a long & long time ago.... by Adam Long

Were back with Andor Season 2 Episodes 10 - 12 Review & Discussion! Were joined by a group of rebels in their own right including  @universaltoycollector   @SHABBYGEEK22  & Scott Whitehouse to break down the 3 episodes! Apologies for the small amount of sound issues we had.

Were back with Andor Season 2 Episodes 7 - 9 Review & Discussion! Were joined by a group of rebels in their own right including Si Mangafandanga,  @FullersFigures  &  @delvianseek  to break down the 3 episodes! Apologies for the small amount of sound issues we had.

Martyn rejoins Adam as they bring in guest Scott Whitehouse and Dez T from the Star Wars collecting community to talk over the second arc from the amazing second season of Disney's hit TV show, Andor.

Adam is hosting solo this week but brings along three fine guests from the YouTube Star Wars toy collecting community, to discuss the first story arc from the second season of the hit Disney show Andor.

Joining Martyn and Adam to do a deep dive into the finale of Skeleton Crew is  @SHABBYGEEK22   @MattsCollection   @delvianseek  Dez T & Scott Whitehouse 😁😎

Joining Martyn and Adam to do a deep dive into Skeleton Crew episode 7 is our first mate the scurvy dog  @SHABBYGEEK22  😁😎

Joining Martyn and Adam to do a deep dive into Skeleton Crew episodes 5 & 6 are  @AllTheCoolStuff  and the legend that is Dez T

Joining Martyn and Adam to do a deep dive into Skeleton Crew episode 4 are  @MattsCollection  and  @delvianseek 

Joining Martyn and Adam to do a deep dive into Skeleton Crew episodes 3 are  @universaltoycollector  and Adam Berry (The Real Toy Dude)

Joining Martyn and Adam to do a deep dive into Skeleton Crew episodes 1 & 2 are  @keithguppy12345  & Scott Whitehouse

We ask the question 'Do kids play with toys, or is it just collectors buying them these days" To help us answer this question, we spoke to Dave Tree when we made our visit to the epic toy store 'All the Cool Stuff'. Dave has a great history in the toy community, and has been selling toys for a good long time. He showcases his knowledge by telling us what does appeal to kids, and how toys aren't marketed the way they once were.

A Long & Long Time Ago return for the finale of the latest Disney+ Star Wars show, The Acolyte. Adam and Martyn assemble their very own Jedi Council to discuss the last episode of the season. Everyone gives their overall opinion of the episode and review the series as a whole, giving their final ratings out of ten. We talk about the characters and their progression throughout, some of the interesting choices the writers made, and everyone's opinions of what they thought were good and bad.

In the penultimate episode of the Acolyte, Adam and Martyn enlist the help of one of the greats. The Blacked Out Ewoks joins us to discuss the form of Disney and their work in modern times. He and Martyn drop some knowledge on why they consider this to be one of the worst episodes of the series. Where do we go from here? What’s in store for the finale? Are you morbidly intrigued?

This week, the guys enlist the help of Matt from Matt’s Collection to discuss episode 6 of the Star Wars TV series, The Acolyte. After the adrenaline rush of episode 5, expectations were pretty high, but episode 6 brought us back down to Coruscant with a bit of a lull. In discussing the episode the guys throw out some theories as to how this could all end, with only two episodes left to watch.

This week we bring in Star Wars fan and toy collector, Dez T to discuss The Acolyte, Episode 5 - Night.

This week, Adam and Martyn rope in Real Toy Dude, Adam Berry, to discuss the latest episode of The Acolyte. Episode 4 - Day.

On this week’s Acolyte review show, Martyn and Adam bring in the Universal Toy Collector himself to discuss the controversial third episode of the series.

Adam and Martyn are joined by fellow Star Wars collector and all around great guy Scott Whitehouse to discuss, dissect and debate the first 2 episodes of The Acolyte

In this episode, Martyn and Adam discuss their hopes and fears regarding the upcoming Star Wars TV series, The Acolyte on Disney+. They go over what they expect might happen within the show, and talk about what they’d like to see and what would really put them off. All we do know is that it has the potential to be EPIC!

In this episode, Martyn and Adam are joined by fellow collector and Star Wars super fan, Matt from @MattsCollection to give our top 5 Star Wars video games of all time. Thinking back over the hundreds and hundreds of hours of gameplay, they whittle down to their favourites.

