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MWFP Rewind 35 - Disco Fever, Who’s the Janetty? Major Pod Goes Bollywood and More! · The Major Wrestling Figure Podcast

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You're listening to the major pod network. The only place we're your favorite toy
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store, bar, arcade, and arena are all on the same block.
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Scratch that major itch. Here's some intol wrestling ringo podcast, ablest little show
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talking bag to collectable balls. Here we all let's go godless here to buy
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everything bare minimum. Brian saying, you want to say a smart park,
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He's right the show. It's time to talk. Let's go Welcome to the
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Major Wrestling Figure Podcasts to rewind a show where we take some of the best
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ultimate and classic major moments put together for new and old major marks to enjoy.
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This week where you already know what we gotta do. We gotta throw
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in some weekly purchases. In my opinion, one of the best parts of
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the show, and that's kind of the meat of the show. It's what
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keeps the show fresh, It's what keeps the show going is the weekly purchases.
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So we got that from episode forty one. From there, we got
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a jam packed back end of the show. It's a triple shot. I'm
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sorry, this is a quadruple shot. We got the incarnation of Marty Janetti.
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We have a WCW battle arm WTF. The Bollywood Boys join the podcast
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for a little ball busting and figure talk, then we close things off with
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a classic Q and Day. This is a great one. They're talking about
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their early days of customizing figures, talking about ruining all of these Hasbros to
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make their imaginations come to life, and they ponder if Mattel would ever re
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release some classic rare gems. M that's it. Enjoy the show. This
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is a Disco Infernal and you're listening to the Major Wrestling Figure podcast. Now
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go buy that Disco Inferno action figure on eBay and you just beat the living
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hell out of all the other ones. Chinny chin balls. It's either weekly
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purchases. Some might cost a little, some might cost a lot. But
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I'm the thousands dollar Browski and your figures will be bought all right. It
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is signed for weekly purchases. I got a bunch of things on there,
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a bunch of trade skis, a bunch of purchases. I will start first.
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A couple of weeks ago, I think you convinced me that I need
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to get the kids size toy titles of every title I've ever held. I
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don't know how do you remember that? I do I do, But I'm
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blown away that it wasn't like you're so uh anal, I guess how did
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you not think we talked about it? Like before WrestleMania, I walked into
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a target in Brooklyn and there was two raw Chet Team titles and one Cruiserway
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title. And then I'm like, you know what this is? Figure right,
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this is a sign. I bought them all. I gave Nice the
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title at our live show, I put the title in your bag. At
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Mania we all won. Yeah, so I have that which to me until
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you explain that scenario to me, I was like, what are you doing,
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dude? This is the markist like like bad karma. Oh it was
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good. It was opposite. Explain when you explained it that way. There
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was only three titles there out of all the titles that could have been there.
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Um, I had bought a US title years ago. Um I do
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need that Jack SmackDown Taketing paddle. Those Jack saddles are hard to get.
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That's so crazy. Yeah, just plentiful at the stores. They're almost like
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top town stile Like if you need it. About anybody has a Jacks back
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in the down taketeing battle, it has to be mint inbox. There's a
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lot of ways to get it, like two packs with the guys. Yeah,
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if you guys have one, I definitely want to be tracing other week.
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But I needed the Intercontinental title and those are not in stores right now.
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Oh yeah, because it's they do it like in waves and stuff,
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right, So I had to go on Amazon and I got one on Amazon,
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but then arrived in a frustration free packaging. So you don't like,
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yeah, you want you want it in the display. No, it's fine,
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how it is, well, truth be told. I just called you
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a mark, but this sounds like a Mark thing. When we won,
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when we actually won, I got a bunch of of the raw titles off
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Amazon to like give it to my friends and family. Yeah, and it
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came in that packaging, and it kind of took the window on my sales
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a little bit because it's not as cool if you're giving it to something exactly
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this will be the presentation. It really is frustration you packaging. I agree.
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I couldn't let him breathe episode us one of these. It's just a
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cardboard box as Mattel Interconal title. That's it. Yeah, Yeah, I
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thought that was very weird. I know, but but I guess it saves
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space if you're just ship kid and you're gonna play with it. Yeah,
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and it saves space to shipping it's done because those boxes are so big.
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Yeah, that makes sense. But if it's like something you want to keep
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and that's not there, yeah, Okay. Also on WWE shop dot com,
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it's still available. I got the wrestle them. I know you had
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this to the WrestleMania plaque of me and you with the ring campus Yeah,
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buddy, and they're all numbered and we've talked about this before this. I
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think it started with Sean michaels a WrestleMania twelve. M pretty sure. That's
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the first time I ever recall seeing something I never had it. I always
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wanted it um in my mind. The picture that comes on that plaque is
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him on his knees holding the title. But that's not the picture. What
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is it. It's him like in the ring, like both arms upholding.
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Okay, anyway, wait, you got it? No, no nos.
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Someone was asking me to be trades Sky of the Week and then I was
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talking to he was like, how much does go for an even? Like,
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dude, if you really don't want to trade if if you don't know
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what you have, I'm not doing um. But I obviously have the one
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from Rust of Many one on the IC, so now I have this one.
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So it's really cool, like sometimes like what am I doing? Like
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those are pretty cool moments. Yeah, I mean lives forever kind of thing.
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So I picked those up at w W shops like kind of The coolest
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thing was the number on mine, number twenty three. Michael Jordan of Brestle
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collect I can't believe even knew that was Michael Jordan's number, so w W
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shop knew that I'm the Michael Jordan I was collecting. It was figure face.
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I had twenty one, twenty, I had like twenty three and like
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fifty something, which is weird because I ord him the same with time I
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had twenty and twenty one, so bizarre, weird. I gave one to
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my mom and dad. I gave one to my mom that too, But
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anyway, so I technically on those tour nights, I'm just searching away on
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eBay and I found a vintage This isn't wrestling figure related, but people appreciate
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this. I think the baseball no. A vintage ECW license plate. Cover.
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I saw that. I just hadn't ever seen it, and I was
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very curious. It's on your car, and I got it. Then I
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got it in my hands and I'm like, well, what do I do
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with this now? And maybe I just put in my car? Who cares?
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And I didn't even realize. I'm so not a car guy. I've
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had this car for five years. It has like a blah blah blah Honda
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the dealership one, and I'm like, oh, I kinda put this ECW
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one. I didn't even notice this for five years. I might as well
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put this expensive ECW one that I got on. So I'm pretty pretty bumped
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about that. You see that chalk Line is making ECW shorts mess shorts.
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No, I tagged you at it. I didn't see it, dude,
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chalk Line use the code major fifteen to say fifteen percent you did these.
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No, they're like mess shorts with all the different versions of ECW logo on
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it. Oh, I don't know if I like that. I think you'll
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like version that was the only version might not be on it. Okay,
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then it's fine. Look at chocolates ig right now, what do you how
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do you withheld this information? From why I tagged you in it? Oh
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my god, their pictures it's the main picture. Yeah, I don't know
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that. Wait what those ones aren't even the ones? These are the ones
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right there? Or maybe there's more the dude, what you see that?
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Yeah? Incredible? Right whoa, I gotta get on this right now.
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You just like my comment Hey at Ker Hawkins Jr. D Hard, I
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didn't see that at all. Go to Chocolatene anything. You're from Chocolate and
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Jackets Shure. It's shorts major fifteen to say fifteen percent anytime. So in
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there main picture, their profile pictures are different pair of shorts. Huh.
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I did not know when did you do this to years ago? Yesterday?
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Maybe chocolate? I don't realize they could do that. So now my mind's
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racing that. Like there's a lot more cool stuff like than Oh my god.
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Yeah, make me an ECW track suit and I'll wear that every day.
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Okay. Also I got from ks Elite Stages. We actually met him
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in the UK. He makes these cool custom stages using styrofoam and they're very
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very detailed. He made me a WrestleMania ten Hasbro entrance away. Did you
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see the pictures of that, Yes, and the entrance way really opens up
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and closes. He had made this for me a couple months ago and it
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came and it was a little damaged, so I told him aout it.
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He just made me brand new him. But he he has a lot of
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customers, so it took a while to get a new one. But he
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made me that. And KS Elite Stages find them on Facebook, Instagram,
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Twitter. He makes them great, great stuff. So thank you very much
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for I feel like we learned on our UK trip that they have way better
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paint pens. That's from ks Elite Stages NTDD. Yeah, and TDD gave
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us those paint pens and I have been using them for things. They're like
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way better. They're smoother. I don't think you have to break them in
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like they just come right. They just know. They You can shake them
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and they make the shake noise, but you don't have to like jazz them,
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press and like waste time like getting them going. I'm pretty sure they're
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just great. Um my big purchase of the week, I am a lot
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more. Well, this is my big one. I am truly the Michael
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Jordan of ECW original San Francisco toy maker anything, did you get who?
