Hello, and welcome to Altered Geek. I'm your host, Steve Megatron Phillips. In this week's episode... I'm joined by TFG1 Mike. Hello, I'm here. Yes, so in this week's Adventure into Geekdom, we have some interesting topics, some news, some conversation. Without further ado, thank you for tuning in. And if you like the show, do me a favor and share it with your friends on the socials. You can find it anywhere at Altered
Geek as well as on geekcastradio .com. So it's been a little bit since there's been an episode. So what's been new with you before we jump into it? What's been new with me? Let's see. I've been losing my mind. My health is going down the drain and I think I'm going to die. So business as usual. Yeah, pretty much. Same shit, different day. Yep. So with that. Funny guy. Yeah, we're trying to end Podcaster Meets World this year.
yes we're we're going no no there's no try we're going to do it that's that's no there's no try because if we end it next i think if we end it next year it'll be 10 years since we started that damn show i think that's what it is because i think we started it in 2016 Because we had the top 100 TV shows in 2015 and it came in at number 50 out of the 100 TV shows that were listed. And we both scoffed at that and we're like, what the hell are you talking about? 50 out of 100.
Easily top 25. I mean, come on. I mean, some episodes do deserve that, but. Yeah, but. But yes, we are working on getting Podcaster Meets World going and finishing that up. Yeah, episode zero was February 2nd, 2016. This is the funny thing about that podcast, folks. I'm sorry. Steve's going to go on his 3D printing love fest here in a little while. So I'm going to go on my podcast love fest here now. February 2nd, 2016. You know when the first episode aired? No. April 28th.
April 28th, 2018. Okay, took us two years. To actually get going. This is supposed to be a 15, 20 episode mini podcast that should have taken us a year at best. It's taken us almost 10 between episode three and episode four, 2018 to 2021. I mean, you know, there was that whole thing in the middle there that happened after, you know, 2019, but you know, it is what it is. We love the show. We love doing the podcast or whatever, but just other things were more important
when it came to podcasting. We had transformer stuff. We had, Altered Geek stuff. We had other stuff. Well, I had a lot of job situation stuff between 2016 and like two years ago. Yeah. At least now you're settled. Hopefully. Hopefully. For the most part. Hopefully. You never know.
You never know. But yeah, I mean, so we're working on that, working on a very... other shows um i'm waiting for side projects to die down at time to actually properly revive the cyber dragon ball and m wire i mean i did put out a new cyber dragon ball episode like a week or two ago uh by the time of this recording but uh yeah i would like to do it more consistently yeah well that's so i'm kind of waiting consistent is key yeah Yeah. And so I'm waiting until some other stuff
kind of goes by the wayside. So, yeah. So without further ado, we've got some some movie stuff. We've got trailers. We've got a movie that I watched on Netflix recently. Something with the Avengers and a toy discussion. So since you brought up the trailers, why don't you kick it off with that first? All right, trailers. This will be quick, easy, and painless, folks, I promise. Since, you know, we don't really talk about sports around here on the Geekcast Radio Network all
that often. I mean, we did have the sports gal pal on here. We interviewed her a number of years ago now. I was born and bred in Boston, Massachusetts. Boston sports is in my blood. It always has been in my blood. So whenever anything Boston sports pops up anywhere, my ears perk up, my eyes bug out and we're like, what, what's this? Um, currently I believe it's supposed to be a nine episode thing on max. Just like how Netflix has The Last Dance, which is the Michael Jordan Chicago Bulls
special thing that they did for that. Max has Celtic City going through the Celtics history. So I'm currently watching that. Coming up April 8th, Netflix is going to be doing The Clubhouse a year with the Red Sox. So they're going to be doing that. So I put the trailer for Celtic City out there in the show notes and I put the trailer out for Clubhouse there. Celtic City, as of this recording, just released episode five. So I'll be probably watching that as soon as
we're done recording here. And it's just one of those things where like the Celtics, when they started, I wasn't even born. So getting to watch that part of history in sports, getting to actually watch what Bill Russell and John Havlicek and everybody else did in Boston for the city, for the fans, for the sport of basketball in the NBA. I mean, the Celtics were the early
dynasty in the NBA. kind of thing and the red socks are are the red socks so you know it is what it is um but i just i love seeing that stuff and i love watching it it just that's just what i'm enjoying watching right now when it comes to certain stuff and i'm watching other stuff and other things but mostly like i'm watching that like i know unless i wrangle in one of my cousins or something i'm pretty sure i'm not going to get anybody to do a celtic city podcast
with me you know so that i'm watching actually to watch to enjoy the thing and i don't feel like i have because it's a history thing for me like i said and you know it just is so it's not something i feel like i have to podcast about other than talking about it here now where it's like Oh, this is cool. I can sit back, relax, enjoy this and not have to do all the podcast prep stuff to then talk about what I watched kind of thing. And I'm not complaining about