Join Adam and Martyn for a bonus midweek episode of ‘Talking Star Wars’. No guest this week because Martyn has a Return of the Jedi Topps sticker album to get to work on, whilst Adam gets building his Luke Skywalker Lego Lightsaber that he picked up at Echo Base from the Demonhunter Bricks stand.

On a very special episode of Making the Grade, we are joined by the man who arguably creates the best displays for collectors worldwide, Drew from Collector Displays.

Martyn gives us an updated Star Wars Collection Room Tour to show off his latest setup in a bit more detail after changing it up for what seems like the twenty-fifth time this year. We talk about his best pieces, how he's set it up and a hint at what else he's got planned for the room.

A very humbled, grateful and to be honest surprised Adam and Martyn celebrate reaching 500 Subscribers by doing 3 giveaways! Head over to our YouTube channel to subscribe, like and comment to get your name in the hat.

Martyn and Adam sit down to discuss their favourite bits from Echo Base, all the items they picked up to add to their collection and all the regrets of things they didn't pick up. Adam reveals some information about one of the items from the challenge as we go over those items.

In this episode we have a brief roundup of the Ahsoka series now it's come to an end and we highlight some new pickups we've both made. We also look forward to attending Echo Base Live 🔥

No video for this one - this week is just for you audio only lot as we continue our (Martyn's) list of the top 11 Clone Wars Episodes. It's the eighth episode of the series as we recap season 6, episode 10 - The Lost Ones.

In this episode of Making the Grade, our favorite Star Wars enthusiast Martyn is back with some more excited buys as he makes his way past the half way point of his collection.

We go over all of our pickups for September so far. We also find out if Adam picked up anything from the Toy Hunt he went on in the Midlands. Some of Martyn's forgotten items make it into this video and Adam calls upon the Lego community to help out with a pickup of his.

If you watch one Star Wars YouTube interview this week watch ‘My Collecting Life’ on Universal Toy Collectors channel! If however you want to watch another, check out this ‘Talking Star Wars’ episode with the man himself, Stu! We talk everything Ahsoka, Haslab, Sequel Trilogy (sorry) and what is the one action figure Stu couldn’t live without?

Martyn has had his birthday, and with that he reveals all the new amazing pickups he was gifted. Join us as he hits the half way point of this epic journey thanks to the ten new additions from this episode!

'Ahsoka' the next big Star Wars series is coming to Disney+, so Adam and Martyn discuss what they are hoping for and as usual Martyn throws out some bold predictions! They also talk a little about the recently announced Ahsoka figure and the Haslab Ghost coming to The Vintage Collection!

In this episode we address the ‘Bib Fortuna’ in the room but also the Pre Orders have been coming in at light speed over the last few weeks! We have TVC, Custom, Original Trilogy and Saga collection pickups to talk about.

We’re taking a week off this week but don’t worry we have a pre recorded episode of Martyn’s Top 11 Clone Wars episodes for you! It’s a huge episode for Ahsoka’s arc and most likely relevant to the upcoming Disney+ series. We hope you enjoy!

This week, we have an awesome chat with our special guest from the ZSR livestream and his own channel, Shabby Geek. We find out a little bit about his collection, talk about the upcoming Ahsoka series, discuss some in-depth Star Wars stuff that Adam had no idea about, and talk about his bespoke furniture production.

This week, there's Wookies, Darth Vaders and Droids as we reveal the remaining items picked up through our Vectis auction and Adam adds to his astromech collection.

Martyn's been hitting the booze again and is back to show off his latest additions to his loose graded Star Wars figures. Don't booze and bid people!

The collecting saga continues as we reveal the first bunch of pickups for July. Not sure either of us were intending on picking this many up when all of this started, but it looks like we've found a couple of lines we like the look of, so we're just diving on in.

This week we continue our dive into Martyn’s Top 11 Episode’s of the Clone Wars. In part 6 it’s the amazing Ahsoka centric episode ‘The Jedi Who Knew Too Much’.

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Well well well. What do we have here? Has Martyn been busy spending more money on loose graded Kenner Star Wars figures? Yes he has.

On this episode, we talk about Clone Wars episode 16 of season 5 - The Lawless. This is the next part to the Clone Wars episode we talked about in part 4 of Martyn's top 11 and it's a good one.

Adam and Martyn bring you a quick midweek episode to update the collectors out there on our latest pickups. We also spin the wheel of destiny to decide on the winners of our recent giveaway!

