Retro Con 2014 Report Begins

Retro Con 2014 has come and gone. I had a great time toy hunting, hanging out with friends, but the best part was meeting a childhood hero. Sgt. Slaughter one of my top five GI Joe characters. I played with the figure that came with the TripleT Tank until his shoulders and knees where floppy. To this day I can't help but smile from ear to ear when I watch the cartoon GI Joe: the Movie. I even featured Sgt. Slaughter in my stop motion show Action Figure Adventures, even if my buddy Derek wrote him as a bit of a maniac. Getting to meet Sarge in real life was such a treat. He was very approachable and talked quite a bit to me about how he got involved with Hasbro. Sgt. Slaughter talked to me about recording his lines for the movie and how he loved that you couldn't buy his figure at first. You had to "earn" him with the call  the phone number for a  secret code promotion.

 Here is a quick shot right after my shift as a volunteer ended. Show organizer Tony is in the back in the black shirt and my friends Nick (seated) and Mike are in the foreground. Their shifts were all ending as well. We had the morning rush.

Along with getting to meet Sgt. Slaughter, there were lots of other guests who voiced some of my favorite cartoon characters. Zach Hoffman was the voice of Zartan in the GI Joe cartoon series. I had him sign a carded  25th Anniversary Zartan figure.

 Three of the Thundercats voice actors were at the show. this year. Larry Kenney (Lion-O) actually had so much fun at  the show three years ago he asked show organizers Rose and Tony if he could come back. Peter Newman (Tygra) and Gerrieanne Raphael (Pumyra) were also present. I had all three actors autographs on photos of their characters from previous events.




Since I got the honor of creating a stop motion video featuring Larry's voice I took a long a DVD of one of my favorite stop motion animated Christmas Specials to have Larry and Peter sign, since they did voice work. The Life and Adventures of Santa Clause was the final Rankin/Bass Holiday Special and is based on a Frank Baum book (Wizard of Oz author... so it's weird).

I saw this special as a kid and really enjoyed it. I didn't know what it was called for many ears. I was very happy when I was able to track it down a few years ago.

Then when I watched it, I was blown away to find out the Thundercats provided voices for this animated special. Peter was pretty impressed that I was actually able to find a copy of the movie.





I love cool play sets so while walking around the vendor area I snapped a few photos of some of my favorite play sets I saw for sale. Below you'll see Eternia  from He-Man & the Masters of the Universe, the USS Flagg from GI Joe, The Hive from Sectaurs, and the Star Wars Cantina Adventure Set that included Blue Snaggletooth.

Morgan Lofting, the voice of the Baroness in the GI Joe cartoon was also at the show. I like to get the actors to sign the 25th Anniversary single card figures, but I'm not a fan of that figure in the blue outfit from that line.

 I was racking my brain trying to think of something I had that I could ask Morgan to sign. Just before I left the house to go to the 2nd day of Retro Con I remembered I had save a Dollar Store Baroness from 2004 because I thought the little packaging was kind of funky. The Valor vs Venom small card didn't leave Morgan a lot of space to sign.

I had Sgt Slaughter sign a poster that was included in a old issue of the GI Joe Magazine. It featured the 1986 Live the Adventure artwork. I also had him sign a SDCC Exclusive TripleT Tank Sgt Slaughter figure. I loved that vintage figure as a kid.

Magneto - X-Men Secret Weapon Force

In 1998, long after I stopped collecting X-Men, ToyBiz released a jacked up Magneto figure as part of the Secret Weapon Force. This guy looks imposing compared to the wave 1 Magneto of my childhood. I saw him at a flea market when I was planning the Action Figure Adventures animated series. I had been planning on using the original Magneto, and thought I might some how be able to use this super version. We didn't end up exploring that plot idea in the show, but I'm still happy to own him.

Magneto came with a cloth cape and removable helmet. His secret weapon was a large vehicle like battle station with spring loaded missile launcher. His longer hair and larger stature is similar to that of the comics of the time period, but I don't think Magneto was ever quite this bulky. He's a cool figure with or without the helmet. I really like the large size of his cape.