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I think you're gonna say? What do you think I'm gonna say? Jack?
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No news, God, No. If you have that and you know
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what I'm talking about, I need to I need to loose one and I
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need a min on car run to get signed by Knew Jack. You will
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be trades. Give the week, purchase of the week, whatever you want
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it to be. I'll make it worth your while. But the one known
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prototype that was eluding me is now mine because Figure Collector eighty six slid into
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my DM said I think I'm ready to part ways with my Bubba. No,
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yes, cut a deal. He is now mine. It's pretty odd
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now that I have it like that. There's no glasses. No glasses,
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which is what the as we've talked about in the in the archives. Pal
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uh you know the original weird Bubba prototype and trunks. I believe that one
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had no glasses, so it must be that head. But it's the body
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in the shorts of the T shirt that out already. No, it's the
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one he wouldn't tell me and he had He's like, I going to hang
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onto it and came crawling back. So I literally have everything now except for
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that road kill prototype. I guess we've seen a photo of that, but
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we don't know who whose photo that was, but anything known to man I
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have technically, that's very very cool, very excited, and very proud to
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add that. Another quick follow up, I guess you got to put this
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in you're forty eight minute long house keeping sec last week. I had a
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mild heart attack when you discovered that my childhood rhino was defective. Truth be
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told. During that segment, I'm texting, ebaying, Amazon, ing,
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trying to figure out anything. I hit up Jack from The Wrestling Universe.
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I said, hey, do you have this? He goes yep. Just
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by chance. We were driving to Albany the next day and I was like,
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hey, we gotta make a stop. We went, we got it.
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Not only did he have, I'm in on card rhino that I let
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breathe and did a little switcheroo, and I have a perfect rhino in my
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collection. He had a vintage I would say, two thousand ecw hat that
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I've been wearing, and just an awesome soil the Wrestling Universe and Flush and
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Queens of Best Wrestling Universe. It's a wonderful, wonderful, never unique place.
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It's too amazing. We gotta go back and really dive in on what
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they had. I look at these random figures I got from Wrestling Universe.
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I got a draft Spike Dudley. He's the long sleeve like Dudley boy shirt
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with the X over underrated figure, very underrated. I think it's the best
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Spike figure tight Tron ever. I got the Road Rage h Bone Coach,
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actually hardcore Holly, and that is I believe this is very important. I
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believe this is the first wooden table. Correct me if I'm wrong. I
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mean, I think Miss Jacks be sick and do the blend all on that
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first. Were you saying that is drawing a memory that I think you're right.
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I think that's the first wooden table. If I'm wrong, sue me,
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sue me for what. Also? I got the Hall of Champions mattel
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Rakishi. I passed on in the stores and then I saw it at the
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Wrestling Universe with the all black outfit enters outfit. I'm like, you know
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what, I kind of need this, and I feel like you're in a
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King Mabel situation, like which one do you? I would display both of
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these because they're that different. Wow. Yeah, because the other rakishi has
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like the red like thing srong or whatever it's going right, I don't know
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what it's called. I think it says srong the what I think it's a
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sarrong. It might be good. But so I'm gonna display both those rakishi's.
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Also, I want to thank the man, the myth, the legend,
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not the hustler, but the hassle tooy. I see your eyes rolling.
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They they're still in my head. For some reason, I've decided and
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this is gonna this is gonna be a long game. Is that what's called
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the long game? You're in it for the long long haul? Yeah,
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what are we talking about? I think I want to get all the LJAN
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posters. I think that's a cool thing. It's a cool thing. Yeah,
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I did not realize how prices some of them bar really Yeah that I
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have not my knowledge of the black hard ones or insane what's insane? Like
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hundreds of dollars? Really? Yes? Man? Okay, so I mean
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whatever. This is a side note, but some of in the LJN collecting
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I've been doing to piece together this set. Sometimes, like the bio cards
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are like fall in my hands, or the posters and I always put them
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on eBay and they sell are way more than I think they gonna go for.
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These posters came with the LJA and figures. They're all rolled up and
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it's basically just like a humanized drawing up the figure kind of most of them
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them. The later ones are actual, right, yeah right, I don't
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think so um. I got these from Hastle, Captain Lobbano Rocket Yes,
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Me and Gene Jesse Ventura and Cobra Kirshner. He had a bunch of other
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ones that he's sending me. I'm very I don't want like thumb tack holes
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in them. I don't want rips. We went we did a figure out
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episode where yes, and I know, I'm so mad. Yeah, I
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don't want rips thumb tack holes, and I don't if they're rolled up,
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that's fine, and if there's a weird creasy like that, that's fine,
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but I don't want if they were folded. I'm very particular. So he
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got he sent me those I bought him, but then he also sent me
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a couple of others that I haven't opened up yet. So he said,
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here, you take these, and if you don't want them. I won't
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charge you. I guess you canna send him. Cost you nothing to send
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the poster, but little poster back. So thank you very much to the
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hassle man. What do you charge your triple face value for him? No,
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hassle is a good guy. I love the hassle man. Speaking of
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LJM poster, I got another LJM poster, but unfortunately I can't look at
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it because inside a mint on card LJN. I bought a Macho Man Randy
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Savage mint on card l j ED figure just to keep, just sentimental reason,
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just to keep. Wow. My good friend Jim Rose, he told
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me where to get a nice collector case for it. They make special cases
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for these l jns. They slide in perfectly. It's unbelievable. Yeah,
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it's it's the coolest case I've ever seen. Yeah, so that it's very
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expensive, right, Yeah, so I have worked it though. Yeah,
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so I have that for my Macho Man Randy Savage. Um, that's like
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one of my favorite figures, if not my favorite figure ever. So I
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haven't mint on card now. So it's pretty damn cool. And the carding
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I would say C eight maybe no good seven cracks in the bubble, no
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sun damage, Nope, A couple of little nicks, little bends. But
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yeah, I think those cards are hard to find men. I think the
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figures are so heavy they cracked the bubbles. That's so common, So to
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not have that, it's pretty much to see in a grating stand for condition.
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There you go, it was real life, folks. It's it's it's
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for Cardona holy or can't believe you just asked me that. I can't believe
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it's not Butter. I was fabio, what's for Halloween hair? Yeah,
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and I watched out. I can't believe it's not butter. That's funny.
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I'd pop for that at a part a couple of trade skis, Derek underscored
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James on Instagram. He traded me. Remember the whole hit Man Hard Foundation
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fiasco with the vests. Yea, he traded me that vest. He took
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a picture of the British bulldog with a hit Man vest and said, you
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need this? I said yeah. He said, hey man, you do
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so much for us, and uh, I just want to gift this to
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you, like, oh man, that's that's nice, Like you know,
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no, I want to give it to you. So though it was very
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cool, I sent him something in return. I got the package. He
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just said the vest I wanted the whole bulldog. Listen Derek for he offers
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it. Ay, I'm sorry. I didn't know. I wouldn't send the
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figure too. It's fun, it's fun. I had to tell us something
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to get off those little crappy vests. So Derek, thank you very much
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for sending me that hit man vest. I really appreciate it. Keep the
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bulldog It's on me. You're you're a great major mark. So thank you
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very much, Derek. Are we ready for the junk shop dog explosion?
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No? I got more. Another Trace of the Week comes from Brett Gee
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sixteen. He traded me the King of the Ring instructions I was talking about
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a couple weeks ago. So one with the Vince. It's actually Vince's picture,
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and there's one of the cartoon Vince. He traded me that, and
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then he threw into some extra things. He sent me some WWF POGs had
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that I had the two of them. Diesel, This Diesel slammers. This
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Brett guy is the guy who told us about the Undertaker that he swore undertaking
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the Bandanna under the hat of Mania and didn't man. This mother sent me
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an eight by ten of the Undertaker wearing the bandanna under the hat. I
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think that right in their garbage up there with the Mark Bush. He did
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send me a Maven Trading guard. I put that on my frieze. That's
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wonderful. He sent me a nice Ghostbuster pin, and he gave me a
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pin for you, a starting lineup spin I presented you right now, but
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it's in my room. I left it, but I really want that.
