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what is up everybody and

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welcome to a very special

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edition of The United

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States Department of Nerds

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and today I have Dan

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Crothers with me from VeVe

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collectibles and we're

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going to be talking

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everything you need to know

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about their new Star Wars

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NFTs but first we have to

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hit that beautiful theme music

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You are listening to the USDN on the DFPN.

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Thanks for watching!

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All right.

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What is up, everybody?

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Let's give a big United

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States Department of Nerds

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welcome to Dan from VeVe Collectibles.

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Like I said, Dan, how are you doing today?

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Very good.

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Thanks, Jeff.

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Thanks so much for having me on.

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Now,

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tell everybody where you're at right now.

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I'm actually it's actually a

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Friday in New Zealand.

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So I know it's Thursday for you.

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So I can tell you that, you know,

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the world doesn't end in the future.

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I love it.

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I love it.

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Good news travels.

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Yes.

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So you are the furthest

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interview I've ever done now.

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So congratulations to that.

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Thank you.

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I don't think there's

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anybody further other than Antarctica.

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Hey, maybe someday.

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Maybe.

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I can hope.

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If anybody's in Antarctica

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and watching this, hit me up.

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Let's talk.

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But let's dive into it.

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So this year...

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you released your Star Wars

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NFTs on VeVe collectibles.

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Now,

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is this the first time you have done

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Star Wars collectibles or

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have you done them before in the past?

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Because I think you've been

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around since 2018.

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Yeah, that's correct.

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We've actually been very

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fortunate enough to be

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working with Lucasfilm and

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the team over at Star Wars

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for many years.

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So I think this is our third

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Star Wars May the 4th month.

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Okay.

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Yeah,

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so we've offered a lot of really cool

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collectibles to Star Wars

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fans over the years.

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So I wasn't very familiar

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with NFTs until I was hit

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up by your guys.

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So I definitely dove into it

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just to learn what I could about it.

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And then I was like, you know what?

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I can't really do this

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properly without myself

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going and downloading the

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app and having a look at it myself.

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And it's really dope.

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It is one of the coolest things ever.

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The blown apart Star Wars helmet.

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Yes.

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So cool.

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Yeah.

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So cool.

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Yeah, I love that one too.

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Yeah,

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we put a lot of time and effort into

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that.

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Our creative director really went in.

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I mean,

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even I think you can lay that

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helmet over the blueprints

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and it's an identical replica.

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Yeah, so...

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I love the fact that it

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looks like it's full.

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It's a full helmet and then

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you touch it and then it

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floats itself apart and you

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can see all the different

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working pieces of the helmet.

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It's really cool because you

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never really see that

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unless you buy the actual helmet.

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Even that's just a toy helmet.

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It doesn't have all the

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mechanisms in it like you

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see in the blowout on your collectible.

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Yeah,

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that's one of the reasons we were

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very excited to do it

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because I think as far as I'm aware,

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I mean, certainly digitally,

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this is one of the first

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helmets where the interior

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has been done to such detail.

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It's always been a mystery

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what is inside these helmets.

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Yeah, it was a really,

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really cool opportunity for us to

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I mean, even creating the helmets,

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like in my virtual showrooms,

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I've got all the helmets set up,

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but it's great to be able

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to see inside one and just

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have that detail.

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Yeah, I'm not going to BS anybody.

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It is extremely detailed,

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like the foam pads, the microphone,

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the way the eyes look.

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And it explains why the

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stormtroopers are never

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able to hit anything if

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that's how the eyes really look.

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That's a very good point.

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So what was it like for

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y'all's team working with

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Lucasfilm and Disney to

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bring these things to life?

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How was that process?

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I always give kudos to Disney and Lucas.

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These Star Wars collectibles

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that we generate,

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they might take nine to

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twelve months to create.

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We go through a lot of

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process with them to make

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sure everything is accurate.

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And from their side,

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they are really the brand warriors.

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They make sure that

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Everything is looking perfect.

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It's authentic in the way

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that fans would want it to be.

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So, yeah,

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and then over that nine-month period,

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you know,

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that's when we're creating the 3-D,

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start creating the 3-D

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objects themselves.

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And then that goes through

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multiple different rounds of approvals.

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I mean, you know, luckily,

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we've been working with

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Disney for a very long time

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now and Lucasfilm,

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so the approvals go through pretty quick.

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You know, internally, we are all...

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Definitely Star Wars nerds.

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So we've got a pretty good

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basis to come from.

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That's awesome, man.

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Y'all have that type of

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working relationship with

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Disney and Lucas because

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there's not a lot of

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companies that get that

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inside with them to create collectibles.

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I mean, there's Hasbro.

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And, um, I can't remember who does the, uh,

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the black series figures,

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if that's Hasbro or not.

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So there's very companies

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out there that do get any

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type of license from them

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to do anything like this.

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So it's really cool that

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y'all kind of have that inside.

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Like, Hey guys,

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we're thinking about this and they're,

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they, you know, they're like, yes,

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send us to render.

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And we, and they do their thing.

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Exactly.

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Yeah.

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And the great thing about

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digital as well is that we

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can do so much more.

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We can put all of those fine

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little intricate details in there.

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Whereas if you were to

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produce that as a product,

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there's a lot more

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limitations on cost and all

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of that kind of thing.

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So it really allows us to

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kind of take it to the next level.

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And the fact that it's

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You can view it in augmented reality.

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It allows a different type

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of collecting experience.

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That's one of the really

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cool parts I thought too is

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being able to switch it

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over to the augmented

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reality and it's just

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sitting there in your room

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with you and you can see it.

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To me, that's really cool.

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I never thought of NFTs as

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something that you could

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do that with and that's

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something that was new to

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me when I was going through

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all this and preparing for

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this and to talk to you is

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I wanted to really like get

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immerse it in you know

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spend a little money see

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what it was all about and I

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think it's really dope I

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didn't honestly think I

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would like oh this is kind

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of cool but no it's it's

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really freaking cool to be

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able to see these things

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with your eyes floating in your room

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Yeah, absolutely.

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I mean, it's, you know, when David,

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my co-founder and I started the business,

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because we're both big collectors,

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as you can see from behind,

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my business partner,

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he's a level nine thousand

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collector for those out

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there who get the Dragon Ball reference.

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And what we really wanted to

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do was bring physical

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collecting into the digital space.

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And we started this before

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the word NFT even existed.

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And from our perspective,

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we are a collectibles business,

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but we're just in the digital medium.

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And to your point,

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when a lot of people hear NFTs,

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they think just like a

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little JPEG image or something like that.

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Because we wanted to

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replicate as close as we

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can that collecting

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experience that fans know

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and love in the physical world,

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making all the models and

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beautiful detailed 3-D

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having the augmented reality.

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So you could actually have

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it in there in your home

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and your space and then the

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virtual showrooms as well.

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I'm loading it up on my

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phone so I can kind of show the

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Show it, you know,

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and to see how it really looks.

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If that's okay with you.

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Am I allowed to do that?

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I'm not sure.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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Let's see if they can see that.

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But that is what it looks like.

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And then you just touch it.

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And it opens up.

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And you get that full 3-D

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rendering of the inside of the helmet.

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And that is cool.

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And you can also do the AR version,

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which you won't be able to see the AR.

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So I'm not going to do that.

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But it's really cool.

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And I was one of those guys who was like,

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I don't know about this,

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but I'm sold on it.

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I think it's one of the coolest things.

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And y'all don't just do helmets.

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You have a whole lineup of

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Star Wars currently going on.

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and not just collectibles

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you also are doing comic

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books as well that's

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correct yes which as that's

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cool in of itself yeah yeah

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I mean like like I say you

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know we're massive nerds

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getting you know getting to

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do collectibles and comics

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from uh you know all of the

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these famous IPs that

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people love uh yeah this

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has been really really

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exciting yeah so y'all have

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just real quick marvel

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I know you have stuff with Lamborghini.

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I've seen James Bond.

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I have a whole list that I made.

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DC, Disney, Coca-Cola.

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And I'm only scratching the

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surface of what it is that

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y'all actually have in y'alls store.

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But that's some of the

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bigger ones that I laid eyes on.

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And for me,

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Star Wars is life when it comes

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to collecting.

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That's what I collect personally.

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I was collecting other things,

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but as I got older, I'm like,

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I'm a Star Wars guy.

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You got to refine your

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collecting experience.

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You really do.

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You start narrowing it down.

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Now, Comic Books is another story.

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I'm kind of very eclectic

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when it comes to that, but...

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But Star Wars primarily has

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been my big focus.

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You see the Pokeball,

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that's from my daughter.

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She's a big Pokemon person.

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Have y'all tried to reach

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out to other franchises

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like that to try to get

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them to buy in with y'all or?

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Yeah, I mean, you know,

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so since since the two

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thousand seventeen when

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David and I first started

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and I think we've got over two hundred,

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two hundred IPs on the

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platform at the moment,

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like the ones you mentioned,

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plus a whole lot more.

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And, you know,

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we have been in

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conversations with with many other

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uh many other IPs and and

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license holders um you know

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because it's still quite a

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new space this sort of

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digital thing and then um

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you know the NFT went

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through the you know the

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classic technology hype

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cycle where everybody was

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into it and then nobody was

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into it but in the end it's

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just it's another type of

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technology another way that

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people can collect

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And so we're always signing

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up new licenses every year

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to bring onto the platform.

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Because ultimately,

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we want it to be the place

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where people can collect

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whatever you like.

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And the reality is, if you like Star Wars,

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you may like Star Trek,

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you may like Marvel.

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There's a lot of different

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sort of crossover brands

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that people collect.

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So when y'all brought over,

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what was the initial goals

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when you brought Star Wars into VeVe?

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Like, how did the initial... Like...

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your followers and your

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platform users take to that?

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How did they gravitate

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toward it when they were like, oh,

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were they like,

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I imagine it would have

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been a massive excitement

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when y'all first announced

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Star Wars was coming to VeVe.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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I mean,

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we were very lucky enough to start

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our journey on the Disney

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side with Marvel.

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And then that went really, really well.

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And then from there, you know,

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we were able to start

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introducing some of the

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other Disney IPs like Star Wars.

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And of course,

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if you have a collecting platform,

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you know, you have to have Star Wars.

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Absolutely.

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Yes.

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So it's been really, I mean, yeah,

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we've done everything from Jabba

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um Luke, Darth Vader all the

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Stormtroopers lots of

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vehicles the X-wing, R2D2

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yeah there's lots of um uh

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lots of Star Wars

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collectibles on the

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platform already and the

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cool thing is that in the

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so you know you were

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talking about the AR before

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but in the virtual

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showrooms you can actually

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place all of these 3-D

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collectibles you can set up

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your own dioramas

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I mean, me as a collector,

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I find it really, really fun.

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And I hope that other

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collectors will find that

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same sort of view as

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digital collecting becomes

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more popular in the globe.

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Okay.

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You kind of answered the

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next question I had for you.

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It's kind of like,

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how do y'all decide which

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one of these Star Wars

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characters y'all want to bring in next?

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Because I mean, for me, I love the droids.

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Droids have always been...

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like top tier for me,

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like K2SO and Andor and, you know,

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how do y'all decide?

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Cause this, I mean,

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there's literally hundreds

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of characters for y'all to kind of like,

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okay,

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How do we scale this to bring,

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what are we going to bring in next?

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So, yeah, I mean,

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it can be at times quite

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collaborative with Lucasfilm.

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You know,

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they will suggest some

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collectibles that they may

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want to bring in because, you know,

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it might align with like

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maybe a movie coming out or

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like release of Andor or

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something like that.

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But outside of that, really for us,

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it's about just making sure

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that we are selecting the

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characters that are the

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most popular in the Star Wars fandom.

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We actually have to be quite

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careful because there's stuff that I love,

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there's stuff that the

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creative director loves.

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We've got to remember it's not just for us,

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we've got to make sure it's

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for everybody.

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That would probably be my

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problem is I'd be like, oh,

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I love this character so much.

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I'm that one guy that really

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likes that one droid out of everybody.

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So I'm like,

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I don't know how well this is

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going to do because that

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was kind of a – it was my novelty thing.

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Yeah.

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And then basically,

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we just sort of started off

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with all of the main characters.

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And then as we go further

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into the franchise,

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we start to get to do

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things like all these

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different stormtroopers and

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all these different

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elements and cool things

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like you know the interior

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of of the helmet um so yeah

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it's a really fun process

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we basically put together a

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slate for a year we submit

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that through and then we

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have you know a bit of a

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dialogue back and forth um

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and then we basically just

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yeah get straight into

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production after that so

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could we possibly see the

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uh clone wars trooper

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helmets in the future

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that's a huge one for me I

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love the different you know

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stormtrooper or the clone

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wars helmets yeah yeah they

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are that that's the um

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that's the thing with the

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Star Wars franchise like

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there is so much stuff out

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there um but yeah I'm a

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massive fan of clone wars

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as well so I would I would

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absolutely love that to

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come to the platform okay

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no that was that was my

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novelty question I had I

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was like yeah maybe I can

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get some clone wars some

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three thirty second or

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some wolf pack you know

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well you and me we've got

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well I'll go and put the

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case forward hey yeah I

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would appreciate it I'd be

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all over that one so how do

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y'all decide or I don't

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know if it's y'all who

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decides or if it's kind of

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like a um like a team thing

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where y'all decide this but

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how do y'all decide the

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rarity tiers of different um

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NFTs,

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like I'm only going to produce so

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many of these or these or these,

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or since it's a really

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popular platform like Star Wars,

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are you going to produce

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more of these or.

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Yeah, yeah.

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I mean, in the beginning,

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when it was really just me

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and David and a few other

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people running the business,

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we would actually go

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through it ourselves and we would say,

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well, this one,

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this is the most popular character.

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So, for example,

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if we were going to do a blind box drop,

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we'd be like,

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this one is the most popular character.

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That's what everybody probably wants.

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So we would make that a

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common and that would have

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higher editions.

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And then as we go further

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down the rarities,

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because there's five

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different rarities from

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common through to secret rare,

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we just start to decide, well,

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this particular character,

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may not be that well known

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or maybe not necessarily as

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popular as the other ones.

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So we would generally make

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that a secret rare.

