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We don't know what's gonna happen. We don't know what, I mean, I got on their Facebook page here and I said, listen, I am not hunting any figures in particular. There's nothing I'm after. I'm going to hang out with my friends. What restaurants and bars are open? Yeah. That's all it matters. There you go. That's all it matters. What's gonna be your budget for your bar tab? That's the question. Well, I'm bringing drinks. So there's not gonna be a lot of bar tabs. Okay, that's good. That's good. I'll figure a few things. Well, my favorite things to do is I just wanna go to dinner with the guys. We'll go to dinner somewhere, big round table, food, drinks, laughs. Then we got the lobby bar in the hotel and then we got drinks in the room. So. Yeah. That's my plan. Cause I know lobby bar beverages. They can be pricey. They can be pricey. Yeah, yep. Absolutely. It's like you gotta weigh beer or bottles. We were, Zach and I were drinking at the Burbank lobby bar and we looked down and Zach goes, I think that's David Mendenhall. I'm like, Daniel from the movie? I look over and I'm like, Daniel, you did it. And he goes, yeah. I haven't heard that before. Oh yeah, I know, right? I'm sure we bugged the crap out of him. But we ended up actually seeing him like five or six times throughout that weekend and he was cool every time. Like we didn't bug him or anything after that, but he would come up and be like, hey guys, you enjoying the con? I'm like, yeah. That's how Paul Iding was with me. He's super cool. Paul Iding and Hal Rayl. I first met them at Shardicon in 2013. I don't know if you remember that one and done convention. That was my very first time at the convention. Actually got the beer mug up here and Hal came up, just talked to us for a while. Of course, what started me talking to him, he was wearing a Decepticon shirt, but was done in Desert Camo. And I was like, oh, flashbacks. So I started talking to him for a bit. And then Paul Iding came up. Good flashbacks or bad flashbacks? Well, it depends on your point of view. That's true. That's true. Oh, Larkin's in. Oh, I haven't even said hi to everybody in the chat. I know, we got into chatting already, I'm sorry. We got 11 people. Well, that's what happens with these, my sit reps. I got 10 questions for you. 10 questions regarding you as a toy collector, transformers collector. Of course, I know you're all, all everything. You collect everything and drinking an energy drink. It's not 10 o'clock at night where you are. It's seven o'clock at night, my time. Seven o'clock. I've got sparkling water. There you go. I'm being good this time. Normally in my weekend chats, I've got a mics. That's a good one too. I need a little pep in my step tonight. So I'm good though. Well, real quick, since you and I haven't talked since 2019 and some of these guys in the chat who I recognize from my channel might not know who you are. So that's true. Give them a, who are you? I'm Mike Case. I've got a YouTube channel. And I, my main transformers, I got as a claim to fame or just thing that I do is bots and shots. I've been doing it. Yeah, I've been doing it mostly monthly, although the last year has been a little spotty just because the way the world's been. But we basically get drunk and talk about transformers for like an hour, hour and a half, sometimes two hours. The last episode we did was like two and a half hours because I just, it's a lot of work. Like it's like four hours worth of stuff that we record. And then I try to edit it down to an hour and it's a lot of work. And so this last time I was just, I was like, you know what, screw it. They're either gonna watch it or they're not. And stuff that I normally would have cut out. I'm like, nah, it's staying in. I don't care. Now the stuff you want to cut out is usually the best stuff. And that's how I first started watching you when I was working the night shifts. And my shift, or the casino closed at 3 a.m. So I'm there from 3 a.m. to 7 in the morning. I'm not working at job anymore. So they's paying me to watch YouTube all night. And I remember watching you in bots and shots and laughing my ass off. This thing before I thought about being a YouTuber. Yeah, I'm glad you enjoyed it. Yeah, I thought about doing that a couple of times myself, but at my age, I don't bounce back that good. I'm getting to that point, man. The last one we did, Zach and I were up until about three in the morning. And I think I was out for like two days after that. We did it Friday night. And I didn't feel like a person until Monday. Thanks, digital. Yeah, digital popped up. So I'm gonna go ask you real quick, see if you've noticed this. It's like YouTube has turned against us the last month or two. Yep, I noticed that. The views have went down and my subscribers are not getting notifications. That's a real problem. It's a legit issue that I've also noticed. My wife, she asked me, she's like, are you still uploading videos? And I'm like, yeah. She's like, I haven't got any notifications that you've uploaded videos in like a month and a half. They're still there. Like I'm still doing them. Yeah, there's videos that I've got. I mean, I've got figures early that I thought, okay, I'm gonna get these out. And I buy my figures just to let people know my figures are pre-ordered. So I got to get some ordered and I'm like, okay, I'm gonna shoot this tonight. That'll get some big hits. Yeah, yeah. You want to be the first one there? Nope. Yeah, you're just having a real issue. I just mentioned that. I've thought about it, maybe. Listen, if you want to do like a live stream, bots and shots or whatever, like. Oh my God. I'll take the hit. I'll do that. Huh. That may be something I have to put on. All right. Let the viewers decide. It's always tough to decide what transformers you're gonna talk about. Cause I have a bunch that we have on our no list. Like we're not gonna ever do these transformers cause they're either too expensive or too complicated. Or if we do them, we have to do them super early, like the first round, because anything after like round two, I don't trust myself to do that. Oh, I wouldn't touch one of my G1s. Yeah. Oh no. Especially not anything with a like gold plastic or anything like that. My gold plastic was sitting right there out of reach of Dylan, out of reach of the kids, out of reach of the doll. What do you have? What's your gold plastic? Oh, he's touching it. Oh, that's, for the people that don't know gold plastic is basically the most brittle. Oh, that's right. You have the monstructure. Yeah. I've got him and I've got roadblock, the pretender roadblock down there. I remember watching your videos, cause I think you built one of those out of like two broken ones, didn't you or something like that? Yeah. And see, I've got all the extra figures except for slog and bristle back. So I just got to put pictures of them up. I was like, I'm not touching these guys. No, it's not worth it. I got the idea doing that because I didn't buy him complete. He took me over a year to put together. And after spending all that time and money, especially on the little weapons, it took me the longest ever was hunting down ice picks gun. Why his gun was so hard to find. I ended up buying a complete ice pick. And I said, if I'm going, well, I sold the other one actually made more off the gunless ice pick than I did buying this guy. That's when I thought, there's no way I'm spending all the money on these guns and not displaying them. So I bought extra figures to display the guns with. You know, my first Transformers Convention was actually back in 2014. And it was up here in Pasadena. I think it was Botcon. And I had never been to like anything like that before. I've been to like San Diego Comic Con, but I've never been to a dedicated Transformers Convention. So I'm like walking around, seeing all these like grails. And I'm like, okay, if they have a monstructor, I'm going to buy a monstructor. I had no idea that it had gold plastic in it. I had no idea how rare it was because of that. So I went up and I'm like, hey, the guy's having like a monstructor. And the guy laughed. He laughed me out of his booth basically. I was like, I didn't know. I'm sorry. I didn't know either until I got a bristle back in the mail. And I went to Transformer. He's like, ah, hell yeah. That was 40 bucks. I just wasted. Oh, yes. I forgot. I have a Transmetal Megatron. He's been in the same action pose probably since early 2000, because that's what I found out about gold plastic. Yep. I'm glad you found out not the hard way. Yeah. Maybe he'll get a reissue. Hopefully, that'd be cool. Without the problems. Well, we are 10 minutes in. I know people are already starting to ask questions in the chat and people are starting to come in. We'll go ahead and do our sit-rep questions with you. Sure. And then, of course, you guys know how it is. I'm going to ask the questions at the end. Then you guys can answer the questions because we don't want this to be a complete train wreck. Well, we do because that's what we're going to do. So anyway, we're going to start out with five questions for you as a transformer collector and then five questions for you as a YouTuber. What do you drink, Rockstar? Rockstar Punch. That's right. Rain is starting to become my new favorite. They get some outstanding flavors. Yeah. Strawberry jalapeno. I did Rain for a little bit, and I did, what was the other one? Bang. I like their Sourhead. Oh, yeah. That's a good one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. But Rockstar is just... Oh, here we got a question. First, Alpha Trion 1. What do you think of the reformatted Galvatron? I think... I ain't buying it. Never I got to. I am. I'm buying the reformatted Galvatron, but not because of the Galvatron. I'm buying... Oh, you're getting the Unicron