Flea Market Finds #23

Today I got up to go the the bank and then hit up my local comic book store for Free Comic Book Day. After that I started driving around hitting up yard sales. There were quite a few today. I hit a few but I didn't buy anythingt, but then I hit a couple I was very glad I stopped at.

I have been a huge fan of the Max Rebo Band since I was a kid. I loved them in the movie and was so happy to find out there were toys of these cool aliens. I was born in '82 so I was behind the times and my entire childhood Star Wars collection came from yard sales. I've bought several sets over the years. Slowly upgrading from three plain figures to a band with an organ, later buying another set to get the flute. I bought this set today because they have their two microphones. My buddy Derek and I featured the band in the 7th episode of Action Figure Adventures the series.

Kind of like the band, I buy any cheap vintage Star Wars figures I find. I bring them home to see if they are in better shape than the figures in my collection. I used to make custom figures using a lot of them. Lately I've been shipping the duplicates of to fellow bloggers looking for some classic figures. The little R2-D2 is an eraser. I'm not sure if he's official or a knock off. The guy threw him in for me since I bought a bunch of stuff.

I'm a sucker for Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. I picked up this large Red Ranger today. He's got some paint wear on his chest and a little yellowing on his foot, but I'm adding him to my Ranger shelf.

I never owned any Sectaurs as a kid, but I was very aware of them. We rarely got toys at the store except for Christmas or Birthdays. So as a kid if I wanted a big GI Joe collection I had to really focus on that line when making wish lists. So many cool 80's lines never made it into my collection. Now I pick them up cheap at yard sales. I think this guy is a bad guy. I was impressed that he still has his harness, sword, and gun. It looks like the wings on his little bug buddy are broken, but they still flap.

I snagged this Transformers card game. It looks like everything is there including the instructions. The card art features the first wave heroes and villains as well as the Dionbots and Insecticons.

I grabbed the horse from Toy Story 2. He is articulated at the legs and head. I'm going to take him into school and add him to the box of toys the kids can us when they do their stop motion animation videos in middle school Technology Education or after school photo club.

I'm real happy with my haul. I spent $16 today. It works out to around $1.50 an item.

Storm Shadow v1 - GI Joe '84

As a kid I had a lot of early GI Joe figures because a neighborhood kid gave me a lot of his toys as he out grew them. My first brand new Joes were from the 1986 line. The cartoon made me aware of a lot of the older characters, and I really wanted to get them, Storm Shadow was one of the figures I was dying to find. Sometimes you could luck out and find an older figure warming a peg at a grocery store. I never was so lucky. I found a Storm Shadow head and front half of his torso in the bottom of a box of loose toys at a comic store when I was in late elementary school. I put the head on a spare Hooded Cobra Commander body and pretended that Storm Shadow wore business suits while acting as Cobra Commander's body guard. Later (once the Internet was a thing) some offered me $35 for my custom suit wearing Storm Shadow, so I sold him. I eventually bough a loose Storm Shadow of a toy dealer and then slowly acquired all his accessories from yard sales and other dealers.

 Storm Shadow wears an all white ninja outfit including a mask. He has a black belt and sash. Stormy has a red Cobra logo on his chest and a few sculpted on weapons tucked into his belt. One of the coolest things about Storm Shadow is that his backpack can hold all of his accessories. He has a black back pack that serves as a quiver (holds arrows). The back pack has slots to hold both his long and short swords. His bow can clip to the outside of the backpack and his nunchucks can be placed inside.

When I was picking out figures to include in the main cast of my stop motion animated series, Action Figure Adventures, I knew I wanted Storm Shadow. He got the most screen time is episodes one, three, and eight of the series. He's a pretty straight forward character in the series and has a cool ninja battle with Snake Eyes in episode three.