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Yeah, So thank you, Bret. You think it's a modern day like
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I think that's cool. Yeah. And he said it's to put on your
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gearbag. I will do it right now. I would have done it lies
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on the pot if you weren't so I responsible. Sorry, Brett, Um,
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I forgot about the junk shop. Guy's a lot of stuff to the
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jump junk shop dog. He's our japan figure whisper. He is he like
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we found Zoro Mendez, the Ljan whisperer we have. But the Bushman who
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just comes through a random prototype wonderfulness and you found junk shop. You know
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who found him for me? The villain? Oh, I didn't know that.
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Okay. The villain found junk shop dog together. We we're both getting
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things and he lives in Australia. Yeah, I think New Zealand. Maybe
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it was New Zealandia. My wife was like, why did you get a
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package from Australia. That's why it was in my head, but so I
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don't know why. Like in passing, he was like, oh, I'm
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sending all this stuff to Matt too. I said. He's like, can
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I send it to you just to stay you've done shipping And I was like,
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yeah, that's showed no problem. If I knew how much stuff you
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were getting, I would have said absolutely not. This giant box and stuff
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came. So I'll go first because I have nothing here down boxer to talk
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about because it's all in my collection. Right. Uh. He had each
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version of the Bruiser Brody h Char pro figure um, which we can get
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into it. Um. I'll present see you with your oars right now.
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Here's your ears. Yes, it's beautiful. So mine yours is he's whipping
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the chain up in the air around his head and mine he's like holding it
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down at his hip. Is the chain mold into his hand on mine?
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But then so mine's a real chain, not more like it's an actual like
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movable chain, and he comes with a different arm to change it, so
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I can almost like have that figure. That's that cool. Yeah, and
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but your is amazing too. How about the stand like bust that baby open?
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Let him breathe. What are you going to do with it? Right
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now? Look at the stand right now? You're gonna open anyway. Let
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me take a picture of this first, I forget it. We're a lot
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thal junk shop dog. Thank you very much for this bruiser brought him,
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gonna let him breathe. Oh my god, crying. Look at that with
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the chain. Unbelievable. Oh wow, this is great. He's like swinging
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the chain. A little texture on the vest here, Oh the little boot
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tassels. He stands perfectly. But you don't need to stand. Oh look
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at this stand. That's what I was trying to tell you. I didn't
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think you realized. Oh, I said, little stand here. I'm not
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going to use the stand though on my display you have to. I'm not
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gonna. Why would you not. It's got a chain's designed stand. Oh
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we'll see that. And it's also got his name, So if he didn't
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know who he was he's bruiser Brody. That's very cool. Thank you very
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much, junk Shop Dog. This is a great figure. This will go
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in my Japanese collection. I love I actually liked this. He's whipping the
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chain around. But you have a real chain on yours, right, Mine
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is a chain that like like a one that would come with like a JYD
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figure that didn't come with an LJ and acules. Yeah right, we agreed.
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Yeah, wow, this is this is super cool. I love this.
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Hell yeah, thank you very much, junk shop dog. Um,
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I don't know where you this name thing. It just goes in the front.
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So you put him stand him in the stand and then that goes in
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the front. Just place it. Mine is like stuck to it. It
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sticks in there. Oh yeah, yeah, definitely mine stuck to it.
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I don't think mine does. Is there another piece that's missing, No,
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Pegan, this is a very little peg. So he goes here. Oh
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wow, but the standout looks great like that. That's how mine is.
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Like, that's cool. That's really cool. So thank you very much,
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junk Shop Dog. But I got more. Yeah okay, anyway, real
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quick, so mine's on here. I got that, Brody and then I
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guess along the lines of that Matchum and l Jan you just discussed he had
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a crisp men on card tune Nan Dan my favorite themes of all times the
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Dark Side of the Ring podcast. Yeah, I know it's that weird.
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Maybe you think we watched those and got weird and sentimental, but anyway,
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Uh, Texas Tornado Series three has bro Mental Carton for some reason. That
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figure is one of these ones you see all the time, but on international
24:17
carting, right, he had an American carding. I was like, oh,
24:19
let's do it. I could have do with them, So I have
24:22
that. I haven't hanging up in my play room. I don't know what
24:23
why, I don't know. I just sent about it was one of my
24:26
fast favorite figures as incredible Big Big Fan doesn't quite work for the Tonka,
24:32
but it works for It's fine for It's fine move wise. No, but
24:36
it looked looked great. Care the Brett prototype that was gonna be on that
24:40
body. They're working on a Brett action man. What what about the legs.
24:45
I'm not quite sure about that because it couldn't have tassels. Yeah,
24:48
so here's the rest of your stuff. Here's item number yeah, which is
24:56
so weird. I'm holding this and uh, Saint Louis. Oh look,
25:00
you didn't even acknowledge the alternate arm. You have it too. Oh for
25:03
Brusa Brody, Yeah, look at you. You can switch his down arm
25:10
to a clothesline pose. Funny. I'm holding this figure here in uh in
25:15
Kansasa, Missouri, while Bill mckeina is jr. D somewhere in La California.
25:21
Because I am holding this Shinska Naka mora, I think you'd be very
25:26
upset knowing we're opening all these two. But I like this. Um wow,
25:32
I want to feel like I feel like you're gonna ficture this. It's
25:33
a Shinsk rookie figure. Shinska rookie figure. It's really what I would call
25:37
it. Right, Oh, same deal, too badass stand. I have
25:42
like a liger and a mooda with that stand. And that great man doesn't
25:45
even look like Nakamura. I mean he's it's from two thousand and four.
25:49
Two. I had to get this is so cool and interesting. You can
25:55
switch to his bikers, which is wild. Wap to bikers and swap to
25:57
boxing gloves, Mma gloves. Man. I'm gonna keep him like this.
26:02
I wish you would have keme to the title. I have a couple with
26:04
it though, of Nakamura. No, not knock warmed by a couple of
26:08
Japanese these style figures two thousand and four Shinski Nakamura. This is really cool.
26:17
I love on the back of it, does say n J p W.
26:19
Yep, that's great. Such unique figures. These are not like any
26:25
They're not comparable to any American line ever, right, like slightly articulated globes.
26:32
Right, yeah, this is really cool. He doesn't quite standard without
26:33
the stand Uh see, brother, you need those stands. They're incomplete with
26:37
out the stands too. You need him. It's a very cool. What
26:41
a great figure, what a great purpose. We're still going Oh no,
26:45
I uh. I was in the market for these after interview with junk shop
26:51
dog. I said, you know what, I'm gonna pass a little too
26:52
weird. Here you go two of the same, So I'll just look at
26:56
what. Yeah, look how big it is. First off, that's the
27:04
reason I check an entire bag for this trip to bring you toys b roads.
27:11
It's supposed looking like Dusty Rhodes. It does look it does look at
27:15
Dusty Rhodes. Alternate head where he's wearing like a Hannibal lecter mass. I
27:18
don't know, man. It literally says on there. Look, it says
27:22
inspired by based upon you see it in the corner Basic one characters, puy
27:26
In. I can't read that. I'm gonna butcher that either way. It's
27:32
a figure, a Japanese like vinyl figure that looks exactly like Dusty Rhodes.
27:37
So I thought it was that, and then after talking to him, he
27:40
said, no, it's it's a cartoon character from a Japanese cartoon that's inspired
27:45
by Dusty Rhodes. It's not exactly Dusty Rhodes. I was like, getting
27:48
I'll pass. I got two because I'm gonna send one to Cody. Yeah,
27:52
can we open this one? And I also says b Rhodes on the
27:53
packaging, that was the first time I went waiting to open it live.
27:56
Yeah, I want to see what it's like to be honest with you.
28:00
You do it for me. You can do me a friend one that's better.
28:03
Paint decals, that's the same. It's a vinyl not much going on.
