September 10, 2025 • 22 mins
In this episode, we’re diving into the world of toy collecting and reminiscing about the days of Toying Around, the live show that Huey and Mashko once hosted. We also take a nostalgic look back at the origins of the classic Kenner Super Friends toy line—a true cornerstone for collectors and comic fans alike. It’s a stroll down memory lane that just might spark the beginning of a brand-new toy-focused series on the channel. If you grew up with these figures or still have them on your shelf, this one’s for you!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
God Comic Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Hey, what's up everybody, and welcome back to that comic podcast.
I'm your host Mashco and with me today for a
little toy talk. Yes, two of our wonderful hosts here
on the channel. We've got Huie.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
What's going on?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
What's going on? And we've got buzz Back for another.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
We're chopping toys up.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
All right. This is a little funny. We were just
bullshitting after we were finishing our last recording and we
got a little tangent of talking toys, so we said,
screw it, let's uh, let's hit the record button.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Let's put it down. Because we a little backstory. Hue
and I, along with mister Maher from the Classic Fireside Days,
we used to also do a toying around live show, which.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Is still up on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Go check them out there. You can check out all
the old wonderful clips. But we used to get together
once a week it was Friday's usually, right and we
would do an actual live show, which I know we're
talking about doing here shortly. This is pre pandemic. This
is like six seven years ago at this point.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
This was like twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen. I think we
did it.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yeah, and you know what we would do is break
open a couple of toys that we recently purchased. I
don't know if we're actually going to open today, but
we're definitely going to talk about some of the things
that we've recently grabbed. More so Hughie, because he was
super excited. He started talking about check this out. I
know buzz has last weeks back there.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
We're talking about some variants and stuff. So yeah, I
got a little got a little excited. That's where like
I let's say record.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Yeah. I mean, you know, the toy market is in
little disarray right now. Prices are going up, tariffs are happening,
but hey, when you're a collector, you're going to collect,
so price doesn't matter in some instances, and oftentimes you'll
catch a really good deal with clearance stuff too.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
So true six years ago we were posting up toying around.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
LINEX years ago. It's good our The production on that
show was actually what was most impressive.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
It was all thanks mister maur So.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
It was good stuff. Hopefully we'll get back to that.
But a lot of that was done in person, which
obviously we're not doing right now. But Anyway, you guys
went off on a super tangent as I was trying
to sign off, and yeah, we're toys, we're putting it down.
So I saw Megatron, I saw some Star Wars stuff.
(02:41):
We were basically talking about though the original Kenner super
Friends Lex Luthor in his wonderful gear that maybe yeah
the movie.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yeah, So this is the action figure that Kenner dropped
in late eighty four, I believe, which would have been
about a year after him appearing in the Action Comics
five four to four. They were putting out basically all
the DC heroes and villains. At that time. Kenner was
hot off the heels of their Star Wars stuff, which
did really well. A little return of the Jedi Stormtrooper
(03:16):
there on card and that's eighty four, so, you know,
making the sales from this stuff led right into doing
the DC thing. There's lots of characters, got big cannon,
all kinds of people to do. This is one of
my originals. But mentioning the suit, they wanted to do
Lex a little more Diesel I guess diesel power, you know,
so instead of it like fabric and high dracula collar
(03:40):
costume from you know, yesteryear, George Perez designs the mech
suit that was released in the Man of Tomorrow Drop,
and this was the figure we got. I'm pretty sure
the story was all developed all at the same time,
So some little cool factoids there about.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
That, kind of like the the old Secret Wars figures
how they were Abso the comic was designed at the
same time as the figures were.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
If I'm not mistaken, and around the same time period too.
Eighty four eighty five.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Yeah, it looks like quickly Search Search. Lex Luthor was
in Wave one of nineteen eighty four's Kenner Superpower Collection.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Nice. Who else was in it?
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Batman, Let's see you got Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Robin Penguinngin, Joker.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Will come out. Yeah, I got him here somewhere.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
He came with the umbrella. I remember him.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I will say. I am like I had all those
figures growing up, you know, lost lost them to my mother,
selling them at you know, yard sales and whatnot. So
I'm personal. I'm glad that McFarlane started remaking a lot
of the old figures. He got the for the DC direct.
That's how we were have we got started on this
that uh, mcfron's remaking all the old figures, and the
(05:03):
first waves he did were kind of figure the body
type were off, but then he realized the air of
his ways remolded them and now they're looking more like
the classic eighty four eighty five figures, just without the
action features.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Like the super Friends style stuff.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Yeah, I know what it was.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Okay, Yeah, I think that's what you're you're kind of finding,
is at least for me when I'm collecting some of
the stuff, is like, okay, like when all the G I.
