Respect the Toy Box if You Want the Cash! |UYNC S3 Ep 7

This week on Up Your Nerd Cred, we’re continuing our toyetic movie conversation with film producer, distributor, sales agent, and friend of the pod Ben from Disrupt Entertainment.After talking last week about movies built from toys, games, comics, and merch machines, we’re getting into what happens when those adaptations grow up a little. Or at least try to.CiCi, AM, and Ben talk through Captain America 1990 versus Captain America: The First Avenger, the deeply chaotic 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie versus the modern animated Mario movies, the emotional violence of The Transformers: The Movie, Michael Bay’s Transformers, why Megan Fox’s character probably should have been the actual lead, and how The LEGO Movie understood the assignment better than it had any right to.Plus: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as Daredevil fanfiction, the problem with being embarrassed by the source material, and why respecting the toy box does not mean copying every piece exactly.Production note: this one is arriving a little later than planned because, between a laptop outage and a basement flood, it took a while to get time to edit. We are still investigating why Xi Jinping wanted to flood CiCi’s basement and ruin her Bowflex specifically [TO WHAT END?], but for now, the episode is here and the toys have been picked up.Part 3 comes tomorrow.Listen on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube. Follow the pod on Instagram at @UpYourNerdCredPod.Hosted by CiCi and AM Diaz.Follow CiCi at @ciracdavis.Follow AM at @AMDiazArt.Follow Ben at @theguerrillarep.Learn more about Disrupt Entertainment at disruptentertainment.com.#UpYourNerdCred, #NerdCred, #Toyetic, #ToyMovies, #ComicBookMovies, #CaptainAmerica, #SuperMarioBros, #Transformers, #TheLEGOMovie, #TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles, #TMNT, #MichaelBay, #MeganFox, #MovieAdaptations, #NerdCulture, #PopCulturePodcast, #Podcast