September 17, 2023 • 41 mins
Jeff hates bugs. Taylor loves bugs. So guess which one of them likes this guy. Surprise! They both like it! How much? Listen and find out!
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Welcome to Talking Toys with Taylor andJeff, where we go back in time
to discuss our favorite toys, onetoy line at a time. Hello,
and welcome to Talking Toys with Taylorand Jeff. Action Figure Exclusive. I'm
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Taylor and I'm Jeff, and we'reback with another two thousand X Masters of
the Universe figure. We're going totalk about buzz off today. And that
is not me telling Taylor to getlost again thought I thought we were talking
about sectors. No, although youcould be forgiven for thinking that with this
figure, and I just wanted toreiterate. I just wanted to reiterate all
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of our listeners. I've been gettingsome some questions here and there about the
status of the show. We arejust doing these once a month for now.
Since we finished up the Star WarsAction Figure exclusive line from the Kendra
line, we just wanted to takea bit of a break. We've been
doing this pretty steadily with a fewbreaks here and there, but on and
off for you know, eleven yearsnow, and most of that has has
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included the Action Figure Exclusive show.So we're just kind of taking it easy
for a little bit. Yeah,So you know, the show is worth
every penny you pay for it,which is nothing. So hopefully that is
okay with everybody. So we'll we'llreconvene after the first of the year and
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figure out what our next play is. But for now we're just we're just
concentrating on the two thousand x fourHorsemen line of Masters of the Universe figures,
which are, in my opinion,some of the greatest action figures ever
produced, certainly the greatest some ofthe greatest action figures produced for the the
mainstream market, you know, outsideof the collector market. Yep. So
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interesting enough. I was gonna say, interesting enough right now for Master's Universe.
You know, the four Horsemen,for the two thousand nacks, like
they really had like a perfect reimaginingclassics. They kind of you know,
still forced when they took a stepback, kind of went more vintage.
But I am kind of surprised atsome of the Master Verse, not all
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Master Verse, but the new Attorneyand stuff is reminding me a lot of
some of the two thousand xx.Yeah, there are there are so many
lines coming out right now. Yeah. In fact, a little while ago,
our buddy Dan's are message means like, so have a question are the
origins the same as the retro line? And I said, you know what,
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at this point, I have noidea. I don't think so.
But at this point I can't besure. You go to any toy isle
and there you'll see like four differentversions of the same figure, the same
character. I should say, yeah, you've got you've got the So retro
and origins are kind of like thiswhat's considered the same. Though the true
retro is actually the Super seven,which they didn't have very many toy all
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right, now you're you'd be lookingat there's Manis. You have origins,
and then you have master Verse andthe master Verse of the Big Collector once
they're like the seven inch action figures. And it's amazing to me that we
do have so many different iterations.But we don't have like we don't have
a new movie coming out. Wedon't have a TV series running right now.
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Yeah, it got canceled. Itwell, you canceled, get canceled,
you get get put on hold.Yeah, but you did get another
Revelations. There's another another season ofthat cartoon. But it's not out right
now, not to be out,it's not to be out. Okay,
Well, I guess there is that. Yeah, So all right, well
let's let's talk about buzz Off.Now I believe you have one of these
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or no, I do have oneof these. This is one of those
that I ended up being an eBaypurchase, and I'd been looking for a
buzz Off for a while. Ireally liked this character a lot. I
happen to remember, back when Igot my first one, I was actually
with my grandmother. So two ofthe characters I got when I was with
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her was buzz Off and Manny Faces, and I absolutely love both of them.
So whenever I get a chance,I try to get all the buzz
Offs, all the Manning Faces whenI find them, and this was one
that when I finally was able toget my hands on him, I got
him complete and I was just blownaway by the sculpting on this thing.
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It is phenomenal, absolutely phenomenal.It really is. It really is.
And so I do have a question, Well, we'll get there. I
do have a question about about thehelmet the game with it, but will
we'll get there. Okay, Sothis guy is very similar to the figure
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that we got in the original line, but he's much slimmer and to me,
he looks like he's almost built morelike an insect than the original.
Like his legs, especially like hiscalves, and his feet look very insectlike.
He looks almost like like did youever see the Arrival with Charlie Sheen
Alien movie? Okay, reminds meof the Aliens from that movie? Yeah,
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yeah. So one of the thingsthat they did for and the reason
why I was like kind of jokingabout sectors as you know, they're bug
people. Well, he really fitsthat mold of bug person way way,
way much more than his vintage counterpartdid. And what the Horseman did for
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him is they they looked at theoriginal body and they looked at some of
the things that were going into itthat would kind of make it seem like
it was bug. But then theyreally amped it up. So instead of
having just the basic like stripe sortof armor with the bumps, they went
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in and they created segmented exoskeleton typeof muscling and exo skeleton type of armor
on top of everything, so itlooks like an exoskeleton. So the actual
chest plate where you had the stripesbefore, or actually segments of exoskeleton that
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are stacked one on the other andit's it's very much like what you would
think of as like a not necessarilya bee, but more like a wasp
when you see it. So likesome of the inspiration that they took in
the sculpting looks like it came alot from a yellow jacket. The way
they have things segmented. Yeah,that makes sense. I feel like you're
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throwing up a little bit tier No, no, no, I'm fine.
I'm fine for now. Okay.Yeah. And you know other like really
cool updates they did, you know, because before the vintage buzz Off has
the wings that are just you know, the flappy pieces of plastic, and
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they were very mechanical in nature,and so they one of the updates was
they took the mechanical aspect away andjust made it to where the wings are
actually like just wings. And youcan the sculpting on it is so fine,
like it's the it's very very clean, crisp, almost like a geometric
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organic lines. The way that everythingis segmented within the wing and the design
reminds me a lot of kind ofthat naturalistic wing even like what you got
with the sector's flyers. How theyhad the small ridges that look like they
come directly from nature. They dida lot of that same sculpting with these
wings, and then instead of sevinglike instead of doing like a secondary wing
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set, they did these little armson the back that come out and they
serve as kind of like I guessthe extra leg or where they would have
adapted into bipeds his species, theAdreene hits, I believe it's what they're
called. They had these extra littlearms set flayoff on the sides, which
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is a really cool design and endedup being used again for Classics and but
I think they dropped it on theNew Master Verse. But it's it was
one of those where the little armthat they had sculpted on for two thousand
X ended up making it to theClassic line because it's just a really cool
detail. Yeah, it really is. I like it a lot. And
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the so so those are the wings, so we have, like you said,
like these translucent wings. I dolike this this the detail on them
because we got you know, wecan see sort of the if you call
him veins and the wings. Butyeah, but they're they're the ridges,
the little like I guess like veinridges. Yeah, well, yeah,
you like you said ridges works workedabout it. That makes more sense.