accessories. Because I have the Unicron. So I... Now, it's like my one complaint about the Unicron. I'm like, he could have so many extra little accessories, the little ships, the little dino bots, like all this stuff to go around them. I didn't know why they didn't, and now they are. So I feel like I have to. Well, you know that they are going to come up with some set that has those little tiny figures because that arc has space for lots of little tiny figures. And yes, anybody in the chat, they've been asking forever, am I going to get an arc? Well, I have to now because Toyhacks put out an outstanding arc set. So I actually bought an arc, or we'll be buying an arc because Toyhacks. This actually, it went in reverse. I bought a figure because of the decals, buying decals because of the figures. I did that with the Ocular Max Masterpiece Ravage, the one that actually is a tape. And I saw the Toyhacks that actually makes it look like a tape, and I was like, I need that. So I spent $60 on a transformer just to get the Toyhacks set for it. So I've definitely done that before. Hello, Kato. We was just talking about you. Kato, we were talking about you. He's going to be in the lobby bar with me Friday night. Isn't that amazing, Kato? I will see you Friday. It's not, hey guys, see you in a couple of months. I will see you Friday. Friday. Damn. Yes. That's when we got to get down. Anyway, what are we talking about? Questions. Number one. Questions. What was one of your collecting goals for 2021 and have you achieved it yet? Ooh, that's a great question. I know, I'm awesome. You are awesome at asking questions. I actually, I have to say, I don't really have any collecting goals in 2021. I definitely have been buying fewer figures and only figures that I want to put on my shelf because I have so many figures, not on my shelves. I've got figures in bins down in the garage. So this year specifically, when something comes out, I go, is this a shelf worthy figure? If it is, then I'll buy it and I'll find a spot on my shelf for it. If it's not, if it's something that's gonna go immediately in a box somewhere or whatever, I have to take my pictures and enjoy it for a little bit, then I pass on it. Case in point, one of our upcoming episodes we're planning for bots and shots is gonna be called Get T-Rect and it's all gonna be T-Rect's Transformers. And Zach and I are flipping over who has to buy the Beast Wars reissue Megatron. Neither of us want- That's a glorious figure. I'm sure it is, but neither of us really want it outside of bots and shots. I gotta tell you something about Megatron. I discovered the other day, my T-Rect's Megatron is sitting right here on this shelf. I was walking through my office the other day and he fell and he hit the ground with a thunderous kaboom. I think it hurt the floor. The figure didn't, I mean, it hit a hardwood floor. It missed the carpet. That figure is built. Oh man, it's like one of those old Nokia phones that's like, you know, as strong as, you could build like building material. Yeah, see that's one of those figures. That's worth the 50 bucks because he's plastic and then he has that rubber dinoskin wrapped around him. So he's got that extra protection. Oh man. I'll eventually break down and get it. There's something special in my super chat bank for you tonight, something a little different. I was working on it when Mike popped in here. It's true. It's not Burt. I'll just let you know that. Okay, there, all right, where are we? So you've done derailed question number two. Have there been any figures that were not on your radar to pick up at all until somebody else in the community picked up one or reviewed them? Is that turned away and then read my own question? Yeah, that actually happens a lot. I think definitely any of the fossilizers, like when they first announced those, I was like, I don't really need any fossilizers. They're not like in the cartoon or whatever. But when I saw the fun things you could do with them and now they're like some of my favorite toys, they're just fun to mess around with and make just weird stuff out of them. Do you see the Dino Rider set I got for Mike? Yeah, it looks so good. Yeah, part of me wants to buy like five of each just so I can build more crazy stuff but the problem is I'll do that and then nothing, maybe it'll sit on my shelf. So I'm trying not to. And somebody was able to build a motorcycle using the wrecked car wheels. I saw that one too, yeah. It's funny, I reviewed a wrecked car accessory kid the other day and apparently I forgot to put the wheels back on wrecked car before I put him back on my shelf. So you got wheels, say random wheels. I like some of me like a four-wheeler out of wrecked car one time. I think that's pretty, yeah, that's pretty cool. All right, question number three. What is your favorite figure of 2021 so far? Grimlock. Really? That was good, that would impress me. Studio series Grimlock, I think just because like, just because like I have the Gigapower masterpiece Grimlock back there. There's like a big $200, you know, shiny, gigantic Grimlock and this smaller $50 figure is more fun. Like it's a more fun toy to mess around with. I don't have to, the burden of worrying about breaking anything. It's not overly complicated, but it's got, it looks good in every mode. So I think that's probably right now my figure of the year for 2021 for Transformers. Personally. I'll tell you, I've got quite a few already for my top 10 list. It's tough. It's definitely some from my stinker list. That's for sure. Kingdom has been so hit or miss. Hit or miss, in the same way, if you'll get something incredible and awful at the same time. In the same way, if you like get, I mean, you think you get Huffer. I mean, it's Huffer. So good. Fantastic figure. Yeah. And then you get Trax. So bad. Trax. So bad. Oh man. All right. Oh, here we go. What's number four? What's your worst figure of 2021 so far? I think Trax. Trax is pretty much that one. That one, everyone thinks so. Yeah, I mean, he looks good on the shelf. I'll probably never transform him again. You know, I'm gonna change my answer on the one that buying something, not gonna buy something until someone reviewed it. And that was you actually. And that is this little bumblebee. Oh yeah. He was a hoot. So when I saw the price, I saw him on the shelf when I saw the price. I was like, nah, for that little guy, I'm not paying him almost 30 bucks for this. Like that's ridiculous. Then I saw your video on it and I was like, actually, I do want that. So it's set on my desk here since I got it. I haven't put it on the shelf because it's just fun to mess around with. Like if I'm at a work meeting, you know, Skype or Zoom or whatever, I'll just be fiddling with it while I'm listening to someone drone on about whatever nonsense. Like it's just a fun toy to mess around with. It's always good to have a desk bot. For some reason, I've got this little dude that I mess with all the time. Oh yeah, man. Alrighty, number five, what's your most anticipated figure coming out? And why is it Bulkhead? Ha ha ha ha ha, Bulkhead is a thick, chunky boy and he looks good. I think he looks better than Skids, which just to give you a kind of reference point there, I have a blue hatchback that I named Skids. So like my car's name is Skids but I'm looking forward to Bulkhead more. But my, my answer is actually going to be the has lab victory saver. I wanted to back that so bad, but the fact that they were taking the money out last week, if they were taking the money out, you know, cause a lot of those backing was like, I know Unicron, you could back it and you had a couple of months to go. This one back it now and in three weeks, you're taking your money out. And I'm like, I got TF con coming up. Yeah. Poor poorly timed and as good as he looks, I have no connection to that figure. I have never seen anything about it, but I, I'm a big proponent of something can look cool and be enticing to you. And you don't have to know anything about it to, to enjoy it. Um, because like, especially when I was a kid, like, I didn't know anything. I didn't, I didn't, I watched the cartoon after I got the toys. If that makes sense. Like I would get toys for my birthday and Christmas. And I don't remember ever really watching on TV. I just thought they looked cool. Or I bought a Ninja Turtle, my first Ninja Turtle, Michelangelo. I'd never seen the show. I just thought that was a cool looking turtle and he had my name. You know, so I, I definitely think that you don't have to have that. Visceral connection or nostalgic connection to enjoy something. I've never seen victory. I probably will never watch victory, but I think he looks cool. And I like the idea of it. And I think I, I like the idea behind the Haslabs. And no, that's not popular. I know a lot of people, they do that. Oh, Hasbro is a million dollar company. Like, why do they have to do crowdfunding stuff? I think that's more fun to do it because you have. You feel like you're involved. Exactly. Exactly. Like this thing got made because I bought one. It got made because I actually bought two. I bought one for me and I bought one to sell. And ideally the one I sell will pay for the one that I bought myself. So if I get double my money back, like, that's fine. And I don't feel bad about it because the one that I'm selling is one that wouldn't have existed unless I bought it. Like, it's not like I took, took one away from somebody to resell for more. Like it's one that just wouldn't exist if I didn't have to buy it. So I think that's what people did with Terasor because I see people talking about Terasor because all the other figures, you can still pre-order. Terasor is gone. Terasor is sold out. Yeah, I, I'm a pulse premium member. And so as soon as that went up, I was like, oh, I'm, I'm I'm pre-ordering that and