 Hey, what's going on guys? Patriot Prime here once again with another episode of The Sitrep, and I am proud to finally announce that I got the Gotbot. We have been trying to do this Sitrep for months, and lo and behold, the planets align. Dennis Moulton, aka Gotbot, is on the 27th episode of The Sitrep. Mr. Gotbot, how are you doing today, sir? I'm doing fantastic. I'm always doing fantastic, man. It's a good time to be alive, you know? That being said, I think that we've been trying since about February to do this, and I think we've been trying since about, I want to say, Sitrep number five or six. So, you're right. This has been a long time coming, man, too long. Definitely, definitely. Now, it seems like you're on everybody's show. You might as well be talking, might as well be doing the late night circuit. Well, you know, I actually have a show coming up this evening, and I don't even know what it's going to be about. I'm not even sure how it's going to work, but we'll see how that goes. When I know, you'll know. That being said, it was not last on me that you mentioned about me being less animated the last time you saw me in one of these. So, we'll see if I can live up to expectations a little bit better today. Well, you are fixing that right now because it was funny. When I first tuned in, you were on Matt Baldwin's about around 30 minute show. There's your plug, Matt. I got a quick same plug. I'll get zinged on that one. But you were talking, and you were just so serious and stoic, and I'm like, that's not the same guy I watched, and that's why I made my comment. Let's just knock over my star screen. All right. Now, before we get going with the Sitrep, for those of you who do not know, the Sitrep, which stands for situational report, is a 10 question interview that I have with a fellow transformer collector slash YouTuber. We have five questions for him regarding a transformer being a transformer collector and five questions regarding him as a YouTuber. So, Mr. Gotbot, if you are ready, we shall rock and roll with this thing. Let's do it. You got it. All right, sir. Question number one, what's the appeal of transformers for you? The easy answer is that I'm four. It's funny. I went through the questions last night with Star Screen Wife, and when I read this one, the very first words out of her mouth was, you're four. I said, that's not altogether wrong. But if I'm being more serious. Age is six and up. Age is six and up right there. Okay. So I'm six. You need to change. You need to change any answer. I do. I do. All right. So I'm six. Unless you're a rescue bot. But unless you're a rescue bot and I like rescue bots. That being said, I think that the honest answer is of course the nostalgia. Everybody says it. But I think the reason that I always prefer transformers over like GI Joe or Star Wars or Star Trek or anything else is the fact that you have the incorporated puzzle and I like when one thing can become another thing. This is going to sound a little sacrilegious for me to say, but that's the same reason I also used to like go bots. I don't even feel ashamed. Nice. Nice. And of course, I always have the cycle right here on the desk. You know what fun fact? Screw head there was my first go bot. He was my first transforming toy. Wow. That's why I had to get him. I was actually visiting my brother about three hours away in Ohio and he said, you got to swing by this little retro toy store and I looked up their Facebook page and they just taken a picture of these new items they got in and there was all screw head and I was like, I have to swing by and get this guy. So they let me get him for eight bucks. I mean, he wasn't in bad shape. I actually chromed him. Okay. I re chromed him with one of those chrome pimps and gave him a decepticon symbol. Nice. Nice. Speaking of him, speaking of him, what do you think of what action Robo has been doing? Those look great. I'm so tempted to get into one course. I'm really trying to reel myself in till after TF con. I did a huge purge of figures yesterday just so I could get some of these new pre-orders that are coming up, but after TF con, I'm going to go nuts. I'll admit it. I'm trying to do a bit of a purge. It's going slow though. I've never really sold anything. I'm just kind of getting to the point now of doing that and it's slow. It's man, it's slow going or at least it is for me. Maybe I just don't know the outlets to sell. By the way, before we go on with any of the other questions, I wanted to give you a little bit of a shout out because if I'm not mistaken as of this recording, you just hit 1800. Yes. I did last night about 1130. Man, your 2000 by TF con is going to happen. No doubt in my mind. No doubt. I'm actually 1807 right now. Nice. Nice. The toy hacks videos always help with my subscriber counts. Those seem to generate the most interest. Yeah. And I've got two more sets on the way. I've got these set for Power of the Prime's Rekar and that generation selects Ricochet. I think the Rekar set is really good. I like Ricochet anyway. A lot of people gave him a hard time, but I think he's great. I'll be interested to see what toy hacks actually does with them. I liked him better than the jazz mold. Me too. I thought he was really cool. Yeah. All right. Well, let's go. Yeah, I was tickled up. I woke up some more than 1800. And I was like, yes. Yeah. I was like, what? I was like, nothing. He's my nerd thing. All right. Question number two, sir. Aside from G1, which is always the