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But so let's start. Let's startat with the head. First of all,
he's got the little antenna coming upmake him look like the tick Are
those removable? They're not removable,They're they're actually sculpted on. So the
antenna work on him is actually sculptedinto that main sculpt The ones on the
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shoulders are actually kind of glued intoplace. But none of the antenna or
protrusions are meant to be removed.Like okay, because I keep seeing pictures
online if some that are missing them, and I don't know if it's because
they were removed, they're broken offor they broke off, so I figured
those were probably yours. No,no, no, mine's actually in perfect
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shape. Well good, good,good good? Yeah, okay, so
those don't see they don't seem likethey would be extremely rigid. Are they
kind of bindy? They're not asbendy as you would think they are kind
of rigid. They they can't breakoff easily. Okay, that's that's kind
of a downside. And especially ifyou get if you've had it and it's
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taken some damage or the plastics becomerigid or you know how problematic, Like
I could see that easily breaking offwithout a problem, and it's it's sad
because it's you know, it's acool detail. But they do sit up
rather high and they can catch thingslike and the head itself because it's all
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like one mold. The the headitself as a ridge or like a heavier
thick or more rigid plastic so itcan turn on its hinge. And the
antenna are kind of built the sameway. Okay, good, good,
good, Yeah. And then hishis forehead you mentioned the top of his
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head has he kind of ridges onit? No, no hair obviously,
is it scaly or how does that? How is it sculpted? How it's
all it's all scales, So it'swhen you when you look at it,
this would be like segmented pieces thatthat build up and then run backwards on
its head. Okay, so it'sit's like a segmented body. Okay.
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Cool. And then that comes downin in between his eyes like to where
his nose would be. And thenthe eyes are really cool. They're sort
of aqua colored looks like yeah,they're they're an aqua metallic and it's the
cool thing. Like colorwise, theykept pretty much all the colors the same.
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So the vintage has those aqua blueeyes, and so they wanted to
carry that same aqua blue over sothey they made the aqua blue eyes in
the same tone as the vintage.Okay, which is which is cool?
I like that I did that.Yeah, are they textured at all?
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I can't really tell from the photosysthey are. They've got little bumps on
them, so they it looks almostlike a cluster eye, but they're really
small. Okay, all right,but they do look really cool. Yes,
And so he does does he havea nose or is it There's looks
like there's just kind of a spacethere where his nose like the nozzles would
be, but not really a nose. There's like a bit of a bump,
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but then it's relatively flat and itcomes down. He has sculpting on
the mouth, and then he haschin horns that kind of come down that's
like a segmented piece almost like immandiblesthat come down to his chin and they're
they're kind of sculpted out a littlebit. But the the nose is it
kind of goes eyes and like almostflats in. There's a bump but not
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nothing, that's an actual protrusion.Right. You mentioned a little right,
and you mentioned a little points onhis chin, But above that there is
a mouth there right with two likelooks like two teeth poking out of each
side. Yes, okay, Butthen below that that's what you're talking about,
the little like you talk about,the mandible type thing, that's what
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you're talking about right where where hischin is. Yep. And that is
that a hold over from the originalfigure or no, I don't think it
is. No, that that isa new added thing. So the the
point from the dark portion of thehead into the yellow in the face,
that is from the vintage, andthe vintage doesn't have much of a nose
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either. It's it's relatively flash it'skind of a kind of a point to
it. But then the mouth theyadded the little like chinned or manable pieces
they added that to, I guessgive the face a little bit more structure.
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Structure, right, Yeah, that'scool. I like it. And
And how rigid is that? Itlooks like it's kind of like the kind
of like the antenna they are,but they don't they don't actually stick out
that far. Okay, it justlooks like it kind of does here.
Okay, Yeah, And I thinkthat's just the contrast of the paint because
it makes it look they stand outa lot more. But they're they're sculpted
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the way they're sculpted, they're they'renot protruding outwards very much. Okay,
cool and you and I think youmentioned this on the wings, but I'm
seeing on the wings there are somelike circuitry stuff going in there. Yes,
just just a little bit. Butthey kept it more, they kept
it more naturalistic this time, right, But but they're still supposed to be
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mechanical, right, Okay, notnot entirely organic. Well, that's what
it looks like to me. So, so coming down from his head,
we've got his his body, historso fairly simple. Uh, It's it's
brown, sort of textured skin,and then over that he's got these yellow
stripes like a bee, a bumblebeeor is it supposed to be like a
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tunic that he's wearing or a bodysuit that he's wearing. No, No,
that's it's all segmented body. Sounlike the vintage where you had the
bumps and the large stripes, theseare actually plated segments that run across this
body, and I mean it lookslike like the bits of yellow stand out
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a little bit over the brown,and it just it has that kind of
weird segmented look, even with likecuts of lions within the yellow to the
kind of break the portion of thepectorial muscles as it moves down to make
it look like plates. It's it'sreally cool. I mean, it's but
it's it's supposed to be him.It is his body. Okay, good
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to know. Good to know.So again, not a whole lot to
talk about here though, because theI'm assuming the back looks very similar to
the front in that regard. Itdoes, except it does have the addition
of on the on the back youhave the the sockets, so like where
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the yellow plates are, they kindof build up and built outward a little
bit more. That's got a littlebit of like dotting or like almost like
kite and type of like exoskeleton shelllike dots or pits in it. And
that's where the wings and the littlearms hook up, so that the back
does have a little bit more sculptingto it to basically give notice to how
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the wings and the little arms getattached to it. It's I mean it's
it's really cool looking like when youI'm pulling up a picture now when you
look at the back, like theplates, they they mimic what's in front.
But then they come and they turndown and there's all this like small
pitting detail where it's got little dotsand pits and it's very skin like but
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still very scaled in nature. It'sincredible. I absolutely again, I love
this figure. I was super excitedwhen I got them. And the wings,
the wings do not have any mechanicalstuff and it's all just veins.
Okay, So then my next questionis if that's his body on his torso
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wire, his arms and legs,why do they look like human skin?
Okay, they might be colored likehuman skin, but they are all still
exoskeleton, so it's kind of likehaving like you know, like when you
get colored like human skin. Okay, So the Vintage was colored with tan,
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right, And there are some insectsthat have like there's a type of
wasp up here that's gott like redyellow. It's like a red yellow and
black. The body, the mainbody is red and yellow, but then
the but then the legs are red. So it's kind of like that where
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It's like his main decorative part ofhis body is brown and yellow, so
the rest of them is gonna bekind of a beige color. Okay,
Yeah, I don't know that Ibuy that, but okay, but when
but when you look at but here'sthe thing. When you look at the
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arms and the body, it's stillvery much like insect. It's still very
much exoskeleton. You want to talkabout the arms, sure, let's talk
about the arms. Okay, Sothese are these are exoskelets, even though
it looks like human skin, yes, yes, And when you get up
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really close and you look at it, you can see that, like the
top, you know, shoulder portionof this is actually like a plate of
exoskeleton. Let's got lines in itand cracks and little dots. When you
get to the bicep, that's anotherplate of exoskeleton, and the areas I
can kind of see the texturing onit. I mean I can kind of
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see that it's yeah, that it'snot necessarily necessarily like rounded. It's got
some sharp lines and sharp angles onit, yes, And there's like a
little bit of line work in between. So where there would be I guess
like skin, where it would move, they have like little lines that show
that show like a stretch of askin or a type of material underneath that
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would hold all that together. Soit would be able to move because there's
for the most part it's plated right, so it can one piece can move
over the other. But I getthe elbow, you can't really do that.
