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  And eggs and issues travel, things have gotten in the way of
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  me see and Jesse Fairbanks for a while.
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  And it's nice to see you once more, Sir.
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  How are things on this fine Thursday?
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  Very good you. Good, thank you for asking.
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  It's a little chilly out. I'm wearing a hoodie, not a big
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  fan of that. What'd they say?
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  We got another three weeks of this weather at.
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  Least Yep, it's not going to be summer until July.
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  I know apparently, so we'll we'll muddle on through.
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  But I appreciate you being here as always.
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  Jesse Fairbanks, Maine vintage choice, 650 Main Street.
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  Make sure you stop by and say hello to Jesse and the fam there
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  and buy yourself a whole bunch of stuff while you're while
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  you're in. There, got everything.
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  You are cooking and I imagine. Now, yeah, we got even got we
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  just got got in hacky sacks. Oh, hacky sacks and squish
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  butter. I'm sorry, what?
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  The they're like a viral sensation thing.
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  It looks like a stick of butter, but it's like a squishy memory
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  foam type thing. Yeah, very interesting.
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  Squish butter. The hacky sack.
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  And hacky sack. That is, do you have any double
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  sticks? I don't, but those are back
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  around. I just yes, yeah, they call them
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  juggling sticks now is the. Juggling.
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  Well, proper term sticks, can't say.
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  That, Yeah. OK.
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  How about I'm thinking of like moon shoes?
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  I'm thinking of everything from back then, right?
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  What was the Oh yeah Pogs? You must have been.
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  Pogs, at some point I did. Oh yeah, yeah.
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  Actually, when I first opened the store, I bought a gentleman
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  came in that was a competitive player of Pogs and he played in
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  all these tournaments, well, back then, back then all over
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  the country. So I bought his competitive POG
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  set. I got briefly sucked into that
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  for about like 2 months. Yeah, in like 1995 or whatever
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  that was, whatever. That was great.
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  I think I bought the the big pod pad plus all the pods and then
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  nobody really played it like it's like nobody cares about
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  this. It's.
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  Like it was like the slammers were the coolest thing.
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  I guess, but you didn't even use them, you were just collecting
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  them. It was.
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  Like a collector. Oh, exactly.
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  I didn't know how to play it. Yeah.
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  Well, Jesse Fairy, it's always good to talk to you.
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  We love doing trivia every time you join us, so Jesse always
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  brings a fun question for the audience to ask.
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  If you get the question right, of course you are the proud
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  recipient of a Maine Vintage Toys T-shirt, some swag from MVT
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  as we like to call them, and you can stop by after the show and
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  go visit ME and Vintage Choice to go pick it up.
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  But you got to win to get it. So call in now, 879-9426, That
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  is the phone number if you'd like to get in the running here.
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  The question for this week, Jesse Fairbanks, is what?
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  All right. Released in 1986 by Worlds of
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  Wonder, the same company behind Teddy Roxpin, this futuristic
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  toy craze used infrared light technology and became one of the
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  hottest neighborhood games of the decade.
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  Kids and adults battled each other, while arenas and special
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  places to play started popping up everywhere.
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  No, you look puzzled. I do look puzzled.
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  OK. I thought it was going to be
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  easier every time, you know? Well, I'm sure when somebody
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  gets it, I'll probably be like, Oh yeah, that makes sense.
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  Yeah. 879-9426 if you think you know the answer to this
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  question. So 80.
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  Six definitely probably played it.
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  Oh, I have no doubt that I did. Yeah, definitely played.
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  It Yeah, I'm sure I did. But yeah, you've, you've cooked
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  my brain enough today that I don't know.
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  So 879-9426, if you think you know the answer to this question
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  and keep calling in too because often times first person gets it
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  wrong. So we need to go 235 or 9 deep
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  to get to the actual answer. And I would love to know it
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  because now I'm curious. So people are calling in right
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  now. So we'll go to, we'll go to the
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  phones as soon as Danny gives me a name.
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  As soon as Danny gives me a name, I will call on whoever's
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  there and then we will hopefully have a winner of some main
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  vintage toy swag. So that's coming up here in
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  just. Well, we're setting up our toy
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  room. We have like a toy room and it's
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  kind of pop culture room and this was one of the first things
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  I bought to put in there 'cause I just loved it so much when I
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  was younger. You've intrigued me, you said.
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  19. 86 yeah 1986. Worlds of Wonder was the company
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  the same company that did Teddy Roxpin, but variously different
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  I. Was going to say that doesn't
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  sound like a Teddy Roxpin S type of type of thing.
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  And I think they still have some of these places to go play this.
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  OK, well, let's find out what we're talking about here.
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  I mean, I do actually have an idea, but I feel like it's too
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  easy or, or too simple. We'll see.