Joe came out, you know, I think they're up to
almost two hundred figures at this point. And I really
thought that for six years, and.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
That started in twenty twenty, did it?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
So Yeah, it's it's I mean, I don't have them all,
I've got a lot, but it's that nostalgia factor because
I mean, quite honestly, are there six year old seven
year olds run into the toy toy aisle to buy
Marble Legends?
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Now, so you go to Walmart Target, you walk into
the aisle for another person there, it's probably another adult.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Exactly every time I every time I see somebody over
the age of like twenty twenty five. I give them
the head nod, and then I try to see what
they're buying, trying to buy, and.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
What you're trying to seek away from them then snatching
out of your hand first.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Yeah, they have a cart full of five different or
five of the same figure, you know, I.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Mean look, literally did that today target buying my you know,
buying my eighty six Megatron.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
So, n you got to you gotta check behind boxes
and stuff. Man, these people be hiding stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
They hide them underneath the shelves. Man, They're like, you
have to.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
I don't do that anymore.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I don't do that anymore.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
No, no, no, I hide them just not under the shelves anymore.
My preferred location not to spoil anything but Lego because
this time the year, Lego doesn't sell. Lego only sales
around Christmas.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Time, so except for me, I mean, it's not here anymore.
I put it on stuff on the shelf. But man,
I went Banana Is with all the speed champions and
a lot of the vehicles. I love cars. There's a
whole show hide and behind because they're not selling. There's
a whole shelf behind me of nothing but die cast
Fast and Furious cars. So I kind of went down
(07:15):
that you know, rabbit hole of picking up speed champions
and then also the technics. I've got a Lamborghini I'm
working on upstairs right now. Cool.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Nice, you should have done a timelines video making that.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Yeah, I don't have the patience to do the entire
thing in one shot, like the smaller ones. Yeah you
can do that, but like doing the larger cars. Want
you know, I don't make sure the cameras set up
exactly the same way as you had it. True.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Yeah, I don't have the patience to do lego.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
I feel like now instead of hiding figures and aisles
to get later, I feel like they just buy them out.
They just buy all ten of them.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
I mean sometimes personally, I need to wait for my
paycheck to hit on Friday.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
So no, I get that. I'm just saying that I'll
go up and look for one and the whole thing
is wiped out. There's nothing, there's nothing there.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
The worst is like certain times a year when everything
dropped at once, Like you walk into the store like,
ohlet me see if anything's oh this, oh that, oh god,
damn it, Like there's four right there.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Well that's that's the thing with me is I don't
For those of you that have been around a while,
you've known that. Like I used to run a website
for toy sales, and I used to get whatever I
really wanted from distributors and whatever wanted to And I
have no idea what's you know what comes out when
unless like you he we say hey, this line's getting updated.
(08:40):
Obviously I'll start looking into that a little bit more
because there's there's some things like the Oh geez, I
can't think of the actual company, but they're redoing all
the mask toys. Oh that's the loyal subject loyal subjects. Okay,
So I'm waiting for that whole kit to come.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Soon because they just they just showed all the box
art officially and actual the actual manufacturing prototypes of the
figures and the cars.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
But like that, and again that's that's a nostalgia thing
I had. I was hitting up eBay for a while,
grabbing some of the older vehicles.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
That's right, when we were doing toying around.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
You were bringing a jack camera. Yes, that was the
one which has the gun. It came with the damn gun.
I don't think the person realized what they had when
they sold it because it had the gun, And for
those of you that don't know, the gun goes underneath
the turret where you store it, and more often than not,
you're not going to get that. This this show is
(09:35):
definitely for YouTube, So for anybody that's listening from the audio,
you might want to check this out on YouTube to
check out the video. Whoops, this is a this is
a visual show.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Look a lot of figures, especially old time figures that
came with accessories, those get lost of time. So finding
a complete figure from the seventies eighties nine, that's that's
the big bucks.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Yeah, yard sales, correct, right.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
I said all all my old toys I've lost the
yard sales, So like above me, I got all. I'm
buying all the the retro reissues of the Turtles because
mine got sold at yard sales. So buying all the
old figures that are coming back out, you know with regions.
I'm I'm doing that, Hue.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
If you're looking for any characters from the original run,
let me know I might have I have a box
of them that are like loose. They don't like have everything.