number one answer, what is your favorite Transformers fiction comic movie cartoon? Okay. Well, I'm going to give the self-serving answer first and say universal collision, my fiction, what I make up. I'm obviously going to say that one first because I make it. There's a shameless self-plug. Well, that's how you're being asked. Who's your favorite YouTuber? Well, Patriot Prime. I really like that guy. Right. I mean, you know what? I mean, you might as well. Nobody's going to kind of, you know, advocate for you as much as you're going to advocate for yourself, right? But yeah, no, I mean, right? Right? Obviously, like I said, my obvious answer is going to be the fiction that I make up. So excited about season two coming up next week. But if we're talking about like official, you know, common knowledge fiction that everybody knows, I've really struggled over this one, man. I've really, really been struggling because there's a part of me that wants to say Beast Wars slash Beast machines because I feel like that's one continuity or Transformers Prime. It's one of those two. I was going to give the joke, say Unicron Trilogy, because anybody who knows me knows that I hate Unicron Trilogy. But since you're putting me on the spot, I'm going to say, I'm going to say Prime. I'm going to say Transformers Prime. That was a good one. I really, I actually bought all the seasons on Blu-ray. I had watched them before when they came out on Cartoon Network. But when it first came out, I really couldn't get into it because I mentioned this before, when all these new Transformers shows come out, they hit that target eight to 10 audience. And it's so kitty-fied. And in about 10 episodes in, they're like, the kids aren't watching this. Mom and dad are season two. Let's get darker. So I really got into it more when I got to watch it all in order on Blu-ray. It's funny. I'm in the midst, actually, of watching the whole series again on Blu-ray, along with Predacons Rising. Because I got it for Starscream, what I got for, I think my birthday. I think it was my birthday. And it's just kind of re-solidifying just how genius, how brilliant that show was. And I'm really excited because I found out that Polygon, apparently, is going to be doing the art for the new war for Cybertron Siege program that's going to be on Netflix. And Polygon done the art for Transformers Prime. Oh, that's great. I was hoping it wouldn't be that computer-animated stuff that Machinima did for, was Prime Wars trilogy. Yeah, yeah. Watching that thing, you felt like you weren't watching at full speed. Absolutely. It seemed like it was slow down. I tried. I tried to like it. I like it for what it is. It got such a hard rap, but it was so short that, to me, it didn't need to be well done. It was nice to see them on screen again. I do have high hopes. I have high hopes for this War for Cybertron series because Netflix doesn't usually back something that's going to be terrible. They don't usually produce it if it's going to be a flop. So I think with their expectations of production values, I think that we could see something special, at least for the older audience. Let's keep our fingers crossed on that. I want to see a darker series. Remember when Dreamwave Comics first came out with Generation 1 Reboot? Yeah. I mean, they're out there. I mean, not to sound like I'm a psychopath, but you know, the Decepticons were out killing people. I think there was a scene where Megatron picked up a dude and just was like, crunch. Yeah. It's been a long time since I read those. I got them all on trade paper, got back, and I think IDW started out that way too. I remember All Hail Megatron where they came into New York and they just slaughtered people left and right. I'd love to see a darker version of that in a cartoon. That's like some people said recently, there was a conversation in one of the Facebook groups of would you like to see a siege version of the DJD? Yeah, I'd be down for it. But then somebody else brought up the point that I don't know how well they'd sell because, you know, like an electric chair isn't exactly kid friendly. I get that. Maybe give them Cybertronian modes. But I'd be down for the DJD at least a turn. Give me a turn, man. Oh yeah, definitely. I'm actually shocked that figures today still come with guns. I know. Remember for a time, I think when maybe those generations, I forget which one it was. It was like, never, no character came with a weapon. Yeah, I know. That's where all these party groups came in and I mean, they had like melee weapons and it was funny thinking about that right now. I saw something on YouTube recently because I, nobody from work sees this. I watch a lot of YouTube at work and I watched something on when Return of the Jedi came out and those figures hit the market. All the figures had melee weapons opposed to blasters and it didn't dawn on me until it really got into it. Granted, you Han Solo had his patented weapon, but most of them come with some kind of stick or spear or club. But like, I think you could almost buy it a little bit more with that because there are a lot of more melee weapons within it. So I think they were able to like hide that a bit better there. It would have been more challenging to hide not having a blaster with something like Brave Star. Remember Brave Star? You know, but like he had that. My son and I have just started rewatching Brave Star thanks to YouTube and Dylan absolutely loves it. Yeah. How can you not? He was