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Year End Figure Award Show! · The Major Wrestling Figure Podcast

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  Up from He's a Dinger Podcast, Doctor Show, Fucking Colenda, What you
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  say? March the show Look, Happy New Year. Welcome everyone to the
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  Major Wrestling Figure Podcast, a very special year end Awards episode. I am
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  your host, the Indie God, the Deathmatch King Always Ready, Matt Cardona,
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  and I am your host, the most Professional Wrestler TNA Wrestling Star and
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  the Scottie Pippen of Wrestling Figure Collecting. Brian Myers. Hello everybody. Hello,
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  I'm also here producer of the show Smart Mark Starling Esquire, the most
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  famous professional wrestling lawyer. In This show is brought to you by our good
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  friends Ringside Collectibles. Use God, Major, Save ten percent. Can you
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  believe we started this podcast in August twenty eighteen, it's now January twenty twenty
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  four. Unbelievable. It's a little disturbing, but eighteen. This is numerically
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  episode two hundred and eighty one. Oh my god, what are we going
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  to do? Three hundred? Three hundred? I was just thinking of today
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  when I made the number. We still have some time three hundred outfits from
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  that movie or or do the workout leading up to it? Right that?
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  Oh god? The three hundred workout. Oh so stupid. That's like I
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  did the three hundred workout, which told me that locker who Charlie stupid?
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  Yeah, but guys, listen, our schedules are crazy. We're recording this
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  advance. We're gonna do a playing Q and A. We said, Oh,
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  I said, I said. I also said when when Monday Mark finally
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  looked at his phone, Oh, get out of here. Well you don't
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  even look at your phone on Mondays. Well, you guys both said,
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  where's the one who organized it all? Set it all up? Though?
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  That would bear What do you want? An award for boss around d freedom?
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  I came all the categories. I asked for feedback. None of you
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  guys responded nothing. You ghost to me all weekend. But we're here now,
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  combining three kids. How many you got? He's got more pets than
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  we have kids. I didn't. I didn't know you have to not work
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  when you have kids. That's weird. Sometimes this is the passive aggressive year.
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  I think, Well, anyway, guys, we're here now, all
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  the votes have been calculated, and let's let's be honest us. At the
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  end of the day, this is just us talking about figs. This is
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  not official. It's opinion based, like anything. Our awards are one million
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  opinion based, and you can tell by the by the winners and then the
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  group. You know, we did it by pole and it is like,
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  you know, some of them were very close, so you're gonna see one
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  the winner, but like the number two could have been five off in the
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  top five, we're just in the winter. Some of those well, when
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  they're close, I think we can acknowledge the closeness. But some of the
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  people that were even nominated in that poll were like, what's going on here?
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  Yeah, some of them are also wildly wrong, like figures that came
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  out two years ago. But every time we do something like this, yeah,
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  there's discrepancies like that, right right right. We set up polls for
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  the major Marks in the Facebook group Major Marks dot com, and we said
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  feel free to add in your own nominee. So we didn't just like put
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  up five and say made the best man win or made the best figure.
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  When we let the fans add their ow nominees, got a little fun.
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  But I think let let's let's start it off. You know, we'll do
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  my my winner, Brian's winner, Marx winner. We don't know each other
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  winners, and uh, then we'll do the fan win and and and this
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  is something worth saying, we've added. I mean, look, we've done
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  this literally, we've done this episode, you know, every year since the
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  beginning of the podcast, at least some semblance of it. But for the
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  we've only done we've only done Figure of the Year. Yeah, like non
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  Wrestling for the Year and worst Figure of thee that's it, right, and
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  then and then we've given our top five and the past years we've we've given
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  their top five of these three categories basically, so we're changing it up a
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  little bit. This year, we we change we we had different categories,
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  but you'll see what those categories are as we go. Where do you want
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  to start, mark, what do you want to start with? The Uh,
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  get this one out of the way. The non wrestling figure of the
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  Year. I think the list that you made, if you go backwards,
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  it's kind of perfect because then you end with the figure. Okay, so
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  non wrestling figure of the Year. My pick from Neca Santio Comic con Teenage
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  Mutant Ninja Turtles to Keina. Oh, what an incredible figure. The uh
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  you don't even see it picture there It came in a pizza box. It
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  came in the pizza box. You get the pizza, the pizza you know,
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  shirt, you get the magnet that you'd get from the pizza place,
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  the key chain, you get Keino Quino with somebody who I needed in my
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  collection. He comes with the bike, he comes with a pizza pie.
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  It's unbelievable figure. I mean, I check it out right here, I
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  got it. I brought them all here just to look at him last time.
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  Also, also, I'll just while you're talking about this, I'll just
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  mention this is mine as well. So this is the one that that one.
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  We don't even need to switch the picture. But uh, the figure
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  itself, the likeness is unbelievable, and the way that it goes on the
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  bike is perfect. It's like it's like flawless. You know. Sometimes you
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  get something like that, it's like hard to get it quite fit. Right,
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  Yeah, it's perfect, bro. What I love about it it has
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  for the back of the bike. It has like something to put the pizza
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  and you take it out and it's in like the pizza bag. Can you
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  see, yes, right, unbelievable. But then you open up the bag
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  and it's a box of pizza detail was incredible. Yes, actually the secret
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  of the Ooze line with their pizza boxes, the detail on it is insane.
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  First of all, you can put the pizza inside, but like you
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  see grease on the box. It's not real grease, but the painting of
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  the grease on the box is just like next level detail. Why this took
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  so long because they had to get the actor to agree. Yes, so
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  using his likeness. Yeah, thank god. So my hope is next year
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  they get vanilla ice Go Go Go. That would be a big get.
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  Oh my god, yes, I would love it. And it's worth saying
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  that there is another Kino coming, not as cool as this one. It's
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  like it's already out. It's already out a training Yeah exactly, but I'm
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  not even getting that one. When I when I close my eyes, I
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  think a Keno, I think of this one. But you also see that
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  he played like the turtle like underneath so people in the in the first movie.
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  Okay, so people have made customs where it's like Donna Teller with this
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  head on it. Yeah, it's perfect, like the actor played it.
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  Well, what is that like he's on a coffee break, Like, why
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  do you think there is. There's like a really great picture. There's a
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  picture of him with the helmet off holding it in his hand, just like
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  smiling on set. Right. But I'll get I'll get bonus points Seneca for
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  all the extras they included to make this comic cont exclusive so much fun.
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  Yep, you know, unbelievable. All right, Brian, what is your
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  pick for non wrestling Figure of the Year. Mine's a complete cop out because
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  it's the only non wrestling figure item that I purchased, Okay, and that
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  will be the starting lineup as Bro Basketball hoop set and the other one.
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  I think this thing is awesome and very underrated too. I think the whole
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  line was very underrated, but that line came out uh last year technically,
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  so I couldn't vote for those. But people have been finding them at discount
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  stores, so instead of uh, you know, the man originally what like
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  sixty dollars price tag, then they got dropped down to thirty online, and
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  then people were finding them at like TJ max stores like that for twelve ninety
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  nine, And now that people finally have them, instead of seeing the price
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  and going they're like falling in love with them. So I'm hoping there's some
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  kind of shake up. There's also that the news of the McFarland has Bro
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  collab going on. I hope that leeds over to sports Toys that I would
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  make me very excited. And my last random plug about this thing. People
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  are finding this now at these TJ max type stores for I think I need
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  to get it because Michael Jordan's got it. They're finding it. Whoah,
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  Yeah, that's awesome. It's a really cool piece and you could really do
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  some cool display stuff with your NBA guys. So yeah, totally a cop
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  out, but I also do think it's a great piece. So I'm gonna
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  go to TJ Max tomorrow and look for it to go with my Matt and
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  Brian Ringsak figs. Great call, all right, and now you know Mark
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  agreed with me. Without further ado the fan pick for non wrestling Figure of
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  the Year. We go now special Awards. You'll see, Oh my god,
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  I mean that's a beautiful figure. Unbelievable Earl Sinclair, guys, I
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  have it right here. Okay, it's un believable. If I didn't love,
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  if I didn't love the keynot so much, I would agree that this
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  Earl Sinclair is definitely Figure of the Year. I can understand the fans vote,
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  and he won by a landslide. This is a figure. When it
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  was announced, I was like, who was asking for these dinosaur figures?
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  We talked about I'm sure there, It's just I don't know if there's enough
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  me and the moment, but people like to collect use. I guess there
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  is, but I don't know if we need Robbie the brother Robby saying where
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  does it end? Right? I don't know. This might be it the
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  baby and him. Who is that all they made? Someone? That's all
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  they made? Yeah? I mean it's just right now. It is heavy,
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  bro, This is like heavier than an l J and King Kong Bundy
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  heavy. This is exactly what that excels at Target or whatever. Yes,
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  in the cool toy section, I would have collected. I feel like I
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  would have collected this line. But a couple of years ago, when Dinosaurs
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  came out on Disney, right, was that is that on Disney? Yeah,
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  it was released on a streaming network and everybody was like, oh cool
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  t g I f bro uh and and so I was like, oh,
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  I love that, I'm gonna start watching it. I disliked it so much
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  it made me uncomfortable. So I like, well, first off, why
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  are you wearing his shirt right now? I am Wow, You're right,
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  you're so uncomfortable about or else. But I was thinking, this is an
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  appreciate about your trip down memory lane. With that, I was just it
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  just it was like awkward, you know, I don't know, it wasn't
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  funny. I don't know. I just I loved the show back then,
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  I just didn't like it when I rewatched it. So I watched so much
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  of it. I really couldn't tell you much about it because I was just
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  a kid, you know. I couldn't tell you what like, you know,
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  I couldn't nothing. They all got number an episode. This is my
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  mix the uh they all die spoiler alert in the the series Vianelle. Yeah
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  yeah what yeah, they get extinct. They all died. They died.
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  Well, I have no memory of that, yes, yeah, another thing
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  that makes it weird. That Also, I can't get enough of this award
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  Deep Freedom. Yeah, great for these awards. Unbelievable de Freedom going the
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  extra mile on that, as voted by the Major Marks. Sinclair's got a
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  plaque The Freedom like went dark today too, Like we were talking to him,
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  we went dark. He was just working on this awesome ship all day
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  long. Great, he's the man. He's the man, all right.
