The Reluctant Adult Podcast

Mountain Trooper Scooper

This week on The Reluctant Adult Podcast, (02:00) PopFinding GI Joes at Target. (3:50) The immunocompromised bird gets the worm. (9:50) Using Target’s technology against them. (16:00) Building an army. (18:18) Paul’s 3-3/4” Star Wars collection. (23:51) Sneaking into Galaxy’s Edge. (36:20)  PAW Patrol, Dinotrux, and other TV shows our kids enjoy that we like, too! (41:30) Action Man memories. (44:00) Reuniting toys and it feels so good. (48:00) NECA’s Ninja Turtles accessories pack. (51:30) Did you ever stop collecting? (51:45) HasCon, won’t travel. (57:50) Paul’s first Fortnite figure not from the trash. (1:06:30) Cobra Commander has the perfect amount of hands. (1:08:30) Universal Parks Transformers toys.

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PopFinders PopKeepers

This week on The Reluctant Adult Podcast, (02:12) financing real estate purchases by selling Muppet on eBay. (05:02) YouTube’s Toy Galaxy. (08:12 New Power Rangers Lightning Collection Morph into Target. (10:57) Bill goes on a PopFinder toy hunt. (19:42) WWE goes to the ThunderDome. (22:42) NECA conspiracy theories. (34:42) McFarlanized DC toys. (37:12) The new The Batman. (43:42) Star Wars’ Galaxy's Edge at Target. (1:06:42) NECA’s Musical Mutagen Tour on Mecari.

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NECA-Deep in Ninja Turtles

This week on The Reluctant Adult Podcast, (01:17) More Retro Ghostbusters at Walmart? (5:07) Movies are back! (6:17) Back to school. (6:54) New home. (7:58) NECA’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. (13:05) Culver’s is a warzone.  (22:17) G.I. Joe Cobra Island. (31:17) Bill is done with retail, but Paul is happy to go back to Target again. (33:47) Paul won big in the school magazine drive, but Bill doesn’t want to see an R-rated movie.

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I'll Put a HEXBUG on You!

This week on The Reluctant Adult Podcast, (02:56) the only thing missing from G.I. Joe action figure release day are the G.I. Joe action figures. (11:56) Hasbro reveals a new assortment of Power Rangers Lightning Collection, but should maybe have left the lights off. (19:26) HEXBUG’s JUNKBOTS are ripe. (28:26) OH! MY GIF, Becky, look at her GIF. (31:26) Transformers BotBots are less than original price. (34:36) Is Angry Birds still a thing? (35:26) Pokemon Go find a corpse. (45:26) Chinese mystery seeds explained. (46:42) The Day of The Triffods. (1:00:00) Does Moe say "car hold" or "car hole", you decide! (1:03:00) Rescue Bots want to teach you a lesson.

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2020: The Year of the Junk Bots

This week on The Reluctant Adult Podcast, (01:43) playing with your junk… bots. (7:32) New flavors of Lanard Aliens. (9:37) Half the battle is knowing how awesome G.I. Joes Classified figures are. (13:32) AEW action figures and re-setting our great retail partner Walmart. (16:22) Pre-ordering NECA’s Tokka and Rahzar. (21:02) Troll trouble. (29:50) Mini Transformers at Dollar Tree. (40:00) Fairy gardens. (41:35) Target clearance adds Fortnite. (43:29) PAW Patrol pandemonium. (48:50) Meanwhile, Paul’s dog tries to assassinate him. (49:10) Who shot Mr. Burns? M&M’s, 3^rd Rock from the Sun, and other failed TV gimmicks. (50:33) Mulan on Disney+.

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Mr. Stinkhead Asks, 'A Twi'lek Photo Shoot Would Be Pretty Hot, Right?'

This week on The Reluctant Adult Podcast, Mr. Stinkhead joins us again to discuss his love for Lightsabers and a certain Star Wars species. (2:00) Does Bill have a Lightsaber? (9:30) Young Bill was only allowed to play with Ewok hoods. (10:30) Earliest memories of seeing The Empire Strikes Back in the theater. (11:38) Yakface or Joe Camel? (13:00) Who’s hotter: Slave Leia or a Twi'lek? (15:34) Experiencing Star Wars in letterbox. (17:12) Look, a movie about space! (19:36) Rise of the pool noodles. (21:55) Playmobile loves Back to the Future. (25:15) A toilet for Christmas. (29:57) 3D printing with Brian Baity. (31:34) Andy wants a Playmobile Snoop Dogg. (33:47) Playmobile big times Andy over their NHL license. (38:30) Nerdy proposal stories. (39:55) My own action figure. (41:17) LEGO head. (42:50) Plan B Toys and dream action figures. (45:45) XEVOZ forever! (51:12) Iron Cow draws Raving Toy Maniacs. (55:40) Playmates goes back to the sewer… again. (1:00:00) Transformers on Netflix. (1:04:00) AEW figures at our great retail partner Walmart. (1:07:00) Target takes us to G.I. Joe Cobra Island. (1:15:30) NECA pre-orders Tokka and Rahzar. (1:28:11) Paul wants a good Power Rangers helmet. (1:42:20) The Retro Ghostbusters saga continues.