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But nowadays we actually have, you know,

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we have a lot of data.

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We have data from like six or seven years.

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And so we actually run it

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through like a process or

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an algorithm now that will

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spit out what it thinks

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based on historical facts

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and kind of go from there.

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No, that makes sense.

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I mean, because I mean,

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there's plenty of stuff out

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there where you can even

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like the Hasbro sells.

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Y'all could probably look at to determine,

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you know,

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how each character did and base

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stuff off of that as well.

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Exactly.

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I don't know if that's how y'all do it,

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but I mean, that makes a lot of sense.

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No.

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Sometimes there are some

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arguments internally.

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I think there should be a secret rare.

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There should be a rare.

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That's when your personal

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preference does come in.

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You're like, you know, yes,

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but I imagine those

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decisions are some of the

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hardest that get made when

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it comes to selecting what is what.

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Yeah.

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So how have y'all been like,

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you balance the different

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trilogies within this?

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I know that's, you know,

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people have their taste on

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which trilogy is their favorite,

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but how do y'all kind of like,

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you know,

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balance that amongst the fan base.

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yeah yeah I mean you know

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for us like when we roll

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out a new franchise like

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this I I generally like to

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start from from the

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beginning um you know and

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that's why it was like four

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five six that that's that's

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basically where you know

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where we started off with

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all of the key characters

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um and then now we're

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starting to as as we as we

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have already dropped those

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those characters we're now

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starting to get into the

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other uh the other movies

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like um you know this month

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we dropped the pod races

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I've seen that yeah that was

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really cool yeah yeah yeah

00:20:19.715 --> 00:20:20.477
and it's just just because

00:20:20.497 --> 00:20:21.817
you know podracers as

00:20:21.877 --> 00:20:23.159
collectibles they look cool

00:20:23.259 --> 00:20:25.319
as you know like they we

00:20:25.539 --> 00:20:26.320
we've all got our thoughts

00:20:26.361 --> 00:20:27.422
on the movie and some

00:20:27.461 --> 00:20:28.382
people love it some people

00:20:28.442 --> 00:20:29.843
hate it but I'm a fan of it

00:20:29.863 --> 00:20:31.884
so I'm with you man I'm a

00:20:31.904 --> 00:20:32.986
fan of it as well it gave

00:20:33.026 --> 00:20:34.227
us darth maul I mean come on

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Yeah, exactly.

00:20:37.429 --> 00:20:38.068
And it's just cool being

00:20:38.108 --> 00:20:39.049
able to do the pod races.

00:20:39.069 --> 00:20:40.951
They look so amazing in AR,

00:20:40.990 --> 00:20:41.711
especially when you blow

00:20:41.731 --> 00:20:43.133
them up to like one to one

00:20:43.153 --> 00:20:44.874
size and you can drop it in

00:20:44.894 --> 00:20:46.954
your driveway or put it on the street.

00:20:48.195 --> 00:20:50.218
As a collectible,

00:20:50.778 --> 00:20:52.419
they're really cool looking

00:20:53.819 --> 00:20:57.563
and they're very well known

00:20:57.583 --> 00:20:59.324
throughout the Star Wars community.

00:21:00.625 --> 00:21:01.224
I like it.

00:21:01.305 --> 00:21:01.826
I like it.

00:21:02.768 --> 00:21:04.028
so where are y'all at now

00:21:04.048 --> 00:21:05.288
kind of like in your cycle

00:21:05.568 --> 00:21:07.288
of the franchise like are

00:21:07.328 --> 00:21:08.868
y'all like at that one two

00:21:08.929 --> 00:21:12.769
and three or your uh we do

00:21:12.789 --> 00:21:13.809
we do bounce around a

00:21:13.869 --> 00:21:15.090
little bit now we've got I

00:21:15.111 --> 00:21:16.250
mean a whole lot of other

00:21:16.290 --> 00:21:17.371
new stuff coming up on the

00:21:17.411 --> 00:21:18.270
slate for next year and

00:21:18.290 --> 00:21:20.071
we've got some stuff that's

00:21:20.132 --> 00:21:21.432
a that's a little bit left

00:21:21.471 --> 00:21:22.832
field as well which which

00:21:22.912 --> 00:21:24.952
I'm really excited to I

00:21:24.992 --> 00:21:26.413
always like the left field stuff

00:21:28.335 --> 00:21:28.955
Can you talk about it or you

00:21:28.976 --> 00:21:29.978
got to talk about it too much,

00:21:29.998 --> 00:21:31.098
but it's just, it's a,

00:21:31.179 --> 00:21:34.143
it's a different unique take on,

00:21:34.222 --> 00:21:35.384
on some of the characters.

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So, but they look, they look really,

00:21:37.508 --> 00:21:38.008
really cool.

00:21:38.048 --> 00:21:39.069
So we'll, yeah,

00:21:39.089 --> 00:21:39.931
we'll make sure the team

00:21:39.951 --> 00:21:41.512
reaches out to you and lets you know when,

00:21:41.712 --> 00:21:42.493
when those are dropping.

00:21:43.295 --> 00:21:44.676
Perfect, perfect.

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Yeah, just some of the other movies.

00:21:45.917 --> 00:21:46.218
I mean,

00:21:47.298 --> 00:21:49.221
going through each of the movies

00:21:49.641 --> 00:21:50.761
that we haven't tackled yet

00:21:51.343 --> 00:21:53.924
or choosing key scenes from those movies,

00:21:54.326 --> 00:21:54.726
you know,

00:21:54.766 --> 00:21:56.468
where people can build up a diorama.

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Because like when I was growing up,

00:21:59.130 --> 00:22:00.131
you know, I would play,

00:22:00.171 --> 00:22:00.852
me and my brother would

00:22:00.872 --> 00:22:01.893
play with He-Man and

00:22:03.213 --> 00:22:04.976
And back then, you'd have the play set.

00:22:05.056 --> 00:22:06.237
You'd get Castle Grace.

00:22:06.257 --> 00:22:07.018
The big castle, yeah.

00:22:07.298 --> 00:22:09.000
Yeah, I loved that thing.

00:22:09.039 --> 00:22:10.142
And then you could buy all

00:22:10.162 --> 00:22:11.383
the accessories and buy all

00:22:11.403 --> 00:22:12.044
the characters.

00:22:12.064 --> 00:22:14.826
So because we have the

00:22:15.667 --> 00:22:17.529
virtual showrooms and the VeVe Verse,

00:22:18.349 --> 00:22:18.509
You know,

00:22:18.549 --> 00:22:20.411
we're now starting to roll out

00:22:20.451 --> 00:22:22.771
these sort of diorama based drops.

00:22:22.892 --> 00:22:23.951
You know, I've seen some of those.

00:22:23.971 --> 00:22:25.772
I've seen the Mos Isley was

00:22:25.853 --> 00:22:26.833
really cool in there.

00:22:26.873 --> 00:22:28.093
I've seen the pod racing lots.

00:22:28.113 --> 00:22:30.413
I was like, oh, come on.

00:22:30.634 --> 00:22:32.654
Like, yeah, that's really cool.

00:22:33.295 --> 00:22:34.615
And there was other little towns, too,

00:22:34.654 --> 00:22:35.155
I think, in there.

00:22:35.175 --> 00:22:36.195
I can't remember all of them.

00:22:37.603 --> 00:22:37.804
Yeah,

00:22:37.844 --> 00:22:41.685
we've done Luke's home when he was

00:22:41.806 --> 00:22:44.868
younger, Sandcrawler,

00:22:44.989 --> 00:22:45.828
all of those kind of things.

00:22:47.410 --> 00:22:48.371
It's really cool to be able

00:22:48.431 --> 00:22:50.152
to get all of these

00:22:50.231 --> 00:22:51.492
elements from a playset and

00:22:51.512 --> 00:22:52.854
then essentially build them all up,

00:22:53.154 --> 00:22:54.816
customize them in the way that you want.

00:22:54.836 --> 00:22:56.176
Some of them have animation,

00:22:56.297 --> 00:22:57.357
some will trigger certain

00:22:57.397 --> 00:22:58.538
things when other things

00:22:58.698 --> 00:23:00.519
are in the scene.

00:23:00.539 --> 00:23:04.883
It's just like a dynamic digital playset.

00:23:05.737 --> 00:23:07.597
No, that's really cool.

00:23:07.718 --> 00:23:08.759
And I don't think people

00:23:08.798 --> 00:23:11.080
have really looked at it that way.

00:23:11.601 --> 00:23:12.821
That you can do, like,

00:23:12.862 --> 00:23:14.242
it's more than just like, oh,

00:23:14.282 --> 00:23:15.442
I have this thing and a

00:23:15.564 --> 00:23:16.903
digital thing on here.

00:23:16.983 --> 00:23:19.125
But no, you can actually take yours and

00:23:20.426 --> 00:23:22.367
build up a whole diorama and

00:23:22.428 --> 00:23:23.689
it will actually interact

00:23:23.709 --> 00:23:25.250
with each other that's

00:23:25.269 --> 00:23:26.589
something totally new and

00:23:26.609 --> 00:23:28.832
totally different that I

00:23:28.852 --> 00:23:29.592
don't think people have

00:23:29.632 --> 00:23:31.573
really thought about that

00:23:31.712 --> 00:23:33.173
it's capable of doing that

00:23:33.193 --> 00:23:34.595
so that's something y'all

00:23:34.615 --> 00:23:35.674
brought something new to

00:23:35.734 --> 00:23:37.395
this game so to speak of

00:23:37.435 --> 00:23:38.416
the NFT market yeah because

00:23:38.457 --> 00:23:40.758
I'm not sure if anybody

00:23:40.798 --> 00:23:42.358
else is doing it outside of y'all

00:23:43.334 --> 00:23:44.615
no not not as far as I'm

00:23:44.654 --> 00:23:46.476
aware um and that and

00:23:46.496 --> 00:23:47.395
that's because it is very

00:23:47.435 --> 00:23:48.876
challenging you know even

00:23:48.896 --> 00:23:49.916
to create the 3-D

00:23:49.957 --> 00:23:51.498
collectibles alone I mean

00:23:51.837 --> 00:23:52.699
we you know we go through

00:23:52.858 --> 00:23:54.119
really the same process

00:23:54.259 --> 00:23:56.000
that if you buy like a a

00:23:56.060 --> 00:23:57.520
Boba Fett physical statue

00:23:57.921 --> 00:23:59.001
we go through exactly the

00:23:59.041 --> 00:24:00.343
same process it's all built

00:24:00.403 --> 00:24:02.144
in 3D approved

00:24:02.243 --> 00:24:04.345
everything except our ours

00:24:04.365 --> 00:24:05.285
goes into a digital

00:24:05.325 --> 00:24:06.385
platform instead of being

00:24:06.445 --> 00:24:07.705
shipped off to you know be

00:24:07.726 --> 00:24:10.448
turned into a physical uh a physical item

00:24:11.690 --> 00:24:13.634
And if we're talking big bad toy store,

00:24:13.894 --> 00:24:15.919
a Boba Fett figure is gonna

00:24:15.959 --> 00:24:17.142
cost you a couple of hundred bucks.

00:24:17.162 --> 00:24:18.684
That's right.

00:24:18.724 --> 00:24:20.489
Versus how much is it in your world?

00:24:22.315 --> 00:24:23.476
It depends on the character,

00:24:23.895 --> 00:24:25.517
but generally it's cheaper.

00:24:25.537 --> 00:24:25.738
I mean,

00:24:25.778 --> 00:24:27.159
characters can range from sort of

00:24:27.219 --> 00:24:28.779
twenty to eighty dollars.

00:24:30.501 --> 00:24:32.804
And yeah,

00:24:32.824 --> 00:24:34.285
it all depends how much animation

00:24:34.305 --> 00:24:34.865
they come with,

00:24:34.884 --> 00:24:35.766
because sometimes we have

00:24:35.826 --> 00:24:37.487
like full animation cycles.

00:24:37.528 --> 00:24:38.528
Some of them, you know, like even,

00:24:38.567 --> 00:24:41.570
you know, lightsaber comes out, glows,

00:24:41.631 --> 00:24:42.632
sound, everything.

00:24:42.991 --> 00:24:43.593
That's really cool.

00:24:44.153 --> 00:24:46.296
yeah yeah so yeah it's doing

00:24:46.316 --> 00:24:47.136
collecting in in the

00:24:47.176 --> 00:24:48.298
digital medium is actually

00:24:48.317 --> 00:24:49.419
very exciting because you

00:24:49.459 --> 00:24:50.980
can add all of that extra

00:24:51.040 --> 00:24:53.263
stuff yeah I imagine yeah

00:24:53.344 --> 00:24:54.565
that adds a whole new

00:24:54.765 --> 00:24:56.247
element to it now when

00:24:56.287 --> 00:24:57.448
y'all brought Star Wars on

00:24:57.488 --> 00:25:00.932
board three years ago how

00:25:02.300 --> 00:25:04.342
How did the audience take it?

00:25:04.362 --> 00:25:05.823
Because Star Wars fandom is

00:25:06.022 --> 00:25:09.425
another level of fandom.

00:25:09.526 --> 00:25:12.547
What kind of reactions did

00:25:12.567 --> 00:25:14.048
y'all get from the fandom

00:25:14.469 --> 00:25:16.410
when y'all brought Star Wars into it?

00:25:17.115 --> 00:25:18.478
yeah um overall very

00:25:18.518 --> 00:25:20.240
positive I mean um pretty

00:25:20.279 --> 00:25:21.441
much all of the Star Wars

00:25:21.480 --> 00:25:22.903
drops were back then were

00:25:23.063 --> 00:25:25.385
like immediate sellouts you

00:25:25.405 --> 00:25:27.308
know like seconds um and

00:25:27.328 --> 00:25:27.929
you know where then the

00:25:27.949 --> 00:25:29.050
additions would have been

00:25:29.070 --> 00:25:30.011
like you know twenty to

00:25:30.051 --> 00:25:31.894
thirty thousand additions

00:25:33.234 --> 00:25:36.536
So it was very, very well received.

