local comedy club. We did an evening with him. He showed a behind the scenes thing with Joe Gatto, his, uh, crewmate doing something really similar to Burt in a hotel room. That's too good. Yeah, I love that show. We was out to eat somewhere and they had it playing in the background and everybody's talking. I'm just watching TV and laugh and they were getting annoyed at me. All right. Yes. There's, there's the type of replies I like to see for those Super Chats. Oh God.  See, I'm not like Dave. Dave was like legitimately horrified by everyone. I think they're funny. Yep. Okay. Yeah, she's tired. What's going to happen? She'll go to bed. Dylan, Dylan's downstairs playing Uncharted. He loves the Uncharted games. Good series. Very excited for the movie though. He's, he's like the rest of us. Why doesn't Sully have his mustache, but why is he Mark Wahlberg? Exactly. Of course, they had their opportunity when Nathan Fillion was still younger because gosh, he looked just like Nathan Drake. Sounded like him too. Exactly. I think there was something there, but yeah, he's going to realize Lisa's going to go to bed. Dylan's going to realize he's by himself and he's going to be over here sitting in the corner, witness and Mark's. All right. Well, let's go ahead and get in with the sit rep for those of you who do not know, and I clicked something else in my computer. I got some other screen popped up. My system updated.  There it goes. So for those of you who do not know, the sit rep is my interview series with a fellow transformer collector YouTuber and it's 10 questions, five questions were my guest as a transformers collector and five questions as a YouTuber. And before we start off, Jason Wade Cox just hopped in and gave us another super chat. Jason, thank you so much. And I think since Jason just hopped in, he didn't get to see my newest creation. So here you are once again. Oh, dear Jesus. The best part of that is Kato when he's like, oh, I know. All the funny is when I'm designing that, I said, I've got to get that just right because I need Kato's old dear Jesus in there. Oh, all right. Well, let's start off with question number one, sir. Oh, no, you're not, buddy. No, you're not. I think you were just like the rest of us. His only regret is he didn't get in on it. He didn't get to be the Patrick Swayze to that Farley. All right. Well, question number one, sir, is what's the appeal of transformers for you? For me, it's the characters. So, you know, before the show started, I'm actually a lifelong fan. I mean, when I was, so I was born in 85, G1 was still on the air. Like G1 had just kind of ended when I was able to watch. So when I was a kid that were still on the shelves, I was like four years old and getting into it. And I just fell in love with the characters. Optimus Prime has been my favorite character since I was like first started to watch. And so I love the gimmick. I love the gimmick. It's, you know, I always love the appeal of having two toys at one, because when you're, when you're a kid, who doesn't love toy cars? Who doesn't love robots? And then on top of that, when there are characters that really resonate with you, that just seals the deal.  I love, I love Megatron. I love Grimlock. Grimlock is probably my second favorite character next to Optimus, especially with what they did with him in the games and the comics, where he's kind of like this sort of character trying to, you know, he thinks he should be in charge in some ways. He's a stronger leader. I actually have one tattoo and it's, it's Grimlock's Thunderbolt or like Lightning Strait Coalition Force from the War for Cybertron games that like on my back. Now, was that War for Cybertron that did that first or was that IDW? I believe it was, and I actually, I shouldn't say war. It was Fall of Cybertron that did that. I get it mixed up too. Yeah. It's pretty easy because it's like, well, fall, doing the fall come before the war. But I want to say it was the game that did it. Well, as far as the characterization, the comic, definitely the first Dreamwave, I think, had him gave him that struggle. But in the game, he was actually different. He was actually a regular transformer fighting for leadership and Shockwave introduced that whole wave, I'm sorry, wait, that rage element to him that made him like very hard to control himself. Well, going back, I was a G1 Marvel comic fan and that's how they portrayed Grimlock in the early issues. He was power hungry and he did get leadership of the Autobots. And it was a pretty neat storyline that ran for multiple issues where he and Blaster were at each other's throats. They were completely different characters from the cartoon. Oh, yeah. The new writer took over it all just went out the window. I got to reread those books because there we go. The war with the Dreamwave. That's where the fallen was first introduced. Yeah, I really got to go back and reread the old Marvel stuff. Like when I was a kid, I read it because it was, you know, Spider-Man was tied into love Spider-Man. But when I was a kid, the comics didn't resonate with me because they were so different than what they were in the cartoon. I was like, this isn't what's happened in the cartoon. I kind of rejected it. And then as I was old enough to appreciate comics more and understand different universes and timelines, that all came with the turtles. Funny enough, it was explained to me when the turtles movie came out. These are different turtles. Oh, there could be different turtles. But when I was real little, I didn't understand that there could be different universes of Transformers. A multiverse. Exactly. Now it's so popular. It's easy to explain to an audience. Yeah, that's how you can retcon stuff. Right, that too. So I didn't really, and you know, I'd go back and try and find the issues online, but