I got my man. I'm a pulse premium member or two, but I'm getting stuff faster from other places. And especially Amazon. Yeah. Hasbro pulse is usually the last to get stuff. And that sucks. Elites, thank you so much for the Super Chat. You're going to start off with my new Super Chat reward. You guys, I hope you're ready for this. Oh, do you find me sexy? Oh, look at my dick. Oh, that's one. Oh, this is the best. Hi. Welcome to Picture Crime Reviews. I wish I had a drink for this. That was sovereign night. I spent an arm and a leg just to get, where was I? I lost it to get Earthrise Ratchet and Iron High. Now that, that's something that does take me off about pre-orders. They're pre-orders. So you pre-order it so they know to order one for you. Correct. That's what takes me off. And I like the fact that they're re-releasing a lot of these figures, but then Amazon's not releasing theirs. I mean, there's people still need Durge and Ramjet. Yep. Yeah. I was super bummed about my cancellation of Earthrise Ratchet. Like I've just, I've got the Earthrise Ironhide. Like I've got half the set. Cool. Thanks. Thanks. So far, knock on wood. Every pre-order I've got from Amazon, I got. Of course, I'm one of those ones that order as soon as it drops. That was my mistake. That was the one that I just kept putting it off, putting it off and putting it off until like I just put it off too long. It was still pre-orderable. I pre-ordered it, but it got canceled. We'll say it like a way about Amazon is you can pre-order it. And you don't have to worry about paying it until it's due. So what I like to do is every payday I'll go to Kroger and I'll buy an Amazon gift card. And I'll just add that to it as it progresses. So by the time it releases, I may owe it like 10 bucks. So that is really smart. Thanks. That's what I do. All right. Well, that wraps up our transformer questions. Now, let's talk about YouTube. Yeah. So question number six. How has your channel grown since we last talked two years ago? I was two at 2019. 2019. BC before COVID. Yes, true. I mean, I'm at 16,000 subscribers right now. I was like 16,300. Yeah, it's I'll tell you what, though, it slowed down last two months. I went from getting anywhere between like 150 to 400 or so subscribers a month. Last month, I was down to like 30 subscribers. And this month, I think I'm up to like 60 subscribers. It's just like, I don't know what happened. I didn't do anything different, but like it's just it's like it's like they turned the faucet off and whatever. I don't really care. I miss I make stuff because I want to make things like that's why I do it. I don't do it for the subscribers. I mean, I guess it kind of do, but I don't want. I don't do it to gain more subscribers. I guess I kind of do. Well, I think a lot of it's an extension of our hobby. Yes, exactly calls back before I did YouTube. I would buy a figure, transform it a couple of times, put it on the shelf, never touch it again. Exactly. Now I can take it out, mess with it. Now I can show it off. Then I can bring it all an upgrade kit comes out. I'll show it off again. Show it off. All the details that comes out. I can show it off again. So YouTube and and Instagram are how 40 year old men get away with playing with their toys. Basically, yeah. And I like how you say 40 a lot. You know, it's a lot of. OK, I'm 39 and so I can I'll take some of that. So we want to average it out. I was like 40, 44. What is that? Man, you are nine years younger than me. Yeah. And that's that's what I got here. That's true. That's true. One of the things I always liked about your channel is you talk a lot about the comics, and that's one of the things that I never got into. Like the comics are something that I didn't even know existed until I was already an adult. So for me, it was the toys and the cartoon. And outside of that, like it might as well have not existed, which was why I was so weird when people kept confusing the colors of rumble and rap and and frenzy. I'm not going to get into that. I'm not going to say which one's which. You guys, it's not. Oh, we know it's not funny. No, we don't. Don't don't say it. We don't want to get into that. But what are things like about your channel is you always talked about the comics and stuff. Now, I like I thought I was learning something without actually having to go through the process of reading the comics. So I like that. Well, you know, I lived out in the boonies where we didn't have cable. I mean, when I was a kid, we watched TV by turning that dial on top of your TV. So your antenna moved around. The actual physical ground. Yeah, and a good rainstorm. You may get four stations. So I never got to see the cartoon religious religiously like everyone else did. But I got the comic books. The comic books were at our local drug store. And I could get those every month. And that was my G1 fiction. And so it wasn't until a year later until the era of VHS when you got to catch up on all the shows. And then later on when they all came out on DVD, I saw some I'd never seen before. It blew my mind how different the comic was from the cartoon. Of course, the comic, unlike the cartoon, grew with us. You know, we started collecting the comic in 84. The comic ended in 91. And its stories grew with us. Right. That's part of the thing I liked about it. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, I was born in 82. So I was two when Transformers came out. So I remember it. It's definitely one of my first memories of things that I liked watching and playing with. But I was definitely I was young for it. All right, let's see. OK, we've been hit with a lot of challenges over the last year. So has worldly goings-ons changed how you approach your content? Insert Jeopardy music now. Yeah, I think it hasn't changed it in the sense that I'm doing anything different. But it has changed it in the sense that I view it differently. So for me, I want it to be a place like an escape. So not to get too heavy in July. I lost my little brother July of 2020. So it was one of those things that like, I know when I'm down, I like to just put something on and watch it. I like to dive in, getting too weird about this. I was homeless for a little bit back in like 2007, eight time. I wasn't like on the street in a tent, but I was couch stripping with some friends because I didn't have a place that was mine. I didn't have a car. I didn't have like even a bank account at the time. But I watched YouTube videos to sort of get through those times. So that's when I discovered like P.O.G. and all this. And it specifically was Transformers YouTubers. So when things started to go south and crazy and hectic, I wanted to make sure that my channel was just something that you could watch to kind of forget that. Like you want to spend an hour watching me get drunk, talking about Optimus Prime, you can do that. If you want to watch me unbox some stupid stuff and throw a shirt on really, you know, using stupid editing tricks, like you can do that too. You want to watch me talk about Star Wars figures all day. That's just something like I just want to not even acknowledge that stuff. I just want to be able to kind of be at a place where you can ignore it and just enjoy yourself, if that makes sense. That makes perfect sense. It kind of ties in. I am actually blessed enough, thanks to our friend Rod and his primal here, I'm going to be part of a panel on opening night at TFCon talking about this. Because we all came because of this COVID stuff, you can't get out, you can't do anything. YouTube became our way of bonding. And I am just amazed at how it's worked, the friends I've made via this. I hope somebody asks, hey, where'd you guys meet? Oh, we all went to YouTube together. We went to YouTube, you. If I can address Rod and his primal, first things first, big fan, by the way, Rod and his primal. Hi, how are you doing? Second thing is, first is, Clint Dilley absolutely did confirm Skywarp became Cyclonus. And at a Hasbro, it was a concert, Vince DeCola concert at Ten New Comic Con 2019 that I was invited to. I was hanging out. I was with like Hasbro execs and Vince DeCola and Greg Berger and Paul Eidling and all these other. It was like, I felt so out of place. Why am I here? I don't deserve to be here. I felt so weird being there because these people are way out of my league. But anyway, there was a trivia contest. And someone asked which figure, which character, became Cyclonus. And I said, Skywarp, because Clint Dilley said so. And Clint Dilley was there and he backed me up. And I won the commander class Skyfire for answering it correctly. And Greg Berger was standing right there. So I had him sign the box for him. Yeah. He's a super cool guy. I've never in my life thought I would be having a drink with Grimlock. And it was a neat time. I got a story about Vince DeCola. Oh, please do. He's a super nice guy, too. Well, yeah. He doesn't sound like you think so. 2019 TFCon, he was there. I was like, oh my god. To this day, Transformers the Movie soundtrack is in my vehicle. I listen to it all the time. So I'm like, I am getting his autograph on a CD. And I thought that I still had the cover on my original CD. I didn't. So I bought this one, this updated soundtrack. So I wait in line. I'm excited. I'm going to shake the man's hand, which I did. Can you autograph this for me? He said, sure, what's your name? I told him. He starts writing and then paused. How do you spell that? And I looked at him like, what, Jason? I said, J-A-S-O-N. He starts scribbling and then writes again. So on my autograph from Vince DeCola, he starts out by spelling hi, J, Jason, J-A-Y, X that out, Jason, Vince DeCola. Hell, he didn't charge you by the letter or anything. And I just said, that's funny. That's really funny. What is this? It's a Starbucks order? Oh, man. He was a great guy. I was miffed