Why? He just made your collection rarer.

@@IceWolfLoki underrated comment

@@IceWolfLoki whoosh

Seriously, that’s funny.

@@IceWolfLoki r/whooosh

That guy is the adult Sid

@@scottk1525 But no one's ever REALLY gone, Scott

the riauen johnson trilogy will look like this cube

There should be force ghosts for battle droids

Buz and woody shitting their pants

I never understood the hype around thoses ugly, absolutely useless, overrated pieces of plastics. This is one of the most stupid thing you can buy ever. And after that, they force us to use cardboard straws get rid of plastics bags and reeeeee about plastic pollution.

physical nft's

@@xminusone1 what are you on about? Who said anything about plastic waste? He was talking about funko pops and you just went on a tangent about straws or something. Who's ree'ing here?

@@gigan2444 If we need to stop producing meaningless plastic, we could start with stop producing funko pops though.

@@apostolosfilippos all plastic toys are "meaningless". Should we only produce the toys you personally like?

Who is Mike?

Like William Shatner?

I didn't know off hand but after searching that makes this even better.

Mike Stoklasa is the main guy who founded, created, owns, operates, runs, and leads Red Letter Media.

Very cool, very cool.

doubleP well it is Milwaukee

I mean the guys they're parodying do give off serious serial killer vibes in their videos where they do it individually and only to the female figures...

very good.

Unlike the lake district on Naboo. There everything is soft & Smooth.

Dank meme there.

That's why you should always wear your rubbly gluves

It smells soooo good 😋

They're worth like 2$ if that much, every collector that wanted these already has them by this point.

@@Jokoko2828 technically it depends on what figure it is, the condition of the figure, if it's boxed or not boxed, and if the accesories are intact

@@Jokoko2828 some people are just getting started with collecting and could have used these figures as a starting point, or could have been given to kids to play with while the nice ones are in cases or on display.

@@josephwalk1747 the fact that he was able to get so many grubby toys (probably from eBay) implies to me that there are no children playing with these kinds of figures anymore - they're not very well-designed action figures anyway

My guess is he got a lot (as in a bunch of figures in bulk of varying levels of condition), so collectors wouldn't value them anyway.

I'm pretty sure there is an art collector out there who might pay decent money for this. There are a lot of layers of "meaning" to this (even just a generic anti-consumerism message) that would appeal to the conceptual art world.

true, but most modern art in art museums comes from established artists. they usually don't take stuff from any random person

not that Mike is any random person to me. but to an art museum…

@@carstarsarstenstesenn You'd be surprised. The art gallery scene is pure nepotism, so an outsider with the right connections could get a showing -- which makes sense since conceptual art is mostly pretentious garbage making it hard to award artists shows based on merit.

It's not a cube, it's a cuboid at best. This should be the true source of outrage.

Wipe them out..... All of them

Sounds like when Disney took over

Neeerrrd!

Even worse than that: They screamed in terror and agony for hours and days with seemingly endless pain and suffering till the last victim was consumed. Tortured as if some dark force savored every second. None of those poor souls deserved to pay the price of the evil mouse lords.

Well, actually, 2387 voices...

Burn it all down in your Death Star Popcorn Maker.

These are *NOT* nerd crew stuff. Most of the merchandise in Nerd Crew setup are very modern. These are vintage. Source: Trust me.

write off, solid business sense

@@Commander_Shepard. yeah about 95% of the set is covered in modern merch but they do have the vintage figures in there too (probably their own stuff)

If they do another Nerd Crew they should have that cube in the front center

I did. I watched Star Wars and realized I destroyed about $100,000 worth of toys as a kid.

Cried out in 'terror'

I was gonna like this but it's at 666.

@@mindwarp12 Now it's at 766

so... infinitely more meaningful than the Sequel Trilogy, by that measure.

that's remix culture baybeeeeeee

FBI: "Whats this about a spike in sales for acetone"

LeftoverBeefcake trust me this wouldn't surprise the Milwaukee police at all

I feel bad for all the meth labs in Wisconsin that will suffer an acetone shortage for the next couple weeks.

