 Hey, what's going on guys? Patriot Prime here once again with another episode of the sit rep Episode 30, so I've come a long way and my special guest tonight is Captain Kyle from the YouTube channel Fandom spotlight captain. How are you doing tonight? I'm doing great. Jason. How are you? I am doing very well Just to let you guys know my viewers know captain Kyle and I will be meeting each other at TF con at the end of the month So I am looking forward to that Yeah, I've been I Tried to get him up to Pennsylvania for retro con, but it was retro con or TF con. So You know next year next year you're coming to retro con. Yeah, I'm probably gonna get hooked after this All right. Well for those of you who do not know my viewers know how the sit rep works But for captain Kyle's viewers, here's the lowdown I have 10 questions for my guest as a Transformers fan slash collector the first five questions regard him as a Transformers collector and the last five questions regard him as a youtuber and fair warning These things go off the rails really really quick. So captain if you're ready to roll Well, we'll get this thing started hit me. All right question number one. What's the appeal of transformers for you? Well, I remember when they came out way back in the day I just thought they were incredible one. I've always loved robots. I'm a big as a mom of a fan I grew up reading all his robot books the three laws of robotics all that wonderful stuff and I was also a big Star Wars fan had lots of action figures But with transformers you don't need to get the extra vehicle place it and I just thought that was really cool And of course watching the show I was like, oh my god, that is awesome You know it's science fiction. It's a cartoon. I just love the concept and So I had to get the toys my first one was beachcomber actually so I didn't get series one mini-bot I got a series too mini-bot and Yeah, and then I just got hooked I bought more and more transformers and Then I got the comics. I actually came to the comics later on and I thought it was awesome because in the comics If you read the tech specs on the back of the transformers, it tells like Buster has an electro magnetic or electro disruptor disruptor rifle and You know tracks has a black beam gun and this one has this special weapon and in the comic books That was their weapon. It wasn't like in the Cartoon where they'd occasionally break out the special weapon. It was always a special weapon So it was kind of like superpowers robots So, I never thought of that until you mentioned that right now because I always talk about G1 Marvel Because I was into the Marvel comics before the cartoon. I lived out in the sticks. We didn't get cable But you're right. I remember so many episodes where they would use their specific weapon to help during the battle Blaster electro scrambled a lot of figures or a lot of characters actually Yep, no ray From Starscream just all those things um frenzy though. He was the wrong color Or the right color depending on all the comment sections go blow up now Would you know would create this sound that would disorient people it was you know It was basically like they were robots with superpowers which since all their tech specs and stuff were written by a comic book guy Bob buddy ansky It kind of made sense that he would kind of give them that special Particular power the special thing instead of just oh he carries a gun and shoots, you know blasters You know ionic blue lasers Yeah, basically He's a good guy So his laser is gonna be this color and the bad guy is gonna be that color. Yeah, so Not like g.i. Joe where they just you know shot a lot of things around and didn't kill anyone And every vehicle had a parachute Yep Even the ones on the boats So yes, that's what kind of got me into transformers and Yeah, I've just always been a sci-fi fan always been a geek always been into I Like action figures for a long time and just transformers were just like wow, this is the best of all worlds and Yeah, and I'll tell you more about my collection later, but on with your questions And isn't this a let me try asking isn't it amazing that here? We are 35 years later, and they're still on the shelves Yep It's I've talked to many of the actors who have appeared or voiced characters and To them, I mean they like the transformers. They thought it was a good story a good job But to them it was a job. They had no conception that this many years later that 35 years later People would still be you know liking me You know Be loving these characters that there would still be you know Optimus Prime and Bumblebee and that this To them it was a cool job, and they liked it and they liked the camaraderie, but you know this many years later for it to still be In pop culture. It's just amazing That it is that it is all right, which that kind of leads into question number two Aside from G1, which is always the number one answer. What is your favorite transformers fiction? I Would have to say there's a lot of good ones but I loved Beast Wars I See that's mine, too. I love that one That's the best story in that series and the fact that they eventually tied it back into G1 And I loved how Starscream, you know Ended up Taking over waspinator. That was a great tie-back And you know totally lied about how he died. That was just pure Starscream right there I mean, I loved Transformers Prime. I've loved Robots in disguise the first time around, you know that used to be car robots That was a pretty good show our Mata had its moments, but for me Beast Wars Then there was Beast Machines. No Now I enjoyed more when I got it on DVD and I watched the whole series In order the last few episodes were really really good But my gut the art was just horrendous in that I hated that style and the fact what they did to all of our favorite characters and took away their weapons because you know and They couldn't have Beast Wars because they had the name the actual word war in it No, we can't have Beast Wars. They have to be Beast Machines and yeah, they changed the entire dynamic of the show and how the characters worked. So It wasn't a bad thing to go back to Cybertron, but Just the changes the first season. I thought especially when you had to watch it week after week It's like how many weeks am I gonna have to wait for them to learn how to transform again And when they transform like this the whole yoga pose I am transformed We're all gonna die again Oh, and I hated their new robot