it. It's not a complaint at all. I'm just saying it's very rare that I get to do that these days because most of the stuff that I watch. I watch so we can talk about it. And I just, we just recorded, yeah, we just recorded, we just recorded Podcaster Meets World episode 13. Didn't we mention Wedding Crashers in that episode? Yeah, we did because Corey and Topanga were Wedding Crashers. I think so. Yes, yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because they crashed, because she's in the second half
of season six. They're preparing for their wedding, and they go to this fancy wedding where the bride's father is trying to bribe Corey. One million dollars! And I brought up the movie Wedding Crashers, and I just looked on Netflix. Guess what's on Netflix? Wedding Crashers. Guess what has a 20th anniversary this year? Wedding Crashers. Wedding Crashers. New episode of Studio 2009 coming later this year. Oh, God. So, yeah, Celtic City is
on now on Max. If you have Max, if you want to learn about the Boston Celtics and the history of that, like I said, there's that. And then the clubhouse for the Red Sox. I'm interested to see that, the clubhouse thing, because a year with the Red Sox, I don't know where that's going to, I don't know. I got to look at that trailer again because I'm not sure where exactly in the history that that is, if that's current or if
that's whatever. Because last year, for the 20th anniversary since the Red Sox did the big comeback in 2004, last year Netflix did the special The Comeback, revisiting and talking about the history of the big comeback against the Yankees and the fact that the Red Sox won the 2004 World Series. I'm not sure what exactly. I don't remember off the top of my head about the clubhouse, but I'm very excited for that. So yeah, trailers. Yay!
Yeah, and then speaking of trailers, I thought it was kind of funny that we finally got YouTube cracking down on those garbage fake trailers and their monetizations. I saw news on that earlier and I was ecstatic. I was like, oh, finally. There's only one fake trailer I've ever actively enjoyed. And that's the one with old Superman, old Batman. It's all this old combination of footage of movies that have already been out.
kind of thing it it's an old old you know which one i'm talking if you see it if i send it to you later you'll know within two seconds oh yeah i remember this uh that's the i don't do fake trailers i don't want like we don't get political on the geekcaster network folks but i'm gonna say this anyway i don't care what kind of news it is i don't care what industry of news it is i don't want fake shit in my news I don't want fake stuff in my trailers. I want the real stuff.
I get it. People are excited. I get it. People want to make like, there's a difference in a fake trailer and a, and a, and somebody wanting to do their own thing with like, like a, I don't know much, but I guess it's an homage. I don't know. Don't do it, folks. Don't try to make shit up that isn't already there, please. I mean, not with trailers. Don't try to like. Give me an example of a fake trailer you saw recently.
Hmm. It's it's more so just like the stuff like they they try and like I've seen some of the
Avengers or Marvel related stuff. on on youtube specifically and you can like they splice different stuff together or then you've got the ai stuff where they've kind of created it um i don't know i can't tell one specifically but i've i've seen a few of them when i'm actively trying to find a legit trailer yeah and it's it's highly frustrating especially when you're trying to see something legit Like it would be one thing if they just
labeled it, you know, like fan trailer. Just right off the bat instead of trying to like actively. But I'm glad that they. They're demonetizing those because honestly. I know it's not like their commentary. It's not like they're adding something. They're just creating. I mean, yeah, they're fun if that you're into that. But I mean,
I I'm not. and again like like i said that one that's the justice league because the the whole point of the old superhero one that i'm talking about is it's it's like i don't think it was it might have been christopher reeve i don't think it was but it was like christopher reeve michael keaton yeah it was and um wonder woman linda carter uh it was all of them but that was like That was done like 14, 15 years ago from
stuff that had already been out. What you're talking about is people trying to fit together things that either aren't released yet or just making up their own stuff. And it's like, yeah, I mean, I don't mind the ones that like they somebody used AI to create from with Christopher
Reeve, Michael Keaton and Linda Carter and. um john wesley ship and you know all those guys like creating the justice league from like the 90s or like you know earlier than that like i was fine with that like because that that was just you can tell it's fake and it was just it was different but like the ones that are trying to pass off as a modern movie coming out now that's that's where i kind of I'm like, OK, that's not. But yeah, that's. It's one of those things
that I'm just not fond of in general. Yeah, me either. Now I'm going to skip along because I'll touch on the action figure stuff later. Should we do the Marvel or the electric state? Well, let's do the Marvel because it kind of ties into the movie stuff. Electric State we can do in a minute. But the Marvel, I don't know about you, but if I see a certain thing one too many times in a short time span, I'm like, okay, I'm sick of this already. Did you know I finally
watched The Social Network? Oh, did you really? What did you think? Actually, it wasn't too bad, but it jumped around too much in the beginning. Yeah, yeah. Uh, my Mary and I have been jumping around watching based on a true story films.