28:10
That one's all bent at the top. If Cody's gonna keep it,
28:11
man, yeah, alright, alright, b roads, I'm curious to see
28:18
this thing flying off the carting. Wow. Oh man, come dream Hannibal
28:33
lector head. I thought I just broke it. Apparently the limbs just pop
28:38
off. Oh my god, Wow, this is uh to be played with
28:45
good hands on slimy. That's it feels like we do even It's like Bill
28:49
mckeena player with this Mattel shits case. It's all slim well slimy. Oh,
28:56
where where's that flash funk? This is one of the most unique What
29:03
is that flash funk all over that? Right, it's not condensation, it's
29:08
it's Bill having a a This is, oh my god interesting. I don't
29:17
know. It's Bill playing with his big bed having a mixed Max challenge with
29:21
his tag team of Oscar and not more like to believe it's dusty. But
29:26
oh man, it's in this interchangeable head. How does this headpop? Man,
29:30
I'm scared. I'd be scared to do that. I don't need to
29:33
do it. Yeah, it's so slimy. But this is such a cool
29:37
figure that happens. Man, it's so unique. This is the usually kind
29:40
of figures that I want on my miscellaneous shelf. Okay, I'll give it
29:42
to you. I think I need this man. And you said there's a
29:45
Terry Funk. Also, no, you said he said that. Maybe he
29:48
said that to me. I don't know. I don't know. Junk shop
29:51
dog. Check him out on Instagram. He's a ton of cool stuff,
29:53
a ton of cool stuff from the from Japan. Hit him up. Anything
29:57
else for weekly purchases? Are you done? I know I want you?
30:02
What else I have? One more thing? Is your thing? Big?
30:04
Mine's like a kind of cool story. So mine's a cool story. So
30:07
okay. This past week I took Chelsea Green, my fiance, to Universe
30:14
Studios um Florida Volcano Bays. I'm a big water park guy. It opened
30:21
up about two years ago. We haven't had the chance to go. Finally
30:22
went to Volcano Bay. Had a great day and as we're driving home,
30:26
I pass Hogan's Beach Shop and I say to myself, I gotta go.
30:33
It's Hogan. It's it's Hollywood. Brother. Yeah, I thought it was
30:37
somewhere else. There's like there used to be or still is one, but
30:42
there's one in Orlando, like the heart of life, and I'm thinking of
30:45
Jimmy Hartspot is like similar Jimmy hartspot is in a Daytona beach and that's like
30:51
a bar with like memorabilia. This is a flat out store. Okay,
30:53
okay, I walked in here. This in the heart of like touris Sedel
30:57
in Orlando. I was blown away. Store they have, Oh my god,
31:04
they have so First of all, they have life style stand ups of
31:07
like Hogan, WWE Style, Hollywood Hogan, thunder Baby, the Ultimate Mail.
31:12
They have so much cool like that Wholkamania List Forever sign. I don't
31:17
know if it's a replica, you know, the one where he holds up
31:21
like banner that's in there, So I don't know if it's the same exact
31:25
one. There's a like how do you recreate that? Like that's probably anyway
31:30
they had. They had figures, which was hard to believe, even if
31:32
the figures I never saw before, like these aj styles and John Cena's We
31:36
talked about it. These true moves, true moves with voice with voices like
31:40
flex four style, which are not being made anymore, which is really weird.
31:44
But what I loved about it it's like all of his WWE and WCW
31:48
shirts were like recreated in this store as modern merch as modern merch, and
31:55
like they had wrist bands. They had all like the remember like the Hogan
31:59
like look at hockey warners that like the nWo Sak thing. Yeah they had
32:01
though. It was like all recreated merch. It was so cool and they
32:06
so much cool memorabilia, has so many cool figures, and I just I
32:07
was getting little itchy. Of course I was getting so itchy. First of
32:12
all, I bought a thunder lips uh coffee mug because I love thunder Lips.
32:15
I about a Hogan's Beach Shop tank top, about Chelsea Hogan's beach shirt,
32:21
about a Hogan's Beach magnet. But I need a figure. I need
32:23
steel so itchy in there, man, And I wasn't gonna buy like one
32:27
of the retros they had there. I think, like my figure, anyone
32:30
recognized you or anything Chelsea's and someone was looking at me like the workers they
32:32
plays, I no idea, wow, like you know, Hulk's gonna be
32:36
here two weeks I had I don't I know Terry, you know, I
32:38
know R. But I needed to buy something. And there was a lot
32:44
of figures there that were signed by Hulk, and I talked about the five
32:50
before I bought something about hogans Beach dot com, I bought a zach Ryder
32:53
side by Hulk. Cause you buy anything, you're a more strange person.
32:55
You can buy anything on his website signed by Hulk. And my figure was
33:00
in stock. So I've paid the extra seventy high bucks or whatever to get
33:04
a style had to be done. Um, and I already have a nWo
33:08
Jack specific R three signed by Hulk. You have the same one, or
33:12
you did at one point because of the signing, the signing was safe.
33:15
Yeah, I was on the DVD anyway, long story short, as I'm
33:21
paying for what I'm paying for the register I see in the case, this
33:25
mini detail, if you will, there was a Hogan and Macho Man San
33:30
Francisco Toymaker's two pack. The figures, inc Exclusive were Hogan's in like the
33:34
nWo paint and Macho's in a black and silver outfit. Yeah, and it
33:40
was just it was just looking at me. It was saying by me,
33:45
by me, brother, you know, oh yeah, Bobby Broodily or I
33:51
don't have those figures. I don't consider like that nWo Hogan to be that
33:55
era. You know, I don't either, because those died like as the
34:02
new going. I think now I might go back and get a single Hogan
34:07
and those remember that wolf packs thing two pac and the Crows thing too.
34:13
I don't know any sorry, I bought this photosclosure. It was three hundred
34:15
and fifty bucks plus tax. Wait, the macho at Hogan two packs side
34:21
my Hogan? What what? Three? Chelsea was looking at me like I
34:35
had that's like five three hundred too much? Like for sure? I didn't
34:39
think so anyway, Wow did you get swept up? So the story continues,
34:45
as only Matt Cardona stories do. So what could you say? It's
34:50
worse than that? It's not worse, it's better. So instantly I take
34:53
a picture outside post on Instagram, and then instantly after that, I have
34:58
what is called in the biz buyer's remorse, and I'm like, I don't
35:02
even like this tupac, you know, like they had so he had,
35:07
They had so many other cool figures. Why did I buy this one?
35:10
Black? This isn't it? So I posted about on Instagram and somebody posted,
35:15
oh man, he said something like I was just at Hogan's Beach Shop
35:17
and I wanted to buy that Tupac, but the lady wouldn't sell it to
35:21
me. I said, oh yeah, I'll sell you this one right now
35:24
for exactly what I paid for it, exchange some info via DM. The
35:30
guy paid me that night and UH, I shipped it out to him.
35:35
So I lost, like whatever the tax was he paid for the shipping.
35:38
I sent it right out to him, package it nicely. I even said
35:42
him my best switches eight by then, and to stop dog tags, he
35:44
made out the deal. I mean, you are lucky, lucky, lucky
35:47
man. So I just want to say, um, no way, if
35:52
you put that on an e Bay you get half that that's not true.
35:53
It was signed by the holster. So I want to say, at PBST
35:57
you could go to the show. The employee told you six zero died.
36:02
Um, thank you very much for I'm glad you you wanted it. And
36:07
then I went and got it that day. And it's just that's a that's
36:10
a sign of figure faith right there. That's a sign, a good sign
36:14
of figure faith. I don't know how that happen. We were at UH
36:19
an hour twenty eight Weekly purchased my last thing, UH sentimental note if you
36:24
will. But this week I received a micro brawler of m J f and
36:32
looks like it looks like I've heard of zillion things on him, but all
36:37
things aside um, he is my student. You know, I trained it
36:42
from day one, Pepack and I had to create Pro Wrestling Academy. So
36:45
it's a pretty cool thing to see like him come from that to having Action
36:51
Action figure esque merch. You know, he's had a hell of a week
36:53
and I really Spider and you guys produce MJ. There you go, And
36:58
I hate to say it, but I'm very proud of him and he's a
37:00
hell of a weekend. It was cool to have something like that. It's
37:04
proudly in the creative pro custom Mattel retrol ring on my desk and the access
37:09
to our Instagram. You could take a picture and post that on our page.
37:14
I blacked out like you at Hogan's Beach Out an Asiana Domination weekly segment,
37:22
we choose a superstar talking about our favorite versions of that superstar, which
37:24
I stuff each other this week, I will stomp you, Brian. But
37:28
Jemmernation Domination unbelievable. You can look up all these figures on Jemmer. There's
37:37
gonna be a giveaway and Mark tell us, who the winner was this week.
37:40
All right, guys, this week's winner is at Figure Kingdom on Jemmer.
37:47
You win and now and now with all these ultimate editions, you got
37:51
to add those into Gember two. I feel like I have to go on
37:52
Gemmer and speak to other people and see how they're displaying them. Right,
37:55
you also got to find that possibilities. Right, I'm I can't stop staring
37:59
at and I'm wondering what I'm gonna do. You got to you gotta find
38:01
a rhino. Well that might be a big problem as well. Um,
38:06
okay, so my pick this week favorite Ernest the Cat Miller figure go.