designs there especially what was the bat with the 90s hair? Homeover. Oh, I scream Terrible. All right, Beast Wars Beast Wars rules. All right question number three Do you have a favorite figure or grail? This is the one toy you will never get rid of And it's hard to say I have a favorite character and I have a lot of really cool Transformers, but I'm gonna tell you the tragic thing a story that some of the people who actually know the three people who watch this will actually Maybe cry a little bit at one point my collection. I had every single US released G1 transformer Every single US release G2 transformer every single Beast Wars every single Beast Wars 2 except for like the special edition ones Every single Beast Wars Neo all the beast machines. I was the completest all the way up through car robots and a little bit beyond that so I Used to have every single US G1 transformer and a few UK action masters some Japanese ones and I sold the majority of my G1 and G2 collections So I even sold tracks Who will talk about him a little bit later, I even sold like I had I Know that just recently you did the power master transformer Reviews so you had dread wing and dark wing or dark wing duck or whoever they are Dark wing and dread wind who became dark wind or is it the other way around? I became dread wing There are dread wings. So it was dark wing and dread wind. I couldn't tell you how many times I flubbed it up my review and had to redo read I had the I had both of the Japanese versions of those which were different colors and different characters and I were Hydra and Buster Yeah, I had Hydra and Buster both in the box and Hydra's box Mint perfect Hydra's not Buster's not so much but Hydra's box was mint perfect I ended up I actually picked it up for like 75 bucks on eBay I sold it for like 350 so So there's nothing that I wouldn't actually sell as far as Characters if you give me enough money But there's I have a lot of favorites I I actually like having some of the More odd ones like the turbo masters and the predators from the UK and the rescue force I like kind of the odd ones, but there's nothing that I probably Wouldn't sell if you offered me enough money so I Kind of feel your pain I was completionist there for a while, but I didn't really get into G1 until about 2013 after I went to my first convention But I had When I started again was during the Beast Wars era I collected only the Predacons though for some reason because they turned into cooler animals And then I had all of the other ones up until 2011 when I had my giant transformer purge And it was almost like a week later was instant seller regret Yeah, I mean When I sold my collection, I paid off all my credit card debt. I put money in the bank I had worked on in my house. It's not like I you know blew it on you know beer It is selling that collection. I got a lot of money Some of the micro master sets that I sold to somebody in Australia He was paying like a hundred and fifty dollars for one micro master set of the later one So I mean it was worth it financially, but there are days that I regret Selling that collection Especially when I have to turn to dear friends of mine who still have their collections and say hey I'm gonna be doing a video on the story of Optimus Prime Can I borrow or the story of bumblebee actually because I saw I actually kept all my Optimus primes But like I'm doing the story of bumblebee. Can I borrow your? G1 bumblebee and your G1 action master bumblebee and your pretender bumblebee and your Legend's mumblebee so I can actually show them during this, you know video so Yeah, there are days that I regret it, but at the same time Do you actually with G1? I don't really like to I Found that I didn't want to really touch them all that much Because they were valuable And they're also not exactly very play play The play ability is not there as there is in some of the newer ones because the pose ability on the new stuff I got to say it may not be die-cast, but it's It's definitely with the ball and socket joints and the things that they do you can do so much more with the new figures So they're amazing. Yeah, every time I do a G1 review I always like to show the transformation, but there's sometimes when they creak and crack in my heart stops But so far I've only had one break I was doing a video review of Scorponok and I had him up on a big folding table and I was doing something with Scorponok in fast track rolled off of Scorponok off the table hit the floor and broke So it was only fast track, which is like a $12 figure. I could read Bob It's still seeing that G1 hit the floor and shadow was just like It sucked At least it wasn't like a black is Eric The the Japanese with the gold plastic syndrome that'd be like. Ah, that would like crumble I had I Had a g2. This is my pride and joy right now Good old monstructor. Yes 100% complete unbroken course watch me dropping nail talking Valley Yeah, don't do that. He will gently put him back where he belongs I had speaking of the gold plastic syndrome. I had Completed my g2 superior on collection. I didn't collect g2 when they came out Because I Had kind of gotten a little bit away from collecting for a while And I went into the stores and the only one that I remember seeing was a g2 swindle And I'm like what the heck is this coloration? Just doesn't make sense to me later on of course I got g2 swindle and on so and all but I had built up my superior on and I'm like finally I have all the pieces I can put them together into g2 superior on and I did so and slingshot was the Right arm and I went to turn it so that he could point his gun forward and the head broke off gold plastic But it gets worse. I actually ice so I Realize that he was broken, but I'm like, you know things happen I had another g2 slingshot in the package and I'm like well I'm gonna release him from his plastic prison and We'll get this guy set up. I took him out. I went to transform him from plane into robot It crumbled in my hands. I Never should have took it out of the package It would at least look nice on the wall So I actually found a g1 slingshot and I still have it somewhere I would plans to paint it gold to replace That but I never got around to it. So nobody will do but you Yeah, but it was gold plastic syndrome horrible horrible horrible My first experience was the bristleback figure with monstructor I've got all the pieces the month. I didn't really know about GPS So I got him and he was in