Uh huh. So we watched the one about NASA and you know, the, the origins of the computers and you know, that they were actually people, you know, outsmarting, you know, being able to do the calculations and then they use the computer, you know, they got all trained on how to use the giant IBM computers, the size of a room that
barely has enough memory. to compete with your mouse um and it was that was interesting and then you know of course we watch the social network and then i don't know what we're gonna watch next but i've got a list that we're gonna probably go through and try and you know uh try and just kind of enjoy them and then get a little bit of history with them at the same time, which is something we've been trying to do more of, uh, less brain rot and more something with a
substance. Um, not that I don't occasionally enjoy the, you know, the other stuff, but I'm going back and watching older things because one, I haven't watched some of them and two, uh, it just kind of feels like it's, time to watch some of them yeah uh but yeah with with the whole avengers doomsday cast that i mean you can clearly tell they're not done teasing who's in it oh no they're not um and i i did like how at the end of the the teaser that they
had uh robert downey jr at the end kind of going yep um but I find it funny. The first name is Hemsworth. Of course. Because, I mean, he's pretty much the only OG Avenger. Well, outside of Robert, but Robert is going to be doomed this time. Yeah. Well, I mean, you got Hawkeye that's still around and you got the Hulk. Yeah. But the rest of them are dead. Yeah. And and I'm fine with Hemsworth. Like, I I'm glad that he's kind of carrying the
torch. And, you know, he's like, I'm happy to come back for as many films as you'll have me. And as long as the role is different. And then we've got Anthony Mackie is his captain. Yeah. Then we've got the, you know, Vanessa Kirby is Susan Storm for the new Fantastic Four, which I'm cautiously optimistic about just because they're kind of taking the 60s. to kind of differentiate. Yep. And then you get Ant -Man. Yeah, I could do it on him. I wish somebody would step on him
already. I'm fine with him being there. And then we get... Florence Pugh. Yep. The White Widow, essentially. John Walker. And then we've got Namor, which he hasn't been in a film yet, right? Not to my knowledge. Not in the MCU. I could be wrong, but I don't think so. And then we got Shang -Chi, which is surprising because that movie bombed. Then we've got the White Wolf, Bucky Barnes. He's an OG. I mean, he's not... You know, I mean, he's not of the original Avenger
film is what I'm getting at. That's what I'm counting as an OG, like not the fact that he predates them. Not the original six. Yeah. Yeah. But he's he's like immediate second tier. Yep. And then we get the new, you know, Shuri, the Black Panther. Which I thought that was kind of just why is just having her play the role
rather than trying to recast. Absolutely. you know story progression it just makes sense Ben Grimm the thing and then we get into some X -Men which Kelsey Grammer is the beast which I loved the trailer where it was just kind of doing regular like Avengers music and then it went into like the X -Men theme like rolled into it it was like you know and I was like oh this is cool And then we get Sentry, which I'm not sure who that is. I think they're from that new anti -hero Marvel
film. I could not tell you off the top of my head. I can't remember what. It's the new one that, you know, the White Wolf and all of them are in. I can't remember the name of it, mostly because I don't care and I'm not going to see it. And then we get the new Falcon. Yep. Joaquin Torres. And then we get the new Johnny Storm. Yep. And Red Guardian. Yep. Returning. And then we get M 'Baku. M 'Baku. Yeah, M 'Baku. I'm not sure who... Was he in the films? Yeah, M 'Baku
is... He's in the Black Panther films. Okay. Oh, God. I want to say he's in the Black Panther films. That's OK. And then and then, of course, then we have ghosts who's again from. The same film as. As Bucky. Thunderbolts, that's the Thunderbolts, that's what it is. Yes, that's the all of the Thunderbolts are here. I'm wondering if they're going to be the catalyst to start this off. I think they are because I think somebody said something about something in the Avengers Doomsday
teaser spoiled Thunderbolts or something. I don't know. People are just whatever anyway. And then we get Loki returning. Of course. I wonder which variant or if this is going to be the one that was in the Loki TV show. Like almost like he's connecting the threads to bring all of these people together. Yeah, probably. But he's an OG. So I would throw him in there and then we get the X -Men. We get Patrick Stewart is Professor X, which. They've killed him three times. Twice
in the Fox universe and once in the MCU. We're going to go for four. Uh -huh. Yeah. Yeah. Some people have hinted that this film could be an X -Men versus the Avengers. I don't think it's going to be. I think it might start out that way. Yeah. But they'll quickly, you know, Doom will enter and they'll be like, we have a common
enemy. Yeah. Like if they were really. So if if if the Marvel if Marvel Studios and the Marvel Cinematic Universe really wanted to do an AVX and Avengers versus X -Men based on the comics. They would market it as Avengers versus X -Men. They would not market it as Avengers Doomsday going into Avengers Secret. The whole point of Doomsday is leading into Secret Wars because Doctor Doom had a whole big to do with the Secret War. Secret War is the next big Avengers thing.