So they've got where the elbow wouldactually fit into the bicep if he
was to lift up his arm.But there's like a stretch bit of skin
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in between there that has all thewrinkles that show where it bunches up to
allow that movement, right, okay, And and we didn't really talk about
his shoulders have these little things stickingout on the side or did you talk
about those and I just missed it. I talked about it earlier. Those
are so those are a different partof the scult. But they're like almost
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like little horns that come off ofhis shoulders, and they are done as
a separate piece or a little bitthey're they're not as rigid as his antenna.
The horns themselves are done in alittle bit softer plastic, so those
you don't usually find those broken off. Okay, all right, And so
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so Those are his arms. Nowlet's talk about the hands. Is he
wearing gloves or are those just hisclaws? Those are his claws. He's
got pincers and they are two fingeredpincers and they are segmented. Do they
are they movable? Like can youopen and close them? Slose them?
They're stationary and one is built towhere it just creates a circle and that's
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for you to be able to putthe staff in, which works really well.
But instead of making it one block, they actually sculpted the thumb portion
of the digit up and over thetop of the four finger digit, so
it actually builds up over the topand it sets on top of it,
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and they've sculptured it in that way. And it's crazy looking at it and
seeing like the work that they did. And these things have like little bumps
and lines in between each segment andlike little divots and pits, and they
do swivel at the wrist, soyou do have a little bit of posability
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with them. Okay, good,no, And he has no trouble holding
his accessories. Yeah, he onlycomes with the staff. It's like an
act staff and it has like alittle shooter on it, but it fits
in that hand perfectly. The otherhand doesn't really do much. You can
kind of fit it around another likeaction figures hands as if he's like holding
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them or grabbing them, and they'rethe plastics a little bit pliable, so
you can like move it a littlebit, but it's not it's not really
meant to hold like a sword oranything. And we'll talk about his incestries
here in a bit, right,So, so those are those are his
his his hands, and it lookslike they'll they'll they'll move back and forth.
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Is there a hinge there at thewrist? Yeah, they they swivel,
they do swivel the risk Yeah,okay, you said that. Sorry,
So let's then talk about his thelike we didn't really talk about the
crotch area in this guy's he's gota gold belt and he's wearing a loin
cloth. Right, No, there'sno loin cloth. It's all segments.
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So the whole thing. The onlyclothing he has is this gold belt that's
got kind of a bee face onit, and that's to kind of mimic
the vintage one. The vintage onehad a yellow goldish yellow belt. Instead
of doing a yellow belt, theyjust did a gold colored belt. But
this is an actual bit of clothingon him, and this is the only
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thing. The crotch area and howit moves into the legs or it's all
segmented plates that runs from his torsodown okay, and even even on his
back like it it's just segmented plates, one stacked on top of the other.
Oh yeah, I see that now. Okay, So then let's talk
about his legs. It looks likeright where his legs start on the sides,
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is there some sort of that segmentedplating going on there as well?
Yeah? Yeah, So at thetop and on the side of the legs,
he has plates of segment that goon the top, and then he
has like almost like main segment plateson the thigh and the back thigh and
the leg they're almost like they're almostbuilt like grasshopper legs without having the really
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really heavy duty spring kind of springloaded type like muscling or legs. So
they mimic the look without it beingso drastic. But they but they do
look like I said, I cansee, especially on his calves, you
can definitely see that there's like somesegmentation there. It looks like he's got
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some like a little not really spike. There's some sort of ridges poking up
out of the back of his calves. Yeah, they're like horns. It's
you know, kind of like theidea with crickets and grasshoppers. They have
the spikes on the back of theirlegs and they rub those together to create
them clicking sound that makes the chirpingbecause they do it really fast, and
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that's kind of the same thing thatthat he has, like the little horns,
that would be very much like whatyou would see in the insect Kingdom.
So a lot of again, alot of the sculpting that they've done
is like things that you would seein the insect Kingdom. It's just been
anthropomorphotized or however you say it,like it's thank you. It's made to
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look human, but it is alltaken from aspects of insects. So those
are his calves and his legs.Like he talked about, the front part
of his shin has again has somesort of plating on it as well.
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Am I seeing that right? Yeah, I guess from his knees down.
Yeah, So at the front ofthe front of the shin, it's got
like this brown plate that runs upfrom the foot up under the knee,
and that's supposed to mimic the oldboot because the boot itself from the vintage
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figure was brown, so they insteadof making it all tan, they're they're
choosing specific plates to make brown tokind of, you know, give us
a wink and a nod to whatwe had with the vintage. Again,
very modernized on what we got,but it's specifically like coloring is is done
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in a way that it really pinpointsthat's what we've had before. Okay.
And then then the bottom like wherehis feet are are definitely just insect feet.
That's not a boot at all.Right, No, no, all
insect feet. Yeah, with withagain with him. The only thing that's
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not him is the belt and everythingelse is how he's built. And one
of the things I do appreciate withhis feet because he had the three toed
monster foot. So if you rememberthe monster foot, it was long,
it came out, it had thetwo side toes and one front toe.
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They've mimic some of that without goingso drastic, So he still has the
monster feet and that he has threetoes, they're kind of more pointing forward
instead of having a back toe.The toe itself sits towards the back,
but out and in much like howthe vintage but was as well. Okay,
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yeah, that makes sense. Andhe has three toes in the front
and like one in the back.Is that for stability, I guess yep.
Okay, And how well does thisguy stand up on his own?
So here here's the here's the damagefor buzz Off. He stands up really
really well when he's holding his axe, but other than that, he tends
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to be a little front heavy,and that's just his pose and the legs.
You can get him to stand easilywithout the axe, but if you
want to have the axe in frontof him sort of thing like he's holding
it up, he tends to fallforward. So like, I think I
have mind standing with the axe holdinghim up, because that's the most stable
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way to do it. The hisaccessory tends to run on the heavy side
because the way it's made, andso when you're posing him with the accessory,
you want that accessory to touch groundor you're going to end up with
problems. Okay, yeah, itmakes sense. So speaking of that staff,
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let's talk about the accessories. Let'sstart with the staff and then talk
about the home with the staff isinteresting. It's it's a staff, but
it's like at an axe on thetop of it, and then above the
axe there's this little thing that lookslike a stinger. I guess is that
what it's supposed to look like?Yes, so okay, so this is
a missile firing. I think thatwhen you have an ax on a long
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stick, I think is it calleda halberds all specific? There's a specific
name for it. Yeah, Andso what this has is got you know,
an ax that's done in gold,and the same gold as his belt.