creature mode. So I went to turn him into robot mode and boom lower body just vaporized So after then I've been very picky. I've got the I guess I have every g1 decepticon So I've got the GPS plague roadblock. So I never touch him and monstructor up here Yeah, I'm I don't think that GPS is still a thing At least I've not experienced it but then again, I can't recall any of the new stuff that has gold plastic I guess the newest thing. It's not really new now. It's almost 25 years old was the Transmetal Megatron The brown t-rex I heard he's He's plagued with it. I have him on the shelf But ever since I heard that I've never touched him to temp fate if you will The transmetal version of Megatron Megatron You lose package same product Yeah, I just interviewed David K recently and he's just he's a fun guy I'm jealous. He's one of my favorite voice actors. He's awesome. I'm the retro con and he was there But you know, you can watch this panel on my channel fandom spotlight. There we go. There's your there's your I can't say plug every time I say plug your channel. I get laughed at all right Question number four. What is your white whale? What is your most wanted toy? Now, we don't even have to stick with transformers right now because I know you're a wide spectrum well I I like a lot of things and my channel covers a lot more than transformers as you know Um But my white whale the thing that I would really love to have But I'm not really looking for it and it's kind of like if I came across it, it would have to be a really good deal Grand maximus I would love to have a grand max the pretender shell for the you know for the headmaster Um 100 complete that would be awesome. I don't know if they ever released a reissue I I used to have brave max and fort max and I actually in my basement when uh I used to live in connecticut My basement I set up on a table. I had brave max Fort max both in city mode back to back with omega supreme um countdown Metro plex I never metro titan would also be a nice one to have but uh I would have loved to have grand maximus to kind of fill out the group So that would be my I I do know people who have such things. Um And i'm very envious, but uh, and I told them to put me in their will But I don't know if it's gonna happen Because then I'd probably be tempted to kill them That's funny. My son comes in here every now and then he asks about the transformers And he wants this one. He wants this one. I said, well, you can't have these But you can have them all one day and he says wins that and I said well when i'm dead and gone He goes well wins that Or sometimes i'm afraid to sleep at night if I know he's still awake I said that alan op Oppenheimer voice of skeletor I was talking to him at a convention and I said, you know, I'd like to be a voice actor one day and he's like well, you know, don't Don't do it now because I need the work, you know, you gotta wait until i'm gone I said, well, will you hurry up and he just Yeah, hurry up. Yeah I understand at all This is our last transformers question What is your favorite transformer character any fiction or any media? Well, it's the same one that I actually cosplayed At retro con the only transformer cosplay I have It happens to be tracks from g1 because I've always loved tracks And michael mccanae is just a wonderful wonderful individual and uh, I just Yeah tracks would have to be my favorite. I mean, there's a lot of good ones out there Um, yeah a core vet that can fly What could you not like about that? I remember when I first got a g1 tracks I was so upset that his face didn't look like the cartoon That was probably my first heartbreaking moment when you realize the toy doesn't look like the cartoon Well, I mean looking bumblebee Yeah, that doesn't look like it at all Well, Gingers brawn Ironhide I wasn't that upset about tracks. I mean, I did wish that the toy looked more like The cartoon, but I have to say that The biggest disappointing transformer in g1 ironhide and of course ratchet just What the hell is that? It's like, what is it? So but they had that awesome sticker face Yeah Those were the only guys who were actually Well, the first issue of transformers the comic book Were actually shown in that mode in the first issue only but then they changed the cartoon style I used to not put them on the little tank thing You know scooter I don't know Battle platform I think it looks like something that A hover round They're just like so old This is the transformers version of a hover round, but you can shoot things Every time I'll get into my hover round my circuit sizzle Um, here we go to the Walmart I used to put those aside and I actually had extra um cassette guns from uh frenzy and rumble And I would they would fit and slide over their hands. So that's what they use for their guns We're actually uh decepticon weapons, but you know, it's not a decepticon weapon when I use it I love it and um From what uh, our agreement is I'm going to be helping tracks out at tfcon, correct Absolutely, I will be putting on that cosplay and walking around because I definitely need Michael McConaughey to see it and uh And also i'm going to enter the costume contest um tfcon, I normally go to cons as press because I interview a lot of people I um record panels I I have people running around taking photos tfcon does not do press Even though in their faqs it says your picture may be taken by a member of the media But if you're not letting him in then who's taken my picture? From the media But I'm going to do some reporting there anyway, but but since I'm not There as press I'm going to get into that costume contest and we'll see how Impressive the costume is but I have seen some really impressive transformers costumes. So I'll be uh happy to place or just get a good reaction But uh, yes, you'll be helping because I have someone working on it right now and he's supposed to be putting a fan in the helmet And maybe uh areas for cool packs because that thing is hot as hell my god. I can only imagine I had a Full body Darth Vader costume that I got for halloween one time It was horrible on the inside. I mean my lenses would fog up I I had my wife kind of guide me around because I couldn't see they're like these little slits Right below the eyes where it was the only place I could look at Of course now I'm doing my costumes a little bit more simpler I actually prefer things that don't have helmet or masks, but I have a few That do have that and it's