Geeky Things We Bought | Jeromy, Vinz, & James

In this episode we talk the many geeky items and things we have purchased from a Portal 2 gun to R2D2 parts and Hot Toys.

Episode Transcript

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You were now listening to the podcastfor Geeks and the Stuff they Love,
where each week we'll talk about everythingfrom anime to movies, games and prop
collecting, but the people who createand love it. I'm Jeremy, I'm
Vince, I'm James, and Viceis it's your Yeah, okay, kick

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us off, lead us into it. We have bought stuff. This is
the episode where we have bought stuff. I'm going to tell you. And
then for people listening and at home, we're joined by all Donald Swazenegas today.
Yeah, so yeah, we ofcourse our geeks and with the geeky
yobby comes buying stuff. And wewere just talking off camera about uh cats

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bringing home garbage to their girlfriends thatwe saw on a on a YouTube yet
portable camera that promoted yeah, andwe would just put the put one on
one is two when we are alsocats that bring home plastic garbage to our
loved ones, show and share whichnot always gets appreciated as much but chokes

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aside stuff that we bought. Therewas this fun little thing that came around
a while back, like maybe lastyear or two years ago. I approached
Jeremy about a little thing for anr T and T two build I'm still
working on because it's in the garagesomewhere, but we reached out to well,

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Jemmy reached out to prop store andasked them. Finally there was an
auction where an R T and Dtwo leg at least was being sold that
was used either on screen or itwas almost not just a I thought,
okay, yeah, so they gotI went and took pictures of the leg

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hosts that were connected to R Tand two's feet because on the astromact of
deat forums, a guy called trueHarbor was looking around saying, I really
need to know that thread size andthread count of these hoses because I wanted
to make them as accurate as possible, And then the CEO of props Or
I believe, actually went out andtook the effort to get some really really

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igh rs pictures of those hoses.Fast forward to last year and that guy
on astromamt dot mat has sourced amaker of the most accurate hoses so far
with the correct thread count and thecorrect differentiation between those threads that make it
look as accurate as possible for RT D two and partially because of us,

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but also because the dilage of theTrue himself and I bought a couple
of those. I don't have themwith me right now, but it was
funny, like are you gonna splitthem, or like there's more hoses,
they're already already cut the size andeverything. But I thought it was a
nice little, you know, closureof a circle that started ages ago,

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and you know how small and closeknit to gie community can be, or
at least things that maybe in thepast don't have that much you think that
I don't have that much effect.I have a bigger impact in the future.
And it was fun to actually receivethe hoses that I saw on the
pictures. I to say, yeah, year or year Afrocot, So yeah,

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I would like to thank you Truefor the wonderful hoses. I just
paid full price for them or anything. I don't not even sure if he
knew I was the guy who gotin the pictures, but at least the
fact, you know, knowing thatwe were all part of it and it
came full circle. Really that wasreally fun and I wanted to share that
with you all. Yeah, that'sthat's the tie news. Yeah, so

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it's fun, it's art to itself. It's still in parts in the garage
because because we're we're doing a lotof renovating. Still, we're doing a
lot of stuff, which is alsopart of part of the things I want
to talk about about in this episode. Aunts that I mean, like the
metal pieces, so you have toget those to stick it on too,
to see it that they fit.Then okay, yeah, yeah, the

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aps like neuraled whatever fittings, andI still have to source those, but
it's gonna be a long while beforeI will actually mount them. But I
just wanted to jump on the bandwagonwindows those are available, and also the
fact that the history that we have, that's why I have them in a
bin lying run somewhere to be foundin the future. But it's uh,

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yeah, I'm selling a lot ofstuff from my old game room, and
I found out that, you know, some some stuff gets more expensive,
some stuff gets a lot cheaper overtime. And I just wanted to yeah,
advertising the boot cell are we arewe are going to come over and
yeah, visitor discounts, channels theme. No, well, well if you

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come to my house and and maybeyou can make a deal, but it's
not gonna happen. So but no, I'm selling like all Dungeon Dragons,
books like from the Foot go toRealms, and a lot of stuff like
has gone up in value. LikeI had this old book from Douglas Adams
to derk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.Oh yeah, and I read it once.

