Quick updates!
I have JUST finished the review script for the 800th episode! It will be a long one, it is a comic, it is from either Marvel or DC and no I won't say which, but it's coming along. I HOPE to have it done before my birthday, but I'm not holding my breath. Sorry it's taking so long, but aside from it being a long one it's also a case of "I kept changing my mind what I was going to do for the 800th." A lot of times, a hundredth episode is one I'm writing months in advance - I'm just that inspired to do so, but with this one I couldn't decide what to cover and then finally hit a eureka moment and had to go from there.
Next - there WILL be a Longbox bumper Contest this year. I'm going to try to have the announcement video out by the 15th - you'll have the standard 45 days to work on it, just in this case up until the end of September. Working on other stuff and real life things took time away from that. It'll likely be the same rules as has been done before, so feel free to look at the last contest video if you need a refresher - though still check out the video once I make it to be sure I didn't add anything new.
Minor update to Pokequipment - I've added a few new keychains for Gible, Fuecoco, Umbreon, Espeon, and Sylveon and I'm planning on doing some print-in-place articulated Pokemon (particularly Weedle, Caterpie, and the like) based on how well the print-in-place articulated Robomats turned out. Link here: pokequipment.storenvy.com/
But the big merch update: A FULL-SIZED, 1:1 POLLO PUPPET YOU CAN PURCHASE! Yep, the new Pollo body is going to premiere in the 800th episode and if you've been paying attention to my streams and social media, it's 3D printed. And since I've got the files anyway, I figured what the hell - YOU can own the new Pollo body for yourself if you so choose! Hell, if for some reason you want one to paint in whatever colors you want, I'll offer an all-white version to use as your canvass. It's seen in the attached images.
You WILL have to assemble it yourself - I don't want to risk it getting damaged in shipping, but it will include instructions on how to build it. It's not complicated - mostly sticking pegs into holes and super-gluing 'em. The arms can shrug up and down and will be modular - I have no replacement or tool arm attachments just yet, but I may offer them in the future. The head of course can rotate and the main gun opens like the current puppet. It measures 16.5 inches tall and 10 inches wide from arm to arm.
I'm starting it off with limited pre-orders - five of them will be available for purchase until August 25th, at which point they'll be open and available beyond those 5. Why only 5? Well, that brings us to the price - it is $220, with free shipping for domestic USA orders. I understand that this is a VERY niche item - not everyone necessarily wants one of these, but consequently it uses A LOT of filament to be made, so production costs on it are a bit high... as well as time. The main body takes about 20 hours to print on its own, and while I will be making spares in preparation for future orders, I don't want to get overwhelmed with preorders for it in case there IS so much demand. I do not EXPECT there to be a huge demand, but you can feel free to surprise me.
There will be a smaller version available in the near future that will be in scale to the action figures if that's all you'd like, so keep an eye out for that. You can preorder the puppet here: atop-the-fourth-wall.storenvy.com/products/3695773…
Regardless of anything else, thank you guys so much for continuing to watch after so long! I couldn't have made it to 800 episodes without you - watching the show is what matters most and I hope I can continue to entertain for many, MANY more years to come!
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Three things to go over!
First: BOOKMARKS! Bookmarks are now available on the Atop the Fourth Wall Storenvy, as shown in the attached image. Still working on what way to go for print-in-place smaller and more affordable Robomats (probably going to limit them to single color unless people are okay with the colors being horizontal as opposed to each segment being a different color), but they're coming along. You can purchase the Bookmarks and any other merch HERE: atop-the-fourth-wall.storenvy.com/
Second: INTERNATIONAL ORDERS FROM KUNAKI ARE AVAILABLE AGAIN! I still don't know WHY they had stopped doing international orders on them, but the DVDs and A Voice From the Dark are once again able to be purchased internationally, so if you wanted it, you can do so again: kunaki.com/MSales.asp?PublisherId=136024&PP=1
And finally: So tax stream time again, but honestly while taxes this year were not as bad as other years, frankly just a lot of debt has been accumulated over time and I want to really make big strides in paying it down. Starting on July 23rd at 2 PM central time, I will be doing a multi-day stream of Pokemon Super Gold '97, a full reconstruction of the Spaceworld '97 Pokemon Gold demo! It will of course be a Nuzlocke, guest starts will come in as they're available, we'll play some old episodes whenever I need a break, and we'll go until either I need to take a break or I beat the game!