always good to have a handler when you're wearing something that crazy I kind of like how the cybertronic spree does their helmets and mask where it's just the Nose up so they got plenty of they can breathe and use their face pretty ingenious Well, plus they have to sing so, you know, it's kind of Kind of necessary for them too But yeah, it makes sense All right. Well, here we go. Here's our youtube questions This is where we always go off the rails and consider we're only a question number six And we're already almost 30 minutes in we pretty much have anyway But the question number six my good friend What possessed you a grown-ass man to do toy reviews on youtube? um The devil the devil possessed me no um Actually when I first started doing youtube I was not doing Toy reviews not that I obviously I love toys um, my channel started out doing cosplay stuff in fact My channel was very limited So now this is where I get into a very long-winded explanation My channel started out with a talk show has the main thing with occasional costume reviews called um captain kyle's cosplay spotlight Later on to be known as cosplay spotlight with captain guile that was for the third season um, and that was I started youtube not wanting to do youtube. I was using this so that some um Network would be able to see my stuff and be like we like your idea come on work for us We're gonna put you on national television So it took me over two years to realize, you know I'm a youtuber. I should probably learn how to do this shit. So So one of my uh episode shot at retro con Um Was a transformers cosplayer. I had cosmos on stage with me as we were doing this before a um This attacon thing it always had a live studio audience but I had cosmos sit next to me And as i'm talking to cosmos cosmos when they're answering the question sounds exactly like the character from the cartoon It was amazing Until I revealed at the break that michael mccana high himself was in the back with a microphone Breathing off a script and answering all the questions. So that's awesome. It was it was a fun time um But yeah, eventually my channel has done we've done a lot more cosplay and convention stuff It's actually been more recent that we've gotten into the toy reviews um And actually the first it might be the first or the second video that I did for transformers I decided to do a series of transformer documentaries um, but not like Here's the transformers and the history of the transformers and we're going to look at all the transformers all at once I decided to do the story of optimus prime um from where he started as a toy in the diaclone line to How he how his character was developed to how he was in the comics to how he was in the cartoon To the different versions of the toy and basically tell his story chronologically from His beginnings in 1984 and a little bit before that because of the diaclone thing so I started doing those um, which Take a long time. I have to say not and they are great. I'll tell you that they are very impressive I mean it shows the work you put into them. Well, thank you It Part of the problem is because I'm doing all the other videos as a youtuber, you know, you have to keep doing videos You can't just be like, well, I'm gonna take a month off and concentrate on this one video um You really need to continue to put out stuff if you want to grow So I'm still this analytics will drop really quick Yeah, I mean I still have videos that would probably get views because I have videos from months and even years ago that still get consistent good views, but You know, it would just basically begin to drift downwards and yeah, it would it would be horrible So part of what takes so long about those videos is because I want to do them right And I have all these other videos So it's like I have to shoot it on this date And then I have to do a little bit of editing over time And I'm pulling screen captures or scans of comic book pages and I'm getting finding particular parts of episodes to use as a clip in there and Then I'm adding in I went up and interviewed Bob Budianski who Did all the tech specs for the transformers and most of the names and interviewed him and you know, it's incorporating all that stuff And trying to also get in touch with the voice actors, which I couldn't get peter collin For optimists for the first one, but Later on in the series, there will be other voice actors who will show up. Uh, yeah Yes, there we go. Yes. I wonder who that is Well, it would not only be him, but you know, perhaps his beast was foe as well Who was also an optimist prime There he was that he was So Yeah, it takes a lot of work and I don't want to half-ass them and oddly They do okay on youtube I also have an amazon prime channel and they do much better on there so You can watch The story of optimist prime and the story of bubbleby on amazon prime I check that out. I invest in amazon prime Yeah, that's two-day shipping Yeah, especially on transformers I guess your only option. I have a walmart and I have amazon.com. That's it for me I have walmart and targets, but it's like Um, sometimes it's just easier to go on amazon or hasro pulse $30 today for a seed shockwave I saw that I had to snatch that up because I did not want to pay $50 for Basically a deluxe class figure on a battle platform You can turn that battle platform into a cell phone holder. I figured out Check check out my shockwave review. Okay You should just do that as a separate video. How to convert your toy into a cell phone holder I'm always looking for new new branches Now But I didn't actually get to the the toy review. So I started doing that and then I just I had to justify somehow to my girlfriend buying all these toys because You know after I sold off my g1 and g2's I kind of stopped collecting for a while and I just got into cosplay and other stuff and then I started seeing some of these combiner wars things and siege things and titan returns things and i'm like I would go to the toy section of walmart and I would see these toys and I'd be like Those are really cool, but i'm not collecting anymore. I'm not collecting anymore. I'm just getting this one I'm not I'm just getting these two I'm Okay, um since I have this one this one has to go with you Yeah, I just got a terra con. So now I need to get all the other terra cons And so I don't have more bad guys than good guys Yeah, it's just like I just couldn't stop. I mean I uh, and I cheerfully mix them in with the older, you