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  Ray. Ray is our first guy.
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  So let's do. Ray.
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  Sir, what do you got for a guess?
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  Yeah, my guess would be laser tag.
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  It is laser. Tag OK so that was my thought
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  that's I see that was so they definitely still have places.
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  I was like, Oh yeah, my kid went to go to, I feel.
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  Like there's a bowling alley right In Portland, yes.
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  Yeah, Yep, spare time does it, yeah.
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  OK. Spare time does it.
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  It's a good place for a birthday party.
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  Yeah, it is. Ray, you have won.
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  Congratulations. Yes.
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  Thank you. Well done, Sir.
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  Stop by 650 Main St. Pick up your shirt and you'll
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  enjoy wearing it around town. Thanks a lot, Ray.
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  Yeah, no, laser tag is not only is it still a thing, but they
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  sell it like in like home. Like you can buy it for your
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  kids and they can run around and get 'cause mine and have them.
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  And you, you get like the gun you have like the little chest
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  piece or whatever that you put on and it just it, you know, you
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  shoot it or whatever and you run around my house screaming like a
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  crazy man does. That gun look less like a gun
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  now. Oh yeah, it's, it's definitely
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  like a plastic white thing with like a lot of glowing lights on
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  it. Yeah.
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  So you can sort of. The one I had was all like black
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  and it definitely looked a little futuristic but definitely
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  could be mistaken for. There's a reason they don't want
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  you to do that. Anymore they had it in a in a
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  black version and a white version so you could.
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  Yeah. The ones they sell for like you
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  to pick up for home use or whatever are pretty.
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  I think they're white now. Yeah.
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  And they're, they they look like what you would imagine a science
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  fiction space laser beam gun or something like that would look
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  like. So it doesn't look anything
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  like. Anything and they must vibrate.
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  I don't remember them vibrating. They make a lot.
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  They definitely made a lot of noise.
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  Yeah, they make a lot of noise. I think when you get hit it goes
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  it like a crash noise happens and it starts blinking and yeah,
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  whatever. But no, that's, that's always
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  pretty popular gift. And I think literally, I think
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  my son just did that last his, you know, like in December for
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  his birthday party. I think one year kind of floats
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  into the next for me. I don't really remember all this
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  stuff, but he just did one and there's a lot of kids there, so
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  good times were had by all. You mentioned to me, by the way,
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  that the new He Man movie is coming.
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  Speaking of nostalgia. I think it was this Thursday
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  maybe? Oh, it's so it's like I.
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  Thought it was this week sometime.
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  So like today, today, maybe tomorrow.
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  Is it today? Tomorrow I just saw another
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  preview for it, so I have to imagine we're.
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  Getting it was coming close. Right down to it, you have had a
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  pretty universally consistent collection of of he man stuff
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  since I first met you, so that's one of your sweet spots.
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  Right, that and GI Joe Yeah, I keep a good.
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  You got a bunch now because I got to imagine that would be a.
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  High end event of of he man GI Joe I'm wiped.
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  I could just just put them out and they fly.
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  So, which is a good problem to have, but I'd like to have a
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  nice beautiful full looking case this four times you.
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  Know, of course. Did you know, by the way,
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  Speaking of trivia, that he, man would not exist if it wasn't for
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  Arnold Schwarzenegger? Yes, I have heard.
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  That yeah, I saw this yesterday actually, So it must be somehow
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  tied into the movie or so. I don't know.
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  But I guess what ended up happening was I think Mattel,
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  which is the ones that did he, man, right?
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  That's Mattel, Right. So I guess for the Conan the
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  Barbarian movie, when that came out, of course, starring Arnold
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  Schwarzenegger. And I hear, by the way, there is
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  a new Conan, King Conan movie that's going to come out
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  relatively soon with Arnold in it.
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  Oh, yeah. And I will be there on day one
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  for that. But anyway, they do this movie,
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  right? And obviously it's, you know,
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  it's, you know, sword and sandal kind of thing.
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  And you got this big gigantic monster of a dude and and so
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  they wanted to market it. So they made a toy and I guess
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  something happened with the toys where they either didn't release
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  them or there was a mistake or something.
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  So they made all these like muscle bound, like barbarian
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  esque kind of figures or whatever.
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  And they ended up like having to do something with it.
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  So they're like, screw it, let's make a toy line.
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  Freaking he man, let's do that. And that's how he made Bikini
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  Man. And if you think about it,
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  looking at him, he's like, yeah, that is kind of Schwarzenegger
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  esque, isn't it? For sure.
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  Looks like he's on some tests. It was definitely like a
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  company, Remco that did kind of, they were always kind of doing
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  knock off type toys of the thing and they definitely had a line
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  that looked even more like going in.