Clutch (Tan) v2 - GI Joe '84

Clutch is one of two "Tan" GI Joe repaints of original characters released as vehicle drivers. Clutch came with the VAMP II. He is a complete repaint of his v1.5 figure. Clutch came with one accessory, his tan helmet. I really like the tan figures and wish they had made the entire original team in in tan. I've made custom figures of a couple of the other Joes.

 I like to arm Clutch with a tan Grunt backpack and gray M-16, both from early weapon packs.

Tan Grunt makes a short appearance in the 8th and final episode of Action Figure Adventures: The Series. He is one of three repaint figures that are used to restart "the giant's" toy collection.

Dick Grayson / Robin - BtAS

As a kid I always loved the "unmasked" figures. I always wanted the Prince Adam, Clark Kent, and Bruce Wayne figures. So naturally when they released a Dick Grayson  figure for the Batman: the Animated Series I had to get him. The down side to these figures, is that they frequently come with gear to make them both their masked selves and civilian selves. This makes both versions sub par.

 Here is Robin and Dick side by side. Robin has kind of bulky armor and a funny hose that connects his mask to his armor. His cape is nice and large. It clips on his neck like the old Super Powers capes. Robin also has clip on leg pieces that make his shoes look like boots.  In Dick Grayson mode he has a great head sculpt but wears green tights and a black monogrammed shirt. Nothing he ever wore in the cartoon.

He also came with a ton of extra gear that I never really played with as a kid. He has a radar dish that snaps to his armor and wrist weapons. I really like the head sculpt on Dick. I kind of wish he came in his sweater that he typically wore in the show.

When I was picking characters for my stop motion animated show Action Figure Adventures, I knew right away that I was going to use Batman & Robin. I planned for them to be the first toys to try to escape the dorm room using K'Nex hang gliders. In the script my buddy Derek wrote for Robin to get down on one knee at one point. When I was talking to him about the episode I said "It can't happen, I'm dealing with limited articulation here." Instantly Limited Articulation became our Production Company.

For the stunt sequence where Batman & Robin went out the window, I was worried that my figures would get damaged so I actually hunted down another Dick Grayson figure at a yard sale to use as a stunt double. I gave him a quick custom paint job because I didn't have an extra set of armor.

Super-Something Spider-Man (ToyBiz - Movies)

Today I wanted to do a little comparison of a Spider-Man 1 and Spider-Man 2 action figure. The first Spider-Man movie came out when I was a freshman in college, and it blew me away. I has so much fun watching that movie, naturally I bought a few of the action figures. I picked up Super-Poseable Spider-Man and ended up using him as a hero in my stop motion show Action Figure Adventures. He got so much use in the animation process that some of his joints got a little loose. When Spider-Man 2 came out I bought Super Articulated Spider-Man to replace him, but I didn't like the figure very much.

 So we have Super-Poseable (Spidey 1) on the left and Super-Articulated (Spidey 2) on the right. They are very similar and both came with an obnoxiously large accessory that had a rope attached to it that they could be posed on or hung from. Spidey 1 came with a gargoyle head and Spidey 2 had a daily bugle billboard. From this photo you may be able to see that Spidey 2 has brighter colors and shinier plastic. The shiny red plastic always made this figure feel cheap to me.  He also has some extra articulation cuts most noticeably in the torso and shoulders.

Super-Articulated (Spidey 2) does have better articulation. He has more joints and can be posed in more ways. The area that impresses me the most by this figure is that all of his fingers can move. Spidey 1 could only move his middle and ring finger to form the web shooting pose. Spidey 2 can do the web shooting pose or make a fist.

The reason I don't like the Super-Articulated (Spidey 2) is that he has the weirdest shoulder joints ever. I really don't like the way they look. From the back I find them very unsightly. I also found that these joints didn't stay the ways I posed them very well. I bought him to replace a toy with loose joints... so he needs tight joints.

If you want to see of clip of Super-Poseable Spider-Man in action check out this clip from AFA.

Magneto - ToyBiz

Magneto is without a doubt the X-Men's biggest bad guy. His character is so complex that he could almost be the hero. If his methods were different he could totally be the good guy, and he thinks he is. Magneto has different goals from Professor X, but they aren't really bad goals if you are a mutant.