The the staff portion of it,it's all done. There's a little
bit of mechanics in it, butit's all done and kind of a bronze
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color, so it kind of matchesto the brown on its body, but
it's still very metallic in nature.And the detail on this thing, like
the backhorn on this has a littlebit of a it's almost like a bug
horned, so it's almost organic theway it's shaped. And then on top
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you have a little missile that slidesin. Now, the missile is made
out of a clear rubberized kind ofgoldish or like amber colored plastic. And
so when you're ready, you cantake this thing pointed and fire off a
stinger at your unsuspecting foes to takethem out to stumb on my guests.
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And does it actually fire? Doesit actually launch it? Yeah? It
fires? Yeah, it's actually it'sit's really cool. Okay. Yeah,
and have you lost it? Haveyou lost that yet? I have not
lost it yet. I'm I've beenpretty careful, especially with with redoing the
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office. I've been very careful abouttouching specific toys because I really don't want
to lose parts. Right now,I'm right, I understand, Yeah,
understanding. I'm freaking out because Ihad a classics fault the shelf the other
day, and like I found himand his parts, but I can't find
the stand to screech. And sonow I'm like, as I clean and
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I work, I'm like looking fora little red stand. Okay. It's
it's a nightmare in here, itreally is. And then so as far
as the staff goes, like rightbelow the axe, there's a like a
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bulbous thing there is that just there? That's just decoration, I assume,
is it? Does it look likea little pot thing? Yeah? Yeah,
that's okay. So that's the mechanicalportion. That's that's where the spring
and like kind of the lever are, so I think they had to sculpt
it out a little bit, butI think it's just supposed to be like
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a like a like a little mechanicalpiece that allows the horn to shoot off.
So it'd be like a little launchpot. Okay, not a not
a lunch pot like what you wouldhave or take to at a pot luck.
Got it? Okay? Well that'sreally cool. And I like the
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way that the I like the waythe the axe is designed with the kind
of the gold on either end.Literally, yeah, it's very surprised that,
you know, the design that theythat they did the redesign, everything
I thought was absolutely amazing. Youknow, we got an axe before and
it had like the little loop onit so it would hold, you know,
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to his hand. It was brown. But this isn't an incredible update
where it's like, not only dowe get an acts, we get a
whole staff and it shoots a stingerand it really feels like it's attached specifically
to him, which I dig like. I like that a lot, And
that's actually one area that I dislikeabout the new I think it's like the
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New Eternia Master verse. As theywent backwards, they made just an act,
but they made it kind of abluish color, and so it doesn't
match at all, whereas with theclassics they did the same you know,
Halibert type of weapon in classics,and it works beautiful. It looks phenomenal
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with them, you know, AndI think at this point, like this
specific weapon really feels like it itworks with him and who he is more
so than just an ax. Agreed, Yeah, that's very cool. And
so then the call it a helmet, but it's not really a helmet because
it seems like it just kind offits down between the antenna, right,
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It's really more just goggles in aheadpiece. Yeah, so it's it's a
segmented Okay, So going back toour vintage toy, we had that rubber
piece that would never stick to hishead. I remember, like, and
I still have mine, and mykid has one as well. He has
a vintage buzz off that as thatcap, and he throws that cap back
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in the bucket half the time becauseit just it doesn't fit to his head.
So what they wanted to do thistime was to remedy the problem that
we had with the cap or theskull cap before, and make it to
where it was more streamlined. Soinstead of just being a full piece that
fits on top of the head,this actually fits between the antenna snaps onto
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the eyes, and the segments actuallygo and follow the segments on his head
and fit to a point onto theback of his head. So it's still
like a helmet it, but nowit's more like like aviator type goggles that
are that are very much made likehis body is made, okay, and
they it looks great on him,like it's one of those I think I
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have mine with the goggles on him, because I I love the look of
it. I I kind of wishthere's a part of me that wishes that
they would have done the blue forthe eyes for it, but the Vintage
didn't have that. So instead ofgoing with just straight brown, they went
with a bit of a brass color, almost like his weapon, and that's
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what they have on the eyes.Well, and when he puts it on.
Did you ever watch The Venture Brotherswhen it was on, Yes,
he reminds me of the guys likethe Hinchman for the Monarch. Yes,
yes, it didn't even reminds meof when he has was on. It's
really cool, all right. AndI do like the eyes and that are
kind of you know, they're texturedlike you would see a fly or a
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bug or something. So it's reallycool. So yeah, yeah, really
cool figure here overall. So let'sask our questions. What is your favorite
feature about this toy? Home?Man? Uh, you can look one,
I know, I know. Ireally love the way that they dealt
with the wings and the arms inthe back, like the the way that
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they sculpted and built that. It'sjust so beautifully rendered. Okay, you
wouldn't think that it would work,but it works really well. Okay,
So from for me, I thinkmine is going to be that head sculpt
m and the way that the gogglesfit over it. That that's going to
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be it for me. I thinkit's a really good update. I think
they're really leaning into the insectoid componentof this, and so I really dig
that. What is your least favoritefeature about this toy? Uh? You
know, maybe that he's a littletoo front heavy and he tends to fall
over, but I mean that's that'sit. I can't and all honesty,
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I cannot find a fault with thisfigure. I absolutely think it is so
well made. It's really hard tofind something I dislike. Oh I've got
one, you do. Yeah.The fact that you're trying to convince me
that the arms and legs just happento be flesh colored. If you're gonna
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make him a bug, make hima freaking bug. If you're gonna have
his arms and legs be flesh colored, let him be a human with insect
qualities. I think that's stupid.I don't like it, and I think
it was a misstep personally. No, I think I think it works and
it still pays, you know,love back to the vintage. I think
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it works really well. Like again, when you look at the sculpting,
he is very much an insect.You know what, I'm gonna look and
see what insect colors are like,not right now, I bet you.
Yeah, there's all sorts of colors, and beaige is something that you see.
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I'm sure that there are a lot, but I'm sure I'm sure they
are. That doesn't change the factthat this looks like skin. Moving on.
What do you think best represents theline in this toy? You know,
here's the thing with this one becauseyou know, we had a little
bit of mechanical with kind of thefantasy aspect, and it felt more fantasy
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than anything. This takes a moreI guess like realistic approach to the bug
aspect of them. But they keepthe color scheme and all the things that
we loved about the vintage in this. So it is an incredible update.
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And when I say update, Imean it is like a almost complete change.
But you can still see that referenceof the vintage toy in it very
easily. Right, Okay, forme, I think it's the I think
it you know, it is thethe update that they've done. They've I
think they've updated it in a lotof really good ways. You know who
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it is. But you also cansee that it's this is not your your
grandfather's buzz off, you know,So that that's you know, it's kind
of my my stock answer for thisline, but that it holds true every
time we discuss a new one.So is this toy cool? Yes?
Very cool? And I will agreewith you despite my misgivings about the the
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BS story about his his his skinjust accidentally being flesh colored. It is
a cool toy, I dig it. I think it looks really cool and
I have no problem saying this toyis cool. So yeah, there you
have a folks. Those are ourthoughts on buzz Off. We'd love to
hear your thoughts and if you haveone in your collection, please send us
pictures. Head to the Facebook pageand let us know. Until next time.