But if there's somebody you want like, I might have
it and you can just have it. I'll just take
the box.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Just just give me a box.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Pretty much only collect through SAGI now anyway. So Tom
mackins toys, which is a whole other.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
What's uh, what's huie? This is more for you? What
what's coming out that I need to know about? Oh?
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Everything? Everything top of my head? I mean, freaking mc
farland's releasing d C stuff every other day, so that's.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Got something all the time.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Yeah, that license end, That is a so no one
has no one's actually said an exact date, but the
rumor is summer of twenty twenty six when it reverts
back to Mattel. Okay, so even like Mattel themselves at
San Diego said, we're not really gonna talk about it. Yes,
(11:24):
we you know, we are losing. Yeah, the license is ending,
but that's all we're saying.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Yeah, so interesting, And he's dipping into like Marvel statues
and some of that stuff.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
So like I'm like, guess he is losing the the
main licensed portion of it, which is him making the
DC Multiverse figures, right, but he also makes a lot
of figures through DC Direct. That's also kind of we
got started on this that, uh see, which one was
it here, So like he he's re releasing the old
DC direct Batman Animate series and New Venture figures, but
(11:59):
what he's doing also is recoloring them. Like Kenner and
Hasbro and Mattel used to do with all the figures.
You could take a Batman figure and recolor it. So
like when the animated series came out, they did do
this this color Batman. They made him blue and they
made him silver, and they made them.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Red figures smaller though, oh yeah, they.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Were the four and a half five inch figures.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
So yeah, I think I think Mexico's doing the another
like they're five points. I think they're doing the animated
stuff because I know I think they're doing the larger
figures than animated. I have to dip back into that
company that that stuff. Yeah, it's good, it's great.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
I'm still sticking with my cheaper figures, my twenty twenty
five dollar figures.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Well they're they're the cheaper. Isn't necessarily the cheaper anymore,
that is true.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
With the speaking of not cheap, I just dropped in
the chat the Superman one quarter scale figure. That stuff
for pre order at Neka Neca right now is pretty
much like McFarland's always been around for toys and I
love everything he does. But Necca is like the hottest
company right now for toys. The resale on him is high.
They sell out, the pre orders sell out, and the
licensing is expanding, which started off with mostly horror and
(13:22):
sci fi, is now moving into like classic film and
superhero stuff and cartoon stuff.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Oh yeah, I mean Mekka is making their bread and
butter right now with the turtle figures.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Oh they crushed.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
They were sprinkling in the horror stuff, which they've they've
always done, but now sprinkling you know.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Back in Yeah, they can come back into it.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Yeah. I used to hate Mekka's you know, QC control issues,
but they have fixed them.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Yeah, they they're you know, I don't know, nothing's perfect
when it comes to the toys, but they seem to
be the most proactive and any of the new companies
that are popping up seem to be trying to model
themselves like after Neka.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
And they're still a small company.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
They're still very small. Yeah, and Trick or Treat Studios,
which is more of like a costume and mask and
memorabilia thing. They've been doing some figures too. But yeah,
I thought the Superman looked pretty good.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Yeah, it does look pretty good. Throw that picture up there.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Let's go the hefty price tag on it, but hasn't
sold out yet.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
What I, for whatever reason can't pull it. What is
the price that they're asking for a quarter scale?
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Quarter scale?
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Okay, that's actually so. When I first started doing some
of the resale stuff, I was getting the quarter scale
turtle the movie versions. Yeah, those were actually one I
want to say they were retail. They were one fifty.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
I think you're right.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Yeah, yeah, because I was able to get the turtles
Shredder and I think the foot Soldiers.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
They did a foot Soldier too.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Yeah. Yeah, have you looked at me, I've done them
in a while.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Have you looked at what they're worth now?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Uh? No, No, it might.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Be worth a look. I mentioned they're triple what you
paid at least.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Yeah, I mean they're like they're whole little inside baseball
for everybody. Wholesale on those was like seventy five. Really, yeah,
you were making some you know what I might I'm
sorry it would have been one one twenty five was retail,
so even you know, seventy five you're looking at a
whatever forty.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Yes, still one point nice profit on that. Yeah, it's
crazy what the wholesale is to what retailers mark prices
up to.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Yes, yeah, it was suggested retail that was interesting. Interesting. Yeah,
I could let all this stuff out of the bag now.
Before I couldn't really speak to some of the stuff
like Mesco there. I'm sure prices have gone up a
little bit, but you used to be able to buy
a case of six for like three hundred bucks, so
it was like fifty to sixty dollars a figure, and
(15:59):
then you're turning around and selling them for ninety you know.
