Dave and Devall’s Toys and Collectibles Episode 33: A chat with Poe Ghostal

I was completely remiss in not mentioning that I was a guest this week on Dave and Devall’s Toys and Collectibles, a great podcast by the guys at Toy World Order. (The show was recorded Monday night, before the Mattycollector subscriptions were announced.) You can check out the podcast here.

The boys are back for Episode 33! This week they talk about Devall’s feelings on MOTU Classics and the bad side of the MOTU fandom until they are joined by the LEGENDARY toy blogger Poe Ghostal as they continue their talk about MOTU Classics and more before they answer YOUR questions and introduce an all-new weekly segment called Thought’s with A. Das Baron! So grab a stool and saddle up to the toy bar!

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7 Comments

  1. 3B_

    I finally finished listening to the episode this morning (podcasts have replaced my "radio time" when I'm driving, so there are a few I play regularly) and it was a fun listen. I started listening to Dave & Devall a few months back when Lemonjuice McGhee announced he'd be on their show. It's a fun show and I'm glad you were on it, Poe. I think you made a fair case and enhanced what you've been writing in regards to Subpocalypse.

  2. RocketPunch

    These guys made some good points, most of which I agree with. Especially regarding Neitlich, who can be a great spokesman but is perhaps not the best person to be running things.

    The only part I didn’t like was at the beginning, when they criticised the Masters fanbase. Every community has trouble makers, and i’ve seen just as many on Transformers & GI Joe forums as there are on MOTU ones.

    They mentioned the great experience they had at JoeCon, so perhaps they should attend Power-Con, which i’ve heard nothing but good things about.

  3. dayraven

    so, here's my question… in that whole extended rant over mattel and the debacle over subpocalypse, you, poe, mention that you see both sides of things, which generally you do… do you think it's possible that one side could be "righter?" not putting you in the position of which side, or which angle seems more correct, but you think there can be a winner, or is the fanbase doomed to rift? i kind of feel like permanent damage has been done at this point. i don't think the factions of fans are going to be seeing eye to eye any time soon, and to be real, i don't think it's worth trying to salvage that relationship at this point. i kind of want the dead weight gone, i want the folks who feel substantially different than i do to go have their website, and i won't go there anymore. i will find a community that agrees w/ me, and stay there. that's not always the way to handle problems, but in this case, i want to quit the drama. i don't want to be challenged anymore, cuz i'm right, so i want to go where people will sheepishly fall in line w/ my views and i don't have to be challenged. sounds kinda petty to say that out loud, but it serves to keep me interested in toys.

    all this aside, here's my point of "if i had a podcast, here's what we'd talk about," and it pertains fan generated content. you guys collectively hit on the hasbro 3rd party stuff, and the takeover of TF by the fans… at what point are we not fans anymore, and we're not even customers… we're investors, and as such, we're allowed a say in the business model? i say this because i think that's true, as collectors, as fans and customers, we've paid into some of these properties for 20+ years… i absolutely think at some point we've purchased to such a degree that we are part owners of the IP. (i think this also applies to film, but that's another topic) we have conducted our half of the buying transaction, so what's left for us is PLAY which in and of itself, is creative and interactive in nature; is it any surprise that we want a say in how media and the toys shape up once we've got 20 years of fanfic kicking around in our heads? like any art form, the creator surrenders control at the point of sale, and now it is the audience who controls the emotions and the interactions… i don't think there's anything wrong w/ that. hasbro is still moving transformers, so what harm is there in the TFC hercules? gbabok and iceman are doing this fresh he-man comic, and it's good, the writing is better than the actual canon dc comic. why is that wrong? those companies are each selling these properties that were, in many cases, designed by a very small team who don't get credit on the packaging, isn't that IP theft too?

    lastly… "one of my commenters actually called out matt k for making the dios so cool that they oversell motucs"… i'm hurt i wasn't name bombed. 😉

  4. Actually, my words. Not Dave's. And he's been around a long time, so it's a fair title. 🙂

  5. the LEGENDARY toy blogger!

    Of legend!

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