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  Next s up. I figured this needed its own category because of the love
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  we give it in the community it has around it. Micro Brawler of the
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  Year. My choice is Sting Retro. It's I have this right here,
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  I listen. I'm a sucker for Great American bash Sting. I ripped off
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  the jacket for a WWE pay per view. Even have an elite. There's
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  a variant in Japan gear, but this is the one, This Great American
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  Bash Sting Retro USA. It has the AEW logo on there. But I
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  absolutely love it. Illuminary micro brawler. Micro Brawlers are some of my favorite
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  things. I love them. They're so I want to say, they're so
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  easy to collect, but they're not, because, like then, you get
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  it hard to get chase, you get hard to get chase. But other
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  than that, I love it. They don't think of a room, I'll
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  say that, but incredible. The face paint looks great, the jack looks
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  great, there's the finger tape. Just a a plus micro brawler in my
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  opinion. Well, my micro bowler collection this year had to get downsized to
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  just friends and E. CW alumni because there was just Guy two out of
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  control. So I didn't buy many micro browlers this year. But my pick
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  for micro bowl the year I went, I went with the TOYATK Department,
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  So I went with black macheese mo look at those hits deco hits on there.
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  However, by the way, r O H packaging on this black machine?
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  Wait, so where did that? Was that in a in a crate
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  or was it just one up on the website right like they did two week
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  drops or whatever? I love that. Why is the Ring of honor packaging?
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  Mark? You're as a ring of honor celebrity? Remember the last time
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  he did it other than the cruise? Did he do it? He's never,
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  He's never been black never in the history Mark he's did it? He
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  did an Alaska with the b w ok. So why is it at the
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  Wrestle pro logo? Do you remember on the cruise? Where's the Wrestle Pro
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  Alaska logo? There? You remember what he called moose zeus? I lost
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  my mind. It's the highlight of the Jerker cruise. What are you doing
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  this? This is just like Larry perplex one. I don't think he's ever
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  been black when he's going r That was like a strictly TNA thing. Huh.
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  I mean I know he's done it. He's done it, toyak that
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  That's why I voted for it the most toyatic. Michael Browler. Interesting,
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  Yeah, all right, well I picked this is this is just uh coming
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  out now. This is a little spoiler for the crate this month. But
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  Santa dan Hausen, that's actually a cool one. I love I believe available
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  on his what not streams. How come that doesn't have r H since he's
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  an r H legend, Well we don't actually see the props and packaging and
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  then not on this Danausen does all these sneaky little things. Obviously, I
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  love Dan Houses. I love that Dan House. He's a monster merch seller.
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  Yeah, someday we'll talk about the when when Dan Housen was coming to
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  meet us that first time and Brusky's was was not sure about it, but
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  then after one conversation with the man, he fell in love. So because
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  when he first showed up, he was just in the voice the whole time,
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  like, bro, this is weird. In that regard. It was
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  my first time meeting him too. I was like, this is a wild
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  first meeting. Well, when the camera's going, I know, but I
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  didn't know. I didn't even know what normal Dan House was. And he
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  wasn't like over Dan Housen yet he was over, but not on a w
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  yet. Bro, No, no, no, this is like way before
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  the aw run starts. He's got bus I said, That's what I'm saying.
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  Who he was obviously, right, you k know who he was?
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  Yeah? Right, Well, now he's so popular that he can get pro
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  wresting teas to make him a micro bowler that looks like Santa claus Son micro
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  Does this man have of this more his wife? His wife has a micro
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  bro? Yeah different? Yeah, all right, and uh let's go to
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  the fan picks. Shaka laka, here we go. Man's voted this.
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  What's frustrating about this? It's better than the metel one. That denim color
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  is probably better than the hotel. Well, we don't know yet. Well
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  from what we've seen, yes, bro, I got this. I'm looking
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  at it right now. It has the chest hair, he's holding a microphone,
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  the denim and the ponytail. The point picks. Oh man, it's
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  it's iconic. I think this was almost my pick. This is almost my
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  pick. It's a great compared to that Jayle though is a little too dull.
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  But it's cool. Yeah, it's definitely an iconic moment. The jay
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  is uh toyak. But man, I absolutely love. I love the deco
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  hits of the chest. There they made something so simple, looks so good.
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  Right, he's saying he's famous. You know who I am. You
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  know what I'm saying. No, it's great, unbelievable. All right,
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  guys, listen, this is big. We have our own category. All
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  right, I'm gonna predict landslide. Maybe I'm looking at Broski's right now and
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  I want to vote. I want to vomit. No Bendy of the guys,
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  hear me out. Okay, hear me out. I didn't vote for
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  me or our company in any other category. However, my pic for Major
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  Bendy of the Year Indie God Matt Card hear me out, hold on,
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  hear me out, hear me out, hear me out here, Okay,
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  new Mold. The package is incredible. If you can, if you can
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  go full screen to me, look at this. I'm holding the Indiana Jones
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  package. It's a retro Indiana just as it's a callback, you know what
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  I'm saying. Because he's Indiana Jones, I'm the Indie God. So it
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  has that classic packaging. TTD nailed it, but also the innovation. This
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  is the first major bendy with a removable accessory, so I had to I
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  had to pick it. I understand the fan vote, I understand why that
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  won, but I had to give myself chest here of the Year Indie God.
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  This was the Year of the Indie God, my best wrestling year ever,
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  so I had to celebrate it with this. And also financially, like
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  power Con took a huge gamble on us. We got a lot of money
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  for these figures. They were hugely successful, so it was our first time
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  branching out to a non wrestling console. A lot of a lot of sentiments.
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  It's a connection to this figure and I just absolutely love it. Wow,
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  Mark, Well have you picked this one as well? Yeah? Well,
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  I'll just say, uh, the rest of the picks the same pick,
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  so we can put up the one image, uh Major Benney's Figure of
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  the Year by the Major Marks by myself and Brian Captain Okay, shut,
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  I'm holding it here live. It's an incredible figure. Now listen, this
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  was I know you're going to say it was that this was my idea to
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  get this made. But we also were like concerned that it might be a
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  massive financial hit to the company because we weren't sure. Well it kind of
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  still was. But the fans love it. That's all it matters. Yeah,
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  you know, because we had to create a new mold the fans.
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  It sold out almost instantly. Joe Shoes had an incredible moment. It has
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  the PBR on the short's the official like no no bootleg, official past blue
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  ribbon logo on the shorts, the shirts, just the flip flops or everything
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  about it is so fun and unbelievable. And and she has a major pot
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  family member that a lifelong dream of having a figure, so that's also cool
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  thing to make true. You know, it is. It's an unbelievable figure.
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  The packaging is awesome. I like the size of it it has,
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  it has fish flip flops on and and I will say he just posted this
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  on on well a couple of weeks ago, he posted this on on his
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  social media. His mom passed away, which you know, our thoughts were
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  with you, Joe, obviously, but he was. He was very thrilled
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  that she was able. She bought it herself on the website. Refused to
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  get a freeby bought Joe Shoes when it came out in the limited time that
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  it was available, and she was able to get a chip to her and
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  she got her own Joe shoes, you know, before she passed away.
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  So and I know that meant a lot of story. So yeah, but
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  it's iconic figure of the year. I don't quite know if it can be
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  repainted, but you never know. Shees a creer ask her for a repain.
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  We gotta talk to shoes and kind of collaborate because I mean, he
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  can't stray too far from the you know, well he's got it's gotta be
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  some sort of button down shirt and some sort of shorts. Yeah, so
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  it can be done. But I do kind of like this is a standalone
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  Figure of the Year. It's like, it's like, I don't know if
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  you try to top this. You know what I'm saying. You know what
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  I'm saying. It's like I do kind of understand what you're saying. Yes,
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  yeah, good Chris Girlcock says, get some more. Oh my god,
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  keep it, you know the elusive. All right, an idea just
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  pop in my mind, So let me talk to you guys. Off off
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  okay, oh wow, oh yeah, I can't tell him I can.
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  And then that cactus jack flannel you're wearing great, and you know what,
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  you know what when I put this on, I never thought you'd say a
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  single word about it. I'm like, I'm gonna wear it, wear a
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  nice warm ship. I'm today years old when I realized Captain Shoes doesn't wear
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  shoes. Yeah, you know, to be totally honest, if we were
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  if this was like Ravens like Gimmicks show or whatever he used to do,
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  what was that called Brian I spot show? Remember he used to do a
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  high spot show, or he would like gimmick. Yeah, I guarantee you
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  if he was like, why is your name Shoes and he came the answer,
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  he'd be like, that's terrible. It's his dumbest thing ever. Nobody
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  knows that you don't wear shoes. Yeah, it's not the answer. The
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  answer is something even weirder. So anyway, would be concerned if you were
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  in like a fight with those on, I'd be terrified. Oh my god.
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  I mean you could take it off and slap someone across the face.
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  Yeah, but he's a lover, not a fighter. Guys, Come on
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  less four star all right. Up next, the ring Slash playset of the
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  Year. And I'll be honest, guys, I don't actually own this.
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  I don't actually own this, but because of what it represents, and I'll
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  explain in uh more detail, I chose the aw announcer set from Ringside Collectibles.
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  I love this for so many reasons. One, why if toys are
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  supposed to be for kids, correct, right, why doesn't like Mattel make
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  things that kids would want, like an announced table, because you would use
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  announcers. You know, when we were kids, we had the grapple gear
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  announced table. It was repainted so many times. Jim Ross able to sit
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  down was huge, right, and you know, so aw they made the
• 23:44
  announcers. They were exclusives. We still got them Excalibur, Tony Svani,
• 23:49
  jimss. I guess they made Taz in the main line, but they didn't
• 23:52
  include headsets. But that's all in this package. There's the monitors that actually
• 23:57
  have action on the monitors, the table, the nice step and repeat behind
• 24:03
  I don't, you know, collect aw figures, but for what this represents,
• 24:07
  whether you're an adult collector for figure photography or a kid actually playing,
• 24:11
  I feel like this is something that Mattel needs to start doing too, is
• 24:15
  make some of these things, these backstage things, these ringside things. Grapple
• 24:18
  gear. Baby, it was a whole line in the Jackson days and this
• 24:22
  reminded me of a grapple gear and for that reason I chose this, Yeah,
• 24:26
  no question. But the interesting thing here is that myself and Brian also
• 24:30
  picked this. Wow. So I mean my kids have this and I've seen
• 24:36
  this and kind of to echo what Brosky just said, like they're literally kids
• 24:40
  playing in wrestling figures, and like especially and you failed to measure that backdrop
• 24:44
  it comes with. It's super cool and it makes a big difference, Like
• 24:48
  it's not just you know, it makes it more than just a tablet sitting
• 24:51
  there right. Yeah. It really spices up the kind of vibe of it
• 24:55
  and makes it more fun. So that's why I picked it, And and
• 24:57
  to be honest, there wasn't a lot of competition for it this year.
• 25:00
  You know, I don't know where I put that step. A slow year
• 25:04
  for playsets and things like that. Well, unfortunately the fans did not agree
• 25:10
  with us, and yeah, and I have a bone to pick with them,
• 25:12
  and I almost feel like they shouldn't win. But let's see. The
• 25:17
  winner is the classic Cage play set from Hotel, which won by a landslide.