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to discuss our favorite toys, onetoy line at a time. Hello,
and welcome to Talking Toys with Taylorand Jeff. Action Figure Exclusive. I'm
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Taylor and I'm Jeff, and we'reback with another two thousand X Masters of
the Universe figure. We're going totalk about buzz off today. And that
is not me telling Taylor to getlost again thought I thought we were talking
about sectors. No, although youcould be forgiven for thinking that with this
figure, and I just wanted toreiterate. I just wanted to reiterate all
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of our listeners. I've been gettingsome some questions here and there about the
status of the show. We arejust doing these once a month for now.
Since we finished up the Star WarsAction Figure exclusive line from the Kendra
line, we just wanted to takea bit of a break. We've been
doing this pretty steadily with a fewbreaks here and there, but on and
off for you know, eleven yearsnow, and most of that has has
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included the Action Figure Exclusive show.So we're just kind of taking it easy
for a little bit. Yeah,So you know, the show is worth
every penny you pay for it,which is nothing. So hopefully that is
okay with everybody. So we'll we'llreconvene after the first of the year and
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figure out what our next play is. But for now we're just we're just
concentrating on the two thousand x fourHorsemen line of Masters of the Universe figures,
which are, in my opinion,some of the greatest action figures ever
produced, certainly the greatest some ofthe greatest action figures produced for the the
mainstream market, you know, outsideof the collector market. Yep. So
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interesting enough. I was gonna say, interesting enough right now for Master's Universe.
You know, the four Horsemen,for the two thousand nacks, like
they really had like a perfect reimaginingclassics. They kind of you know,
still forced when they took a stepback, kind of went more vintage.
But I am kind of surprised atsome of the Master Verse, not all
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Master Verse, but the new Attorneyand stuff is reminding me a lot of
some of the two thousand xx.Yeah, there are there are so many
lines coming out right now. Yeah. In fact, a little while ago,
our buddy Dan's are message means like, so have a question are the
origins the same as the retro line? And I said, you know what,
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at this point, I have noidea. I don't think so.
But at this point I can't besure. You go to any toy isle
and there you'll see like four differentversions of the same figure, the same
character. I should say, yeah, you've got you've got the So retro
and origins are kind of like thiswhat's considered the same. Though the true
retro is actually the Super seven,which they didn't have very many toy all
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right, now you're you'd be lookingat there's Manis. You have origins,
and then you have master Verse andthe master Verse of the Big Collector once
they're like the seven inch action figures. And it's amazing to me that we
do have so many different iterations.But we don't have like we don't have
a new movie coming out. Wedon't have a TV series running right now.
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Yeah, it got canceled. Itwell, you canceled, get canceled,
you get get put on hold.Yeah, but you did get another
Revelations. There's another another season ofthat cartoon. But it's not out right
now, not to be out,it's not to be out. Okay,
Well, I guess there is that. Yeah, So all right, well
let's let's talk about buzz Off.Now I believe you have one of these
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or no, I do have oneof these. This is one of those
that I ended up being an eBaypurchase, and I'd been looking for a
buzz Off for a while. Ireally liked this character a lot. I
happen to remember, back when Igot my first one, I was actually
with my grandmother. So two ofthe characters I got when I was with
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her was buzz Off and Manny Faces, and I absolutely love both of them.
So whenever I get a chance,I try to get all the buzz
Offs, all the Manning Faces whenI find them, and this was one
that when I finally was able toget my hands on him, I got
him complete and I was just blownaway by the sculpting on this thing.
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It is phenomenal, absolutely phenomenal.It really is. It really is.
And so I do have a question, Well, we'll get there. I
do have a question about about thehelmet the game with it, but will
we'll get there. Okay, Sothis guy is very similar to the figure
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that we got in the original line, but he's much slimmer and to me,
he looks like he's almost built morelike an insect than the original.
Like his legs, especially like hiscalves, and his feet look very insectlike.
He looks almost like like did youever see the Arrival with Charlie Sheen
Alien movie? Okay, reminds meof the Aliens from that movie? Yeah,
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yeah. So one of the thingsthat they did for and the reason
why I was like kind of jokingabout sectors as you know, they're bug
people. Well, he really fitsthat mold of bug person way way,
way much more than his vintage counterpartdid. And what the Horseman did for
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him is they they looked at theoriginal body and they looked at some of
the things that were going into itthat would kind of make it seem like
it was bug. But then theyreally amped it up. So instead of
having just the basic like stripe sortof armor with the bumps, they went
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in and they created segmented exoskeleton typeof muscling and exo skeleton type of armor
on top of everything, so itlooks like an exoskeleton. So the actual
chest plate where you had the stripesbefore, or actually segments of exoskeleton that
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are stacked one on the other andit's it's very much like what you would
think of as like a not necessarilya bee, but more like a wasp
when you see it. So likesome of the inspiration that they took in
the sculpting looks like it came alot from a yellow jacket. The way
they have things segmented. Yeah,that makes sense. I feel like you're
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throwing up a little bit tier No, no, no, I'm fine.
I'm fine for now. Okay.Yeah. And you know other like really
cool updates they did, you know, because before the vintage buzz Off has
the wings that are just you know, the flappy pieces of plastic, and
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they were very mechanical in nature,and so they one of the updates was
they took the mechanical aspect away andjust made it to where the wings are
actually like just wings. And youcan the sculpting on it is so fine,
like it's the it's very very clean, crisp, almost like a geometric
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organic lines. The way that everythingis segmented within the wing and the design
reminds me a lot of kind ofthat naturalistic wing even like what you got
with the sector's flyers. How theyhad the small ridges that look like they
come directly from nature. They dida lot of that same sculpting with these
wings, and then instead of sevinglike instead of doing like a secondary wing
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set, they did these little armson the back that come out and they
serve as kind of like I guessthe extra leg or where they would have
adapted into bipeds his species, theAdreene hits, I believe it's what they're
called. They had these extra littlearms set flayoff on the sides, which
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is a really cool design and endedup being used again for Classics and but
I think they dropped it on theNew Master Verse. But it's it was
one of those where the little armthat they had sculpted on for two thousand
X ended up making it to theClassic line because it's just a really cool
detail. Yeah, it really is. I like it a lot. And
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the so so those are the wings, so we have, like you said,
like these translucent wings. I dolike this this the detail on them
because we got you know, wecan see sort of the if you call
him veins and the wings. Butyeah, but they're they're the ridges,
the little like I guess like veinridges. Yeah, well, yeah,
you like you said ridges works workedabout it. That makes more sense.
