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Earth's Mightiest Show fans, what is up?
I'm hanging out again with my good buddy,
pop culture expert, Marvel toy hunter extraordinaire,
Jordan Hembrough.
Jordan, welcome back, my friend.
Thank you so much.
I am happy to be here.
I am happy that you are here.
Because as you can see in front of you
are some toys from a wonderful decade
that we are celebrating here for Marvel's
80th anniversary, the '90s.
A decade that I grew up in.
I was born in 1985.
Oh, you're in for a treat.
But I cannot wait.
Oh, you're in for a treat.
These are Sneaker Snappers from the 1990s.
This is what I love about these.
Wait, no, no, no, hear me out.
They snapped on the front of your sneakers,
and it was like really a wearable kind of cool piece
of fashion that you would wear to tell
everyone I'm a Marvel fan.
I will tell you right now, I owned these Sneaker Snappers.
Oh, there you go.
Really?
Because my shoes would always come undone.
JORDAN: In the industry, what we essentially call something
like this is it branches from the toy category into something
we call lifestyle.
And that means that basically you can use it every day.
I'm speechless because I owned these.
These. What?
These are yours.
What?
[LAUGHTER]
When we talk about the 1990s in toys, you cannot
not talk about the X-Men.
Whoa.
What?
I definitely owned this Wolverine.
Definitely had Wolverine.
Definitely had this one.
JORDAN: These are classic X-Men from Toy Biz during the 1990s.
These toys ruled the toy stores.
I got to take a second and talk about Rogue.
And you know what?
They didn't realize how many females were
actually playing with the toys.
So what happened was is Rogue and Storm were short packed,
and what that meant is there was only one or two of them
in every case of 12.
Toy Biz started realizing, look, we've
got to start making more Rogue.
We have to start making more Storm.
We have started bringing these strong female superheroes
to life into the toy industry, and they started
making more and more of them.
Jordan, I almost don't want to move on.
Yeah.
Because my childhood is sitting right in front of me.
- I've got more. - Yes, I know.
So let's do some more.
I've got more.
All right.
LANGSTON: Get in.
Are you serious?
JORDAN: It's the Spider-Man animated series
Daily Bugle play set.
This was on a Christmas list.
Anyone who grew up in the '90s, loved the Spider-Man--
Animated series.
--animated series.
JORDAN: It was a great piece.
It was expensive.
Yeah, that's what I remember, the big thing.
My mom was like, no.
JORDAN: It was packed full of as many factors
as they can get into one play set.
Oh yeah. Look at this.
You look at all the stuff that's on the back.
You see all the characters.
JORDAN: The idea behind the play set
was to actually sell more action figures.
Because you created a play environment, and you
created a big play environment.
Well, guess what?
Now you got to fill it. - Yeah, right?
What are you gonna fill it with?
More toys.
Exactly.
I never, ever thought I would ever
be this close to one of these.
JORDAN: To one.
My heart is always full when you come by because I'm
taken back into my childhood.
This is so great.
Whoa.
All right.
LANGSTON: The Rage Cage.
JORDAN: This is one of my favorite--
LANGSTON: Yes!
JORDAN: --toys from the 1990s.
And essentially what it is is you
put Hulk inside this giant cage, and he rages out
and bursts through the cage.
And it's pandemonium.
And fun ensues.
I love when a toy says, hey, we're gonna give you
this cage with the Hulk in it.
JORDAN: Yeah, I actually want to bring it out.
LANGSTON: Want to try to rage--
JORDAN: I want to have you rage out out with it.
LANGSTON: All right, let's try it.
JORDAN: OK, so we're gonna rage out with it.
Rage!
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It's amazing!
This is-- [LAUGHS]
Hours of fun.
It's worth it.
It's so worth it.
Oh, the rage.
Jordan, thank you so, so much.
You're welcome.
My pleasure.
If any of the fans out there are like me,
they're gonna want to know more about where
to find out more about you and all these great toys.
Tell us more. - Absolutely.
OK, well if you're interested in toys,
you can find me on Twitter at Jordan Hembrough, Instagram
at Jordan Hembrough, or if you feel so inclined,
check me out at www.hollywoodheroes.com.
Check it out.
Because I'm just gonna stand here and stare at these
and weep into my hands for a couple of minutes.
Because this is so great.
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