• 25:22
  Listen re re released Cage, I have it right here. That's the
• 25:26
  thing. It's a re release. Came out. They made this two thousand
• 25:30
  eleven or something twelve maybe fourteen. No, it came out like, no,
• 25:37
  it did not Bryan sixteen Top sixteen seventeen. It came out sixteen seventeen.
• 25:41
  Either way, that's old. It's it's been so long since it was
• 25:45
  as why I'll count it, why and why I will allow this to work
• 25:49
  is because, just like I said, you know, ae W made this
• 25:53
  announceable for kids. Okay, what about a fucking ring. If you're a
• 25:59
  kid watching a W you can't go into a store and buy a ring.
• 26:02
  That part's where that I mean, the ring was where at one point plentiful
• 26:06
  work. But it's been years. It's been years. So let's say a
• 26:08
  kid is watching He's like, oh, I like, aw, I want
• 26:11
  to go to the Toy Star I'll go to Walmart, Target. You can
• 26:12
  buy the figures. You can't buy a goddamn ring. Not everything. God,
• 26:17
  I just realized that I haven't seen Don't Ring in a long ass time.
• 26:19
  No kid, it's gone, yeah, which they no kid releasing it
• 26:22
  like the ring hasn't changed, you know, right, And that to Matel's
• 26:25
  credit, that's what they do. They keep releasing or re releasing or adding
• 26:27
  new stickers or adding new features. So Mattel does keep adding rings. How
• 26:30
  can you have a wrestling figure line without a wrestling ring? I agree,
• 26:36
  And that's almost It should be in the vein of like greatest hits, Like,
• 26:38
  okay, greatest hits exists. If a kid's just getting into this,
• 26:41
  and then he can always find a John Cena rum, the rings whatever,
• 26:45
  the ring should be in that same vein, right, They're like, okay,
• 26:47
  should always be able to find a ring for also also adults for figure
• 26:52
  photography or whatever. They did the ring with with Cody, the regular Ring
• 26:56
  with Cody that came out in the UK. Yeah, and they the Hangman
• 27:00
  one too, so it would be I feel like that would be a really
• 27:04
  good way to sneak in a repaint or even somebody else, you know,
• 27:07
  like, that's a good way to Hey, Justin Roberts. Yeah, the
• 27:12
  ring is so affordable to It's like a twenty dollars thing, and it's actually
• 27:17
  a great fucking ring. They did a great job. Yeah, it's like
• 27:18
  a pretty sweet ring. I think now I don't have I mean, I
• 27:22
  have this right here, and I have the other one, uh in my
• 27:25
  tour room. Is this? Does this ring you have like the spring to
• 27:27
  it? Because I fucking hate that. I think it does. I hate
• 27:32
  that it's impossible to display figures in it. I think it's Mattel very rarely
• 27:38
  has made a ring without that. Yeah, but hey, the fans have
• 27:42
  spoken. The winner is the classic cage place that hopefully next year there'll be
• 27:48
  some more choices for us to go to. I thought about doing like one
• 27:52
  of those uh, you know, exploding things or whatever. But you could
• 27:56
  have picked the Ghost of the Nitro. Oh my god, you know what,
• 28:02
  I almost I almost picked the uh the Austin the monster truck. Honestly
• 28:08
  is the closest thing to like runner up? I think, Yeah, but
• 28:12
  I think the aw thing is the announce table is way more important. More
• 28:17
  to a fake fan. The kid yeah for sure. Absolutely. All right,
• 28:19
  guys, we hate to get negative here. Worst figure of the year.
• 28:26
  First of all, I almost abstained because I really don't like it,
• 28:30
  But oh guys, I didn't. I didn't, but I'm looking at it
• 28:33
  right now. This is the first time we just said every figure is great.
• 28:37
  Well, we know that there's been figures, but we don't need to
• 28:41
  spend our time on it. But here's the deal. All of us have
• 28:44
  a different pick, all four of them. Okay, that's good. So
• 28:48
  four barrels, four different barrier let's go. I'm also adding an asterisk to
• 28:53
  mine. Not only is it worst figure of the year, it's worst toy
• 28:57
  line of the year, which is not even a category. But Rush Collectibles
• 29:03
  and Larry Zabisco Okay, road worse, bro Robucks worse. Okay, Roadblock
• 29:11
  was gonna be my number one until I realized that Larry's Abisco has an uneven
• 29:15
  amount of bootlaces. He has more on one side than the other. Hey,
• 29:19
  you never know these figures. I did it live on YouTube. You
• 29:23
  move their arms, you twist their waist, the bodies just explode like crash
• 29:26
  test dummies. The company has already folded. They've already called in quits.
• 29:32
  They're now doing monsters so they can scam the monster fans. They're like still
• 29:36
  waiting for their shipments. It's as allegedly we heard from a source that Larry
• 29:44
  has not been contacted or paid royalty. Allegedly, any person who ran the
• 29:49
  toy company is still calling people names and d ms. Yeah, it's it's
• 29:55
  a possibly cancelable names, total scam artists. This line was a disgrace.
• 30:00
  God, there's there's nothing good about it. The fact that Larry got a
• 30:04
  figure. I think Larry deserves a figure, but Larry don't even get paid,
• 30:07
  you know what I'm saying. So it's a horrible figure. An uneven
• 30:11
  amount of brute laces, which is like it doesn't even make it. It's
• 30:15
  not like eleven and twelve, it's like five and fifteen. It's even close.
• 30:21
  I can unders say if you miss one lace. You know, it's
• 30:23
  a little known fact that Larry did that. It's not as wikipedias for us.
• 30:29
  It's fucking it's fucking rotten quick twist muscles right to me. To me,
• 30:34
  it is the worst figure of the year. All right, Brian,
• 30:38
  what do you got my worst figure of the year? Everybody all aboard the
• 30:45
  smoke trade. This was my number two. This packaging atrocious, this figure
• 30:56
  atrocious. But can we say one thing. It is designed by Rush Collectibles.
• 31:03
  That's why the rest of the line got better. And I mean everything
• 31:07
  after has been a vast improvement, you know, like sculpting and whatever.
• 31:11
  But this is just so rotten. When this is in your hands and openness,
• 31:15
  his elbow bends the other way, it's another level of rotten in your
• 31:19
  hand. Yeah. With the infamous cigar that we called a blanket pig of
• 31:26
  a blanket sticking out of his mouth, I can say you he looks like
• 31:30
  a Simpson's character drawing of the Godfather Harry Balls in the back y. Yeah,
• 31:40
  so the fans who bought their names would be on the back. So
• 31:42
  I bought it and I used the name Harry Balls on and it made the
• 31:48
  package. But then it also says parentheses Matt. Yeah, ooh, like
• 31:52
  you caught me, Mitch. To Mitch's credit, he has improved so greatly
• 31:59
  improved. They actually look like toys. This five figures later, you guys
• 32:02
  did you guys were saying maybe figures of the year, you know, they're
• 32:07
  maybe could have been could have been to the right color, the right material.
• 32:12
  But everything about this just a rough start for grapples and gimmicks with a
• 32:17
  But he bounced back, so we got to give credit where credits due.
• 32:21
  He bounced back. Luckily the shipped with the Ahmed. Yes, right,
• 32:25
  I think if this came first, this would be true done right, true?
• 32:30
  Yeah? Yeah? Where's the footprint? Yeah, where's the foot break?
• 33:00
  Mark off? I didn't fucking street foot breaks off? I did.
• 33:06
  I didn't know. The first impression of this figure was not where it landed.
• 33:12
  All right, what do you got mark? Uh? Well, I
• 33:15
  picked the roadblock. Yeah, you know whatever, we talked about it there.
• 33:23
  It is pretty terrible accessory. I'll give you that. That's I will
• 33:28
  say that. Yeah, I picked it. I picked it wherever we couldn't
• 33:30
  figure out what the accessor was called. By the way, yeah, that
• 33:32
  thing is called a roadblock. There was an episode where we're trying to decipher
• 33:37
  what the name you know, the thing you put in the street when you
• 33:40
  don't what any want to go by. It's prett embarrassing, but anyway,
• 33:45
  well, you know it's his figure. I picked it based on the fact
• 33:49
  that it blew up in your hands, so you know whatever, he's like
• 33:52
  weird with like the paint on his face. There's a lot of issues also,
• 33:58
  both these figures they were they were the molded in white plastic, so
• 34:02
  everything that's painted over so makes the skin look like like pasty and like sickly
• 34:09
  horrible, horrible. So glad this this is over. Yeah all right,
• 34:15
  Well the Major Marks picked an interesting figure. I can't this is the Super
• 34:24
  seven Andre the Giant, And to be fair, Mattel's got one coming out
• 34:28
  that's gonna really put it on the underground. Yeah it really. I mean,
• 34:35
  look we we we opened this on the podcast and you guys took it
• 34:37
  out of the packaging and you know, in person, it's not it's better
• 34:40
  in person. It does not photograph well at all. The chest colored thing
• 34:45
  very great period, but in person it's not as horrendous. I'll say that,
• 34:50
  right, Yeah, that Jon Favreau head that everyone was obsessed with,
• 34:55
  it's pretty rough. Yeah, I will say this, guys. So I'm
• 35:00
  recently with the holiday season, as I'm off time, reorganized my collection,
• 35:05
  my display and my miscellaneous shelf. Right, I this Andre bagged up.
• 35:12
  Yeah, I got it, I cut and sold it. I don't even
• 35:15
  know anymore. The black strap. Andre bagged up the Japanese one I kept
• 35:20
  in my Japanese collection, and then I put the first one I think is
• 35:22
  really really good. First one holds up the best at all of them.
• 35:25
  It's actually diffigure. That's that's front and center in my miscellaneous section, and
• 35:30
  then there's the Matt and Bryan next to it, and the Good Brothers next
• 35:32
  to it, so it's like a Super seven family. I have a similar
• 35:37
  situation on display. Yeah, I think if Super seven they didn't really you
• 35:43
  know, we always say you can't be half pregnant, but Super seven was
• 35:45
  half pregnant with wrestling. They didn't go all the way in yeah, you
• 35:50
  know, and honestly they if they did, they could make some really special
• 35:55
  stunts. I mean, and honestly that a lot of the new japan stuff
• 35:59
  I think's pretty off some. And and this one I understand. You know,
• 36:02
  it's an ultimate costs a lot of money, but you get nothing.
• 36:06
  You get a little beer can. Yeah, that was the real issue,
• 36:08
  right compared to even though I think about the first one, you got like
• 36:12
  two jackets soft and hard. This is like bare bones are like nothing.
• 36:15
  Yeah, yeah, listen, and like I said, Mattel is going to
• 36:21
  make is making a yellow trunk Sondre. That's gonna is it not already out?
• 36:25
  Oh that's right, it's a target. Yeah, that's right any day
• 36:30
  now. So all right, well listen, Super seven, we still love
• 36:32
  Super seven. We're we're still waiting for our series twos and Super seven.