That's where I mean, that's where I was making my
money was in in that brand.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
You got the Turtle's First movie quarter scale figs.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
I don't have. I sold them all, thankfully. I don't
need that stocks sitting around.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
I'm checking out the value now. They're pretty decent.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Yeah, I'm sure they are.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Yeah, those those were the days I still have. I'm
pretty sure I still have those accounts open.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
So okay, so I know that. Yeah, O, thanks to you,
I got my Jedio classified figures that you help me
start that collection.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Yeah, side conversation here, but I needed you need to
let me know what you don't have. And I have
some things laying around that I really don't need. So
Sam the pictures and I will, you know, making deals.
Making deals cool by all.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Right, But I'm buying stuffromuzz I'm buying stuff from Moscow.
All right.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
That's how it works. You start having these conversations than
all the money.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
And you take my paycheck. Thanks, guys.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
That's how it used to work.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Yeah, but yeah, I mean, like, what do you guys
think like with especially like me, like them recreating or
paying homage to old figures like this is this is
the Batman Beyond figure that he re released, but then
he redid it in the translucent I love translucent anything.
The old Kenner figure that came out was originally this
(17:39):
translucent purple. So he's paying homage to that, you.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Know, Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
I'm perfectly fine with it. I know there's this this
whole slice of the internet that's like, oh, they're just
trying to make more money, which yes they are, that's
what's the job about to do. But they're like, oh,
they're just slapping different pain on it. It's the same thing.
It's the same, uh a bold. You know, it's just
like anything else. You you know, don't get it if
(18:06):
you don't want it, but don't like put down everybody
else that does want it, Like that's that's just a terrible,
terrible member of the community.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Yeah, I mean, like as a Transformers fan, that was
one oh one with Transformers, like you bought Starscream and
then you buy the other seekers. It's the same figure,
different colors, like Transformers is known for, you know a
slight retool, which is this changing the head or changing
a arm or something, you know, but nine times a
(18:36):
ten it's the same figure, just repaint a different color.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Yeah, I don't think that, Like, you know, kids playing
with this stuff back in the day really new right
away then, you know what I mean, Like it happened
in Star Wars counter toys a lot. They'd repaint a
robot and call it like a male male in all
the R.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Twos and then you know cee three po figures like
different colors, different robots. Now.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
I remember there being like a mail in Obi wan
Kenobi that was like the ghost blue and it was
the same figure. It was just casting see through plastic.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
I'm sure we all did this at some point. But
you would take apart your classic g I. Joe's oh yeah,
and mix and match the parts.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
I did that to get what you wanted.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
You would try to put them back together. Wait a minute,
these are exactly the same, but this is these are
blue pants and these are Wait, what's going on? You
would he would realize it after the fact. I remember
having shoe box full of just parts.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Yeah. The rubber bands would break from heavy play. It's
just an O ring, you know, but it would break
off the hips and then you'd have like loose pieces
and stuff.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Yeah, those were the days.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
I mean he Mattel with Masters of the University, you know,
he man Yep, every figure was reused. It was only
like I think in the whole five years old line
six or seven body types.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Yeah, I mean that was like a toy line first, right,
So they didn't even have a storyline for those characters.
So they were just like, you know, recast this in
this moment and repaint it and call it something else,
you know, And then the cartoon gets lifted because the
toys are selling hot, and then now you have to
start coming up with like, you know, theories and character development.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
I mean, I mean, Hasbro did that with a Transformers.
They bought existing molds and toys from Japan to Kara
Tomi changed a name.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Well that's a whole other show. Yeah, well we'll do
a bootleg show. We'll do a what's the other version
of bootleg? You've got knockoff? Yeah, so Knockoff and then Bootleg,
which are different somehow same thing the special terminology. I
(20:53):
don't know. This was fun though, I you know, this
is completely off the cuff. So if you're still hanging
out with us.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
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do the subscribe, do the comment, do all that. Let
us know what we should be doing next, especially when
it comes to something like this. Again, this is totally impromptu,
but these are things of us. These are some of
the topics that we love to talk about, and because
there are toys maybe comic book characters, that applies to
(21:25):
this channel. So thank you for hanging out with us,
and we'll be a little bit more structured next time
with this topic.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
This is this is more fun, just.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Not talking or talking toy trash who knows, we don't
have a name, but we'll get there. Hueye, what do
you what do you say?