But we're doing something different this year. See, in wanting to pay off those debts, I want to make it worth YOU guys' while, as well. And since Patreon took down Milestones quite a while ago, anyway, I figure we can do something fun with that and make more work for myself!
So here's how this is going to go down: we have a milestone goals to achieve! I'm listing them off here and bear in mind - I do not expect to reach anywhere near the end of these. It is unlikely as all hell we'll even get past the first few thousand.. but that's also why those milestone goals are meant to be so tempting - with the increase in money made, the less and less I want to do them... but hey, given some of those goals, hell yeah I'd be willing to do them for that amount of cash. I don't have THAT much pride - I'm a Youtuber, for heaven's sakes. Money given via Patreon will also count towards this goal (and in many ways is preferable, since I get the money instantly vs. 2 months from now PLUS Patreon takes less of a cut than Youtube, who usually takes about a third of it - that will not count against the goals).
So join us, won't you? If we fail the Nuzlocke we start over with whatever we have in the box unless we're out completely. So let's get attached to a bunch of Beta pokemon (some of whom are available as keychains in the Pokequipment Storenvy: pokequipment.storenvy.com/ ) and see if you guys are going to make me review the Harley Quinn fart comic or something.
The Milestones:
$1,000 – AT4W Review of Batman #66 AKA the Boner Comic
$2,500 – AT4W Reviews of Star Trek Movies That Didn’t Get Comic Adaptations
$4,000 – Theme Month Sequels in 2026/2027 (PSA Hell Month, 2099 Month, Amalgam Month, etc.)
$5,000 – Spider-Man: The Animated Series Retrospective on Atop the Fourth Wall
$8,000 – History of Power Rangers Videos on VR Troopers, Superhuman Samurai Syber Squad, Big Bad Beetleborgs, Kamen Rider Dragon Knight, Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog, and Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters From Beverly Hills
$9,000 – History of Power Rangers-style Retrospective on the Timmverse
$10,000 – AT4W Review of the Harley Quinn Fart Comic
$12,500 – I’ll Watch Star Trek: Lower Decks and Do Vlogs on It and Open Myself Up For Ridicule and Scorn Because I Will Absolutely Hate It Like You Have No Idea How Much I Don’t Want To Watch Lower Decks and I'm Going to Sound Like an Old Man Who Can't Accept Change or Something Different
$15,000 – Archie Sonic Comics Retrospective
$25,000 – History of Power Rangers-Style Retrospective on Doctor Who (TV only)
$50,000 – I Become a Vtuber, I guess. With, like, huge boobs.
$100,000 – History of Power Rangers but it’s every Super Sentai season
$200,000 – I’ll Hire Some Editors to Help Produce All The Content At The Previous Levels Because I’ll Be Able to Pay Off My House at This Point, Frankly.
$300,000 – Multi-Day Stream Until I Complete The Pokemon Kaizo Ironmon Challenge. Look it up - it's brutal.
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I promised I'd show pictures of the other actions figures! ...And then proceeded not to do so because I got busy.
But anyway, HERE! Wave 1 of the figures. Each for $10 or $25 for the whole wave together, as seen on that classic 1987 commercial shown in the Spirit review! Aside from alternate hands for each figure, Linkara comes with a magic gun and 90s Dude with a hand-mounted minigun (just swap out the hand for it). You can get them and many other fine AT4W merch HERE: atop-the-fourth-wall.storenvy.com/
So just to update things, especially since only two AT4W episodes came out in March, first half of the month I spent doing personal life things (as well as in the lead-up to April helping edit Quinton Reviews' INSANE 42-hour video about the Beverly Hillbillies, in which I also make a couple cameos - the 30 minutes or so I edited can be found around the 23-hour mark where a ripoff of the Beverly Hillbillies called the Bumpkin Billionaires is covered: https://youtu.be/tDOY0e8Ncx8?si=YWJ81...