• 36:36
  Guys, don't hate us. We didn't vote for you. It was the
• 36:37
  fans. Hey, hey, d freedom when you post this, just right,
• 36:44
  Super seven, don't right at Super seven. You know what I'm saying.
• 36:46
  Yeah, yeah, we don't need a little note man. Just right,
• 36:51
  Super seven, don't don't act them, don't act. Chris Stanley makes
• 36:54
  a good point. It made some great memes though it did. Did this
• 37:00
  one really really funny retro figure of the Year. Let me clarify, guys,
• 37:05
  it's not just Hasbro s. It could have been the bone Crushing Actions
• 37:10
  or the junk Shop does anything. It's like a retro. It could have
• 37:14
  been a big rubber guy, could have been a major Bendy. I even
• 37:17
  realized that neither neither I personally picked a retro style figure. I would have
• 37:23
  wrote vintage style Figure of the Year then, because the problem is. You
• 37:28
  can't edit polls, so like once it was if you actually read the five
• 37:30
  print it said that. But sure got it. The majority of the people
• 37:37
  yes, or Hasbro style fanboys anyway, So but whatever. And I took
• 37:42
  a good hard look at Mattel retros, Zombies, the Cella Company or what
• 37:49
  everyone to call them, the Wrestling something wrestlers for fig your colluestions. You
• 37:52
  guys might not believe that my pick is, but I stand behind it.
• 37:59
  It's the guy who almost ended my life and career. Nick fucking Gauge.
• 38:05
  Wow, I thought you were gonna say, Greg the Hammer Valentine No Series
• 38:15
  two, Nick Gage Bro the face is dead on. It's got the T
• 38:19
  shirt, the m b K handpost, he has the pizza cutter that actually
• 38:22
  you know, turns and slices, the light tube, the shorts, the
• 38:27
  boots, the painting of the souls. It's just an unbelievable figure. Have
• 38:32
  you talked to him about this? Like, did you ever? What does
• 38:36
  he think? What does he think? No, he chased through the pizza
• 38:37
  cutter, couldn't talk to him. I tried, Okay, Oh I got
• 38:40
  it, got it. You're like, I want to know that the figure?
• 38:43
  Yeah, I just I just absolutely the molded bandana. It's It's an
• 38:47
  incredible fucking figure. I'm so glad that he got recognized and figure form.
• 38:52
  I love the GCW logo on it makes it official. I mean, this
• 38:55
  guy, whether you love him or not, he has some sort of connection
• 39:00
  with the audience that cannot be described. And I was in the ring with
• 39:01
  him for Homecoming and he made his enterest that was in the ring. It
• 39:06
  was like, holy shit, this guy is like the GCW rock. It
• 39:08
  was unbelievable at the time of this recording. That's the only official GCW figure
• 39:16
  released, right, officially, Yeah, your ringside ones are going to have
• 39:21
  it, and I guess the Zombie two pac right, And we've done some
• 39:23
  GCW guys and girls in our Beny Lie May. We never had the logo
• 39:27
  on it, not like with the logos or Matt Cool. So I absolutely
• 39:30
  love it. I love everything represents and even though I hate the man,
• 39:35
  I think this is the retro figure of the year. Well, my pick
• 39:38
  is also from Heels and Faces Series two, and you know, I did
• 39:43
  a lot of soul searching on this one as well. But at the end
• 39:45
  of the day, what about me? What about Raven, the effort that
• 39:52
  went into this figure, to the point that we know that Zombie basically didn't
• 39:55
  even make money on it. He broke even to make this thing, as
• 39:59
  specially as he good soft goods jacket, the flannel Marx flannel wrapped around his
• 40:04
  waist, going out of his way to license the band shirt from the actual
• 40:09
  band that he's wearing. The added articulation, even though I probably wouldn't have
• 40:15
  wanted that, but I understand the attention to detail, Like if you're a
• 40:17
  Raven fan, you can do a lot of things with this. You can
• 40:20
  sit in the corner and sulk. He can do his Raven pose like It's
• 40:23
  pretty freaking epic across the board. So it just was incomparable all the others.
• 40:29
  I was very close to picking one of his andres, but okay,
• 40:34
  I settled on Raven as my pick. Now I love this as well.
• 40:37
  I'm I'm a psychopath. Even with my motel figures, I don't take off
• 40:42
  soft goods. I feel like they never look the same as when the factory
• 40:45
  puts it on. So I'm thinking that I do want to get another Raven
• 40:49
  just for like research purposes, to take it off to see how he sits
• 40:53
  because I don't want to mess it up because it's never gonna look as perfect
• 40:57
  as it is in that package. I see what you're saying. I completely
• 41:00
  see we're saying, because I did take it off and I'm like a little
• 41:02
  half like is this out? But you know it's just in your head right.
• 41:06
  And the zipper, it's actually a working zipper. Zipper. Yeah,
• 41:08
  it's ridiculous. Elbow joints, shoulder joint, hip joints, it's perfect.
• 41:15
  Have you gotten this signed by Raven yet? Has he seen it in person?
• 41:17
  I don't think so because he had a shoulder surgery or something, so
• 41:21
  he's been like kind of not out there since this has been on the street.
• 41:25
  So trust me, I will hunt Scott down and get to get that
• 41:29
  done for sure. Well, since we're talking about Raven, the the major
• 41:34
  mark pick was actually this pigure there we we go, oh, there you
• 41:37
  go? Yeah, so they agreed with you, Brian, and this was
• 41:43
  this was up there. So my pick, guys WASI Lex Sluger, the
• 41:49
  Bruiser Brodie. He was faces. So it's a clean sweep for heels and
• 41:52
  faces. I obviously thought of this as well, but I actually had this
• 41:58
  jotted down figure of the year, and then I saw that there was a
• 42:01
  retro figure of the year, so then I changed it. Ye got it.
• 42:05
  But I love this. The jacket is the coolest thing that I've ever
• 42:08
  had on a Hazbro style figure. I think ever it really makes it.
• 42:14
  The face and the scars, the boots, it's it's unbelievable. It's a
• 42:17
  perfect embodiment of this Bruise of Brody person and character. If you know,
• 42:24
  if you own a Bruise of Brody one, I think this is the one
• 42:27
  you need. It's just so so cool and so awesome to have in the
• 42:30
  same shelf as the Hasbros that we love so much. It's crazy that,
• 42:37
  Like, to me, that hands down the best Bruis of Brodi figure that's
• 42:39
  ever been made. And that's in the year the Powertown made an old badass.
• 42:45
  Yeah. Yeah, like this is even better. So and what's really
• 42:46
  special about this figure is if you pre ordered, the incentive was you got
• 42:51
  the vests. If you didn't pre order it, it comes with no vest
• 42:54
  I actually think it doesn't even it doesn't come it's not my number one if
• 42:59
  it has no coat, that's fair. Yeah, I love that you know,
• 43:01
  it makes a huge difference. When you see it in on car without
• 43:05
  that coat, You're like, what it just it just takes away, Like
• 43:08
  yeah, I love it all right, guys. Up next is the multi
• 43:15
  pack figure of the Year. I chose the Mattel Retro four pack with the
• 43:21
  Orange cards, Tugboat, Lex, Luger, Doink, Greg the Hammer Valentine.
• 43:27
  These they came as one set. They're all individual package, but they're
• 43:30
  in one box. You can only buy it as one set. I love
• 43:35
  these. These are all the hidden unreleased gems from the Hasbro line. Tugboat,
• 43:39
  Luger, Uh, Joined, the Clown Great, the Hammer Valentine.
• 43:43
  I even have right here. I bought it from Brian on whatnot a signed
• 43:47
  Greg the Hammer Valentine. He was too scared of Greg himself. That is
• 43:52
  very true. And you know, you know the Star. I'm not gonna
• 43:53
  bore you with it. I have the Rhythm and Blues Greg the Hammer Valentine
• 43:59
  that was a release. As a matter of fact, I have the Doink
• 44:01
  that was unreleased. I have the tug Boat that was unreleased, and the
• 44:05
  two up and the Luger I famously was outbid on. I almost had it,
• 44:09
  but now I have all four of the of the figures that should have
• 44:15
  come out, and I kind of wish that these came out back in the
• 44:17
  day. I feel like the line wouldn't have been on ice if we were
• 44:21
  getting guys like this instead of like Sammy's ain, we don't. These are
• 44:25
  not for kids. The adults want these. It's fun that all four of
• 44:30
  these have like a historical significance right to the head. And that's why to
• 44:34
  me, it's it's a perfect it's perfect for back. This was coming up
• 44:37
  to the plate and not only hitting a home run, but hitting like a
• 44:39
  grand slam in the game winning situation of the World Series. This is exactly
• 44:44
  what they needed to do exclusive in that realm, right. Kids don't need
• 44:49
  to see this in the stores exactly. Oh my god, they don't even
• 44:52
  forty Like all of us are going, oh ship that Greg would have died
• 44:57
  a horrible death in Yes, yes, probably talk about too. They talk
• 45:01
  about elite. I've ember hung around for a long time, that's true.
• 45:05
  Yeah, uh my pick, very simple pick. But I gave this some
• 45:09
  thought and I'm thinking, man, this was just kind of oddly perfect.
• 45:14
  The hook housing two pat Amazon. I mean, first off, it beat
• 45:20
  beat everyone to market right with Dan Housen. So that was pretty nuts that
• 45:25
  your first Dan Houser figures, this Amazon exclusive, I don't know, affordably
• 45:30
  priced. I love aw two packs aesthetically like how they look like it's very
• 45:35
  b is right with the sort of clean, aesthetically looking two pack. I
• 45:39
  appreciate that. And then it was just two really nice figures to like guys
• 45:45
  that got their rookie figures this year. They're hot characters that you know,
• 45:47
  kids and fans want, where normally that's not the case with these two packs.
• 45:52
  You know, they're normally pretty uh pretty uh not memorable, I would
• 45:57
  say, but also very accurate figures. Two exceptionally well done figures. So
• 46:04
  I just thought it was it was a nice, nice piece, you know,
• 46:06
  and this this has a hard goods cape, correct, That's the difference
• 46:09
  on the Dan House at the Hearts. To me, I'm a hard goods
• 46:13
  guy all day, give me hard goods, and Chase might have the hard
• 46:16
  goods right the single chase, but either way, pretty pretty nice piece.
• 46:22
  The only way it hook hook in the black shorts, So that was cool.
• 46:28
  And the only person that this team ever pinned was me, so there
• 46:31
  you go. You go. Now, hook Houses had ah match, right,
• 46:35
  a match like that, but wow, they beat me and they thought,
• 46:39
  we can't get any better than this. It's not gonna be higher than
• 46:42
  this, man, right, So I had the same pick as the Major
• 46:47
  Marks. So here we go. Oh God, here we go. All
• 46:52
  right? The Blood and Guts MJF versus CM Punk Dog Collar two pack.