38:10
I wish there was one, but there's not. Um In every team,
38:15
there is a Marty Jeannetti. Oh baby, that's a good one. So
38:22
what well step for us? Obviously we're not gonna have one of those.
38:25
But what everybody's gone through the window yet? What is your favorite at Actually?
38:31
I mean, I know we don't talk wrestling in here, but I
38:34
like that we never had like a breakup thing. I kind of like that.
38:37
Oh yeah, Kee keeps our team kind of pure um favorite Marty Gannetti
38:43
figure well, Marty truth be Told is one of my first favorite Wrestlers.
38:46
Ever, I kind of liked them even better than Sean, like when I
38:49
first discovered the Rockers, even though I love the Rockers period. So right
38:54
up the gate that Tupac, the original hasbro Tupac. I saw in your
39:00
closet you have that mint on card. Yeah, I just got offered to
39:04
me, and I wanted it just for sentimental reasons. I don't even know
39:06
what I'm gonna do with it. And we talked about before in the pod
39:07
that even though the Rockers were super duper popular and super a little bit shot,
39:13
super dupe shot, super duper colorful, the figures are kind of bent.
39:16
They're pretty bland consider all things considered. Like you said, then the
39:21
other outfits that could have chose or tried to do um that being said is
39:25
I guess you call it a repaints the same head on the macho man body.
39:30
I love that figure, that the deco and that looks beautiful. Well
39:34
it stands the test of time, Like you can look at that figure nowt
39:36
like, it's kind of cool. What I like about the figure when I
39:37
don't like about it is that I like it because it's different and it wasn't
39:42
a repaint. They took the head and put it on with the brick Martel
39:44
body. You know what I'm saying. But what I didn't like is that
39:46
the teeth aren't painted. Okay, the teeth aren't painted. But then also
39:50
I believe the it's the macho in hands, so that half the wrist tape
39:53
isn't paint. The taps on his hands but not his wrists are tape,
39:58
but all of those are like that macho man never had gloves, so it
40:01
doesn't matter. But Martel doesn't have it painted. It still snap food and
40:06
I don't understand why Hasbro never painted it. It was it's obviously there on
40:09
my hands. They just never painted. And then they but like and to
40:13
go as far as do the wrist tape but not the rest of it.
40:16
Yeah, he has here. What I like about that that Marty Genetti number
40:20
two is the the figure doesn't quite match well, doesn't match at all the
40:25
box art because I love that the box arta at that right, but I
40:30
love the outfit he's wearing that box art. It's like the not the not
40:32
quite a single at top at the top. Yeah, and that figure that
40:37
is depicted in a or that outfit is depicted in a Class of Superstars three
40:40
pack, Yes, and that is my favorite Marty Genetti so correct member Class
40:45
Supers, aren't He only had that three pack and then the Original Rockers two
40:47
Original Rocker back, which again not that good. Yea like headscans are good,
40:52
but the outfit choice is weird. Yeah. Um. But then this
40:55
three pack it's him I believe it's Tito Santana and an handful yeah, which
41:00
like at the time, you like, this is a weird three back,
41:01
but I liked it. Yeah. Um, it was a good way to
41:05
get different versions of all those guys. Um, that's it. Though I
41:08
only have those two, right, and that's a shame. I wish he
41:10
had like a de Luxe Classic or something. Um. He has the Awa
41:15
figure, which is very very hard to find. Yeah, I have that.
41:17
I'll map that in my Awa ring. Oh man, I would love
41:22
to have that Seawan and Marty still but uh, it's got to be the
41:28
right price and the right condition and a lot of a lot of things at
41:31
the line for me to get that. But that would be cool. Classes
41:35
are very different to come by. And then the Force the Mattel Mattie Collected
41:37
two pack, which I like, I like the shirt that think the Rockers
41:40
come with. Yeah, I mean those Rockers are great. Um, I
41:45
think ideally the one that everyone's made mightbe a little better, right, And
41:50
I don't do fix up out of new customs, but we've all made this.
41:52
Yeah, the retro fest games up, Shawn Michaels, get another one,
41:58
get a Marty head, pop it off and you can make the Rockers
42:00
a little boil job switcheroo and you got pretty badass rockers. Those games stop
42:05
shows are like five bucks a game stop. Yeah, I'm sure that we
42:07
didn't discuss that, but there was a game stop five dollars. I'm sure
42:10
they're all gone. You can check your local game stop, but they marked
42:14
down retro fess guys. But the Marty's not easy to get the Marty to
42:17
get the head now, no, because that was a Maddie Shop exclusive that
42:22
wasn't plentiful to begin with. So which one would be your favorite Marty Genetti?
42:27
I think I'm gonna go with Marty and number two has bro okay,
42:30
and I'm gonna go with Marty from the three Pack Jazz Classic Superstars. Do
42:35
you remember when Marty did and when WC and we met him I've like like
42:39
bad not bad memories, but like my memory is bad, you know what
42:44
I'm saying? Yeah, I know, yeah, trust I did the show
42:45
with you every week. I know. Yeah, I remember here he wrestled
42:47
al snow okay, but before that, wasn't there a show Before that?
42:53
There was a storm and it got canceled a snowstorm, and we went and
42:57
slept with Dan Barry at someone's house. We couldn't even get home. What
43:00
you don't remember this, No, we couldn't get home, and we like
43:05
had to stay out in stuff accounting at someone someone's house at Dan Barry knew.
43:07
I think Marty was on that show, and he came in and I
43:14
don't know what condition he was in, and he just like slept in the
43:16
janitor's closet was there, and like we never got to like meet him,
43:21
meet him because that's the show got canceled. Everyone went home and he was
43:24
sleeping in the janitor closet. I don't know, like whoever, like Eric
43:28
Sims, whoever it was with him took care of him. I remember being
43:30
like, oh man, I didn't even get to meet Marty Jenny. And
43:31
then we eventually did shows in them and stuff. But I love Marty.
43:36
He's super cool dude. Um great figures. Obviously, not a lot figures
43:40
you think Marty Janni's probably gotta buy. Honestly, this conversation made me go,
43:44
wow, he has a lot less figures than he should, like,
43:46
he should have a lot more than Rock and Roll in Maine to Spain.
43:52
We'll look those figures up Austin and Boston, baby, look those figures up
43:55
on Jemmer And next is the EGF figure of the week. The WTF Figure
44:04
of the Week is WCW Battle Arm. And you might be thinking yourself,
44:10
WF you're talking about? And exactly what are we talking about? How these
44:15
are figures? They were made by toy biz U late nineties. They were
44:19
called WCW Battle Arm with spin and slim acts take a shot, spin and
44:23
slam action. It's like you're holding a gun, but it's worth a Google
44:29
machine. You're holding a gun. And then then you put the figure like
44:34
do you ever like play one of those games that like, you know,
44:37
Chuck E Cheese or like in the Lobby of Danny's, we put the quarter
44:39
in and like the claw ooh, the claw o come. It's like a
44:43
clause attached no claw story these days. Um yeah, so the claw attached
44:50
the end of like the water gun, all right, but in this case
44:54
you put it on the waste of the figure and you like pull the trigger
44:58
or you spin something, and it's spin and go up. So I'm a
45:02
complete nerd and I have a confessor before at this time when these were released,
45:07
I had this weird thing where I had to buy everything I like available.
45:10
So when these three, it's Sting, Brett Hart first off, I
45:15
mean, we're gonna rip on the concept of these, but how about the
45:19
figures themselves, Sting, Bret Hart, Goldberg what you never wanted Goldberg and
45:22
playing black team here in jeans when you pay pets split over him. Brett's
45:27
the Howard Stern Brett, which I believe was like the first ever w TF
45:30
figure. Like, well, at least Brett's, like I don't know if
45:34
it's a straight up rerelease. At least he's straight up release that I'm pretty
45:37
sure because I had this. At least at least he's in a ring gear.
45:40
Uh. And then Sting is in an imaginary outfit that he never wore
45:45
ever in the history of the business. Right, So I got these because
45:50
I'm a psychopath and I don't recall ever seeing them anywhere but toys r us.
