Evan Ratliff
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
He moved and he functioned.
He interacted with the games that they came up with.
I had a weird wizard action figure when I was a kid.
Very slowly.
Right, very slowly.
But you're into weird wizards.
But this was a time where robots were kind of hard to come by.
You still are.
Well, I am now as a grown up.
It was not an easy thing to get your hands on.
I wasn't as a kid.
I was like, what is this thing?
Gotcha.
Some weird wizard.
And now, all of a sudden, there's this company saying, hey, we have this whole thing, and it has a robot, too.
Well I don't know why I had it but the Star Trek, their collection, that was another big hit.
And it was one of the greatest strokes of marketing genius that any company's ever come up with, as we'll see.
So they were just, they literally kind of, I mean G.I.
Joe and Barbie of course kind of spawned this thing but it seems like Mega really took it to another level.
Yeah, I mean, what they ended up with was a robot that—