I couldn't go back and get complete sets because in the early days of the internet, that just wasn't a tenable thing to do. Now, of course, years and years ago, I sold off all my G1 comics. I sold off a lot of my comics back in the day. But when I was in Iraq, that's when Amazon started selling Titan books, was doing reprints of the old G1 series. They did all of G1 and somehow, since they were a European publisher, they got away with printing the Marvel issues because when they tried, when IDW first tried to reprint those over here in the States, they weren't allowed to print issue three because of Spider-Man issue nine because a circuit breaker because Marvel owned the circuit breaker. But with these Titan books, they reprinted everything and it wasn't that comic book paper that IDW used, it was like glossy stuff. And when I was overseas in Iraq, I just bought all of them and that's how I got my G1 collection back again. And I think IDW has done a reprint of their reprints and Marvel gave them their full rights to use whatever issue they wanted. I got to go back and grab those and if the Mrs. is listening, that'd be an awesome gift. All right. Well, question number two, aside from G1, which is always the number one answer, what's your favorite Transformers fiction? Well, actually, it wouldn't be G1, it would be Beast Wars. We were talking before the show about Beast Wars getting you back in. Beast Wars, I think to me, was so I was early teenager when Beast Wars came out and I just to this day love that fiction. I love how the characters were, how they were written, the stories, I think, still hold up now. It's funny because like the visuals don't really hold up. The music is like this, you know, it's not even super repetitive. Yeah. It's repetitive and it's also MIDI music.  It's like MIDI guitar riffs and everything. But man, the voice acting, the characters. Like when you start watching an episode, that sucks you in so much. And I think that Beast Wars really legitimized a lot of the core elements that you see in Transformers fiction today, concept of the sparks, the concepts of protoforms.  Yeah, in the 86 movie, Unicron's like, Oh, my God, this thing's bad. He eats planets. But, you know, when they use just the when the Vak use the image of Unicron, it really can strike fear in the heart of anything. I just really liked a lot of the concepts that were introduced in that CR chamber stasis lock. You know, the idea that the the maximals became smaller from, you know, they were originally the Autobots became smaller to conserve energy. There's a lot of really interesting fiction there and and just the characters hold really hold up. Now, did you read when they first started Beast Wars? The writers had no concept of Generation One. And in the first episode, Optimus Primal mentioned the Great War, and they just threw that in there because every great war and the internet in its infancy back in the day grabbed ahold of that and they're like, Oh my gosh, they're talking about the Autobots versus the Scepticons. And the writers picked up on that. And I think it was the third episode after the two parter showed Cheetor dreaming about Cybertron. And you see Starscream fly by. Yep. And, and, you know, keep me honest to your chat, but Benson Yee who you and bwtf.com is like that's still around today originally as Beast Wars transformers was the acronym, but now it's Ben's World of Transformers. He was a consultant to mainframe entertainment. And, you know, we owe a lot of that fiction to him, in my personal opinion. And I think he was a key player in a lot of that with his consultant, you know, the fan. A lot of the coordinates that they would give out like Megatron coordinate this this was callbacks or throw out or shout outs to creators and fans at the time. All right. So that let's see question number three, do you have a favorite figure or grail? This is one you will never let go. As far as transformers go, I would say it's interesting because I agree with Hoist there. I agree that having a limited cast really helped that show out and flush everybody out. You didn't have people like Skids who was just a one episode character. Although the one episode characters like transmute, he definitely did resonate. But to get back to myself back on track, as far as a grail figure, I mean, I could say like I have the Haslab Unicron, right? I have the, you know, I have the Robeson Prime, but I would say one of my favorite figures is probably a third party figure. And this one's kind of personally in my buddy Oscar was at the TF Con Toronto, where they had this really limited G2 Jazz. I love G2 because for me, G2 was an opportunity to get characters over.  And I'm really happy to own a brand new Grimlock that doesn't have a broken arm or a complete Devastator. Sure, he's orange, but I liked a lot of these decos. And one of them was like two of my favorite G2 characters, two of my favorite G2 figures are the G2 Jazz and Ramjet. Like I got Ramjet and I love that black purple teal deco. But Jazz was also super awesome. So have you seen that toy hacks put out a G2 sticker set to turn Studio Series 86 Jazz G2? And then Larkin has 3D prints. I think he's getting ready to put up on his Etsy shop of the blue weapon with the green missile. I see. I didn't know about that set, but I got to get that. I got, and I also got to get Larkin's Canon set for that Megatron. Oh my God, it's so improved that figure. Yeah, I don't know what it is because I've got Earthrise Megatron, not a big fan. The G2 version, which is the exact same mold that Collar Scheme just works. Absolutely pops. But back to this G2 Jazz, Make Toys put out a deco, G2 Jazz, Jack Deco of their, I believe, what was the character's name? Or their third party. But anyway, they had this G2 Jazz and it was limited to 120 in TF Con, TF Con Toronto, I want to say 2018. And my buddy Oscar is at the shows of Prime Booth and talks to Brandon and just he's like, hey, PayPal this right now. Hooks it up, drives back, ships it to me. And I'm so glad to have that figure in my collection. Eric Hayden might have the name for it. Downbeat, there we go. Yeah. So it was their G2 or whatever they called theirs. Yep. Make Toys downbeat. And yeah, that G2 version is just, that's a grill to me. You know, the third party market's niche, you get down to 120 of them total.  