because I was looking so forward to it. And it pissed me off. But now it's like a great story. It's hanging right there. And everybody's like, well, what's that X on there? Well, let me tell you a story. Pull Cherub. At least he wasn't rude or anything. Like he's nice. I have never met a rude celebrity, Transformer-wise. I've met a few rude YouTubers. Their names, I'll get them. I was good, but I got to name my names? No. Yeah, I've walked up. Hey, I watch you all the time. Really appreciate what you do. And then it's like, how dare you talk to me? There's been quite a few. I mean, that's why you didn't say it, but you just got that feeling. And I was like, fine. I'm subscribing from your ass. So it's like me and the guys were talking the other day. I said, I know that people won't come up to me at TFCon. And I'm going to appreciate each and every one of them because those guys are what put me here. Those guys are the ones why I do this. So yes, you guys in the chat, all 26 of you. Love you guys. You guys are awesome. I'll shake my hand. I will give you one of my awesome business cards that I made up. Where are they? Here it is. And you know what's weird? What's that? As a YouTuber, I've only been recognized a handful of times. And they were all at conventions, either a local convention here or at TFCon back in 2019. But it was always for bots and shots or any of the very few Transformers reviews that I've done. Arguably, I have a lot more subscribers that follow my stuff for Star Wars stuff, like Star Wars content, Black Series content, because I've got those views. I've got tens of thousands of views on stuff on them. So I thought for sure, like, oh, I'll get like a Black Series subscriber here and they might say hi, but it's always, oh, bots and shots. Oh, you're bots and shots guy. Yeah, that's me. Let's get a picture. In fact, I was so excited the first time, because it happened right as I walked into the, on the convention floor. Someone recognized me and Zach. And I'm like, yeah, let's get a picture. And then he had to come back like five minutes later and say, well, can I get a picture with you? Because I took the picture because I was so excited that I wanted a picture of him because he recognized me. Like, I was more excited than he was that I got recognized. When I walked into the Reston Hotel at TF Con 2019, I mean, I was in there three minutes before I heard from the balcony, hatred prime, not just whip crap. Who are you? Yeah, I don't know who you are, but that was me just cracking 2,000 subscribers. It's going to be wild on this. It's going to be fun, yeah. Is it weird though? It's a little weird, isn't it? It's very weird. I mean, it's humbling, to be honest. Yes. And the other night, there's a YouTuber that hops on here and he does these live streams where he invites anybody. He's open night. So I was toy-haxing up Nemesis Prime on. I saw him on and I was like, you know what? I'm gonna hop on somebody else's channel, just say hi. Yeah, yeah. When I hopped on his channel, all of them are like, oh my God, I can't believe you're on my channel. I was like, hey. It was like the first time that Toy Galaxy hopped on one of my live streams. And I was like, I almost shit my pants. Yeah, now we're friends. Like Dan and I talk all the time. It's really bizarre. That's one of the things that happened over the course of the pandemic is Toy Galaxy. I tell him, I say thank you for the V. For the V. As soon as, as soon as he told me, cause every week he'll, we'll talk about like whatever he's working on and stuff. And he told me he was working on V. I'm like, I gotta tell Jason about that. Jason's going to love that. And then yeah. I was like, I wasn't work. And that popped up and like, ooh. We were doing questions. Yes. Number eight, is there anything different you plan on adding to your channel? Have you thought about branching out to other topics? Of course that question is mainly for transformer YouTubers. I know you cover a lot. You do Star Wars. I do a lot. I'm planning on doing the opposite. I'm planning on scaling back things like unboxings. And cause I feel like unboxings are easy. And I get a lot of people, I get emails twice a week. Like, hey, we're starting this new box. Can we send you something for free? And at first I was like, yeah. Like I want more content. I want to do all these things. I'm glad that he and I are on the same page there. But like, I feel like my channel got too unboxing heavy at this point because it's so easy to get them out. And because of the nature of what they are, I didn't want to clutter my channel up too much. But I want to get more into toy reviewing because that's what I like to do the most. That's why I started my channel was to review toys. If you go back and look at my very early ones, I reviewed, you know, transformers or reviewed some black series, but that was it. And the unboxings kind of came later. So I want to actually kind of undo some of the branching out and prune some of that stuff. I'll still do some unboxings because I know there are people on my channel and that support me on Patreon that expect unboxings. And I'll never fully get rid of them, but I'm definitely going to scale them back. So I don't do those that often. I feel like now if I get like surprise packages from subscribers or people lending things or stuff like that, I'll do those, but like just ordering something from Big Band Toy Store or Amazon or Entertainment Earth, I just, I don't do that. I just feel like, I feel like that's nothing special. Anybody can hop on and order something from Amazon. It's also weird flex. It's like, oh, look at all the stuff that I bought. Oh, yeah, yeah. I don't know. And then I thought about doing toy hunts, but then I have one Walmart and Ollie's and $15 Generals. There's a lot of $15 Generals. And I just feel weird walking around going, well, here we are at the Transformer. Oh, they don't really don't have anything right here. It's so, I did toy hunts for a little bit back in like 2017 area. And I just felt so uncomfortable holding a camera, walking down the toy aisle. Like, I already feel as a 40 year old man- It's nice when you get that parent that looks at you. Exactly. I already feel uncomfortable. I have to like, oh, my kid's looking for these. Yeah, what would my nephew like? You know, I always just kind of pretend like there's some reason why I'm not a creeper walking down the toy aisle as an adult man, or just some guy that likes toys way past the age that they should. But at the same time, like, and then you add on a camera, like I'm filming myself to it, that's even weirder. So I stopped doing those for the same reason. Here's a new idea. Patriot Prime shitty toy hunts. Shitty toy hunts. What will we not find today? That's the other problem is there's nothing on shelves. You want to hunt a lot of nothing because that's what you're going to find. That's what I tell myself. If I was collecting disappointment right now, I could have the whole set. Yeah, and you have an Ollie's, man. I'm so jealous. There's no Ollie's in California. At least not in Southern California. Oh, that's bad. I got into Ollie's is like this huge mammoth pile of transformers. It's like glorious. I have them all. Yeah, exactly. And if you'd waited, you'd gotten super cheap, but that's the other problem. Yeah. Let's say, here we are. Here you are, Rod. I don't care who looks at me. I look at toys and share my love with them, my kids, but nothing is on the shelves now. That's true. And God forbid, if you're collecting Masters of the Universe Origins, you should have a Skeletor and He-Man on it. I was going to say, if you're looking for a Skeletor and He-Man, you're set. Oh, Elites, he has blessed us once again with another super chat. Thank you so much, Elites. He's going to be at TFCon. And I think his wall is going to be like this with dollars. Hey, there's Patriot Prime. Dance, Bert. Oh, you haven't experienced the dancing, Bert, yet. So, here you go. Well. Yeah, he made the mistake of dancing during my birthday stream and I caught it. Huge mistake. Yes. I will be so paranoid when the drinking starts open. I'm going to be in somebody's super chat. Oh, here we go. Hell, half the time in the store, at Transformers, it's only adults looking for them, not kids. That's true. That happened to me last Saturday. I was in the store. They said they had a lot of stuff in stock, but I had everything and I've been reeling myself in. I don't want to buy anything yet. TFCon, Friday. And this other big old dude, and he had tattoos and everything. It's like one of those dudes, I'm like, I'm a big dude. And I'm like, back off away from this guy. And he starts looking at Transformers. And I started talking to him and all of a sudden we're talking, found out he's a big pop collector. I mean, he's Gargantuan Cell Block C guy is a pop collector. So, we talked for probably an hour there in the store and little kids would come in, and see us doing about face. And that's it. Yeah, I've got two friends I've made on Instagram meeting them in the toy house. Cause like you said, you see someone else looking at the same thing you're talking like, you know you have something in common. Like you're an adult and you are looking at Transformers or Star Wars or Marvel Legends or whatever you're having to be looking at. Like it's kind of fun just to meet random people. It's like, it's kind of like back on the playground making friends. You know, you're on the swing set or the monkey bars and you're like, yeah, let's play tag or let's play He-Man or whatever. But now you're doing a toy out of a target. I wish I had a target. I have like, I have five targets within. My closest target is two hours away. That's a lot. It's a long time. There's actually on my route to TF Con I've marked where six targets are. And I've been swinging by not for hunting