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Speaker 1: Right, man, Bootleg cap Podcast special guests here, returning guests.
Speaker 1: It is Designer Con season.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 1: We got the homie Kevin from three D Retro and
Speaker 1: Designer Con in the building.
Speaker 2: Wellkome man, thank you for having me again. It's the time. Yeah,
Speaker 2: this year, big year. How many years in a row?
Speaker 2: Is this now? This is our eighteenth theater. We're finally
Speaker 2: so now we can buy cigarettes, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 1: And drinking somewhere in the world some places in the
Speaker 1: world can drink alcohol and do other things yes yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: sure yo, So this year too, man like for people
Speaker 1: who don't know. If you guys didn't see, we had
Speaker 1: Kevin on the show last year. Designer con is a
Speaker 1: really dope convention that is in Orange County every year.
Speaker 1: Well not every year, right, It's been in different places.
Speaker 3: It's been different places. For the first thirteen years it
Speaker 3: was in Pasadena, but OC's kind of the home now
Speaker 3: the home now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So it's how would you describe what Designer kan is.
Speaker 1: You kind of got to walk through it to really
Speaker 1: get a feel for it. But if you had to
Speaker 1: describe it.
Speaker 3: Well, if I had to describe it, it's like it's
Speaker 3: like a toy convention, but with emphasis on the art
Speaker 3: and artists. So it's a lot of individual artists having
Speaker 3: independent toys. But then you get the bigger companies that
Speaker 3: has more of a limited edition feel to it. But
Speaker 3: it's not like mass produced, not like Mattel or Hasbro.
Speaker 2: They're not there.
Speaker 3: It's guy's like overseas like Meticom, Toy PopMart that makes
Speaker 3: we call it mass produced, but the tech not to
Speaker 3: US standards. They're more limited edition runs. What they do
Speaker 3: is once they make something, once it's sold out, gonna
Speaker 3: gone forever.
Speaker 2: It's gone forever. Yeah, I look back. Yeah, so like
Speaker 2: you could walk around.
Speaker 1: There's different toys, there's different artists selling like prints and like, uh,
Speaker 1: there's collaborations between artists and toys, and it's.
Speaker 2: It's just it's like dope. Especially.
Speaker 1: I feel like if you got kids, uh, you also
Speaker 1: could be a grown up because I enjoyed myself. But
Speaker 1: I took my son who was eight years old, and
Speaker 1: he just loved it. I mean I spent a bunch
Speaker 1: of money on ship that he didn't understand what he
Speaker 1: was buying. We were on the look for squish mellows everywhere.
Speaker 2: See you might not. You probably didn't find that.
Speaker 1: No we didn't, but no, actually there was some one
Speaker 1: one random booth had squish mellows.
Speaker 3: So it's not a lot of that, right, but it's
Speaker 3: like I feel like you can take your kids there
Speaker 3: and then inspires them. There's a lot of things that
Speaker 3: they will open their eyes cool and just cool sets.
Speaker 1: Like there was like some guy in jail I think
Speaker 1: there was yet, Yeah, it was it was super cool.
Speaker 3: People are creative for sure, they're artists. They have to
Speaker 3: know they they think outside of box.
Speaker 2: For their booth, you know.
Speaker 1: You every year you guys do limited edition Bear Bricks
Speaker 1: for Designer con only.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's correct, right, partner of with different artists every year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like last year, I think I got like the
Speaker 1: limited edition box that was the designer branding. I still
Speaker 1: have that this year. Talk about some of the because
Speaker 1: I last year the guy I always forget his name,
Speaker 1: the Obey guy, I have.
Speaker 3: The Bear Shepherd fairry. This year we got Bobby Hundreds.
Speaker 3: We got Bobby Hundreds.
Speaker 2: Who is who was a part of like the Bare
Speaker 2: Brick exclusives this year, so we have Shephard coming back.
Speaker 3: He's doing the one thousand percent of the ones that
Speaker 3: we released last year, so it's a thousand percent which
Speaker 3: is a bigger version. And then he's we're also doing
Speaker 3: one that it's called the Make Art Not War Design,
Speaker 3: which he posted earlier this year. I think, without getting political,
Speaker 3: I feel like this is the right time.