So I would love to see that. I think that would be super cool if they adapted. the avx comics into the live action marvel cinematic universe but i think you're right i think it's gonna be you know it's it's gonna kind of be like uh world's finest i don't trust you you don't trust me oh crap lex and joker teamed up we have to work together yeah it's gonna be something like that and um Yeah. So, I mean, I see that happening. And then we get Ian McKellen coming back as Magneto.
Yeah. Which is the first time since like Days of Future Past. Yeah. And then we get Alan Cumming coming back as Nightcrawler. Yeah. Which is cool. And Rebecca Romijn coming back as Mystique. And then Donut Lord. Yes. James Marsden as Cyclops. It's funny because somebody posted they're like, OK, there was a meme going around earlier. I don't remember what day it was. It was probably a couple of days ago. So they showed Jason Marsden in a car driving with the bunny, you know, having
hot. And then it was him in the car again or the truck with Sonic the Hedgehog sitting next to him. And somebody was like, they're like, give this to me, Disney. And it's got Cyclops sitting in there with Rocket. Yeah. In the, in the image for doomsday, like as a joke. And it's like, it kind of makes sense. Like he's kind of typecast as the guy that's got the CG animal friend. Yeah. And the funny thing is, is I remember I just saw a clip the other day. I think it was
at the Sonic three premiere. Where somebody asked him. So donut Lord in X -Men. he's like no no i don't know what you're talking about it was those rumors had been going around i think ever since he first starred in the first sonic movie like whether he would return or not as cyclops and i'm glad he's returning because honestly there's nobody else i can see in hollywood that could play that role better than he does even though he only had the Three or however many
films he was in. I don't remember. He was only in those three. He wasn't in Days of Future Past, was he? No, he was already dead. People kept saying he was and I'm like, he was not there. No, he was not there. But yeah, I personally, I hope that I hope that for Magneto and Cyclops, they give them. The proper comic attire. Yeah. Like they did Wolverine and Gambit. I'm personally hoping that they do this. Because, I mean, Professor X already has the chair. They used it in Multiverse
of Madness. Yep. So there's no reason why they won't do the rest of them. I think they've come to the realization that people want it. Yeah.
And it will happen. um well and and jackman said he said recently over when when uh deadpool wolverine happened he's like somebody asked him how does it feel being in that suit he goes oh it feels fine it feels great i don't know what i was thinking 25 years ago he's like i wish we would have done this 25 years ago yeah exactly um but yeah i think it's cool that they're all they're all reprising they're all coming back and then we get gambit finally coming back and and then we
of course jump over to Pedro Pascal as Mr. Fantastic and then we get Robert Downey Jr. and then it you know this is now in production and then people were like well where's Doctor Strange where's Hawkeye where's Hulk where's Spider -Man where's Wolverine and Deadpool and you know these others and I'm like so Part of me thinks that they're not done revealing. Right. Part of me wonders if they're going to pull like a Mark Hamill in The Force Awakens where some of these show up
at the end. Yeah. Part of me also wonders if the Avengers and the X -Men like the X -Men are drawn into this battle because the Avengers are failing so poorly against Doom, who is probably playing like he's Tony Stark. Oh, yeah. And almost doing like Justice League Doom, where the whole initiative that Batman has to take down the rest of the leaguers, I'm wondering if Doom is tearing them apart from the inside and the X -Men are
drawn in by Loki to fix things. And in doing so, they have to bring all these other Avengers that aren't there. But I also get the vibe that... Every time the Avengers are in a fight and Hawkeye is not there, they lose. That's true. So I'm thinking Doomsday is going to be them losing. And then the follow -up film is going to be them resetting the slate. Yeah. Like full reboot with Fantastic Four continuing beyond. Yeah, could
be. That's my thought. I hope that Wolverine gets to kind of finally play with the X -Men in the costume and, you know, Deadpool and Colossus and, you know, some of these other guys that have been there forever. Yeah, absolutely. But yeah, I mean, obviously they can only afford so much. So I'm, I'm hoping that we end up with, with a really good film either way. Just sucks. I got to wait a year. Oh, it'll go by really
fast. Yes, I know, I know. But then again, 2025 has felt like, you know, we're at the end of the first three months, it's felt like nine years. At least to me it has, but... Oh, boy. And in other movie stuff... Yeah, so I watched The Electric State on Netflix, which is done by the Russos. The Russo brothers did it. And I genuinely enjoyed this film for what it is. And it was very it felt very original. And fun, like just something I'd not seen before. Which Netflix seems to be
doing really well at. uh, you know, the Ryan Reynolds stuff. Um, we've, we've had that, um, and his variety of films and they've all been enjoyable. Yeah. And so this one, I sat down kind of half expecting to enjoy it half thinking this is going to be stupid. Cause it's a bunch of, you know, robots running around talking to humans and green States. And then they, they explain that, you know, everybody's kind of plugged in and, you know, living virtually and not actually