That was just it. It was like basically, it was a true convention exclusive. And I'm really glad to have that one. And it's a great one for me because a friend went out of their way to, you know, hey, it was one per person at the con, but he's like, you know, going to talk to, you know, Brandon from the chosen Prime and like, look, I'm a friend, he's a huge G2 fan. Gotta get this for him. I know it's one per. He's a real guy. Here's our conversation. Can you work it out? And through, you know, the Hail Mary, because Brandon, because I know, dude, it's one per customer. You got to be here at the con to get it. It happened and I got it. So glad to have it. You know, I have been to three cons. I've been to two TF cons and my first convention ever went to was Chardacon in 2013 in Charlotte. And I got their convention exclusive. It's this awesome repaint of, what was it? Armada, not Armada. And what was this one? It was bulkhead. Oh, that's the, um, the beast hunter. Beast hunter bolt. That's the prime. Yeah. Yeah. So they painted him up. He's a shark to con called land shark. And I can't get the box down, but the box is very G1 oriented. It says get right robot, Chardacon 2013 land shark. But every convention I've been to since you get your exclusive figure. Like I got this one at TF con and it's got chosen prime on there, but there's nothing on there that says convention exclusive. Yeah. Which it's kind of disappointing more. You like have this logo on there somewhere, right? Right. Awesome. I mean, I know it's an exclusive, but that's just me telling somebody. I'd like to see that on there. So one minor nitpick with these exclusives here lately.  It's just like, so, you know, I just moved a lot of people that know me know that. And so I had to pack up my whole collection. I still haven't set it up yet because we have the whole rest of the house to get done first. I was like, did you get the basement ready? It's like, listen, if you have a misses and you can't say, well, we're not do, we're not repainting the rooms. We're not doing this, that or the other. I got to get my toy room up first. It doesn't fly as much as we wanted to. Doesn't fly. But anyway, going through a lot of these boxes, I just like, it's like a little nostalgia to hear it happened when I packed up. And now as I'm going through my figures, like the Toys R Us exclusive stickers on the boxes, I'm like, man, I know. Of course, I don't have that many boxes anymore. I was actually thinking the other day, I have, I keep all my third party boxes, any G1 box I happen to find I keep, but I've got my closet there full. And a lot of them right now are Titans boxes. They got that great artwork on there. And I'm like, I can't store these anymore.  It'll never go up anywhere. But I've got to get rid of those boxes. I just keep the masterpiece and the third party stuff. And that's mostly because they're so fragile. And we probably have one more move left. We're planning on going to the Carolinas in probably six to seven years. Now, where are you at now? So I'm probably about 30 minutes north of Baltimore. Okay. You're fairly close. Yeah. Yeah. Very close. And prior, I was 20 minutes south of Baltimore. So, you know, we moved to be closer to her parents. So we have kids were, you know, Survive fan. I have no idea. All I know is he was the main exclusive. It's Sharda Khan. They only made 75. I thought Land Shark was originally a Enter John character. Off to Google. He goes. Maybe it's maybe it's that was landmine. Yeah. That was landmine. There was a G1 Land Shark, but that was from timelines. And then they wreck condomin. Okay. Okay. That was a Botcon 2009 box set. Yep. He was an Enter John landmine originally. Yep. And that's, that's where I was. That's where I was drawing the connection. Well, the original line actually came from a Saturday night live in the early 80s. Land Shark. Where the hell were we? Oh, question number four at 30 minutes in. What figure is your white whale? This is your most wanted toy. It's a figure out right now that you would just love to have in your collection. Yeah, that's a, that's a good question. I know.  So it's, it's, it's a, it's a toughie. Because I, if anybody saw TM reviews tour of my collection, I have most everything I want. That's where it gets really tough. I would say if I had one white whale, it would probably be a complete in box G1 Optimus. And I know that's kind of like a cliche answer, but that's really one thing I don't have. And just would kind of encapsulate my childhood. I mean, I did really like a lot of those reissues, but they really screwed pooch with Optimus by getting rid of his trailer. And I mean, I want that styrofoam in there too. Like to me, that's just like when you, when you, when you see them in the box and you know that styrofoam is in there, you know, that's a legit thing. And the box has a certain amount of heft to it. But yeah, that, that would be, that would be my white, actually either that or the first Optimus Prime I had was the Power Master Prime. And I think to me, a complete in box Power Master Prime would be just as good because that was the one I had. And that's the one I remember being a real little guy and running up to the, the shelf and giving it to my grandfather and him getting up to the checkout and him like getting