know stuff that I have so um So yeah, basically part of it is to justify my getting these things, but I just enjoy Doing reviews. I've done other toy stuff like dr. Who uh sonic screwdrivers and um some walking dead toy stuff and I was just like I enjoy, you know doing reviews and having two cameras and Though that takes longer to edit than some of the my more popular stuff. So it's like You know just because I use Two angles I have a camera here You know to my left and I have a camera on me so I can talk to the camera And show it in scale to me and then I can do close-up shots. So But that takes a while so But I just love it and I don't care that I'm uh Old enough to um have kids who have graduated college and you know Yeah, I might be right there with you say Yeah, we're not we're not going to talk about age. No, it's not at all not on this channel I don't think my camera's not high def enough to see all that gray I shaved so you can't see all the gray that would normally be there. So My son would skin me if I took this off. He told me if I shave I wouldn't look like a daddy anymore And I asked myself what do I look like and he says just some dude All right Well, it's a a threat behave or I'll shave Well, I did have the whole thing but I like I like this a little better It's a little richer to maintain you kind of answered question number seven here, which was What keeps inspiring you to get in front of the camera? Um, I'm an attention whore A little bit. I think we all are that's why we do this No inspires me. I mean I enjoy um I enjoy being on camera And presenting things and I'm always trying to get better at it and I'd love to one day be a voice actor and an actor but um, I'm also My day job, which I still have because youtube doesn't pay me enough and all the other stuff doesn't pay me enough yet um, I am an a technology instructor um at a law firm So I get to teach people and be in class and basically make bad jokes and teach them how to use computers which Sometimes they laugh sometimes they throw rotten fruit, but you know, it gets a reaction. So it's all good But yeah, I just enjoy um the presentation um Obviously not transformer related, but I do reactions to the walking dead episodes And I dress in cosplay and I actually take on the persona of the governor and uh I'm in character and I'm like, but shown you owe me a penny. Damn it, you know I was hoping you was gonna bring that up because I I think that's how I first discovered you was watching those And then I got rid of my satellite. So I only watch walking dead when it comes on netflix So I can't watch you now because you'll spoil An episode I have to I have to backtrack I'm sorry sling tv Look into sling tv Since you obviously have internet access you can watch it on there um youtube tv as well, but youtube tv is More expensive. I believe in sling tv My problem is I stream everything through my ps4 and sony has some of those things blocked Ah We just do hulu netflix amazon prime Okay, pick up pick yourself up, uh, $35 chromecast and uh It'll work. I have I have two of them though. I don't need one now because I just want a new tv that is chromecast compliant or You know so But yeah, I have one in my living room. I just say All right youtube tv stream this okay switch to cbs all access because I want to cry About star trek discovery And let's now go to dc universe and watch some titans. So you know i'm uh Yeah, I stream like everything to my tv's and then you go to youtube and you say Stream this on my tv and just watch that Um, I don't usually watch I don't watch a lot of youtube videos on computer. I'll stream them to my tv. So It's uh, I get the full effect So youtubers out there make sure you're doing High def because I don't want to see you know pixelated bullshit on my tv Now wash your hands But okay, did I answer that question so I think so You you led into question number eight, which is there are thousands of toy reviewers on youtube What different what makes you different than the rest? and You just answered that with your walking dead What do you call walking dead reviews as the governor and you do star trek reviews too, right? Yes as q i am q youth Sniveling primitive human Yeah, I always enjoy playing q being a character is fun But even when i'm not in character, I think with the reviews what I like to do is Instead of just saying, you know, here's the toy Um, I like to give a little background. I like to talk about who the character is I like to sometimes make jokes. Um And yes, the whole frenzy rumble thing, you know when I was doing I did a review on the the graphy or graphy and That set that came out um that came with a frenzy Who I think of as rumble because I watched the show and rumble was blue And he was blue in the comic yeah, so I think they should just Get over it and switch the names and I think they did that in japan I heard something about that as they actually have already switched the names so But yeah rumble, you know to me he's rumble, but they included a frenzy with the dinosaur two pack. Why didn't they just They already had a frenzy with the uh the walmart exclusive so Rat bat maybe that would have been an enemy The red one was an yeah. Yeah enemies the uh That one and then there's the um I mean they could have also done Two autobot dinosaurs and then slugfest and overkill. Maybe Yeah, that could have been nice go with the dinosaur theme but you know If they put out the other set again, which I know that they already did some kind of reissue But if they put out the other set and they put a rumble slash frenzy With it I'm probably gonna get that set too. It's you know, it's unavoidable so It'll it'll happen But I just wish they had You know helped the completeness in me because now i'm getting Not getting a lot of the reissues I did not get the sound wave reissue from walmart Because one of the g1 transformers that I still have is a g1 sound wave And mine was not the original one. I had it was actually I was a I was dealer scum for a while Now I had a store and I you know bought collections and this one guy sold me In the box. I don't think it had ever been transformed. This was Maybe 15 years ago a g1 sound wave I mean getting the battery cover off was like, I don't want to break it. I don't want to break it. I don't want to break it um But he stands, you know how they lean forward This is like he stands up perfectly straight. It's awesome. Um so uh Yeah, I didn't need to get the walmart version