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I thought it was a cool book. I prefer he hig this guy
to the galaxy, and then allof a sudden, this guy approaches us.
All is sac Oh wow, it'san original art cover from the eighties.
This is super rare, and you'reselling it so cheap, and okay
that's more expensive. No, butbut but yeah, I mean seeing getting
geeks to buy stuff from you andask if you have any more, and

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you can say, wow, I'vegot a whole room full of it,
so pick it to It's fun.It's also for me, a lot of
stuff has gone on touched, LikeI have a lot of video games that
I basically am a curator of andnot much more. I'm not playing them,
playing with them anymore, and alsonot collecting for them anymore. So
it's all all, you know,wasted space in my book, so happy

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to get rid of it and getsome money for it. So pulling the
money into a little piggy bang,so to say. So whatever comes out
of me selling stuff from the gameroom, we're going to do something with
it to celebrate. And it's beena lucrator so far. So my wife
also enjoys it. She says shedoes it to take away the stress of
selling my stuff, but I thinkshe also kind of enjoys selling my stuff

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just to make space. But it'sit's it's it's a good thing. I
mean, behind me, there's someunorganized stuff. But I used to have
like this big shells filled with videogames and that was kind of the YouTuber
thing to do. While you're agaming YouTuber, you would have like a
big bookshelf full of games that thatwould be your Yeah, you're kind of

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credit on lines to show the realdeal. Uh, nowadays it does really
matter. But it's a lot ofa lot of stuff, a lot of
space being wasted by by plastic andmy by by you know, discs that
you can nowadays easily emulate or orplay on different way. So it's just
stealing timeing virusy. Yeah, butthat's why I keep telling my son that

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Daddy used to be a pirate backin the days. But not what it
would have labor anything. But soyeah, setting stuff right now for my
collection, I don't know. Ifpeople are looking for something specific from whatever,
feel free to leave a comment andI most likely have it in my
collection. So I have a lotof Star Wars stuff, a lot of

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dungeons and dragon stuff like old AD and D stuff Star Wars, I
said before Transformers, so from allto new. So if you're looking for
something or specific, let us knowin the comments. I might have it.
Also, the same goes for youguys. If you're looking for something

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specific I might get rid of,then let me know. So I have
like a sipping it the most importantexpensive part. But but the thing is,
like all the stuff I'm selling nowis like like peanuts compared to other
stuff I have, It's like superrare. Like I have a C the
EE television that is an actual televisionwith a Phillips C the icons all built

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in it, and those go forlike a thousands or two thousand bucks nowadays,
but who cares? Who wants that? I mean, the last one
sold was probably sold to the onlyperson in the world who cares about the
Phillips on the I TV. Andso yeah, some stuff, it's going
to be one. Yeah, yeah, as a hot spare. But yes,

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it's it's gonna be difficult getting ridof some stuff because some stuff is
one of a kind, so it'shard to put a price on it.
And it's also you know, findsomeone who actually cares enough about that one
of a kind of thing. Isthere something we run into it prop store
as well, right, so somethings might be invaluable to some and might
be trashed to others. It reallydepends, of course on the if to

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be holder, which is also agame month selling. No, just kidding,
but yeah, so that's that's mything, getting rid of old stuff.
I used to be very memory related, like if you add something,
it would you know, this ismy memory. I can't get rid of
it. All that kind of stuffbecome a bit of a border now,
you know, with a second kidcoming, you know from me, it's

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more important than they have space toenjoy their lobbies and and me to just
set aside a bit. The goodthing is I'm ponting off all my Ghostbuster
stuff to my kid right now,and he and all that stuff is now
lego also, so so there's asynergy going on. But yeah, I
was wondering if any of our viewers, you know, share the situation where

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they might have to sell stuff orI have to get rid of stuff,
either because they have to or becausethey want to. I was wondering if
if you guys have run into itor are running into it at the moment.
Yeah, I instro on the otherend, you're on the other end
of it. Yeah, I'm purchasingquite a few collectible or random things that