• 46:57
  I'm Brian, I'm surprised you didn't pick this. Oh stay tuned. Aha,
• 47:01
  all right, well, I you know whatever, It's phenomenal. The
• 47:07
  faces are all unbelievable, the pose in the box, the blood, the
• 47:12
  packaging, the significance of the match, the significance of the match for somebody
• 47:16
  we know, it's it's you know, it's an important match in the middle
• 47:20
  of this the aaw year. It's just man, it was awesome and what
• 47:23
  a pack. And to be totally honest, they got it out pretty quick
• 47:28
  too. Ringside was exclusive still available. Use code Major save yourself ten percent
• 47:34
  when you pick up this Blood and Guts two back. I love the Blood
• 47:37
  and Guts line. Listen, we do bloody figures, but like you know,
• 47:39
  the AEW is a mainstream company. You know what I'm saying. So
• 47:43
  it's cool for the because WW wouldn't touch blood figures, BUTTEL wouldn't touch it,
• 47:46
  so it's cool that AEW does. It's a whole line at this point,
• 47:51
  really really cool. I absolutely dig it, And even in the package
• 47:53
  it looks great like the way it's posed. I think AW does a great
• 47:58
  job posing the figures in these situations so you can keep it mint on card.
• 48:01
  Yeah, which you can't see in that photo is that the extra hands
• 48:05
  and heads and stuff are all on the sides in a window, so they
• 48:08
  are there and to be seen, but they don't ruin the visual of it,
• 48:13
  you know, on its own all right. Well, up next is
• 48:17
  the exclusive Figure of the Year. Brian's gonna hate my pick, but I
• 48:22
  chose the Gobbledy Cooker an Undertaker Amazon Exclusive. Guys. I've been waiting for
• 48:30
  years for this gobbly Cooker. I almost picked it for Figure of the Year.
• 48:36
  I almost picked it for Figure of the Year. The Undertaker is great.
• 48:38
  The Undertaker is great, is great, guys, but it just gets
• 48:44
  passed over by the Cooker by all the believable. He even comes with the
• 48:47
  interchangeable head to have like the the later year's head. So I know,
• 48:54
  Brian, he makes the cooker a backer. I make the cooker a front
• 49:00
  up up against the wall. That thing is he's I have. I have
• 49:05
  the cooker on the top, on its own thing by itself. Last month.
• 49:10
  Okay, ten out of ten figure. In my opinion, I absolutely
• 49:15
  loved it. I think Mattel now that I even love that. Like you
• 49:19
  can't see in this photo, but the uh, the the part that holds
• 49:23
  the egg turns into the stage if done correctly. You know, it's it's
• 49:27
  such a great figure of great execution and uh yeah, and you get a
• 49:30
  bonus badass undertaker as well. So that is my pick for exclusive figure of
• 49:37
  the year. All right, what did you pick, Brian? My pick
• 49:40
  is the Walmart exclusive Supreme ce M Punk, a figure that we thought was
• 49:46
  gonna be canceled and we weren't gonna get it. Should have been Supreme Series
• 49:50
  three, whereas that we'll never know. Instead we got a single release and
• 49:54
  they pivoted made a Walmart exclusive. And this is the figure that like,
• 49:59
  I didn't think much of until I had in my hand. It's un real.
• 50:01
  It's the most perfect sandpunk figure ever made. Like, I don't know
• 50:06
  what else you could ask for as a fan, especially the way they execute
• 50:09
  the tattoos and all the joints and stuff, all different heads, I mean,
• 50:14
  a different lower body. The title. The major marks agree, Oh
• 50:17
  Mike, wow, look at this. It's it really needs to be in
• 50:22
  your hands and opened and like it's it's something that like if you like to
• 50:27
  display figures and pose them like I do, you really appreciate this thing.
• 50:30
  I mean the soft Goods jacket. There's so much to it that makes it
• 50:35
  like legitimately supreme. The one thing I would have done, you know,
• 50:39
  Punk is known for sometimes switching. I would have made the other legs like
• 50:44
  pants, just so it kind of changes it up a bit because the legs
• 50:47
  are in the legs are interchangeable. I don't think he wore those long boys
• 50:52
  that much, and there is that regular release one with the long boys,
• 50:55
  and then I think otherwise he wore those like really ugly white ones right once
• 51:00
  and that they've never touched that in figure form, and I wouldn't want to
• 51:02
  waste that on this personally. But yeah, that's another thing, like in
• 51:07
  the like there, it doesn't look like they're different really that different, the
• 51:12
  two lower bodies, but they are pretty significantly different. Okay, I guess
• 51:16
  I need all cameo print trunks one of them. And then it's nice,
• 51:21
  man, It's it's like, it's pretty free. It's how about this,
• 51:24
  It's the only seeing punk figure after what hundreds of seaming punk figures you can
• 51:29
  do the goddamn arm cross bows with. There you go, There you go.
• 51:34
  That's that's that's all the selling point you really need. And let's also
• 51:37
  say that right now it's on the shelves, hitting shelves while he debuts a
• 51:42
  WWE. So imagine a kid's punk. You don't got to wait a year,
• 51:46
  year and a half. It's in stores right now. Just perfect timing,
• 51:52
  figure, fate, whatever you want to call it. Yeah, well
• 51:54
  I picked the San Diego Comic Con exclusive Muhammad Ali two back. I mean,
• 52:00
  that's a great one as well. The reason I picked this is because
• 52:05
  I thought the packaging was very unique, and I thought this was an absolute
• 52:09
  perfect execution of a San Diego Comic Con because it's not just a wrestling figure,
• 52:15
  but it's also like a figure with mass appeal. And if you're walking
• 52:21
  the floors of Comic Con, you might not be a wrestling fan and you
• 52:23
  see Muhammad Ali two back and you're like, oh damn sick an ultimate Muhammad
• 52:29
  Ali boxing figure. Yeah, I'm gonna get that so perfect next collection.
• 52:34
  I'm gonna let him bathe a guy I do all loose, but in my
• 52:37
  metallic collection, there are certain things I keep mint on card just to spice
• 52:39
  it up a little bit. And this is something like, just like that
• 52:43
  photo open like a book, I'm keeping it mint on card because it looks
• 52:45
  you can't you can't display your figure nicer than it's displayed right there. You
• 52:50
  know what I'm saying. It might be the nicest packaging like display of all
• 52:57
  time. Right, yes, and we know that Mattel. They must have
• 53:00
  spent a lot of money on Ali because he's got a basic coming, a
• 53:02
  retro com and a SuperStar's coming. But hey, it is what it is.
• 53:07
  This one is incredible, a great, great execution. And I keep
• 53:10
  saying it every year. It's gonna be hard for them to top next year
• 53:14
  a comic con, but I'm excited for it. Yeah, all right,
• 53:17
  what's the next category? All right? Next one? New figure line of
• 53:22
  the year. I think we saved this figure line power Town, my power
• 53:36
  Town, and listen, I love these figures. I held him on my
• 53:39
  hands last year at the Tin Roof Show Live Show Orlando, and I said
• 53:45
  it then, some of the best figures ever. I love that these they
• 53:49
  feel like they have some weight to them. They feel like statues meet action
• 53:52
  figures. And look, I became pen pals with magnum Ta over it.
• 53:57
  He signed my copy and there was a bit of an a bit of a
• 54:00
  stafu thanks to Detective d Freedom, we realized the legs fucking broke off.
• 54:05
  But and this is this is the main reason why I voted for them as
• 54:09
  Figureline of the Year. They could have just said fuck it, you know,
• 54:14
  like fuck you fans, but you know they did. They recalled all
• 54:16
  the figures, they stopped the shipping to the fans. They fucking were transparent,
• 54:21
  told the fans what were going on. They ate that cost, and
• 54:23
  they fixed the problems, re ran them, and they came out and they
• 54:28
  were incredible. And now there are certain people who say that they're they don't
• 54:31
  like how they're not quite in scale with awww. I don't quite mind that.
• 54:36
  Like I'm not I'm not ten years old anymore. I'm not playing with
• 54:37
  them, you know what, I'm saying, and pretty damn close. It's
• 54:40
  pretty damn close. And listen, even if you were playing with them,
• 54:44
  it's not like you're playing with LJN and A bend them. They're pretty damn
• 54:46
  close. Could you know. It's a little annoying that they don't have some
• 54:51
  of the posability, you know, because you know they can't do like like,
• 54:54
  for instance, Bruis of Brodie can't do his signature pose stuff like that.
• 54:59
  But other than that, I love it. You know, Brian and
• 55:00
  I have signed onto the line. We have a two pac coming out.
• 55:02
  They just announced series two. They announced TNA Wrestling. I'm very excited for
• 55:08
  Powertown. I love the people behind the scenes and uh, for me,
• 55:13
  definitely new figure line of the Year, so Powertown Ultras let me be specific,
• 55:19
  Powertown No. I voted for Powertown. Collectible coins, powered down bed
• 55:28
  Sheets my favorite line. I just yeah, I believe in the people behind
• 55:32
  the scenes of Powertown, and uh, I believe that, you know,
• 55:36
  they're passionate about what they're doing and they know what they're doing at the end
• 55:37
  of the day, which is also ultimately pretty pretty important. Uh. And
• 55:42
  I think it's gonna be a really fun ride with them. And the people
• 55:46
  that they have under contract that their their catalog is so unique, right compared
• 55:53
  to what other people are doing and stuff, And I think that's a lot
• 55:55
  of fun too. So and hey, the DNA thing is a whole other,
• 56:00
  you know thing that I'm crazy excited to be involved with. So yeah,
• 56:05
  Powertown Ultras takes it for me as newcomer of the Year and hopefully for
• 56:08
  many years to come. Love it. Well. I picked the same line
• 56:15
  as the major Marks. We chose the big runner on God Wow, So
• 56:22
  you guys, you guys honored. Yeah, you guys owe me a couple
• 56:28
  of bucks here. You promised if I voted this. Just kidding here,
• 56:34
  Yeah, honored right now. The Big Rubber guys. I don't know if
• 56:38
  it was whose idea to start the Big Rubber guys. You know, we
• 56:42
  were doing the Bendy's for a while. Connect It's connect and you know,
• 56:45
  Brian and I we wanted to be the guinea pigs just like the Bendams to
• 56:50
  make sure we could execute it. And it took a while a lot of
• 56:52
  trial and error, and we did. We did the Matt and Brian they
• 56:55
  sold out and now we've got demolition, We've got Marty started to slaughter whose
• 57:02
  hit me? Hit me with a woo Mark woo. Well, so let
• 57:07
  me tell you, as somebody who's not doing this, let me tell you
• 57:10
  what you know the major Mark picked the two and I, you know,
• 57:14
  I picked it. So I'll tell you the reason. From the outside looking
• 57:17
  in, it's pretty crazy that it took people so long to nail this,
• 57:22
  and it took people so long to like really push on the idea of continuing
• 57:27
  the LJN line right as excited as the Action figure community got for the continuation
• 57:31
  of the retro line. It's wild. You know. Obviously aw did decide
• 57:36
  to sort of try to do it. There was that weird the Young Bucks
• 57:38
  thing a couple of years back. They tried to do it, but nobody
• 57:42
  really did today Superstars. But the idea of actually nailing it, the rubber,
• 57:52
  the movement, the poses, the size, the packaging, it's just
• 57:57
  a perfect thing. Because I've said this before, I think that there's a
• 58:00
  thirty year rich You know, once somebody is thirty years removed from their toy
• 58:06
  that they loved as a child, they sort of want that back. They
• 58:08
  want to continue it. They want to get that nostalgia back. So this
• 58:13
  is right in that wheelhouse. You got so many people that loves the eighties
• 58:19
  wrestling, the rock and wrestling that time period is such a boom for resp
• 58:22
  on it. Yeah, so it's a perfect thing. I think that I'm
• 58:25
  to look forward to where it's going. And the other thing is like to
• 58:30
  get the originals not so easily done anymore, you know what I mean too,
• 58:35
  If you want all your childhood algen's, it's going to cost you a
• 58:37
  lot of time and money. So I think this is a more fun way
• 58:39
  to go about it. And then you know, if you have them all
• 58:43
  anyway, then it's just an extension of that collection anyway. So I do
• 58:45
  want to, you know, thank you know, I feel like an acceptance
• 58:49
  speech. I want to think my dad forgetting it for me back in the
• 58:52
  day now Oh that yeah, yeah for sure. TTD who has an awesome
• 58:57
  video on our YouTube channel showing how he makes the bulldog uh TTD Kinnick d
• 59:01
  Freedom who helps with the reference shots and and and and changing up things like
• 59:06
  things that need to be more lj and like Josh Ruper was our original sculptor
• 59:09
  who does our bendies. Brian Batty, the legendary Brian Beatty who is now
• 59:14
  on board. So guys, we have some big plans for twenty twenty four.