Speaker 2: For sure for that message. I agree, So I think
Speaker 2: we feel like we should release this this year.
Speaker 3: So we're doing that. And then the artists, we have
Speaker 3: Bobby hundreds to hundreds, Ben hundreds. They are celebrating their
Speaker 3: twentieth anniversary this year. So we came together a few
Speaker 3: years ago knowing the fact that it's twenty years this year,
Speaker 3: they have never done a bear brick. We kind of
Speaker 3: help collaborate, you know, facilitate that and to celebrate the
Speaker 3: twentieth anniversary. So we'll have a special signing with them
Speaker 3: at the show and the release will be a Designer con.
Speaker 3: Another one will be Davs Mila. They're artist dual. They're
Speaker 3: located in La They do a lot of super bright
Speaker 3: flower paintings, graffiti La Muros. They're part of the Beyond
Speaker 3: the Street crew that world. So they have never done
Speaker 3: a bear brick and we'll have one with them as well.
Speaker 3: And then we have this purple one right here. This
Speaker 3: one is so fly. So this is a musician. He's
Speaker 3: a singer songwriter from Singapore. The name is JJ Linn.
Speaker 3: He's one of my personal favorite artists. You said he's
Speaker 3: like that Michael Jackson. I call him Michael Jackson of Asia.
Speaker 3: Voice is incredible as a singer. You know a lot
Speaker 3: of people use this what do you call auto tune?
Speaker 2: Not him.
Speaker 3: You will go to one of his concerts, like in
Speaker 3: the early especially early days when he was younger, you
Speaker 3: could hear the voice without the auto tune was beautiful.
Speaker 3: He did suffered a little bit of a vocal things
Speaker 3: straight maybe seven years.
Speaker 2: Ago being You've recovered.
Speaker 3: So it is his twentieth anniversary as a singer songwriter
Speaker 3: coming out.
Speaker 2: This year as well, so he has a world tour.
Speaker 3: Because we knew that we kind of want to celebrate
Speaker 3: with a special collab. We went to Meticom saying because
Speaker 3: they had a US stop in the US earlier this year,
Speaker 3: we wanted to come out at that time with the
Speaker 3: smaller one and then do the bigger one at Designer Can. Unfortunately,
Speaker 3: with manufacturing, shit happen should happen, so we decided to
Speaker 3: move it all to Designer Can. He just wrapped up
Speaker 3: his tour in China, so he's a conniversary tour. He
Speaker 3: just wrapped up the tour in China, so he'll be there,
Speaker 3: he'll be here, He'll be a Designer Cam Friday.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So you know for people who if they let's say,
Speaker 1: they're like I want to go and I'm want to
Speaker 1: get some of these limitedition things.
Speaker 2: Now, I went last year and I messed up.
Speaker 1: I went on Sunday, so a lot of the stuff
Speaker 1: I wanted to buy was just gone Friday.
Speaker 2: Friday Friday is the play. So Friday is well, how limited?
Speaker 1: Like for example, let's say these two how limited are these?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: I'm not supposed to say a number, but under a thousand?
Speaker 2: Okay, so you got to get there for.
Speaker 3: That size under a thousand sometimes on the bigger versions,
Speaker 3: under is under five hundred pieces have you?
Speaker 1: Because I feel like bear brig have kind of like
Speaker 1: became like this iconic. I feel like it's an entry
Speaker 1: point for a lot of people into art and the toys.
Speaker 1: Like a lot of people who are kind of like
Speaker 1: generic street where guys who wear Supreme and whatever whatever
Speaker 1: you you might go to their house and they got
Speaker 1: bear bricks on the side of their TVs.
Speaker 2: It's synonymous.
Speaker 1: It feels very like much like an entry point for
Speaker 1: a lot of people to get into art, to get
Speaker 1: into the toy game. For you, like you've obviously you
Speaker 1: guys had three d retro carry a bunch of dope
Speaker 1: bear bricks. You guys just moved to Vegas from La Yes?