the rings up. And it was more than he thought. But he still paid for it anyway. You know, it's fortunate about Power Master Prime. That's actually one of the easiest Power Master figures to get on the third party market. Yeah. I think I have my, I got the reissue Power Master Prime with the God bomber armor. I got him at the last TF Con for a steal. And I have, yeah, my other one is a G1 original. I think really it's just the allure of the box. It's like, I think what is, what is collecting other than capturing our nostalgia and finding the stuff that gives us the certain feels. And for me, it's like, you know, if I, if I had that Power Master Prime in the box, for me, it brings back that memory of being in the Toys R Us with my grandfather. And, you know, yeah, for me, that would be Christmas 84 because it was my grandparents. It was funny. I had my grandparents on mom's side got me Optimus Prime grandparents on dad's side. They got me Megatron. My aunt got this hand wave. My sister got me Sunstreaker. Somehow I got ratchet to that Christmas. Yeah. Christmas 84 was awesome. Well, question number five was, what's your favorite transformer character? And you've already answered that. Yeah, I mean, that's a, I could, I could maybe say my favorite Beast Wars character, though. Good for it. Yeah. Favorite Beast Wars character is Rampage.  He's the most effective of all the Predacons really.  Yet you're sympathetic to him. That's why I was getting this sympathetic psychopath.    I liked how he talked. He had that side mouth, which was wild. I think my favorite episode of the series that is transmute tape. You know, it's funny. I finally broke down a body. He just came in yesterday. Nice. Because I thought, I don't need another paleotrex. And I took advantage. Entertainment Earth had to, you know, get something 25 dollars of free shipping.  Lots of Christmas gifts and three transmutating the box. Me. Oh, what's he digging at? Hey, I keep the cool. I need to get a mini fridge for this office. Oh, I do the same thing, especially if I got all the guys on here and we're on here for two, three hours. I think it was last week. I was on burnt to storm troopers live stream. We was on for two hours. I had a live stream the next day. It was all the same people. We were on for another two and a half hours and we talk all the time on Facebook too. So it's like, we were talking earlier. I can't remember if it was off-screen or live, how this community is just so awesome. You meet these people, you immediately click, you have things in common and you just talk, talk, talk, talk, talk. I think, you know, it's, it's interesting. Like we live in a society that's so divided these days. It's nice to have a place where people are united. You don't care about people's backgrounds or what they believe you have this. It's like a back to basics. This is like one of those things that's awesome where you can just hop into conversations and talk about something you love.  He is? Actually, technically transmutate. If you want to get into it, this is like... I'm just giving him grief. This is like it goes to the gazarian thing. I know we all see, you know, afterlife now, but when they, when the Phoebe jobs that line actually goes, there's neither a he or she transmute. They never really say what it is other than it's an it. No spoilers, but I had to go home immediately and Google who played Gozer. And I was like, no wonder that demon was hot. And I didn't realize until I don't want to do spoilers. Some people may not see it. Yeah.  Definitely. My kids stood up and cheered and I'm like, you're seven. Why are you? It's the most fun I had at the movies all year. Actually next to nobody. Nobody was... I've heard good. I haven't seen that one yet. I'm really looking forward. I know, Holy, so we're not going to say nothing. We're not going to say that. Gozer was in the trailer. You saw the flat top. You saw the arms come out. So, you know, no spoilers. Do you see He-Man? The new He-Man? I have not yet. Fun thing, it's like, it's like we choose like, Mrs. Nile, we watch a lot of Food Network together. I'm a home cook. It's funny, like the whole thing with the Pocky Chip Challenge, you know, I'd said to Dave for years now, I can do spicy. Dave's like, oh, I don't know. I don't know.  And he was like, okay, you exceeded my expectations. But, you know, outside of us watching Food Network together, I, instead of watching TV, I play video games. And so, you know, before we talk a little bit. It used to be me too, until I started doing this YouTube thing. Now I've got Dylan who's taking over the game system, not to mention the TV, because I can't go down and watch what I want to watch when he's in the room. So, any free time I have up here, I'm up here shooting something. And of course, it also depends on how I can get my schedule to shoot something. I mean, sometimes a 10-meter view of mine you see took three days to shoot. You got all the takes, all the editing. And, hey, what are you doing up here? Come do this. Hey, let's work on here tonight. Because if you watch my newest review, Shatterglass Goldbug, I filmed the intro of that two weeks ago. I filmed the rest of it last night. And you can see the difference in my facial hair from the intro to the outro. Hey, Rod, I'm just welcome to the chat. Hey, what's up, man? All right. So, that's it for the Transformers toy questions. And nagging guy, I was giving you grief because a Baldwin, Deluxe Baldwin was talking about a cliff jumper today. And somebody immediately hops in his comment section, or cliff jumper, and that continuation was a sheet. Deluxe is just like, okay. And that's like my answer for all that. Like, as far as I know, it's a plastic robot. So, I don't want to get into this. I love it. I love Deluxe's event to me. He's like, man, what's wrong with these people? He does the same thing. I love that, dude. He's awesome. Oh, man, he's like a brother from another mother to me. All right. Question number six. What possessed you, a grown-ass man, to do toy reviews on YouTube? Well, you know, it's funny. I first started, I did a few reviews, and believe it or not, in 2007. If you go and click on my channel, I think they're unlisted now. But I did a couple reviews. It's funny because he's one of the OG YouTubers. And I didn't find out, I didn't put two and two together to figure out he was a local guy until like the 2010s. I saw Bault Matrix and Pia. And Bault, I've been watching his videos forever. He like, and I was like, you know, just kind of impressed with how people were doing these walkthroughs of figures and sharing their experience for people that didn't know.  