This Magneto figure, from the first wave of X-Men figures by ToyBiz, and was my first X-Bad Guy. He's a nice looking figure with decent articulation. He has 9 points of articulation which is pretty good for a toy from the 1990's. They are at the neck, shoulders, elbows, hips, and knees. Other than his head he is molded out of red plastic with clean purple paint apps on his boot, gloves, shorts, and collar.

 

Magneto comes with a removable helmet, cape, and three magnetic pieces of junk. The helmet is a little bulky, but fits pretty well. His purple cape clips on his neck like the 80's Super Powers capes. I always wished it was larger. The cape is so small it is almost completely hidden from view by his torso. Magneto has three magnets imbedded inside him. One in the torso and one in each hand. This allows light weight metal objects to stick to the figure. He came with three pieces of junk that have small metal plates glued into them.  It's kind of a shame that the magnets make his hands unable to grip accessories, but it's a fun gimmick for kids.

 

When I was picking out villains for the stop motion animated show my friends and I made in college, Action Figure Adventures, Magneto was immediately included. He didn't really get as big of a role in the show as I originally though, but none of the villains really did. The show mainly focused on the good guys. My buddy Derek, who wrote the scripts for the episodes isn't a huge X-Men fan and I also think that had something to do with why Wolverine, Gambit, and Magneto didn't get used much. The following link takes you to my favorite Magneto scene from AFA Episode 4.

 What a great head sculpt!

Action Figure Adventures Ep 8 Eggs

This is the final installment of Action Figure Advenuters: The Series Notes and Easter Eggs. I hope this will inspire you to check out Episode 8 if you haven't yet. It also gives you something to think about on a second viewing. We had such a good time makeing the seriesn, and I hope you have enjoyed watching it.

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Episode 8 is the last one. Time to clean up the mess I made. The shots of dumping the toys segments from the opening are played in reverse.

A lot of the characters got new "title cards" for this episode.

2:04 Chewbacca is sitting with Shockwave's head and Budo's torso. If you've seen the entire series you know Shockwave cracked when he was thawing out after being locked in the mini fridge. There were a couple of other ad-libbed escape plans were animated for episode 7. When Budo's plan failed he preformed Seppuku and cut himself in half. These extra escape plans did not make it into the episode, but that is why Budo no longer has legs.

 2:47 The giant is wearing a crew t-shirt for "The Warden". During my sophomore year of college, while animating this show I also help with a massive student film project going on in the communications department at Millersville University. Matthias Sundberg (the voice of Spider-Man in AFA) was making a superhero/vigilante movie set in Lancaster City. Most weekends I'd spend the early morning animating and then go out at night with the student film crew to shoot scenes for the Warden. I was an audio grip. I got to hold very still keeping a microphone just out of frame for hours and hours. It was a cool experience. Many people involved in the Warden provided voices for this show. Dave Ehrhart the voice of Han Solo played the masked Vigilante, Harry Turner who voiced Luke Skywalker was a producer, and Craig Carestia who voiced Crazylegs was the main production assistant.

3:45 Spider-man asks Snake-Eyes how he changed his cloths and points out that he can't. This contradicts a scene from earlier in the series when Han and Luke changed into Stormtrooper outfits. We were aware of this, but felt that the earlier story was funny. The current situation is sort of required to move the plot forward. So when writing the script we broke our own rule.

4:35 The website on the monitor is www.obscenenewg.com a site that my friends and I worked on at the time. A few of the things I wrote for that site have actually been reposted on this blog.

 5:34 Most of the "wandering" bits in the ceiling between main plot points were just made up while animating. I wanted to work in some connections between the dorm room and Chuckles. He's been go for so long and I wanted there to be little reminders of home to him. Some of these things include the Ninja Turtles marble and the Mr. T. loot bag he using as a sleeping bag (earlier episode).

6:17 This is another ad-libbed Chuckles adventure. Chuckles is always righting wrongs and since the last time we saw the Cloner was during the Robot God adventure I decided to bring her back, but have Chuckles help her out.