Speaker 1: Is there like there's bootleg bear bricks?
Speaker 2: Right? Yes? So how do you tell, like if it
Speaker 2: can you tell if it's a fake bear brick or not?
Speaker 3: I can tell if I have it in my hand.
Speaker 3: In terms of the finish, you know how the figures made.
Speaker 2: Because that's the thing now yea, yeah, like there's bootleg toys.
Speaker 2: I didn't know this.
Speaker 1: Like recently, I was on Amazon and my son, no,
Speaker 1: this will happen. My son sent me is Christmas Liss
Speaker 1: like maybe three weeks ago, and he sent me everything
Speaker 1: on Amazon, and he sent me a fake cause toy
Speaker 1: on Amazon, and I was like, they're selling a twenty
Speaker 1: dollars couse toy on Amazon, Like, what the fuck is
Speaker 1: going on?
Speaker 3: Unfortunately, cause there's a lot of blue leg on that.
Speaker 3: Especially once you get it, you'll see it's completely different
Speaker 3: the original stuff or the real stuff that he sells
Speaker 3: now with medical So on the bottom of these guys,
Speaker 3: there's a sticker, so that is the NFC authentication, So
Speaker 3: if you have your phone or anything like that, you
Speaker 3: scan it, you'll tell you it's an authentic product on
Speaker 3: Medicon So they started doing that.
Speaker 2: One to come back. So you gotta look out for
Speaker 2: the sticker.
Speaker 3: You gotta look out for. But another thing is it's
Speaker 3: just a finish overall. A lot of these are super.
Speaker 1: Smooth, Like I couldn't imagine somebody pulling off like a
Speaker 1: legit like this is a very high level toy.
Speaker 3: Right, it's not easy to This is crazy to duplicate, right,
Speaker 3: so they don't do everything they do super popular or
Speaker 3: simple designs or just a blank one.
Speaker 1: What is your in your opinion, at all the bare bricks,
Speaker 1: what's like the one everyone has?
Speaker 2: What's the most popular, what's the one everybody has?
Speaker 1: What's the most what's like what's the most like generic
Speaker 1: bare brick? Like you was like, ah, like, it's like
Speaker 1: easy to get that. Most people have.
Speaker 3: I will say a licensed character like a like a
Speaker 3: Mickey or on those type of snoopy, you know, those
Speaker 3: type of character ones or superheroes like Batman, Superman.
Speaker 2: Those those are.
Speaker 3: On the basic like somebody that just got into this,
Speaker 3: right or what have right? Like I think most of
Speaker 3: us love playing action figures growing up. So for us,
Speaker 3: those ips are.
Speaker 2: The first one you gravitate to it.
Speaker 3: Right, So when you look at a Baar brick, and
Speaker 3: if you see an American IP, most Americans will go
Speaker 3: towards that, like Batman, Superman.
Speaker 1: What about what's the holy Grail? What's the two or
Speaker 1: three holy grail ones? I'm sure you probably have one.
Speaker 3: I think the holy I don't have the Holy Grail
Speaker 3: considered by a lot of people. There's a good piece, right,
Speaker 3: you have to be a VIP. Ben Baller has one,
Speaker 3: but you have to be a VIP on the list.
Speaker 3: They make like a super limited amount. It was only
Speaker 3: for Gucci's Gucci store.
Speaker 1: And what is that if on the on the on
Speaker 1: the aftermarket six digits? What's the most expensive because we
Speaker 1: talked about your toy collection last time, Yeah, it's pretty extensive.
Speaker 2: What is your like, Holy grailed, bare brick at your crib.
Speaker 2: I have a couple of.
Speaker 3: Causes that's worth it about twenty twenty five each, damn
Speaker 3: you know, so depending the market, Well, the market was great,
Speaker 3: it was here, so right now it's probably that price.
Speaker 1: It's crazy too because like I see you know, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I have an addictive personality, which is why I haven't
Speaker 1: diving in too much into the toy game because I
Speaker 1: am in I like, I'm into comics and I'm into sports,
Speaker 1: and I'm like the perfect mark to just eventually turn
Speaker 1: into DJ Amen.