living. And I was like, okay, so it's got some Wally in there. It's got, you know, gamer, you know, that film. And, uh, it was just a lot of
things going on in it. And I, I love how the robots felt like they were real, like they were, authentically there we had some I don't know there was a lot of throwbacks just a lot of stuff that was fun that kind of felt like 80s and 90s to it yeah so it kind of made me you know I was like oh I'm kind of at home here and then Chris Pratt kind of reminded me of he kind of reminded me of like a Han Solo type character but for a modern era so The voice acting was fun and
kind of on spot. Stanley Tucci is like the bad guy. And then Giancarlo Esposito, I can't pronounce his name right, but he played Colonel Bradbury. He plays bad guys a lot and everything. But he's kind of a bounty hunter in this film. And I felt
like he did. really well with what he was given and then we had um of course like the main characters the Millie Bobby Brown who's from Stranger Things and the Enola Holmes have Chris Pratt Guardians of the Galaxy and Jurassic World and you know the list goes on and on Jason Alexander was at the beginning uh Woody Harrelson he plays Mr. Peanut which was great uh I don't know. Hearing some of these older legends playing some of the
robots was just a lot of fun. Brian Cox playing Popfly, which is he's a baseball bot that shoots baseballs, but he also falls asleep a lot. Jeez. I don't know. I found the movie to just be fun in general and just a lot going on. uh, Herman, that's Chris Pratt's character's friend is Anthony Mackie. Yep. So I'm like, you got the Marvel connection there. There you go. Yep. Um, and, uh, yeah. So, I mean, just, just overall, it
was just, it was a lot of fun to watch. without giving too much away, especially because you haven't seen it. And then, you know, I, I want people to genuinely just go watch it because again, it was, it was fun in a different way than a lot of the crap that seems to be coming out or rehashes. Yeah. I'll give it a watch. Uh, the funny thing is, is that, uh, when, um, when I read the, uh, the basic plot of the film,
I was like, huh. So just this line, where it's like, With the help of Center CEO Ethan Skate, who developed Neurocaster technology that allowed humans to upload their minds into drone robots, that reminded me of a... amazon prime tv series that debuted in 2020 that we were supposed to discuss on whatever show we were supposed to discuss it on you remember upload yep is it very similar so upload in 20 no it's it's not exactly similar but it it it's it doesn't have to do
with robots it has to do with death unfortunately In 2033, humans can upload themselves into virtual afterlife of their choosing. When computer programmer Nathan Brown dies prematurely, he is uploaded to the very expensive Lakeview, but then finds himself under the thumb of his possessive still -living girlfriend Ingrid. As Nathan adjusts to the pros and cons of digital heaven, he bonds
with Nora, his living customer service rep. Nora struggles with the pressures of her job, her dying father, who does not want to be uploaded, and her growing feelings for Nathan, while slowly coming to the belief that Nathan was actually murdered. Upload is supposedly getting a fourth and final season. At some point, according to this, as of 2024, it has not had its fourth and final season yet. It's got three seasons at this point. So, yeah, interesting. I don't know. I
remember when this first hit Amazon. Again, I know we're talking about Electric State, but... i remember when this first hit amazon prime and karen and i had watched it and we watched that first episode we were just like oh my god this is hilarious like this is a show we should be podcasting about even though it's about death and dying and afterlife and what just the hilarity and the the dude uploads himself to the digital afterlife and the first thing he wants to do
Is pee all over the wall. Because he can. Because he's dead. And it doesn't matter. So anyway. Electric State. Yes. I will watch Electric State. And I will report back next week. Because it does look really fun. Like you're saying. I saw the trailer earlier. And yeah. No. So very cool. Very cool. I'm just. I'm kind of over Pratt at this point. I am too, but he does really well on this. I mean, it's him. So, I mean, you know
what you're getting. Yeah. But yeah, I mean, it was just it was fun and I wasn't expecting it. Cool. That's good. That's awesome. Looking forward to it. So with that aside. Getting into toy talk. Yes, toy talk. So in a previous episode, I brought up the Star Trek nacelle figures. And brought up how wave one, you know, they start out with some obscure characters. I mean, for the most part, they're not all obscure. Like
you get Captain Jellicoe. Ronnie Cox which is tempting enough just to have a figure of the dude I mean these these are coming out in October for one and they're like they're 2029 bucks or whatever which is not bad for what these are considering how highly detailed and how articulated like they got the ankle the double jointed knees twisting you know at the waist the twisting at the legs the you know ball joint arms and or arm and leg sockets and then you get the twisting