• 59:17
  It's unfortunate, you know, the pre order is the order, so
• 59:22
  right, So like we still have that haven't been released but have been paid
• 59:25
  for and ordered. Uh Jannetti, Slaughter Flair, Andre Macho, Mantum,
• 59:30
  heavy hitters, and they're gonna hit and people go, where do you get
• 59:34
  these? We're gonna say, eBay, pal, you know what I'm saying,
• 59:37
  Like, I mean, there's just no way around that. You know,
• 59:38
  we're growing, we're trying to get right spread the word of this business,
• 59:42
  and these figures. You know, it's just one step at a time.
• 59:45
  So something like this is a big step, right getting voted, you
• 59:47
  know, new figure. I know there's gonna be some paters who think we
• 59:52
  uh kabuki the vote, but we did not. Well you guys didn't vote
• 59:54
  for it. So I just learned of this as we're sitting here a couple
• 59:59
  of minutes ago, and and this was one of those landslide votes. So
• 1:00:01
  I really really appreciate that we we have some guys signed for twenty twenty four.
• 1:00:07
  We're trying, you know, we're to work in silence. We're trying
• 1:00:10
  to sign when we can start working on it because we don't want to be
• 1:00:15
  like other companies who sign talent and the figure doesn't come out for one year,
• 1:00:19
  two year, three years. You know, we want to sign as
• 1:00:21
  we're ready to work on it. So we have a tentative lineup all year
• 1:00:25
  round. But guys, I'll be honest, you're not gonna get everyone you
• 1:00:29
  want in this year because we don't want this to be a two year line.
• 1:00:31
  We want this to continue. We want to make people who weren't in
• 1:00:35
  WF. We want to make NWA, maybe a WA, maybe international stars,
• 1:00:39
  and then you know, we will continue early nineties. But besides me
• 1:00:44
  and Brian, who were kind of guinea pigs, we're not gonna be making
• 1:00:47
  current stars. That's that's for the Bendy's, Bendy's. You know, we
• 1:00:51
  love the Bendy's, but that's where you're gonna get. You know, you're
• 1:00:52
  at Heath and the Bendys. You're not gonna get Heath, big rubber guy.
• 1:00:55
  You know, you're not gonna get a shoes, big rubber guy.
• 1:00:58
  Unfortunately, I don't know I would rule, but okay, man that would
• 1:01:07
  that would murder somebody, I think, and I'll pull I'll pull the curtain
• 1:01:09
  back a second. Like you know, if I could redo, if I
• 1:01:14
  could redo series one, I would have not made Matt and Brian in classic
• 1:01:19
  poses, you know. And then I was the one who said in series
• 1:01:22
  two, I wouldn't have made because you know it's clearly I'm a macho man,
• 1:01:28
  right, I would have I would have redone that so it's not I
• 1:01:30
  don't want it to be identifiable. I don't want to look like a custom.
• 1:01:32
  And that's why in series two we we made sure, hey, let's
• 1:01:37
  not do it in someone else's pose, because I don't want to look like
• 1:01:40
  a custom. I want to look like a brand new figure, something that
• 1:01:43
  would fit in the family. And TTD has been killing it. Brian Bady
• 1:01:47
  h D Freedom Knnick is the guy behind the scenes, the like the Wizard
• 1:01:52
  of the Man by the Curtain, deal with the factories in China and listen,
• 1:01:54
  there's been a lot of headaches, a lot of things have gone wrong,
• 1:01:59
  some things you know about, something you don't. But that's what this
• 1:02:01
  toy business is all about. And we thank our fans because you know,
• 1:02:05
  because of you guys and the success of this line. We were able this
• 1:02:08
  this this toy line which started as like and not even just Bigger Ubber guys,
• 1:02:12
  but Major Bendies. We're kind of like just part of the major rest
• 1:02:15
  of our podcast. Now Major Bendy's is his own separate company, you know,
• 1:02:20
  because of success, thanks to you, guys. So we thank you
• 1:02:21
  guys so so so much. All right, this is it. This is
• 1:02:25
  the figure of the year. This is the final no, no, we
• 1:02:29
  have two two. Oh okay, so we have figure line of the year.
• 1:02:35
  Oh you're right, you're right right that that previous was the new figure
• 1:02:39
  line. Okay, okay, I mean this one, guys. To me,
• 1:02:45
  it was an easy one and it's gonna sound a little maybe like cliche,
• 1:02:50
  but w w e uh elite Mattel, I mean, how is it
• 1:02:55
  not the best line of the year. Do I collect them all at?
• 1:03:00
  Absolutely not. I don't get current guys or girls. I just get the
• 1:03:02
  legends. But they keep banging out hit after hit after hit after hit,
• 1:03:07
  and it's been over a decade, over a decade, and I just think
• 1:03:14
  there's nobody who does it as consistent in years. Yeah, just nobody who
• 1:03:20
  does it as consistent as Mattel. And you know, we we hate on
• 1:03:28
  Bill mcino, specifically me. You know, I bust his balls a lot.
• 1:03:30
  He screwed us out of those wrestleming figures, and I'll hate his guts
• 1:03:32
  till the day I die for that. But at the end of the day,
• 1:03:36
  he does some incredible work and now there's other people designing to you know,
• 1:03:39
  corpor receive ravishing Robert, just the whole team of Mattel for fourteen years,
• 1:03:44
  like you said, making whether you love him or not there, I
• 1:03:47
  don't think there's any denying. I don't think there's any debate the best wrestling
• 1:03:52
  figures of all time other my favorite wrestling figures all the time. No,
• 1:03:55
  but there's no denying in my opinion that they are the best right sling figures
• 1:04:00
  of all time. And that's my vote for a figure line of the year.
• 1:04:03
  Nice. Uh well, I went with what basically my decision that went
• 1:04:09
  into this was what do I personally look forward to the most as a collector,
• 1:04:15
  and that is heels and faces by zombies and toys. It's just like
• 1:04:19
  what I get most excited about when there's a release or when they're coming out.
• 1:04:24
  You know when there's new images. It just seems to be the wheelhouse
• 1:04:29
  of my collecting these days. Obviously, like you said, Mattel elites incredible
• 1:04:33
  stuff, but I don't collect all that. I do collect a lot of
• 1:04:35
  it, but not all of it. So far, with Heels and Faces,
• 1:04:40
  I've been a you know, a diehard and a complete this and I've
• 1:04:42
  been just so impressed with the quality every time. So I voted from a
• 1:04:47
  personal standpoint in that sense, like great, great figure, what gets me
• 1:04:53
  all boned up? If you will? And then right now it's Heals and
• 1:04:57
  Faces by Zombie Sailor Toys. I think that might be my next year when
• 1:05:00
  Zombie has more of the you know, the figures aren't stock ready to go,
• 1:05:05
  and there's because there's not enough figures per year for me to be my
• 1:05:11
  favorite line of the year. Right If I had that same thought about Powertown,
• 1:05:15
  I think maybe Powertown could be this next year, if you know,
• 1:05:17
  there's a couple more things in the wheelhouse instead of you know, six figures.
• 1:05:20
  But well, by the way, shouts to d Freedom for if you're
• 1:05:26
  watching the video version of this has put together every figure from each line that
• 1:05:30
  we're mentioning is in the picture Freedom is the best, the Freedom. I
• 1:05:33
  don't remember exactly when we found him, why we found them, how I
• 1:05:36
  was out of them. I'm just glad we found him on the streets.
• 1:05:39
  We found on the streets, the mean streets of Ohio. We found them
• 1:05:43
  well. For a similar reason as Brosky, I picked the WW Ultimate Collection
• 1:05:48
  as the which is a more defined answer, I think than the Elites.
• 1:05:55
  But yeah, yeah, I think it's just, you know, we keep
• 1:05:57
  saying they're the best figures, you know, the every time, not every
• 1:06:00
  time, but most of the time that the figure comes out, it's the
• 1:06:02
  definitive person. That's where I'm looking at it right now. That's my definitive
• 1:06:06
  Andre the giant in my collection. I agree with the album. Literally look
• 1:06:10
  at it like this, these pictures, what is this? Seven eight figures?