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Talking Toys with Mr. Stinkhead, the Millionaire Playboy

This week on The Reluctant Adult Podcast, Andy Jones aka Mr. Stinkhead from MillionairePlayboy.com joins the show! (3:12) Andy is a raving toy maniac. (4:30) Coming clean about Optimus Prime. (8:44) Millionaire Playboy impersonator. (9:48) Shipping bricks at the LEGO Toy Fair party. (11:00) When ToyBiz owned Marvel. (12:52) Jessica Alba ghosts Art Asylum. (15:30) Do you believe in magic? (17:11) He-Man has the power! (18:18) Wun-Dar conspiracy theories. (21:30) Hasbro denies rocket-firing. (22:11) Creating your own mail-aways. (22:47) Ordering from Facebook ads. (23:15) Deceptive DeLorean. (26:00) Building Devastator on a budget. (28:00) Collecting replicas versus vintage. (30:56) Bill has all sorts of things down there. (31:50) Cleaning out that toy sludge. (34:24) Restoring Castle Grayskull. (36:55) Order PixelDan’s MOTU book! (38:00) G4 is back! (39:42) Halloween is canceled. (39:50) Exclusive toy turmoil, again. (40:40) Fans are coming out of their skulls for NECA’s Musical Mutagen Tour. (44:39) Our great partner Walmart’s jacked up computer system. (48:00) Target invites G.I. Joe fans to Snake Island. (52:50) Lord Drakkon evolves and other Hasbro Pulse exclusives. (59:29) Tulley’s terrible exclusive. (1:01:00) Build-A-Figure minus the building. (1:04:30) Vloggers vite vack. (1:09:00) Ghostbusters II is silly.

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WHERE ARE THE TURTLES?!

This week on The Reluctant Adult Podcast, (1:34) Where’s Winston? (4:01) How do Mezco’s One:12 Collective Ghostbusters compare to Hasbro’s Plasma Series? (6:58) Don’t cross the streams but do compare them. (8:43) Ghostbusters MiniMates were awesome! (11:32) Powering through a Power Rangers binge watch. (13:37) What are you going to do, replace us? (16:50) Lightning Collection pickups. (17:15) Malaysia gets new Lightning Collection first, but there’s Dino Thunder trouble! (22:46) Is Hasbro splitting from Toei and could that mean animated Rangers? (23:50) Jason’s back! (26:06) Begun, the fan revolution has. (27:40) NECA is sorry you can’t buy their toys. (30:55) Hasbro’s Walmart Collector Con and retro GI Joe. (32:43) You can do a lot with string! (33:40) Clone Wars at Walmart. (34:40) No such thing as bad press. (36:16) Are the Clone Wars Black Series figures supposed to be cartoonish or realistic? (37:46) Malaysia gets Super 7’s Ultimate Turtles first but one reviewer is not a fan. (42:15) NECA proclaims the end to Godzilla collector toys. (43:54) Since the beginning of Turtle time. (47:03) Hiding toys at Target. (50:53) Sphero’s ill-fated Star Wars toys. (52:56) R2 gets (and gives) the shaft. (54:55) Hayden’s back! (58:00) The Marvel Legends Sentinel gets backed, but fans want more! (1:01:00) Customizing Conan. (1:06:50) Currency exchange in Star Wars.

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Holy $%&@, Who Approved This? SirSteve Speaks!

This week on The Reluctant Adult Podcast, SirSteve from TheForceGuide.com joins the show! (8:20) SirSteve’s Guide breaks the internet thanks to a well-timed Star Wars: Episode One leak. (9:55) Happy Thanksgiving, please cease and desist. (13:33) Kenner is not a fan. (16:00) Starting an action figure network. (17:00) Browsing incognito at Toy Fair. (19:50) Going public. (21:40) That other famous Star Wars Steve. (22:00) Laying the Smackdown on the wrestling figure competition. (23:12) The origin of “SirSteve.” (28:20) So, you’re SirSteve. (29:30) You got a lot of people fired. (32:06) Dumb smart phones, ruining Toy Fair. (34:29) Lost in translation at Tokyo Toy Fair. (36:35) Toy Fair extra curriculars. (39:40) Holy $%&@, who approved this? Carrie Fisher shows her ass. (42:00) The Star Wars celebs on the bus go Yub Nub Nub. (44:00) The dot com bubble bursts. (59:53) Hasbo’s giant Sentinel gets funded, fast! (1:02:00) Bustin’ open fresh a fresh case of Hasbro’s Plasma Series Ghostbusters makes me feel good! (1:08:00) NECA must be going out of their skulls making Coming Out of Their Shells TMNT figures. (1:12:05) Duke’s crotch convinces Paul to collect the new G.I. Joe figures.

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Gigawatt the Hell?!

This week on The Reluctant Adult Podcast, happy birthday America, sorry your party is so lame. (2:17) Are fireworks legal where you live? (6:00) Bill lived long enough to see himself become a villain. (7:55) Walmart pre-order blues. (12:30) The epicenter of exclusivity causing headaches and heartbreak with NECA’s Casey Jones/Raphael Ninja Turtles. (14:29) April gets a big head. (16:00) Godzilla washes over Target. (16:50) POPs as far as the eye can see. (17:55) Walmart doesn’t care. (18:49) Gigawatt the hell?! (23:45) Tales of toy anxiety. (29:30) C10 mint! (31:28) Crazy stupid expensive Star Wars comic pack toys. (34:35) When XEVOZ ruled the earth. (38:00) From not to hot! (40:33) Retconning the Star Wars prequels. (46:49) Working in toys. (53:00) The pixel man behind the Dan. (55:43) Wait, what does “retcon” even mean? (56:40) Bantam Books is forced to retcon ALIENS. (1:00:00) Wait, Star Wars is racist? (1:01:46) Space Boston?

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