great. Tex-Hex. That's one piece of comeback. One of the best bad guys was Tex-Hex. No doubt in my mind. He was so comical. It's funny. It's like, I forgot all about the giant stampede, the Broncosaur, as they called him. That was Skeletor, the guy who voiced Skeletor. Really? Yep. I did not know that. It's funny. They're all on YouTube. We tried finding Silverhawks, but it's all broke down in pieces. And we started watching cops. Remember fighting crime in the future time? It's crime fighting time, man. Exactly. I love having a five-year-old boy. It's awesome. They had fantastic figures for cops, too. I love those we've done because they were fantastic for the time. Yeah. You never get the caps nowadays. No, no. I found one figure. I only had one. It was right at the end where I'd stop collecting, but I had to get Buttons McBoom-Boom. Remember, he'd open his jacket up and the two guns would fly out? I do. Yeah. Just because he was a cyborg. I had to get him. Yeah. I know. That whole concept was good. The toys were good. The play sets were good. The vehicles were good. And it was so ahead of its time. That could stand up today. The comic was very adult-oriented. I don't know if you ever read it. It was only 18 issues, but it was still a pretty good comic series. I still have them. Really? I think I have one. I think that's about it. Okay. Man, we derailed big time. I love it. That's what I like about these things. Well, that's your fault. I know. You're the one that brought up Go-Bots. Well, I just don't like the responsibility for growing up things. That's true. All right. Question number three. Do you have a favorite figure or grail, one toy that you will never let go of? You have to sell your whole collection, as we were just discussing, but this one isn't going anywhere. I recently did a grail video. It was a challenge by Master Farley. And it was so hard because here's the thing. It depends on how you define grail. Is it the most expensive piece? Is it the rarest piece? Is it just the one that's special to you? Through it all, I felt like the one that I got the best deal on, the one that's always sort of a work in progress, would probably be my grail because it's the one that sort of gets the most love continuously. And that would have to be Metroplex. Generations Metroplex. I don't know. Here's the funny thing. I got the regular North American release. However, around here, just to put it in perspective, around here when he first came out, there were four at our local Toys R Us and they sold quickly for $134.99. That's when he was Canadian at the time. And I remember seeing five more at our Costco for $89.99 and they sold quickly. And I never got them at the time. And in the aftermarket, I was discussing him one day with Starscream Wife way back when she was Starscream Girlfriend. Probably even before we were officially an item. And we were talking about it. She was a Starscream then, right? And she actually kind of found on a local site, I think, found a local seller that was selling them for $100. And she talked them down to $90 in box. So I went and I paid $90 Canadian form. Then sometime later, we were thrifting and I found a second blaster, which is where a lot of people get confused because I do have two of the red blasters. And I found a second blaster for $2.50 Canadian. So I paid $92.50 to have a version of Metroplex with his two blasters. I managed to get Tert's Manacle for $48 Canadian, which was less than his retail at release. The only part of that guy that I've actually paid retail for is Six Gun. Besides that, everything else was on a deal of some sort. You know, just as you mentioned that, I realized I did a review of Six Gun and never interacted with him for Metroplex. I did that when I'm out brunt with Trypticon, but I never did it with Metroplex. You know, it's mine. Don't go ahead. The funny part is I actually have cog on Fort Max, like that's where he stays. I have Six Gun on Metroplex. That's where he stays. And though brunt hasn't arrived in my neck of the woods yet, not that I'm bitter about that or anything, I know already he's going to stay on Trypticon. That's where he'll live. I have mine all lined up together. The city bots in the background and all their little buddies are right in front of them. I end up getting a Metroplex as a parting gift. When I found out the wife was pregnant with Dylan, I was working at a gym at the time. And you know, with a little one on the way, you're not going to make any money working at a gym. So it's time to move on. And when I did my last class, I taught fitness classes and everybody in my class chipped in and bought a Metroplex for me. Wow. Wow. And then the only retail I did is I bought the toy hacks upgrades for him, of course. And then he has a brand new head and extra weapons all over him. Right. Yeah. Yeah. And I mean, like, that's the thing. He's had a few really good add-on kits and stuff too. And I always feel like some of them, like the whole feet thing with the ankle tilts from, I want to say DNA design. It's nice. It's not necessary. But one of these days, you never know if I see it for the right deal. Maybe. We'll see. We'll see how it goes. Well, I had to get a new head for him because the head he had just sucked. It was too white. It is very white. And my visor doesn't fit down either. The gun on mine was broke too. There was a little snap that the handle that comes in and out. Yeah. One of the pieces was snapped off. So I'd love to find another gun for him