Speaker 2: Oh Amen, he's a fucking psacho path a little bit.
Speaker 3: He's Uh, it's crazy.
Speaker 2: It collects everything at this point.
Speaker 1: And I wonder for you though, like, uh, you know
Speaker 1: if anybody, I mean, you've you've kind of seen it,
Speaker 1: Like where do most people kind of start their toy collection,
Speaker 1: like it like based on because you're on the retail
Speaker 1: side too, so you see a lot of toys. I'm
Speaker 1: sure you'll see somebody come in for the first time
Speaker 1: and then two years later you're like, man, we're seeing
Speaker 1: you every week.
Speaker 3: There's for us, the entry level will be the blind box,
Speaker 3: the little mystery boxes like when you're a kid, the
Speaker 3: booster pack of course, so a lot of the brands
Speaker 3: do that, like Bay Breaks, the smaller version. They come
Speaker 3: in blind boxes you can buy for seven dollars.
Speaker 2: You never know what you're gonna get. Number one you'll get.
Speaker 3: There's like plenty of design choos from. So that's like
Speaker 3: the entry level drug I call it. You get addicted
Speaker 3: to opening.
Speaker 1: It's almost like the cards, right, the bastall cards, because
Speaker 1: you crack a pack and you're like, shit, I gotta and.
Speaker 3: Then if you get the super rare one, it's worth
Speaker 3: a lot of money, super red oh you get keep going, right,
Speaker 3: So that's that's for me. That's what I see a
Speaker 3: lot of entry level people the blind boxes, and then
Speaker 3: once they get into it. They're like they find artists
Speaker 3: that they like. They gravitates to whatever artists are, from
Speaker 3: Cause to Steven Harrington to you know all these wrong
Speaker 3: English gear basement, all these guys part of our world.
Speaker 3: They start finding what they like for their house, for
Speaker 3: their hobby, so they go to the different artists, like
Speaker 3: we can take costs.
Speaker 2: Everybody wants to collect costs.
Speaker 3: So a lot of people go from friving blind boxes
Speaker 3: and go like, oh, my first cos piece, you know,
Speaker 3: a couple of hundred bucks. And we sell them at
Speaker 3: the store too, because we have some of our personal
Speaker 3: question nothing for wholesale.
Speaker 2: They eat the new wholesale.
Speaker 3: Then we get a couple of extra pieces and we
Speaker 3: sell it to our store VIPs. But they get addicted
Speaker 3: to that once they have their first piece. Oh I
Speaker 3: want to second piece. I want a third one, you know.
Speaker 3: So that's how you grow, right and then once you
Speaker 3: get there, you're like, once you get past Cause, then
Speaker 3: you're gonna go like what else is there? You want
Speaker 3: to kind of mix different things. Then that's when you
Speaker 3: get too far. You're like, I have a lot of shit.
Speaker 3: At that point, I.
Speaker 1: Was gonna say, there's like another subculture of toys that is.
Speaker 1: I feel like it's kind of somewhat very separate and
Speaker 1: different from this, and that's collecting wrestling figurines.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, wrestling fingerings and bootleg wrestling figurings.
Speaker 2: Oh, it was like bootleg.
Speaker 1: Yeah, cause like my son, we have probably no shit
Speaker 1: like five hundred wrestling toys from the last like I
Speaker 1: don't know, twelve years or so. I don't know what
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Speaker 1: Give them to me, like my kids. My kid's eighteen now,
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Speaker 1: never get rid of them, don't ever give them away.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we have two that just came in recently to
Speaker 3: the store. Uh I forgot. I'm not at wrestling, but
Speaker 3: people wanted people want. Yeah, it was. There's a red
Speaker 3: he's wearing red pans and a blue pants, red plant.
Speaker 3: Cody Cody Rroads American Nightmare.
Speaker 2: There was two wrestlers.
Speaker 3: They've done WWE, so they have done four hundred percent,
Speaker 3: not necessarily a thousand percents.
Speaker 1: So tell me about this Jordan one that's going to
Speaker 1: be because you guys just dropped the video.