Speaker 3 (21:45):
All right? So that's it. You can find us everywhere
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can find everything. I got some my toy reviews up there,
which I need to get back into doing. So that's it.
I'm Hueye and I'm Bosco.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Next time, h M
God Comic Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Hey, what's up everybody, and welcome back to that comic podcast.
I'm your host Mashco and with me today for a
little toy talk. Yes, two of our wonderful hosts here
on the channel. We've got Huie.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
What's going on?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
What's going on? And we've got buzz Back for another.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
We're chopping toys up.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
All right. This is a little funny. We were just
bullshitting after we were finishing our last recording and we
got a little tangent of talking toys, so we said,
screw it, let's uh, let's hit the record button.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Let's put it down. Because we a little backstory. Hue
and I, along with mister Maher from the Classic Fireside Days,
we used to also do a toying around live show, which.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Is still up on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Go check them out there. You can check out all
the old wonderful clips. But we used to get together
once a week it was Friday's usually, right and we
would do an actual live show, which I know we're
talking about doing here shortly. This is pre pandemic. This
is like six seven years ago at this point.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
This was like twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen. I think we
did it.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yeah, and you know what we would do is break
open a couple of toys that we recently purchased. I
don't know if we're actually going to open today, but
we're definitely going to talk about some of the things
that we've recently grabbed. More so Hughie, because he was
super excited. He started talking about check this out. I
know buzz has last weeks back there.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
We're talking about some variants and stuff. So yeah, I
got a little got a little excited. That's where like
I let's say record.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Yeah. I mean, you know, the toy market is in
little disarray right now. Prices are going up, tariffs are happening,
but hey, when you're a collector, you're going to collect,
so price doesn't matter in some instances, and oftentimes you'll
catch a really good deal with clearance stuff too.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
So true six years ago we were posting up toying around.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
LINEX years ago. It's good our The production on that
show was actually what was most impressive.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
It was all thanks mister maur So.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
It was good stuff. Hopefully we'll get back to that.
But a lot of that was done in person, which
obviously we're not doing right now. But Anyway, you guys
went off on a super tangent as I was trying
to sign off, and yeah, we're toys, we're putting it down.
So I saw Megatron, I saw some Star Wars stuff.
(02:41):
We were basically talking about though the original Kenner super
Friends Lex Luthor in his wonderful gear that maybe yeah
the movie.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yeah, So this is the action figure that Kenner dropped
in late eighty four, I believe, which would have been
about a year after him appearing in the Action Comics
five four to four. They were putting out basically all
the DC heroes and villains. At that time. Kenner was
hot off the heels of their Star Wars stuff, which
did really well. A little return of the Jedi Stormtrooper
(03:16):
there on card and that's eighty four, so, you know,
making the sales from this stuff led right into doing
the DC thing. There's lots of characters, got big cannon,
all kinds of people to do. This is one of
my originals. But mentioning the suit, they wanted to do
Lex a little more Diesel I guess diesel power, you know,
so instead of it like fabric and high dracula collar
(03:40):
costume from you know, yesteryear, George Perez designs the mech
suit that was released in the Man of Tomorrow Drop,
and this was the figure we got. I'm pretty sure
the story was all developed all at the same time,
So some little cool factoids there about.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
That, kind of like the the old Secret Wars figures
how they were Abso the comic was designed at the
same time as the figures were.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
If I'm not mistaken, and around the same time period too.
Eighty four eighty five.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Yeah, it looks like quickly Search Search. Lex Luthor was
in Wave one of nineteen eighty four's Kenner Superpower Collection.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Nice. Who else was in it?
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Batman, Let's see you got Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Robin Penguinngin, Joker.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Will come out. Yeah, I got him here somewhere.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
He came with the umbrella. I remember him.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I will say. I am like I had all those
figures growing up, you know, lost lost them to my mother,
selling them at you know, yard sales and whatnot. So
I'm personal. I'm glad that McFarlane started remaking a lot
of the old figures. He got the for the DC direct.
That's how we were have we got started on this
that uh, mcfron's remaking all the old figures, and the
(05:03):
first waves he did were kind of figure the body
type were off, but then he realized the air of
his ways remolded them and now they're looking more like
the classic eighty four eighty five figures, just without the
action features.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Like the super Friends style stuff.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Yeah, I know what it was.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Okay, Yeah, I think that's what you're you're kind of finding,
is at least for me when I'm collecting some of
the stuff, is like, okay, like when all the G I.