somehow. But I know they're probably unreal online. Man, go look and go thrifting. You never know. Spam. Yeah, I know. I need to put a transformer one on there. It's funny. It's funny. I only have one transformer one on mine. And it is when Starscream wife text messages me and it's Starscream saying, I declare myself the new leader. And it's right after he threw Megatron out of the... And when I heard the line, I was like, yeah, that's going to be your ringtone for when you text me because you like to declare yourself the leader all the time. I've got the Imperial March, my ringtone. And then the tie fighter is my text message and a hand solo blaster is my eBay or not eBay Facebook message. So nobody would ever tell me that you like Star Wars? Oh, not at all. See, that's all you see right behind me. My collection originally, the whole room was half and half, but the Star Wars has been slowly moving to the far corner. And I've had people ask me, how come you collect more transformers in Star Wars? And I said, well, let's put this way. If you're collecting Darth Vader, every Darth Vader is going to look the same. You look at my Megatron display. Every Megatron is different. That's part of the fun of it. It's no fun getting the same figure over and over again. You see that complain a lot in our community too. So how many Optimus Primes are they going to release? I was like, yeah, but they're all different. Yeah. Yeah, fair point. At least that's why I look at it. Yeah. All right. We are 20 minutes in and are just now getting to question number four. Okay, we better hurry it up then, man. All right, sir. What figure is your white whale? Your most wanted toy? And I know the answer right now for everybody is going to be that $600 Unicron. No, I'm not even tempted. Honestly, the more I see it, the less I like it. I'm not even impressed with it anymore. Everybody raves and raves about it. And I think his headscope isn't even right. The Armada one that I'm looking at right here has a better, more G1 inspired headscope than that one. Look, here's the thing. I get it, man. There's two sides to that whole debate. I get it. And that's why when I talked about it, I had got by arguing for getting him and I had Dennis argue against getting him because there are two valid sides. But if you're asking me personally, moderator, if you're asking moderator, I don't see it, man. Here in Canada with the conversion and everything, I mean, it's almost $1,000 for a toy. You gotta be out of your mind. That's nuts. And then what are you going to do with it? You're going to buy it and it's going to sit there. There's sometimes when I think, look at all this money I have here, just sitting. Well, here's the thing. I look at a figure and the first thing that comes to my mind is how will this work for stop motion? And I don't see him working for stop motion. There's too much junk on him. Like that's the other thing. I get it. I know the planet piece has got to follow. I get it. But like if you're paying that kind of money, no, you know what? They should make magic where you don't have a bunch of chunks on the leg in the back. It's not as far as I'm concerned for the price. It's not good enough. And though, you know, I'm allowed and I could get all this junk. I just, I'm not interested. The more I see it, I'm not interested in it. God bless the people that are. It's just, it's not for me, man. It's not for me. Now that being said, I do have an answer and I assume and I have a question, I guess for you. Does it have to be a figure that actually exists or can it be one that I just want, though I haven't seen yet? No, this is your most wanted toy. Titan class on half. It's not set in stone. You'll be the first one to say this. Titan class, Scorponok. That's what I want. You know, I get, I get the hype about Unicron, but we already, whether you like them or not, we do have a Unicron outside of G1. We have never had an update to Scorponok and I'm not including that little Titan masterhead. We need a Titan class, Scorponok. We had the one in the Interjohn series where he was a Scorpion spaceship thing. True. Which he was, he was decent. I mean, I didn't like the construction vehicle, Scorpion. He's actually in the middle of my display with my Titan's return headmasters and my Titan's return target masters, but I agree. He needs to go right there with the others. He does. And I almost got that one, but I held off because I heard that he's prone to breakage. That's what I've heard. I mean, I've had mine for a long time. I used to play with it all the time. I mean, mess with it for display and never had an issue with him. When I went to Shardicon in 2013, they had a speed transformation contest, which involved that figure. No issues with breaking, but like you, I've heard that. So mine hasn't been touched probably since 2013. And I think it's easy to do a Scorponok. I mean, the tooling is there. You can use, and I know it's technically a mold reuse, a bit of a retool. You can take a lot of what they had with Fortmax and with Metroplex, change some things, and you can have another great Scorponok. Easy enough. Now I'd like to take what you said and downgrade it. I wouldn't mind a leader class Scorponok. Kind of in the Marvel Comics vein. Remember when he was the same size as Power Master Prime? Actually Fortress Maximus was the same size as Power Master Prime. In Marvel Comics, he never turned into a city. He never turned into a base. He was always a Scorpion. So to have one