Hi all!   I’m getting ready to head out the door to drive down to SDCC 2015 for preview night, so I don’t have time to write a lot of clever stuff here. If you are around at the con make sure you find us and say “hi.”   Jason will be lurking around the Entertainment Earth booth and I have two ActionFigureInsider panels you can check out.

I’m sure we will both have plenty of stories to tell when it’s all over.

Let’s look at the topics we cover in this pre-San Diego Comic Con 2o15 episode!

In this episode we discuss:

• Barenaked Ladies – Silverball
• Ben Folds/yMusic – Capable of Anything
• Blur- The Magic Whip
• Paul Weller- Saturns Pattern
• Florence and the Machine- How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
• Noel Gallagher live show
• Dr Strange ML set
• Hasbro SDCC exclusive New Stormtrooper figure
• SNL Tina and Amy BBP set
• NECA Clear Predator
• Mezco Dark Knight 2-pack
• Walking Dead exclusives
• POTA Mini Playset
• DisneyStore 14″ Electronic Iron Man
• Game Stop/NECA Batarang replica
• Gamestop Arkham Knight Red Hood
• ML Spider Woman
• Firefly Mal and Zoe 7″ figures
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• Snowpiecer
• Stripped
• Life Itself
• House of Cards Season 3
• Transparent
• Luthor
• Halt and Catch Fire
• Sense 8
• Silicon Valley
• Last Letterman episode
• Punisher on Daredevil
• DC’s Legends of Tomorrow
• CBS’ Supergirl
• Flash season ender

Aaaaand we’re BACK!   It’s been a few weeks, but there was a “secret” episode in the meantime in form of my Wondercon panel that Jason was a panelist. (I should have that up on the ActionFigureInsiderTV  YouTube channel soon).  Jason and I also got to hang out a bit at Star Wars Celebration, so while we might not have been recording we were still talking all things geek.

Since you have all be so patient awaiting our return we are giving you a super jumbo deluxe episode!   There was SO much great geek stuff to discuss in our absence that this episode is a whopping TWO AND A HALF HOURS long!   So make sure you pace yourself and have a good stretch before you start listening so you don’t hurt yourself.

In the words of our favorite scoundrel:   Chewie… we’re home.

In this episode we discuss:

• The new Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer and the new Star Wars: Rogue One Teaser
• Star Wars Celebration in Anaheim
• Jared Leto Joker and Suicide Squad pictures
• Avengers Age of Ultron (some possible spoilers)
• Batman V Superman trailer
• Daniel saw an early screening of the documentary: Death of “Superman Lives” What Happened?
• Jason’s Star Wars/music week
• Josh Trank’s firing from Star Wars Anthology movie
• Steve Sansweet
• Daredevil on Netflix
• Fox announced 6 new X-files episodes coming in January 2016
• Letterman’s last shows/ Rolling Stone Letterman cover
• Jason’s love of the 2.5″ mini figs

All that and much more on episode 121 of the Geek Shall Inherit podcast.

Oh man!  Another gap between episodes?   Yes.  Yes it’s true.  Both Jason and I have been traveling a bit this Spring so our schedules have been a little wonky.  I just got back from Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle and Jason ran off to the Twin Cites for a bit, so we were literally running in opposite directions!  But don’t worry, we will be reunited this Easter weekend as he is a guest on a panel that I’m moderating this Friday at WonderCon in Anaheim! (more on that below!)

Whenever there is a gap between episode it just means that there’s even MORE to discuss each time we sit down together.

In this episode we discuss:

• Daredevil coming this month on Netflix
• Our Toy Fair 2015 recap
• Want a Hot Toys Hulk Buster Iron Man?  That will just cost you about $850.
• The Four Horsemen Mythic Legions Kickstarter funded!
• Mattel MOTUC Club 200x subscription also funded.
• Avengers Poster
• Star Wars: Rogue One and Episode VIII announcements
• Blomencamp Alien movie gets Ripley – ignores 3 and 4
• All-male Ghostbusters also planned?
• New Tomorrowland Trailer
• Tron 3 moving forward
• Harrison Ford Plane Crash
• Awesome new Avengers trailer
• Marvel 11 Movie Marathon
• CBS Supergirl costume revealed
• Dean Cain and Helen Slater in new CBS Supergirl
• Marvel Studios not attending Comic Con?   That’s the rumor.
• Daniel’s new Legion of Dans Podcast.
• Leonard Nimoy passes
• Terry Pratchett passes
• Daniel’s friend Jay West

All that and more in episode 120!