• 1:06:15
  Every one of these is a smash home run, like knocked out of
• 1:06:18
  the park, and even the Randy is except I wouldn't have given him that
• 1:06:23
  head Other than that, but I wouldn't give him that jacket either. It's
• 1:06:26
  not like it doesn't look like him or isn't a spectacular figure. It's just
• 1:06:30
  not an eraror of his career that you really want to celebrate. Other than
• 1:06:31
  that, I think there are figures, but like you said, look at
• 1:06:34
  the line, like, I don't think now there are some exclusives. Of
• 1:06:38
  course, in my mind, I don't know if I'm wrong for this,
• 1:06:41
  but in my mind I was. I was considering the Colosseum collection as well,
• 1:06:44
  because they were ultimately okay, fair fair fair. Yeah, They're definitely
• 1:06:47
  all take out. They're ultimately me personally there weren't you know. I did
• 1:06:51
  actually buy them all because for a time I was a mid On card Complete
• 1:06:57
  it and get the lucies are just the ones I want. I am now
• 1:06:59
  tapping out out a BM menal card complete us because they were just making too
• 1:07:02
  many guys and girls who didn't really interest me. Not saying they didn't deserve
• 1:07:05
  ultimate figures, they just didn't. They didn't fit the criteria of what I
• 1:07:10
  collect. So that's why I went with the basic main life. I mean,
• 1:07:14
  you're right that elites man so many in one year, that's crazy.
• 1:07:18
  Yeah, I'm gonna tell calendar year is pretty nuts. All right. Well,
• 1:07:21
  I have no idea what the major marks picked, So let's see what
• 1:07:25
  the whoa the Superstars Mattel Superstars figure line of the Year. I love this
• 1:07:34
  line. I'm a here's the weird thing. I didn't grow up with REMP
• 1:07:39
  goos. I didn't grow up with Awa, but now I love that style,
• 1:07:43
  maybe because we had the Ringside collectibles figures of us like that, and
• 1:07:46
  I just got very you know, boned up about it. I went back,
• 1:07:49
  I got all the REMP gos. I love these figures. I love
• 1:07:53
  the karting. I love how most of them are two and one with the
• 1:07:57
  soft goods. You take them off there, you know, not only a
• 1:08:00
  different character, but you know ring gear street gear. I fucking love this
• 1:08:02
  line. I think it's a home run. And not that I'm a mid
• 1:08:05
  on card guy by any means, but I think they look incredible mid on
• 1:08:09
  card, so maybe maybe better mid on card than they do loose. And
• 1:08:13
  I love that it's all uniform. I hate when lines switch things up.
• 1:08:16
  It's all uniform. I can see this being figure line of the Year.
• 1:08:20
  Yeah. I think it's a super fun line, very detailed. Like if
• 1:08:26
  you're into this, it's like it's a home run, right, It's like
• 1:08:29
  checks all the boxes. It's gonna be fun to like see it keep going,
• 1:08:33
  you know, Yeah, Yeah, because there's a lot more potential.
• 1:08:35
  I mean, they don't feel like it's only just gotten started, you know.
• 1:08:40
  All right, well now it's time for the main event. I know
• 1:08:44
  Brian is probably not gonna like my pick. Again, this is our opinions,
• 1:08:47
  our opinions now, and I will say there's definitely some sentimental reasons behind
• 1:08:51
  my pick. But my pick for figure of the Year is Mister America.
• 1:09:00
  It's the render of the Chelsea Green Elite. Yet to yah, that's gonna
• 1:09:03
  be next year, but it's mister America. Now, let me just get
• 1:09:06
  it. Let me just get it out of the way before you do.
• 1:09:10
  Not jacked enough, not tan enough. However, you keep that T shirt
• 1:09:15
  on, you can't see that he's ripped that great right and for so many
• 1:09:19
  reasons. Now listen, there's also a Chase fan. I love that there's
• 1:09:23
  the interchangeable head where it's like he's poking his face out of the mask.
• 1:09:28
  This figure was supposed to come out in the Rulers Aggression days, in the
• 1:09:31
  Class of Superstars, days kept getting cut cut, cut, cut, cut,
• 1:09:35
  cut cut. This is the first time ever a Mister America. It's
• 1:09:40
  got the correct BoA's I just love it. I was. I'm a huge
• 1:09:44
  Hogan fan. I was a huge Mister America fan, and we got teased
• 1:09:46
  for over a decade that we're going to get a Mister America. We finally
• 1:09:50
  got one. I think they nailed it. Now. I'm not saying I
• 1:09:55
  don't think we need another one. I think maybe if they redid it,
• 1:09:58
  maybe Jack of Tan. Yeah. The only way I would take another one
• 1:10:01
  is if you know how they do, like the greatest hits, where they
• 1:10:04
  update things, you know, instead of giving them different elbows, give a
• 1:10:08
  new fucking chest, a new tan elbows. Other than that, I love
• 1:10:15
  it. It's just a great, great figure. I love all the different
• 1:10:19
  hands. The hands all make sense. Man, I just love this figure.
• 1:10:25
  It was a tough one, but for sentimental purposes I went with this
• 1:10:29
  Mister America my personal figure of the Year. Very fun choice. I agree,
• 1:10:34
  great figure. It just it's almost like Cooker esque for me, Like
• 1:10:38
  it just wasn't like significant enough insane in my wrestling history. All right,
• 1:10:45
  well what do you got there? My pick is completely biased, but the
• 1:10:51
  mjf ir CM Punk Blood and Gots Dog Collar Match Ringside Collectibles exclusive is my
• 1:11:00
  Figure of the Year choice. Uh, The thing, like, it's just
• 1:11:03
  so incredible the blood well, which figure? Which figure? It's the it's
• 1:11:10
  the set. Well that that would have been multi Pack of the Year.
• 1:11:15
  What you buy. You can't buy exclusive of the air, but you can't
• 1:11:19
  buy individually. Mark you agree with me, I think this one's up up.
• 1:11:27
  I think this could have been anything, and you'll see why because my
• 1:11:30
  answer is you can't call ringside and say, just I just want the m
• 1:11:32
  j F. Well, that's why this could be either exclusive Figure of the
• 1:11:35
  Year or multi Pack of the Year. But I think it's the greatest thing
• 1:11:39
  of the year, So I agree with that. I mean said or the
• 1:11:43
  punk. I don't think you have to specify. It's just it's a dog
• 1:11:48
  collar batch bros. So you need two guys. If you just have the
• 1:11:51
  MGF, it's not Figure the Year. I don't enough I agree with these
• 1:11:56
  rulings, but it's okay, you're crazy interchangeable heads. The back to something
• 1:12:00
  I was talking about earlier in the show, like if you like to take
• 1:12:02
  figures out of the box and display them and poses, this is like the
• 1:12:06
  most fun you can have as an adult collector, Like it's ridiculous the things
• 1:12:11
  you can do with these figures and the chains and the different heads and hands,
• 1:12:15
  it's just awesome. And obviously I trained Max and he's one of my
• 1:12:17
  good friends, and I thought the world of this match and this and even
• 1:12:21
  this whole feud. You know, they had some really fun, memorable promos
• 1:12:25
  and stuff. So winner but for me by far Ringside Collectibles Exclusive Blood and
• 1:12:30
  Guts Dog Collar Match see Him Punk and MJF. Chris Grocock is saying,
• 1:12:35
  so, are you saying a Bendy can't be Figure of the Year because it's
• 1:12:39
  Bendy of the Year. No, that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying.
• 1:12:40
  This is a two pack. So by my rule, he just caught
• 1:12:44
  you figure. Gro Cock just caught you. Man to talk slapped in their
• 1:12:47
  face of no, because I think he's trying to say that it can't win
• 1:12:50
  because it's already won. That's not what I'm saying. That was a little
• 1:12:54
  much there, man, All right, guys, I was I was really
• 1:13:02
  close to picking the Mankind Defining Moments. Okay, okay, uh almost picked
• 1:13:13
  that, but then last minute changed my vote to Brian's favorite Figure of the
• 1:13:15
  Year, the gobblede Cooker. Yes, the Ultimate copy cooker. Yes,
• 1:13:23
  guys, so yeah, So here, let me tell you why we Brosky
• 1:13:30
  already talked about this. I didn't. I didn't talk about it when he
• 1:13:32
  brought it up on purpose because I had some answers. Uh. I love.
• 1:13:36
  The packaging is unbelievable. It's so nostalgic, nostalgic with the coliseum video
• 1:13:42
  stuff. I think that it represents such a unique and interesting moment and time
• 1:13:48
  in pro wrestling is so hot, and it was such a miss and it's
• 1:13:51
  just so cool and it's just something that, like I remember talking about with
• 1:13:56
  my friends for years. It was just such a wild thing. Uh.
• 1:14:00
  The the execution of the figure itself is is perfect. The stage that is
• 1:14:06
  perfect, the egg that is awesome. According to Broski's rules, that egg
• 1:14:13
  and stage are in the packaging, not the packaging it comes. It can't
• 1:14:15
  be figure these No, No, you have to deduct those accessories. Accessories
• 1:14:21
  No, because it came the same yellow box taker we all know talking about
• 1:14:28
  literally making up on the fly here, bro, I made up these categories.
• 1:14:31
  I can make the rules. Yeah. Well either way, gobledygooker,
• 1:14:34
  I love. Uh. It's it's probably displayed in my room and I am
• 1:14:38
  devastated that I forgot to bring it over to my mom's on Thanksgiving for the
• 1:14:42
  to be the centerpiece of the table. Man, I shall never forgive you.
• 1:14:45
  Yeah, all right, guys, it's time for the main event.
• 1:14:48
  Guys, this is big. I'm very curious. Actually the major marks the
• 1:14:54
  fucking not be the hooker. I'll tell you that. By the way,
• 1:14:57
  can we say that I want to tell you the runner up. I want
• 1:14:59
  to tell you the runner up to Figure the Year voted by the fans,
• 1:15:02
  and this is a close runner close runner up was Bendy's captain Joe Shues.
• 1:15:10
  Like we're saying, like neck and neck. The runner up right there,
• 1:15:15
  it was Captain jo I hope Joe sees this, and here's this that knows
• 1:15:18
  how much she's There was a period of time that he was in the lead,
• 1:15:23
  really wow, and Joe Shoes started to negotiate his rate for Live eight.
• 1:15:27
  Oh that's right, I did, I did see that. Yeah,
• 1:15:30
  so he went from two hot dogs handshake to four hot dogs and four headshakes.
• 1:15:34
  You're right anyway, guys, the winner Figure of the Year. Wow,
• 1:15:43
  damn. Supreme c and Punk Brian already spoke about it. Earlier.
• 1:15:47
  Can I just say one thing, guys, I'm the Michael Jordan of rest
• 1:15:53
  of her collecting. I was telling, you know, Chelsea her sisters here.
• 1:15:58
  I was explained to her, I'm a broadcast journalist because I need to
• 1:16:00
  do some research. I said, would you like to come to Walmart with
• 1:16:02
  me? And it was Figure Faded was on the shelves. Oh wow.
• 1:16:06
  I had to look at it, Cmpunk Figure of the Unels and I haven't
• 1:16:12
  opened it yet, it's still mint in package. But I see what everyone's
• 1:16:15
  talking about. I see the fuss. You know. It's got so much
• 1:16:18
  cool stuff. It's got the different legs and yeah, one is like gray
• 1:16:23
  tights and has logos on the kickers. The other is camo trunks, nothing
• 1:16:27
  on the kickers, has the T shirt, has the hoodie, It has
• 1:16:30
  the interchangeable hands, the title, four different heads, one of sorry,
• 1:16:35
  two of the heads have like the hair is kind of in the face.