that would scale with those other guys, I'd be cool with that. Also, as most wanted, your fantasy figures, one of my favorites was Thunderwing. I want a good Thunderwing and I don't want the IDW giant armor jack-o-lantern face Thunderwing. I want Marvel G1. I want the one that looks like a demon. Yeah. Yeah. I could get behind that. I mean, my Thunderwing now is a custom done from Nitro Zeus with a little Titan Masterhead, but a proper Thunderwing. I could get so behind that. Yeah, absolutely. And especially with what they can do now, let's make him a pretender while we're at it. Sure. Why not? Go for it. And if you're going to make a pretender, then you might as well make a Dino King. Exactly. The same, right? Of course, I hear we're getting the Seacons next. Excited about that. We are. I don't know yet if I'm in form or not because I don't know if I care enough about them. I might. I mean, I'm saying that and I'm sure when the time comes, I'll be like, yeah, might as well get the Seacons. But like, I don't know, I want to see more than just the torso so far. You know what I mean? I think I want to see that. That's how it was when Predaking came out. Predaking was never that figure where I was just upset like, oh my God, Predaking, I have to have Predaking. He came along season three. He was only introduced once in the comics. I mean, my, my favorite one was Minnesota. I always liked the Stunnercons. And I was actually going to pass up on the Combiner Wars Predaking. But after I got him, he's actually my favorite now. I mean, they did a fantastic job with him. They did. They did. Now I didn't have him personally, though I did review it. And I can't say if I will or if I won't get him. It's just I like, like my Predaking, my Stanton is unique toys warlord. And I like him because not because he's the greatest figure in the world, but because I got him for really the cost of a Combiner Wars figure. And he's the size of the other one. So he fits in aesthetically for me. That being said, if something was to happen to a piece of him, I wouldn't replace that piece. I would, I would break down. I would just get the Combiner Wars one or the Power of the Primes one, whatever. And of course, that toy hacks might all up make him look better. Absolutely. And you know what, honestly, the toy acts made a huge difference on him. He really needed it. Thank you. Yeah. All right. Here we go. Last question regarding transformers. Okay. What is your favorite transformer character, not toy character, any fiction, any media? Easy. G1 Wheeljack. Perfect. Never heard that one yet. Yep. G1 Wheeljack. He's mad scientist. Love it. And they never played up on that again. I was kind of disappointed when he came into Transformers Prime as like a covert ops warrior. I'm like, what the hell? Yeah. Yeah. They, they, they revision them and like, it's fine. I get it. That's cool. It's still cool, but like it's not my Wheeljack, you know, my Wheeljack blows up his lab. My Wheeljack blows up his lab, you know? All right. Well, here we are. That wraps up the transformers questions. Now we're moving on to you as a YouTuber. And you just recently hit 2002, didn't you? I did. Yep. Yep. Congratulations. As of right now, I think it's at 2020, 2025. You know, I think I can get 3000 by TF Con. Hey, hashtag 3000 by TF Con. You never know. I could try, right? At the 2000 one complained. You can have that one. All right. Question number six, YouTube question time. What possessed you a grown ass man to do toy reviews on YouTube? Okay. Again, the easy answer is that Starscream Wave is bossy because I have watched others for years and eventually she was like, you kind of don't shut up and you don't stop talking and your opinionated and you have a lot to say, why don't you do it? And I was like, hmm, I don't know. I don't know. And eventually I did because I thought about it and I said, you know what? At the time there was like nobody in Atlanta, Canada doing it. There were people in central, there were people in Western Canada and there were a lot in the US. I said, I don't really know anybody from Atlanta, Canada who's doing it. Now there's a couple that have kind of come around since, but at the time I didn't know of anyone. So I said, maybe I could fill a void from kind of this part of the world where it didn't seem to have any representation. Maybe I can help some people along the way. Who knows? Nice. Good answer. That was kind of me with my gimmick. I was like, I've never seen anybody who's a mill, of course I met a lot of military veterans when I was at Shardicon, which really impressed me. I mean, you know, when you first take a comic convention, I'm going to meet a bunch of guys who live in their mom's basement. And then I start meeting law enforcement, military guys. And of course that's where my whole gimmick came from. I was like, how can I be different? And I was like, let's throw on the military hat. Let's make it a military theme. And I who odd and that last in my very first review, and that's became part of my gimmick too. So and it worked. It worked. Absolutely. It worked. I mean, as time goes on, here's the thing. As time goes on, you become a brand. And if you have success, if you have any success and have been able to become a brand, then whatever it was that you have done has obviously been working for you. That's what possessed me to finally go out and get my own design made up. I know. I'm impressed. I'm impressed. I don't know anybody that I think could like