Speaker 3: Today, just dropped the video. So there's a Jordan Bear
Speaker 3: brick Fire. This is the last shot nineteen ninety a
Speaker 3: NBA Finals. Metacom is releasing that overseas only, so this
Speaker 3: technically not for US market, but for Designer Con. They're
Speaker 3: bringing a super limited amount. They got permission from Upper
Speaker 3: Deck NBA to release them only a Designer Con. So
Speaker 3: we have less than one hundred big ones, less than
Speaker 3: fifty one hundred that point amount a very small amount,
Speaker 3: a less than two hundred of the smaller version of
Speaker 3: four hundred Yeah, but like right now the buzz.
Speaker 1: So the thing with that one is it's going to
Speaker 1: be at design of come before it releases overseas. Yes,
Speaker 1: so how much more? Like what's the like when is
Speaker 1: it the general release overseas?
Speaker 3: Again, there's it says December on their website, but I
Speaker 3: think they mean US. I from what I was told,
Speaker 3: it was supposed to go release from here and then
Speaker 3: Japan stores, Singapore and Macau and that's it.
Speaker 2: So that's dope. Yeah, overall?
Speaker 3: How many pieces? It is a limited addition. I remember
Speaker 3: the first one that came out was the rookie year
Speaker 3: was gold. That one sold out instantly and now it's
Speaker 3: worth like three four thousand Jesus so for the bigger
Speaker 3: size wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so for us, you know, it's a big deal
Speaker 2: to get this. Yeah, I was surprised. And this one
Speaker 2: was like it's a.
Speaker 3: Chrome, right, it's silver cilver Yeah, silver chrome with a
Speaker 3: red Chicago bulls jersey. It's clean, it has a fourteen
Speaker 3: on the feet. The Jordan has a Jordan logo too.
Speaker 1: If it was the last shot, it was probably yeah
Speaker 1: the fourteen Yeah, yeah, So I wonder because during the pandemic,
Speaker 1: hard assets like toys like rolexes, like basketball.
Speaker 2: Cards they shot through the roof.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they shot now a lot of that stuff. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure about the toy market, but I know a
Speaker 1: lot of like the sports cards market and the watch
Speaker 1: market is cooled off a little bit. Has the resale
Speaker 1: market on the toy game chilled out a bit in
Speaker 1: terms of where.
Speaker 3: It was, Yeah, definitely in terms of let's say, taking
Speaker 3: the collectible business fair bricks, they were at one point
Speaker 3: super hard to get everybody wanted price.
Speaker 2: Shot up through the roof in the pandemic.
Speaker 3: Now that's kind of just like everything else has kind
Speaker 3: of gone down. That's the reason why you know, you
Speaker 3: notice I haven't mentioned on Firepack because you guys do
Speaker 3: it every year, right, We're not doing it this year
Speaker 3: due to the market conditions.
Speaker 2: That's what Medicon call it, market conditions, because usually you
Speaker 2: guys have the designer on the box.
Speaker 3: Yes, So due to the market conditions, they decided not
Speaker 3: to do the fire pack this year. They want to
Speaker 3: focus on these collaborations anniversaries just so that we can
Speaker 3: get these out because they don't want to make too many.
Speaker 3: First of all, a lot of these exclusives of twentieth
Speaker 3: anniversary ones were making super limited amount, and then they're
Speaker 3: going to the artists and the brand, right, the hundreds
Speaker 3: will have some for sale. JJ will have some for
Speaker 3: his fans. So everything's very contained and limited. So the
Speaker 3: only way to get it is to come to the show.
Speaker 1: I was going to say, for you, how much of
Speaker 1: your toy collecting is investing for later?
Speaker 2: How much is it?
Speaker 1: Dj Amen or I like to call dj Amn because
Speaker 1: he's our friend. If you all don't know, go follow
Speaker 1: him dj Men three thousand. He is a psychopath. All
Speaker 1: his money goes to toys.
Speaker 2: But for you, are you?
Speaker 1: Are you the kind of guy who's like, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: buy this toy because in twenty years from now I
Speaker 1: might be able to cash out and retire.