not for 50 bucks at least and uh But I would like to see there's probably some differences. So I may have to Borrow someone's just so I can compare This is a genuine original no reissue at all 1984 version versus the uh the reissue from walmart. There's gotta be some changes I think somebody on facebook said, uh, or maybe it was a youtube review Said the plastic just felt a little cheaper almost the only one I got Because he was on clearance for seven dollars Was the hot rod because I got a g1 hot rod and you could tell the difference in the plastic quality between this one The one over there on my shelf. So I would say that probably carries over with sound wave and the others Yeah, I have I bought one of those seven dollar hot rods. Um But I still have I have the original japanese reissue hot rod. Um All right, my first collection that I had My first wife convinced me and I can't really blame Entirely on her but she convinced me to sell off my collection for a song. So after we split up I started recollecting And I got a hot rod, but then the reissue came out and that and the japanese reissues felt just like g1 um at the time so I have the uh, the g1 reissue hot rod And the crystal rhodomus and the black rhodomus So I have the uh, the two special chase ones. So Um, so but I picked up one of the seven dollar ones. It's still in the box I just made sure that I got one that was facing the correct direction So many of my exacto nice slip that tape peel it back flipped him around on the inside Back Because I dug and dug I couldn't find one. I thought I'm just going to do it the easy way Yeah, all right Question number nine. This is where we're going to get into YouTube's new change that may be affecting us What's your thoughts on the transformer social community? I eat youtube facebook and do you have any shout outs? um There are a bunch of geeks Which is good Grow up. What are you doing playing with toys and not sharing with me? Come on Um to be honest, I I haven't done a lot in the uh community because again until more recently I was pretty much sticking to cosplay and other aspects of fandom And you're always on the road too. I mean you and I've been trying to do this for months But and you're gone pretty much every week you know um basic uh convention spree so New jersey to texas to um tf con back to jersey back to uh texas and then uh What's after that? I think um She I don't even know anymore. I know that the last one is like Or no, there's a local one and then allentown pa. So yeah seven cons in a row Then I may be For a while because usually the winter you have less cons I may not be doing unless I hear back from steel city, which I may be going out there in pittsburgh So that might happen in december. So uh, yeah, I'm on the road a lot Um, but I get to meet interesting people um So wait, what was the question? What's your thoughts on the transformer social community? youtube facebook People on facebook seem pretty cool. I haven't really you know, I check out their pictures. I haven't interacted with a lot of them um For you I see a lot of cool people on uh on youtube um You know doing transformer stuff The problem with doing so many cons and doing so much um making so many videos And it's about to get worse and we'll get to that. Um, it's uh The problem is I don't have as much time to look at other people's stuff as I'd like to There's a lot of great stuff out there But when I come home from work, I'm like Uh Tired I want to relax her a bit and then it's time to get up And set up a backdrop or a green screen or something And shoot a video or I'll be editing videos and editing more videos Or I'll be packing for a con and then after that con I'll have 15 videos to edit so it's like um I unfortunately don't watch a lot. I've I've met a few great Toy youtubers pixel dan was he was cool guy Dan Larson was at retro con. I interviewed him with toy galaxy I haven't really Interacted too much with People who mainly do transformers reviews. They kind of do all kinds of toys. So But yeah, so I guess I'm going to shout out them because you know, they were on my channel Um And of course there's patriot prime reviews. You should check out his stuff if you aren't already You're watching this. You're checking out his stuff He can't say the word collars right though I get so many people give me grief for that Say that word again collars Like you have a collar of your shirt and then there's the collar on your shirt and a dog. Where's a collar? Okay, I'm collars virginia man collar Okay I'm not going to give you grief about that. I hang around Some of my dear friends that I used to hang out with at bachon Were from kentucky and when I'd hang around them too long I've started to talk slower and say things like y'all I hear that and uh, it was just Yeah, if I start picking up your accent do not be um offended Because it's just something I do when I hang around people Though when I went to england even though I do sometimes To an english accent. I didn't really pick up their accent. You know, I It was just I guess too different And I would have felt self-conscious because these are the people who are actually from england Some of them had me do my accent and they said I wasn't bad. So but uh On a dare I did an entire review in an australian accent Crikey that was rough. It's been incredible I'll decide to review the the autobot outback. I figure it was an appropriate transformer. Did he have a handy decepticon detector I think wasn't it uh, dan gilbazen who uh voiced outback I think so we'll find out it. Uh, we'll find out the end of the month Or you can just look on the tfcon uh website under this guest voice hotspot and outback and bumblebee and all these Yeah, imdb's are also your friend. Um, yes, I love that. I love that site All right, let's get into uh, we talked about this before I started hitting record youtube's big change in uh january All right, well For those of you who are not youtubers and aren't aware of the change Um, let me just put it in brief in order to protect kids, which is a good thing youtube has changed their policies to disable children targeting content from Allowing people to put comments on it And also to protect the privacy. They are eliminating the targeted ads You know that freaky shit that happens when you're like In the same room as your computer and you say I could probably Use some paint and then you look on you know a google site or your your next uh youtube video and it's like Here at sherman williams. We have paint. You know that type of thing. Well, they they're protecting kids identities and privacy, which is a good thing. I'm not going to say it's not um, the concern is What happens to patriot prime reviews what happens to? um other channels that are not targeted at children, but they review toys for adult collectors Are they going to? Take away those targeted ads, which means The amount of money you make per Ad exposure. It's a lot less. Are they going to do that? um Well, I'm thinking that it might Effect or it might not. I mean yes, it's toys but they might actually have their algorithm look at the actual um demographics at the actual people are watching because Um, you do more toy reviews than me. How what's your demographics? What's the main audience that watches your videos? 