arms and then you get the you know you can swap out hands and they come with like usually some of their key items like jellico you get like a phaser uh uh pad a book and like some paintings from picard's thing and then the fish tank like so they all come with something you know for display piece and then you get you know like captain garrett from the enterprise c you get you know a bunch of other random characters captain sulu from the excelsior and then um and they
only had eight figures and like the other ones i mean the only two that were somewhat enticing for me for this wave were the captain jellicoe and the captain sulu like the rest i was kind of like meh um but then i i was like you know what they need they need kirk from generations like they need yeah you know they need that for wave two and then lo and behold i i get up like this morning and i'm i'm checking online and i'm like look holy crap well so i i looked like
it was literally the day after we published the episode that that popped up for that one but then like today they unveiled the whole line of wave two and i was going what these are awesome you know and i mean i'm not gonna buy most of them but the the main one that's of interest to me is the uh captain kirk from star trek generations and it's because he's wearing the vest like that was that was one it held a special place for me in my childhood for one because the first
trek film i saw in theater was generations Yeah. And then I saw the, you know, his outfit and I was liked the, the design of the vested Kirk outfit. Cause I'd never seen this one before. Like he wore one similar in Star Trek two, but then it wasn't like this was, this was new. And so I, I just liked the aesthetic. I liked the color. I like, you know, just the whole thing. So, um, so anyways, they, the likenesses of these
nacelle figures are spectacular. um they look just like the actors they look just like they did in the film for the most part i mean it's like the equivalent of a masterpiece figure for a you know a poor person pricing right um they you know he can clasp his hands behind his back he comes with uh because in the movie he's cooking in his house and so he's got this jar of dill weed so like they of course give him that and the two eggs that he cracks and then he's got
some firewood and the stump and then the axe that he's chopping and then the horse so he can ride a horse and all of these come with the kirk figure nice and i was like okay this is uh this is kind of cool like i'm genuinely excited for this this figure like i this one for sure will be on my my go -to list like i'm gonna get it um and then of course they reveal the rest of the line and they added two more figures to this line to kind of flesh it out a little bit and
they they kind of made sure they took something from every generation they took you know kirk from uh generations they took captain janeway from the episode year of hell um they took wharf from generations in the sailor uniform they took to paul from star trek enterprise season three and four They took Geordi with the sailor uniform from Generations. So we get three from Generations here. We get another from Star Trek The Undiscovered Country with Valeris, the betrayer. Yes, the
betrayer. And then you get the Romulan commander from the original episode Balance of Terror, which was Mark Leonard, who later played Spock's
dad. um carol marcus from star trek to the wrath of khan we get nog from deep space nine and then we get uh the character called bem from the animated series which i'm not familiar with uh but no i was just like okay this is kind of cool we got some next generation stuff we got some tos we got some you know star trek movies we've got specific episode versions of characters uh from Enterprise Voyager and Deep Space Nine and the animated series and so I'm genuinely I'm genuinely
excited to see how well these prototypes show up and while I'll probably only get the Kirk from this line I'm excited to see what Nacelle does because For the first time in ages. I'm excited about a Star Trek toy. That isn't Playmates toys like the. The recent resurgence of Playmates toys into Star Trek like five years ago. The figures comparing them to the original figures that came out in the 80s and 90s and early 2000s. The ones that they came out with recently, yes,
they have more articulation. Yes, they can physically sit in a chair without their legs going bow -legged out like they're trying to spread eagle. It's like they can actually sit in the chair because they have the articulation of modern toys, but they looked like crap. And they were shorter than the originals. And just felt cheaper. And I don't know. I'm glad for another company to take on what Playmates started with and kind
of accelerated. And it's honestly actually, in my opinion, better than the Art Asylum stuff that came out years ago. I don't even remember that stuff. Yeah, I remember it, but it was like too much out of my price range. At the time, I mean, now I'm looking back and I'm like, oh, they were 30 bucks. It's like, but I mean, at that time, I couldn't afford that for, you know, a figure. And I was like, I don't I don't I don't want to. I mean, now I'm like, oh, that's kind
of par for the course. But we've also got Master Replicas, which has and this is the weird thing. Nacelle has the rights to Star Trek of old. Anything predating the reboot of the J .J. Abrams from 2009, everything from 2009 onward is by a different company, and everything 2005 to the 60s is Nacelle. Anything from the 60s to 2005, Nacelle can make. But they can't make anything from any of the modern Trek series. Interesting. Which is weird. And they're only allowed to make in America.