Yeah right. More like Mike and Rich walk in and the HD guy is "Oh you two, how many cans this time?" With Rich saying "How many you got!?!?!"

@@_Deputy_ Haha brilliant xD

I thought the greeble was familiar.

Which he will then ritualistically destroy to help him cope with the terrible, awful, painful place Star Trek has gone.

I was about to comment the same you hack!

They got assimilated

*looks at camera*

i can only imagine how beta you are XD

@@TheAussie90 you seem like a beta too bud

@@TheAussie90 I can only imagine how lonely you are

@@tee981 based on me calling this loser a beta?? lmao nice argument mate XD the best laugh i can get, is when you morons act like normal people cant tell what weird social outcasts with no friends on his little keyboard in his safe space you are XD probably the most you have ever contributed to society, is making us all laugh lol so cheers for that!

@@TheAussie90 you’re the only key by warrior here mate you really out here having a breakdown over a KZfaq comment

there are so much better toys for kids anyway, you can probably buy huge buckets of lego for nothing

Not to mention these particular toys are 40 years old and covered in grime and shit.

These people realize that Star Wars toys are still being made, right? We're not exactly in short supply. Even when there aren't any Star Wars movies or shows being made, there will always be Star Wars toys being made.

I hope they mail it to Katheen Kennedy.

Hahaha it actually does

hahah that's great

Best KZfaq comment I’ve ever read!

Dog turd with a hint of smog.

Don’t you mean Solo?

i think it's more surreal that it's still about given how warm stars already felt pretty stagnant when this came out and it's only gotten worse but i'm also the shmuck watching this so who knows

I'm not exactly violently upset, but I'm a little miffed at the near-pointless destruction. I would've preferred if he had given them to some kid who likes SW OT, or just a nearby second hand store or whatever; then other people could've had the joy of playing with those action figures. Although the close-up of the figure with the outstretched arm, sinking into acetone like a terminator into molten steel, was pretty enjoyable.

A buttloads of them. Lmao.

@@thecianinator Look at the like to dislike ratio. This has be the most disliked RLM video of all time

Well I fu*king did

It's not illegal, in the collision industry we buy it in 55 gallon barrels.

@@ronnievaughn1257 is that an industry that... makes collissions?

If you watch the patreon behind the scenes video you find out he had Rich buy all of it because of that lol

@@Notepad37 how tho?

@@SonicXtreme99akaCreeperMario He said "Rich buy this" I'm guessing

Lmao!!

Naw, I'm sure the guys got good and huffed off it in the process.

Hey now!

Last Jedi director Ryan Johnson, is that you?

Given the likely outcome of the Picard tv show it may not be too long in coming.

Well there was that one time he started eating them...

Insert grandpa Mike laugh

Gonna need a much bigger tank.

Trust me: when that day comes, there will be no one there left alive to film it...

I'm just reminded of when they spilled beer on the Gremlin prop

They had us in the first half ... well 90% ... ngl

I fully agree with you. It would have been more honorable to dump them off at an orphanage or ship them to some third world country where they would have been valued by kids. But I guess some people don't share that sense of fortitude.

Glorious, lol

@@jerryterwase9027 "I may be starving but at least I have this toy of Blonde White Man."

@@LangstonDev not every child in a third world is starving. They may have farms, they may have food processing and textile factories but not toy factories which produce Star wars toys.

Star Wars....You will be assimilated into the Disney collective! Resistance to melting is FUTILE!

All he has to do is put on some green lighting and paint the rest of it black.

...and Disappointment. You can't forget the stench of Disappointment

And Rich Evans.

... all dripping with autism.

Go_Rilla26 Wrong franchise...you’re thinking of The Predator

@@karma_monkey I get the feeling that Rich smells like Popcornopolis, which I'm ok with.

God I love redditor tears

Glorious.

Goood... gooood

Actually they were probably screaming for a while. Death by acetone must be very painful.

🤣😂🤣

I was hunting for this comment and didn't have to scroll far lol

When disney bought Lucasfilm

Thought bomb?