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But so let's start. Let's startat with the head. First of all,
he's got the little antenna coming upmake him look like the tick Are
those removable? They're not removable,They're they're actually sculpted on. So the
antenna work on him is actually sculptedinto that main sculpt The ones on the
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shoulders are actually kind of glued intoplace. But none of the antenna or
protrusions are meant to be removed.Like okay, because I keep seeing pictures
online if some that are missing them, and I don't know if it's because
they were removed, they're broken offor they broke off, so I figured
those were probably yours. No,no, no, mine's actually in perfect
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shape. Well good, good,good good? Yeah, okay, so
those don't see they don't seem likethey would be extremely rigid. Are they
kind of bindy? They're not asbendy as you would think they are kind
of rigid. They they can't breakoff easily. Okay, that's that's kind
of a downside. And especially ifyou get if you've had it and it's
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taken some damage or the plastics becomerigid or you know how problematic, Like
I could see that easily breaking offwithout a problem, and it's it's sad
because it's you know, it's acool detail. But they do sit up
rather high and they can catch thingslike and the head itself because it's all
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like one mold. The the headitself as a ridge or like a heavier
thick or more rigid plastic so itcan turn on its hinge. And the
antenna are kind of built the sameway. Okay, good, good,
good, Yeah. And then hishis forehead you mentioned the top of his
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head has he kind of ridges onit? No, no hair obviously,
is it scaly or how does that? How is it sculpted? How it's
all it's all scales, So it'swhen you when you look at it,
this would be like segmented pieces thatthat build up and then run backwards on
its head. Okay, so it'sit's like a segmented body. Okay.
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Cool. And then that comes downin in between his eyes like to where
his nose would be. And thenthe eyes are really cool. They're sort
of aqua colored looks like yeah,they're they're an aqua metallic and it's the
cool thing. Like colorwise, theykept pretty much all the colors the same.
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So the vintage has those aqua blueeyes, and so they wanted to
carry that same aqua blue over sothey they made the aqua blue eyes in
the same tone as the vintage.Okay, which is which is cool?
I like that I did that.Yeah, are they textured at all?
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I can't really tell from the photosysthey are. They've got little bumps on
them, so they it looks almostlike a cluster eye, but they're really
small. Okay, all right,but they do look really cool. Yes,
And so he does does he havea nose or is it There's looks
like there's just kind of a spacethere where his nose like the nozzles would
be, but not really a nose. There's like a bit of a bump,
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but then it's relatively flat and itcomes down. He has sculpting on
the mouth, and then he haschin horns that kind of come down that's
like a segmented piece almost like immandiblesthat come down to his chin and they're
they're kind of sculpted out a littlebit. But the the nose is it
kind of goes eyes and like almostflats in. There's a bump but not
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nothing, that's an actual protrusion.Right. You mentioned a little right,
and you mentioned a little points onhis chin, But above that there is
a mouth there right with two likelooks like two teeth poking out of each
side. Yes, okay, Butthen below that that's what you're talking about,
the little like you talk about,the mandible type thing, that's what
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you're talking about right where where hischin is. Yep. And that is
that a hold over from the originalfigure or no, I don't think it
is. No, that that isa new added thing. So the the
point from the dark portion of thehead into the yellow in the face,
that is from the vintage, andthe vintage doesn't have much of a nose
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either. It's it's relatively flash it'skind of a kind of a point to
it. But then the mouth theyadded the little like chinned or manable pieces
they added that to, I guessgive the face a little bit more structure.
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Structure, right, Yeah, that'scool. I like it. And
And how rigid is that? Itlooks like it's kind of like the kind
of like the antenna they are,but they don't they don't actually stick out
that far. Okay, it justlooks like it kind of does here.
Okay, Yeah, And I thinkthat's just the contrast of the paint because
it makes it look they stand outa lot more. But they're they're sculpted
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the way they're sculpted, they're they'renot protruding outwards very much. Okay,
cool and you and I think youmentioned this on the wings, but I'm
seeing on the wings there are somelike circuitry stuff going in there. Yes,
just just a little bit. Butthey kept it more, they kept
it more naturalistic this time, right, But but they're still supposed to be
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mechanical, right, Okay, notnot entirely organic. Well, that's what
it looks like to me. So, so coming down from his head,
we've got his his body, historso fairly simple. Uh, It's it's
brown, sort of textured skin,and then over that he's got these yellow
stripes like a bee, a bumblebeeor is it supposed to be like a
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tunic that he's wearing or a bodysuit that he's wearing. No, No,
that's it's all segmented body. Sounlike the vintage where you had the
bumps and the large stripes, theseare actually plated segments that run across this
body, and I mean it lookslike like the bits of yellow stand out
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a little bit over the brown,and it just it has that kind of
weird segmented look, even with likecuts of lions within the yellow to the
kind of break the portion of thepectorial muscles as it moves down to make
it look like plates. It's it'sreally cool. I mean, it's but
it's it's supposed to be him.It is his body. Okay, good
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to know. Good to know.So again, not a whole lot to
talk about here though, because theI'm assuming the back looks very similar to
the front in that regard. Itdoes, except it does have the addition
of on the on the back youhave the the sockets, so like where
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the yellow plates are, they kindof build up and built outward a little
bit more. That's got a littlebit of like dotting or like almost like
kite and type of like exoskeleton shelllike dots or pits in it. And
that's where the wings and the littlearms hook up, so that the back
does have a little bit more sculptingto it to basically give notice to how
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the wings and the little arms getattached to it. It's I mean it's
it's really cool looking like when youI'm pulling up a picture now when you
look at the back, like theplates, they they mimic what's in front.
But then they come and they turndown and there's all this like small
pitting detail where it's got little dotsand pits and it's very skin like but
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still very scaled in nature. It'sincredible. I absolutely again, I love
this figure. I was super excitedwhen I got them. And the wings,
the wings do not have any mechanicalstuff and it's all just veins.
Okay, So then my next questionis if that's his body on his torso
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wire, his arms and legs,why do they look like human skin?
Okay, they might be colored likehuman skin, but they are all still
exoskeleton, so it's kind of likehaving like you know, like when you
get colored like human skin. Okay, So the Vintage was colored with tan,
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right, And there are some insectsthat have like there's a type of
wasp up here that's gott like redyellow. It's like a red yellow and
black. The body, the mainbody is red and yellow, but then
the but then the legs are red. So it's kind of like that where
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It's like his main decorative part ofhis body is brown and yellow, so
the rest of them is gonna bekind of a beige color. Okay,
Yeah, I don't know that Ibuy that, but okay, but when
but when you look at but here'sthe thing. When you look at the
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arms and the body, it's stillvery much like insect. It's still very
much exoskeleton. You want to talkabout the arms, sure, let's talk
about the arms. Okay, Sothese are these are exoskelets, even though
it looks like human skin, yes, yes, And when you get up
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really close and you look at it, you can see that, like the
top, you know, shoulder portionof this is actually like a plate of
exoskeleton. Let's got lines in itand cracks and little dots. When you
get to the bicep, that's anotherplate of exoskeleton, and the areas I
can kind of see the texturing onit. I mean I can kind of
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see that it's yeah, that it'snot necessarily necessarily like rounded. It's got
some sharp lines and sharp angles onit, yes, And there's like a
little bit of line work in between. So where there would be I guess
like skin, where it would move, they have like little lines that show
that show like a stretch of askin or a type of material underneath that
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would hold all that together. Soit would be able to move because there's
for the most part it's plated right, so it can one piece can move
over the other. But I getthe elbow, you can't really do that.