45:54
First of all, I'm looking at the back of the box right now,
45:57
wrestling moves like you've never seen before, well knowe, and like you're
46:00
supposed to like with your friend. I guess, like that's what you're supposed
46:02
to like, play each other like you would karate fighters. And it says
46:07
also works to the electronic night arena, Who's gonna play with us? In
46:09
the horrible concept. It's a very odd sometimes. I think toy companies,
46:15
especially companies that make wa figures, they try to think two outside the box,
46:19
when I think at the end of the day, kids just want to
46:21
take the two figures and pretend that they're wrestling, like damn imagination. Yeah,
46:27
I guess what I really want to say about this is like we've discussed
46:30
like stomping here and created this whole stomp paradise like phenomenon because I had to
46:35
say, like, well, these figures came out and I wanted to buy
46:38
them, and I wanted to justify having him, so I created this stomp
46:42
of paradise thing, and these couldn't be more the opposite, Like these no
46:45
Battle on Paradise. No, Well, these came out and I bought them
46:50
because I'm a loser Mark and I had to have them. And they just
46:52
sat like on my shelf. I did not even know what to think or
46:55
make of them. You know, it's so dumb. I mean, these
46:59
are so I can't even describe how bad they are, Like I don't I'm
47:04
looking at the box fright, like what like who thought this a good idea?
47:07
I mean, so they had they had like a little thing that clipps
47:13
around their waist and then they attached I think if you banging enough then it
47:15
would pop off, like maybe like karate fighter style. So if you're a
47:20
completely nerd and your friend comes over and you want to use your nitro arena
47:23
and have a stimulated spinny battle. I actually even tell those things like you
47:30
had one with kind of the same concept, like they're fighting but they're not
47:32
fighting. Oh that was Those are the worst figures. It was called power
47:37
slammers. You would lock the hands and then you would like wind up their
47:40
backs and they're supposed to do all these like cool flippdb things like on the
47:43
commercial, but in real life they would never ever do that. They would
47:45
just fall over. It was horrible. They looked more like Bill McKenna watching
47:50
the Takeover Special. Oh boy, all right, guys, um, let's
47:58
let's go to the interviews like Mitch out. Yes, the first ever roast
48:01
of the sing Brothers. Take it away, guys, it is the moment
48:08
you've all been waiting for. Finally we are here with Harvard Marv, Girvin,
48:21
Harve Sunil and Samer. Things at Harvard mar I thought it was Harvard
48:23
Marvin this whole time. You guys are watching too much home alone that we'll
48:30
redo that former Global for as Tag team champion several yea, there's a microphone,
48:37
guys, first and only, First and only, I don't forget.
48:38
They shut the promotion two sings one Micah Rink King, Rinka King shut two
48:44
promotions down. That's what we do. Say that about brad Jay because he
48:50
became champion and Deep South shutdown. He became ob W champion and that place
48:53
shut down. You guys, are you guys might putting the pressure on us,
48:57
so I mean full disclosure. We asked you to do as a couple
49:00
days ago, and you said you guys were a little busy, you wanted
49:01
to train with Seth Rollins, do some CrossFit. I get it. You
49:05
know, he's the he's a Universal champ, you know, got out over.
49:07
I get that. But then they said, hey, how about Friday
49:10
night, the last night of the tour, sit inside the hotel and do
49:15
the podcast with the Singing Brothers. I said, yeah, that's exactly what
49:17
I want to do, sit inside on a Friday night, the last un
49:21
of the tour with the Are you getting on why we could have done this?
49:25
Could have been That's gonna be a hard note for me. But uh,
49:30
I was excited to do this a couple of months ago when when it
49:32
first came out, like when your figures came out and you guys figures came
49:36
out, We were gonna give you guys a little rub, maybe get those
49:38
things off. Shall we do it at that time because you're busy, you
49:44
guys are like getting ice for gender in the hotel lobby And that really happened.
49:50
Yeah, And then they started to kind of try to mingle and name
49:54
drop and I could just tell that they were like lying and they're not really
49:58
big action figure O from a different plan and from the things you were saying,
50:04
I can tell you've never even listened to this podcast, so we know
50:07
Jemers been o. I'm like these guys, these guys are trying to fake
50:10
it until they make it over. Well we want them. What I do
50:14
love about the Singing Brothers, there are two die hard fans brothers growing up
50:17
loving the biz. The best Instagram post in the business. So it's great
50:23
for me to watch you guys, you know, make it to WW get
50:28
your action figures. So tell us, like, what was your story that
50:30
you know that the long version like ten minutes here? Guys, come on,
50:34
we don't need to hear about the dive your dad took you to the
50:36
show that I'm blaming Zach Becauza. Question was way too open ended. Well
50:42
that's our he starts, though. Our dad did buy our first Action wrestling
50:46
rink by driving over from BC to Washington State because in Canada at that time
50:52
when we were growing up, wrestling figures were hard to find. Yeah,
50:54
you couldn't like no, you know, if you go twice or US or
50:57
whatever. He drove over the border to get you some figure. That's dedication.
51:01
But it was like, you know, it wasn't like a w W
51:04
F ray. It was just a random wrestling ring with Yeah, it was
51:07
like a real like w So that was your first that was the memory of
51:12
like wrestling thing. And then we broke it and he went back like the
51:14
next weekend to Seattle to grab another one. He crossed the border again to
51:17
get it. Were crossing the border at that time was a lot easier.
51:20
This is like ninety one guys. I don't even like go to the next
51:23
town to like to do something. But you know how it broke because we
51:28
were young and she and we were going to the figures and like shooting waff
51:31
Oh yes what we're doing. We were crowbars. So what are your other
51:39
memories of wrestling? Faers going? Obviously like we know you got the big
51:44
wrestling fans always trying to look for a Brehart figure. Never found one,
51:47
never, So instead what you did was your posted your whole wall with bread
51:52
hard posture. Yes, that's that's a different podcast. That's the poster podcast,
51:55
Jesus true or false? You had the Shawn Michael's play I'll display where
52:05
is the first off? But I think you guys were about hard guys,
52:07
not Sean Michael's shoot disclosure. Our second ring came from toys r US,
52:12
which they'll open in Canada. I know, I'm so jealous about that.
52:15
I don't understand that even over here. You know, we're in the UK
52:17
obviously, but they had Toys r US and they shut down along with the
52:22
American ones, but Canada for some reason and from our parents plays. So
52:25
that's the same Toys r Us we went to went in ninety six. And
52:28
you're gonna get hot about this, but that ring was purchased in the summer
52:30
of ninety six, the one that we posted on our Instagram WrestleMania r after
52:36
toy for release. No no, no, no no, the WrestleMania with
52:37
the Minifigures sixty. It had to be ninety seven or late ninety six,
52:43
early ninety seven. Possibly, there's no way it was ninety six, had
52:46
been seven. Well, all the guys that we collected the title, yeah
52:51
right, they're not too far off. They're not saying like two thousand.
52:53
We're the figure nerds. You guys aren't. I'll correct your mishaps as we
52:58
go. But it came all for if we were working in the ring.
53:00
You know, came full circle for us because once our twice were released by
53:04
the company, our parents still have that ring to this day. And finally
53:07
Christmas week we gave them our action figures. They placed them in that ring
53:09
that they kept at all these years, and we posted that picture on Instagram
53:14
and viral, and so that would be a nice story, except the figures
53:15
are at a scale. With that ring, you were too cheap to buy
53:17
the good ring. Thought about ever, tell him makes a really nice product,
53:22
and me, you can get a really nice ring these Yeah, you
53:24
guys are the major US now making all this money. You couldn't get a
53:27
basic rings. Let's backtrack to that. What was that moment like for you
53:31
guys the first time you saw your very own action figure episode you? It
53:37
was me because if I remember I saw the figures, I believe it was
53:42
comic Con. I was so excited and I texted it to the D I
53:45
had it in my hand. It was not with the grave. It was
53:49
like the test shot. The test shot, okay, And I was so
53:52
excited for these guys. So I took a picture and I knew they were
53:53
Instagram marks that do not post this. Hold on side note sing Brothers cover
53:58
of ears. How do you have their phone number? That goes to the
54:05
Adam Copeland days maybe we're at you guys. I was so happy for these
54:10
guys. I wanted to show them and I knew they would love something like
54:13
that legit like getting that was It's huge because like growing up wrestling fans and
54:17
collecting toys and ever you going to shows and then you finally after all these
54:22
years, you know, I'll get your first action. It's cool. I
54:23
guess one of those things you'll you know, totally grind Zach did to say
54:27
in the text kfe police on post it yet true. I think you ever
54:31
notifications bill from Mottel just heard that any sweat and bullets, what I think
54:37
is cool. Like, so those figures, you know, not the most
54:39
detailed figures because you're in like the street gear, but now you know,
54:44
you're very toyetic. It's what it's called in the base because you've got the
54:46
tassels, the cool entrance gear of the sunglasses. So I'm hoping for some
54:52
some Bollywood boys. Mattel's coming over next year. And that was the first
54:55
thing you guys said to us as soon as we started wearing our gears,
54:58
like, hey, time to update those figure And that was literally a week
55:00
after they got released. Yeah, and then it takes a while to get
55:02
from you know, TV the shells. So do you do you would you
55:07
guys keep one of those figures for yourself, like in display, like in
55:10
your homes or anything. And I got too right now, brother, Yeah
55:14
yeah one went straight to the parents. Very first thing. All the ones
55:16
like when you see him in the stores, do you buy him? What
55:19
do you what do you do? Actually? You know what? To be
55:21
honest, well, to score here, we haven't seen him in Canada yet,
55:22
but every text message we've received are from the stage like, hey,
55:25
so you guys, Hey, if you live in Orlando, yea. So
55:28
maybe we had the same gym, which is actually say Walmart. Yes,
55:32
at that figure is always there your bottom unless you bottom, unless you bottom.