Speaker 3: I'm a fifty to fifty okay, So for me, like,
Speaker 3: let's let's for example, let's say that Jordan Peace in
Speaker 3: my head and heart, I already won five because I
Speaker 3: know that's gonna be worth a lot, right, right, So
Speaker 3: do I want to do I want to get fired,
Speaker 3: of course, because I want to have one on display
Speaker 3: and have four sealed. Right, That's what I want to do.
Speaker 3: So in my head, a lot of my stuff are
Speaker 3: if it's cool and it's worth something that I can
Speaker 3: see in the future. I want to get two of
Speaker 3: three of That's where my collection at times.
Speaker 1: That's when you'll buy. You'll be like, you know what,
Speaker 1: almost like Wonder Rock. Want to stock with the Sneaks.
Speaker 3: Which I do with the Sneakers too, Like I get
Speaker 3: minimum two pairs of each if I can minimum, you know,
Speaker 3: like the Kobe Grinches, the Reversit.
Speaker 2: I just gotta pay for my son.
Speaker 3: I didn't even get one because I missed out on that.
Speaker 3: So I'm hoping I get there's a restock coming this weekend.
Speaker 3: Well the actual release is this weekend, Okay, so I'm
Speaker 3: gonna hope I get at least two pairs, you know,
Speaker 3: but a lot of the stuff, like there's elevens even
Speaker 3: though nobody wanted them this.
Speaker 2: Year d MT.
Speaker 1: Guess what in five years, three years, they're gonna go up.
Speaker 1: Of course, I got two pairs. You know, I don't
Speaker 1: I like them too. Well, they were hard to get
Speaker 1: when they first dropped. Are you about the grate fools
Speaker 1: that just dropped with the Gold Jordan.
Speaker 2: The DMP Defining Moments pay They're part of that pack. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so I don't know why people are like I've been.
Speaker 2: You know what's funny is like.
Speaker 1: I just threw a few pairs up on stock X
Speaker 1: just because like my man cave is a mess where
Speaker 1: I'm just like, fuck, dude, I haven't worn these shoes
Speaker 1: I had for four years. Like, but there was a
Speaker 1: few shoes that I bought that were sitting that Like
Speaker 1: I got those all red threes that came out four
Speaker 1: years ago and I got them for like eighty bucks
Speaker 1: on clearance, and now they're going for like three fifty
Speaker 1: four hundred, and I'm like, these are like I think
Speaker 1: I don't know if I posted those or not, but
Speaker 1: it's funny. I was just I was just going through
Speaker 1: all my my dead stock shoes and it's like a
Speaker 1: lot of these shoes that nobody wanted when they dropped.
Speaker 1: But I'm a three guy, so I'll buy any threes
Speaker 1: as long as they're not hideous.
Speaker 2: I'm like, damn, these threes, these threes, these three.
Speaker 1: Some of the fours that I have, Like I have
Speaker 1: these pony hair all black premium fours that like nobody
Speaker 1: wanted when they dropped, and I'm like, damn, Like it's
Speaker 1: probably the same thing with toys two.
Speaker 3: Well a little bit, yeah, a little bit. I think
Speaker 3: a lot of times is artists too for what we're now. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so at a certain point, if an artist right now
Speaker 3: is not well known, but his stuff is relatively cheap
Speaker 3: and limited, you.
Speaker 2: Buy that might because you're kind of investing in the artists.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just like cause right years ago he's not what
Speaker 3: he is now, So if you had older pieces, it's
Speaker 3: worth a lot more.
Speaker 2: So it is kind of like that.
Speaker 3: But like like like you said about Jordan's uh, you know,
Speaker 3: the certain models are always good, doesn't matter what kind
Speaker 3: of color they put. Eventually, when people don't want them,
Speaker 3: a couple of years later, they want them because they're
Speaker 3: done right. They're just a limited edition. It's a limited edition.
Speaker 3: It's a limited edition. Part of our nature. This nature.
Speaker 3: Same thing. If you don't get this bear broke now,
Speaker 3: so I can get them next week.