I was REALLY hoping to get the Return of the Jedi review out before the end of April, but things just didn't work out (hence putting out the re-edited HOPR video so there was something there), which leads me to another big thing you may have heard already in the last Descent stream: I'M GOING ON VACATION! Yeah, I don't usually take breaks from this job, but Viga and I have been saving up and planning for a trip and we'll be gone until the 11th. I say this to warn you there obviously won't be streams or new AT4W while I'm gone, but I'll hopefully return refreshed and with some scripts ready to record and get out when I get back. I do warn that any Storenvy orders you make won't be fulfilled until I get back, but I'll jump to it immediately upon return.
Thank you all for your continued patience and support. Hopefully after some time off, things will stabilize around here a bit. Enjoy the figures, there will likely be a Wave 2 thanks to you guys!
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ACTION FIGURE PREORDERS ARE NOW OPEN! PREORDER THEM HERE: atop-the-fourth-wall.storenvy.com/products/3691101…
It has been a rough month for many reasons (not the least of which being actually getting the damn heads to print properly, as seen in the photos), but I've been pushing to get these done with and I'm happy to report they are now ready! I sadly do not have samples of the Mechakara and 90s Dude figures quite yet to show off, but will update the sales page and my social media as they become available!
They're based on the EASY 13 design from Lucky 13 Toys (www.lucky13toys.com/home) so while boxy they have a ton of articulation. Feel free to put the figures in inappropriate poses to your heart's desire! They'll come with a couple accessories and extra hands - and of course if you have a 3D printer yourself, there are TONS of modifications and accessories that people have made free for download and put in with the figures! They're scaled at 114% from the base model files so they're 6 inches tall and I'm pricing them at $10 per figure (and a bundle deal of $25 for all three).
Action figures were the big thing that everybody said they wanted for merch, so I hope you enjoy them! I plan to release more waves of figures in the future and of course I'd love to hear what figures people most want to have.
Preorder period will run until April 4th, when they'll begin shipping out! Thanks for your continued support and I'll answer any questions people have in the comments!
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Hey, everybody! We're getting closer to the action figures being done and ready for sale. As such, have two questions to see what you guys are interested in with them:
-Do you want integrated accessories or removable ones? (As in, Linkara's hat is either permanently part of the head or removable)
-What scale do you want them at? As in, like, 6-inch figure/5.5 inch/etc.?
Photo below is a couple heads from a few days back - some modifications have been made since then, but you get the idea of the head sculpts from them (first wave of figures is Linkara, Mechakara, and 90s Dude).
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Heyo! Some new updates, once again mostly related to Storenvy stuff, but let's get the stuff people REALLY care about out of the way first:
I am HOPING to get the redo of HOPR Mystic Force out this month. I make no promises - it's a longer video and I'm trying to avoid super long videos because of the time it takes away from Atop the Fourth Wall, but I'm going to need additional revenue in a couple of months and, well, Youtube pays out two months AFTER the month you earned the money in, so my best bet for helping with that is HOPR. So yeah, no promises, but I'm trying. I've already started redoing the script for it - of course longer clip segments need to be rewatched and summarized, all that.
Consequently, you're probably going to see some additional unscheduled episodes (I know I haven't posted a schedule update in forever, but I mean "a video will come out that isn't stated in the next time part at the end"). To help keep up the pace and get additional videos out, I'm starting to work on adapting live show scripts into proper episodes, as I mentioned in the Clone Saga review from the end of last year. We'll see how that goes.