But there was a time where I had to be choosy, and there was nothing worse than being like, okay, this is the one, and I mean it, the one figure I could get this month.  So I was loving watching these guys say, definitely get this figure, avoid this figure. I was also reading BWTF. And I'm surprised this dude has not changed his format at all. Applaud him, Dave Van Damland. He does like, I think it's Dave's TF page. And he's been around for nearly 30 years. God, the internet is that old. It shocks me. But yeah, he's been doing these reviews forever.  Maybe I could try that. And it's tough. And when I did my reviews back in 2007, I was like, you, not saying I created the format, but I was in front of the camera with the toy.  Kind of looked like Bart Simpson with no facial hair. And still kind of coming out of my goth phase from when I was that, that age. So I have bracers and rings on and everything. You wouldn't even recognize me. But I just wanted to share my experience with the figures. I would go on, so, you know, back in the late 90s, I was on Bot Talk, which was one of the first Transformers message boards. And I got on the AllSpark. There was another, and that was like, when Easyboard was like the place to go and do forums. And then there was also another site called Deutrophilus, which when there was a mass exodus from Bot Talk, where they were basically purging accounts for posting too much, which it's funny, you know, I'm out of focus. In today's day and age, like people are posting a mile a minute in chats and in Facebook pages, you know, just comment, comment, comment. We all had this mass exodus, and that's where the AllSpark formed. And forgive my camera here. There we go, back in the focus. Yeah, TransFans was another one. I almost forgot about TransFans. But yeah, I just, you know, I got on. I wanted to share my experience. And it's difficult to do a toy review.  And it was tough. I tapped out of it. I got into podcasting in about, I want to say the early 2010s. A buddy of mine, Zach, you know, he knew I liked talking about toys. He had me on his site Powit.tv. And I did several episodes with him. And it was a regular on his podcast. He did his own podcast before it was popular. And we would talk gaming toys and movies. It was like a triple threat for nerddom. And, you know, I just was always on as kind of like a guest. I wrote for his site, but he would be like, hey, we need you on. You're good at talking. But I wasn't one of the regulars. And then a flash forward to TF Con 2017. I met a lot of the Romual Collectors guys, and they wanted me on. And I became a regular on breaking the mold.  I love it all. Deluxe and I became friends through it all. And we wanted to talk positively about Hasbro. And, you know, we liked what we liked a lot of things that Hasbro was doing at the time. The Combiner Wars trilogy was wrapping up.   You know, you might not like everything. Oh, my father. Yeah. But I've always appreciated the official products. And I just, you know, I'm not, I don't exist to think fans toys is the end all be all because hot take, they're not.  And I think a lot of the fan feedback has been integral to making Hasbro a great, you know, the Hasbro's Transformers a great product. Well, look how much they've changed in the last few years when you go from Combiner Wars into the war for Cybertron trilogy. Yeah. And, you know, man, I tell you, if this was the quality that they'd been putting out the whole time, I'd have never collected Masterpiece. And I mean that like a hundred percent. That's what infuriated me so much because the last couple lines have been great. And in Kingdom has been so hit or miss. Yeah. And I like their Beast Wars figures. I think they, of course, I agree with a lot that it's hard to get a perfect looking show accurate robot mode to turn into a beast. Plain and simple. But still some of their robots, they really fumbled the ball on.  Yeah. I was looking so forward to that figure and then he just shit the band. A hundred percent. And I think they have two different designers. You know, I think the people, the person that designed tracks is probably also the same person that designed Scorponok and Rhinox. And, you know, when you when you pick up a figure like like Galvatron or Cyclones and Cyclonus. And I tell you, like the Rodimus Prime, like there's a there's a figure that just I had. I went in thinking, yeah, this is going to be a cool figure. But that's probably like my figure of the year. You know, as far as Hasbro is concerned, I was sitting there thinking the other day, I said, man, we're coming up on that soon. It's going to be hard to pick favorites. Yeah. I got five right off the bat. I can say is my least favorite for the year. But as far as your favorites, that's going to be the hard Jews. And I mean, especially with Hasbro, they've they've done really good. Oh, yeah. And, you know, the studio series stuff has has had a lot of surprises with Slag and the got null. My biggest complaint with Studio Series 86 is cup and blur. And with those two, it's mainly the faces. I'm like, you got these screen accurate bots and then you get cup and blur, which looks like, oh, yeah, he he up there. Yeah, that that this figure proves it's the face. Yeah. Yeah, I'm looking really forward to the dino bots, especially, you know, they're just you look awesome, especially a leader class swoop. Can you imagine a wingspan on that sucker? I'm excited. I'm really excited for that, especially sludge to sludge. I think is a very underrated dino bot. Oh, yeah. Especially if they find a way if they do, if they do a gimmick for his eyes.   