Konami Has Changed Retro Yu-Gi-Oh Forever

**Paul McGee** (0:00)
Welcome back to the podcast, everybody. It's another Thursday, and...

**Alec Fields** (0:04)
Wednesday for us.

**Paul McGee** (0:05)
I regret to inform you all that we were supposed to have a guest this week. Unfortunately, some plans with that fell through.

**Alec Fields** (0:13)
We still maintain good relationships, and hopefully we'll get those guests back on later.

**Paul McGee** (0:19)
And it's still fine because there is so much to talk about this week anyway, particularly kind of in the gaming sphere. And also there's like a big Yu-Gi-Oh story that I think everybody wants to talk to the town.

**Alec Fields** (0:31)
All sorts of little nonsense that we like to yap around about.

**Paul McGee** (0:34)
Yeah, and hopefully you guys enjoyed last week's Emptying the Pot episode. That was a lot of fun.

**Alec Fields** (0:38)
We got to answer questions. You guys had some good questions, long questions. And I'm starting to think you guys are taking it as a personal challenge to write as long of questions as possible because no matter how many times we comment on how long the questions are, they just get longer.

**Paul McGee** (0:52)
Also, we will address the negative review that a person left on the podcast at the end of this episode.

**Alec Fields** (0:58)
That's right. It's at the end, at the beginning.

**Paul McGee** (1:00)
I've been putting it off for a couple of weeks.

**Alec Fields** (1:01)
We'll either have to fast forward or just watch the whole thing. I don't know.

**Paul McGee** (1:05)
I've been putting it off for a couple of weeks. I don't mind which one you do. I know the people have been waiting and I need to deliver on that.

**Alec Fields** (1:10)
I'm really not looking forward to it even though I think negative reviews can make us better. I just can't take criticism. It's not in me.

**Paul McGee** (1:18)
Trust me. We know.

**Alec Fields** (1:19)
Wow. I don't like the way you said that.

**Paul McGee** (1:22)
Only kidding. Now, before we get into all of that, I did want to shout out the fact that A, we've got over 150 channel memberships here, which is a huge deal. I didn't think that we...

**Alec Fields** (1:32)
150 people made a mistake.

**Paul McGee** (1:34)
Yeah, I know. And so the goal is to get to 200 channel members. So if you want to financially support The Pod, feel free to become a channel member. It's the join button right underneath.

**Alec Fields** (1:44)
Join the family of greed.

**Paul McGee** (1:47)
But yeah, that should be the name. But if not, then you can always just leave a one in the premier chat and maybe thumbs up the video.

**Alec Fields** (1:54)
One's up, one's up, one's up, one's up.

**Paul McGee** (1:56)
That stuff helps as well.

**Alec Fields** (1:57)
The premier gang rise up.

**Paul McGee** (1:59)
Yeah, it sears it out to more people, disseminates it and such. Okay, I have stalled long enough. It's time to talk about the big Yu-Gi-Oh story of the week.

**Alec Fields** (2:08)
Yes, and that is...

**Paul McGee** (2:10)
Bounds of legend, monster mayhem got a delay in European territories.

**Alec Fields** (2:14)
Now, I know you've took a lot of you guys' old news, but technically this happened last week and we didn't actually do a normal pod last week. So this is new for us.

**Paul McGee** (2:22)
Yeah, and don't worry, we're going to actually talk about the big thing about the Time Wizard stuff, but I figured this was important to cover real quick. So Konami EU issued a product update where they said, unfortunately, the release date for Bounds of Legend, Monster Mayhem is being pushed back from most territories. There was a production problem that resulted in clumping of the Starlight rares into a portion of the print run. This would have resulted in more Starlights for some, but fewer Starlights for others. So production will be redone so that the entire release is consistent, but this will take time. And the delayed release date affects Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Oceania, as well as Spanish and Portuguese cards for Latin America. English language cards for Latin America, Canada, and United States are unaffected and will have their originally announced release date. The revised street date for affected territories will be announced as soon as available. We'll do everything we can to expedite this.
So, hit me, what do we think about this? Because Bounds of Legend itself is supposed to have been releasing this week for everybody.

**Alec Fields** (3:19)
Right, but now it's just for us.

**Paul McGee** (3:22)