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I'm enjoying or seeing. So Jamesone single person Yeah yeah not no,
no official married stasis or anything likethat, but still okay, like that
Spider Morning maybe yes, so cartfrom the the Iron Man helmet that I

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I've mentioned in other episodes, andJeremy's also mentioned in another episodes. I
recently bought and I'm waiting to receive, hopefully next week, one of the
Like life size portal gun replica.The Necker one models or actual props from
Like are made by Necko. Yeah, so I'm highly looking forward to that

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with the official stand So I gotit. Here's my question for you is
if you go go back in time, because I mean, I feel like
I think this is very this isprobably really relevant to our channel. Into
what people write me on a dailybasis. Look, I still got air
in this Actually it's Helium. I'mfloating poops right now. Hello. You

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know one thing that's pretty relevant tothis channel and what people write a lot
to me, is the fact that, you know, it's mostly about prices,
like either I hear one of twothings. I get the people like
with that Millennium Falcon, which haslike one hundred and sixty thousand views.
Now I get comments about who wouldpay this much money for a model?

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Clearly aren't geeks that I've bought otherthings that are kind of over there.
But on the flip side, Ialso get a lot right now in relation
to all the Bethesda stuff that's nowbeen retired, even the stuff that just
came out short you know that wewere talking about last year that came up
this year or this sorry they cameup this last year. And you know

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the the newer pit boys and stuff. Yeah, those were obviously it will
end up being in the in theend to fight, and now they're going
for eight hundred and people are willingto pay eight hundred dollars for them.
Stuff. If you could have goneback in time, James, for example,
with yours, if you had goneback to when Neka first released that,

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and I think at the time,because I almost bought one, I
think at the time care in theUS they were seventy dollars jesus so,
and I mean, because this isquite a long time ago. Those came
in a long time. This wasI think I think that this was Portal
two era was when they released it, as if I remember, right,
So maybe that's the long ago we'retalking, so you know, Aperture Science

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at the same time, if youcould go back in time and buy it,
then even if you were like,I don't know, it's how many
dollars, right, Like, wouldyou do it? Well, considering that
when it was probady well when itwas released and like at the hype of
it, I wouldn't have had seventydollars, right right, Yeah, I

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get that. Yeah, but thiswould be a good going back in time
things, So you get the dolorte, like going back if I had what
I had now then yeah. ButI mean, like apart from that,
like loads of other things, likeit's the same way that you could say,
like, uh, props from showsthat you didn't know, we're gonna
blow up or whatever. Maladies costtons and tons and tons. But yeah,

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like a hindsight is obviously twenty twenty, so oh yeah. But at
the same time, like I mean, we've all been there. I think
we've all been there where it's like, I could we see this thing that
comes out. I'm like, oh, that would be so called own but
I'm gonna but I don't know,maybe I'll get it down the road and
then they discontinue it. Yeah,and then you go on eBay and and

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everybody's complaint is why are these goingfor which sleep? I agree that I
brought this up before, Like uphere, I got that Ecto one that
I bought when iknew when After Lifecame out, right before After Life even
came out, that was released.It was a Target special. Anything that's
a Target special, if you havea Target nearby and you can go buy

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it, I just go buy it. They have people to scalp these in
advance, so like I went onlinewhen they first were about to be be
released, went online to Target tobuy one so I could go pick it
up. And already they were soldout right and already before they were even
released, So the people didn't evenhave them that you could go on eBay

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and they were being sold for threehundred dollars. So it's like, you
know, there's people kind of ruinit for everybody else, you know,
because they buy up a bunch ofstuff or they buy up the thing.
This happened with devices too over thesepast couple of years. Also relevant to
this channel, you know, likethe oh yeah yeah, Black Very Fast

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War. Yeah. Actually it's funny. I think our channel actually influenced the
price of those for a little yeahyeah, but I mean yeah, did
you did you also ever thought somethingwould become more expensive in the long run,
And I mean yeah, regrets isblind. The Star Wars the Old

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Republic m m O game with thewith the Collector's edition, there were like
two three hundred bucks or whatever,and I bought two of them, uh,
and editions special as far as asfar as physically not so game.
There was there was this this thisthis uh statue I think it was McFarlane