7:23 After using the Star Wars Episode 2 Clone Troopers I decided to throw in the droid army as well.

7:56 The K'nex is another call back to the dorm room. Batman and Robin were going to escape using K'nex hang glider and that is when Chuckles decided to go up into the ceiling to find another way out.

8:32 I tried to keep the ceiling scenes a little dark. Some of the scenes in this episode are a little bright  to help make this guy appear clear.

8:45 The clear Halo Master Chief figure was sent to me as a thank you for filling out an online survey about my toy buying habits. I don't really remember it was emailed to me or part of a site I visited frequently at the time.

 9:20 During the Band scene in AFA 7 I used every vintage Star Wars figure I had. Over the course of post-production (since it took us years) I slowly picked up the rest of the vintage Star Wars figures. When I got the A-Wing pilot I shot this little scene where he gives Chuckles a very unhelpful map.

9:40 Same story with Han Solo in Carbonite

10:38 One last shot with the rest of the vintage collection. Barada, Blue Snaggletooth, Luke in Endor Poncho, Yakface, the Imperial Dignity, and Ev-99.

10:51 Fight + Win = Prize was the name of an animation in our show Animation Creation and seemed like a funny nod to that show and gave me something to do with these last few vintage Star Wars toys.

14:18 Knowing is half the battle, a reference to the classic GI Joe cartoon Public Service Announcements

15:56 Shockwave's head has been band-aided to Wolverine's back and Budo is getting a piggyback ride from Mr. T

16:10 I like that Derek wrote in that the two Storm shadows would spy on the heroes from the bunk-beds. It's an area of the room that wasn't seen much in the show. There was an ad-libbed escape plan that didn't make it into episode 7 that involved Spider-Man swinging Mr. T over to the beg on dental floss to see if there was a possible way out.

16:51 I love that Cobra Commander says "You know by now that their pathetic plans always fail". A funny reference to the fact that in the GI Joe cartoon Cobra Commander's plans fail every episode.

19:08 It was really hard to me to do this shot. To hit my '82 Cobra Commander with a door made me so sad. Most of the toys that were destroyed in the show (like Alpine) I bought a duplicate so as not to damage my figures.

19:19 The giant is wearing a GI Joe Official Fan Club t-shirt that was part of the membership package.

19:55 The student entering the building is Matthias Sundberg (the voice of Spider-man and Director of "The Warden")

20:22 Everyone who has gone to Millersville University has looked at the cage of rocks and wondered, what is this?

20:58 I used a low camera angle here to harken back to another video project Derek and I did. In Godzilla Flick, I again play a toy collector, but my obsession is actually Derek's kaiju monster collection in that project.

21:27 It turns out the three toys who escaped the room have been living outside in  shake made from the parts of the gliders. I unscrewed part of Crazylegs leg and removed on of Robin's shin guard to make them look a little worse for wear. I though about having batman's cape be missing, but he just doesn't look as cool without it,

22:27 The campus tour continues showing off the pond, another well known spot in Millersville.

24:16 x4847 was my actual campus phone number when I lived in 702. I wonder if they even have the room lines anymore, now that everyone has a cell phone.

24:23 You can see that the toys strapped themselves to the animal using rubber bands. This was necessary to keep toys from falling off during all the driving scenes. So it was just written into the story
 

 24:50 Does it feel like the story came full circle? Do you remember how episode one started?

25:00 Derek scripted the final line to be delivered by Clutch. I insisted that the line be given to Barbeque because he was the one who had previously referred to the room as hell.


27:28 The shot after the credits was filmed somewhere between Derek's house and mine. we set the toys up on the roof of my 1990 Buick Century with the camera on a tripod set for time-lapse photography.

Action Figure Adventures Ep 8

Each week for the past 8 weeks I've posted an episode of our series, Action Figure Adventures. I hope you have been checking it out and enjoying it. There was a lot of time put into the series and it's nice to finally be able to share it with people.