So they've got where the elbow wouldactually fit into the bicep if he
was to lift up his arm.But there's like a stretch bit of skin
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in between there that has all thewrinkles that show where it bunches up to
allow that movement, right, okay, And and we didn't really talk about
his shoulders have these little things stickingout on the side or did you talk
about those and I just missed it. I talked about it earlier. Those
are so those are a different partof the scult. But they're like almost
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like little horns that come off ofhis shoulders, and they are done as
a separate piece or a little bitthey're they're not as rigid as his antenna.
The horns themselves are done in alittle bit softer plastic, so those
you don't usually find those broken off. Okay, all right, And so
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so Those are his arms. Nowlet's talk about the hands. Is he
wearing gloves or are those just hisclaws? Those are his claws. He's
got pincers and they are two fingeredpincers and they are segmented. Do they
are they movable? Like can youopen and close them? Slose them?
They're stationary and one is built towhere it just creates a circle and that's
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for you to be able to putthe staff in, which works really well.
But instead of making it one block, they actually sculpted the thumb portion
of the digit up and over thetop of the four finger digit, so
it actually builds up over the topand it sets on top of it,
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and they've sculptured it in that way. And it's crazy looking at it and
seeing like the work that they did. And these things have like little bumps
and lines in between each segment andlike little divots and pits, and they
do swivel at the wrist, soyou do have a little bit of posability
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with them. Okay, good,no, And he has no trouble holding
his accessories. Yeah, he onlycomes with the staff. It's like an
act staff and it has like alittle shooter on it, but it fits
in that hand perfectly. The otherhand doesn't really do much. You can
kind of fit it around another likeaction figures hands as if he's like holding
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them or grabbing them, and they'rethe plastics a little bit pliable, so
you can like move it a littlebit, but it's not it's not really
meant to hold like a sword oranything. And we'll talk about his incestries
here in a bit, right,So, so those are those are his
his his hands, and it lookslike they'll they'll they'll move back and forth.
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Is there a hinge there at thewrist? Yeah, they they swivel,
they do swivel the risk Yeah,okay, you said that. Sorry,
So let's then talk about his thelike we didn't really talk about the
crotch area in this guy's he's gota gold belt and he's wearing a loin
cloth. Right, No, there'sno loin cloth. It's all segments.
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So the whole thing. The onlyclothing he has is this gold belt that's
got kind of a bee face onit, and that's to kind of mimic
the vintage one. The vintage onehad a yellow goldish yellow belt. Instead
of doing a yellow belt, theyjust did a gold colored belt. But
this is an actual bit of clothingon him, and this is the only
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thing. The crotch area and howit moves into the legs or it's all
segmented plates that runs from his torsodown okay, and even even on his
back like it it's just segmented plates, one stacked on top of the other.
Oh yeah, I see that now. Okay, So then let's talk
about his legs. It looks likeright where his legs start on the sides,
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is there some sort of that segmentedplating going on there as well?
Yeah? Yeah, So at thetop and on the side of the legs,
he has plates of segment that goon the top, and then he
has like almost like main segment plateson the thigh and the back thigh and
the leg they're almost like they're almostbuilt like grasshopper legs without having the really
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really heavy duty spring kind of springloaded type like muscling or legs. So
they mimic the look without it beingso drastic. But they but they do
look like I said, I cansee, especially on his calves, you
can definitely see that there's like somesegmentation there. It looks like he's got
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some like a little not really spike. There's some sort of ridges poking up
out of the back of his calves. Yeah, they're like horns. It's
you know, kind of like theidea with crickets and grasshoppers. They have
the spikes on the back of theirlegs and they rub those together to create
them clicking sound that makes the chirpingbecause they do it really fast, and
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that's kind of the same thing thatthat he has, like the little horns,
that would be very much like whatyou would see in the insect Kingdom.
So a lot of again, alot of the sculpting that they've done
is like things that you would seein the insect Kingdom. It's just been
anthropomorphotized or however you say it,like it's thank you. It's made to
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look human, but it is alltaken from aspects of insects. So those
are his calves and his legs.Like he talked about, the front part
of his shin has again has somesort of plating on it as well.
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Am I seeing that right? Yeah, I guess from his knees down.
Yeah, So at the front ofthe front of the shin, it's got
like this brown plate that runs upfrom the foot up under the knee,
and that's supposed to mimic the oldboot because the boot itself from the vintage
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figure was brown, so they insteadof making it all tan, they're they're
choosing specific plates to make brown tokind of, you know, give us
a wink and a nod to whatwe had with the vintage. Again,
very modernized on what we got,but it's specifically like coloring is is done
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in a way that it really pinpointsthat's what we've had before. Okay.
And then then the bottom like wherehis feet are are definitely just insect feet.
That's not a boot at all.Right, No, no, all
insect feet. Yeah, with withagain with him. The only thing that's
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not him is the belt and everythingelse is how he's built. And one
of the things I do appreciate withhis feet because he had the three toed
monster foot. So if you rememberthe monster foot, it was long,
it came out, it had thetwo side toes and one front toe.
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They've mimic some of that without goingso drastic, So he still has the
monster feet and that he has threetoes, they're kind of more pointing forward
instead of having a back toe.The toe itself sits towards the back,
but out and in much like howthe vintage but was as well. Okay,
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yeah, that makes sense. Andhe has three toes in the front
and like one in the back.Is that for stability, I guess yep.
Okay, And how well does thisguy stand up on his own?
So here here's the here's the damagefor buzz Off. He stands up really
really well when he's holding his axe, but other than that, he tends
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to be a little front heavy,and that's just his pose and the legs.
You can get him to stand easilywithout the axe, but if you
want to have the axe in frontof him sort of thing like he's holding
it up, he tends to fallforward. So like, I think I
have mind standing with the axe holdinghim up, because that's the most stable
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way to do it. The hisaccessory tends to run on the heavy side
because the way it's made, andso when you're posing him with the accessory,
you want that accessory to touch groundor you're going to end up with
problems. Okay, yeah, itmakes sense. So speaking of that staff,
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let's talk about the accessories. Let'sstart with the staff and then talk
about the home with the staff isinteresting. It's it's a staff, but
it's like at an axe on thetop of it, and then above the
axe there's this little thing that lookslike a stinger. I guess is that
what it's supposed to look like?Yes, so okay, so this is
a missile firing. I think thatwhen you have an ax on a long
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stick, I think is it calleda halberds all specific? There's a specific
name for it. Yeah, Andso what this has is got you know,
an ax that's done in gold,and the same gold as his belt.
The the staff portion of it,it's all done. There's a little
bit of mechanics in it, butit's all done and kind of a bronze
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color, so it kind of matchesto the brown on its body, but
it's still very metallic in nature.And the detail on this thing, like
the backhorn on this has a littlebit of a it's almost like a bug
horned, so it's almost organic theway it's shaped. And then on top
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you have a little missile that slidesin. Now, the missile is made
out of a clear rubberized kind ofgoldish or like amber colored plastic. And
so when you're ready, you cantake this thing pointed and fire off a
stinger at your unsuspecting foes to takethem out to stumb on my guests.