If you find yourself at Wondercon 2014 in Anaheim this weekend be sure and check out our panel:

Toy Collecting in the Modern Age: The High Price of Having Fun

Friday April 3, 2015 1:30pm – 2:30pm
Room 213

Are mass-market collector toys dying? The price of raw materials and costs of the production process continue to skyrocket. Action figures that were $7.99 five years ago are now in stores for over $20. At that price can you still be a “completist?” Is Kickstarter the better way to go for an up-and-coming toy company to get figures in the hands of collectors? Are toy collectors prepared for the onslaught of all of the new Star Wars figures that will come from the new movies? A panel of toy industry insiders and collectors examine just what is going on today and where it’s all going in the future. Moderator Daniel Pickett (ActionFigureInsider.com, host of Geek Shall Inherit podcast) is joined by industry experts Justin Donaldson (collector, director, The Tournament of Nerds), Jim Fletcher and Kevin Kiniry (DC Collectibles) Jason Lenzi (co-founder, Bif Bang Pow!), Scott Neitlich (director of play, Jakks Pacific, collector), Jeff Trojan (Playmates Toys) and David Vonner (senior designer/product manager Spin Master).

This weekend kicks off Toy Fair 2015 so since I have an action figure website and Jason has a toy company it only makes sense that we spend a good chunk of this episode talking about toys and the toy industry.  We have quite a bit of “behind-the-scenes” toy talk in this episode so we didn’t get to cover all of the topics we wanted to cover, but if there was ever a time to talk toys it’s the week before the “big show!” I’m really excited about all of the new reveals… but not so excited about the weather.  Please… think warm thoughts for me this weekend.

In this episode we discuss:

• Toy Fair 2015
• Avengers 2 toys hitting already
• BifBangPow! and their DC Comics license announcement
• New Fantastic Four trailer
• Ghostbusters 3 female cast announced
• David Tennant joining Marvel’s Jessica Jones Netflix series
• Netflix Daredevil trailer
• RUSH announce a new US tour
• Weird Al has a new tour

All that and more on this new episode of the Geek Shall Inherit podcast!

We can still say “Happy New Year” to each other since it’s still January, right?  I thought so.

There’s a lot of housekeeping/catch up in this episode.  Since it’s been a few weeks between episodes and there was a holiday “break” we had a chance to see and catch up on a lot of stuff from toys to movies to television.

Plus we start ramping up our excitement for the Toy Fair 2015 reveals!

It’s our first all new episode for 2015!  Enjoy!

In this episode we discuss:

• Agent Carter mini series on ABC
• Daniel watched BBC’s Black Mirror on Netflix
• Want to feel old?  The SyFy Channel’s revival of Battlestar Galactica is 10 years old! Do yourself a favor and watch (or rewatch) the first episode “33”
• Billy Dee appears this season as Lando in Star Wars: Rebels!
• Vixen animated series that ties into the Flash/Arrow TV universe on the CW’s digital channel
• Teen Titans pilot for TNT and Supergirl series for CBS
• SyFy confirms ‘Krypton‘ series
• Jason watched he BBC ‘Broadchurch‘
• The 2014 Doctor Who Christmas Special
• Warpo Toys have shipped their Legends of Cthulhu kickstarter figures and they are fantastic!
• Hasbro’s Episode 7 toy leak (SW Black figures and the return of Micro Machines)
• Daniel saw The Amazing Spider-man 2, Birdman and Into the Woods
• Jason saw The One I Love, The Babadook, A Walk Among the Tombstones, Gone Girl, TMNT and The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies
• Drew Struzen may come out of retirement for Episode 7 poster

All that and more on episode 118 of the Geek Shall Inherit podcast!

We can hardly believe that it’s been 3 years since we first launched the Geek Shall Inherit podcast, but the numbers… and dates don’t lie.  It was 3 years ago THIS WEEK that we launched the Geek Shall Inherit podcast with episode one, and we have been talking pop culture ever since! True to form, even expanding this episode to two hours, we STILL don’t get to every topic that we wanted to cover in this episode!  But we do squeeze in a LOT in these 120 minutes.

Once again there is a LOT of new topics to discuss such as a new trailer from a galaxy far, far away as well as some James Bond news… we even talk about holiday decorations!

Thank you again to all that have listened to us over the past 3 years.  We really appreciate every comment, question, suggesting and follow.   And THANK YOU again to our editor and my lovely bride Abby for producing and putting the episodes together week after week, month after month and year after year!