00:25:36.816 --> 00:25:39.737
And one of the reasons that

00:25:40.116 --> 00:25:41.597
I'm really happy and

00:25:41.637 --> 00:25:42.738
excited to talk to somebody

00:25:42.778 --> 00:25:45.398
like yourself is I think

00:25:45.419 --> 00:25:46.078
it's really cool.

00:25:46.138 --> 00:25:49.240
And I think if you're a Star Wars fan,

00:25:49.460 --> 00:25:50.480
you've got the movies,

00:25:50.520 --> 00:25:51.461
you've got the duvet,

00:25:51.520 --> 00:25:52.922
you've got the underwear, the cut,

00:25:53.122 --> 00:25:54.261
the poster, the physical.

00:25:54.662 --> 00:25:56.743
And now we can add digital to that.

00:25:57.664 --> 00:26:00.126
It's definitely a huge new

00:26:00.267 --> 00:26:02.628
element to the game of collecting,

00:26:02.788 --> 00:26:04.309
especially for Star Wars fans.

00:26:04.730 --> 00:26:05.330
Because like I said,

00:26:05.351 --> 00:26:06.912
we're a finicky bunch of fans.

00:26:07.352 --> 00:26:08.173
We're prickly.

00:26:08.313 --> 00:26:10.335
And if we don't like something,

00:26:11.355 --> 00:26:12.596
they're going to freaking tell you.

00:26:12.817 --> 00:26:14.278
So the fact that y'all got a

00:26:14.377 --> 00:26:17.441
lot of great positive feedback,

00:26:17.500 --> 00:26:19.201
it says a lot about the

00:26:19.241 --> 00:26:21.324
platform and what y'all are doing.

00:26:22.184 --> 00:26:23.144
Yeah, absolutely.

00:26:23.285 --> 00:26:24.486
I mean, we're fans as well,

00:26:24.546 --> 00:26:26.686
so we wouldn't want to produce something,

00:26:26.727 --> 00:26:30.067
uh, that, that wouldn't be fan oriented,

00:26:30.387 --> 00:26:31.568
but in saying that, you know, like,

00:26:31.588 --> 00:26:32.048
like you say,

00:26:32.128 --> 00:26:33.209
everybody has their own

00:26:33.249 --> 00:26:35.210
different opinions on, on this and that.

00:26:35.269 --> 00:26:37.651
So some people like it, some people don't.

00:26:39.451 --> 00:26:44.574
So I know y'all are leveraging AR,

00:26:44.614 --> 00:26:45.354
but what other.

00:26:47.730 --> 00:26:49.551
What else can we expect from

00:26:49.951 --> 00:26:51.292
y'all in the future when it

00:26:51.333 --> 00:26:53.453
comes to y'all's platform?

00:26:54.513 --> 00:26:56.454
Especially the metaverse type of stuff.

00:26:57.694 --> 00:26:58.576
I'm sure y'all are working

00:26:58.635 --> 00:27:00.596
on the next big thing within your

00:27:01.481 --> 00:27:02.962
your VeVe verse, so to speak.

00:27:03.864 --> 00:27:04.544
Yeah, exactly.

00:27:05.704 --> 00:27:05.805
Yeah.

00:27:05.825 --> 00:27:06.726
So like I mentioned earlier,

00:27:06.965 --> 00:27:07.786
when we first started,

00:27:08.307 --> 00:27:09.007
we wanted to try to

00:27:09.086 --> 00:27:11.068
replicate that experience

00:27:11.108 --> 00:27:12.430
that we have in the

00:27:12.450 --> 00:27:13.711
physical world as collectors.

00:27:13.770 --> 00:27:17.613
So we started off with a virtual showroom,

00:27:17.773 --> 00:27:19.575
which was just a very, very basic room.

00:27:20.115 --> 00:27:21.134
uh you know as collectors

00:27:21.154 --> 00:27:22.336
you know you showed me your

00:27:22.655 --> 00:27:23.736
your shelves before like

00:27:23.836 --> 00:27:25.096
it's fun it's fun to be

00:27:25.116 --> 00:27:26.057
able to go and set up all

00:27:26.076 --> 00:27:27.637
your collectibles and and

00:27:27.657 --> 00:27:28.637
be able to look at them so

00:27:28.657 --> 00:27:29.397
we started off with a

00:27:29.438 --> 00:27:30.898
virtual showroom which was

00:27:30.939 --> 00:27:32.959
very very simple um and

00:27:32.979 --> 00:27:34.960
then we evolved that into

00:27:35.279 --> 00:27:36.800
what is now our VeVe verse

00:27:37.080 --> 00:27:39.862
and the VeVe verse is uh very

00:27:39.882 --> 00:27:40.842
similar in the sense that

00:27:40.862 --> 00:27:41.942
it's it's your own virtual

00:27:41.981 --> 00:27:43.242
space you can choose from

00:27:43.303 --> 00:27:44.442
different templates whether

00:27:44.482 --> 00:27:46.384
like a nice modern house or a

00:27:46.943 --> 00:27:47.724
or whatever,

00:27:48.204 --> 00:27:50.126
or you can build your own from scratch.

00:27:51.028 --> 00:27:51.948
And it just really allows

00:27:52.009 --> 00:27:53.569
you to go in there and

00:27:53.730 --> 00:27:56.853
fully customize your own

00:27:56.932 --> 00:27:57.732
virtual showroom.

00:27:59.494 --> 00:27:59.974
I mean,

00:28:00.134 --> 00:28:01.276
I would have these shelves behind

00:28:01.296 --> 00:28:02.917
me everywhere in the house if I could,

00:28:03.018 --> 00:28:05.920
but I have to respect the

00:28:05.940 --> 00:28:07.862
fact that my wife lives there as well,

00:28:07.882 --> 00:28:09.923
and she may not want that,

00:28:10.023 --> 00:28:11.085
or the other residents.

00:28:11.545 --> 00:28:13.425
yeah so it's you know it

00:28:13.586 --> 00:28:14.546
gives you the freedom to be

00:28:14.566 --> 00:28:15.906
able to just create the all

00:28:15.946 --> 00:28:17.747
of the the best showroom

00:28:18.067 --> 00:28:19.167
you you ever had or not

00:28:19.208 --> 00:28:20.087
even a showroom like a

00:28:20.167 --> 00:28:21.909
house um and then in

00:28:21.949 --> 00:28:23.588
addition to that the the VeVe

00:28:23.750 --> 00:28:24.769
verse is fully

00:28:24.829 --> 00:28:25.890
collaborative so I can

00:28:25.930 --> 00:28:27.371
invite you in we can invite

00:28:27.431 --> 00:28:28.270
all our friends in you can

00:28:28.971 --> 00:28:30.951
help me get set up and it's

00:28:30.971 --> 00:28:31.952
just it's very there's a

00:28:31.972 --> 00:28:34.413
lot of community uh aspect

00:28:34.432 --> 00:28:36.874
to it as well so um we will

00:28:36.913 --> 00:28:38.454
eventually be bringing out branded

00:28:39.269 --> 00:28:41.490
showrooms and and uh virtual

00:28:41.530 --> 00:28:43.132
spaces as well so it's

00:28:43.152 --> 00:28:44.472
gonna be quite exciting

00:28:45.013 --> 00:28:45.954
that's that's really cool

00:28:46.174 --> 00:28:48.336
no I I like that and I was

00:28:48.916 --> 00:28:49.837
as I was looking through

00:28:49.857 --> 00:28:50.919
the app I've seen some of

00:28:50.939 --> 00:28:51.838
those features that you

00:28:51.858 --> 00:28:53.421
were talking about and I'm

00:28:53.441 --> 00:28:54.340
looking forward to actually

00:28:54.381 --> 00:28:55.281
getting to sit down and

00:28:56.722 --> 00:28:58.244
really look at it because I

00:28:58.265 --> 00:28:59.184
was at lunch when I was

00:28:59.224 --> 00:29:00.125
doing it earlier and I'm

00:29:00.145 --> 00:29:02.928
like all right run home eat

00:29:02.968 --> 00:29:04.148
lunch take care of the

00:29:04.210 --> 00:29:06.330
animals rush back to work

00:29:06.951 --> 00:29:08.053
and I'm like okay I got like

00:29:09.127 --> 00:29:11.269
10 minutes let me let me hop

00:29:11.348 --> 00:29:12.509
on and have a look around

00:29:12.588 --> 00:29:14.829
and you know got my my

00:29:14.869 --> 00:29:17.191
stormtrooper helmet that I

00:29:17.250 --> 00:29:18.131
have because that to me is

00:29:18.151 --> 00:29:19.392
still that's so cool yeah

00:29:20.231 --> 00:29:22.313
um I'll be a big be careful

00:29:22.373 --> 00:29:23.333
it can be quite addictive

00:29:24.252 --> 00:29:28.174
oh no I got I got all these

00:29:28.214 --> 00:29:30.435
to deal with so I have to

00:29:30.796 --> 00:29:33.196
have to budget wisely yes

00:29:34.217 --> 00:29:35.356
yeah well the cool thing is

00:29:35.396 --> 00:29:37.178
everybody out there budget wisely

00:29:37.853 --> 00:29:39.034
Yeah.

00:29:39.074 --> 00:29:39.994
Make good decisions.

00:29:40.875 --> 00:29:41.135
Yeah.

00:29:41.215 --> 00:29:42.656
And the other cool thing in the app is,

00:29:42.676 --> 00:29:43.877
you know,

00:29:43.917 --> 00:29:44.739
obviously you've got your store

00:29:44.759 --> 00:29:46.160
where you can go and buy everything.

00:29:46.180 --> 00:29:47.300
You've got your collection

00:29:47.340 --> 00:29:48.181
where you can view them all

00:29:48.201 --> 00:29:49.402
in 3D and AR.

00:29:49.803 --> 00:29:50.522
And then there's also the

00:29:50.563 --> 00:29:52.045
secondary marketplace as well.

00:29:52.125 --> 00:29:53.306
We have seen that where

00:29:53.326 --> 00:29:55.988
people can like resell or trade.

00:29:56.008 --> 00:29:57.568
Oh, it was trading the option.

00:29:57.588 --> 00:29:58.190
I couldn't remember.

00:29:58.210 --> 00:29:59.631
I know it was like a resale thing.

00:30:00.285 --> 00:30:01.506
just resell at this stage.

00:30:02.306 --> 00:30:04.067
Trade will be on the roadmap.

00:30:05.007 --> 00:30:05.807
But yeah,

00:30:05.847 --> 00:30:06.867
it's good because sometimes like

00:30:06.948 --> 00:30:07.788
in a blind box,

00:30:08.368 --> 00:30:11.130
you might get two of the same thing.

00:30:11.730 --> 00:30:13.451
And then when you're trying

00:30:13.471 --> 00:30:14.011
to get all of them,

00:30:14.051 --> 00:30:14.912
so you might just go and

00:30:14.951 --> 00:30:17.772
sell one of them on the secondary market.

00:30:17.813 --> 00:30:18.693
So yeah,

00:30:18.733 --> 00:30:20.775
it's a nice well-rounded ecosystem.

00:30:20.795 --> 00:30:22.596
No, that's really cool.

00:30:26.035 --> 00:30:27.175
Do y'all have Star Wars

00:30:27.256 --> 00:30:30.397
themed spaces planned for the future?

00:30:30.617 --> 00:30:31.618
I know you can go in,

00:30:31.959 --> 00:30:34.060
you can build the most isolated,

00:30:34.080 --> 00:30:36.781
you can build the pod racing scenes.

00:30:37.722 --> 00:30:38.804
Do y'all have something

00:30:39.284 --> 00:30:40.203
planned for the future

00:30:40.223 --> 00:30:44.267
where your virtual space

00:30:44.287 --> 00:30:45.768
could be like Star Wars,

00:30:45.807 --> 00:30:48.369
like Vader's meditation

00:30:48.410 --> 00:30:50.570
chamber or something like that?

00:30:50.611 --> 00:30:51.852
Could you see that possibly

00:30:51.892 --> 00:30:52.932
come into the platform?

00:30:53.674 --> 00:30:53.994
Yeah,

00:30:54.035 --> 00:30:56.576
that's where I'd love to head with it,

00:30:56.596 --> 00:30:57.597
with these sort of branded

00:30:57.637 --> 00:31:00.240
spaces or themed spaces,

00:31:00.539 --> 00:31:01.681
or even if it was like a

00:31:02.701 --> 00:31:06.344
Star Wars themed showroom, you know,

00:31:06.384 --> 00:31:08.964
where we, you know, just like,

00:31:08.984 --> 00:31:09.965
let's say your room behind

00:31:09.986 --> 00:31:12.367
you was all very Star Wars-esque.

00:31:12.807 --> 00:31:14.669
Like that's where I would like to take it.

00:31:15.029 --> 00:31:16.190
You know what would be really dope?

00:31:17.171 --> 00:31:18.051
Did you watch Rebels?

00:31:19.011 --> 00:31:19.353
Yes.

00:31:20.073 --> 00:31:21.634
Thrawn's office?

00:31:22.153 --> 00:31:22.974
Uh-huh.

00:31:23.939 --> 00:31:24.700
That would be cool.

00:31:24.740 --> 00:31:25.300
Yeah, let me know.

00:31:25.340 --> 00:31:27.222
How he had his collectibles around.

00:31:27.923 --> 00:31:28.444
Yes.

00:31:28.644 --> 00:31:28.806
Yeah.

00:31:28.826 --> 00:31:30.027
That's a good one, actually.

00:31:30.448 --> 00:31:31.548
Yeah.

00:31:31.608 --> 00:31:33.111
Let me raise that to the powers that be.

00:31:34.338 --> 00:31:35.398
I'm full of ideas.

00:31:35.439 --> 00:31:35.740
Come on.

00:31:36.160 --> 00:31:37.119
I can toss those out all day.

00:31:37.160 --> 00:31:37.759
That to me,

00:31:37.880 --> 00:31:39.141
like I loved his office and the

00:31:39.201 --> 00:31:39.681
way it looked,

00:31:39.701 --> 00:31:40.260
the way he had the

00:31:40.320 --> 00:31:41.842
different historical pieces

00:31:42.642 --> 00:31:43.602
from the different

00:31:43.642 --> 00:31:45.403
civilizations that he had

00:31:45.423 --> 00:31:47.522
basically conquered throughout his life.