do designs like I don't know if I know anybody with that tech level. Maybe I do and I don't realize I do. I don't know. Luke Monks, who I met on Transformers and such Facebook page, he's the one that helped me out with this. Okay. There's another guy that I met via Instagram. He came up with one you probably saw in a couple videos. It was like a prime face in an army helmet. I did. He came up with the one with the salute. And I'm like, that's it. That's gold. So, yeah. Well, you salute yourself. I mean, a lot of I've seen you in videos. I can't say if it's consistent or not, but I have seen you salute in videos. So it matches everyone. I end everyone up with that. Right. Dylan even does it in his. Dylan does do it in his. That's true. I forgot about that. He's funny. He tells me all the time I want to sit down and do another review, but you're actually getting him to sit down and do one. That's like pulling teeth. Yeah, but he's hilarious when he does them though. You know, he has that kid enthusiasm, you know, I love the unboxings. Every time we do an unboxing with him, I enjoy watching the video after just so I can watch him because I don't see what he's doing when I'm talking to everybody. I know he's everything too. Right. His facial expressions. All right. Number seven. All right. What keeps inspiring you to get in front of your camera? I'm going to tell you now, you know, by day, I'm a teacher. I live to inform people. I live to hopefully make someone's life better by giving them extra knowledge. Same thing applies here. If I can give you a very honest answer and very honest information about a figure, should you spend your hard earned dollar on it? Then I've done something good. If I'm doing a tutorial about customizing or about stop motion and it's inspired you to share your own ideas with the world, then I've done something good. So I guess the reason I stay motivated is because I want to hopefully give something good to the world. Well, your series, when you were reviewing the siege figures at first and you were saying, are they guilty or innocent of that price jump? I loved that. Yeah. It's great now that I got quintessence to do it. Because I recently, you know, I've been messing around with this guy. I got the siege Starscream. Yeah. And Dylan has now obsessed with Starscream at Walmart. He got like this little PVC figure. Yeah. And so I had the combiner wars Starscream, which is junk, more or less. So I took him off the shelf and I gave him to Dylan and I picked him up and I was like, he felt so cheap and hollow compared to this. So when you hold those two up and you're like, this is why I'm paying $5 more. Well, see, here's the thing. You're saying $5 more. Here, it's $10 more. They jumped from $29.99 to $39.99 for a voyager. Wow. In one jump. Now, to put this in perspective for Canadian dollars, when I started collecting again in 2012, a deluxe class figure was $12.97 Canadian. Now, that same deluxe class figure, actually a bit smaller, deluxe class figure. Now, $29.99. You're telling me in seven years that that has gone up three times in cost? No, it hasn't. No, it hasn't. That's greed. That's corporate greed that hasn't going up that much. Yeah. And we keep buying them. Right. Because they charge it and we justify the sales. Everybody says, speak with your wallet. We do. We do. That's why I feel like, though, this time I've had to say, is it guilty or innocent? Because I feel like that we've reached a point, at least in Canada, where, you know what? They've hit their ceiling. Now they're going to have to get more creative because they've already hit their ceiling. That's like this guy right here. I watched so many reviews and every review was saying he's a $50 toy, but he's not worth it because honestly, this is going into a little bend with my parts. Yeah. So I got this little teeny tiny $50 figure shorter than my $30 Voyager. And I was like, after watching so many reviews, I can't honestly pay $50 for this guy. And then I found him on eBay for 35 ship and I'm like, okay, I'll do that. Yeah. He's 70 here. Wow. Yeah. 70. And I said, like I said, he's absolutely guilty. He's perfect. He's a perfect shockwave, but he's absolutely guilty of just taking advantage of people. I love the new hands I gave him. I know. Yeah. I saw that. I think I like that color better than the gray though, like the grayish ones. I think that color matches that mold more. The grayish ones, you know what they'll go with? They'll go with Galactic Man. Right. Right. Plus, I'm a G1-er. No one like G1. Yeah. And it works perfect with the hands of the old school OG Shockwave. Absolutely. 100% agree. Yeah. All right. Question number eight, this is going to be a fun one. There are thousands, I think hundreds of thousands now of toy reviewers on YouTube. What makes you any different from the rest? Not a clue. I agonized over this. I'm a weirdo. I don't know. I have no idea. I like to think it's because I offer more than like, I like to think it's because I offer more than just the review. Like I do try to do the tutorials. Some of them really hit. Some of them don't. Like some of the customizing ones have, especially when people come to me and they say like, I couldn't do that. Yes, you can. If I can do it, I guarantee you you can do it. Or like when I was dyeing the arms for cop. How many people show how to dye plastic, you know? The stop motion. Again, I try to do tutorials. I try to show that because a lot of people see it and they say, I wouldn't