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or something or like one of thosename brands of a dart Malgous or something
like like ugly ugly burnt dude witha metal metal chin. Yeah, And
that was the old thing. Andthen you've got a A two factory authentication
FULB that will give you extra stuffif you used it. So there's like

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this this in game land speeder thatis costing a lot of money that you
could buy that. And well,it's like the Starfield thing. I mean
you got that. You also gotthe Starfield uh special behind you too,
well, and you got the suitthe little suitcase thing to I thought the
case so cool. I wanted thecase pretty bad. Yeah, you can

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three D print those now. ButI updated this one yet ever since it's
it's empty and I kind of misallocatedthe charging cradles. It's supposed to work
like the pip boy, it's supposedto work with the game, right,
but when you first got it,it wasn't set up. I'm not sure
if it does now. But italso even doesn't do the date correctly,
like I have day, day,month, year, year, year,

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year, and it doesn't do it. It's not where but in space?
Yeah people, no, but yeahit's fresh. I've go to be on
the all right, just work itout. I might. I might buy
it off you. Yes, Ikind of regret it actually not getting it

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because it's because it seems interesting nowsomething. It's because I meant to start
filing, is it really Yeah,Oh I didn't know that off the ground
line, and see that would bea little a little less expensive shipping wise,
definitely. But I mean, like, yeah, I guess there's been
some things that I as an examplefor me, when I was a kid,

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I remember working and saving up money. I was into the the like
the in the dinosaurs, the dragonsand the wizards and stuff like that.
There were statues and there was somethat they were supposed to gain value and
they were expensive too. They're reallyexpensive. Actual. My mom was like,
if you invest in these, ifyou buy these or time, they're

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just going to gain value because they'relimited editions. They're hand painted, right.
And I bought those and I've lookedrecently on eBay and stuff, and
you can get them for like fivedollars and I pay liket y. I
Yeah, so I have like thesestatues that are worth nothing. But when
I was a kid, I likeI put all my savings into Yeah,

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those things come along, sure,But I mean on the flip side,
I have a lot of stuff that'sthe opposite with piky stuff, like there's
a there's there's a if it's trulylimited. I mean, like the pit
Boy thing. I think even whenlong after the game is gone or a
perfect example is James is the situation. I mean honestly, ah that I

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have some ministure versions of those gunsactually behind that work and stuff that came
with the characters with the two robots. But I mean like that, I
remember, yeah, I remember whatit was on the shelf at game stop,
uh and and where you could alsoget it through think geek, and
I remember thinking, man, Ireally like those but that seems steep to

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me, the fact that they're goingfor that much money now, and I
don't know that anybody plays the gamethat much. But you know, it's
it's more that it's it's it's kindof crash Bandicoot or something like that.
It's more it's more of a notscotchy you what do you call it.
It's nostalgic, is what it is, you know, And that's really what

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you're getting it for. It isjust like, oh, yeah, this
is my this is that thing thatreminds me of something kind of thing I
think of other things. Yeah,what's crazy too? Like this I've never
told I wouldn't tell Chris this,but I think I've mentioned might have mentioned
it before you did on sale,Yeah, but then as soon as they

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stopped, So that was the crazything. I think it's still true.
Like that's one place I would goeven online, is I would buy stuff
at places like even Bethesda. Sometimestheir stuff when it goes to the sale,
they'll sell things to get cleared outbecause it's not new anymore, and
like this, and so they hadthis, you know, in the box

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on the on a table, ona discount table, and they're like,
I can't remember it was. Itwas like next to nothing. I mean
literally it was next to nothing,and I bought it luckily. And now
they these things go for over athousand bucks, especially if you have some
of the ones that have they likethe paint jobs, like the thep and

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things like that. What's that Ihave the military Flee Yeah yeah, yeah,
but they're they're worth a lot.But you know, I mean also
this also the Graphan ship. Imean, if you look at it,
it's it's a really cool model.High the detail, bank chicks and universe

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everything's great. So it's also theexperience of one of the other things that
I regret doing. Oh, I'llregret doing is I had like episode one
Star Wars. It was like,oh man, old Star Wars toys are
expensive. You have to keep themin the blister, and you know,
if you want to get like AttakinSkywalder Episode two in Blister is going to
be like two euros. It's noteven worth the space in my in my