00:31:47.843 --> 00:31:48.203
Yeah.

00:31:48.503 --> 00:31:48.703
Yeah.

00:31:48.723 --> 00:31:50.463
That's what it was.

00:31:50.483 --> 00:31:51.424
They didn't say it that way,

00:31:51.444 --> 00:31:52.384
but that's what it was.

00:31:52.805 --> 00:31:53.265
Yeah.

00:31:53.345 --> 00:31:54.365
Yeah.

00:31:54.385 --> 00:31:55.125
So that's a great idea.

00:31:58.702 --> 00:31:59.064
All right.

00:31:59.084 --> 00:31:59.584
I love this.

00:31:59.683 --> 00:32:01.184
This is a fun interview.

00:32:01.224 --> 00:32:02.967
Thank you for hitting me up

00:32:03.007 --> 00:32:05.088
and asking to come out and

00:32:05.128 --> 00:32:05.989
talk about this.

00:32:06.349 --> 00:32:07.711
It's not often that I get to

00:32:07.750 --> 00:32:08.751
talk about this kind of

00:32:08.791 --> 00:32:10.833
stuff during the month of Star Wars.

00:32:11.473 --> 00:32:12.595
I'm still working on my big

00:32:12.634 --> 00:32:13.394
Star Wars show.

00:32:14.280 --> 00:32:14.980
which I'm probably going to

00:32:15.000 --> 00:32:16.201
end up doing in June

00:32:16.261 --> 00:32:17.001
because we're already at

00:32:17.021 --> 00:32:18.563
the end of May because May

00:32:18.603 --> 00:32:20.163
went by so fast.

00:32:20.183 --> 00:32:23.486
It's gone in a blink.

00:32:24.066 --> 00:32:25.106
We're almost into June.

00:32:25.126 --> 00:32:26.386
We're almost done with the year.

00:32:26.567 --> 00:32:28.749
It's crazy.

00:32:28.769 --> 00:32:28.949
Yeah,

00:32:29.189 --> 00:32:30.469
the last two years have been that way.

00:32:30.670 --> 00:32:32.490
It's just my daughter

00:32:32.510 --> 00:32:33.570
graduated high school,

00:32:34.250 --> 00:32:35.211
just finished her freshman

00:32:35.231 --> 00:32:37.492
year of college, and it's like, wait.

00:32:37.512 --> 00:32:37.593
Yeah.

00:32:37.613 --> 00:32:40.375
Time out.

00:32:41.815 --> 00:32:44.137
But so let's ask this.

00:32:45.519 --> 00:32:47.260
Why can they look forward to

00:32:47.981 --> 00:32:49.903
next in the Star Wars lineup?

00:32:51.285 --> 00:32:52.246
I think we discussed it a

00:32:52.266 --> 00:32:53.027
little bit earlier.

00:32:53.126 --> 00:32:54.669
I know Mandalorian and Grogu

00:32:54.749 --> 00:32:56.369
is getting ready to hit the

00:32:56.430 --> 00:32:57.932
big screen within the next year.

00:32:58.512 --> 00:32:58.712
Yep.

00:33:00.287 --> 00:33:01.167
So I imagine y'all have

00:33:01.228 --> 00:33:03.390
something spectacularly

00:33:03.769 --> 00:33:04.931
huge planned for that.

00:33:06.771 --> 00:33:07.173
Well,

00:33:07.333 --> 00:33:09.674
I can't say exactly what we have planned.

00:33:10.255 --> 00:33:11.876
But what I will say is that

00:33:11.936 --> 00:33:14.919
we have a lot more iconic characters,

00:33:15.640 --> 00:33:17.340
some of the iconic vehicles.

00:33:17.942 --> 00:33:18.803
And these are like...

00:33:19.482 --> 00:33:20.463
you know over the years

00:33:20.503 --> 00:33:21.663
we've managed to really

00:33:21.703 --> 00:33:23.806
improve our the quality of

00:33:23.865 --> 00:33:25.467
our collectibles and um you

00:33:25.487 --> 00:33:26.748
know some of the the new

00:33:26.788 --> 00:33:28.169
vehicles and environments

00:33:28.409 --> 00:33:29.710
and dioramas that are

00:33:29.730 --> 00:33:32.451
coming out they are just so

00:33:33.291 --> 00:33:34.752
realistically details I

00:33:35.113 --> 00:33:36.993
mean you know even similar

00:33:37.013 --> 00:33:38.515
to the uh to the

00:33:38.575 --> 00:33:39.476
stormtrooper helmet where

00:33:39.496 --> 00:33:40.635
you get to see the inside

00:33:40.757 --> 00:33:41.936
like some of the the

00:33:41.977 --> 00:33:43.738
vehicles and other items we

00:33:43.778 --> 00:33:44.459
have coming out

00:33:44.778 --> 00:33:45.398
Oh, nice.

00:33:45.419 --> 00:33:46.759
You get to see everything.

00:33:46.779 --> 00:33:47.740
I mean, like, we even,

00:33:48.079 --> 00:33:49.359
we had to dive deep with

00:33:49.380 --> 00:33:51.181
Lucasfilm to be like, you know,

00:33:51.300 --> 00:33:52.320
what does it actually look

00:33:52.361 --> 00:33:53.701
like on the inside of this?

00:33:53.721 --> 00:33:54.560
Because you normally

00:33:54.621 --> 00:33:55.402
wouldn't see it in the

00:33:55.442 --> 00:33:57.521
movie or in a physical movie.

00:33:57.561 --> 00:33:59.383
So, yeah, they are going to be very,

00:33:59.423 --> 00:34:00.143
very detailed.

00:34:00.462 --> 00:34:00.643
Yeah,

00:34:02.182 --> 00:34:03.544
I wish I could tell you actually what

00:34:03.564 --> 00:34:06.124
we have coming, but, you know,

00:34:06.183 --> 00:34:06.903
my hands are tied.

00:34:07.044 --> 00:34:09.704
Raise your wrist.

00:34:09.784 --> 00:34:11.445
I could maybe tell you offline.

00:34:11.465 --> 00:34:12.905
Okay, okay.

00:34:14.096 --> 00:34:14.715
Sounds good.

00:34:15.396 --> 00:34:16.197
But no,

00:34:16.257 --> 00:34:17.637
I'm a big fan of the Razorcrest to me.

00:34:17.657 --> 00:34:19.119
That was one of the coolest

00:34:19.139 --> 00:34:19.998
ships they ever had.

00:34:20.018 --> 00:34:20.938
I have it in Lego.

00:34:21.619 --> 00:34:23.161
Still in the box because

00:34:23.800 --> 00:34:24.860
once I realized that

00:34:25.001 --> 00:34:26.061
they're made of plastic and

00:34:26.101 --> 00:34:27.282
my cats like to rub their

00:34:27.322 --> 00:34:30.184
faces on the edges of Legos

00:34:30.985 --> 00:34:32.605
and shoot themselves with the missiles.

00:34:33.126 --> 00:34:33.766
I was like, okay,

00:34:33.786 --> 00:34:35.106
maybe it's a bad idea to

00:34:35.206 --> 00:34:36.927
actually display the Lego.

00:34:36.947 --> 00:34:38.768
So they're all mostly in

00:34:38.807 --> 00:34:43.190
boxes now because of them.

00:34:43.291 --> 00:34:43.530
Yeah.

00:34:44.112 --> 00:34:44.793
Yeah, but I agree.

00:34:44.813 --> 00:34:48.034
The Razorcrest is amazing.

00:34:49.094 --> 00:34:49.275
Yeah,

00:34:49.894 --> 00:34:51.715
that's... And when I heard they were

00:34:51.755 --> 00:34:53.175
bringing it back for the movie,

00:34:53.635 --> 00:34:56.317
or a Razorcrest, I was like, yes,

00:34:56.416 --> 00:34:59.277
you got to do that.

00:34:59.498 --> 00:35:00.557
They know what the fans love.

00:35:00.577 --> 00:35:02.739
Oh, yeah.

00:35:02.778 --> 00:35:03.338
They listen.

00:35:03.619 --> 00:35:05.320
They read all the backlash.

00:35:05.460 --> 00:35:07.119
Trust me,

00:35:07.139 --> 00:35:09.740
there's a guy out there reading

00:35:09.820 --> 00:35:10.722
articles for them and

00:35:10.782 --> 00:35:11.702
passing them the info.

00:35:13.012 --> 00:35:14.652
full rooms of people doing it for them.

00:35:17.195 --> 00:35:17.896
So what,

00:35:18.655 --> 00:35:20.036
what was the inspiration to bring

00:35:20.077 --> 00:35:22.119
the helmets to Star Wars

00:35:22.159 --> 00:35:23.619
celebration this year for

00:35:23.699 --> 00:35:26.181
y'all versus a different year?

00:35:27.103 --> 00:35:28.943
Like what was the like the big like,

00:35:29.043 --> 00:35:29.945
let's do the helmets?

00:35:30.548 --> 00:35:32.550
Yeah, this year round was just,

00:35:32.889 --> 00:35:33.949
we really wanted to focus

00:35:34.150 --> 00:35:35.871
on the stormtroopers

00:35:36.570 --> 00:35:38.331
because we did do the stormtroopers,

00:35:38.512 --> 00:35:40.112
I think it was last year.

00:35:41.072 --> 00:35:42.954
They're beautifully detailed,

00:35:42.994 --> 00:35:44.313
they're animated, you know,

00:35:44.353 --> 00:35:45.715
you can tap them and they

00:35:45.735 --> 00:35:46.655
fire the blaster.

00:35:48.376 --> 00:35:51.036
And what we did is we released, I think,

00:35:51.077 --> 00:35:51.257
like,

00:35:51.617 --> 00:35:52.739
twenty or twenty five

00:35:52.778 --> 00:35:54.242
thousand of them and then

00:35:54.282 --> 00:35:55.302
we sold them we sold them

00:35:55.322 --> 00:35:56.284
really cheap like ten

00:35:56.304 --> 00:35:57.606
dollars because nobody

00:35:57.626 --> 00:35:59.389
wants just one one no you

00:35:59.409 --> 00:36:01.192
want you want to build a whole army

00:36:01.846 --> 00:36:03.385
Yeah, and so that was cool.

00:36:03.405 --> 00:36:05.206
So a lot of our fans started

00:36:05.547 --> 00:36:06.947
in the virtual spaces and

00:36:07.206 --> 00:36:09.427
in AR started building up

00:36:09.467 --> 00:36:11.307
these sort of armies of stormtroopers.

00:36:11.907 --> 00:36:12.668
And then we were like, well,

00:36:13.009 --> 00:36:13.728
there's a lot of other

00:36:13.768 --> 00:36:15.449
stormtroopers out there as well.

00:36:15.469 --> 00:36:16.568
So we really wanted to

00:36:16.628 --> 00:36:18.329
continue to expand on that

00:36:20.530 --> 00:36:21.731
stormtrooper army so you

00:36:21.751 --> 00:36:23.170
could have all these different types

00:36:24.130 --> 00:36:25.451
uh in your army rather than

00:36:25.490 --> 00:36:26.512
just you know your your

00:36:26.532 --> 00:36:28.492
classic stormtrooper and

00:36:28.512 --> 00:36:30.733
then outside of that um you

00:36:30.753 --> 00:36:31.932
know just the helmets just

00:36:31.952 --> 00:36:33.492
look so cool and they

00:36:33.532 --> 00:36:35.414
really are even for me the

00:36:35.994 --> 00:36:36.853
you know having having a

00:36:36.893 --> 00:36:38.195
helmet display like on the

00:36:38.235 --> 00:36:39.775
shelf like they look just

00:36:39.815 --> 00:36:41.295
so cool and and so so we

00:36:41.315 --> 00:36:42.416
took the helmets off the

00:36:42.436 --> 00:36:43.356
models gave them a little

00:36:43.376 --> 00:36:44.996
bit more detail because

00:36:45.016 --> 00:36:46.996
they just stand alone um

00:36:47.097 --> 00:36:48.137
and then so that way now I

00:36:48.157 --> 00:36:48.697
can have all my

00:36:48.737 --> 00:36:50.217
stormtroopers lined up if I

00:36:50.237 --> 00:36:51.177
want to do like an army

00:36:51.797 --> 00:36:52.778
but then in my virtual

00:36:52.818 --> 00:36:53.798
showroom I can just have

00:36:53.878 --> 00:36:54.980
all my you know I think in

00:36:55.000 --> 00:36:56.661
my my one now I've got I've

00:36:56.681 --> 00:36:57.521
got them all stacked in

00:36:57.541 --> 00:36:59.822
like a vertical um that'd

00:36:59.842 --> 00:37:02.824
be really cool yeah so with

00:37:02.903 --> 00:37:04.625
that we got helmets

00:37:05.519 --> 00:37:07.521
Do you plan to blow that

00:37:07.721 --> 00:37:09.722
apart further and do, like,

00:37:09.862 --> 00:37:12.744
the different armors, the blasters,

00:37:12.784 --> 00:37:14.585
the pauldrons, and stuff like that?

00:37:14.925 --> 00:37:16.445
Or are you all going to keep

00:37:16.505 --> 00:37:17.987
it simple with, like,

00:37:18.027 --> 00:37:18.967
we gave you the helmets?

00:37:19.228 --> 00:37:20.007
Because it would be kind of

00:37:20.027 --> 00:37:22.590
cool if we walked into your showroom,

00:37:22.610 --> 00:37:24.670
you had the whole trooper

00:37:24.851 --> 00:37:26.992
armor and blasters just, like,

00:37:27.132 --> 00:37:28.353
on display without the

00:37:28.432 --> 00:37:31.614
actual clone or the stormtrooper in it,

00:37:31.655 --> 00:37:32.916
just the armor itself.

00:37:32.956 --> 00:37:34.697
Like, oh, look at my armor.

00:37:35.893 --> 00:37:36.634
Yeah, no, that's yeah.

00:37:36.673 --> 00:37:36.853
Yeah.

00:37:36.934 --> 00:37:38.034
You're, you're, you're very smart.