Otherwise, I've been steadily updating Pokequipment since I debuted it a month ago! In addition to more of your standard Pocket Mans you all know and love, I started making keychains for the Gen 2 Beta Pokemon! You can see some samples in the images, and if you're wondering about their color choices or names, I'm basing them on art/interpretations others have done, so I've seen Warwolf and Wolfman both as pure white or as brown as I chose to make them. Hey, they're not official Pokemon, so there is no official color palette to them, anyway.
However, I've discovered a little problem that MIGHT have been turning people off of getting the keychains. See, Storenvy has me set up shipping costs for items. I try to make it fair, I talked to the post office to estimate how much the weight of certain objects would be and plan accordingly. Now, additional items means additional weight and thus additional costs. For the Atop the Fourth Wall Storenvy, that seemed to be a lump sum - as in "This item will cost this much, additional items will add this lump sum regardless of how many ordered." HOWEVER, as we discovered recently, that is not the case. It's been adding additional costs for EVERY item. For the AT4W storenvy, not a huge deal since those are larger items in general and it WILL affect the costs... but since I didn't realize it was charging for individual items, I had set the additional items for Pokequipment to be an additional $2 per item. Thus, if you ordered 5 keychains, you'd be charged an additional $8 on top of the base $4.50 for shipping (I think that base cost is a bit much, but it is indeed what it costs and I have to go with that) despite the changed weight DEFINITELY not changing enough to justify so much additional shipping costs. So I have corrected that - additional items for the keychains are now only an additional 25 cents per item. So if you wanted to pick up several keychains at once, hopefully the shipping will not be a massive impediment for you. You can find the keychains here: pokequipment.storenvy.com/
One final note of a new item - since I made a Petilil keychain in the Pokequipment store, I modified it, made it bigger, and there is now a Lil' Petti keychain from the Pokemon Omicron Let's Play available in the regular AT4W Storenvy! You can check it out here: atop-the-fourth-wall.storenvy.com/products/3681665…
Thank you all for your continued support and HOPEFULLY I'll have news about other new goodies soon as well as, of course, more HOPR as we close in on finally finishing it (and probably fixing Turbo next, since I think both parts are currently claimed, but viewable).
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Hey, everybody! Some quick updates, mostly for Storenvy stuff, but let's start with show things:
If you're still confused why the reupload of MMPR Season 2 when the old video is still there, it's pretty simple: several History of Power Rangers videos have had ContentID claims on them for YEARS. As a reminder, a ContentID claim doesn't necessarily take the video down, but it can block it in certain countries (in this case, the old one is blocked in pretty much all of Asia) and I get no revenue from it. These older ones were uploaded back when ContentID allowed for clips up to 15 seconds. That has changed and I usually can't get away with anything past 7 seconds (occasionally, videos have been as low as 5 seconds, particularly anything featuring BBC content). As a result, while most people have been able to view these videos, I make no money off of them and, well, it's a lot of work to not get anything in return. And since they're so much work and I'm trying to really focus on getting more AT4W content out, the Mystic Force and RPM redos are on the backburner for the moment. But I can work on getting these older videos back up and running, at least, because that requires a lot more work.
So why aren't the old ones just being deleted/privated/unlisted? For a very stupid reason: Youtube counts it against my analytics when this happens. It doesn't say "Oh, a video is gone. This affects nothing." Instead Youtube sees it as "Oh, this channel has 500,000 views less than it did before. I will now not promote it as much in the algorithm and count it against picking more profitable advertising." It's dumb, but that is apparently how it works, so it's in my best interest to just keep the old video out there for the time being. So I just replace the one in the playlist and go from there, hoping we'll get more promotion on the new one.