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house that I used to this for. It's funny. Those sorts of things
kind of have changed over time,though, so eBay has ruined some things.
I think that was one of thosethings. Same with G I.
Joe. There was a time whereold G I Joe stuff, old Star
Wars stuff, it went. Itwas it was worth tons and you could
go to shops where you could resellthem. When eBay came out and people

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started seeing that how many were outthere for sale, Suddenly the supply and
demand change and now these things thatwe thought were worth a lot now they're
worth less. Only because that's whymy statues went down price. Suddenly you
could acts us something that you couldonly get in your local area and there
won't be sectually. Now I canget it from anywhere. Yeah. Now

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that the same thing with the withthe Rebel Transport from Kenner, like the
one where you could put your figuresin. Yeah, that thing only came
out in America. Yeah, thatthey can only Okay in America. I
spent my old savings on that oneat a Star Wars convention because it was
the only one. Well, itwas one hundred guilders even before the euro

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which is now about like two hundredand twenty euros or something. On that
Rebel transport to sheep. You hadto thrown some sheep on that too,
yeah, and some beans, magicalbeans, yeah, but yeah, and
a blanket. But uh so,and now they go like for twenty thirty
bucks because everybody buys them up andyou know, but on the other end,

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back then, it was a magicalthing to discover old stuff. Yeah,
and I mean that's worth the priceof admission as well. But I
mean what I also think is becausebecause my wife has been selling some of
my stuff from the game room,and I just tell her, Okay,
this is what the amount I'm goingwith kind of. But also I mean

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if it goes to a fellow geekwho is happy with it, I am
don't find giving them a deal.Because there was this when I was selling
video games as all be because Ihad like overstock, because I bought a
lot of stuff for my connection.I would go to like these flea markets
or trade fairs or whatever and havea little thought and sell my my doubles
so to say, right, andthere would be this little kid like fourteen

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years old or something, or likea younger going like ice big seeing an
old game boy, and I wouldjust give it away for free and get
some games away because because that's that'swhat counts. I mean, sorry,
going to a good home. Yeah, it's good home, and and that's
that's what for me is more importantthan money, because I'd buy things that

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deals all the time. So theamount I spent has already been burned back
with the fun I had with it. So so for me, that's fine.
But also you have to keep inmind we're talking from a position of
privilege. I mean, as yousaid before, like when the portal gun
came out, you probably didn't haveany seventy years to buy it exactly.
Yeah, So so it also dependson what your disposable income is and whether

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or not you are able to getthe investment in there. What you see
is a lot of people when Icame on the scene with selling my video
games was this the first time Iwent there. There was this guy knew
on the scene who was an investmentbanker from Malaysia who basically came to the
Netherlands to buy up all the expensivegames for a cheap because nobody really knew
how much they were. Uh,and now he's like a big guy selling

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video games. But there's a littlespeculative. So a lot of good communities
got bought up. Like I usedto be a part of Nintendo Age for
example, was a really nice websitewhere you could check all your collections and
basically that got that gott You saidthat, yeah, they got bought up
by investment bankers or whatever because theyhad a database now of what actual rarity

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of stuff was because everybody used totrack their collections and they just use that
data. Bought that data basically,and we're using it to figure out our
stuff for going. So it's that'ssaying that says whatever the idiot, whatever
the fool's willing to pay, soto say that's the price for our geeky

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stuff. I mean, if youcan get someone crazy enough to spend thirty
k on a boxed Super Mario gameor whatever, all the best to you,
But it doesn't mean it's it's actuallyvaluable, because there's also the distinction
between what is rare and what isvaluable. I mean, there could be
something that is one of a kindsbut nobody cares about or isn't even worth

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it. It's its existence in somecases, it's like the beanie Yeah,
the beanie baby thing we will inthe life during that phase and stuff.
If he saw that movie that cameout with Zach gal Galfa Nacis, he
plays like he he intentionally conflated thingslike it. They were never worth that

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much. There wasn't a shortage ofthem, they didn't make a limited amount,
but he he marketed it as ifthey had to the level that people
were literally killing each other to getthem. You know, I mean,
like you gotta be careful that there'sa difference between what actually has value and
actually, you know, is israre versus what is Like my son was

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really into and he still when hesees them at at Goodwill or whatever else,
the like the local can you knowplaces here, he'll get all excited,
which was shoot what it wasn't andnow called. But basically they were
the ones they were the you gotthe figure and you'd plug it into the
computer and and then there was likea virtual world that basically they interacted with.