Transformers cause I pretty much I've got them all right. Up to now I have everything but I am after a couple of Masters of the Universe Origins figures. So, we'll talk about this. Another cool thing at the toy are Walmart. I was in there with Dylan, my son. Well, you know Dylan, we're friends on Facebook. Yep, yep. And he was looking at toys and this little kid was in there too. And they were talking about that's when that Lennard 12 inch predator was there. And the kid was talking about, yeah, I seen a boy interview or review this on YouTube. And Dylan said, well, I reviewed it on YouTube. And that kid looked at Dylan and goes, oh, and he recognized him. He'd watched it. And Dylan was just on cloud nine. Oh man, your kid's already got fans. That's great. Hell, he's got more subscribers now than I did. I'm pretty sure I was one of your first, like first hundred subscribers. I think I was pretty, yeah. You were. And actually the, my very first subscriber he's gonna be at TF Con. He's supporting, he's the one when I first got started. You know, when everybody first starts on YouTube nobody watches your shit at all. That's true. You might hop on there after a week. Oh, I got five views. You got five views. That's three other people that didn't watch mine because I watched it twice. So I, I did like five videos and I thought I'm done with this. I mean, it take, because then I wasn't as good with the editing and everything. Oh my God, a 10 minute video takes three hours. And I was done. And then this guy, he hopped on Facebook one time says, you're not doing reviews anymore. I was like, well, nobody watches my stuff. And he said, your first video has 5,000 views now. It was that Overlord upgrade kit that I did. And so I was like, well, shit. So I just started, started rolling with it. And then of course I went with the whole how dare I call myself patriot phase with the, with those people. With those, yeah. And then I got over that. And then I found my niche and just stuck with it. So anybody complaining about your YouTube channel, dedication man, just stick with it. You're going to have your highs. You're going to have your lows. It's true. You're always going to have your highs. You just, just stick with it. Just keep making the stuff. It all comes back around. And like you said, sometimes like, I'll put a video out and the first week or two, it'll get a thousand views maybe. Not as many as some of the other things that I've put out around the same time, around the same content. But then I come back like two or three months later and it's at 10,000 views. I'm like, when, when did that happen? Like where, where, where did that come from? And it's just, it's weird when YouTube will just randomly pick something up and just start recommending it. So it's bizarre sometimes. Now David, it's not weird because the way a kid's channel is, you can sub him, you can support him, you can watch his views, but kids channels don't allow you to comment, which keeps the creepers away. Not your, I know you're not a creeper. You see what I'm saying. Yeah. I mean, you're just, you're just supporting him. I just swallowed it wrong. I've got two videos on my, on my channel that I did with my 12 year old niece and my five year old nephew at the time. And with my niece, there were a couple of comments or I'm like, I'm, I'm blocking you. Like that's, that's weird. So yeah, I think I turned off comments for both those. I've never had a bad one for, everybody likes him because every, every now and then I'll bring him in on one of my videos. And he and I just have the best interaction. And a lot of funny stuff that we do, he comes up with that they're his ideas. So I was like, okay, we'll roll with that. Oh man, I just saw Deluxe was in here. What's up dude? Oh yeah, he's, he's going to be at TFCon tomorrow. Man, I just, I wish I was going to be there so bad. It's Baltimore is so far away. You wish you fit. You got your niche, you got your floor time. If I got in the floor, I couldn't get back up again. Yeah, algorithm, algorithm is definitely weird. Yeah, here we go. Let my niece be on live shows or vids. I have to block comments every time. Yep. Yeah. I mean, none of them were overt. There weren't any that like, I thought were gross, but there were a couple of them like, that's kind of a creepy vibe. Yep. Watch your stuff. You know, question number nine I was looking at says, as a channel creator, what advice would you give to new tubers? So we're already kind of covering that. We really are. I always give this to everybody, make the content that you want to make, make the content that you want to see. Like what, what's the video that you would watch? Make that. And then don't worry about how many views or comments that it gets. Just make what you enjoy making and your passion will come out and the views and the people will come. They'll follow that. Papagord, I love you. Have a good night. Oh, he's a great guy. He does a lot of streams, he just lasts forever. Yeah. I can't keep up with him sometimes. But that guy. Another thing is don't let the negative comments get you down because there are people that get on there and it's their goal in life. They're miserable themselves and they're going to lambast you for whatever you do. When you're transforming a figure, you are going to transform it wrong. You are going to, especially on camera, you're going to miss something and somebody's going to call you out on it and then don't feel bad about it. Just comment, hey, thanks, I'm sorry, I messed up. Do it. And the people who will give you the most grief are people that don't even put out content. Fellow YouTubers will support you more. I've noticed. Yep. 100%. We'll be trolls. The, I deal with trolls in one of two ways. I either respond with ambivalence. Sometimes I'll thank them for engaging with my channel because it helps bump it up and actually gives me more YouTube revenue. Like I'll just flat out say that. Sometimes I'll just say like awesome and then like a thumbs up and sometimes I'll just block them. It really depends on how I'm feeling that day. But I won't ever like attack them back or come back at them. No matter how much I want to, because that's just kind of feeding into what they want. They want to get that reaction out of you. My favorite anymore is I give them Hasbro's customer complaint hotline number. That's a good one. Well, I wish, how come that figure doesn't do this? Well, here's Hasbro's number. Here's Hasbro's number, yeah. That's really good, absolutely. But I mean, you get a lot of personal attacks too. Like I did, I'll get like I'm obviously, I'm overweight. So people will be like, what are you, some kind of fat man child, whatever. Like, yeah, whatever. I'm just doing what I like. What are you doing? You know, things like that. So it's just don't, you have to have thick skin. You have to let it roll off. And if that's going to be a real problem for you, maybe don't, because it's going to happen. I mean, cause my first year, my God, because you know, I'm all red, white and blue, American flag, patriot, veteran. I was belittled. I was given death threats. That's so fucking weird. And just because, I mean, that's just, and there was, Burt helped me a lot. He and I bonded real tight and I would send him messages. I was like, man, look what these people are sending me. Look at this. And it's just, he kind of talked me back from a lot of it. And then after a while, I just embraced it. I was like, you know what? I'm going to be me. I don't give a shit. And like I said, I don't feed them back. I think there's only one video where one person got on Twitter and just called me a bastard. Just because, well, if he's got the name Patriot, he is an asshole, da, da, da. So I just got in there and I actually wrapped a whole intro around making this person look bad. That's really funny. That's really good. But yeah, that doesn't have, I mean, knock on wood. I haven't had a comment like that in over probably almost two years now. They come in waves for me. I'll get, I'll get a comment. Well, have you had that problem where people, there was like a Facebook group. It was like prime patriot or something like that. And I can't mess that. That was my favorite so much. I love that. Yeah, for those of you who don't know, there was a very right wing Facebook page that led into a very right wing website. He was also a scam, wasn't he? What's that? I think it was. Was it also kind of a scam? Yeah. But it was called prime patriot. So these people get on Facebook and they'd see me and send me these nasty messages because apparently they go on prime patriots shop and buy a hat, buy a $20 hat, but somehow in the fine, fine print, they signed up for some monthly subscription where they get nothing for $20 a month. Yeah. I'm getting these email. I want my money back. I'll see. Now at first when I'm getting them like, what the hell are you talking about? I just opened up a Teespring store. I don't know what you're talking about. Yeah, it's Teespring. And then once I got digging into it and I just kindly reply back, hey, sorry, you got me confused with somebody else. If you would actually take a moment to look what's on my page. You know, you got a big old picture of Patriot Prime, Optimus Prime, Transformers. Pay attention. And then they come back. We are so sorry. I mean, just begging forgiveness. Yeah, it's really funny though. I think I'll screenshot it. And I think it's like three or four videos just like, hi there, Patriot Prime here. And I just want to let you guys know that I am not. Not. I'm not private patriot. I think if you guys get a chance, watch my Naga Hat video. The woman thought I was Prime Patriot. She sent me this email about how I screwed her over money because she bought a Naga Hat. She got her spelling draw. So I went with it and I decided Naga stood for something