35 to 45 Right because most of mine are the vintage g1 Figures, that's how I started off And you know the toy hacks reviews, which is for the older collectors to enhance your toys You know your 10 year old timmy out there buying the new Jazz figures not going to go on repro labels to enhance his display when he's going to be playing with him out in the dirt so Yeah, that's the way I look at I mean I've got according to my demographics, which doesn't mean that uh John's 40 year old son timmy is not watching me Do a review on that Jason Voorhees figure? But what bothers me? I mean, I just got monetized in january So I don't make much as far as the ads are concerned. I have fun doing this. I have a blast interacting with people That's like I spent the last five days doing this Insane uh horror movie figure review. I spent a fortune and not really I didn't spend a fortune So I spent a lot of time on the last one minute of that video And I do it because I want to see people's reactions. I want to read your comments And if youtube decides to hey you review toys, you can't have comments on your videos anymore What's the point? I mean you might because i'm not making that much money. Anyway, I've made 200 in the last eight months So yeah me I love the interaction. I love hey, I've spent Four days working on this 20 minute video. What do you think? And now if I do all that and there's no reaction. There's no You know out of boys More or less. What what's the point? I it's not like I don't enjoy doing it. I have fun making these videos But it's that interactions. What keeps me doing these videos I definitely I totally understand and I gotta say I love it when I do a video And someone is like they refer to something and say that was hilarious or you know You know, that was a good point. I mean I've got on my transformer Reviews I get stuff like For the refractor review people were like, thank you for calling him reflector because he is reflector I'm sorry just because you can't um Trademark or copyright or registered trademark reflector because it's such a generic term I'm not going to call him refractor just because you did some weird spelling and I understand why they're renaming these figures and I also understand why some figures were called like Autobot jazz and stuff like that because you can't trademark jazz That'd be a problem but Yeah, um, I love the interaction as well that I think it's going to be a big thing and I'm hoping that They see that since it's um The demographics are not kid focused that they won't take away that interaction I mean a lot of people are I've seen some videos where people are like, I'm not going to do it anymore Um, it's not worth it And I get it But it's too soon. It hasn't happened yet. So we don't know if that effect that is actually going to go into effect So I'm going to keep on keeping on that's for sure Yeah, I'm hoping I mean there are other ways to get the interactions. There's discord servers You could always say visit my facebook page for pager prime reviews And you know leave comments, you know in the picture that I have from this thumbnail and We can chat there Which is going to reduce obviously, you know the spontaneous comments, but you'll get some interaction as far as money um And this may be the worst time for me to do this All right, here's an announcement for uh people on my channel who don't know this yet and um People on jason's channel, of course who are like, we don't really care, but go ahead We're watching or they're clicking off right now Um, the toy reviews i've done on phantom spotlight have done pretty well But they don't really fit with the rest of the channel And I've also been saying since I've been doing phantom spotlight for four years that if I knew then What I know now I would have grown a lot faster. I'm at almost 15, uh subscribers um 4.5 million views, which is pretty good But yeah, but I think if I had started way back then Knowing what I know now I'd be much further along Um, so I'm putting my money where my mouth is and I'm starting a channel Just for toy reviews Which with this whole youtube thing might be really bad timing um But I'm gonna do it anyway. It's called toy spotlight. Um, given you the link to put In the description if anyone wants to go there are absolutely no videos released on the channel yet But there will be I think I'm your second subscriber Yes, I'm the first Nice because you can subscribe to your own channel. Why wouldn't you? um If it's between nine nine nine or a thousand and you haven't subscribed your own channel Do it um So yes, you're my second subscriber But uh, we will be releasing at least one or two videos Hopefully before tf con and then there will be some stuff. Hopefully From tf con that i'll be putting in there Now story of optimus prime, which is an ongoing series. We have two parts out and story of bumblebee And an upcoming one, which is the story of megatron Which is in development right now Those will still be on fandom spotlight because that deals with the story It deals with the um The voice actors it deals with the comic book. It's not just the toy But all the toy stuff, which i'm gonna have some wild toy things and I have really weird toys that i'm going to be showing Will be on toy spotlight And we'll also do things like visit collectors in their homes and show off their collections and talk to them about collecting Kind of like the sit rep because you know Because I have to steal your idea. No, it's not I stole this idea. I mean, it's the talk show thing's been rolling. So Of course, I had to come up with my own gimmick and to stick with that military thing Yeah, it's it's