The arrival of new Snake-Eyes and Storm Shadow figures spark some controversy. Spider-man and Cobra Commander draw very different conclusions form the presence of their new team mates.

 The Star Wars characters, who took a seat on the back burner the past couple of episodes are back and actually play a pivotal role in the episode. Does Luke's lightsaber save the day? Can Han make the Kessel Run in  less than 12 parsecs with a plastic fork?

 

The Villain army  wants to crush the heroes at their most desperate hour. Tune in to this weeks episode for the exciting conclusion of Action Figure Adventures.

Action Figure Adventures Ep 7 Eggs

This is the 7th Friday in a row that I am posting Notes and Easter Eggs about our stop motion animated show. I hope if you've been watching you like it, and if you haven't see the show check it out. Here are some things to look for in a second viewing of AFA Ep 7.

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SlooooWWWWW Mmooooooooo opening! - I'm going to comment on the toys dumped during the open. since they get the most screen time here.

0:23 - The first box is random toys where I didn't have many figures from one line. (Modulok from MOTU, Z-Bots, Dungeons & Dragons, Mad Balls, and Pirates of Dark Water)

0:33 Box two contains mostly COPS 'n' Crooks toys but there are some Police Academy guys in there also.

There are Real and Filmation Ghostbusters, Vintage and New Sculpt GI Joes, and lots of 90's PotF2 Star Wars figures.

0:47 - The Title Card for Clutch and the Tiger Force Flunkies has a mistake. Clutch is labeled as Chuckles. Our typographer has been fired. (All mistakes in this blog posting will also be retroactively blamed on her)

1:14 - We get to the Darth Vader case of vintage figures. I did not dump my C-3PO case which at the time stored my more valuable Star Wars figures.

There is a Robocop & the Ultra Police Robocycle box visible in the pile

2:08 - Sgt Slaughter is voiced by a fellow high school teacher who has one of the most booming voices I've ever heard.

3:06 - The Millersville cup in the background was from a free refill promotion they ran at  an on-campus convenience store. I forget how much my roommate and I each paid for the cups, but we drank our money's worth of soda that semester.

3:10 - When I picked out what toys that were going to be in the show, we did not  have a complete script yet. Several toys including Footloose, Outback, Lady Jay, and the rebel pilots were included basically as extras. I wanted there to be a lot of toys at the beginning of episode one and in the big battle. I had hoped that it would be noticeable how the numbers quickly dwindled though out the show. Derek chose some of these characters to have bigger roles. Some of the X-Wing pilots disappeared after the first episode along with the Star Wars battle droids. I wanted it to seem like some of the toys may have been lost in the fight.

3:48 - I don't know what happened to Mr. T's arm either. I bought him at a yard sale like that.

4:55 - Mr. T. Loot Bag - I don't know if this was saved from a party I had or if I brought it home from someone Else's party. It floated around our house for decades. I always liked that his dog had a Mohawk in the cartoon show.

5:33 - The concert. Derek explained in the script the major plot points of this adventure and gave me the three songs. Which toys where used and how they interacted was something I decided.

5:43 - Derek and I always loved the Max Rebo Band from Star Wars. As a kid I had a set with no accessories (even Sy Snoodle was missing her skirt and feather) Derek was in the same boat except his Sy was better off. In college I bought another set of the band that included Max's Organ, Droopy's Clarinet, and Sy's Feather and Skirt. I also picked up an organ that has a broken key for Derek. We used all three sets of the band here.

5:53 - General Lando Calrissian was the most recent addition to my vintage collection (at the point in time I animated this) so he got a little bit of a close-up. My friend, Greg, gave him to me for my birthday.

6:04 - I don't have either of the two microphones that come with the band set, so the old fashion looking mic came with a Muppet's Tonight figure Brian gave me. It's so out of scale to these toys that I built the cardboard stage to make the microphone the correct height One Sy is wearing a scarf that came with an X-Men Movie Rouge figure and the other is wearing a jacket from a Disney Cinderalla mouse McDonald's toy

7:16 You can see Buddo (GI Joe Samurai) has removed his "silly hat" as instructed by Sgt. Slaughter.