00:37:38.074 --> 00:37:41.998
That's that's, that's a great way to again,

00:37:42.057 --> 00:37:43.398
celebrate that there's all

00:37:43.438 --> 00:37:44.400
of the different components,

00:37:44.480 --> 00:37:45.059
even if it's just,

00:37:45.440 --> 00:37:47.702
even if it's just a utility belt or the,

00:37:47.782 --> 00:37:49.362
you know, having the blaster just,

00:37:49.443 --> 00:37:49.804
you know,

00:37:49.864 --> 00:37:52.385
on a nice slab or having the

00:37:52.425 --> 00:37:53.847
front armor plate like that.

00:37:54.166 --> 00:37:54.806
And then you can just have

00:37:54.847 --> 00:37:56.469
it set up all over your wall.

00:37:57.728 --> 00:37:58.429
Yeah, absolutely.

00:37:59.974 --> 00:38:00.833
That'd be really cool.

00:38:01.353 --> 00:38:02.695
Have y'all done the... I

00:38:02.735 --> 00:38:05.094
didn't see when I was looking around.

00:38:05.195 --> 00:38:06.695
Like I said, I didn't get a lot of time,

00:38:06.735 --> 00:38:07.876
but do y'all have the

00:38:08.536 --> 00:38:09.635
lightsabers like that yet?

00:38:10.096 --> 00:38:10.916
Yep, we have.

00:38:11.655 --> 00:38:12.976
We've dropped the majority

00:38:12.996 --> 00:38:13.956
of the lightsabers.

00:38:14.416 --> 00:38:15.237
Okay.

00:38:15.297 --> 00:38:15.737
And then you can

00:38:15.777 --> 00:38:17.297
obviously... And what a lot

00:38:17.338 --> 00:38:17.978
of people have done in

00:38:17.998 --> 00:38:19.177
their virtual showrooms is, yeah,

00:38:19.197 --> 00:38:20.318
they just line them all up.

00:38:21.199 --> 00:38:22.639
Like you can't see it here,

00:38:22.659 --> 00:38:25.798
but my Star Wars wall is above me here,

00:38:25.838 --> 00:38:27.659
and I've got all my lightsabers

00:38:28.320 --> 00:38:29.440
lined up across it.

00:38:29.481 --> 00:38:29.721
So yes,

00:38:29.740 --> 00:38:33.463
you can do the same thing in the

00:38:33.483 --> 00:38:34.664
VeVe verse or in the virtual

00:38:34.684 --> 00:38:35.525
showrooms as well.

00:38:35.565 --> 00:38:37.065
And they're all interactive.

00:38:37.085 --> 00:38:40.289
So when you tap them, the saber comes out,

00:38:40.588 --> 00:38:43.010
beautiful sound, everything.

00:38:43.610 --> 00:38:44.751
That's really cool.

00:38:45.384 --> 00:38:46.224
That's really cool.

00:38:46.304 --> 00:38:46.985
I think I know what I have

00:38:47.005 --> 00:38:49.088
to go in and ground myself next.

00:38:49.889 --> 00:38:54.072
Of course, when I went to Disneyland last,

00:38:54.353 --> 00:38:55.134
I had to go to the Star

00:38:55.153 --> 00:38:56.815
Wars and I ended up just

00:38:56.856 --> 00:38:57.836
bringing back so many

00:38:58.097 --> 00:38:59.739
lightsabers from there.

00:39:00.079 --> 00:39:00.619
They're so cool.

00:39:01.519 --> 00:39:02.260
They really are.

00:39:02.440 --> 00:39:03.621
Did you do the builders

00:39:03.661 --> 00:39:04.983
saber or did you just get

00:39:05.023 --> 00:39:05.943
the regular ones?

00:39:06.284 --> 00:39:08.346
Yeah, I did the builder one.

00:39:08.365 --> 00:39:09.867
That was just the whole experience.

00:39:09.887 --> 00:39:11.068
It's just such a,

00:39:11.389 --> 00:39:12.789
it's so they really make it

00:39:13.050 --> 00:39:14.911
immersive and really just

00:39:15.552 --> 00:39:16.974
you're in there and you're doing it.

00:39:17.014 --> 00:39:19.456
So even right down to the Kyber crystal.

00:39:20.097 --> 00:39:20.577
Exactly.

00:39:20.597 --> 00:39:20.737
Yeah.

00:39:20.757 --> 00:39:21.418
That was so cool.

00:39:21.478 --> 00:39:21.577
Yeah.

00:39:21.617 --> 00:39:27.023
I've been able to choose it.

00:39:27.043 --> 00:39:27.182
So

00:39:29.619 --> 00:39:30.800
How did y'all decide this

00:39:30.840 --> 00:39:32.181
year which helmets you were

00:39:32.201 --> 00:39:36.905
going to pick versus, like, you know,

00:39:36.945 --> 00:39:39.246
just grabbing random helmets?

00:39:39.367 --> 00:39:39.847
Or, like,

00:39:39.907 --> 00:39:40.927
what made y'all go with the ones

00:39:40.947 --> 00:39:42.188
y'all went with this year?

00:39:42.208 --> 00:39:43.110
Because I think you got what?

00:39:43.942 --> 00:39:45.182
Imperial, a clone.

00:39:45.202 --> 00:39:46.422
I can't remember the other

00:39:46.463 --> 00:39:48.123
one y'all had in there.

00:39:48.443 --> 00:39:50.784
Is it the carbon one?

00:39:51.545 --> 00:39:52.326
Yep, the carbon.

00:39:53.846 --> 00:39:57.608
Yeah, and then there's the death troopers.

00:39:58.588 --> 00:39:59.909
So a lot of these were,

00:39:59.949 --> 00:40:01.208
because we were expanding

00:40:01.349 --> 00:40:03.789
our stormtrooper collectible range,

00:40:04.871 --> 00:40:06.391
really any helmet that we had

00:40:09.152 --> 00:40:11.074
on the Stormtrooper collectibles,

00:40:11.114 --> 00:40:13.335
we basically took off and used that.

00:40:13.396 --> 00:40:15.657
So the decision started more

00:40:15.677 --> 00:40:16.637
from the Stormtroopers,

00:40:16.657 --> 00:40:17.679
like which Stormtroopers we

00:40:17.719 --> 00:40:18.358
wanted to drop.

00:40:18.940 --> 00:40:19.880
And then from there,

00:40:19.900 --> 00:40:20.981
we selected the helmets.

00:40:21.735 --> 00:40:23.916
then we did another um

00:40:24.016 --> 00:40:25.257
another helmet range which

00:40:25.297 --> 00:40:26.376
which I thought was really

00:40:26.416 --> 00:40:27.476
clever for the team to come

00:40:27.536 --> 00:40:29.358
up with because we we

00:40:29.398 --> 00:40:30.358
dropped the lightsabers

00:40:30.398 --> 00:40:32.018
last year uh or maybe a

00:40:32.038 --> 00:40:34.398
couple of years ago um uh

00:40:34.418 --> 00:40:35.398
we came up with this really

00:40:35.438 --> 00:40:36.940
cool idea because in in the

00:40:36.980 --> 00:40:37.820
vv app we have a thing

00:40:37.860 --> 00:40:39.219
called crafting which is

00:40:39.239 --> 00:40:40.460
that if you have one one

00:40:40.500 --> 00:40:41.641
collectible and another

00:40:41.681 --> 00:40:42.880
collectible you can use

00:40:42.900 --> 00:40:44.001
those to craft either

00:40:44.061 --> 00:40:46.481
something brand new oh that's really cool

00:40:47.222 --> 00:40:48.641
So so if basically if you

00:40:48.862 --> 00:40:50.583
own the let's say the

00:40:50.842 --> 00:40:53.364
carbon helmet and you also

00:40:53.523 --> 00:40:54.784
own a certain lightsaber,

00:40:55.204 --> 00:40:56.585
you can craft a new helmet

00:40:56.605 --> 00:40:58.465
that basically has the the

00:40:59.304 --> 00:41:00.025
the helmet with the

00:41:00.065 --> 00:41:01.346
lightsaber sticking through

00:41:01.385 --> 00:41:03.206
it or with a huge lightsaber cut.

00:41:04.467 --> 00:41:04.626
Yeah.

00:41:04.646 --> 00:41:04.746
Yeah.

00:41:04.766 --> 00:41:05.786
So that's really cool that

00:41:05.847 --> 00:41:07.507
it's actually no shit.

00:41:07.588 --> 00:41:08.467
It's interactive.

00:41:08.967 --> 00:41:09.128
Yeah,

00:41:09.208 --> 00:41:10.768
it's another it gives it just that

00:41:10.807 --> 00:41:12.028
digital gives another layer

00:41:12.088 --> 00:41:13.789
to to collecting, you know,

00:41:13.809 --> 00:41:14.668
where you can take those

00:41:14.708 --> 00:41:16.528
two things and and produce

00:41:16.548 --> 00:41:17.349
something else.

00:41:17.389 --> 00:41:18.570
Can you pull them back apart

00:41:18.650 --> 00:41:19.570
and just have the two or

00:41:19.610 --> 00:41:20.969
can like once you combine them,

00:41:20.989 --> 00:41:21.750
they're combined?

00:41:22.369 --> 00:41:22.590
Well,

00:41:22.630 --> 00:41:24.130
there's two different ways you can do it.

00:41:24.170 --> 00:41:25.990
So one is that you have the

00:41:26.130 --> 00:41:28.032
you have collectible A and collectible B,

00:41:28.132 --> 00:41:30.411
and then that will produce something new,

00:41:30.472 --> 00:41:33.072
which is collectible C or

00:41:34.112 --> 00:41:35.313
or it will basically

00:41:36.164 --> 00:41:38.465
what we call burn or destroy

00:41:38.505 --> 00:41:40.768
the original collectible

00:41:40.987 --> 00:41:43.829
A and B and then have C. In that scenario,

00:41:43.929 --> 00:41:44.971
it's generally would be

00:41:45.010 --> 00:41:46.552
quite a rare or special

00:41:46.572 --> 00:41:47.213
because you're having to

00:41:47.253 --> 00:41:48.414
sort of sacrifice through

00:41:48.494 --> 00:41:49.315
other collectibles.

00:41:49.574 --> 00:41:49.875
Gotcha.

00:41:49.894 --> 00:41:50.054
Yeah,

00:41:50.074 --> 00:41:52.056
so there's a lot of different ways we

00:41:52.077 --> 00:41:53.038
can do with the crafting.

00:41:53.157 --> 00:41:55.039
So there's some levels to it

00:41:55.119 --> 00:41:56.179
and that's really cool that

00:41:56.219 --> 00:41:58.001
you don't get that with a lot of

00:41:59.480 --> 00:42:01.882
things and just period you

00:42:01.902 --> 00:42:03.222
don't can't it's hard to

00:42:03.402 --> 00:42:05.143
take a and b and get c you

00:42:05.184 --> 00:42:07.206
know with but within this

00:42:07.246 --> 00:42:09.608
you can easily do it yeah

00:42:09.648 --> 00:42:10.829
and there's also you know

00:42:11.489 --> 00:42:13.030
it's like are you gonna be

00:42:13.050 --> 00:42:13.530
able to pull them back

00:42:13.550 --> 00:42:15.032
apart or not that's so I

00:42:15.052 --> 00:42:16.052
mean there's some risk but

00:42:16.072 --> 00:42:18.155
there's also that risk is also really

00:42:19.809 --> 00:42:20.809
It's fun though.

00:42:21.210 --> 00:42:22.050
You know what I'm saying?

00:42:22.130 --> 00:42:24.512
Like, it might be like, you know, the,

00:42:24.592 --> 00:42:26.413
if you have to burn the,

00:42:26.452 --> 00:42:27.932
or destroy the two other collectibles,

00:42:27.952 --> 00:42:28.653
you know, maybe it's,

00:42:28.753 --> 00:42:29.434
maybe the one you're

00:42:29.474 --> 00:42:30.474
creating is there's only

00:42:30.554 --> 00:42:32.454
two hundred editions of it or something,

00:42:32.474 --> 00:42:32.675
you know?

00:42:32.715 --> 00:42:33.536
So, so you're,

00:42:33.576 --> 00:42:35.657
you're prepared to make that, that,

00:42:35.757 --> 00:42:36.536
that sacrifice.

00:42:36.777 --> 00:42:37.317
Exactly.

00:42:37.356 --> 00:42:38.157
That, that's really cool.

00:42:38.538 --> 00:42:42.900
That, so, with the,

00:42:43.000 --> 00:42:44.239
the technical challenges in

00:42:44.280 --> 00:42:48.121
creating these 3-D models, like,

00:42:50.150 --> 00:42:51.291
I know you said it takes, what,

00:42:51.411 --> 00:42:53.193
nine months to create one?

00:42:54.233 --> 00:42:56.436
Yeah, yeah, typically, yeah.

00:42:56.456 --> 00:42:58.237
How's that fear into that?

00:42:58.317 --> 00:42:59.297
You know, when you go,

00:42:59.838 --> 00:43:00.838
people are going to look at

00:43:00.878 --> 00:43:01.840
these and they're going to

00:43:01.880 --> 00:43:03.400
scrutinize every little

00:43:03.440 --> 00:43:04.981
detail if it's not correct.

00:43:06.603 --> 00:43:07.523
How does this, like...

00:43:08.699 --> 00:43:08.820
Like,

00:43:08.860 --> 00:43:11.041
I'm pretty sure you have levels of QA

00:43:11.181 --> 00:43:13.123
as it goes, quality assurance.

00:43:13.702 --> 00:43:14.244
Yeah, absolutely.

00:43:14.344 --> 00:43:15.384
And, you know, to be honest,

00:43:15.403 --> 00:43:18.606
like our creative director is, you know,

00:43:18.666 --> 00:43:20.588
he is always about the nuances.

00:43:21.108 --> 00:43:22.228
You know, like I say, you know,

00:43:22.268 --> 00:43:23.949
because he's showing me like, he's like,

00:43:24.010 --> 00:43:24.570
Dan,

00:43:24.751 --> 00:43:27.632
this Stormtrooper helmet is so accurate.

00:43:27.813 --> 00:43:29.534
And then he'll overlay the

00:43:29.554 --> 00:43:30.795
helmet over the blueprint.