• 1:16:39
  This is, to me what a wrestling figure is all about. And I
• 1:16:43
  love it. Yes, that's like what you should expect out of like an
• 1:16:46
  epic wrestling figure, right, thirteen pieces. I love how it's displayed like
• 1:16:50
  he's walking out of the entrance away. I love that the hands and all
• 1:16:54
  the interchangeable parts of the side not ruining the figure like an Ultimate. And
• 1:16:59
  I understand you need to show the consumer what's there, but see how they
• 1:17:02
  did it. It's on the sides, the sides the best of both worlds,
• 1:17:05
  right, Like I think Ultimates could figure out a way. You know,
• 1:17:09
  they have the same room. They can put on the sides, they
• 1:17:11
  can figure out, they can adjust. I voted, I voted for the
• 1:17:15
  Ultimates, but I do feel the Supreme, you know, is nailing the
• 1:17:18
  packaging for sure. I guess the reason why I didn't vote for this is
• 1:17:24
  because I don't I own it now. But oddly I think you have to
• 1:17:28
  own it to appreciate it, because it doesn't look that spectacular, like because
• 1:17:30
  listen and Jacket, Well, here's the problem is jack also think about this
• 1:17:34
  if you're watching at home, listening home, whatever is Jackets covering an insane
• 1:17:40
  tattoos and like this unbelievable deco hits so you're not seeing at all. I
• 1:17:44
  guess my problem with it is that, like cmpunk is very toytic, and
• 1:17:47
  they, in my opinion, they chose two untoyetic outfits. I hear what
• 1:17:56
  you're saying about it also like he doesn't like I'm fine with making one like
• 1:17:59
  dark Game. You know, it's worse. It was like anywhere like those
• 1:18:02
  muy Thai shorts one time. I'm not saying it was something like less terrible.
• 1:18:08
  So I don't know. I don't know if he ever wore hot pink
• 1:18:10
  tights, but couldn't that have been the other one? So there's like color.
• 1:18:14
  I'm sure he had some bred heart tights and aw that's that's my complain
• 1:18:16
  about it. But you know the articulation, the parts that it's listen,
• 1:18:21
  it's Figure the year. The fans voted, it is what it is.
• 1:18:24
  So I had to own it my collection to really check it out. I'm
• 1:18:27
  not gonna do it right here right now, but I had to own the
• 1:18:29
  Figure of the year, see punk, not only Figure of the year,
• 1:18:32
  Exclusive of the year and figure of the year. So that's that's how you
• 1:18:38
  have a good figure, and that's how you know exclusives. You know shouldn't
• 1:18:42
  be overlooked and shouldn't be taken seriously by by retailers because that's what they care
• 1:18:46
  if it wins the award. But man, take note that it was supposed
• 1:18:49
  to be Series three Supreme that we don't know what happened to it and we
• 1:18:51
  almost never got this figure at all. So pretty well. Yeah, by
• 1:18:56
  the way, just to just to note here at the end, uh,
• 1:19:00
  you know, if you're wondering how how do I vote? You know,
• 1:19:02
  how do I vote? In this? Well, you we've talked about it
• 1:19:05
  all the time. Major Marks dot Com, the Facebook group, the community
• 1:19:09
  that we've been uh, you know, kind of taking part in since before
• 1:19:13
  the pandemic or during the pandemic. It's there's been many years. Basically all
• 1:19:17
  these things were voted by that community, which is a very strong Figure community.
• 1:19:24
  And if you would like to be part of that and like to take
• 1:19:26
  part in these in these live streams, you know, and all and all
• 1:19:30
  these other Q and A things that we're going to do, you know,
• 1:19:32
  Major Marks dot Com, Well, guys, thank you so much. I
• 1:19:36
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• 1:19:40
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• 1:19:44
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• 1:19:48
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• 1:20:23
  fans. We asked the Major Marks in the Facebook group major Marks dot Com.
• 1:20:27
  Side up today, ask the question about twenty twenty three twenty twenty four,
• 1:20:30
  not what our favorite colors? You know what I'm saying, Yeah,
• 1:20:32
  I got some rippers. We're answer three questions. Mark, Let's go all
• 1:20:38
  right, bacon Nate says, what was your biggest fuck yes moment in twenty
• 1:20:42
  twenty three? And how do you plan the top it in twenty twenty four?
• 1:20:47
  Are we talking like in the business, we're talking five of the figure
• 1:20:50
  on the shelves. What are we talking about here? I think it?
• 1:20:55
  I think it's up to you. I immediately thought of something in the business.
• 1:20:58
  But well, if it's in the buses, seeing catering, sharing a
• 1:21:02
  WU Energy with old h a WO Energy, seeing Rick Claire the shower,
• 1:21:12
  no hair, no flare, Yeah, is that what you proved him?
• 1:21:15
  You don't have silver ball and say no hair, no flair. Yeah,
• 1:21:16
  yeah, yeah, yeah exactly, that's what what were you thinking of?
• 1:21:19
  Mark? Uh So? I actually think a couple of weekends ago, Final
• 1:21:25
  Battle was just a really cool wrestling moment, an awesome way to end the
• 1:21:29
  year. I had a lot of time on a pay per view. It
• 1:21:31
  was twenty minutes. It was like a feud that was entirely you know,
• 1:21:38
  sort of mine and Tony Niece's, you know, equally as opposed to like,
• 1:21:42
  you know, standing behind Jad or whatever. Yeah. Uh So,
• 1:21:45
  it was just a really cool thing and I didn't even realize how cool it
• 1:21:47
  was until it was happening. So it's just a great way to end the
• 1:21:51
  year, and I would love to continue that that path next year for Ringwan
• 1:21:59
  or aw or whatever it is. What I thought of when you said that
• 1:22:02
  immediately, was I mean? And there was a lot, right, you
• 1:22:05
  know, the growth of Bendy's and Big Rubber Guys and this podcast itself,
• 1:22:12
  But wrestling wise, I'm gonna say, in Chicago, bound for glory with
• 1:22:15
  the announcement of the return of TNA Wrestling, especially just you know, working
• 1:22:20
  there as long as I have now gotten close to everybody, and then like
• 1:22:25
  in the real inside of it, like you know, some of us knew
• 1:22:27
  what was happening, and a lot of us were pretty deathly afraid that it
• 1:22:30
  was just gonna be something that people didn't care about or drown out with seampunk
• 1:22:33
  chants, and like neither of that happened, and it's been so wildly positively
• 1:22:40
  embraced. It's just been really cool to be a part of because I've just
• 1:22:45
  really loved him back wrestling in these past three and a half years, you
• 1:22:46
  know, and I'm glad that it's starting to get some love back from the
• 1:22:50
  people that haven't been watching. So it seems like twenty twenty four is gonna
• 1:22:56
  be really different in a very exciting way. So I'm looking forward to that.
• 1:23:00
  Yeah. I mean, I was in TNA off and on for a
• 1:23:02
  while or impact, and you know, the announcement, I was like,
• 1:23:06
  holy shit, this is genius. You know. I'm always trying to think
• 1:23:09
  of ways companies can be better or get better, and that would not have
• 1:23:13
  even ever crossed my mind to go back to TENNA. I never thought it
• 1:23:16
  be an option. I didn't but I did not only that, I didn't
• 1:23:19
  even think about it as an option, right, So the fact that it
• 1:23:23
  came like out of thin air, I was like, whoa, that's fucking
• 1:23:27
  genius. So I'm very excited to see what happens next. Of course we
• 1:23:30
  have the figure, so maybe one of the figures wins next year, but
• 1:23:33
  mine wrestling related cool year. I can't, you know, I can't figure
• 1:23:39
  out the number one thing. But for me, maybe my uh finding your
• 1:23:45
  heater in Australia and bringing her back with you and changing your whole act hitting
• 1:23:48
  her in the face of the belts twenty seven times since well she's involved in
• 1:23:53
  it. But I would say the the entrance at GCW Homecoming against Nick Gage,
• 1:23:58
  a story that was two years in the making, you know. Year
• 1:24:00
  one, at Homecoming I beaten engagement title. Year two at Homecoming he ruins
• 1:24:04
  my renewing my valves with Chelsea. Year three, me and Steph against him
• 1:24:10
  and Machi with a death match busters. I rent a real ecdo one for
• 1:24:14
  a WrestleMania entrance at the Showboat Arena, so only the match was The match
• 1:24:24
  was what it was. I actually loved the match, but the entrance,
• 1:24:27
  you know, to me, is what wrestling is all about. I had
• 1:24:30
  my my GCW homecoming moment. We'll hear me out Brosky from the top it
• 1:24:34
  next year you do a Jurassic Park gimmick and you rent a brachiosaurus to ride
• 1:24:42
  in on. That's pretty funny. I like that, and I think we
• 1:24:45
  sho just end it right there. That was a nice little well. I
• 1:24:48
  also just popped in my mind for the podcast that the cruise was great for
• 1:24:53
  us, right, Brosky winning the belt. I saw that picture today,
• 1:24:55
  all of us saying suck it with Swaggle and me and you Frosky on the
• 1:24:59
  stage. Great, you know listen being in WW. It was what it
• 1:25:02
  was. It was awesome. It set us up for this. But like
• 1:25:05
  I look at like whatever twenty eighteen, like what the fuck did I do?
• 1:25:10
  You know? We're like I look you right, you know what I'm
• 1:25:14
  saying, like, yeah, you know what really was accomplished? Right,
• 1:25:16
  But like I think that almost Kurt Hawkins like twenty eleven, right, you
• 1:25:21
  know what I'm I feel like, really reaching for an accomplishment, even something
• 1:25:25
  positive where in this year on social media, In the last two weeks of
• 1:25:29
  the year, I tried to pick something every single day. My favorite moment
• 1:25:32
  I was able to pick fourteen favorite moments, and that was it was hard
• 1:25:36
  to pick fourteen, you know what I'm saying. So it's it's been so
• 1:25:41
  much fun. And I mentioned before, I don't care how you to find
• 1:25:43
  success, money, happiness, accolades. This indie run is the most successful
• 1:25:46
  I've ever been. Uh, and I'm excited for next year one hundred percent.
• 1:25:51
  I got a couple more. You want to just end it on that
• 1:25:54
  though? That was such a nice time. Yeah, I think that's Listen,
• 1:25:57
  I think that's a good one to you. Guys. We appreciate great
• 1:26:00
  questions. There was fifty great questions, so we appreciate that. We did
• 1:26:02
  not think that this episode would go this long, but but we did it.
• 1:26:05
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• 1:26:09
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