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This is way back when Skyland earlynineties, which what was it Skylanders
or something or no, it wasbefore that. Before those. This was
called the emergy the emergeny character thingsthat like you could say, uh like
customize your and wasn't it. Well, it was like that. They were
like big. They were big,chunky, plastic ones and they literally had

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a USB port tied to them.I don't like the Skylander thing where you
just put stuff on top. Likethis was like big characters and you plug
them in and there would be agiant one. Oh they were called it
SARTs with an F anyway. Yeah, but I just remember always being like,
oh, this one's rare and stuffand and you know, the site

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went down eventually. I mean,you know, not enough people were involved
in you Be Funkies. They werecalled U Be Funkies, which is probably
tied in with that USB kind ofpiece you be and then funky Oh wow.
Never never saw those. Yeah,it was. It was popular for
a minute, but at the sametime, like you can still run across
them now and then and they'll belike, oh, I want to get

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that stuff, like you can't evenaccess the program, you know, It's
what I was thinking of. Yeah, yeah, So I mean at the
same time, you know, Ithink of I think is stuff more in
terms of almost like the artworks situationis like like you can purchase art and
it might it might gain value,but in the end, the question is

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is it also something you'd want tohang in your house, Like like I'm
Picasso might be worth a lot ofmoney, but I don't want to hang
it in my house, Like whatwhat do I want to actually use up
my space with and stuff? SoI mean I still got the job box
over here of my hot toy thatI got, you know, which was
not cheap, So you got toI don't want to have put in my

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house as well? You don't youdon't want to have hanging around? He
gets a little never his eyes areweird and a different different speaking of I
saw this the other day on oneof my might escapes. I'll send it
to you, but oh yeah,it's like a physical version. Did you

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go to No? This is inwhat the list? Okay, yeah,
the thing is Malaga. We wentthere forification and all of a sudden it
was all like Picasso Picasso everything.But basically was a kid who lived there
until he was five and then heleft for like other places, right,
didn't have anything to do with Malagauntil his grandchild or whatever came back and

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said, I'm gonna make a museumfor my grandfather. And then all of
a sudden he was like, oh, Becaussa and and are like a big
thing now and yeah on board.The guy doesn't even doesn't he know the
street name he was born on.But again yeah, well fair enough,

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but uh so you can hang that. Obviously, there was a golden statue
of him, like the Ron McDonaldone in our McDonald's episode. He could
do the same thing with You couldtake a picture with them, just to
just to add quickly to like rareor rarities or collectibles whatever. I have

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a collection of South Park pluses ages. Yeah, and like I I remember
one year, like for Christmas,I got a box just filled with them
and I was I was looking throughit a few years ago obviously not well
recently, bro looking through it,and I have like a mister Garrison,
like with mister Hankey, I've gotwith mister hats, I've got chef,

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I've got et cetera, et cetera, and like I think by my current
so that they go there for liketwenty years or like a second hand thing,
like each one of them is worthstupid amounts of money. Yeah,
like nowadays just yeah collectibles. YeahI want. One man's trash is another
man's Oh yeah, oh yeah,truly we have fresh yeah yeah, yeah,

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it's like the whole story about youknow, the about the death Star
being found is behind the the Ithink it was a diner that was it
was behind it. They were atrash receptacles this wo until somebody figured out
what it was. Yeah, isit was just but I mean like yeah,
I mean I I yeah. Doyou guys own a hot toy?

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No? Too expensive? Like theHot Toy company, right right, they're
expensive. But every single one thatI've ever seen, well, with the
exception they've had a couple of weirdones, but everything one I've ever seen
once when they are once when theystop making them, or even after they've
been sold for a while, becausethey don't make them for very long.