That was one of those you watch as a kid, like, what did I just say? I mean, you rewind it. What did I just say? It's just never really this hand of our bear all of a sudden. Yeah. Oh, yes. I got to shout out Rodimus to this. He got to interview Bob Budiansky. Hell yeah, that's awesome. And that is live tomorrow. I can't wait. I was going to hold off. That's going to be my Thanksgiving treat to myself. I was honored to be. Oh, go ahead. Hold yourself. Yeah. Oh, my green screen is kind of getting a little bit, but I got the man himself to sign this one here. This is going right up next to my Vince Nicola. Yeah, I got him to sign. I had him sign my number three, because that was the first introduction to Transformers for me. And I bought this book because of Spider-Man, not because of. That's so funny, man. Because this was my first Transformers comic. I still have my original G1 Shockwave. It's the only G1 figure I still have from my original collection. And that cover has a special place in my heart, even though I know I said earlier in this that I couldn't really get into the comic book. I just I love that art so much.  That's awesome. It's so cool that those creators will reach out, or of course, Rodimus probably reached out to him, but they're agreeable. They're like, oh, sure, we'll hop on. We'll talk to you. I mean, Kato's done Flint Dilly, Rodimus with Bob Booteansky. Bob, she can't talk. He's my favorite guy. Bob Booteansky. We've all interviewed Stan Bush.  I'd love to get him on figure action. He was a really nice guy. I talked to him probably about an hour and a half and shot an hour. John Machina seems like he's pretty approachable, as does Greg Berger. We had John Bailey, who is epic voice guy. We had him on the show. Great, great dude. I met him at Chardicon. We hung up and drank beers together in a room. Dude, that's awesome. When we had him on the show, it was right before Bumblebee even came out. So he's like, yeah, I'm under an NDA. I can't really say anything. And I'm telling you, like the next week, we see that opening scene and he's shockwave. He's soundwave.  That's so cool. Yeah. All right. Well, I'm going to ask you question number seven. Then I'm going to do a solo layout on you because I got to go check something out real quick. All right. The question number seven, sir, is what keeps inspiring you to get in front of the camera? This one's actually really easy one. We've built a pretty good community of folks. And we have people that, before we even start the show, I'm going to shout you out here. Nightwing and Toy Mafia, who are there every episode in our chats. We do a live chat on figure action. We love to interact with the people. And honestly, there's two things that make figure action. Number one are the people that they come back every week. They want to talk with us. They want to act. They want to be there and be a part of the show. We love interacting with everybody. We love answering questions. We love highlighting comments. We love chatting back and forth with our audience. And number two is just we're a group of friends. We love getting together and talking about this stuff. I mean, T-Man and I, we've become really good friends over the years. God, I think it's been like seven years since I first met T. And one of the core tenants of it was we just went back and forth doing Facebook Messenger voice every single day. And there was a point when T's channel started to blow up. I was like, wait, you never think we should make this a podcast and just make our conversations public? And that kind of goes back to including the fans on it. So just having those really fun conversations and making that part of the community is what really inspires me. There's been times where I'm like, man, I don't work as hard as you. I don't work as hard as T does in my YouTube channel. But it can be some work sometimes, especially when you got, I have a day job, not going to be like, I'm the most important businessman ever, but I'm not fairly important in what I do. And there's things like, man, can I still keep doing it? But it's the people and the friendship that keeps me coming back to it. And that's the same thing with me. I mean, I miss the first part of the thing where you're talking about your friendships you make. That is it. And I enjoy my fans when I'm making these reviews. I can't wait to see the comments. Of course, every now and then you get the ones you're just like, really, dude? But I love showing it off. I love seeing the reactions, the people I've met. It just, that's what keeps you going. And like you said, it's hard sometimes, like you, I've got a full-time job, wife, kid, things I got to do here. And sometimes it's hard to sit up here and crank out the content. And there's some nights where I'm like, oh my God, I've got to get this shot. But if you're feeling rushed or you're aggravated, that's going to show up in your review.  