55:39
I always see harm at the uh at the gym, and I told
55:43
him, hey, dude, like I'm going to work out. We don't
55:45
talk. We wait for your podcast. We got to entertain the people.
55:51
He's your Instagram post video guy. Right. Well, truth be told,
55:54
I haven't actually played with the wrestling figures since probably my freshman year of college.
55:58
But when your two pac came out, I grabbed my best randyw Ordan,
56:00
and I beat the living and the two of your figures, and I
56:04
had the best time. I had the best time ever. And that's a
56:07
question for you guys. Hawkm our figures did not come with an announced table.
56:12
That's a good question, I think because it was a basic like those
56:14
called basic figures. Yeah, but what's cool. It's like you're familiar with
56:17
basics and elites. Yes, so there's like different budgeting for them. So
56:22
it was more likely that you guys were in those those battle packs as basic
56:25
figures because your outfit, being that they were button downs and pants, required
56:30
way less detail, you know, so I kind of helped you out.
56:32
I got you out there, But it would be cool to sliding a little
56:35
table. Did they come with mikes? Do you guys come with microphones?
56:37
We haven't. Battle packs haven't been coming with accessors really a long time cost
56:40
cutting bro. I think the Singing Brothers are like the modern day like foot
56:44
Soldiers for your turtles, you go just beat up. We did come with
56:50
wrist tape, so comes to the wrist tape? Come on? Well,
56:53
all joking aside, you can wrap this up and say we are proud of
56:55
you guys. Yeah, we love you guys. You guys are filling the
57:00
whole ganger shoes that we once had. As you know, we paved the
57:01
way. No big deal. Yeah, we're busting your balls. We love
57:04
you guys because when we got called out, we saw Brosky at that time
57:07
at the Performer Center. We had a quick talk about what to talk about
57:17
it was. It was quick enough where I got his number and we stayed
57:20
in touch. Maybe around that time. I never got your number. They
57:24
came to my New Year's Eve party. Yeah they were empty handed. They
57:29
bring something ut, but I didn't. I didn't leave. He gave you
57:36
a quest parse all right, let's leave it at that show. Thanks for
57:42
having see you. All right, it's now time for the Q and a
57:51
section of the show. Every week on Twitter, use the hashtag ask major
57:55
Pod. If we choose your question, read it on Eric, we will
57:59
send you the coveted best which is eight by ten. And Brian, we're
58:01
running out of those, but we need some more um minus from Brian Myers
58:07
at the Kurt Hawkins. Hi, I recently found out my childhood rhino figure
58:13
is flawed and I need a new one. Please help hashtag ask major Pod.
58:17
I hope to get back to that guy though, what's your real question?
58:21
Okay, Devin Davis at Devin da one two three two nine five seven
58:29
nine. Wow, I hope that's not his phone number. Hashtag ask major
58:32
pod. Have you ever tried making a custom figure? Have you ever bought
58:36
a custom that's the question. Yeah, Um, I think we talked about
58:42
this before, Like I want to, I really ask this as I want
58:45
to hear your like childhood custom stories. This is a joke, you really
58:49
do? Really? Why No, what did you make when you're a kid?
58:51
Like when we did something when we were in middle school? So that
58:55
was what like ninety seven, eight ninety nine. Yeah, I was making
58:59
custom Asboro's and I was selling him to the kid at school. How many
59:02
warlords did you destroy? There was a lot of war lord Steve Austin.
59:07
So what I would do is I would sand and use Exacto knives and I
59:10
still cut some my fingers get mess. I don't think my mom would let
59:15
me do that because she would know or in fear that I would hurt um.
59:17
So like the usual um like recipe for for an Austin was because they
59:24
wanted in street gear. Nobody wanted like you know, there was one point
59:29
where Austin was so hot and he had no merch or no figures that like,
59:32
I would have took whatever, right, So I was using always obviously
59:37
the war lord standing down the mask, and then it would be a roddy
59:40
piper uh Torso okay, right now, there still a lot of work,
59:45
right, and I would paint you know, black thirty sixteen shirt on him.
59:49
Well, see what I would do is I would pete the shirt black
59:52
and then I would print out the Austin the team like like decals and like
59:55
glue it and then like paint as close as I could go over it um
1:00:00
and then like for the jeans, it depending on what figures had available,
1:00:04
they do to be like bushwhacker leg like Hony Dollar man legs and jeans.
1:00:07
And then what I would do with these figures A big one also was business
1:00:10
booming? How many it was booming? How many of these were you not
1:00:14
gonna? I was knocking out a lot. I would make a lot of
1:00:15
canes to use Ultimate Warriors. I forgot what what bodies that do is exactly,
1:00:19
but Ultimate Warrior be the head percane. And then what I would use
1:00:22
is the boxes is I would make custom boxes out of shoe boxes and construction
1:00:27
paper and print out like the logos, and I would like present them as
1:00:30
like that's what you got. Oh my god. So I made a lot
1:00:32
of those. And you don't think anybody still has a Matt cardono like original,
1:00:37
I don't think, So that would be great to cover that. Um
1:00:39
Like I would go to Walmart all the time get the paint. I remember
1:00:44
all the time getting like super glue all over my hands. It would dry
1:00:46
that super glue. I remember. I ruined a lot of my childhood hasbros,
1:00:52
like just trying to make them into like generic rest different wrestler guys that
1:00:57
I would make up in my mind. But I thought I was like being
1:01:00
artistic and I would Uh. I would get that paint for it was really
1:01:04
for like model cars and stuff, and I would use that, which probably
1:01:07
isn't even the correct, you know, looking back on it thing to do.
1:01:10
Uh. And I ruined a ton of has rose, like my legit
1:01:14
childhood has was. I ruined probably about half of them doing this like it
1:01:16
just went one summer. I just remember making all these dumb random guys and
1:01:20
just clearly ruining these figures. But then when I got older a little bit
1:01:22
smarter. I would. I would have like an extra bin of like whatever,
1:01:29
you know, a Jack's grudge match, but it's extra hout snow.
1:01:32
I know I got her, you know. And I would only tamper with
1:01:35
guys that were duplicates. Sure, and then I would kind of do the
1:01:38
same thing, though I wouldn't make them into like Stone could see Boston.
1:01:44
I would make them unto like guys that I was making up in my mind.
1:01:46
Gotcha, And I think I've told this store in the pot also once
1:01:50
that I made a cane custom out of a mankind like before a WrestleMania,
1:01:54
and I used the wrong kind of paint and it was so sticky and I
1:01:58
had to play with them, and the guy the spray paint all over my
1:02:01
hands. It was horrible. Um. And then do I buy customs?
1:02:06
Um? I actually have all wtw weld Greman wrestling custom figures who made that?
1:02:12
Because they're a pretty They're awesome. I don't have the guy name any
1:02:15
pretty nice, but this guy Midnight he used to make me, uh Tim
1:02:20
Moffatt, I believe it was his name. He used to make me some
1:02:22
bad ass lg N one. So he made like a custom Zach Ryder one
1:02:25
custom like eb W Backyard Wrestling, Brett Matthews one. Um, I just
1:02:31
think like for me to own one now and have to be like really special
1:02:35
or yeah, good looking, I guess someone once made. Um, I'm
1:02:37
sorry, I forgot the guy's name. Made like z tooling out on story
1:02:40
figures of like the Ultimate Brosky and then Ultimate Word contacted me about that.