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And these are all handpainted and stuff, they they skyrocket and value. So
I mean, like there there arethings if you're wanting to do it.
As far as an investment goes,that's fine. I mean you have to
be aware of what's gonna go,you know what the problems are that could
come with that. But on theflip side, like yeah, if you're
if you if there's something, ifthere's something that you that you truly like,

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something you're into like my my hottoy is an iron man thing.
If you're really into it, youreally like how a lux it would be
something you would use space to putthings into, and you know it's worth
that value or will gain value overtime, that's sure. Why not?
You know, maybe I can justifythat kind of expensive purchase that's gonna be

(32:52):
there for a while. That's thebiggest there's something I impulsively buy. That's
the biggest X you. I alwaystell them hons like it's gonna be expensive
when I buy it later, Soas we buy now the same thing with
with like the Aslab stuff that hasreally pays into that like this is only
limited time that you can buy.It will never come back again, which
it did because the the backpacks,the pronom backs came back from the vault

(33:16):
and people people bought them recently.Yeah, but all the limited stuff.
Yeah, But what I wanted tosay is that, yeah, if if
you, if you can invest,we try to try and do so.
But also, uh, there isa there is a shelf life to those

(33:38):
things as well. Oh yeah,there's gonna be a time where you're gonna
find this that toys somewhere being sold. It's also like the two things I
want to tell, Like the toypolo says, Okay, he has to
be patient, right, You're gonnahave to get anything at once. He
buys parts from very rare sets andhe takes ages to to get a whole
sets, for example, but inthe end it cost him nothing but dime

(34:01):
and some money. The story wehad with Yos in our interview was for
us think that he actually had tosell his own sets never to be able
to fORCH his one he made himselfagainst were hot toys by the way that
he sold, oh yeah yeah,but also his own dioramas and things he
couldn't buy back again because it wassuch a limited run and his own stuff

(34:24):
was so expensive, he couldn't getany of his own creations back again.
It's ironic because the dioramas is buildingwere for the same hot toys they had
to sell. Yeah, exactly.Yeah. But on the flip side,
I mean, like, you know, yeah, it's true some things might
you know, they might lose stuffor a timing. You can get things

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for a good price also if you'repatient. I mean, I mean,
like even even with the you know, with the gun and things like that,
is if you're willing to wait andkeep asking. There's so many things
out there that say or best offertime. I lowball them and I ask,
you know, is there any chance, and I'll throw out their numbers
too. I'll be like, yeah, I get that there's a lot of
these on the eBay right now forthis price, but none of them are

(35:08):
selling. And and this sold originallyfor this price and half those people to
This is how I got the Cthree po C three po situation, which
the first guy I also lost moneyon C three pio. There was a
Facebook Facebook you know, marketplace.I don't know they have that everywhere.
Is that how it works? Everit does Facebook Marketplace. I found one

(35:28):
for a fantastic price, and Ipay for it, and then I get
messaged from this guy that's like,well, actually the person whose faceback kind
of is he died, I'm responsiblejust to be liquidating and stuff, okay,
and Weter brows and next thing Iknew, like he never messaged me
back. I had no way toget a hold of the guy whose account
it was was gone. You don'thave the protections you do with you know,

(35:51):
like eBay and stuff. So itwas a loss. I lost all
that money because it was still morethan just that you want to give away.
So then this better be just waitedand kept built bidding and asking.
Yeah, I kept this one.I just kept on asking people. I'm
just like every time they popped up, which they were only in England,
was the only place where you couldfind them, and then we would have

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just flown over like it was nobody'sbusiness. Yeah, yeah, they sold
Blossom the scale they only sold overthere, whereas they had a shorter one
that was sold here, same name, same box. Yeah, but you
have you actually have the big onein England because other way Daniel's gonna cry
big big toys. But at thesame time, so eventually I saw this