against groping alligators. I forget exactly what it was. So I decided to use that as a skull cruncher review. And I've got this sad music playing about never again, grop alligators. That's what it was. That was it. That's right. And I got this Alanis Morissette sad music. That's one of my proudest videos. Hello. Alligators do not deserve to be groped. In the comments. And that was like, what the hell? That's really funny. Yeah, that was awesome. The never again, grop alligators. Yeah. That's really good. And then there was the one I did when Kappa was coming out. And we all thought we were going to lose our channels. Man, that was a scary time. That was a really, like, I researched a lot of that. I even, because I worked for Apple at the time. I can say that now that I no longer work for Apple, but I worked for Apple at the time and they have like legal resources for us. And I sent them like all the Kappa stuff. I'm like, is there any way I can get in trouble for this? And they sent back. I have no idea. That's all I got. I was like, thanks, cool. Good lawyer. Of course, that's where all of us now have that very quick intro. This channel is for 13 years old. I think. I didn't even bother. Hey, I practiced real hard to get a good David K impersonation. You did. I actually was going to comment about that. You have your David K down pretty good. Yeah. Thank you. I was so hoping to meet him at TFCon, but he had to bail. It was cool to meet Gary Chalk though. David K is a really cool guy. I was actually talking to him for like five minutes without realizing who he was. And it was, it was really cool. Yes. Did you ever watch my eight face video where I decided to be Kappa compliant? Yes. I do remember that. And we're like, hey kids. Yeah. I do. I think I commented on that one. That's the one that actually could get you in trouble because you were making it kind of for kids, which is, and that's what I tried to, like from everything I read and obviously YouTube could have taken that any way they wanted, but it was literally the channels that were like, hey kids and they have all the kids' music and stuff like that. Those are the channels that they were worried about. The channels that we do, we're just a weird gray area because we do talk about toys, which kids like, but they also said just because kids like it doesn't make it a kids channel. So I don't know. Like kids like me, but I'm not a kid. Wait. I think that's also when I tried to quit being so much of a toy reviewer. Yeah. I tried to be more of a personality too. Personality. And if you watch the videos, you kind of do your videos as a series. You don't just, like for me, like I'll reference something I did in the last video. And it's just like, it's a continuation on and on and on. So I don't know. Yeah. Definitely if you evolve and you find yourself, like the videos I made when I first started are way different from the videos I make now. And it's just something that kind of happens because you're right. When you started, you were very like matter of fact. You're like, I'm Patriot Prime Reviews and we're going to talk about, you know, Megatron or whatever. And like, and you're, you're very straight faced and Exactly. And there's going to be no personality in my voice whatsoever. I'm a Cyberdyne Model 101 Terminator. These are the facts about this transformer. I'm going to transform it perfectly every time. Yeah. Yeah. Right there. Right there. That was the biggest thing. I think about after a year on my channel and still, if you, if I want to do this or not. And I had so many people asking me, I love your G1 reviews, but are you ever going to review the newer figures? You stop him. And I made the comment, I don't want to review newer figures because everybody's doing those. Nobody's going to watch mine. And I can't remember who it was that told me. I owe him a lot because he said, we don't watch your channel for the toy. We watch it for you. Yep. And that was it. Well, and it's the same. We're like, all the big ones that I watch, I watch them for the person, not necessarily for the content. Like what, Thu? Like, I don't care what that guy does. I'll watch any video he makes because he's hilarious. Yeah. Like he as a person is a really funny, interesting guy. So I will watch his videos. And same thing, he passed away back in like 2015 or 2016, but Glenn Webb was a big influence on me as a YouTuber. And he would put out wrestling videos. And I do not care about wrestling. There's not much in this world that I care about less than wrestling. But I would still watch his videos because I liked him, not what he was talking about. That's why Ms. Collector 75, he decided to take a break from all this. I still don't know, understand why he was bleeding all his stuff. Well, I think a lot of people believe in their stuff around copa times. Like, if ever I see anyone delete their stuff, I just assume it was copa related. But he was so funny. I'd love how he just, I like his figure all his. Actually, it's shit. It's a shit figure, but it's all right. Like is it shit or is it all right? Yeah. Those are kind of mutually exclusive. But it's true. The way he said it, like I get it. Yeah. He actually hopped on, subscribed to my channel and I did a sit rep with him. It was like that was meeting my idol there. I was like, oh my God. So I've been watching you forever. Yeah. It's weird getting to the point where you're kind of their peer now. Like you go from being a subscriber and a viewer to sort of their, well, to their peer, like you are. Even if they don't really know who you are, you still are. Well, what's funny is you look at your analytics too and you're like, yeah, I got 10,000 subscribers. But then if you look at your analytics, yeah, you got 10,000 subscribers. Yet there's up 10,000 other people that watch your stuff that don't subscribe. I mean, it's an even 50-50 split. So there's a lot more people that know of you than you think you do. Exactly. And real quick, while we're still talking to new YouTubers, another thing that helped me out a lot is come up with good thumbnails. That helps. Thumbnails are huge. Thumbnails are huge. And there's a lot of people. I mean, like mine, I've kind of tweaked my work. My reviews are my logo, the flag swooshing down and the figure. You can always tell, okay, that's Patriot Prime's figure review. ToyHacks has the green grid and the ToyHacks logo. A lot of people just let YouTube randomly pick a random screen from the video or you've got that yelling at the toy face or, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, there we go. Let me see if I can do it. I tried doing that one time. I think I did a black series review where I gave it a click-baity title and one of those thumbnails just to see if it did anything different and it didn't. So I changed it all back. Yeah, that came, somebody told me that too. So that's when I tweaked and tweaked thumbnails. Do I finally got that one? Looks good. Stick to consistency. Yeah, absolutely. Kano, I knew you'd like that one. Inside joke. All right, question number 10 is now time to promote yourself. Please tell our viewers about you and your channel and what you do, any special shout outs and I'm gonna expand your screen so people can talk to you while I go pee real quick. Hey, I hope it all comes out okay. Hi, I'm Mike. You can see I've got some of the toys behind me. I collect pretty much everything. I'm gonna keep going up here. I got some hot toys up there. I got fans toys. I got a trypticon, stuff like that. I got some big turtles. I'm not really very picky about what I collect because I'm basically just a, I like stuff and if I like it, I wanna buy it. So massive universe, Ninja Turtles, Transformers, Star Wars, that's that. I have a pretty complete black series collection. Like it's like 99.9% complete. There's just one little thing that I'm missing. I'm not gonna tell anybody what it is. And this is only part of my collection. I just moved and I just haven't gotten the rest out of boxes and I'm still just kind of figure out how I want it. I do, I'm boxing on my channel, but like I said earlier, I'm trying to tone those down a little bit but they're still fun to do. I do black series reviews. I do Transformers reviews and I do a show monthly with my friend, Zank, bots and shots. We get drunk and we talk about Transformers. I also just started a podcast on podcast places like iTunes, is iTunes still? I don't know, but podcast places, it's called Black Series Cantina. So if you like Star Wars, the Black Series, my friend, Zack, who's a different Zack, he actually heads the Black Series channel, IG, Instagram account, whatever. The Star Wars Black Series is called. He and I do a podcast monthly. No, bi-weekly. Excellent. You know, that was a great idea I just had, popping you up there solo. I can't tell you how many of these I've done. I'm sitting here just like, I'm on a chair. Squeezing that, you're like, ah. Yes, that's right. I saw on the super chat. For those of you heading off to TFCon this weekend and you're packing your bags, please don't forget one important item. If you have enough money to spend on robots, you have enough to spend $2 on Deodorant. Whether it be speed stick, old spice, or arm and hammer, remember, personal hygiene is the right of all sentient beings. That's the best PSA I think I've ever heard for a convention. Because it's a legit problem. I will never, my first convention was Sharda Khan. In 2013, the wife went with me. She walked in there and literally said, holy shit, this place stinks. And she was right, that's all you smell was ass and BO. And then I went to TFCon in 2019 and it wasn't bad. I think people may have heard of showers by then. And there was only one dude, I remember I was in a booth, there was one of those booths where you actually walk in, it set up and this guy got in