I'd buy that for a dollar!

Dew It!

@@stikcler That's about $7,999,999 short of the starting bid.

Not enough bodily fluids to be modern art.

@@LabrnMystic Dewback** it

Very cool

underrated, that was gold

This gave be a big ol' guffaw, well done.

R2....R2 Come in R2

NO!! SHUT THEM ALL DOWN, SHUT THEM ALL DOWN!!!

Better not shoot a blaster down there.

Kyle Boyle It’s stylistically designed to be that way, and you can’t undo that. But you can diminish the effects of it.

*Please, good sir, I beg of thee: do use metric!* You gotta do it with class, man.

It’s like poetry, so that they rhyme.

It has so much going on and yet, has nothing going on. Symbolic

It might have gone too far in some places.

Just think how many hours of fun those children would garner from that acetone. Sniff.

Do you donate your garbage to hungry? No? why not, they could eat it?

Read that in Plinkett's voice

All the children out there who need to remove nail polish but can't afford to import acetone

@@jimjob28 "Disney buys the rights to ownership of all acetone molecules in the universe"

I didn't realize this existed on an indy level.

@Wiz It's both! The performance art of tax write offs for performance art

I read this as “wax right off” at first...

The Producers but producing a KZfaq channel pretending to be movie critics

Life imitating art imitating art

One died from diabetes first

Fingers crossed

Acetone isnt really toxic, we basically used it like dishwater for lipophile stuff at university.

KZfaqrs are drinking acetone now?! I need to break this news before people lose interest! No time to research any of this, I've got journalism to do!

Authorities were baffled why they didn't do this literally any other way like with a microwave- stove- saw- hammer or even bricks-they could of atleast emptied the containers of acetone in a larger containerized planned ahead so they could simultaneously dumped all the acetone in at once so it wouldn't just look like grey foggy bullshit. So much money time and their lives I guess wasted on such a lame stunt wow and these guys are critical of other people? Or the media they put out when this is there shit??

Make a video of you drinking the acetone and it will be the best video ever

@@mws755 I can’t tell if you’re joking or actually threatening me, but I sure will. ;)

@@Dose_Of_Autism asking/telling you to do something isn't a threat.

@@mws755 careful not to drop your star wars toys when having your tantrum!

@@mws755 most emotionally mature star wars fan

:^)

go behind him, place your hand on his shoulder and say "...sigh, Mike."

He's been busting his ass being a Star Wars fan

I feel like reading is way better then collecting the figures

@@chasescorner2902 yeah but he still wastes all his money on the figures too. I collect hardcover classic literature instead and its cost a pittance. + gotten me laid

You mean 'more valuable'. Yours, a collector. Muwahahahahaha!

Rafferty1968 that is literally, exactly what he meant

@@caseblaze Do you understand what the word 'Literally' means? 'Powerful' and 'Valuable' are not the same and no where near 'literally' the same. Now, I grant you that he may have been implying that they would become more valuable, however, I inferred that he was simply quoting Star Wars, you know, when Ben says "If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can imagine." So I made my little joke. Perhaps you didn't get it. I'm sorry. (Not sorry).

Rafferty1968 no I did get the joke, I got it the first time in the original comment which had the same intended meaning as your reply. Don’t get too offended I was attacking your superfluous comment not your little hobby.

@@caseblaze Did you actually read my reply? lol. I'm not offended, I just found your use of the word 'literal' to be hilarious. Since when is a joke superfluous? I'd have thought if there was a superfluous comment at all, it would be yours. If you got the joke why bother to attempt to criticise it? Pointless trolling? Simple pedantry? (If it is the second one, it makes your use of 'literal' even more amusing). What hobby? I'm not a collector, it was a joke lol.

I used to freeze him.

BAWWWWWWW

We're all capable of growth and change.

Just like the last jedi.

Every inch counts... am I right?

They may have gone too far in a few places...

What a waste of totally good acetone ...