anyone can interview anybody. So, you know Some caveman is probably like me come up with this idea Why the caveman kind of sounds a little like grimlock. I don't know why but Me going to interview you now. Yes Yes Um We saw Beast Wars me like that megatron fellow He handsome um, so Yeah, so toy spotlight is the new channel and we will be releasing videos if you want to visit it And subscribe and hit that notification bell So that when we start putting out videos, you'll see it It does have a few playlists on there showing my other stuff on tandem spotlight but toy reviews on spandam fandom spotlight will Not really be a thing unless it's like a prop for a costume If it could be used as a prop for a costume, it's going to be on there Um, but other toy reviews will be on toy spotlight. So And we'll see how quick this channel can grow since you know, I'm saying I know all this stuff about youtube now so I will do my best. Uh, we'll definitely put the link to that We'll put the link to fandom spotlight and toy spotlight in the description of this video I was going to ask you question number 10, but you have already answered that Where I say, you know, do you have any channel goals for yourself and where can our viewers find you? You've answered that for me. So we're good to go Well, not my main goal one million subscribers No, but uh Yes, well, thank you for uh For allowing me to plug my channel on your channel and I will definitely share with my people so they can check out your channel um But yeah, it's going to be a very interesting um few months and uh For those people who are thinking about starting a channel, um YouTube is not What's that wait Don't do it. It's horrible Um for those people who are thinking about starting a channel or a start of the channel and are struggling um YouTube is not a place to Um look at other youtubers and be like You're my competition. I hate you or you know youtube is a community of creators who Support each other and yes, there might be some friendly rivalry here and there, but Really, there's room on youtube for everybody. There's so many people who watch youtube You don't have to be like well, I'm not gonna you know work with this person or I'm not going to talk about this person's channel because It doesn't work that way This isn't like network television where it's like you need to watch our channel Here on cbs and nobody else, you know just Get out there and make friends and Be on other people's channels whenever you can Have people on your channel promote the crap out of them. I don't know. Can we say shit on your channel? Well, you can say shit now because you just did oh Say no my demographics my demographics will stay there because I said shit and I just said shit again. Well shit Well, just don't take it too fucking far I Love it, but yeah, you bring up a good point I have met so many great people through this youtube thing And you know like you and I we've never met face to face But I feel like you and I are like sitting at applebee's right now chatting Which hell will probably be doing at the end of the month but And I've got so many pointers from other people who's done this and I've shared what I've learned And this it's all it is it's trial and error and your every video every review You're going to come up with something else and just keep doing it Until you find what works for you what works for you because what works for me may not work for you and so on so forth Yeah, there's there's so many different styles don't steal anyone's style but Just if you're going to work on youtube always just try to do better every single video improve a little bit of something um you know so If you do a thousand videos on youtube and no one can tell the difference between your first video and your thousands There's a problem unless you're like my first video Some of my older ones. I'm like, uh I could have done a bit better but Move forward don't look back too much Unless you happen to be like a super expert, you know You worked in tv production and you know all this stuff and you know So your first video and your last video are all super quality, but If you're like most your first video is probably crap Mind work um So always improve so i'm actually part of this uh Channel thing is actually seeing how long would take starting from scratch with Now two subscribers How long it's going to take me to get up to the thousand Doing all the best practice things that everyone says to do Doing the custom thumbnails and doing the short intros and hooks and um Things that this video may not have because it's more of an interview But the pattern interrupt and the b-roll and all that stuff just using every trick in the book Seeing how fast I can grow so I mean, I'm not doing a van life, but I don't know if you saw that one She grew like oh my god But trying every single trick that I've learned To make this channel grow and we are going to be on this journey together. I hope you'll join me and subscribe As your number two, I'm right along with you. I'll be watching Well, Kyle, I really appreciate you coming on. We've been on way longer than uh anticipated We were supposed to start at 9 30. It's now 11 o'clock Well, I didn't start at 9 30 because we were we were supposed to start at 9 30 Yeah Yeah, I I I talk too much. I'm sorry Yeah, that's perfectly fine. I love it. I love doing these. It's always great meeting other people talking face to face and Really want to thank you for taking the time out to talk with me and my people And like I said, I'm going to have all of Kyle's information in the description of this video Phantom spotlight toy spotlight at the end. We see that american flag flying. I will link a couple of his videos Definitely the story of optimus prime. That's a great one to watch I thoroughly enjoyed it and I think you guys will too Any final words my friend? Um, just get out there collectors and good hunting get what you want Let's still pay a rent, you know stuff like that Collect responsibly Don't go to collectors anonymous. I haven't collected a transformer in three days Thank you, george. Yeah That's a real addiction. I've run into that All right, well, I'm gonna let you go I have got to get the bed because I gotta get up early and get that five-year-old off the kindergarten I appreciate Kyle once again for stopping by and I appreciate you guys for checking out the set rep Don't forget to like and don't forget to subscribe. This is patriot prime signing out