Weird. So I'll probably pre -order the Kirk when he's available for pre -order on their website because Walmart sells nacelle figures. They sell the nacelle company figures of biker mice from Mars. I don't know if I would ever see the Kirk in store. And so and BBTS doesn't carry this stuff. These are like exclusive through these companies. Otherwise, I would just preorder through them. But. But I'm genuinely excited for what
Nacelle is doing. Master Replicas, on the other hand, which took the line of the Eagle Moss Star Trek ships. And they've kind of bought up other companies that have gone bankrupt or whatever. Taking the brands like they have some Star Wars and Star Trek, some Orville, Doctor Who, Battlestar, like they take a lot of sci -fi properties. They got the rights to all the modern Star Trek. And so they have like Picard season three of Worf, Riker and Picard. And. Looking at them like they
do look pretty close. To the nacelle company figures. However. They've almost got like an unrealistic. Look to them that the nacelle company seems to have captured the exact likeness. And nacelle companies figures are also like six inch figures. Master replicas are like four and a half. So they'll fit more with the playmates.
line but they're fully articulated so they again it's kind of it's weird I'm interested in some of those however like I don't know if I'll actually pull the trigger on any of the new stuff like from Picard season 3 just because it's another website that I would have to get crap from if BBTS had them all I would be happy but they don't so But yeah, I mean, it's a really weird place in the toy market, especially when companies that used to make toys don't make toys and companies
that own licenses to certain brands license them out to other brands. And then it's a strange environment we're in. Very, very strange. And honestly, I'm kind of. I think toy companies have become like streaming. There's too much choice to get your toys from everywhere and anywhere. There's too much choice in streaming to watch your stuff wherever you want to watch it. Whether you purchase it on Fandango, whether you stream it on Netflix, Hulu, wherever, Max, wherever.
Toy companies, same thing. It's like, Hasbro has this, but they're then licensing this out to Playmates, or Mattel has this, or Funko has this, or the guy that created Funko has left Funko and created this company now, or the guy that was running Funko for the longest time has now left Funko, and he's got his own company now. It just all feels way too splintered, and I don't know. Remember, folks, because we're recording this on March 31st, 2025. Tomorrow,
April 1st, everything is a trap. It's a trap. It's a trap. So the other thing that's kind of funny, too, is Playmates got the license for Power Rangers from Hasbro. Yep. And these figures look like... crap um they so like i i looked at these and i'm like why would like i mean hasbro redid the automorphin rangers you know like like what bandai made back in the day and then um and then we got of hasbro more recently And then these ones, they just look weird, like weirdly
proportioned, tiny head. Like, I mean, they don't even look there's something that just looks odd to the face and they're called Power Rangers Reignition. And it's like they're rehashing season one, season one and two Power Rangers all over again. And it's like, OK, we've we've had this beaten to death. Yeah. And it's not like they're reviving the old Rangers. It's like, no, they're.
