Editing The Pen Addict 185/transcript (section)

== Star Wars Pens ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. So, it was a great review. I'm glad he did that. And since Star Wars is coming out this week, I figured it was time to publish that bad boy. I actually had it here for a little bit, so I was waiting until it was a little bit closer to the time frame, you know? But... And I always... I don't read his stories ahead of time. What he does is stories. He doesn't do posts or reviews. He tells stories. And I always save them until they're ready to go live. So, even though if I've had it for a month, you know, I'll have to tell him, or even Susan or Jeff that write for me, I try not to read them until right before. And so, I'm, like, surprised when I do it, and I always get so excited, because they all do such great work.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I think my favorite line is this one. So, he's talking about the Darth Vader pen, and saying that there's a little red crystal in the finial? Finial. Finial. There you go. And I like this line. So, a red crystal is set in the camp's finial, and while normally I'd scoff at the addition of a Swarovski crystal as a selling point, seriously, what is the deal with Swarovski? Isn't it just, you know, crystal? It is a nice touch here as a callback to the color of Vader's lightsaber. That is so true, though. Like, I don't understand. Like, Swarovski crystal is kind of, like, pictures of this thing that is, like, diamonds. You know? It's like, oh, it's so special. It has a Swarovski in it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, would you pay $500 for a Star Wars fountain pen? No, I wouldn't. It's, like, the same thing, but I love that, too. It was like, it's just a crystal, but I guess to people who collect that stuff, it's not just a crystal, right?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I have to say, looking at these pictures here, my favorite one of these is actually the C-3PO one.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. That's my least favorite, for sure.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I think it looks the fanciest.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I think the Vader is my favorite, but, you know, I like those black matte pens. That's just a sweet-looking pen. And I already have a couple pens that look like a Stormtrooper, so I think the Vader is the coolest for me. But I think you're not alone in the C-3PO. I think that's what John said he liked the most out of the three, and I think other people...

'''Myke Hurley:''' No, he likes the Stormtrooper. Oh, he likes the Stormtrooper.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Someone else was saying, I think most of the comments and things that we got on that were the 3PO. Everyone favored the 3PO.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Also, it looks the most expensive. It does. It does.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's that gold look will get you.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Because the Stormtrooper one, it looks pretty cheap. But I agree that it's the coolest looking, but I don't know if it's my favorite looking.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. So, speaking of your favorite looking, the Mont Blanc M, which is still an awesome looking pen, and it's completely...

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I still... I read this review when it came out. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, our friend Aziza at Gourmet Pens got her hands on one of these and reviewed it, and she has lots of concerns about it. And the hardest time I have with it, which I think is what you have with it, not with her review. Her review is great. The hardest time I have is that the design of this pen speaks to me so much. I'm like, well, it's got to be good, right? It's got to be perfect. I still want it. I still want it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I read everything about it, saying that there's all these problems with it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' But I still really want it. It's really good. She has lots of good pictures in her review. And, you know, I thought it was a really, really good review because she explained it, you know, all the good parts and all the flaws, obviously. And I was actually a little bit surprised its size. It's a little bit smaller than I thought it might be in relation to some other pens, but I guess not too far off. Yeah, I still want to try one. I'm not going to just go out and order one blindly. Like I tell anyone who's spending this kind of money on a pen, you know, if there's any way you can test it out before purchasing, you want to do that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Someone needs to buy one or bring it to the pen show. That's what needs to happen.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, there might be one at the pen show. There'll be one at the pen show. I'll ask. I need to. I'll ask the Andersons because now that Mont Blanc doesn't. You can't be a Mont Blanc vendor unless you have a brick and mortar, I believe. So now that the Andersons are a brick and mortar retailer, they can carry Mont Blanc. So I'm wondering if they have this. I don't even know if these are in the in the US. Does anyone have these in the US? OK, carry in the chat room saying that the Andersons do carry this pen. So that's something I still want to get my hands on this because I love. the design.

'''Myke Hurley:''' All right. We're going to have to get the Andersons to bring it out. My issue. I'll tell you what my issue is with this. If it is acceptable, I will buy one. That's my problem.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, that's a problem. That's a legitimate problem.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You're going to have to live with it, right? Or, you know, what if those those things that are just not quite acceptable creep up over a month or six months or a year of using? I guess you can just sell it off, you know, but, you know, it's it's a lot of money to outlay. It's got to be, you know, they're around 500 retail. I don't have the price right in front of me. But like the Star Wars before it, you know, if you're not going to use that pen in a some with some type of frequency.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Do you need that pen? So but I love I love the design of this pen. I really do.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Look, if people are going to buy Star Wars pens, then I'm going to buy this one.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I'm with you on if it's acceptable because I'm reading Aziza's review and she's like I'm kind of I'm like nodding my head along with her. I'm like, yeah, I can see that. Yeah, I kind of understand that. That could be a problem. And I can't wait to try it. You know?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. There's just like little things like the magnetic cap and, you know, I just I'll just look at it. All right. I won't use it. I'll just I'll just look at it.