Speaker 2: Or next year. But once they're sold out, then you
Speaker 2: got to pay.
Speaker 1: Second, do you remember those animal print threes that came
Speaker 1: out They had like all the animal hair on.
Speaker 2: Three years ago?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have those fucking fire When they dropped, they
Speaker 1: were so easy to get.
Speaker 2: Now they're going for bread yeah, and there's a fire.
Speaker 2: I'm like nobody with these when they they were so bad.
Speaker 2: I love those. Yeah, those were great.
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Speaker 1: So for people who don't know Designer Cons this weekend,
Speaker 1: we're gonna drop the episode tomorrow. So tomorrow will be Wednesday.
Speaker 1: So if you're watching this, if you're in the LA area,
Speaker 1: you gotta pull up. Man, it's definitely worth even if
Speaker 1: you're in like Phoenix, San Diego, Vegas.
Speaker 3: Make the drive. Look, I made the drive. I moved
Speaker 3: to Vegas, so I was gonna.
Speaker 1: Say, you guys for people who don't know you guys
Speaker 1: are also behind the store three D Retro, which was.
Speaker 3: Based in kind of Bourbon Glende area, Burban Glende there
Speaker 3: for ten years.
Speaker 2: Just move to Vegas. Just moved to Vegas this summer.
Speaker 2: Is it better? Yes?
Speaker 1: I feel like because you guys were in a location
Speaker 1: where I don't feel like a lot of people knew
Speaker 1: you were there in terms of like generic generator traffic wise, right,
Speaker 1: I feel like because I know where you guys are
Speaker 1: in Vegas. So you guys must get just a lot
Speaker 1: more foot traffic.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot more exposure now where we were because
Speaker 3: we owned the land in the building, so we put.
Speaker 2: Murals and all that stuff. Oh yeah, it was sick.
Speaker 3: It's beautiful. But the thing is La is so big,
Speaker 3: like it's travel from one point to another point to
Speaker 3: go to Glendale.
Speaker 2: On the track.
Speaker 1: If someone lives in Gardena or something, they don't want
Speaker 1: to They don't want to go at all.
Speaker 3: So what I found in Vegas is every from one
Speaker 3: point to another, it's within thirty minutes.
Speaker 1: No matter, and there was no traffic and everybody you're
Speaker 1: you can now become a destination spot for when people
Speaker 1: come in from from where.
Speaker 2: Wherever they're at?
Speaker 1: Yeah, where were we at? Have you already experienced at where?
Speaker 1: Like people are like, yo, I came into town, I
Speaker 1: got to come back.
Speaker 2: We just posted it.
Speaker 3: Somebody said they came to Vegas there's a first stop
Speaker 3: because they noticed that we're there and be before when
Speaker 3: they were in La they can't make it, so now
Speaker 3: they go there.
Speaker 1: More people go to Vegas in LA. I feel like
Speaker 1: you know Las, they go to Disneyland and.
Speaker 3: How many Disneyland trips you take per year exactly. So
Speaker 3: Vegas a lot of people take it for leisure and work.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of convention on, a lot of stuff
Speaker 3: going on in Vegas.
Speaker 2: To business has been booming.
Speaker 3: It's been great, it's been doing well. So you know,
Speaker 3: there might be a I don't know if I should
Speaker 3: say it, but s designer com will be in Vegas
Speaker 3: next year too.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so this is our last year, and so if
Speaker 3: you've never been and you're in LA, you should go
Speaker 3: to designerclon dot com. Grab your tickets, get the VIP
Speaker 3: that's still available for Friday night, grab the Jordan if
Speaker 3: you can. I'm sure to sell out. There's a lot
Speaker 3: of ton of exclusives, uh, special guests, and then Saturday
Speaker 3: we have signings, just a bunch of cool stuff. Probably
Speaker 3: will see you there, the people get to see you.
Speaker 3: But yeah, this will be our last year. You know,
Speaker 3: when we turn eighteen, we gotta go to leave our nest.
Speaker 1: Hey listen, I am excited because now I have an
Speaker 1: excuse to go to Vegas. Any excuse to go to
Speaker 1: Vegas a good excuse in Vegas.