Otherwise, let's talk merch! I mentioned in the Top 15 Covers I Didn't Cover video that it simply took too much time and waste to produce a Comicron One model that was fully colored at the size the other models were at. And someone in the comments had the quite logical question of "Well, then why not just make a smaller version available that IS fully-colored?" It was, of course, a sign of my own short-sightedness that I didn't think of this. It still takes a day to print three of them, but that's a lot faster than 2 days and considerably less waste. So here we have it - a Comicron One model that's 4 inches long and fully-colored! ...minus the Comicron One text. I REALLY wanted to incorporate it into it, but unfortunately the size did make it too hard to print the lettering despite my best efforts. Otherwise, unlike the big model all the components (the towers, the forward lance, the neutron blasters) are fully-integrated components (and modifications to their scale accordingly so they can actually print and be sturdy). Unlike the big model, they are priced at $10! You can one of these models here if you're interested: atop-the-fourth-wall.storenvy.com/products/3688663…
Now, you're probably wondering about the keychains. If you've been watching the weekly streams you'll know what I'm talking about with this. If not: I have come to the sad realization that I do not have a particularly large fanbase in Minnesota. That restricts where I can go for local cons, since I can't really sell merch if nobody knows or cares who the hell I am. As such, I've started working on just, like, non-AT4W merch I can sell at cons for an Artist Alley table or the like. A lot of people expressed interest in these when I shared them on stream, soooo here's a Storenvy for non-AT4W 3D-printed merch! This is Pokequipment, which currently has a bunch of Pokemon-related keychains - some team symbols (particularly Team Skull and some pride color variants) as well as a bunch of Pokemon that I drew and made into little keychains. If you don't care about the Pocket Mans, no worries! If this is something you'd like to check out, then here is the link to it: pokequipment.storenvy.com/
Small keychains are $3, larger ones $5.
That's it for now, otherwise working on the review of the first appearance of the Doom Patrol. Thanks for your continued support and hope you enjoy!
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Hey, everybody! Hope everyone's been having a good start to the new year. Here are a few updates to enjoy and hopefully start 2025 off on the right foot.
First up, I'm working on the Top 15 Covers I Didn't Cover! It's coming along, I took all the suggestions given and am writing out the script. Hopefully these observations and jokes will be worth the wait. And of course if I neglect to look at a cover this time, don't worry - I hope to do more of these in the future! The rest of January will be the long-awaited return of Secret Origins Month, which I also hope was worth the wait!
Next up, and definitely most importantly: the donation to RAINN has been made on my part! Did on December 27th and held off on saying because I wanted to include it in the other announcements, as well. We raised $1211 in direct donations through Youtube and an additional $214 through the discounted merch! The receipt is for $221 to cover the transaction fees and I apologize if I'm censoring the wrong information for privacy - I've never actually posted a receipt like this before (I probably didn't need to hide RAINN's phone number since it's on their website, but better safe, I felt). All the merch SHOULD be shipped off by now... save for the ones purchased from Canada. I'll try again soon, but unfortunately the Canadian postal strike has been causing issues. Supposedly services to it will resume tomorrow.
Next up, MERCH UPDATES! After the test DVD failed, I'm happy to report that the second test DVD passed and thus Atop the Fourth Wall volume 1 is now available for purchase again from the Kunaki store! You can get a copy here: kunaki.com/MSales.asp?PublisherId=136024&PP=1
This one required a reprint of the DVD itself because one of the menus contained Dr. Crafty's art, so I felt the need to replace it. I don't think that will be an issue for the other DVDs, but we'll see as J. Maner works on the other new covers. Speaking of, if you'd rather keep your existing DVD but want to replace the cover, you can download a high-quality copy of the new artwork to print off and replace it HERE: atopthefourthwall.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/A…
Also, NEW KEYCHAIN! Appropriately as we just had Halloween during Christmas, enjoy that lovable little monster straight from Starstream #1, but now cute and tiny and appearing in every Halloween title card since: Thing Tucker! You can pick him up at the Atop the Fourth Wall Storenvy here: atop-the-fourth-wall.storenvy.com/products/3681665…
I'm working on more keychains (and of course the action figures) and maybe even an HOPR magnet to match the others now that I can 3D print in 8 colors! I will of course keep you updated as new stuff is added.