In this episode we discuss:

• Star Wars Episode 7 ‘ The Force Awakens’ teaser trailer
• Steven Colbert sets everyone straight on the new lightsaber.
• As of our recording Jason hadn’t watched the Terminator Genisys trailer.  Have you?
• Jurassic World has a new trailer.  I’m sure everything will work out fine this time on the island.
• New James Bond movie and cast announced for: Spectre.
• Suicide Squad movie casting
• Cumberbatch is officially Dr. Strange
•  New Hawkman Total Heroes action figure
• DC Collectibles Batman Animated figures
• NECA 1989 Batman Blu Ray set
• The Walking Dead Facebook page spoilers and Walking Dead recap/thoughts
• Did Mickey Rourke really fight a 26 year old?  And what’s with his “new” nose?
• Jason’s Music Corner with Jellyfish, Foo Fighters, McCartney and Wings reissues, The Art of McCartney tribute discs, Robert Plant and Neil Diamond?
• I educate everyone about the late, great Jack Horkheimer – Star Hustler.
• Christmas TARDIS at HomeDepot
• Ian McLagan of the Small Faces passed away last week.

All that and more in a double sized anniversary episode of GSi!

Have a listen, won’t you?

You probably noticed that there was a bit of a gap between episodes, but if you are at all internet savvy you will have found both Jason and I talking about pop culture stuff on a couple of other podcasts.  There’s been an avalance of pop culture news the past few weeks so in this episode we try to do a speed round to get through as many of the topics as possible.  So strap your ears down.  We’re going to blaze through some topics!

In this episode we discuss:

Is Toy Story 4 nessicary?  Are you excited for it? 

Scott/ToyGuru lhas left Mattel

The Breaking Bad/Toys R Us #AdultsCollect controversy

Designer Con 2014 in Pasadena, Ca.

Comizake 2014 in Los Angeles

The new Target exclusive toys/figures

Star Wars Rebels picking up steam and  the action figures hitting

Jason found another Flash Gordon holy grail: Ming’s Guard Halloween mask from Belgium

The  new Avengers 2: Age of Ultron trailer

The Marvel Movie Phase 3 news

Star Wars Episode VII has a title:  The Force Awakens

Aussie TV series ‘The Slap’, getting remade for NBC/US

Monty Python Live at the O2 London BluRay DVD/CD set

1966 Batman on Bluray

All that an more in an all new Geek Shall Inherit!

Sorry this episode is a little later than expected.  I’ve been a bit busy trying to rally 40,000 collectors to make their voice heard by Toys R Us over this Breaking Dad toy controversy.    It’s taken up a lot of my week, but it’s been well worth it as we have quadruple the signatures that the FloridaMom got on her “outrage” petition.   I’m SURE will will talk about this next episode as Jason knows a thing or two about “outraged” moms getting figures pulled out of Toys R Us.

Next weekend is the big Stan Lee’s Comikaze Expo here in Los Angeles.   I was supposed to go and cover it for AFi, but instead I’m traveling back home for my grandfather’s 90th birthday celebration.   This will be the first year that I will miss Comikaze, but hey, a man only turns 90 once!   So if you are going, have fun and tell me all about it.  I’ll be there in spirit.

And finally, I just want to put this out there before you listen to the episode so you aren’t disappointed as you listen.  If you are looking for the new wave of Star Wars Black figures that have been hitting stores… then keep looking everywhere and every where.  Waste your time and gas.   Jason has found them, but he won’t tell you where.  So… I guess good luck with that.

In this episode we discuss:

• Daniel is really digging the new Serial podcast from the “This American Life” team.
• We are both digging Star Wars Rebels.  The “special edition” encore of the pilot with the added Darth Vader scene will be on this Sunday evening on ABC.  Jason picked up the Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion DVD .
• McFarlane ‘The Walking Dead’ Construction sets hit Toys R Us about a week early.
• Pre-ordered Walgreens white Boba Fetts and Marvel Legends Agent Venoms are shipping now.
• Diamond Select will be doing 7″ Ghostbusters Select figures
• Star Wars Rebels toys
• Jason got a “RON the Space Pimp” Pod Stallions figure.
• Tomorrowland trailer.
• 10 DC comics movies over the next 6 years announced
• The possibility of Spiderman being in Avengers 3?
• Robert Downey Jr. is in Captain America 3 , which rumor has it will kick of a “Civil War” storyline.
• Star Wars Leak of the Week – lots of pre-production art
•  Warrick Davis announces as part of Ep7 cast
• An update on “Star Wars Farts”
• X Men: Days Of Future Past DVD set
• Edge of Tomorrow/Live, Die, Repeat
• Premire of the Walking Dead Season 5
• HBO’s Genesis documentary
• The recent developments on Doctor Who.
• Ben Affleck’s appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher

All that and more!

Check out episode 115!