00:43:31.195 --> 00:43:34.416
You know, so he is always, you know,

00:43:34.516 --> 00:43:35.657
making sure we're really

00:43:35.697 --> 00:43:36.918
pushing for that

00:43:37.018 --> 00:43:38.579
authenticity and that quality.

00:43:39.039 --> 00:43:40.742
And obviously, we're collectors as well.

00:43:41.242 --> 00:43:42.003
What we produce,

00:43:42.043 --> 00:43:43.884
we want it to look amazing.

00:43:46.246 --> 00:43:47.007
I don't want it to look like

00:43:47.047 --> 00:43:49.989
it's from Wish.com or something like that,

00:43:50.010 --> 00:43:52.612
because we're fans of the IP.

00:43:52.731 --> 00:43:56.795
And because it is that digital nature,

00:43:56.815 --> 00:43:57.775
that three-D model,

00:43:58.536 --> 00:43:59.958
we can get down into lots

00:43:59.998 --> 00:44:01.739
of the little details.

00:44:02.099 --> 00:44:03.440
Some of the collectibles that we do,

00:44:03.780 --> 00:44:05.141
like a Marvel one, for example,

00:44:05.181 --> 00:44:07.083
might have a tiny little detail in it.

00:44:07.483 --> 00:44:08.545
That'll be from a very

00:44:08.585 --> 00:44:11.148
specific comic and a very specific scene.

00:44:11.987 --> 00:44:12.849
So there's a lot of sort of

00:44:12.909 --> 00:44:16.271
depth and provenance in the

00:44:16.291 --> 00:44:17.413
collectibles that we create.

00:44:17.693 --> 00:44:18.454
But that's really cool that

00:44:18.474 --> 00:44:19.715
you can bring in those

00:44:19.835 --> 00:44:21.117
elements and the fans are

00:44:21.137 --> 00:44:22.257
going to know what that is.

00:44:23.159 --> 00:44:24.219
Your diehards that are

00:44:24.260 --> 00:44:25.762
collecting your collectibles,

00:44:26.342 --> 00:44:28.264
they know what that reference is to.

00:44:28.344 --> 00:44:29.585
And that's really cool.

00:44:29.626 --> 00:44:31.809
That was one of the George

00:44:31.849 --> 00:44:33.391
Lucas's biggest thing is

00:44:33.731 --> 00:44:36.134
details matter within Star Wars.

00:44:36.233 --> 00:44:38.416
Even when you watch like the new Andor,

00:44:39.257 --> 00:44:40.699
you see slight details of

00:44:40.739 --> 00:44:42.402
things in the background.

00:44:43.402 --> 00:44:44.422
not just there but to be

00:44:44.463 --> 00:44:45.882
there it's there for a

00:44:45.963 --> 00:44:47.083
reason and it's going to

00:44:47.123 --> 00:44:48.925
affect something later and

00:44:48.965 --> 00:44:49.606
I've always thought that

00:44:49.646 --> 00:44:51.286
was really cool yeah that

00:44:51.347 --> 00:44:52.666
y'all get down into those

00:44:52.686 --> 00:44:53.807
types of details and give

00:44:53.847 --> 00:44:55.568
it the same love that

00:44:55.628 --> 00:44:57.170
George and Dave and all

00:44:57.190 --> 00:44:58.811
those guys at Lucas would

00:44:58.851 --> 00:45:01.452
be giving it so absolutely

00:45:01.472 --> 00:45:02.853
yeah yeah don't give me any

00:45:02.893 --> 00:45:04.034
spoils about andor I'm only

00:45:04.074 --> 00:45:04.974
halfway through the second

00:45:05.014 --> 00:45:06.976
season I'm with you I'm

00:45:07.016 --> 00:45:09.277
with you I've been so it's

00:45:09.297 --> 00:45:10.518
cool that I have not been

00:45:10.557 --> 00:45:12.219
able to dig into it yet so

00:45:13.527 --> 00:45:15.228
this weekend I'm digging

00:45:15.288 --> 00:45:17.068
into that I need to still

00:45:17.108 --> 00:45:18.188
watch the uh the new

00:45:18.369 --> 00:45:20.851
animated series as well and

00:45:20.891 --> 00:45:21.710
that's the reason why I

00:45:21.751 --> 00:45:23.532
have like half a show

00:45:23.572 --> 00:45:24.911
written on my big Star Wars

00:45:24.931 --> 00:45:26.273
celebration show I do every

00:45:26.293 --> 00:45:27.994
year but I haven't finished

00:45:28.034 --> 00:45:28.713
it because I haven't

00:45:28.733 --> 00:45:30.195
finished watching it yet um

00:45:31.335 --> 00:45:33.056
I'm bad I gotta I gotta

00:45:33.076 --> 00:45:34.996
step my game up and sit

00:45:35.016 --> 00:45:36.097
down and just dig into it

00:45:36.117 --> 00:45:36.938
but there's been a lot of

00:45:36.978 --> 00:45:38.458
good wrestling on lately so

00:45:38.498 --> 00:45:39.378
that's really been eating a

00:45:39.418 --> 00:45:42.240
lot of time too right so

00:45:45.110 --> 00:45:46.751
So with the, like,

00:45:46.791 --> 00:45:49.271
do all your collectibles

00:45:49.311 --> 00:45:50.731
within the VeVe verse,

00:45:50.811 --> 00:45:52.771
are they all AR compatible?

00:45:53.253 --> 00:45:54.632
Like all of them or?

00:45:54.813 --> 00:45:55.512
Yeah, everything.

00:45:55.552 --> 00:45:55.713
Yeah.

00:45:55.733 --> 00:45:58.273
So that's, that's like the very beginning,

00:45:58.293 --> 00:45:58.494
you know,

00:45:58.514 --> 00:45:59.793
we made that decision to make

00:45:59.833 --> 00:46:02.554
the collectibles 3D because there's,

00:46:02.594 --> 00:46:03.496
there's so much stuff we

00:46:03.516 --> 00:46:04.155
can do with them.

00:46:04.295 --> 00:46:05.695
And, you know, like, I mean,

00:46:05.775 --> 00:46:07.737
as a collector myself doing

00:46:07.797 --> 00:46:08.996
just a 2D image,

00:46:09.077 --> 00:46:11.237
like what a typical NFT would be.

00:46:12.077 --> 00:46:13.099
That's why we really refer

00:46:13.119 --> 00:46:13.920
to ourselves more as

00:46:13.960 --> 00:46:15.740
digital collectibles because they are,

00:46:16.260 --> 00:46:17.442
even though NFT is one of

00:46:17.481 --> 00:46:18.943
the technologies that we have,

00:46:18.983 --> 00:46:21.644
so we can only create a

00:46:21.724 --> 00:46:23.045
certain amount of them.

00:46:24.507 --> 00:46:25.947
But on top of that is obviously, you know,

00:46:26.027 --> 00:46:28.750
all of the Unity 3D side,

00:46:28.769 --> 00:46:29.670
the 3D assets,

00:46:29.731 --> 00:46:30.851
all the interactivity.

00:46:34.490 --> 00:46:35.351
We wanted to make sure that

00:46:35.391 --> 00:46:36.693
it was always going to be 3D.

00:46:36.813 --> 00:46:39.375
This is something that

00:46:39.576 --> 00:46:40.876
you'll be able to see

00:46:41.016 --> 00:46:42.818
myself and David talk about

00:46:43.318 --> 00:46:44.320
four or five years ago,

00:46:44.380 --> 00:46:46.161
that the future is going to

00:46:46.181 --> 00:46:47.541
be augmented reality.

00:46:47.882 --> 00:46:48.503
We're all going to have

00:46:48.563 --> 00:46:50.425
augmented reality devices eventually.

00:46:51.784 --> 00:46:53.405
Then in that augmented world,

00:46:53.485 --> 00:46:54.166
what are you going to see?

00:46:54.186 --> 00:46:55.626
You're going to see virtual

00:46:55.666 --> 00:46:57.686
objects and virtual items.

00:46:58.085 --> 00:46:59.967
I really believe that in the future,

00:46:59.987 --> 00:47:01.606
I'll be walking around my house,

00:47:02.007 --> 00:47:03.668
hopefully with glasses in

00:47:03.688 --> 00:47:04.327
the beginning and then

00:47:04.367 --> 00:47:06.188
maybe an AR contact,

00:47:06.728 --> 00:47:07.387
and I'll be able to have

00:47:07.467 --> 00:47:09.369
all my digital collectibles

00:47:09.909 --> 00:47:11.168
everywhere around.

00:47:11.548 --> 00:47:13.110
That'd be really cool.

00:47:13.150 --> 00:47:14.010
We're starting to see that

00:47:14.030 --> 00:47:16.630
with the Meta glasses and

00:47:16.650 --> 00:47:17.590
the ones from Oakley.

00:47:18.610 --> 00:47:19.590
We're starting to see those things

00:47:20.639 --> 00:47:24.605
now be a presence so do I

00:47:24.625 --> 00:47:25.385
don't know how much I'll

00:47:25.425 --> 00:47:27.268
deal with uh VR now if

00:47:27.307 --> 00:47:28.809
somebody has a VR headset

00:47:29.130 --> 00:47:31.432
can they still you know

00:47:31.813 --> 00:47:33.074
view the uh their VeVe

00:47:33.114 --> 00:47:34.617
collectibles in the VR headset

00:47:35.184 --> 00:47:36.146
They can, absolutely.

00:47:37.306 --> 00:47:40.431
As you download the VeVe Verse app,

00:47:40.610 --> 00:47:42.293
you can plug that in with your,

00:47:43.034 --> 00:47:44.574
I believe it's with the Oculus.

00:47:45.076 --> 00:47:45.255
Okay.

00:47:45.817 --> 00:47:47.659
And the experience is amazing.

00:47:47.699 --> 00:47:48.059
I mean, like,

00:47:48.159 --> 00:47:48.900
I don't know if you've tried.

00:47:48.920 --> 00:47:49.340
That's cool.

00:47:49.400 --> 00:47:50.061
Another level.

00:47:50.422 --> 00:47:51.262
That's another level.

00:47:51.342 --> 00:47:51.503
Yeah.

00:47:52.583 --> 00:47:54.184
And the immersion is insane.

00:47:54.224 --> 00:47:57.326
You know, when you put those goggles on.

00:47:57.385 --> 00:47:58.786
Yeah, it's just it's so cool.

00:47:58.806 --> 00:47:59.447
So, you know,

00:47:59.746 --> 00:48:02.027
so these virtual worlds are like,

00:48:02.128 --> 00:48:03.509
you know, with these digital collectibles,

00:48:03.528 --> 00:48:05.110
that's really where we see the future,

00:48:05.590 --> 00:48:06.309
the future going.

00:48:06.329 --> 00:48:09.492
No, it's definitely really cool.

00:48:10.172 --> 00:48:11.632
To be fair, it saves you space.

00:48:12.590 --> 00:48:13.271
Well, that's the thing.

00:48:13.291 --> 00:48:14.472
And, you know, nowadays, you know,

00:48:14.512 --> 00:48:15.773
houses are getting smaller.

00:48:16.293 --> 00:48:17.094
We've got more and more

00:48:17.195 --> 00:48:19.677
stuff and we just can't, you know,

00:48:19.757 --> 00:48:19.976
you can,

00:48:20.036 --> 00:48:21.557
you actually can't just keep

00:48:21.737 --> 00:48:23.139
producing all of this sort

00:48:23.179 --> 00:48:23.960
of physical item.

00:48:24.260 --> 00:48:25.360
Whereas, you know, you could,

00:48:25.420 --> 00:48:26.842
you could have a five story

00:48:27.382 --> 00:48:29.224
virtual showroom in the VeVe

00:48:29.244 --> 00:48:30.826
verse one level for Star Wars,

00:48:31.306 --> 00:48:32.367
one level for Marvel.

00:48:32.487 --> 00:48:33.108
And, you know, you know,

00:48:33.128 --> 00:48:33.907
your collectibles can be

00:48:34.047 --> 00:48:35.228
one-to-one or they could be.

00:48:35.710 --> 00:48:36.871
Eighteen inch or twelve inch.

00:48:36.891 --> 00:48:38.652
That's really cool.

00:48:38.672 --> 00:48:39.552
It's really, it's really cool.

00:48:39.693 --> 00:48:39.913
Yeah.

00:48:39.932 --> 00:48:40.673
It's really exciting.

00:48:40.693 --> 00:48:40.733
So.

00:48:44.280 --> 00:48:46.121
I lost my place on my cheat

00:48:46.141 --> 00:48:46.822
sheet over here.

00:48:47.523 --> 00:48:50.304
So compared to previous years,

00:48:50.485 --> 00:48:52.226
is your Star Wars side of

00:48:52.266 --> 00:48:53.646
the house still like,

00:48:54.507 --> 00:48:55.427
I know y'all were growing

00:48:55.487 --> 00:48:56.849
it and it's suspended each year,

00:48:57.530 --> 00:49:00.711
but from a dollars and cents perspective,

00:49:00.751 --> 00:49:01.733
are y'all still getting the

00:49:01.793 --> 00:49:03.114
same sales as y'all have

00:49:03.373 --> 00:49:05.315
like in previous years or

00:49:05.335 --> 00:49:06.416
has it slowed down?

00:49:07.416 --> 00:49:07.876
Yeah.

00:49:08.217 --> 00:49:09.057
I mean, I guess the,

00:49:09.818 --> 00:49:11.378
like with any new technology,

00:49:11.418 --> 00:49:12.760
like NFTs went through that

00:49:12.860 --> 00:49:13.840
hype cycle where,

00:49:14.494 --> 00:49:17.875
Everyone, my mom, my dog, my grandma,

00:49:17.974 --> 00:49:19.315
everyone knew about NFT.

00:49:19.355 --> 00:49:20.755
So everyone was on that kind

00:49:20.795 --> 00:49:21.476
of hype cycle.

00:49:22.655 --> 00:49:25.237
But now, you know, this industry, you know,

00:49:25.257 --> 00:49:26.556
we really are still building up.

00:49:26.916 --> 00:49:28.657
But I mean, you know, we still sold.

00:49:29.077 --> 00:49:30.577
We've done very well this

00:49:30.617 --> 00:49:31.938
month with the Star Wars drops.