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  Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, very similar.
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  So. Well, you can, you can thank
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  Arnold for that, I guess. See, I always liked with those,
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  with those things, it was not just the toys, but like they had
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  like they had like companion books that went with them.
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  So you had like a story to go with it.
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  You obviously had the cartoon. Show audio, put the cassette in
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  and read along. But.
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  That's true. I do remember that.
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  Wow. That's yeah, that's a flashback.
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  Yeah, yeah, I definitely remember that.
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  I'm just, I'm just trying to think of all the, all the
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  different, you know, sort of like stories that came out of
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  it. It was a lot of fun to go
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  through that kind of thing. And then have you ever, have you
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  ever actually tried rewatching the cartoon?
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  Show because it's not in a lot of it's terrible, yeah.
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  It's really bad. Yeah.
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  It's not good. Like I remembered it being a lot
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  more entertaining than it was. Yeah.
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  It just was like you, you can go watch a rewatch an episode of
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  Transformers. And I think like, Oh yeah, that
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  actually is, you know, for a kid, it's really good.
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  He man was. But I'll give this movie a lot
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  of credit though, because like this is this movie that that is
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  coming out, which perhaps is today, as Jesse said, is seems
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  to be making a good faith effort to actually make it fun.
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  I mean, if you look at they actually have like Mecca neck in
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  that thing, that guy with the long neck, the metal neck thing,
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  like he's in it and he's got the long neck when he looks like the
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  figure, like they're doing it the right way.
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  I always hated it when like Michael Bay did the Transformers
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  movies, he made them all look different like it.
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  Was not He didn't like the Dolph Lundgren adaptation.
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  OK, so that movie is so bad. It's good, though, you got to
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  admit, right? It's so bad it's good.
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  Wasn't Courtney Cox in that? I think so, yeah.
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  She was one of the teenagers, right?
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  There was like two teenagers from the, you know, real Earth.
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  Yeah. That ended up going into the
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  parallel dimension. Dolph Lundgren, not a bad he
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  man, but he's he to me. He was always too tall.
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  Like. He man looked like he was like.
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  And it, yeah, he's more tall, kind of thin, you know, he's
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  well built, but like, thinner right now 'cause yeah, he may
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  know. He's obviously muscular, but
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  like I like, I mean, I hate to go back to Schwarzenegger, but
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  like that's the kind of like more square, you know, than than
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  long. So I didn't think Dolph was
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  really the best guy, but that movie was who who played
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  Skeletor in that movie? That was.
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  Oh, I can see the guy too. Was it I?
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  I try. I feel like it's a really good
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  actor. I can't remember the guy's name.
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  Because he did a lot of voice over work too.
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  I did he Yeah. Well, this is going to be a
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  different movie. I, I think.
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  I think this is actually going to be fairly good.
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  I mean, they got a Street Fighter movie coming out.
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  They got that more combat thing came out, didn't it?
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  Isn't that already out? I think so.
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  The Mortal Kombat movie, I think that was well received because
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  he got Karl Urban as Johnny Cage, which is fantastic.
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  That's a great idea. That's a fantastic idea.
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  And then of course, you got a couple more more movies coming
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  out this winter that I think are pretty good too.
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  So it might actually be a halfway decent movie here for
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  those of us who like nostalgia. Plus you mentioned that other
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  movie, The Chris Hansen movie, so.
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  Right. I was telling Jesse on the on
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  the lead up here, I saw the IT was just a teaser.
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  It was just a teaser. But Robert Pattinson, Robert
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  Pattinson, he of Twilight and, you know, 18 different
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  Christopher Nolan movies is playing Christopher Chris Hanson
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  from to Catch a Predator fame. And the teaser is really just
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  him talking to one of the people that was, you know, in the it's
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  always the kitchen. You know, it's like they watch
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  take a seat over there to, you know, sit.
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  Down what? Exactly were you intending to do
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  here, Sir? You know, like nothing, nothing.
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  I wasn't doing anything that. I don't know what their angle is
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  though, because it's made by a 24, which is that horror studio
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  that that does a lot of very interesting and creative spins
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  on the genre. So they might maybe Chris Hansen
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  secretly murdering people or there might be a lawsuit coming
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  on this movie. But yeah, so maybe it's going to
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  be a good year for movies overall.
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  But make sure as you go to the movies, friends, you stop by 650
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  Main St. in South Portland, visit Main vintage toys, pick
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  up. Apparently not any GI Joes
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  'cause they're out now, but he always gets a new supply of
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  them. So whenever you see him, grab
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  them. But got lots of other stuff
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  there that you always want. And you get to mingle with a
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  tourist now because it's getting to be that time of year.
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  I love it.