9:00 This one of the widest shots of the Heroes base. You can see a He-Man & the MOTU poster, a KISS t-shirt, and a Simpsons calendar.

10:00 The concert crowd is made up of all of the vintage Star Wars toys I owned at the time except Squid Face who was used ealier in the series. Here you can see the custom GI Joe figures of Derek and Kevin (myself) from our show Animation Creation. We get a little cameo. The only other no-vintage Star Wars toys in the crowd is the Alien Prisnor that Chuckles freed in the first episode. He is sitting in the front row not far from Chuckles. He's a 2000's era Star Wars toy.

10:51 Some of the fans begin to rush the stage.

11:43 Along with training the Heroes Sgt Slaughter tried out a few escape plans of his own, but never risks his own life. "The Juggernaut" was made from two small Pringles cans for wheels, a Poptarts box, and plastic silverware

13:11 Sgt Slaughter was one of my favorite GI Joes as a kid. He was actually hard to animate with because that figures joints are really loose from being played with so much as a kid. It kind of shocked me at first how mean and evil Derek wrote the character. With Drew's vocals added to the animation I really liked the finished product and it cracks me up. He's like an enemy within their own ranks.

13:40 For the third song in the concert the only non-Rebo Band member get to sing. This is a Cantina Band member that was a mail-away figure in the late 90's. Later they reused the mold and put out a set that had 5 or 6 of them so you could have the entire Cantina band.

14:43 Here you can see the Prisoner from Chuckles' adventures in the first episode. (Bottom Right Corner)

14:49 Boba Fett (the most bad ass vintage toy) takes out some rowdy concert goers that are blocking his view.

15:02 The third Max Rebo figure get to play the little Theremin I made for Derek in Animation Creation because he doesn't have an organ.

15:19 Lobot gets tied of a rowdy Ewok and throws him into Boba Fett. Then Fett deals with Lobot

15:37 The beaten Lobot bumps into Bespin Han Solo and he calls out Boba Fett. The riot is on! (having a riot during the 3rd song was pretty much the only plot point Derek gave me for the concert)

16:19 Sgt. slaughter's next idea is to dig their way out with "shovels". The toys would have had a hard time digging though the floor with plastic spoons, but had they been successful they would have just ended up in the drop ceiling of the floor below them. The dorm room is on the 7th floor.

17:24 We haven't heard from Spider-Man in a while, but it seems like he's on to something. It also seems like he's gotten better at using ticky-tac to stick to the walls.

17:31 Sorry Transformer fans that the closest thing your favorite toy line is getting to a mention. There are a lot of major toy lines that were left out of the show. Something I would try to correct if we were doing it over again. A little Monday Morning (9 years later) Quarterbacking.

17:47 This is the only episode with bad language.

18:04 The 90's Star wars toys had a very hard time standing on the carpet so they have to really hug the wall. It kind of works out though because it seems like they are sneaking into the hallway.

18:35 The ewoks fight over the one singers scarf that was thrown into the crowd just before we cut back to the heroes in the room

19:33 After Amanaman throws the organ into the bleachers Chuckles decides he knows when fun ends and trouble begins. So he heads off to his next adventure in the ceiling.

20:32 Drew, not being a child of the 80's, messed up the Animal Commercial song. It came off sounding like Sgt Slaughter doesn't care enough to know the words and even more mocking so we used this take.

21:20 I decided that it would be funny to show Shockwave again at the end of the episode when the toys are sitting around bored in an ice cube.

21:47 Since the toys always "die" when they try to escape I decided to have Shockwave pop apart 3/4 of the way through the thawing process. It's kind of in honor of my favorite X-Men, Iceman. In the early 90's I had the toy that would change colors when you put him in the freezer. I played with him all the time and one day I took him outside in the snow and his glue joint popped and he fell apart. After that every time I played with him one of the bad guys would "shatter" him, since he wouldn't stay together.