Joe came out, you know, I think they're up to
almost two hundred figures at this point. And I really
thought that for six years, and.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
That started in twenty twenty, did it?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
So Yeah, it's it's I mean, I don't have them all,
I've got a lot, but it's that nostalgia factor because
I mean, quite honestly, are there six year old seven
year olds run into the toy toy aisle to buy
Marble Legends?
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Now, so you go to Walmart Target, you walk into
the aisle for another person there, it's probably another adult.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Exactly every time I every time I see somebody over
the age of like twenty twenty five. I give them
the head nod, and then I try to see what
they're buying, trying to buy, and.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
What you're trying to seek away from them then snatching
out of your hand first.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Yeah, they have a cart full of five different or
five of the same figure, you know, I.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Mean look, literally did that today target buying my you know,
buying my eighty six Megatron.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
So, n you got to you gotta check behind boxes
and stuff. Man, these people be hiding stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
They hide them underneath the shelves. Man, They're like, you
have to.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
I don't do that anymore.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I don't do that anymore.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
No, no, no, I hide them just not under the shelves anymore.
My preferred location not to spoil anything but Lego because
this time the year, Lego doesn't sell. Lego only sales
around Christmas.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Time, so except for me, I mean, it's not here anymore.
I put it on stuff on the shelf. But man,
I went Banana Is with all the speed champions and
a lot of the vehicles. I love cars. There's a
whole show hide and behind because they're not selling. There's
a whole shelf behind me of nothing but die cast
Fast and Furious cars. So I kind of went down
(07:15):
that you know, rabbit hole of picking up speed champions
and then also the technics. I've got a Lamborghini I'm
working on upstairs right now. Cool.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Nice, you should have done a timelines video making that.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Yeah, I don't have the patience to do the entire
thing in one shot, like the smaller ones. Yeah you
can do that, but like doing the larger cars. Want
you know, I don't make sure the cameras set up
exactly the same way as you had it. True.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Yeah, I don't have the patience to do lego.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
I feel like now instead of hiding figures and aisles
to get later, I feel like they just buy them out.
They just buy all ten of them.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
I mean sometimes personally, I need to wait for my
paycheck to hit on Friday.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
So no, I get that. I'm just saying that I'll
go up and look for one and the whole thing
is wiped out. There's nothing, there's nothing there.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
The worst is like certain times a year when everything
dropped at once, Like you walk into the store like,
ohlet me see if anything's oh this, oh that, oh god,
damn it, Like there's four right there.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Well that's that's the thing with me is I don't
For those of you that have been around a while,
you've known that. Like I used to run a website
for toy sales, and I used to get whatever I
really wanted from distributors and whatever wanted to And I
have no idea what's you know what comes out when
unless like you he we say hey, this line's getting updated.
(08:40):
Obviously I'll start looking into that a little bit more
because there's there's some things like the Oh geez, I
can't think of the actual company, but they're redoing all
the mask toys. Oh that's the loyal subject loyal subjects. Okay,
So I'm waiting for that whole kit to come.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Soon because they just they just showed all the box
art officially and actual the actual manufacturing prototypes of the
figures and the cars.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
But like that, and again that's that's a nostalgia thing
I had. I was hitting up eBay for a while,
grabbing some of the older vehicles.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
That's right, when we were doing toying around.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
You were bringing a jack camera. Yes, that was the
one which has the gun. It came with the damn gun.
I don't think the person realized what they had when
they sold it because it had the gun, And for
those of you that don't know, the gun goes underneath
the turret where you store it, and more often than not,
you're not going to get that. This this show is
(09:35):
definitely for YouTube, So for anybody that's listening from the audio,
you might want to check this out on YouTube to
check out the video. Whoops, this is a this is
a visual show.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Look a lot of figures, especially old time figures that
came with accessories, those get lost of time. So finding
a complete figure from the seventies eighties nine, that's that's
the big bucks.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Yeah, yard sales, correct, right.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
I said all all my old toys I've lost the
yard sales, So like above me, I got all. I'm
buying all the the retro reissues of the Turtles because
mine got sold at yard sales. So buying all the
old figures that are coming back out, you know with regions.
I'm I'm doing that, Hue.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
If you're looking for any characters from the original run,
let me know I might have I have a box
of them that are like loose. They don't like have everything.
But if there's somebody you want like, I might have
it and you can just have it. I'll just take
the box.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Just just give me a box.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Pretty much only collect through SAGI now anyway. So Tom
mackins toys, which is a whole other.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
What's uh, what's huie? This is more for you? What
what's coming out that I need to know about? Oh?