And now, they have all become one

I say we take off, and nuke the place from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

The Star Wars figures came together in misery and lost their identities, just like families. Mike was symbolically like the narcissistic parent crushing the dreams of his children to satisfy his own ego and vanity.

watching people seethe over star wars is more entertaining than actual star was

"But you could have donated those back to the thrift store where you got them for hundreds of kids to ignore! omg kids in Africa could use those toys of white people in winter coats and have so much fun instead of food! You just threw away all that money, you could have sold those for 5 cents each!" And so on lol

Or thinking this helps their plastic junk collections value in any meaningful way lol

@@theperfectreed Hell yeah brother

@@friedchicken297 third world kids deserve far better toys. Ones that are actually fun

Very cool. *Nodding uncontrolably

Probably the acetone was worth more than the toys.

@@2lobo777 yeah acetone can be a bitch to get in bulk

Very weirdly aggressive comment - did you fail ECON101? Is that why you're bitter? It's sound economic reasoning, they just lacked context about this particular market. More like amateur Star Wars experts, which is no shame at all. Even so, unboxed toys have SOME value, so they are subject to supply and demand. However, given how many millions are probably in circulation, the effect of a couple thousand being melted is going to be difficult to observe.

Okay well feel free to sell me your all your unboxed vintage Star Wars figures for dirt cheap then ya fool

Greedo melted first

maclunkey

My brain melted first

I wish Kathleen had melted first, like the wicked witch.

LOL

Here's the twist, rich was never even in the video it's just mike really fucking stoned from all the acetone plastic gases.

They are extremely vivid hallucinations. Acetone is a hell of a drug.

come back have another browse, people are still seething here

@@pigmentpeddler5811thank you, I just did and I am again filled with lovely schadenfreude!

Like the Triumph song?

im sure you have seen things people wouldnt belive

Damn, a Blade Runner reference?

…in acetone.

My peepee likes to guzzle it.

What? Viscous, and oily?! What acetone have you been using?

i just looked up words in a thesaurus, didn't really care if it made sense, just kind of liked the sound of it ;) @@vhsqueen

@@S1RD2 gotcha 😜 just had to ask as its the opposite, thin like alcohol and evaporates off the skin just as quick 😂😂😂

@@Houshalter lol well now you got scammed 😂🤣

Menno de Ridder this sends no message other then hes an idiot. Just pointless but hey your shit if you wanna melt it have at it

Everything burns...

What this franchise needs is a real villain... And I'm gonna give it to them -Disney

Menno de Ridder ha Joker

Speaking of 'sending a message' they should mail that to Kathleen Kennedy.

He was a kid though...some 80 odd years ago

True

actually perf timing cuz the firing of Gina

overused

Lol

I need a backstory on your name.

AverageJoe8686 it’s insensitive to make fun of a bombing like that 😔😔

@𝓛𝓸𝓼𝓽 𝓲𝓷 𝓗𝓮𝓪𝓿𝓮𝓷 Thanks! What your icon from? It looks familiar.

Makes me think of the color palette of Galaxy's Edge.

He felt like he could take on the whole Empire by himself 🙂

I know what you mean.

The LucasFilm advertising department likely gave him a name. He looks like a Colonel Bunutu Tahanka to me.

The acetone shield doors *must* be closed.

Wasted Time? With the new movies maybe, but just because Star Wars sucks now doesn't mean the memories you made growing up are worthless or make you out to be a fool who got duped into buying trash. If those things gave you joy as a child then thats what has value, and it can never be tarnished, regardless of the intention of the creators or shareholders now.