they they're rebooting like why make these again when hasbro just made them yeah really uh now the benefit here is like i mean they don't have the the armor coming off on the green ranger or whatever but they're also coming out with the zords again so like you if you missed out on the original dino zords and you know building them that hasbro came out with you know the crappier version Or even like kind of I almost equate
them to kind of in the middle. They because they can shoot out of the saber tooth tiger and the triceratops. Out of their tail, like they have a colored blast that comes out. I think they sell them individually. I don't know that for certain, but I know that they sell the power more for they're going to. With. The power coins, all five power coins and 40 sounds and phrases, and they're selling the power more for. For 1699. Which I've never seen it that low. That's not
bad. No, that's not bad at all. And I'm like,
hmm. i'm like you're thinking about it well like that was one of those like bucket list things when i was a kid and even when i was a young adult i was like man i'd love to get my hands on a power morpher and then like a legit one like my 3d printed one is nice don't get me wrong but i i don't like i don't know it'd just be cool to have like the display item yeah well it's not just the display item it's you know what it is i don't i don't know if this will
actually come across in the microphone because sometimes it won't pick it up but it's the lights and sounds man i bet that didn't pick anything up it did not but of course it didn't but no i mean it's the lights and sounds it's the fact that it'll look pretty close i mean i have the i still have the original playmates like communicator from star trek like the one i bought back in 94 as well as like a couple of other Star Trek
figures I actually owned back in the day. And then, of course, I've supplemented since then. But no, I mean, I'm super excited about that. They're going to come out with the Blade Blaster for 20 bucks, which will again have sounds and lights and all that. It's in some regards like I'm it's nice to see other companies take it on because somehow these other companies are
making it work. Yep. like they're they're making the prices down to where people can actually get some of these things that for whatever reason hasbro couldn't get cheap and i don't know if it's like a playmates toys thing like i don't i really don't know like and it could be where it's manufactured like i i really don't know but um i'm kind of excited to you know finally get my hands on that get my hands on the kirk figure I find it odd that, again, other companies
are taking on, like these new companies or even Playmates being as old as they are, taking on these licenses of these companies that have been around forever. And they're just kind of tossing them around to different ones and doing, in some areas, a better job than the company that owned
the license previously. or produced the toys previously you know in the case of the power rangers like yeah the figures were better with the lightning collection but you know as far as their accessories they were unaffordable or you couldn't get your hands on them with uh with hasbro but playmates it'll be far more likely that i'll see in the store and then with the nacelle company again like these are like awesome figures like i think they'll scale well with
the first contact playmates figures that came out way back when but uh yeah i mean i'm i'm super stoked for some aspects of the toy industry and then i'm and others i'm not so Yeah, absolutely. The other big thing that I've been keeping my eye on is in our back end of the website, under our podcast tab for published podcast episodes. So far, folks, in almost 16 years, 3 ,979, we are 21 away from 4 ,000 published podcast episodes. Bet you never thought we'd get that far. Yep.
Who knows? You never know. I just hope when it gets to $399 .99 that they don't offer us a discount. I was going to say, I hope it doesn't start counting
backwards. like wait a minute you can't erase this don't don't do that hey now but uh but yeah i i started looking at this uh about the end of last year when it was somewhere around 3800 and i was like holy crap oh boy but yeah no that's uh yeah oh yeah i forgot to bring i'll bring the other thing up next week but i forgot to bring this up i now have a uh 3d printed decepticon matrix of leadership thanks to mr megatron over there I just don't know, out of all the whatever
toys I do have around here that are not Funko Pops, who can actually hold this damn thing? I don't think any of them can. Well, one shall stand, one shall fall. Yes. One shall fall all over the Matrix. Fall over. You know what Ford stands for, don't you folks? Frapped on a raw
deal. flip over read details fix or repair daily how about forward backwards drivers return on foot that's funny not not my jokes folks al april al april's auto nims old comedian uh that's funny out of florida i saw him in louisville kentucky at the comedy caravan years ago i love that guy's stuff But yeah, so hope you guys enjoyed this episode and the discussion that we had on here. Thank you as always for listening to Altered Geek. I've been your host, Steve Megatron with
TFG1 Mike. Be sure to check out... I got one more thing really quick. I'm sorry to interrupt before I forget, before my brain farts on it. Again, folks, March 31st, we're recording this. Happy birthday, Brad Maul. Enjoy your birthday, even though it's late when you hear this, buddy. He's a huge listener of ours. I was going to say at the beginning of the podcast, and I forgot. My brain sucks. Yeah, yeah, yeah. See, I'm the worst podcaster. I told you I'm the worst podcaster.
There he is, Brad Mull, longtime listener. Thank you so much for listening all these years, buddy. Happy birthday. Hope you had a great birthday. Okay, now you can go through your outro. Sorry. Yes, we hope you have a good birthday, sir. Yeah, so anyways, be sure to check out this episode on the episode link on geekcastradio .com. And until next time, get altered, get geeky with the Altered Geeks.