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And does it actually fire? Doesit actually launch it? Yeah? It
fires? Yeah, it's actually it'sit's really cool. Okay. Yeah,
and have you lost it? Haveyou lost that yet? I have not
lost it yet. I'm I've beenpretty careful, especially with with redoing the
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office. I've been very careful abouttouching specific toys because I really don't want
to lose parts. Right now,I'm right, I understand, Yeah,
understanding. I'm freaking out because Ihad a classics fault the shelf the other
day, and like I found himand his parts, but I can't find
the stand to screech. And sonow I'm like, as I clean and
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I work, I'm like looking fora little red stand. Okay. It's
it's a nightmare in here, itreally is. And then so as far
as the staff goes, like rightbelow the axe, there's a like a
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bulbous thing there is that just there? That's just decoration, I assume,
is it? Does it look likea little pot thing? Yeah? Yeah,
that's okay. So that's the mechanicalportion. That's that's where the spring
and like kind of the lever are, so I think they had to sculpt
it out a little bit, butI think it's just supposed to be like
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a like a like a little mechanicalpiece that allows the horn to shoot off.
So it'd be like a little launchpot. Okay, not a not
a lunch pot like what you wouldhave or take to at a pot luck.
Got it? Okay? Well that'sreally cool. And I like the
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way that the I like the waythe the axe is designed with the kind
of the gold on either end.Literally, yeah, it's very surprised that,
you know, the design that theythat they did the redesign, everything
I thought was absolutely amazing. Youknow, we got an axe before and
it had like the little loop onit so it would hold, you know,
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to his hand. It was brown. But this isn't an incredible update
where it's like, not only dowe get an acts, we get a
whole staff and it shoots a stingerand it really feels like it's attached specifically
to him, which I dig like. I like that a lot, And
that's actually one area that I dislikeabout the new I think it's like the
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New Eternia Master verse. As theywent backwards, they made just an act,
but they made it kind of abluish color, and so it doesn't
match at all, whereas with theclassics they did the same you know,
Halibert type of weapon in classics,and it works beautiful. It looks phenomenal
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with them, you know, AndI think at this point, like this
specific weapon really feels like it itworks with him and who he is more
so than just an ax. Agreed, Yeah, that's very cool. And
so then the call it a helmet, but it's not really a helmet because
it seems like it just kind offits down between the antenna, right,
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It's really more just goggles in aheadpiece. Yeah, so it's it's a
segmented Okay, So going back toour vintage toy, we had that rubber
piece that would never stick to hishead. I remember, like, and
I still have mine, and mykid has one as well. He has
a vintage buzz off that as thatcap, and he throws that cap back
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in the bucket half the time becauseit just it doesn't fit to his head.
So what they wanted to do thistime was to remedy the problem that
we had with the cap or theskull cap before, and make it to
where it was more streamlined. Soinstead of just being a full piece that
fits on top of the head,this actually fits between the antenna snaps onto
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the eyes, and the segments actuallygo and follow the segments on his head
and fit to a point onto theback of his head. So it's still
like a helmet it, but nowit's more like like aviator type goggles that
are that are very much made likehis body is made, okay, and
they it looks great on him,like it's one of those I think I
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have mine with the goggles on him, because I I love the look of
it. I I kind of wishthere's a part of me that wishes that
they would have done the blue forthe eyes for it, but the Vintage
didn't have that. So instead ofgoing with just straight brown, they went
with a bit of a brass color, almost like his weapon, and that's
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what they have on the eyes.Well, and when he puts it on.
Did you ever watch The Venture Brotherswhen it was on, Yes,
he reminds me of the guys likethe Hinchman for the Monarch. Yes,
yes, it didn't even reminds meof when he has was on. It's
really cool, all right. AndI do like the eyes and that are
kind of you know, they're texturedlike you would see a fly or a
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bug or something. So it's reallycool. So yeah, yeah, really
cool figure here overall. So let'sask our questions. What is your favorite
feature about this toy? Home?Man? Uh, you can look one,
I know, I know. Ireally love the way that they dealt
with the wings and the arms inthe back, like the the way that
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they sculpted and built that. It'sjust so beautifully rendered. Okay, you
wouldn't think that it would work,but it works really well. Okay,
So from for me, I thinkmine is going to be that head sculpt
m and the way that the gogglesfit over it. That that's going to
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be it for me. I thinkit's a really good update. I think
they're really leaning into the insectoid componentof this, and so I really dig
that. What is your least favoritefeature about this toy? Uh? You
know, maybe that he's a littletoo front heavy and he tends to fall
over, but I mean that's that'sit. I can't and all honesty,
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I cannot find a fault with thisfigure. I absolutely think it is so
well made. It's really hard tofind something I dislike. Oh I've got
one, you do. Yeah.The fact that you're trying to convince me
that the arms and legs just happento be flesh colored. If you're gonna
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make him a bug, make hima freaking bug. If you're gonna have
his arms and legs be flesh colored, let him be a human with insect
qualities. I think that's stupid.I don't like it, and I think
it was a misstep personally. No, I think I think it works and
it still pays, you know,love back to the vintage. I think
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it works really well. Like again, when you look at the sculpting,
he is very much an insect.You know what, I'm gonna look and
see what insect colors are like,not right now, I bet you.
Yeah, there's all sorts of colors, and beaige is something that you see.
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I'm sure that there are a lot, but I'm sure I'm sure they
are. That doesn't change the factthat this looks like skin. Moving on.
What do you think best represents theline in this toy? You know,
here's the thing with this one becauseyou know, we had a little
bit of mechanical with kind of thefantasy aspect, and it felt more fantasy
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than anything. This takes a moreI guess like realistic approach to the bug
aspect of them. But they keepthe color scheme and all the things that
we loved about the vintage in this. So it is an incredible update.
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And when I say update, Imean it is like a almost complete change.
But you can still see that referenceof the vintage toy in it very
easily. Right, Okay, forme, I think it's the I think
it you know, it is thethe update that they've done. They've I
think they've updated it in a lotof really good ways. You know who
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it is. But you also cansee that it's this is not your your
grandfather's buzz off, you know,So that that's you know, it's kind
of my my stock answer for thisline, but that it holds true every
time we discuss a new one.So is this toy cool? Yes?
Very cool? And I will agreewith you despite my misgivings about the the
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BS story about his his his skinjust accidentally being flesh colored. It is
a cool toy, I dig it. I think it looks really cool and
I have no problem saying this toyis cool. So yeah, there you
have a folks. Those are ourthoughts on buzz Off. We'd love to
hear your thoughts and if you haveone in your collection, please send us
pictures. Head to the Facebook pageand let us know. Until next time.
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and I'm Jeff. I remember they'renot dolls, they're action figures, Action
figure, you know, Tankically,this is what we wanted with sectars.
I know it's not what you wantedwithout sectors. I love that line,
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