behind me and it's like, all I smelled, it was like he had two dead skunks under his armpits. And I couldn't get out. Yeah, I mean, I live in San Diego, so San Diego Comic Con has been a fixture since I was a little kid. Back before 2008, when it became impossible just to go, back in the day, you could just go to Comic Con, but you could just go Friday morning, pay 20 bucks for a ticket and get in, like it wasn't a big deal. Now it's like, if you don't buy the tickets a year in advance, like you're not getting in. But it's still packed, it's packed and it's gross. Now, of course, with this, now the, Oh, look at that. Yeah, you gotta wear these now at TF Con. And what I'm wondering, if I can smell your ass while I'm wearing one of these, then my whole thought on these is gonna change. Also talking about, that's good. Oh, okay, who knows? Whatever. Yeah, I still need to pack. I got stuff laid out, but I haven't packed anything. I've got my clothes bag and I've got my cooler. I'm making sure to take the cooler. I'm hoping to, oh yeah, we're talking about Comic Con. Rodimus said New York Comic Con, saying, Baltimore Comic Con is happening at the same time as TF Con, a couple blocks away. It's gonna be Nerdvana in Baltimore. Oh man, yeah. And then Hasbro Pulse Con is happening this weekend as well. Yeah, the Transformers section is gonna be while I'm on the road. Yeah. But I think from, I mean, it's just gonna be like reveals, I don't know if you can order anything yet No, it's, well, no, they're gonna have, well, they're gonna have their exclusives go on sale the first night. So if you wanna get- I think that's the Galvatron, right? That somebody happened to get to review already. No, it's gonna be the Ravage. Oh really? I thought that was already out for sale. No, it's gonna go up for pre-order that night. There are people that got it early because I think people found it on shelves in Canada or in Malaysia or whatever. There are places that they have bought it on shelves, but it's not available at least to the U.S. until Hasbro Pulse Con. So yeah, 4 p.m. shops open. So I know that's the Transformers one. I'm definitely getting that. There's a bunch of Star Wars stuff that I'm getting, but I think the big reveals are just gonna be reveals, which we've seen too of so far. Yeah. I don't know, like I said, I'm looking forward to just hanging out with friends and it's just gonna be a blast. There's nothing on a shopping list for me. There's, I'll take it back. If I go to a G1 parts band, I need three G1 accessories and my G1 Decepticons are complete. I need fast tracks, two little guns, and I need the Spear for Chop Shop. Okay. Yeah, right, I'm just saying, I think you'll be on the road too. I basically, I have a Hasbro premium membership just so I can get first dibs on those stupid figures. I hate having to compete with other people for that stuff. So if I get an edge, it's worth the 50 bucks for me. Now I was gonna take, I like that Dracula figure they come out with and then you realize it's getting released at Thanksgiving. I'm like Dracula Halloween. They missed that by a long time because we always do a Halloween episode for bots and shots. And I'm like, this is gonna be perfect. And then I saw it comes out in November. I'm like, it's not perfect. It's like the date after Thanksgiving. Like why? Yes, I've got Dracula here for Black Star Day. This would be a really cool next year for Halloween. Yeah, I've fumbled the ball on Halloween this year. Since I've done my channel, I've always done like a Halloween month, but TFCon has just been first and foremost. I had these neck adjacent figures I was gonna review. Oh, I meant to talk to you earlier, you talked about how you'd branch out with your channel. I was doing necker reviews for a while. Nobody watches those. Once you get shoot into something, I mean, I'm a transformer guy. They see me post anything else. I ain't watching that. Yeah, you'll get some, you'll get those diehards that watch it for you and then you get the people, like they're just not looking for that on your channel. That's not why they come to you. So they won't watch it. Yeah. I bust ass on necker reviews because I'll pull out film clips for each little weapon. Yeah, it's a lot of work and it's not a lot of payoff. So it makes you not want to do it. Yeah. But it's still fun. I mean, I enjoy it. There's a lot that I collect now that I don't even review at all. That's like the masters of universe origins. I kept them in packaging for so long, thinking I'd review them because one, a regular figure after doing transformer reviews is easy. You don't have to worry about transforming. Yeah, you don't have to transform anything. It's great. Now, people don't realize it's hard to review a transformer because you're reviewing most times at least two figures, but you have to review all the different aspects of both those figures. And it's so rough because I talk through the whole thing. You want to move this here, this here, this here. Now some reviewers, you know, they'll just do those edits where they're transformed. Jobby's job is real quick with those. And I like that. Do you watch Jobby? Yeah. And so, and then when you're doing it that way, you always miss something which leads into the commenter later on. And then for a while, I thought, you know, screw it. I'm not going to show transformation. They come with instructions. Transform it yourself. Yeah. And then they start complaining. Why don't you transform anymore? Well, shit. What can I do? So then I got the great idea of chapters in my videos. Watch what you want to watch. Yep. Yeah. The chapters is actually a really cool thing they started doing on YouTube. I like that a lot. And it's a good way now, except it didn't do it in my tracks review where I could edit my review before I put it live. I don't know if you could not my tracks review my road rage. My premiere I put up. I forgot to edit out the part where I screwed up. And when I screw up army me, army me comes out. I was like, yes. And here's the box in this figure that I got tongue tied. Fuck. I just sat there for a second. And then I did it again. And now you got a little yellow little yellow dollar sign. I immediately after the premiere I marked it on a listed went back and edited that out and read up. Yeah, there was like 60 people that watched that. I'm just I'm watching it live. And I was like, oh, sure. That's funny. Well, that's it with the questions. Let's see. You guys in the chat got anything. We won't stay on here much longer because it's 1110 in my neck of the woods. Yeah. You're three hours ahead of me. I got so much to do tonight now. So much free time. Yeah. Tomorrow for me is going to be packing. Getting ready. Man, it's going to be. Are you your driver? How long of a drive is that five hours? Five hours. It's 300 300 miles even from my house to the hotel parking lot. And I get to try out my new Jeep, which is exciting looking for that. Yeah. But I was going to try to leave around seven Burt Burt's my roomie. And he's flying there and he's going to get there at 11. So I thought if I can leave early, that way I can meet up with him. But then my son, he's like, you are not leaving. Unless I can say goodbye to you. So he wants me to take him to school now. Oh, man. That puts you back. Yeah. Yeah. Well, an hour. Yeah. They'll still put me on the road at eight and I live. It's probably six miles from the interstate. So they hit the interstate. It's interstate the whole way. Yeah. Well, Kato, you're driving from Myrtle Beach. That's right. He's in North Carolina. I lived in North Carolina for like the first six years of my life. Sorry. I meant my laugh. One of the things I did when I moved to California was I got rid of my accent because I was Michael. Well, it's funny is when I first started everybody thought I was from Texas. I wouldn't have pegged you from Texas. Yeah. See, I don't, I'm in southern West Virginia. Now, northern West Virginia is where the top mall like this. Yeah. I avoided that. That's good. Yeah. Now, whenever I go visit my family, because they live in, well, they live in Northern Florida. They live in Jacksonville now, but they're, they've all lived in like South Carolina, North Carolina their whole life. So every time I go back there to visit them, it always comes out that Michael's talking now. Can't help it. Now my son, he'll come up with this twang every now and then. I'm looking like, who's kid are you? Where did that come from? Yeah. The first time I ever heard Rodimus, I was like, that guy's from New York or Jersey. Let's see if we got any questions or anything in here. How much money are you going to blow at TF con? I'm hoping not my whole, my whole wide if it comes, but I am proud to say my whole TF con trip is funded thanks to YouTube and things I've done YouTube wise. I've saved up for the entire year. Isn't that nice? I'm not dipping into the joint account at all other than to fill up the gas tank before I leave. So. Yeah, I got my, my Patreon is basically paid for both my, my Haslab that and the Rancor for Star Wars coming out. But like between, between those two or whatever, what I've saved up this year in Patreon is, is paying for those. So it's really nice. Like it's, it's nice having a hobby that's starting to sort of help pay for itself. Yeah, definitely. Cause you know, other than that, there's no way I could do this. Oh heck no. Especially in my area where I can't get anything. I mean, all my stuff is, well, fortunately with our little YouTube group that I've become such good friends with, we'll message each other when we're in the stores. Hey, I'm a target. Anybody need this, this or this? Yeah. And we're always sending each other. But you're looking out for each other. That's, that's what it's all about right there. Well, yeah. Nick's got me here. If I say a G1 overlord, Nick was