00:49:32.018 --> 00:49:33.159
I think they're like eighty

00:49:33.199 --> 00:49:34.099
percent sold out.

00:49:35.298 --> 00:49:36.860
That's the month of May right there.

00:49:37.159 --> 00:49:37.539
Exactly.

00:49:37.619 --> 00:49:38.159
Exactly.

00:49:39.001 --> 00:49:40.561
And that's really good considering that,

00:49:40.661 --> 00:49:40.840
you know,

00:49:40.860 --> 00:49:42.742
there's a lot of other Star Wars

00:49:42.782 --> 00:49:44.563
product out there that, you know,

00:49:44.663 --> 00:49:46.023
anybody who releases

00:49:46.063 --> 00:49:47.043
collectibles has to kind of

00:49:47.083 --> 00:49:48.664
compete with each other.

00:49:48.744 --> 00:49:49.565
So, yeah,

00:49:49.585 --> 00:49:51.204
given that it's sold really well.

00:49:51.764 --> 00:49:52.326
For y'all,

00:49:52.346 --> 00:49:53.565
y'all really are only just

00:49:53.606 --> 00:49:55.206
competing against yourself

00:49:55.266 --> 00:49:56.867
in the digital world when

00:49:56.907 --> 00:49:58.367
it comes to Star Wars.

00:49:59.175 --> 00:50:00.056
Well, I mean, that's,

00:50:00.195 --> 00:50:01.255
I would say that is true.

00:50:01.315 --> 00:50:01.637
Yes.

00:50:01.717 --> 00:50:03.036
But, um, but you know,

00:50:03.056 --> 00:50:04.878
really we're selling to collectors and,

00:50:04.898 --> 00:50:05.079
you know,

00:50:05.119 --> 00:50:06.599
collectors will love the physical,

00:50:06.699 --> 00:50:07.400
they'll love the movie,

00:50:07.420 --> 00:50:08.880
the re-release movie.

00:50:09.300 --> 00:50:10.541
Now they can get the digital.

00:50:10.942 --> 00:50:12.222
So it's still that collecting,

00:50:12.663 --> 00:50:14.324
collecting dollar overall.

00:50:15.144 --> 00:50:16.545
Um, but yeah, we, we just, we just,

00:50:16.806 --> 00:50:17.666
our vision is that, you know,

00:50:17.907 --> 00:50:19.628
this digital is another new,

00:50:19.748 --> 00:50:21.728
exciting way for, for people to collect.

00:50:21.809 --> 00:50:22.068
And, you know,

00:50:22.168 --> 00:50:23.309
as you've seen that the

00:50:23.389 --> 00:50:24.851
three models are beautiful,

00:50:24.931 --> 00:50:26.592
you can put them in augmented reality.

00:50:27.351 --> 00:50:29.333
Yeah, that's really cool.

00:50:29.393 --> 00:50:30.494
And the cool thing is that

00:50:30.914 --> 00:50:31.735
you've got your collection

00:50:31.775 --> 00:50:32.735
with you all the time.

00:50:33.155 --> 00:50:36.677
You're at some Star Wars con event.

00:50:36.838 --> 00:50:41.782
You can drop your Stormtrooper army in AR.

00:50:42.181 --> 00:50:43.443
So it's cool to be able to

00:50:43.463 --> 00:50:44.282
have those collectibles

00:50:44.302 --> 00:50:46.445
with you all the time.

00:50:46.465 --> 00:50:48.126
We got a comment here.

00:50:48.985 --> 00:50:49.106
See,

00:50:49.126 --> 00:50:50.586
they're starting to think we need a

00:50:50.646 --> 00:50:51.947
more analog future.

00:50:52.349 --> 00:50:53.949
Nah, I don't really...

00:50:55.177 --> 00:50:59.704
Short of a near apocalyptic event,

00:50:59.824 --> 00:51:01.025
I don't see us going back

00:51:01.065 --> 00:51:05.391
to an analog type of environment.

00:51:05.871 --> 00:51:06.313
Not with...

00:51:07.693 --> 00:51:09.233
growing and moving faster

00:51:09.293 --> 00:51:11.155
now than it ever has before.

00:51:11.554 --> 00:51:14.295
So, but yeah, but in saying that, you know,

00:51:14.335 --> 00:51:15.777
look at where they're coming from.

00:51:16.217 --> 00:51:16.436
Yeah.

00:51:16.496 --> 00:51:16.836
I mean, you know,

00:51:16.956 --> 00:51:18.757
I still love my physical collectibles.

00:51:18.818 --> 00:51:20.259
I love my digital collectibles.

00:51:20.338 --> 00:51:20.858
I, you know,

00:51:20.898 --> 00:51:21.960
I think people are always

00:51:21.980 --> 00:51:23.139
going to have a preference, you know,

00:51:23.159 --> 00:51:25.880
the smell of a comic book to me,

00:51:25.940 --> 00:51:27.181
there's nothing that beats

00:51:27.222 --> 00:51:28.782
it or the smell of a new book.

00:51:29.802 --> 00:51:32.344
Nothing will ever beat that to me.

00:51:32.384 --> 00:51:33.065
That to me,

00:51:34.324 --> 00:51:35.505
although I do read a lot of

00:51:35.545 --> 00:51:36.545
my marvel stuff

00:51:36.706 --> 00:51:38.186
electronically on their app

00:51:38.726 --> 00:51:39.688
yeah but you can do that

00:51:39.708 --> 00:51:41.728
with the VeVe verse too yeah

00:51:41.969 --> 00:51:42.809
you should check out the uh

00:51:42.829 --> 00:51:43.730
you should check out VeVe

00:51:43.750 --> 00:51:45.952
comics comics day and

00:51:45.972 --> 00:51:47.733
date um you know yeah we've

00:51:47.753 --> 00:51:48.914
just brought on a whole

00:51:48.934 --> 00:51:51.474
bunch more um uh publishers

00:51:51.494 --> 00:51:53.936
like ablaze humanoid um

00:51:54.056 --> 00:51:55.818
twenty four seven comics so

00:51:55.838 --> 00:51:56.378
yeah there's there's

00:51:56.438 --> 00:51:57.418
thousands of comics on

00:51:57.438 --> 00:51:58.099
there and they basically

00:51:58.139 --> 00:51:59.400
drop same day as they are

00:51:59.940 --> 00:52:01.101
You know what's really cool

00:52:01.181 --> 00:52:04.704
about that is I'm an indie comic guy,

00:52:04.764 --> 00:52:07.186
but I can't get my shop to

00:52:07.746 --> 00:52:08.967
order certain publishers

00:52:09.007 --> 00:52:11.148
just simply because I'm the

00:52:11.289 --> 00:52:13.449
one guy asking for it.

00:52:13.530 --> 00:52:15.391
So that really helps me out

00:52:15.452 --> 00:52:16.632
in that there is a place

00:52:16.793 --> 00:52:19.735
now where I can go and get

00:52:19.775 --> 00:52:22.036
those and read those if I want to.

00:52:22.115 --> 00:52:22.777
And if I like it,

00:52:22.836 --> 00:52:24.958
I can then order it from

00:52:24.998 --> 00:52:26.338
the actual publisher, you know,

00:52:26.398 --> 00:52:27.179
because I'm still going to.

00:52:28.208 --> 00:52:31.608
like Keenspot not to plug

00:52:31.628 --> 00:52:33.309
in shamelessly anybody I

00:52:33.349 --> 00:52:34.250
don't get paid by them or

00:52:34.289 --> 00:52:35.570
anything but I really like

00:52:35.590 --> 00:52:36.831
some a lot of their stories

00:52:36.851 --> 00:52:39.172
that they've been doing but

00:52:39.192 --> 00:52:40.072
it's hard for me to get my

00:52:40.132 --> 00:52:41.373
comic shop to order them

00:52:41.893 --> 00:52:42.974
just simply because I'm

00:52:42.994 --> 00:52:44.954
that one guy he's like it's

00:52:44.994 --> 00:52:46.175
hard for me to justify

00:52:46.994 --> 00:52:50.416
ordering just for you I'm

00:52:50.516 --> 00:52:51.637
like okay I get it you know

00:52:52.579 --> 00:52:54.240
So I ended up having to then

00:52:54.260 --> 00:52:55.360
go and order it myself.

00:52:55.581 --> 00:52:56.701
And that's okay.

00:52:56.780 --> 00:52:59.481
But also sometimes I miss on

00:52:59.541 --> 00:53:00.503
stuff and I'm like, well,

00:53:00.543 --> 00:53:01.163
if I'd have been able to

00:53:01.182 --> 00:53:02.362
read that virtually first,

00:53:02.382 --> 00:53:04.643
that would have saved me, you know,

00:53:04.744 --> 00:53:05.903
seven dollars in shipping.

00:53:06.304 --> 00:53:07.744
So that's really cool that

00:53:08.746 --> 00:53:11.126
it's a sister out to the VeVe

00:53:11.266 --> 00:53:12.748
out called VeVe comics.

00:53:13.889 --> 00:53:14.989
And y'all,

00:53:15.769 --> 00:53:17.431
it seemed like y'all have a nice

00:53:17.510 --> 00:53:19.632
chunk of publishers on there now,

00:53:20.152 --> 00:53:22.653
not just a big two, you know,

00:53:22.673 --> 00:53:25.675
with Marvel and DC, but yeah,

00:53:27.275 --> 00:53:28.235
you're actually growing and

00:53:28.275 --> 00:53:29.876
getting in with the indie comics,

00:53:29.916 --> 00:53:31.516
which is, to me,

00:53:31.577 --> 00:53:34.297
it puts a lot of new eyes on indie comics,

00:53:34.418 --> 00:53:36.278
which, like I said before,

00:53:36.358 --> 00:53:37.838
I'm an indie comic guy and

00:53:38.559 --> 00:53:39.800
those will always be like

00:53:39.840 --> 00:53:41.340
my favorite reads, so.

00:53:42.019 --> 00:53:42.920
Yeah, we'll check it out.

00:53:42.960 --> 00:53:43.081
Yeah,

00:53:43.101 --> 00:53:45.340
we've got lots of really cool stuff

00:53:45.360 --> 00:53:45.541
on there.

00:53:45.561 --> 00:53:47.402
I think the latest one was,

00:53:48.041 --> 00:53:49.043
I think it was Planet Death,

00:53:51.362 --> 00:53:56.784
which was the highest Kickstarter comic

00:53:58.217 --> 00:53:59.157
released I think that they

00:53:59.217 --> 00:54:02.018
raised tons of money which

00:54:02.079 --> 00:54:03.579
one was it um I think it

00:54:03.599 --> 00:54:04.739
was called planet death

00:54:05.539 --> 00:54:06.920
okay I have to check it out

00:54:06.940 --> 00:54:09.842
because I that's that's the

00:54:09.862 --> 00:54:11.822
kind of thing you know june

00:54:11.862 --> 00:54:12.922
twenty-eighth I'm actually

00:54:12.983 --> 00:54:14.902
interviewing uh I'm doing a

00:54:14.943 --> 00:54:17.284
kickstarter kickoff on the

00:54:17.324 --> 00:54:19.425
podcast here for I think

00:54:19.445 --> 00:54:21.565
it's an issue three of a comic book

00:54:22.637 --> 00:54:25.077
and um I love helping those

00:54:25.117 --> 00:54:26.159
guys out I love when they

00:54:26.179 --> 00:54:27.179
come on and talk to me

00:54:27.239 --> 00:54:28.340
about their stuff because

00:54:28.400 --> 00:54:29.539
like you they have that

00:54:29.659 --> 00:54:31.920
fire and that passion for

00:54:31.981 --> 00:54:33.422
what it is they're doing

00:54:34.181 --> 00:54:35.742
and um they're always the

00:54:35.922 --> 00:54:38.764
really fun to have on so

00:54:40.005 --> 00:54:40.844
and it's cool that you just

00:54:40.864 --> 00:54:41.686
brought up Kick starter

00:54:41.706 --> 00:54:42.565
because that is a great

00:54:42.666 --> 00:54:45.367
avenue for people yeah and

00:54:45.407 --> 00:54:46.987
you know this this day and age it's um

00:54:47.815 --> 00:54:47.936
Yeah,

00:54:47.996 --> 00:54:49.556
it's a lot easier to get comics

00:54:50.277 --> 00:54:51.358
created and produced.

00:54:51.418 --> 00:54:52.639
Obviously, still quite a lot of work.

00:54:52.759 --> 00:54:53.998
But yeah,

00:54:54.039 --> 00:54:55.260
that's why we start to see a lot

00:54:55.300 --> 00:54:56.159
more indie,

00:54:57.960 --> 00:54:59.202
these really successful indie

00:54:59.442 --> 00:55:02.943
publishers coming out.

00:55:02.983 --> 00:55:05.844
So we're going to divert.

00:55:05.885 --> 00:55:06.885
We're going to go back to

00:55:08.206 --> 00:55:09.487
our Star Wars drop here.

00:55:11.088 --> 00:55:12.188
Appreciate you entertaining

00:55:12.208 --> 00:55:13.570
me and talking about some comic books.

00:55:13.590 --> 00:55:14.409
I appreciate that.

00:55:16.811 --> 00:55:17.612
So did you notice a

00:55:17.672 --> 00:55:18.634
different collector

00:55:18.673 --> 00:55:20.376
behaviors with this drop,

00:55:20.416 --> 00:55:21.777
like more displayed focus

00:55:21.838 --> 00:55:22.978
interaction or a greater

00:55:23.018 --> 00:55:24.701
demand for a full set completion?

00:55:24.740 --> 00:55:25.782
Like I had brought up earlier,

00:55:25.822 --> 00:55:27.204
like how cool would it be

00:55:27.244 --> 00:55:28.344
if you had the whole armor

00:55:28.364 --> 00:55:31.047
that you could display?

00:55:31.108 --> 00:55:31.309
Yeah.

00:55:31.369 --> 00:55:31.528
I mean,

00:55:32.730 --> 00:55:33.670
Within VeVe,

00:55:33.690 --> 00:55:35.331
we have a thing called the

00:55:35.351 --> 00:55:36.512
Master Collector Program,

00:55:36.711 --> 00:55:37.612
and it basically has got

00:55:37.713 --> 00:55:39.994
ranks and points and levels.