Martyn has some great pickups in this episode and anyone watching should be able to tell from the thumbnail what he's collected. There is also another impromptu giveaway so stick around and comment with the phrase to be in with a chance of winning!

We talk about the second box of Star Wars memories that have been stashed away in Martyn's garage. If you like your Star Wars comics, you'll probably enjoy this one.

That’s right, we’ve been doing this thing for a whole year now and to celebrate, we’re doing a giveaway.

This week we take a look at the next episode on Martyn's list of top 11 favourite Clone Wars episodes, 5.15 - Shades of Reason, where we see more of the best/second best character of The Phantom Menace! Who doesn't love Darth Maul?

You may have seen our recent short videos of some forgotten boxes that were stowed away in Martyn's garage. In this episode, Adam questions Martyn on various items within that box. There are some quite hilarious pieces in there and Martyn tells us about his favourite piece he'd forgotten about.

This week, we return to our (Martyn’s) top 10 (11) Clone Wars episodes. Part 3 sees us discuss Nightsisters from series 3.

Despite the funds getting low, we return to Making the Grade to see four new additions to Martyn's loose graded collection. These ones are real doozies, so come watch now!

Martyn and Adam are back to talk some more about the Clone Wars. This episode contains a lot of war and a lot of clones, which Adam appreciated.

Adam still has Echo Base regrets but picks up a few new additions for his collection. We discuss a new challenge for the future as it looks like we've both picked out some new carded figures we want to collect.

This week, we're talking Star Wars with our friend Matt, a.k.a Zero Hunter Toys. We discuss everything from the TV series' we're all enjoying currently to his collection, right through to his Cosplay days and of course the popular ZSR livestreams he's a part of.

In preparation for some life stuff happening Martyn and Adam over the last 6 months have recorded Martyn's Top 11 Clone Wars Episodes to fill in the weeks where it isn't possible to record anything. We have listed them in broadcast order and we as you might expect start with Part 1 'Lair of Grievous'.

We're back with Part 2 of our chat with the awesome Blacked Out Ewoks. He shows us Martyn's holy grail of loose graded along with a whole load more!

Quite a visual episode so you might want to head over to our YouTube channel for a better experience. If not, enjoy....

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This week, we have a good old chat about all things Star Wars, with our good friend from across the pond in Canada, Nick a.k.a Darth Wizzy Wizard. Nick teases Adam with all the great collectibles he has that Adam wants, we discuss where it all started for him and a whole lot more.

On this episode, we give our thoughts on the season 3 premiere. We discuss what we did and didn't like. Adam realised whilst editing that the pirate looked nothing like the Ghost of Christmas Present after all and Martyn gives a very, VERY bold prediction of what he thinks could come this season.

In this episode, not only do we take a look at Adam's latest Vintage Collection Bounty Hunter pickups, but we talk about a new addition to Martyn's collection. Only this time it isn't an action figure. Adam also talks of his regrets on what he missed out on at Echo Base.

Martyn has some pretty impressive pickups in this week's episode. His total spend seems to have jumped up somewhat too. Check out how his graded original Kenner collection is growing though. It's going great blasters!

We visited Echo Base Live for the very first time. We recap our day, talk about the great things that were on offer and some of the things we picked up.

Our first guest, Marc from Blue Harvest Toys joins us to talk about his collection, his favourite figures along with a lot of discussion about the films and TV shows.

Oh my goodness me. Adam is getting into this collecting business now. Check out his bounty hunter pick ups of the week and the lengths he went to to get them.

We return once again to Martyn's challenge to collect fully graded versions of the original Star Wars 96 Kenner figures. We hear some revelations about the challenge and that he didn't realise how difficult it might be. Nevertheless, he soldiered on to collect 3 more to add to the collection. Watch and find out which Star Wars characters he picked up this week.

Martyn makes his long awaited return to Southampton as we carry out our Toy Crawl (like Pub Crawl, but more comfortable on your head and less so on your wallet). Saturday, we make our way around anywhere in Southampton that might sell Star Wars Merch to add to our collections.

Adam updates us on his latest additions to the bounty hunt and we hear a couple of stories of mistakes made by both our hosts!

Yes, this was supposed to release on Christmas Eve, apologies, I caught the Covid and it kicked my ass for a week. But it's here now - part 2 of Martyn's "Making the Grade' Journey. Lets see what pick ups he managed to get hold of this week and more importantly, how much he spent on them and what grade they are.

