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Steele Wars : Star Wars Podcast

Ep 017 : Gonkdroid & Sithfits – CLASSIC CLIP - Tony Medina & Tim Mancinas are Star Wars fans and small businessmen

Steele Wars : Star Wars Podcast

Steele Saunders

Tv & Film, Comedy, Performing Arts, Arts

4.5524 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2014

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Tony Medina & Tim Mancinas are passionate Star Wars fans who have turned their fandom and creativity into a Star Wars small business.

Over a couple of beers we have a super fun afternoon talking about all things Star Wars, Tony's work with Jakks Pacific, ruin Boba Fett for everyone and find out what's going on with GonkDroid.com and Sithfits.com.

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0:00.0

Hey guys, welcome to Steel Wars.

0:02.7

I am comedian Steel Saunders, and I do love Star Wars.

0:07.5

Please enjoy this classic clip, which is available in full at patreon.com forward slash steel wars.

0:20.2

Gongdroid.com. Explain what's going on with this.

0:23.9

Okay, so I've been collecting toys for a long, long time now.

0:28.7

And basically, like, I go around and I buy collections from people.

0:31.7

So I buy collections, and I'm always upgrading my collection.

0:34.5

I'm always buying pieces, you know.

0:36.3

It comes to the point where I had, like, 40, like, dark faders, vintage ones. And I'm like, all right, well, I'm always buying pieces, you know. It comes to the point where I

0:37.5

had like 40 like dark faders, vintage ones. And I'm like, all right, well, I'm going to pick my favorite, the best looking one for my own personal collection, which I do. And you imagine that over time, you get 40 stormtroopers. You get, you know what I mean? It just, it goes down the line. you're like, oh, 25 stormtroopers, I have 26 Gritos, you know what I mean?

0:53.3

Like, you have all these figures, and I'm like, well, I don't need all these.

0:56.0

Like, I don't need all these.

0:56.9

And, like, I'd post them, like, oh, 25 stormtroopers, I have 26 gritos, you know what I mean? Like, you have all these figures and I'm like, well, I don't need all these.

0:56.1

Like, I don't need all these.

0:56.9

And like, I'd post them like on Instagram that I'm buying stuff. And some people are like, hey man, like you ever want to sell them? Let me know, you know. You should start a store. You should start, you should start selling your extra pieces. like we totally buy them because they're just sitting like they were sitting in like my

1:10.1

freaking my garage like in boxes like stacks of boxes and I'm just like you know what like I only really want like the best ones so I'm like I'm gonna start doing that so I created a website and just the second I created I launched it on Instagram I told everybody all right it's basically just for my followers people who see it and I'm I'm like, this is, this is cool. You know what I mean? Like, these people, they want to

1:29.7

collect. They're awesome. Like, the people that follow me are freaking the coolest people. Like, I talked about Star Wars all day, which is like the greatest release ever at the end of the day. It's like, oh man, finally people like me. So I'm like, this is a great idea. This is cool. I start

1:43.8

selling them to these people and they're loving it. They're like, oh my God, dude, this is so cool that

1:47.6

you're like, you're that you're putting your collections on there so now I'm posting the collections that I buy and I'm letting them get a chance to grab these figures that I you know they're just going to sit in my freaking garage for so long I'm putting them up there they're buying. I'm talking Star Wars about it with them.

2:00.9

I'm teaching them certain things about how to tell off a weapons fake, how it's real. All these, like, questions are going on. And it just, it makes it so much fun to actually, like, go back with other people. Because over the last, like, 20 years, like, I've never had that experience. I was always made fun of, oh, it's that fucking Star Wars nerd. it's the rain man of Star Wars coming by you know what I mean I'm just like Jesus

2:20.7

Christ I never heard I was always made fun of, oh, it's that fucking Star Wars nerd. Oh, it's the Rain Man of Star Wars coming by, you know what I mean?

2:20.0

I'm just like, Jesus Christ.

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