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Everything? Everything top of my head? I mean, freaking mc
farland's releasing d C stuff every other day, so that's.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Got something all the time.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Yeah, that license end, That is a so no one
has no one's actually said an exact date, but the
rumor is summer of twenty twenty six when it reverts
back to Mattel. Okay, so even like Mattel themselves at
San Diego said, we're not really gonna talk about it. Yes,
(11:24):
we you know, we are losing. Yeah, the license is ending,
but that's all we're saying.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Yeah, so interesting, And he's dipping into like Marvel statues
and some of that stuff.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
So like I'm like, guess he is losing the the
main licensed portion of it, which is him making the
DC Multiverse figures, right, but he also makes a lot
of figures through DC Direct. That's also kind of we
got started on this that, uh see, which one was
it here, So like he he's re releasing the old
DC direct Batman Animate series and New Venture figures, but
(11:59):
what he's doing also is recoloring them. Like Kenner and
Hasbro and Mattel used to do with all the figures.
You could take a Batman figure and recolor it. So
like when the animated series came out, they did do
this this color Batman. They made him blue and they
made him silver, and they made them.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Red figures smaller though, oh yeah, they.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Were the four and a half five inch figures.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
So yeah, I think I think Mexico's doing the another
like they're five points. I think they're doing the animated
stuff because I know I think they're doing the larger
figures than animated. I have to dip back into that
company that that stuff. Yeah, it's good, it's great.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
I'm still sticking with my cheaper figures, my twenty twenty
five dollar figures.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Well they're they're the cheaper. Isn't necessarily the cheaper anymore,
that is true.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
With the speaking of not cheap, I just dropped in
the chat the Superman one quarter scale figure. That stuff
for pre order at Neka Neca right now is pretty
much like McFarland's always been around for toys and I
love everything he does. But Necca is like the hottest
company right now for toys. The resale on him is high.
They sell out, the pre orders sell out, and the
licensing is expanding, which started off with mostly horror and
(13:22):
sci fi, is now moving into like classic film and
superhero stuff and cartoon stuff.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Oh yeah, I mean Mekka is making their bread and
butter right now with the turtle figures.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Oh they crushed.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
They were sprinkling in the horror stuff, which they've they've
always done, but now sprinkling you know.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Back in Yeah, they can come back into it.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Yeah. I used to hate Mekka's you know, QC control issues,
but they have fixed them.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Yeah, they they're you know, I don't know, nothing's perfect
when it comes to the toys, but they seem to
be the most proactive and any of the new companies
that are popping up seem to be trying to model
themselves like after Neka.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
And they're still a small company.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
They're still very small. Yeah, and Trick or Treat Studios,
which is more of like a costume and mask and
memorabilia thing. They've been doing some figures too. But yeah,
I thought the Superman looked pretty good.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Yeah, it does look pretty good. Throw that picture up there.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Let's go the hefty price tag on it, but hasn't
sold out yet.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
What I, for whatever reason can't pull it. What is
the price that they're asking for a quarter scale?
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Quarter scale?
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Okay, that's actually so. When I first started doing some
of the resale stuff, I was getting the quarter scale
turtle the movie versions. Yeah, those were actually one I
want to say they were retail. They were one fifty.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
I think you're right.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Yeah, yeah, because I was able to get the turtles
Shredder and I think the foot Soldiers.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
They did a foot Soldier too.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Yeah. Yeah, have you looked at me, I've done them
in a while.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Have you looked at what they're worth now?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Uh? No, No, it might.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Be worth a look. I mentioned they're triple what you
paid at least.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Yeah, I mean they're like they're whole little inside baseball
for everybody. Wholesale on those was like seventy five. Really, yeah,
you were making some you know what I might I'm
sorry it would have been one one twenty five was retail,
so even you know, seventy five you're looking at a
whatever forty.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Yes, still one point nice profit on that. Yeah, it's
crazy what the wholesale is to what retailers mark prices
up to.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Yes, yeah, it was suggested retail that was interesting. Interesting. Yeah,
I could let all this stuff out of the bag now.
Before I couldn't really speak to some of the stuff
like Mesco there. I'm sure prices have gone up a
little bit, but you used to be able to buy
a case of six for like three hundred bucks, so
it was like fifty to sixty dollars a figure, and
(15:59):
then you're turning around and selling them for ninety you know.