@@nexusva8252 Respectfully, I disagree. I spent a lot of money on this franchise and spent a lot of time reading the books. The new movies sucking really made me aware of the futility in trying to harness the good feelings of the past. Everything changes, and I should have moved on sooner. I was immature and living in the past trying to recapture my childhood, and that was the source of my addiction to collecting. What I thought was fun was desperation and procrastination. Life is too short to not constantly be trying to move forward and mature. Maturity doesn't mean you're not going to have fun anymore, but it is a stage of life that, the earlier it is embraced, the better off you will be. You will be more financially stable, more appealing to the opposite sex, more capable of raising kids and making THEIR childhood a happy one. You won't be playing with Star Wars anymore, but you learn valuable skills like building a house, fixing a car, getting certifications and education so you can provide for yourself and your family. I may have wasted too many years being immature, and it is NOT fun now that I'm an adult. The ideals of society have even changed to shitty ones not worth fighting for. I found myself hoping that the New Order won and beat the crap out of the resistance because they are a disorganized sexist bunch of liberals, and I'm not on their side. I felt that them losing some of their freedom and some of thir lives may actually be good for them. I don't mean to get political, the resistance were just not a group of people I would fight for like the rebels were from the original trilogy, and I'm not talking about the Disney Rebels, either. I didn't like them, either. I'd like to see them beat and oppressed like I was. Now the Star Wars logo envelopes my soul with extreme regret. I regret wasting time and a fortune on it. I was stupid.

Nostalgic consumers: "I'm miserable..." "Mature" people who've "seen past the consumerism": "I'm miserable..." Can't stand either of you tbh. You can like something without being a soy consumerist manchild zealot and you can be a mature adult without being a sad sack piece of shit that regrets half his life.

Is all trash anyways, it has always been, the EU was just an excuse for Lucas to sell merchandise and discarded when no longer needed, why do you think it was retconned like 3 times?

"More appealing to the opposite sex" You quit a hobby at the age of 39, and you expect to automatically become a sex god? Well, I hate to break it to you, but no one is attracted to a middle-aged fat guy who smells like skunks having an orgy in a Subway dumpster. I understand quitting a hobby because you got bored of it or because you need to save money, but expecting every woman in a ten-mile radius to want to marry you just for that is not just dumb, but completely delusional. If women weren't attracted to an egotistical flatulence factory who weighs as much as a shopping mall before, they definitely aren't now, either.

I think you meant, starving African children in Cambodia.

@LiL Speng AMC The Walking Toys

Why can't it be both?

This is what it looks like to me

Deleting all of Rich's sex toys is for the best.

I was going to ask this actually...

You could say they're hack frauds

Does anyone have any estimates for how much money was destroyed in this video?

yeah agreed. still can't diss the gray blob cube though, it's beautiful in its simplicity.

@Dr. Mercury It would do more than disfigure the plastic, it would melt it down 100% into a liquid solution/goop. That's why I said it could then be cast into a giant JarJar bust!

This is genius, thank you.

Dude I just gotta say I love this comment tucked right between all the other ones calling out Mike for destroying the figurines

Lol underrated comment

@@robg6105 That's the first time I've heard that said in anything relating to the sequels.

Woo-hoo!

@Dan S Fuck off Disney pet

I agree ,what the hell is this dudes point. What a douche, sorry that is down right disrespectful, lolc

Try again, maybe it'll work.

Is this a joke? Or did you really work/study in a lab and not know how acetone works?

@@Jaxck77 It's called be a freshman in college. So STFU.

In high school i knew not to do that. Hell i learned it in jr high by people using it to clean their skateboard bearings and then trying to clean other stuff with it.

@@Jaxck77 maybe he was the one on licking the beakers clean duty

I enhanced the photo and used my Xray monitor to see and I can confirm they were 99% Star Wars and 1% Go Bots

@@brodi81 Fuck Go Bots, they can melt too

Hahahaha

That's the secret: They're all painted GI Joes because there's no way in hell Mike can afford that many figurines.

"The Last Jedi is ruined by cramming in cheap jokes all the time - takes me out of the movie completely!" - Star Wars "fans"

Banehogg the difference was than Han Solo’s joke fit the scene the characters were in and wasn’t a cheap joke like the yo mama joke you’d see in the Last Jedi. A New Hope didn’t cram in cheap jokes like The Last Jedi but I guess people like you can’t defend the last Jedi without misrepresenting the other movies.

Banehogg Oh my god, how embarrassing

@@banehog Swallowing Disneys Gold Plated Cock

Good

@Matthew Sosnicki Who even has time to care?

Graham Vert did you mean slowly

That was NOT Luke...