be able to do that. Yeah. Yes, you can. I don't, I don't know Jack about technology and I can do it. If I can do it. Yes, you can. So maybe it's a mix of hopefully I offer people to have ideas while at the same time just being a very comfortable weirdo. I don't know. I don't know. That's the best I got, man. That's the best I got. I do like the fact that you have so many things you do. I love the fact that you'll review a figure. Hey, I'm doing this guy, but I've customized him. Let me show you how it does and your personality helps. That's what you're one of the first YouTubers I met when I started doing this and it was your personalities like, I like this guy. And you and I just kind of, you know, we met more or less more over Facebook, but you know, that's what was funny for a long time. And if people go back and watch earlier stuff on the channel for a long time, I like, I didn't get on camera. I was behind, you know, I was one of those behind the scenes guys. And eventually when I did my discussion about predicating, if I'm not mistaken, and I was debating predicating before the Titan class one came out and kind of which one would fit where and whatnot. That was a whole series. I had to get up front of the camera then for that to work. And a lot of people responded really positively to it. No, this mug should not be on camera, but a lot of people responded really positively to it. So I was like, you know what, maybe it's time to change things up. And it seems like it's been working so far. Anyway, hopefully it keeps going. Well, when I first started, that's one of the things people commented on because my, I've been consistent since day one, except my toy hacks reviews. And you watch those, I'm never on camera. It's the stickers, the figures I'm out. But for every other review, I like to talk to you. You know, my intro is me talking to you. Then I'll display, then I'll show the fig and then I have the outro with me talking to you. And a lot of my first comments were like, it's so nice to see a reviewer other than just a pair of hands. And of course, I'm very comfortable in front of a camera. I've been in front of cameras for years. I mean, with my gym job, my military stuff, I always had a camera in my face. So it's no biggie for me. And so that response is what kept me just doing the thing. And then I'm trying to come up with more entertaining like intros and outros to do that don't get copyright flagged. Gotta watch that now after you're a thousand. You know, I watched that from day one because my start on YouTube many years ago now was very rocky. And I got in trouble very early. And had to learn some hard lessons real fast. So I've been very cognizant and very aware of that sort of stuff from very early on, which is probably why there's a lot of things I'd like to do that I'd like to use them. Like, I think that might be treading on copyright. I'm not, I'm not willing to play that game, man. Not willing to play that game. You remember my very first reviews, every figure I did had a accompanying song kind of based on the figure like Thunder Wing hit Thunderstruck so on and so forth. I finally started getting dinged on that. And then I had my Hulk Hogan intro American hero got dinged on that. So that's when I found this rock song in YouTube's library that says, Hey, you use this one. I was like, and this one fits my personality and channel. So that's where I find all my music. You gotta dig for it. But it's I dug and dug the song that I had to dig for that Naga Hat video where I did that sad alligator thing. I spent hours trying to find a Sarah McLaughlin style tear jerking song to put in that stupid video. But you know it when you hear it. That's the key. You know it when you hear it. Yeah. All right. Question number nine. What's your thoughts on the Transformers social community, i.e. YouTube, of course, Facebook? And do you have any special shoutouts? I wanted to say originally for this one that I think the community is great. And mostly I do think the community is great. But in the last couple of weeks, there's been a very bitter divisiveness that has left a bad taste in my mouth. It really has. I mean, I get that people are passionate either for or against. And we all know that I'm back to talking about that Unicron thing. But it seems like it's caused such a bitter divide. That makes me so sad because I know that everybody is just a passionate fan. And I think it's fine for us to like different things. But I don't know. Do people have to I guess devolve to insulting each other. And I feel like we're seeing that a lot more with this particular issue. So I hope that it passes quickly. It seems like it's starting to pass now. But I don't know. Like I feel like that was a little bit of a black eye. Generally, I think that it's great, passionate, happy people. And a lot of people help each other out, look out for each other. And I love seeing that. I hope that this doesn't continue to be a divisive factor for the fandom going forward. As for the shout outs, you'll notice I'm looking down and not looking at the camera because I do have a couple I want to give. Well, I have a couple here that I wanted. And I want to make sure not to forget people. Kato's Toy Box. I'm going to give Kato a great shout out. Erectron. And Survival Reviews. I want to give Survival Reviews a shout out. And of course, I almost feel obligated to throw an M. And I almost feel obligated to throw in Tati because they're the boys, you know? They're the