1:02:45
Ever set that on there? Yeah, so I made this figure. I
1:02:50
had it made of when I was the Ultimate Brosky at my YouTube show.
1:02:52
Looks awesome. I put it online and Ultimate Warrior, like his department,
1:02:58
his team kindacted me, saying like Mattel can be made real products Gostom custom
1:03:04
So I love customs school, and I appreciate the hard work, whether they're
1:03:07
like really professional looking or not. But I can't collect them because where do
1:03:13
you draw the line? Like, let's for instance, if I were to
1:03:15
get someone who Mattel hasn't made. If I were to get one guy,
1:03:19
where do I do the line? I would get everybody they haven't made.
1:03:22
Yeah, oh, I mean they will be endless right exactly. So I
1:03:27
love customs that just I love looking at them. I don't really like collecting
1:03:30
them. Does that makes sense? Hit me with your question. My question
1:03:35
is this is from at Jedi Postmaster Corey Quick hashtag ask major pod as a
1:03:40
new collector of elites Comma. Thanks guys, Comma. Do you think Mattel
1:03:45
and Bill McKenna would ever release the Hall of Fame and Legends elites so we
1:03:50
can fill in our collection without paying secondary market prices, new packaging, so
1:03:53
originals hold their value? What say you? I say no, And the
1:03:59
question, yeah, I kind of as if they would. Maybe they would
1:04:01
if they should. The answer was no, I hate that. Yeah,
1:04:05
even the ones that have slipped through the cracks or whatever, like the cane
1:04:09
last year. I just don't like listen that whole set that came out.
1:04:14
I get the figures. I get the figures are expensive, and guys,
1:04:18
that is collecting. That's collecting. I didn't get into the elite game like
1:04:24
you paid for it. I paid for it. Yeah, everyone's got to
1:04:26
pay for it. That's just And that's not just about wrestling figures, not
1:04:28
just Mattel's about anything, and and Star Wars has been doing it, and
1:04:31
I know, like it's new packaging and on the back they show the old
1:04:34
packaging like paying homage. But it's not the same. Now, for instance,
1:04:39
let's say Mattel wants to redo to Tonka. If they want to repaint
1:04:43
t Tonka, make them with different go ahead, that's different, go ahead,
1:04:45
But to just straight up rerelease it, I say no. The one
1:04:49
of the parts of collecting is buying the figures for more money. Like that's
1:04:54
just how it is, Like like the pat pattersons that are going on eBay
1:04:57
right now, Like do I supply or that people are buying them and selling
1:05:00
them for more money. No, I don't support it, but that's collecting.
1:05:02
You can't you can't stop it. Yeah, it's just it's just the
1:05:05
way the market works. And I the real thing is, like you can't
1:05:10
feel sorry for anyone anymore. Mattel has been around for almost ten years now
1:05:14
doing ww stuff. Everything's gone up in value everything, like you know,
1:05:17
that's the name of the game. Once it's gone, it's kind of gone,
1:05:19
and the value is gonna go out, like it's happened to everything.
1:05:23
So like you're saying, just because you got to be catching people off guard,
1:05:26
Like so you're saying, just because you got in today, they should
1:05:29
make figures from like five years ago. What about like in five years,
1:05:32
you can just keep rereleasing figures. It's what they really should do, is
1:05:36
like what they do do with top talents and stuff, because their number one
1:05:40
objective is to make current product. You know what I mean. That stuff's
1:05:44
out there at all times. But this legend stuff is just it's icing on
1:05:46
top of the cake, you know what I mean. And to me like
1:05:48
that and listen, I understand, I'm not buying my figures to resell them.
1:05:54
I don't care about value. I just care what the principle. Like,
1:05:57
that's what makes collecting collecting is that things come out out and then you
1:06:00
have to go back and get them if you didn't get them, if you
1:06:01
got into the game late. That's just what you gotta do. W twe
1:06:03
any toy line, that's just life. But but like I said, if
1:06:08
they rerelease that particular character, like name a character in one of the like
1:06:11
okay, like a Rick Martel, if they rerelease that Rick Martell, I'd
1:06:15
be furious. But if they made a new model Rick Martel like Hasbro style,
1:06:19
like like short hair, and that's fine, cool thing, yeah done,
1:06:25
but straight up rerelease absolutely and not but great question, and I see
1:06:30
your side of it. But and I'm not saying I'm right. I'm just
1:06:32
saying my opinion, and that's that. Yeah. Sure, all right,
1:06:38
guys, it's got a long episode. I have to figure out how to
1:06:40
pose this Ronda, this Warrior. I hope you guys enjoyed an over two
1:06:43
hour episode. Guys, Champion Clashes, Rhino hit me up, guys,
1:06:48
Um, we're tired. It's uh, I'm so sick. Sorry about the
1:06:55
season. Mark, thanks for favoring us and great hanging out seeing you.
1:07:00
Mark. Great guys, night Mark scratched that figure, Hitch. Hey,
1:07:15
everybody, this is Top Shelf Troy. Help. It doesn't matter what your
1:07:20
name is. So one of the things I missed most about the Off the
1:07:27
Hop Rope podcast was every week on the Major Pod, whenever they would play
1:07:32
their little ad at the end, always shutting off and deleting the episode as
1:07:38
quickly as possible as soon as I heard, Hey, everybody, it's Top
1:07:43
Shelf Troy Nelson. And that was always a lot of fun. I've known
1:07:46
Troy Nelson for a long time, the Off the Hop Rope podcast a long
1:07:49
time. Um, it's just not the same doing it to Johnny Clash and
1:07:55
the Game Marks and George Feasts and all them there. It's all great.
1:07:58
The Major Network, it's it's it's the best. We got the best network,
1:08:02
one of the best podcast networks. I don't have much to plug this
1:08:08
week. I mean, there's always a couple of creative pro events coming at
1:08:13
you. You know you've got to support them. You know, we are
1:08:16
breaking boundaries on July thirty first. But sometimes I can't help but wonder what's
1:08:23
what's even the point of plugging these shows, because the creative pro shows always
1:08:29
sell out, they always do big numbers. Because that's what we're doing here
1:08:33
on the Major Pod. We're doing big numbers, and we owe a lot
1:08:38
of that to you, the listeners. As we ride off into the sunset.
1:08:45
I honestly, I don't know how many people even listen to this part.
1:08:48
You know, I never listen to Top Shelf Try Nelson's ad read for
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his podcasts. And now I'm wondering if Carma is coming back to haunt me
1:09:00
the same way you guys come from Matt, Brian and Mark. You come
1:09:02
back for the memories, to the nostalgia, and do you stay for me?
1:09:08
Do you stay for j George, I don't know. Regardless, it
1:09:13
doesn't matter. You know, this isn't about me, This isn't something bigger.
1:09:16
This is about the major marks. This is about the community that we
1:09:20
built. And if you're ever feeling lost, I just I just want y'all
1:09:24
to know there's always somewhere where we can go, a place we all might
1:09:30
be familiar, take a shot, familiar with somewhere only we know. I
1:09:44
walked across an empty land. I knew the pathway like the back of my
1:09:51
hand. I felt the earth beneath my feet, sat by the river,
1:10:01
and it made me complete. Oh simple thing, where have you gone?
1:10:11
I'm getting no? Then nine needs something to rely on, So tell me
1:10:17
when you're gonna let me in. I'm getting tired and nine need somewhere to
1:10:26
begin. I came across a fallen tree. I felt the branches of it
1:10:35
looking at me. Is this the place we used to love? Is this
1:10:45
the place that I've been dreaming? Now? Oh simple thing, where have
1:10:54
you gone? I'm getting no? Then nine needs something to lie on,
1:11:00
So tell me when you're gonna let me in. I'm getting tired and I
1:11:09
need somewhere to begin. And if you have a minute, Why don't we
1:11:16
go talk about it somewhere only we know? This could be the end of
1:11:27
everything? So why don't we go somewhere only we know, somewhere only we
1:11:39
know. Let's go, Oh, simple thing, where have you gone?
1:11:51
I'm getting no then I need something to lie on, So tell me when
1:12:00
you're gonna let me in. I'm getting tired and I I need somewhere to
1:12:05
begin. And if if you have a minute, why don't we go talk
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about it somewhere only we know? This could be the end of everything hand,
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that's that's how life is. It could all get taken away from you at
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a second, at a moment's notice, a melisecond, a macrosecond. And
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if this could be the end of everything hanging, So why don't we go
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