Let's rock and roll. And, you know, one of the things I said too is we've got guys that are in our chat well before the show even starts. They're ready to go. I mean, I know that part of the community means something to those guys. And I feel like, you know, we owe it to them because it's something that's important enough for them to be on and hang out well before we even start. And I really appreciate that. I really appreciate something I'm putting together resonates with people. And it's amazing that so many people are into this, especially our age. And I'm doing our age loosely because... Right. You know what I mean. And the friendships you make through these plastic robots is amazing. May I brag about Burt all the time? And the main reason is we met early on in my YouTube infancy. And he just took me under his wing, helped me kind of shoot up there. And we just became super tight friends, especially we discovered we were in the military together and he jumped out of planes where I was smarter than that. It's just funny how things worked out. And then it's hard to tell the next thing I know, I met Kato. And I think a lot of these guys, I met doing shows like this. And they're like, hey, you know, at the end of the live when we shut down, you know how we talked for a little bit after, I was like, hey, y'all to reach out to this guy, how to reach out to this guy? So I did. You know, I reached out to Kato and Larkin. And you know, Deluxe, I gave him props. He's the one who gave me the idea to do this in the first place. I first really met Deluxe at Bobby Skullfazer's house. And like, man, that guy, he's just... I'm going to say he's a cult of personality. Like I met him sitting at a table. And, man, I forget how we hit it off. We just hit it off. Next thing I know, I had brought the Rebel Tech Woody that, and I had him hanging out in his beard. I first met Deluxe at TF Con 2019 as I was walking out of the lobby. He was walking in, he tripped right in front of me and grabbed me. And I'm like, well, hi there. And of course, he comes up to hear to me. Right, right. Well, I first met him at TF Con 2017, but we really hit it off at Bobby's house at the Skullfest that followed. Yeah, I've got some Bobby artwork right here. I've got the... Actually, I have the mouse pad still. We have his DJD mouse pad. Oh, nice. I didn't talk to him as much this go around. I talked to him a lot last time, but we were all, we were out doing our thing and just constantly just on the go. Ah, yeah. I think went by so fast. I was telling the guys here today, it's like I have TF Con PTSD right now. I missed hanging out with everybody so much. Oh, Jason Wade Cox, thank you so much, buddy. Hit me with another super chat. Guys set up for tomorrow. Happy Thanksgiving from South Alabama. I'll tell you what, Jason, for you, and we were talking about Deluxe, let's do another video super chat reward that I shot at TF Con with Deluxe. I want a basketball and a trophy and a train set and a race car. I love you, John.  We kept getting in trouble, taking them things off. I was surprised like they never really bothered me. I mean, I always did them for photos and all, but I heard Sunday was the day that they... You know, it's interesting here in Maryland, Baltimore is the only spot in the state that they enforce it still. Everywhere else, it's like we're back to normal. I mean, there's people still wearing them. Here in West Virginia. Barely wearing them at all anymore. All right. Well, where were we? Question number eight. I always liked this one. There are thousands, maybe tens of thousands, since I wrote this, of toy reviewers on YouTube. What makes you different from the rest? I'm just going to go back to what we said before. I think the thing is, is it's five friends with very different backgrounds, very different walks of life, getting together to give their perspective. The other things too that we are is we're focused on being positive. I know there's a lot of people quick to... And this isn't everybody. I know like on the rejected con side, you guys aren't overly negative. I really appreciate that about y'all. But there's a lot of reviewers out there today that are really hard and negative on something. And if someone likes it, despite its flaws, that isn't enough. We don't trash on figures. We're very like, look, if you like it, you win. Good for you, man. We don't want anybody to feel like they need to come to us to have their purchase validated. We just want to help people make informed decisions. Know what's out there and feel like they're getting the best bang for their buck, making decisions and knowing what's out, knowing what's good, knowing what people like. Maybe they can say like, I feel like I'm more like T-man than zero in the figures I like. And then they get T's perspective on a figure or math's perspective on a figure. And that's like the person that they can go to to somebody that relates to their tastes more than somebody else. Because there's some figures that I think are not the best figures, but I hold them near and dear. I like them. I'm just grabbing on my desk here, this waspinator. Oh, you can't see him because of my green screen. I was going to say, that's cool. Stealth mode. Here's a better one. You can actually see him. But this Ravage set, this was the Pulsecon exclusive. That Cheetor mold isn't the best. However, I love this representation of the character. I love the sculpt. See, I'm going to have to get one now because I thought the same thing. I was like, I got two Cheetors. I got the regular. I got the Netflix because I like the color better. I saw that one. I was like, I don't want to spend that much money on another Cheetor mold. I have G1 Ravage, but now everybody's raving about it. I'm like, OK. I feel like for me, and I'm not going to ever hide that certain elements of nostalgia are a factor in my ability to enjoy a figure. Like I was saying earlier, if you're on a tight budget, I'm willing to say this is a figure you should go out and get. I'm not going to say it's the best ever. I think we're all very honest. The figure action crew, as far as what we