00:55:40.034 --> 00:55:42.675
So if you collect the whole set,

00:55:42.695 --> 00:55:44.297
like if you get all of the helmets,

00:55:44.858 --> 00:55:46.858
then you might be able to craft,

00:55:48.000 --> 00:55:49.521
like let's say we drop four helmets.

00:55:49.981 --> 00:55:50.961
If you own all of those,

00:55:51.001 --> 00:55:52.422
you might be able to craft

00:55:52.443 --> 00:55:53.222
the fifth helmet,

00:55:53.623 --> 00:55:55.264
and there might only be a

00:55:55.344 --> 00:55:56.286
few hundred of those.

00:55:56.326 --> 00:55:58.186
So you've got to complete this quickly.

00:55:58.206 --> 00:55:58.487
Okay.

00:55:59.166 --> 00:55:59.668
But, you know,

00:55:59.768 --> 00:56:00.688
every collector is different.

00:56:00.708 --> 00:56:00.909
You know,

00:56:00.969 --> 00:56:02.230
some people want to go and they

00:56:02.269 --> 00:56:03.309
just want that character.

00:56:03.329 --> 00:56:04.170
Like they just want Din

00:56:04.190 --> 00:56:06.291
Djarin or they just want the Mandalorian.

00:56:07.833 --> 00:56:09.494
And some people want just to

00:56:09.534 --> 00:56:10.434
collect everything.

00:56:10.494 --> 00:56:12.275
So there's one thing I've

00:56:12.295 --> 00:56:13.938
sort of learned or become

00:56:14.157 --> 00:56:16.759
much more aware of with VeVe is that,

00:56:16.820 --> 00:56:16.980
yeah,

00:56:17.000 --> 00:56:19.380
collectors have such a wide breadth

00:56:19.460 --> 00:56:21.262
of what they actually like.

00:56:21.282 --> 00:56:21.603
I mean,

00:56:21.862 --> 00:56:24.164
we have collectors who only collect

00:56:24.344 --> 00:56:25.885
a certain mint number.

00:56:26.106 --> 00:56:27.447
Like they might only collect eight, eight,

00:56:27.527 --> 00:56:27.666
eight.

00:56:28.106 --> 00:56:29.126
edition eight eight eight

00:56:29.567 --> 00:56:30.847
but they but as they'll

00:56:30.867 --> 00:56:32.688
click that with anything so

00:56:32.969 --> 00:56:34.889
I know a guy who um who

00:56:34.909 --> 00:56:36.451
collects comic book slabs

00:56:37.431 --> 00:56:39.632
three point fives right

00:56:39.693 --> 00:56:41.054
like he actively seeks out

00:56:41.094 --> 00:56:42.173
three point fives as the

00:56:42.213 --> 00:56:44.635
grade to buy and I'm like

00:56:44.695 --> 00:56:46.456
dude for me it's nine eights or nothing

00:56:47.931 --> 00:56:50.393
But that's exactly what I mean.

00:56:50.572 --> 00:56:52.293
People just have their own

00:56:52.353 --> 00:56:53.335
thing that brings them together.

00:56:53.454 --> 00:56:54.635
Everybody has a niche.

00:56:54.916 --> 00:56:57.838
And I think y'all have hit

00:56:57.938 --> 00:56:59.260
just about all the niches

00:56:59.400 --> 00:57:01.262
out there to some degree.

00:57:01.922 --> 00:57:05.786
And you have something for everybody.

00:57:05.846 --> 00:57:07.547
So that's really cool, too.

00:57:07.626 --> 00:57:09.949
It's not just these big IPs.

00:57:10.088 --> 00:57:11.911
Y'all have some smaller IPs.

00:57:11.931 --> 00:57:13.132
And you have something really...

00:57:14.260 --> 00:57:15.322
what y'all have created is

00:57:15.362 --> 00:57:17.563
something for everybody to enjoy.

00:57:18.664 --> 00:57:20.005
And that's always really

00:57:20.065 --> 00:57:23.827
dope when a company can, can do that.

00:57:24.128 --> 00:57:25.329
So.

00:57:25.389 --> 00:57:26.389
Yeah, no, absolutely.

00:57:26.429 --> 00:57:27.070
I mean, that's where we are.

00:57:27.090 --> 00:57:27.971
We want to make sure we hit

00:57:28.150 --> 00:57:29.652
all the collectors and even like,

00:57:29.672 --> 00:57:30.172
you know, we,

00:57:30.213 --> 00:57:31.213
we also work with a lot of

00:57:31.373 --> 00:57:33.434
artists as well to release,

00:57:33.514 --> 00:57:35.436
to release their release, their work.

00:57:35.476 --> 00:57:37.318
So, yeah, I mean, it's just overall very,

00:57:37.358 --> 00:57:38.077
very exciting.

00:57:38.097 --> 00:57:39.940
I seen y'all had some really nice, uh,

00:57:41.635 --> 00:57:43.896
some big names within the

00:57:43.956 --> 00:57:45.317
comic book world but maybe

00:57:45.356 --> 00:57:47.217
not in the the normal world

00:57:47.458 --> 00:57:48.498
like some of their covers

00:57:48.538 --> 00:57:49.458
and stuff in there that are

00:57:49.498 --> 00:57:50.798
released as posters which

00:57:50.838 --> 00:57:52.418
is really cool like mark

00:57:52.438 --> 00:57:53.778
brooks scotty young I'm a

00:57:53.858 --> 00:57:55.280
huge scotty young fan dude

00:57:55.500 --> 00:57:56.519
you and me both I love his

00:57:56.639 --> 00:58:01.581
art yeah yeah sorry I hate

00:58:01.601 --> 00:58:03.961
fairyland fairyland I'm not

00:58:04.001 --> 00:58:05.722
familiar with that one it's

00:58:05.782 --> 00:58:06.822
one of his books it's it's

00:58:07.103 --> 00:58:09.324
um it's really good he did

00:58:09.344 --> 00:58:10.003
it with brit bean

00:58:11.217 --> 00:58:12.277
Okay, yeah, I'll check that out.

00:58:12.318 --> 00:58:14.458
But yeah, whenever I go to Comic-Con,

00:58:15.338 --> 00:58:16.940
I'm always just looking for, yeah,

00:58:16.960 --> 00:58:19.181
Scotty Young covers.

00:58:19.221 --> 00:58:21.240
I've got a friend, he collects,

00:58:21.581 --> 00:58:23.902
if Scotty Young does a cover, he owns it.

00:58:24.682 --> 00:58:27.884
Yeah, likewise.

00:58:27.903 --> 00:58:29.043
His art's so unique.

00:58:29.164 --> 00:58:29.563
For people,

00:58:29.643 --> 00:58:30.744
if you don't know who we're talking about,

00:58:30.784 --> 00:58:32.445
please Google him.

00:58:32.485 --> 00:58:33.505
His art is very...

00:58:34.777 --> 00:58:35.739
elementary school,

00:58:36.338 --> 00:58:38.119
I guess is a good way to say it.

00:58:38.159 --> 00:58:38.360
Yeah.

00:58:38.380 --> 00:58:40.181
But it's with style.

00:58:40.721 --> 00:58:41.320
With style.

00:58:41.501 --> 00:58:41.882
Yes.

00:58:42.282 --> 00:58:43.422
Very much with style.

00:58:44.003 --> 00:58:45.804
And you almost like there's

00:58:45.864 --> 00:58:46.923
certain artists out there.

00:58:46.983 --> 00:58:48.025
You see their work.

00:58:48.784 --> 00:58:49.304
You immediately.

00:58:49.405 --> 00:58:50.786
Oh, that's that's a Scotty Young.

00:58:50.885 --> 00:58:51.266
Yeah.

00:58:51.286 --> 00:58:51.887
Yeah.

00:58:51.947 --> 00:58:52.126
Yeah.

00:58:52.166 --> 00:58:53.447
He's definitely got a quite

00:58:53.467 --> 00:58:55.527
a unique sort of style

00:58:55.568 --> 00:58:56.929
that's easily identifiable.

00:58:57.929 --> 00:58:58.150
Yeah.

00:58:58.730 --> 00:59:00.891
And as you collect more stuff like that,

00:59:00.951 --> 00:59:02.271
you recognize

00:59:03.159 --> 00:59:03.780
their work.

00:59:03.940 --> 00:59:05.661
Like I could just be walking

00:59:05.701 --> 00:59:06.442
by and be like, Oh,

00:59:06.461 --> 00:59:07.501
that's so-and-so's cover.

00:59:07.521 --> 00:59:08.503
That's a so-and-so cover.

00:59:08.543 --> 00:59:09.744
And that's a so-and-so cover.

00:59:10.164 --> 00:59:12.385
They're like, how do you know?

00:59:12.405 --> 00:59:13.606
I'm like, just look at the art.

00:59:13.945 --> 00:59:14.746
How do you not know?

00:59:15.005 --> 00:59:17.248
Can you tell men?

00:59:17.288 --> 00:59:18.668
Like Peach Momoko is one of

00:59:18.688 --> 00:59:19.748
my favorite artists.

00:59:20.429 --> 00:59:22.210
And there's a lot of people

00:59:22.250 --> 00:59:24.952
who try to imitate her style, but they,

00:59:24.972 --> 00:59:25.811
they can't do it.

00:59:26.572 --> 00:59:27.552
And then there's people like,

00:59:27.672 --> 00:59:29.554
I think it's David Mack who

00:59:29.594 --> 00:59:30.614
did a daredevil.

00:59:31.918 --> 00:59:34.260
He did all the spray paint

00:59:34.300 --> 00:59:35.242
and art and stuff you see

00:59:35.262 --> 00:59:36.483
on the buildings in Daredevil.

00:59:37.163 --> 00:59:37.884
He did those,

00:59:37.983 --> 00:59:39.164
and as soon as I seen that

00:59:39.224 --> 00:59:42.067
first piece of graffiti, I was like,

00:59:42.847 --> 00:59:44.349
that's got to be a David Mack.

00:59:44.929 --> 00:59:46.851
And then sure enough, it was a David Mack.

00:59:46.871 --> 00:59:49.672
I was like, ah, knew it.

00:59:49.773 --> 00:59:49.873
Yeah.

00:59:49.893 --> 00:59:49.932
No,

00:59:50.012 --> 00:59:51.594
it's great when an artist has got that

00:59:51.755 --> 00:59:53.295
very unique, specific style.

00:59:53.315 --> 00:59:53.735
Yeah.

00:59:53.755 --> 00:59:54.617
Yeah, absolutely.

00:59:55.036 --> 00:59:55.717
Absolutely.

00:59:57.237 --> 00:59:59.199
I know we're at our allotted hour.

01:00:00.139 --> 01:00:02.380
Are you hard pressed for that hour?

01:00:03.161 --> 01:00:04.503
I am unfortunately hard pressed.

01:00:04.523 --> 01:00:06.905
So we'll have to wrap up.

01:00:07.025 --> 01:00:08.085
I always love talking comics

01:00:08.106 --> 01:00:08.766
and collectibles.

01:00:09.246 --> 01:00:09.907
I do too.

01:00:10.088 --> 01:00:10.467
I do too.

01:00:11.168 --> 01:00:14.130
I know you're a busy man being the guys.

01:00:14.150 --> 01:00:14.771
We're talking to the

01:00:14.811 --> 01:00:18.114
co-founder of VeVe Collectibles,

01:00:18.153 --> 01:00:19.094
which is really dope.

01:00:19.235 --> 01:00:21.056
I'm so happy he got to come on.

01:00:21.697 --> 01:00:22.737
For everybody at home,

01:00:22.818 --> 01:00:25.280
tell them where they can find you and VeVe.

01:00:26.706 --> 01:00:26.967
Yes.

01:00:27.608 --> 01:00:27.867
So, yeah,

01:00:27.887 --> 01:00:28.869
if you are interested in

01:00:29.389 --> 01:00:31.471
exploring this new digital collecting,

01:00:32.090 --> 01:00:34.373
you can just head over to veve.me,

01:00:34.632 --> 01:00:36.494
V-E-V-E dot M-E.

01:00:37.414 --> 01:00:37.896
And just, yeah,

01:00:37.916 --> 01:00:39.217
browse through the collectibles.

01:00:39.257 --> 01:00:41.458
We've also got thousands of

01:00:41.518 --> 01:00:42.960
comics if you want to read

01:00:43.900 --> 01:00:44.920
or if you're a comic fan.

01:00:45.782 --> 01:00:45.902
Yeah,

01:00:45.922 --> 01:00:47.143
and just explore all the different

01:00:47.643 --> 01:00:48.463
brands we've got.

01:00:48.724 --> 01:00:50.485
Look at all the beautiful

01:00:50.525 --> 01:00:51.626
3-D collectibles.

01:00:52.067 --> 01:00:53.168
Try out the AR.

01:00:54.128 --> 01:00:54.369
Yes.

01:00:54.429 --> 01:00:54.949
It's really cool.

01:00:54.969 --> 01:00:55.309
I will...

01:00:56.349 --> 01:00:58.391
it it's really cool I I gave

01:00:58.411 --> 01:01:01.456
it a shot and I'm a fan I'm

01:01:01.516 --> 01:01:02.356
sold on it so thank you

01:01:02.396 --> 01:01:05.900
well thanks so much for

01:01:05.920 --> 01:01:06.840
having me on today Jeff

01:01:06.880 --> 01:01:07.541
really appreciate it

01:01:07.802 --> 01:01:08.463
absolutely Dan we

01:01:08.483 --> 01:01:09.382
appreciate you coming out

01:01:09.422 --> 01:01:10.764
and talking to us today

01:01:11.284 --> 01:01:13.367
with that everybody this

01:01:13.387 --> 01:01:14.407
show will officially

01:01:14.447 --> 01:01:16.050
release on podcast format

01:01:16.389 --> 01:01:19.753
next Wednesday and with that

01:01:20.878 --> 01:01:22.865
Dan, welcome to the Council of Nerds.

01:01:23.509 --> 01:01:26.860
And VeVe Collectibles is USDN-approved.