gracious enough to lend me his, I mean, there's some trust right there when somebody will lend you a G1 overlord to review. And I was like, oh my, and I was so careful. I reviewed it, enjoyed it and then immediately packed it back up and sent it to him. So. Well, for, for your wallet's sake, I hope you do find one. Yeah. The first time I ever saw one was at shardicon and somebody to correct the spelling. That's a dusty glass. It was shardicon because it was in Charlotte, not shard your pants. Yeah, back in, that's, that's when I was just a little no, but of course that's the life's card right there. She went in with me. She was there for an hour. That was it. That's all she could take. Yeah, it was cool that they did the whole convention was based on the quintessans. Yeah. Just gave away my real name. Uh-oh. Pretty much. Yeah. I just decided with my channel, like that's just my name, my case. Like, yeah. I don't know. It took me forever to come up with a channel name. Yeah. Because when I first decided, okay, I'm going to do YouTube. My email address for years because I collected toys was action figure at yahoo.com. And I thought, okay, I'll just do my action figure and make that. And I thought, no, I need to have something that has a ring with it, something that's catchy. Yeah. And I got to talking to one of the guys who went to shardicon with me and I was kind of giving the ideas with it. And we were just talking about shardicon and the fun and it dawned on me that my tattoo, wrong arm. I got this like three weeks before going to shardicon. And so when I was there, I had a tank top on cause it was still a little tender. So I didn't, and so everybody was seeing it and they kept nicknaming me Patriot Prime. And that's when it hit me. I was like, that's the perfect name for a channel. And then I had the reviews to it. So it's my name. So if you think about it's a big play on words. My channel is Patriot Prime Reviews. So if you look at my titles, Patriot Prime reviews, Kingdom Megatron, Patriot Prime reviews, Optimus. So it works on multiple levels there, which is great. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. My channel, so the first video I ever uploaded, which is still there, if you go back far enough, you can see it. It's a very, very terrible cell phone recording of me from 2006 singing bye, bye, bye at a karaoke competition. And as a joke, well, as a joke, but I uploaded to YouTube. It was my first video back in like 2007. I think it was. And as a joke, I named it Justin Cacer Lake because my people called me just in case. Cause like my last name is case or whatever. You get it. Yeah. So I was like, oh, Justin Timberlake, Justin Cacer Lake. Uh-huh. It's funny, whatever. But then when Google plus came out, they made you change your YouTube, your Google accounts. So you just your name. So at some point it just became my case through using Google plus and all that stuff. And I just never changed it to anything other than that. So it's just my name. So I don't, I don't really have anything cool, which makes it hard to like, cause people have asked like, like they want me to do shirts and things like that. And like marketing buy it. Like what do I do? It's just my name. Like do you want to buy it? Well, your old logo, wasn't your old logo holding Thor's hammer up? That was, yeah, that was a picture. Uh, that I took at someone's wedding. They photoshop Thor's hammer in my hand for a wedding photo. I was best man at a wedding. I just realized. I guess I could use that. G a wreck guards review. I've been fidget spending him for like 15 minutes. And you noticed that. Yeah. Um, Well, so I'm going to say, oh yeah. And then of course with the Patriot Prime was the military thing. Yeah. And that's what I threw on the hat. And I've said this so many times. I hate wearing hats, but this is just something I did for the channel. And so I do it for all my reviews. And when I went to shard, not shard, TF con 2019, I didn't take my hat. It was just me looking like this. Yeah. Stick it up the high. And so many people, they walked by and they just give me that. And then he'd come up. Are you paid? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then he'd come up. Are you Patriot Prime? I didn't recognize you about the hat. So I think it's like, it's like the opposite of the Marvel thing where they put the hat and the glasses on it. Like you took yours off and no one recognized you. So I actually went and got my haircut today. Super short on the sides and back. So this won't be so hot. There you go. That's the way to do it. Uh, someone, someone asked me a question. They asked me what I thought of bad batch. I like bad batch. I think it's, I just finished watching that. Yeah. What'd you think of it? It was bearing up cause Disney trilogy kind of put me, I didn't like it, but they've redeemed themselves Mandalorian, bad batch clone wars stuff like that. I mean, I loved, what was the first one? Force Awakens. And then it just went everywhere. Yeah. I mean, I, I don't, I like it. I'm just going to say that. I don't really feel like I'd have to like defend that or anything, but I will acknowledge as someone who likes it, they, they would have gone in with a plan and a story before that. Cause that is part of the problem with it is that it's all over the place. And it didn't have that unifying, like this is the story we want to tell. And, and we're, we're going to tell it over these three movies. And that was, that was a big mistake for sure. It went the whole live action transformers route. Yes. Pretty good. Second one dog shit. All right. But it's like they eat the movie. The sequels never tied in with each other. Yeah. That's why you make a sequel. Yeah. There were some mistakes were made along the way. That's, I'll, I'll agree with that for sure. That's what's why, like you said about this, this new one is I loved the Bumblebee movie. I thought they did that. Perfect. Such a good movie. This one, this new one seems to be going a lot of old Bay seasonings being sprinkled all over this. I don't know why they didn't just make like Travis night to do another movie. Like why just, just have him do the rest of them. I just want Travis night to make whatever movie he wants. And as a huge Megatron fan, it upsets me to see that once again, he is not the villain. It's going to be this new Scourge truck. Scourge. Scourge. Scourge. Scourge. Scourge. Scourge. Scourge. Scourge. Scourge. Scourge. Scourge. Scourge. Scourge. Wasn't just a reunion. Yeah. Was that a Scourge or was it a black truck optimist prime basically? And one of my favourite Transformer figures. Yeah. Well, wasn't it just a re-color of the Laser Prime? Laser Prime? But I never got a Laser Prime. So my only experience with that figure was Scourge. What Scourge? I think when I'm talking about Scourge. I must call him a different word every. Scourge. Scourge. Scourge. Scourge. Scourge. I heard it all over the place. I actually bought one of the generations. or Studio Series 86 sweeps, got him home, looked at him into packaging, pulled my scourge off the shelf, and I was like, I'm taking this back. It's the same figure. It's like 99% the same figure. They just, they switched the hands and I think it's a shade, shade different color. And that's pretty much it. That course coming from a guy who has 15 different side swipes and 15 different secrets. I have a whole shelf of Optimus Prime right there. It's just a bunch of different Optimus primes. Yeah. All right. Well, Mike, it is 1130. I think I'm gonna- Sure, man. I appreciate you coming on. Always enjoyed talking to you. Sorry it's been so long. I'd like to get you in one of the big multi-chats. Sure, that'll be fun. Some of my fellow, the other fellas. Yeah, we'll have a lot of fun. Oh, definitely, definitely. And everyone in the chat, thank you so much for joining in. Appreciate the super chats on here as well. Mike got to experience Bert and me as fat bastard tonight. Oh, I'll give this one to you. This is a freebie, Mike. It's the one everybody enjoys too. I'm leverage, it's your- Yes, I entertain my parents. That's really stupid. And of course, in honor of TFCon, let's do this one. Hopefully this won't happen. 80s toys has an eBay pay. That's why we keep hearing the eBay ding. Yeah. We were all, earlier, we were talking with Matt and whoops, there it goes. What happened? I leaned back and there wasn't nothing there. Live, look. You did it. That was embarrassing as hell. We had just started getting a crowd in that store wondering, who are these two nerds? You know, and we were on this little stage and I thought the wall was right, you know, like that far from it, it wasn't. What store was that? 80s toys of Princeton, West Virginia. Okay. Bert, who lives in Florida, was coming to visit family in Virginia. And we told me where he was. I was like, all right, I'm in West Virginia. You're meeting your family in Virginia. I gotta find a good halfway point. Princeton, West Virginia was the halfway point. And then I discovered there was a toy store there. So what better place to meet up than a toy store? That's right. I brought the camera and we did a live show. So it was cool. That's great. All right. Well, thanks for ending on a high right there. That was fun. Hey, man, I try my best. Mike, I appreciate it. Chat, I appreciate it. Hopefully, I'll see a lot of you at TFCon Friday. Have fun. And you guys have a great, great night. Mike, once again, can't thank you enough for being on. Thanks for having me on. It was a pleasure. Make sure you like Mike's channel. Up on there. Like this video. There's a link to your channel in the description of this video. And for me, if you don't subscribe to me, why the hell not? Yeah, why are you watching this? Why are you watching this? Exactly. Well, you guys have a great night. This is Patriot Crime, signing out. Hula!