boys. Isn't it amazing how we've all just become this collective now? It's almost like a biker gang of YouTube reviewers. Like anytime a review's popping up, oh, it's going to be those 10 dudes. Here they are. Well, here's the thing. M in particular, M and Joe. I don't know if you know Joe or not. M and Joe really, very early. They were like the first guys who ever gave me a shout out on the TNB podcast. And that was a long time ago. I don't even think I had 100 subscribers. Like I was so small. And they were small. And I really feel like M and I have really kind of grown together. Now, they hit a certain roadblock. But if there's such things as having a friend in this, I absolutely consider them to be one of my best friends in this. Excellent. He is a great guy. I enjoy talking to him. You've seen a sitrep I've had with him. I saw both. During that sitrep, M and I talked for probably an hour before we started recording and then an hour afterwards. Yeah. And the same thing with the TATAMUS recording. You only saw a segment that we, okay, let's let's do this now. And then we're still just on and on. It's like we're just hanging together at the local bars, kicking back a drink. I mean, it's great. I mean, I've said it before. All my friends live on the screen. I know. I know. It's sad. I got nobody around here. Isn't it great though that we live in a day and age and a time when that can be the case and it's okay? You know? Yep. Very true. What are we at? Are we at number nine? Are we at number 10? Where are we to? We're at number 10. We are wrapping this up. Wow. So Dennis Moulton, AKA GotBot. Do you have any channel goals for yourself and where can our viewers find you? This is your time to shout your channel out, not plug in yourself. You're shouting your channel out. Nice. Nice. Damn you, Transform and Tell, Andy Welch. You can't pick up yourself anymore. I suppose, I suppose that, again, the joke answer here is going to be 3,000 by TFCon. No. In all seriousness though, in all seriousness, bigger or better, this is the sort of medium where you're always hoping for growth and you're always hoping to have an influence and hopefully, gosh, darn it, people like you. You want a better video editing program. I know that for a fact. I need a new video editing program. But I don't know if it's so much that I necessarily have a goal. It's try and improve the content I create. Try and improve everything that I do and learn as I go and pass what I learn on to other people. As long as I could do that, then I like to think, I like to hope that the whole growth factor will come along with it. Feed quality content and hopefully the people come. But I value the community that I have now. So I'm a happy camper. In terms of finding me, I'm not a hard man to find. I'm not a hard man to find. If you look up Dennis Moulton or you look up GotBot, you're going to find a bunch of stuff. Because I mean I wrote a couple of books before I ever got into doing this. So like I was already sort of out there anyway. But you know, you can find me on Instagram. You can find me on Twitter. There's the GotBot page on Facebook. There's the Transformers Collectors NL group. There's the Autobot family. I'm a mod there. In terms of my channel, Dennis Moulton aka GotBot. Most people just look up GotBot and I think I'm the only one. So I'm not a hard man to find. Excellent. Excellent. You're just a hard man to get a hold of to do a sit down video chat with. I'm so busy. Now it's summer time. I'm so happy to finally get a hold of you and talk to you one on one. As soon as I saw that Matt was able to get you, I was like, okay, it's possible. It is possible now. That was fun. This was fun. I love doing this stuff. I just don't get a lot of time to do it because of the time zone difference. I don't even know what time zone you're in. Are you in Central like Matt or are you in Eastern? I am in Eastern. Right now it is 1.43 pm for me. Yeah. It's an hour and a half difference. I'm an hour and a half ahead of you. And say normally I do my sit reps late at night because where my internet's so terrible, I wait till Dylan and my wife's asleep so they're not on the internet so I can do this. So right now I had the day off to get yard sale stuff together and it just worked. For those people I've seen, I'm going to, oh, sorry, getting ready to do my plug. I mean my, shout out. I was just saying, I was just saying good luck with your yard sale tomorrow. I'm hoping. We got pretty primo location and we got so much kid stuff to get rid of. We got one spare bedroom that is just walled a ceiling junk. So anyway, for those of you guys watching, if you want to check out Dennis, I will put a link to his YouTube channel in the description of this video. And at the end where you see Patriot Prime doing that salute with the American flag waving in the background, I will have links to his channel and one of his newer videos there as well. Once again, Dennis, I cannot thank you enough for being on my show. It was an absolute pleasure to have you. It was my honor, sir. It was my honor completely. Excellent. And I want to thank you guys for watching. Don't forget to like and please, please, please. If you're not a subscriber to Patriot Prime, why the hell not? I need to get 2,000 subscribers by TFCon at the end of October. Hit that subscribe button. It won't cost you a thing, but it'll help me out tremendously. Once again, special thanks to my guest, Dennis, aka GotBot. This is Patriot Prime signing out.