We are NOT at New York Comic Con this weekend… but we wish we were.   At least I THINK we wish we were.  There was a report published on Thursday that NYCC had surpassed SDCC in attendance.  And not just by a little, by something like 20,000 people!    They say there are roughly 130,000 + people allowed in the  San Diego Convention center each year for SDCC now.   NYCC at the Javits is said to have 150,000+ and from the reports I’m reading today… it’s still fun.   It’s not the beating that SDCC has become.  The Javits Center has a very different layout than SDCC and they don’t have all of Hollywood right up the road ready to caravan every possible genre project to the show, so maybe they have found the best of both worlds in the Big Apple.   It will be interesting to see the changes in both shows over the next 2-3 years.   We have lots of coverage and pictures of the con, so many it will feel like you are there, right here over on AFi.

This week we discuss:

• The most recent Doctor Who
• Indiana Jones 5 might be closer than we think
• Iron Man 4 coming… we think?
• Star Wars Leak of the Week
• Star Wars Farts Kickstarter
• 3-D Printing Documentary  – Print the Legend
• New Twin Peaks in 2016!!!
• Star Wars Rebels animated series
• The Flash on The CW
• Walking Dead renewed for season 6
• NYCC 2014 – Go Hero/Executive Replica Prototypes
• and much, much more!

Happy National Podcast Day everybody!  Thank you for listening and sharing it with us here at the Geek Shall Inherit podcast!   If you dig what we do on GSi this would be the perfect opportunity to recommend us to a friend on this national day of podcast celebration.  We love talking all things pop culture with each other and with you folks, but there’s always room for more at the table.   So check out this all new episode of the Geek Shall Inherit podcast, and then go check out some other new podcast that you have never heard before.  It’s new media and it’s here to stay!.   This is a bit of a beefier episode clocking in at 90 minutes.  We hope you dig it, and thanks for listening!

Also a very special “Thank you” to listener, artist and Eisner Award winner – Art Baltazar.  He sent us the best care package full of Aw Yeah! Comics.   You should check out all the awesomeness available at AwYeahComics.com! Also check out Art’s podcast!

In this episode we discuss:

• Walgreens exclusives and new Target collector endcaps
• Hot Toys Episode IV Han and Chewbacca figures 
• 2nd wave of ReAction Alien announced
• PIXAR toy range found at Toys R Us
• Jason talks a bit about some BBP! newness!
• Star Wars Rebels stuff that’s out
• Daniel is loving his new Gentle Giant Jumbo Wampa
• New Fall TV shows we are watching
• Will Warburton to return as the Tick on Amazon?
• Doctor Who Check in- are we loving Capaldi’s portrayal?
• Great BLACKLIST premiere
• Jason was asked to host a show pilot, about the collecting world, waiting to hear
• Star Wars Leak of the Week
• The weird Instagram/Twitter thing between J.J. Abrams and Zac Scnhider.
• Jason rewatched the doc ‘A Decade Under the Influence‘
• Ralph Steadman doc, ‘For No Good Reason‘
• Ghostbusters/Ghostbusters II Limited Edition on Blu-ray

All that and more in an all new episode of:

For all of you folks that have been asking for more toy talk on the podcast, then this is the episode for you!   We talk a little bit of music, a little bit of catch up and then we dive deep in our plastic lives and talk toys.   I don’t think we talk about a single move in this episode.  See, we like to switch things up about every 111 episodes just to keep it all fresh!

In this episode we cover:

• LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham – Coming November 11th in North America and November 14th globally.
• Queen’s ‘Live At The Rainbow ’74’ (Blu-Ray/CD) box set.
• Target had a TMNT snafu last week!
• Buck Rogers Minimates are coming!
• Amok Time’s 4″ Gort and Klaatu “Day The Earth Stood Still” 2-pack.
• 4th wave of NECA Simpsons Celeb Figures Announced – Buzz Aldrin, Tom Jones, Elvis Costello, Weird Al, and Aerosmith.
• Jason finally got the old Playmates ‘Tracy Ullman Show’ Simpsons family box set.
• Mattel’s DCUC Doomsday Unleashed coming this Winter.
• Grabbed new 4″ Doctor Who figures.
• Daniel’s new music pick – Shovels and Rope.
• Daniel saw Elvis Costello and Ben Folds at the Hollywood Bowl.
• Simpsons take the Bowl.
• Lenzi’s love of Kate Bush.
• The shocking revelation: “Hello Kitty” is NOT a cat?

All that and much more in Episode 112!

AND as a bonus if you want to hear (and/or see) Daniel talk for another hour about comic books, TV shows and toys then check out his recent appearance on the “Drinking With Comics” podcast here!