That's where I mean, that's where I was making my
money was in in that brand.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
You got the Turtle's First movie quarter scale figs.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
I don't have. I sold them all, thankfully. I don't
need that stocks sitting around.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
I'm checking out the value now. They're pretty decent.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Yeah, I'm sure they are.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Yeah, those those were the days I still have. I'm
pretty sure I still have those accounts open.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
So okay, so I know that. Yeah, O, thanks to you,
I got my Jedio classified figures that you help me
start that collection.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Yeah, side conversation here, but I needed you need to
let me know what you don't have. And I have
some things laying around that I really don't need. So
Sam the pictures and I will, you know, making deals.
Making deals cool by all.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Right, But I'm buying stuffromuzz I'm buying stuff from Moscow.
All right.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
That's how it works. You start having these conversations than
all the money.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
And you take my paycheck. Thanks, guys.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
That's how it used to work.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Yeah, but yeah, I mean, like, what do you guys
think like with especially like me, like them recreating or
paying homage to old figures like this is this is
the Batman Beyond figure that he re released, but then
he redid it in the translucent I love translucent anything.
The old Kenner figure that came out was originally this
(17:39):
translucent purple. So he's paying homage to that, you.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Know, Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
I'm perfectly fine with it. I know there's this this
whole slice of the internet that's like, oh, they're just
trying to make more money, which yes they are, that's
what's the job about to do. But they're like, oh,
they're just slapping different pain on it. It's the same thing.
It's the same, uh a bold. You know, it's just
like anything else. You you know, don't get it if
(18:06):
you don't want it, but don't like put down everybody
else that does want it, Like that's that's just a terrible,
terrible member of the community.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Yeah, I mean, like as a Transformers fan, that was
one oh one with Transformers, like you bought Starscream and
then you buy the other seekers. It's the same figure,
different colors, like Transformers is known for, you know a
slight retool, which is this changing the head or changing
a arm or something, you know, but nine times a
(18:36):
ten it's the same figure, just repaint a different color.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Yeah, I don't think that, Like, you know, kids playing
with this stuff back in the day really new right
away then, you know what I mean, Like it happened
in Star Wars counter toys a lot. They'd repaint a
robot and call it like a male male in all
the R.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Twos and then you know cee three po figures like
different colors, different robots. Now.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
I remember there being like a mail in Obi wan
Kenobi that was like the ghost blue and it was
the same figure. It was just casting see through plastic.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
I'm sure we all did this at some point. But
you would take apart your classic g I. Joe's oh yeah,
and mix and match the parts.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
I did that to get what you wanted.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
You would try to put them back together. Wait a minute,
these are exactly the same, but this is these are
blue pants and these are Wait, what's going on? You
would he would realize it after the fact. I remember
having shoe box full of just parts.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Yeah. The rubber bands would break from heavy play. It's
just an O ring, you know, but it would break
off the hips and then you'd have like loose pieces
and stuff.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Yeah, those were the days.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
I mean he Mattel with Masters of the University, you know,
he man Yep, every figure was reused. It was only
like I think in the whole five years old line
six or seven body types.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Yeah, I mean that was like a toy line first, right,
So they didn't even have a storyline for those characters.
So they were just like, you know, recast this in
this moment and repaint it and call it something else,
you know, And then the cartoon gets lifted because the
toys are selling hot, and then now you have to
start coming up with like, you know, theories and character development.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
I mean, I mean, Hasbro did that with a Transformers.
They bought existing molds and toys from Japan to Kara
Tomi changed a name.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Well that's a whole other show. Yeah, well we'll do
a bootleg show. We'll do a what's the other version
of bootleg? You've got knockoff? Yeah, so Knockoff and then Bootleg,
which are different somehow same thing the special terminology. I
(20:53):
don't know. This was fun though, I you know, this
is completely off the cuff. So if you're still hanging
out with us.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Uh, if you really liked it, make sure you hit like,
do the subscribe, do the comment, do all that. Let
us know what we should be doing next, especially when
it comes to something like this. Again, this is totally impromptu,
but these are things of us. These are some of
the topics that we love to talk about, and because
there are toys maybe comic book characters, that applies to
(21:25):
this channel. So thank you for hanging out with us,
and we'll be a little bit more structured next time
with this topic.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
This is this is more fun, just.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Not talking or talking toy trash who knows, we don't
have a name, but we'll get there. Hueye, what do
you what do you say?
Speaker 3 (21:45):
All right? So that's it. You can find us everywhere
online under that comic podlet's it's excellent and that that
case it is that comic pod. But make sure you
go to that common podcast dot com. That's where you
can find everything. I got some my toy reviews up there,
which I need to get back into doing. So that's it.
I'm Hueye and I'm Bosco.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Next time, h M
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