(36:35):
one and I just messaged him andI said, look, you know,
I get that you're wanting. Iforgot what they were asking one hundred and
thirty dollars that you want one hundredthirty dollars for he was still a pretty
good price compared to other ones.I just said, you know, honestly,
I will pay today. I willpay. I will pay fifty dollars
for it. It f you'll sellto me, which is what we went
for when at first sold promote andthis. They said yeah, but they

(37:00):
but they took it, and soI got it, and I got it
for the price I want. Chris, they still had to pay like twenty
bucks for shipping, but still like, yeah, if you can be patients
the hot toy thing, I gotsame thing, eBay. I waited until
I saw a good deal. Mymy, my Millennium Falcon. I bought
a broken one, and then Ibought all the individual parts or time.
You know that's also sub optimal stuff, then that's fine as well. I

(37:22):
mean, depends on what is valuableto you, because and if you're willing
to put in the effort to toto either renovate it or fix it,
or if you're okay with defects.Yeah, let's take I don't recommend buying
stuff or crazy, but I hadsomebody message me yesterday. They're like,
the radio module for the pit boyis five hundred dollars right now. Wow,

(37:44):
Like somebody crazy out there is putthat price because they think they're seeing
that they go for that. Thensomebody else is also doing that. Then
eBay does their little thing where theysay this is the average price average.
Yeah, I think I just followedfor thirty well, and I told them,
I said, you know again,I got mine recently by I just

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reached out to somebody that had itfor sale and I said, this is
the average price, and they hadtheirs also for like three hundred dollars,
and I said, well, youknow this was this was this much originally
and they sold it to me forthirty bucks. I got it for the
price there was originally it was beingsold. It was this toy store that
sold this thing also like for retail, and it was like this old toystore

(38:28):
right it on their webshop in theNetherlands, like for the same price,
and it was like same day shippingseven bucks. So I'm like, yeah,
that's a good deal. Yeah.So I mean, but yeah,
don't pay crazy prices for crazy thingsasked around. I mean, if you're
in a geekosphere as we are.Maybe one of your friends has tried to
get rid of stuff. Oh noknow someone you know also also look out

(38:52):
for that same thing here. Againnot trying to over sell Stone, but
if you're looking for something like avery expensive fallout bit boy radio module,
then I could think that one gofor four fifty. There you go.
Well, if you're gonna buy something, because of the experience to the thing
that you mentioned earlier, Vince,I'm still regardless of whether or not something

(39:15):
is, I can get it nowon eBay. There's something to be able
to go tangibly to some to someboot sale or whatever and you and you
dig through a bin and you seesomething that, true, I could get
for a little bit less on eBay. There's something to the experience of that,
and that's why I'm paying. SoI'm paying for that experience, you

(39:36):
know. The feeling of finding itis just so up here, Like this
is Lego as a Chakuzza ship up, but right there is like a Lego
space Plastics set up there. Mywife found that for fifteen bucks at a
flea market, as she thought itwas too expensive, but if you look

(39:57):
now, it was really it wasa full set of Classic Space, which
goes like a two hundred bucks now, but that's funny, but so she
goes for me. But it waslike I was doing something and I just
got a picture with a shoe box, which is that shoe book? Phil
filled the Lego parts. Yeah,fifteen bucks, there's a bit much for
old Lego Space. I'm like,no body by it was complete. It

(40:19):
was a complete set with all theplates and everything. So there's something to
that. It's so fun yeah thriabout Yeah, yeah, well good times.
I would actually pay I'll say thisis the closing thing too. I
told my kid this the other day. Somebody should open up a store because
I thought about the other day.I would honestly pay ten dollars to do

(40:42):
what I could do years ago walkingthrough a video store, like an actual
video store. The guy the Angrythe Angry video game James Rolf he actually
turned his basement into a video store. Yeah yeah, with a little yeah
he has the little counter and yeah, and there was this other guy who
had like like a lot of copiesof of this like romance movie or something,

(41:07):
and he bought all of them andhe had he may turned it into
a store and then his wife foundout like months after that he did that.
That's funny. Yeah, I wouldthat be fun though, I don't
know right well, yeah, Brighttell us what your what you wanna,
what you what your collections are,what you would you're nostalgia? Yeah,

(41:29):
good and bad investments. Tell usthe worst investment you made as well on
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