like, we don't hide our biases for certain brands. Some of us are fanboys about certain lines of figures. And I think that's that's really what what makes us stand out is that we're you get different perspectives. I just like the fanboy things. I had somebody the other night comment on one of my videos says, I really hate the fact you always have those toy hacks promos beginning your videos. I'm like, that's what a sponsorship is. You have to that's why that's part of the reason I put channels or chapters in my videos. You don't like it. Skip it. Exactly. It's part of the deal and I appreciate what they've done and I like their product. I was a big fan of them before they sponsored the channel. I'm going to have to wrap this up. I've got to go take over for Lisa. She can go to bed. So I'm going to hit you with our one final question because number nine was thoughts on the community. You've already answered that. So we're going to jump to number 10 and wrap this up. Sorry, I usually keep it longer, but holiday tomorrow and everything. Do you have any channel goals for figure action and where can our viewers find you? If anybody doesn't know and they want to check out later on, there is a link to the figure action channel in the description of this video. Yeah. So goal-wise, I'd love to get on some more guests. Like we have had some really unique folks on who would just love the opportunity to talk with some of the folks mentioned like Greg Berger, John Machida, some more of the folks that were involved in the comics, but really just to grow the community. I really mean it when I say it that I appreciate each and every person that's there in our chat hanging out with us every Thursday night at nine o'clock. That's my little plug there other than, hey, it's in the link below. But I really like what we do. I'd love to have more folks engaged, more people adding to the conversation. I really just hope that we can continue to be leading some positive conversations in the community. Ah, Covert Clan, good friend of mine. I just kept it, you know, I dropped the extra part of the extra zero for, you know, rolls off a little bit better. Well, it was funny. I remember during TFCon and Chip Challenge, people kept calling extra zero. And then last week when you invited me on your show, I was noticing it was like, well, everybody's calling him zero now. So I went back and looked at a couple other year streams and they were still calling you zero. And I'm like, oh, that's what I'm going to call it. You know, it's funny. I also am a big Gundam aficionado, used to be at least, but the extra zero, it's from O8MS team. That's where I picked up the extra. I thought, I just thought it sounded cool.  Benjamin, why not? Yeah, why not? I mean, you know, we definitely are open to having people from the community on. You know, so we just, we really just want to have good conversations with folks, like, you know, find out what makes people tick, find out like what you like to collect, what makes you so, makes you gravitate towards it. Why do you do what you do? Yeah, exactly. I think we're all, I think that, you know, and I guess I know you need to wrap it up, but I think in having these discussions, that's the ultimate thing we're all trying to figure out is, why do we do this? Why are we grown men collecting and hanging on to all of these? I'm getting very Jeff Goldblum on you all of a sudden, but why are we hanging on to these? Why do we gravitate towards these figures? What is it that resonates? And it's like, one hand we're looking for validation, and another hand we're looking for that mutual understanding and trying to figure out what connects us, what makes us unique, what makes us, what makes us compulsed to do these and spend our hard-earned money, you know. Why is it when a wife sends me to the store to buy milk, the first aisle I go to is the action figure aisle? God, I stopped at Walmart to pick up a dessert for my, we're going there. Her family's first, then we go to my aunt's for dessert. My uncle was upset that I got a pre-made apple pie because our kitchen is under construction right now.  And I was like, well, to be fair, it's a frozen apple cream pie. So I had to stop and get a key lime pie, which was my original, but the first store I went to. But anyway, she's like, where are you? I'm like, I'm at Walmart. She goes, why? And I was like, well, I'm here for the key lime pie. Oh, sure. You went to Walmart, not a grocery store. I was like, I promise you, Walmart was the easiest place to go. That's my only option, Walmart and Ollie's. All right. Well, Zero, once again, thank you so much for coming on. I'm sorry I have to cut this short chat. So glad you showed up as well. Want to wish each and every one of you a very happy Thanksgiving tomorrow. Absolutely.  Enjoy being hanging out with your family. So, extra, do you want to take us out here? Yeah, absolutely. Thank you again for having me. It's been a pleasure. It's been a blast having this conversation with you. Thanks to everybody who came and watched. Again, you can find me. You can click that link in the description below. Figure Action Podcast. We're on every Thursday night, except for this one because it's Thanksgiving. Nine o'clock Eastern Standard Time. Come on in. We love newcomers interacting with each other. I'll be giving away a shirt next show. So if you want to get a Figure Action Podcast shirt or just want a chance to win one, come on in. And we really do love our audience. So check us out. And that's it for must. Do I give the URA? I'll do that. You'll do that. I don't do it too good. Yeah, because first off, you said URA. I know. I screwed the pooch. Oh, that's all right. Well, once again, guys, thank you so much for participating. I hope you enjoy your weekend. This is Patriot Prime signing out. Hula! Very good.