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You are a bold and courageous person, afraid of nothing. High on a hill top near your home, there stands a dilapidated old mansion. Some say the place is haunted, but you don't believe in such myths. One dark and stormy night, a light appears in the topmost window in the tower of the old house. You decide to investigate... and you never return... -
I agree that he's grown angrier, and I do think there are many videos that seem to go for this approach. I have found more or more times where a channel that seemed to have a tight, happier style is now both angrier and much looser ("turn on camera, start chatting"). Some who used really to structure their talks now aren't doing research.Hugh H. Davis
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[QUOTE=sprytel;1444706]This is still my favorite take on the Carbon Freezing Chamber:
I've not seen that ad before and that's pretty much how my play sets looked back in the day although it's missing toilet roll cardboard tubes and tin foil
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i have to agree also, I've enjoyed his videos for years but recently he just seems angry about everything and even when he does like something like the BSG Viper made to scale with the 3.75" figures, he still talks with a slight frown the whole time.
It's a shame as my son just watched his vid about his DeLorean ( my son has just discovered Back To The Future ), and he seemed a lot more relaxed back then. Maybe it's looking through all of the comments for him on the internet at various places (including this one lol).
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I stopped watching Michael too. Way too much of an angry downer.
You’d think that a toy collector would find more joy in the hobby they pursue.
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If you don’t like something, just don’t buy it.Last edited by Myoldtoys; Jun 28, '20, 8:22 PM.Comment
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If you look at the comments, it looks like he has an audience for his angry videos. There are many 40 year-old people, who still buy toys, that add their own nasty comments. I would like to know what talents these folks have. They must be toy designers or movie directors or producers since they always know how things should be done.
I was watching one guy vent about how Mego is a failure because they're not in every store in his town. As he continued, I realized that he had zero clue how it all works, he had this childlike belief that stores just buy whatever product line they're offered. I've worked sales to mass retail all my professional career, getting a listing, getting shelf space is really hard work, it can take years to get established.Places to find PlaidStallions online: https://linktr.ee/Plaidstallions
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Certainly, if you get validation for the anger, it's more likely to continue. I feel like RetroBlasting started changing when some of the YouTube regulations were coming in about channels. He did a video with some ranting in it about how his toy channel was about to be hit by some regulations, and that seemed to start the higher proportion of tirades. That timing coincides with the launch of Hasbro Pulse, and he's been opposed to it from the start. The sequel films themselves have gotten trashed (hardly unique to him, but he seems very empowered by that wave). I actually did go and listen to his review of this chamber just to see, and in it he suggested he preferred the HasLab idea to this--since I remember his Jabba's Barge video, that's not 100% true, but he's definitely full of venom. In this one, some of his anger seemed partly to launch from people messaging him to get his response to this product, so I think there's a cycle built in. Oh, and he includes a snipe at the end about "if you say I should lighten up, and these are toys, NO--this video is for toy collectors." Guess if you get that label you trade your sense of fun in for one of your grails?Hugh H. Davis
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You make some fair points, especially that people want to see this sort of thing and ask him to do it. If that's what the people want.
To be fair, I've seen the dude do plenty of videos where he appears quite likable and chill but he certainly does have an edge.
Most of this stuff flies over my head, I don't collect Star Wars, have no concept of how Hasbro is handling the brand, have never visited Pulse. I'm watching this stuff mainly out of curiosity and I do read the odd FB forum post in that one group because it's stripped of any vitriol.
My only window into this world is my son, who collects Clone Troopers, Hasbro doesn't seem to make anything he or his friends want, which is curious because he's an 18-year-old kid with disposable income, who has more years of collecting in him.
Oh, and he includes a snipe at the end about "if you say I should lighten up, and these are toys, NO--this video is for toy collectors." Guess if you get that label you trade your sense of fun in for one of your grails?Places to find PlaidStallions online: https://linktr.ee/Plaidstallions
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^I could do a podcast or video series of how I really hate McFarlane devoting a whole wave of figures to the DC Metal stuff which I think just looks ridiculous (full disclosure, I haven't tried to read it). But you know what? I just won't buy it.
Michael has a forum and can certainly do whatever he wants, but I definitely don't enjoy the new "Sith" version of RetroBlasting, where he has given into his anger. It made have made him more powerful, with more views, but it's a whole lot less enjoyable for me, personally.
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