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We don't wanna grow up, but we already did. Paul and Bill discuss the week's action figure news, plus what it was like growing up as Toys “R” Us kids, compared to juggling work, life, and collecting as a grown-ass adult. New episodes every Wednesday.
Episodes
Tuesday Nov 02, 2021
Tuesday Nov 02, 2021
It's slime time! Ghostbusters fans "Back the Pack," as collectors crush HasLab records. But, just how stretchy are those Spengler Proton Pack reach goals? NECA wants fans to get down and dirty with Dirtbag, Groundchuck, Wingnut, and Screw Loose action figures. Boglins are back, but not in Pog form. McDonald's Happy Meals help us identify The Eternals, Amazon ships our yellow Stormtroopers, and Hasbro's Fortnite Arcade cabinet brings the thunder!
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Tuesday Oct 26, 2021
Tuesday Oct 26, 2021
You can look, but you can't touch — at least until well into 2022. It's Hasbro Pulse Con! The boys and girls from Pawtucket unload a deluge of new toys on action figure fans, including Lord Zedd's severed head, a Megazord-sized NFT, a turkey-sized Rancor, and VHS-sized X-Men. Plus, Paul traverses Walmart's return policy and hey, remember Building 19? It's back... In Ollie's form!
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Tuesday Oct 19, 2021
Tuesday Oct 19, 2021
There is hope for April's bad knees, but not if you pre-ordered from NECA. ThreeZero's 12" Power Rangers are shipping. Just not to Paul. Mattel expects their Jurassic Park Robert Muldoon figure to fight off dinosaurs with a stun gun?! The Batman trailer drops, along with our expectations. Bill finishes Squid Game. Paul is all in on NECA's Gargoyles, while Bill is hoping for a Wild Pack expansion. Halloween sucks at Target this year. There are now two action figure Kickstarter campaigns to not support. Plus, what ever happened to Collector's Crush on YouTube?
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Wednesday Oct 13, 2021
Wednesday Oct 13, 2021
NECA's latest TMNT Loot Crate comes up a bit... short. Plus, Turtle fans are mad at BigBadToyStore and capitalism! NECA opens up their vault to give Gremlins 2 Mogwai a second batch. Suddenly Paul is interested in Gargoyles. "What...If" fakes us out with a Build-a-Figure "Ultra-Vision." Candy corn is intriguing, but ultimately gross. And McFarlane wants you to build a horse!
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Tuesday Oct 05, 2021
Tuesday Oct 05, 2021
ShartimusPrime turns the spotlight on background characters, but how much are you willing to pay for some muscle? "What If...?" Marvel made a more self-indulgent version of the MCU? We dip our toe into spoiler territory for Spider-Man: No Way Home — then do a full belly flop into Ghostbusters: Afterlife spoilers! George Lucas sells out (again). Plus, did Louis Tully and Dana Barrett do... it?
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Tuesday Sep 28, 2021
Tuesday Sep 28, 2021
Mario loses his voice. ALF is back... in NECA form! Retail Halloween offerings seem especially lackluster this year. Hasbro dregs up Droids, because there is no new Star Wars media worthy of action figures. Are tag sales better than yard sales and is a garage sale just a fancy "car hole" sale? McDonald's Happy Meal toys are worthless, unless you value childhood memories, which we do not. SUPER7 goes back to 2001, when we still didn't have any product from them. Bill can't see "Star Wars Visions."
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Tuesday Sep 21, 2021
Tuesday Sep 21, 2021
Five Below's Transformers knockoffs are appropriately crappy. Display options for showing off your collection or hiding it in shame. SUPER7 provides shipping updates for a number of their action figure lines and we contemplate how many series of The Simpsons we'll see before we die. NECA's TMNT Loot Crate is finally shipping... kind of. But is Bill April's fool? Plus, it's Batman Day!
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Wednesday Sep 15, 2021
Wednesday Sep 15, 2021
It's the one hundredth (and final?) episode of The Reluctant Adult Podcast! Whatever happened to those Celerity Death Match action figures? How did we get Dragonheart toys but nothing for Reign of Fire? Five Below has Bluey figures, including the Grannies! Hasbro's HasLab Sentinel gets off to a wobbly start. Cookie Monster's true name revealed! Playmates counters NECA with more awful TMNT figures. Plus, Sun Man, a new Matrix trailer, and Theater Luke!
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Tuesday Sep 07, 2021
Tuesday Sep 07, 2021
Amazon encourages collectors to break the rules, but still delays everything until next summer. Cruella was a thing that happened. Hasbro's Ghostbusters Plasma Series Spengler’s Neutrona Wand is bad ass! Regal's bark is worse than their bite. McFarlane gives his newest Batman figure a big cape and an even bigger secondary market value! Junk Bots are back (#ShowUsYourJunk)! People are seriously scalping Target's seasonal fabric birds. What's going on with Mattel's Street Sharks revival? Plus, Turbo Man was in stock, but the Ghostbusters sex toy was not.
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Tuesday Aug 31, 2021
Tuesday Aug 31, 2021
The Spider-Man: No Way Home trailer leaks, drops, and rolls, but is that December 17 release date set in stone? Bill wants more goo on his Carnage. Everything is delayed! Hasbro makes their Lightning Collection monsters grow with Finster! We're all breaking our ankles doing the milkcrate challenge; all whilst stealing LeBron's head and exploding him with water. Super7 shows off The Simpsons and they're huge! Plus, Galactus is coming and why was Peter Venkman holding?