@UnderSun illegal is a good adjective

Illegal is a good adjective

But then nothing would be lost.

riiiiight

What do you mean, "ARTIFICIALLY". It couldn't be more real.

Should've used all-natural organic free-range acetone.

There already are corporate and soulless rebooted OT toys, like "miserable hermit Luke" and "father/mother of the year Han/Leia." No, what are you talking about, they didn't assassinate these characters

A soft reboot

That isn't a boot, it's a cube.

A Seaboot!

A U-boot.

Is it worthless garbage though? Figures that came out alongside the biggest movie of all time way back in 1977 seems pretty cool to me. Yeah maybe not super valuable but certainly not worth destroying. Even melting 100 would make the point, but it seems needless to destroy 2000.

@@Nightwing-bh2tn i think it is worthless. They literally made millions of those things. also (and i speak from experience working voluntary with kids) kids these days dont like toys like that. So donating them would be pointless.

@@samuelG009 one man's garbage is another man's treasure

@@Nightwing-bh2tn theyre crappy old plastic figures. Having 10 of each on the planet is enough

@@sss1029 you could make the same argument for destroying old comic books. I don't like seeing things pointlessly destroyed when others might want them. And they are toys with some cool historical significance as well.

Profile picture checks out.

Is it about my cube?

Totally thought the same thing!

can I get them to keep crushing the cube? I want some neutronium cube of star wars figures I can kill people with

Er what are talking about , it's worth millions.

I'd buy it before I went to see star wars 9...

"Childhood lost"- pathetic man-child.

It shall be titled "manchilds lament"

They are not alive, and in horrible hibernation.

Idk I kinda get it. Pretty short sighted to just generalize collectors that way. I'm not really a collector myself (i do some reselling) but it's kind of a shame to see things that have sentimental and monetary value get destroyed for trolling basically. You'd think all the people on RLM wouldn't be so quick to call people "man children" and shit as they binge videos of grown men nerding over pop culture and movies. The whole art of collecting is what keeps these old toys relevant, because you're right, they're just plastic toys. But personally I think being taken care of is a better use of all that plastic than trashing them. They have negative value to the planet and ecosystem if they end up in a landfill, they at least gain monetary value if you save them. THAT SAID, I think the artistic statement it makes towards Disney is almost worth the loss, and I'm assuming that cube won"t be rotting in a landfill. The toys were also already opened so they aren't really preferable to collectors anyways. This video doesn't trigger me or anything but I kinda hate that RLM fans have turned this into "fuck collectors" when they literally have done nothing wrong. Adults are allowed to buy things.

I agree, but you would be crying if some KZfaqr destroyed priceless art(that he bought) and sell some nft of them, I wouldn't because value is only relative to me

@@bmsg1 Comparing cheap plastic figures to priceless art. Smart.

what would she care the toys were not even made by disney

She doesn't deserve it.

@@mch1n118 you know she has done a hell of a lot more then star wars right also you do get star was only ever made 2 and a half good films right?? 4 was great 5 was great 6 was decent but disjointed spent to long just getting solo back and then there were the ewoks 1 sucked 2 sucked 3 had good battles for the time but now just sucks people act like disney ruined star wars but its been trashy since long before most fans were born

@ArmyOfWalrus no one cares?? no its just a bunch of 40 somethings watching kids movies who doint care 7 and 8 made a shit ton of cash and so will 9 how did 1 2 and 3 revolutionize anything?? oh and you know 1 2 and 3 just stole there ideas from the original 3

@ArmyOfWalrus first off the lucas's wife did most of the good work secondly Disney has already made back there investment and now is only making more and more money as for lack of toy sales......well yea people doint buy toys they buy video games and smart phones i liked 7 8 and rouge one (solo was meh) by the way if you hate star wars why are you hear on a star wars video

LOL

Brilliant...

And fans tears, lol and Disney gold

Absolute genius! :O

That would involve effort and actually trying to make something interesting out of the old material, which is more than what Disney is doing.

C...can we do that? Can I sign a petition to make that happen?

Hey, it’ll be like poetry

What? I thought that's what the final shape was supposed to represent.