The Making Of Deadpool, Part 3: Merch With A Mouth!
Robservations with Rob Liefeld
Robservations with Rob Liefeld
4.8 • 818 Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2021
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
Deadpool hit the toy shelves in 1992 and it was the launch of 1000 action figures! Funko Pops, statues, trading cards, video games, lego’s! We chart the path of his unprecedented rise as a merchandise Icon! Also, superstar artist Marat Mychaels speaks! Rob’s first assistant was there from the jump and shares tales about the creation of your favorite New Mutants & X-Force characters and comics!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, Rob Observations. Here we are. I'm Rob Leifeld. Thank you for hanging out with us. |
| 0:08.9 | We continue our journey through the making of Deadpool. All things Deadpool, not just comics and |
| 0:15.5 | cartoons and video games and action figures and funcopops and key chains and pez dispensers and giant worldwide blockbuster |
| 0:24.7 | films no all of it we're doing all of it we're taking our we're taking our time i'm walking |
| 0:29.7 | you through because like no one else that you will hear from i was there from the beginning |
| 0:35.5 | from my um you know twisted brain from my |
| 0:39.7 | twisted sketchbook uh Deadpool came to life I brought him to life we published him with Marvel |
| 0:45.1 | in in 30 years back 30 years back New Mutants 98 made his mark you guys never look back |
| 0:53.3 | carrying him to popularity that was really unheard of. |
| 0:58.1 | I think about the 90s. I think about that year. I think about the characters that were introduced. |
| 1:02.4 | You know, someday I'll compile a list of characters that were introduced at that time. But, |
| 1:06.8 | you know, Deadpool, along with most everybody that was in New Mutants and X-Force have |
| 1:13.1 | been very fortunate to have stood the test of time. These characters have stood the test of time. |
| 1:18.6 | It's fun. 30 years is a big, giant anniversary. It's fun. It makes me feel really old. And so I |
| 1:26.2 | kind of like that because I like being old. |
| 1:28.3 | Old is fun. |
| 1:29.3 | People who knew me in my 20s know I wanted to hurry up and be older. |
| 1:33.3 | Because when you're young, people don't take you as seriously. |
| 1:36.3 | No matter how hard you try, they want to see you get glean, you know, the lessons that life has coming your way and and then you get to the other side |
| 1:47.8 | and somehow it's just it's part of life we just respect people who have done more and now 30 years |
| 1:55.0 | Deadpool has done a whole lot more he's you know no a teenager, well through his 20s, 30 years old. |
| 2:02.8 | And we have discussed a great length, comic book representation of Deadpool, the origins |
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