Chicago Pokémon GO Fest Recap

**Steve** (0:15)
What's up, everyone? Welcome to the 724th episode of the Pokemon Podcast, It's Super Effective, and the, how, what was that?

**Chris** (0:24)
Oh, I didn't prep.

**Kyle** (0:26)
372

**Chris** (0:27)
372?

**Kyle** (0:27)
Okay.

**Chris** (0:28)
Yeah. Jesus, gave us an extra two. Episode 372 of the GOCast Podcast.

**Steve** (0:32)
Yeah, there we go.
We're together again at a GO event. I'm your host, Steve. With me is...

**Chris** (0:38)
I'm Chris.

**Steve** (0:39)
And we got Austin here.

**Austin** (0:41)
Hello, I'm here.

**Chris** (0:42)
Kyle's also here.

**Austin** (0:43)
Hiya. Hey.

**Steve** (0:44)
We're getting really good at this dual host.

**Chris** (0:45)
Yeah, that's too bad. That's too bad.

**Steve** (0:49)
We're doing this show in a new podcast studio. We did the one in LA.

**Austin** (0:53)
Yeah.

**Steve** (0:53)
This one's tight.

**Austin** (0:54)
This one's very nice.

**Steve** (0:55)
Yeah, very nice. Look at high praise already. We're trying to get a discount if we gas them up.

**Chris** (0:59)
We're under a minute already. This is great.

**Steve** (1:02)
Perfect. So this episode is going to be focused on GO Fest. We just did the morning session of GO Fest and then all city play was yesterday.

**Chris** (1:10)
Yep.

**Steve** (1:10)
So we are in a time limit today, so we won't have three segments. We'll have two segments and then after credits, we'll do our Patreon bonus, which will be free on both of our feeds because it has to be free when it's a share.

**Chris** (1:21)
You're welcome.

**Steve** (1:23)
Again, if you know Chris is here, then it's free.

**Chris** (1:26)
That's right.

**Austin** (1:27)
That's why we love you, Chris. We really like you around here.

**Steve** (1:31)
So much value to the patron.

**Austin** (1:32)
Good.

**Chris** (1:32)
Whatever it takes, you know, I'll take any points I can get.

**Steve** (1:36)
So pretty much all go fast. I know there was some Lego news, but you guys didn't seem too interested.

**Chris** (1:40)
I mean, I'm interested to hear what it was.

**Kyle** (1:42)
I don't know anything about it.

**Steve** (1:43)
Oh, OK. We can delay the GO stuff. We can go right now.

**Chris** (1:48)
Like where we're at right now is we understand that there are Lego sets and people were upset about the price, but we've seen all the counter arguments that per break it's actually not so bad.

**Steve** (1:56)
Yes.

**Chris** (1:56)
Other than that.

**Steve** (1:59)
Well, I'm not like a huge. Are you?

**Austin** (2:01)
I'm not really a Lego guy.

**Steve** (2:02)
Well, this doesn't have.

**Chris** (2:03)
I mean, I like Lego. I used to build them all the time as a kid, but I'm not an adult collector, Steve. I'm sorry.

**Steve** (2:08)
Oh, no. No, they just announced a bunch of new sets. So like Gengar Cubone, Jolteon, Charizard, Mewtwo, Bulbasaur, Bidoof is a set.

**Chris** (2:18)
Oh, OK.

**Steve** (2:20)
I think as a non-Lego guy, but a big Pokemon guy, right? I think they look OK.
I think there was there was the, you know, people didn't like the Venusaur Blastoise Charizard kind of thing.

**Chris** (2:32)
Yeah.

**Kyle** (2:33)
And was the was the complaint that people don't like what the small like the small ones look like? Do people like?

**Steve** (2:39)
I think the complaint was the the first set of Legos looked ugly compared to the Mega Bloks, though.

**Kyle** (2:44)
Oh, yeah. OK, fair enough.

**Chris** (2:45)
Which is the first time in history, anyway, ever said that.

**Steve** (2:50)
The Legos looked worse than Mega Bloks.

**Chris** (2:52)
Yes. And I will say that as somebody who owns several Mega Bloks sets, I'm just saying there's a stigma that's unfair, I think, to Mega Bloks. But people tend to think that Legos like qualities because it costs more. And that might be true to a degree, but it doesn't mean the sets look as good, you know?

**Austin** (3:06)
I don't know if I've ever built a Mega Blok, but I've sure built Legos.

**Chris** (3:09)
Okay.

**Austin** (3:10)
So I guess I can't compare. But I do, I think some of the new ones do look good. The Mutti one's pretty cool. It comes with like the tube.

**Chris** (3:16)
Yeah.

**Austin** (3:16)
Yeah, someone's nice.

**Steve** (3:17)
That one's also the ones that like light up and interact with each other.

**Kyle** (3:21)
Yeah, that's the Smart Brick.

**Austin** (3:23)
Did you hear, they like, I saw like a TikTok of them showing off like the sounds. They sound nothing like the Pokemon, nothing at all.

**Steve** (3:31)
Is that good or bad?

**Austin** (3:32)
I don't know. I mean, it's fine.