Speaker 2: I already have things planned. Oh, it's gonna be crazy.
Speaker 2: I'm sure. Yo.
Speaker 1: Last question I'm wondering. We talked Earli about your personal
Speaker 1: collection and what is a toy you'll never sell that
Speaker 1: you own that just means something to you that you
Speaker 1: just like, that you love that just I.
Speaker 2: Mean, I want to say never, but in terms of
Speaker 2: like terms of yeah, you get jagged.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: I think my car.
Speaker 3: There's three bark cause I have those three that's I
Speaker 3: got it for retail like five hundred bucks. Now they're
Speaker 3: twenty five thousand each, right, So yes, I can't sell it.
Speaker 3: But then that's something that I don't know if I
Speaker 3: I could personally pay twenty five grand on a toy.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I can do that. Yeah, right,
Speaker 3: so that's probably I won't sell. And then another figure
Speaker 3: I have was the one that got me into all
Speaker 3: This was a Stuicy figure that's like a skateboarder. Stucy
Speaker 3: used to sell them twenty years ago their store. That
Speaker 3: was the first figure that I ever bought.
Speaker 2: That's what kind of got you in.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm like, this is cool because I'm a big guy.
Speaker 3: I couldn't fit their clothes, right, I got to buy something.
Speaker 3: So by the accessories. Yeah, so like that's how I
Speaker 3: got into it, Like, oh I can buy something and
Speaker 3: it's a cool little figure and that kind of got
Speaker 3: me into the rabbit hole of designer toys from kid
Speaker 3: Robot to Metcalm.
Speaker 2: Kid Robot had a wave, man, I remember that that
Speaker 2: Storre in Vegas too.
Speaker 3: Ten years, fifteen years, fifteen glorious years of and then
Speaker 3: they kind of just you know, it's unfortunate.
Speaker 2: You know we are.
Speaker 3: We are celebrating the life of Frank Ozick this year
Speaker 3: at the show. He unfortunately passed away this year. He
Speaker 3: was the creative director of ki Robot the last few years. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so like we'll remembering him there. Great panels too. I
Speaker 3: think Amen's doing something hip hop, like I told him,
Speaker 3: you know, I would love him to him and Detroit
Speaker 3: is curating a whole day, so Sunday will be hip
Speaker 3: hop and art Like what does that mean with each other?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 3: A lot of artists that comes through our show, like
Speaker 3: uh murrs Like he was part of a booth last year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's got I mean he's had his own comic.
Speaker 1: I have a signed copy of his comic books ten
Speaker 1: years ago.
Speaker 3: So people in hip hop have done stuff in the
Speaker 3: collectibles world for sure all the time. I mean, shit
Speaker 3: Brun the Jewels got some sick toys, the ghost face
Speaker 3: kill ushit exactly.
Speaker 2: So like there was a Rizid.
Speaker 1: Toy I want to say last year that was in
Speaker 1: the Middle. There was like you guys said that Middle.
Speaker 1: I forget what company it was, but they had the
Speaker 1: middle big booth and they had all this stuff. It
Speaker 1: was like Network, Yes, and they had I think it
Speaker 1: was a Rizid toy. Yeah, I think so it was
Speaker 1: like a risk kill Bill toy.
Speaker 2: They have some. I was like, the fuck out here Friday?
Speaker 3: All right, Look, so he's going to have a soul
Speaker 3: Sunday planning about it. You know, we're celebrating the fifty fifth.
Speaker 2: Year of hip hop hip hop. So I hit a mmm,
Speaker 2: like hey you should we should do something, you know. Uh.
Speaker 3: So he's doing that Sunday with a bunch of cool,
Speaker 3: cool people, artists, musicians together on Sunday sick.
Speaker 1: Well listen, go make sure you get your tickets. Make
Speaker 1: sure you support three D red two if you're in Vegas. Yes,
Speaker 1: Uh what's g?
Speaker 3: I G's three D retros for the Instagram and at
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Speaker 2: Go get your tickets.
Speaker 1: Last year in La Man, last year, I appreciate you
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