This week, it's the turn of Adam to discuss his new challenge and what he's going to collect. I guess the thumbnail for the YouTube viewers gives it away somewhat, but hey. Who doesn't love the Bounty Hunters of Star Wars?

And so it begins....

Martyn goes into a little more detail about his addiction to Toy Auctions and goes over what he's won in the last few months. It then awakens something in him from his childhood, which leads to his next challenge. Will he make the grade??

It was one hell of an adventure, but that's it for series 1 of Andor. Did we like the way it all concluded? Watch and find out.

A short one this week as we discuss the happenings of episode 11 in Andor.

The series is drawing to a conclusion and we have no idea which way it is heading, as we discuss here. All the talk between Adam & Martyn Long about Andor episode 10 with a little bit of 9 thrown in too.

The eBay auction is over and the results are in.

Time is running out on our Second-Hand Star Wars Challenge auction items on eBay. We give you the lowdown on how that's going for us both and who has the midway point lead.

We're moving away from the Andor series this week to bring you our head-to-head challenge. We visited car boot sales and other places to see what we could find for no more than £50.

Ooooh it was a tense episode this week. We discuss episode 6 of the Disney+ Star Wars show, Andor. We talk the heist and get some early results from last week's game of Dead or Alive.

This week we recap episode 5 of Disney+ Series, Andor. We breakdown what we thought of the episode and what we did and didn't like about it. We also play a game of Dead or Alive. As always we finish with the Easter Eggs that Martyn spotted and any new additions he has made to the Star Wars Room. Enjoy!

We discuss episode 4 of Andor and all the magnificent easter eggs contained within. Martyn is recording from the Lake District this week where he informs us some of a Star Wars film was shot. Apologies for the delay in getting this one out, it's been a rough week. Thanks for watching.

Andor is underway with episodes 1, 2 & 3 all released at once. Hear our initial thoughts after our first viewing of the programme, what we did and didn't like about it, what we think we might see next time and a whole lot more!

We're all out of sync, so we're releasing this Rogue One rewatch podcast in time for the highly anticipated Andor series this Wednesday.

On this week's episode, we talk about the new Star Wars trailers that were released along with the latest news from Disney's D23 fan expo. We discuss the Obi-Wan Documentary that was released on Disney+ Day and that sneak peek of Andor.

Let's hear about what Martyn picked up at the Star Wars auction then, shall we?

Martyn got word of a huge Star Wars auction where a collector was parting with his entire collection.

This week we talk about what springs to mind when we think about Star Wars references in other TV Series and Movies.

This week we talk about attending and what to expect from a Star Wars Celebration and the very much missed Star Wars Weekends at Hollywood Studios in Disney World. What the difference is between the two and more.

Adam visited Martyn to get a good look at the Vintage Collection.

We're back after a couple of weeks off.

In this episode we discuss our pitches to Kathleen Kennedy (unofficially) for a Star Wars series we would like to see made. What do you think of our ideas? Would you like to see something along the same lines? Leave your ideas in the comments section below. We’d love to see what you come up with!

Here it is. Part 3 of our Star Wars Rankings. The final part where we reveal our favourites from 5 to 1. These are our opinions but we'd love to hear your thoughts... keep it friendly, please.

We're back with part 2 of our countdown. This is our individual opinions on the best Star Wars films and TV that are canon in the universe. We thought we would manage our entire top 10 here but we didn't so don't miss part 3.

Adam upsets Martyn immensely as we give our rankings of the canon Star Wars Universe including all the films and TV shows. This is Part 1 of 3 and our list from 18 to 11.

So that was it. That was the Finale for the Disney plus Star Wars series, Obi-Wan Kenobi. These are our thoughts. We discuss what we loved about it, what we didn't love about it, and more.

We look ahead to the Obi-Wan Kenobi Series Finale and talk about what we expect to see, hope to see and hope we don't see.

This week, we get in to the beautiful nostalgia of the episode, talk about the attack on Jabiim, Obi-Wan becoming his old self, Stormtroopers living up to their reputation of not being able to hit a target, Vader being super badass and much more.

We move on to Part 4 of the Disney Series, Obi-Wan Kenobi (with new recording equipment that sounds waaaaay better)!

Oh DAMN!! Did you see Part 3 of Obi-Wan? Of course you did, you wouldn't be here otherwise, right?

On this episode, we get into part 2 of the Obi-Wan series. Martyn and I talk all things Inquisitors, Haja Estree, Reva, Princess Leia and more. I had a stinking cold at the time of recording, so apologies for that.