Otherwise, last but not least as we had a Halloween vs. Christmas event, it was only appropriate that we got a full song for the occasion and now you can own a copy of "Spirit of the Season!" Il Neige has put it up on his Bandcamp and you can buy it AND the demo he made that I used as the base to sing my parts here: ilneigeyt.bandcamp.com/album/spirit-of-the-season
Thank you for your continued support and hope 2025 has better to offer us than 2024!
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Got a lot to talk about!
As you can probably see by now, I have set a date for the charity stream! It will begin at 8 PM central time on December 11th. I originally planned on this being an all-day thing starting in the afternoon, but I confess my sleep schedule is borked beyond belief right now.
Still, I'm going to be going for as long as I feel like going - probably well into the morning. We'll start out with some Among Us, do some chatting, play some other games, show some Christmas episodes, etc.! We'll have plenty of guests on to hang out and just have a good time while we raise money for RAINN! While the initial goal of this is to get rid of all the merchandise that Dr. Crafty contributed art for, the real goal is raising money for them. As such, I've enabled the fundraiser function of the stream so if you don't want or need any of that merch, you can donate directly to RAINN and all the proceeds from the stream (superchats, ad revenue, etc.) will be donated to them!
Next up, I'm proud to announce that J Maner, who has done a few title cards in the past (particularly Amalgam Comics Month), will not only be taking care of the new art for the DVDs, but will also be the new title card artist come 2025! Pictured below is the new DVD cover. It's not available for sale yet - I've been so busy editing the Shattered Grid review that I haven't had a chance to upload the new DVD files to Kunaki and get a test DVD to make sure it's working, but I'll get to it ASAP! As you can see, we're keeping the back text, changing the quote (yeah, we're not associated with the Nostalgia Critic anymore, so best to finally get a new hateful quote about me on there!), and finally having the show logo on there!
I know some of you will be disappointed that I'm not having an open call for a new title card artist. So here's the thing: J Maner has told me that they're uncertain if they want to be the title card artist past 2025. They're willing to give it a try for the year and see if they want to stick around after that, but it's up in the air if they will remain.
And the thing is, while they're taking over for title cards and doing the DVD art, there is still A LOT of art that needs to be replaced. Specifically, I need:
-New Badge card art (looking mostly for Chibi designs for these, but I'm open to anything)
-New T-shirt designs based on several I've had to take down ("When's the Next History of Power Rangers," "It's Magic, I don't HAVE to Explain It," etc.)
-New Posters (HOPR, the movie, etc.)
So if you're interested in doing some of this or are interested in being considered as a title card artist in the future should J Maner not wish to continue on, then please go to my website's contact page linked below and send me a link to your portfolio/samples of your art and your commission rates!
atopthefourthwall.com/contact/
On the subject of art replacement, Viga has provided a new "Technical Difficulties - we'll be right back" card design for me as shown below, so that one's been covered!
Thank you all for your continued patience during this difficult and busy holiday season and I'll see you soon!
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Hope everyone's having a good time this holiday season!
The schedule, of course, is still in a bit of flux after everything that's happened, but I DO still want to do my end-of-year Top 15 List. If it gets put by the wayside to prioritize other things, so be it. However, even if it does get pushed aside for next year, I'm still going to keep with the subject of it, so I'm looking for input from you all on it.
This will be the Top 15 Covers I Didn't Cover! Yep, it's a common phrase in the show that I'll skip talking about the covers if it's in a trade paperback (I've listed my reasons before, mainly because a trade's cover isn't intended to sell a book the same way an individual issue's cover does and just slapping one of the issues' cover on it when it wasn't made FOR that trade feels disingenuous) or if we have so many issues and I want to try to shorten the length of the video.
But now's your chance - tell me what covers you wished I had looked at - either because you want me to praise the ever-loving-hell out of it or because you think they're absolutely terrible and I should eviscerate it. Let me know what comic covers I should include on this list!
Also: keep an eye out for some announcements soon, particularly regarding replacement art, the rerelease of the volume 1 DVD, the new title card artist, and the upcoming charity stream for RAINN!
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