Yes, I’m K-2SO. I’m trying to think of some of his lines.

“Congratulations, you’re being rescued.”
“Congratulations, you are being rescued.”

He’s a little… why does she get a blaster and I don’t?

“Do you want to know how likely it is that we are going to die?”

Like he says things, and you’re like, no, we don’t want to know that at all. And he’s 7’2″, and I motion-captured it, so I got to wear stilts and fly all over the world when we shot it. And it was neat.

Now, from Funko Hollywood, it’s time for Pop Talk.

Hey everybody, it’s your pal Funmaker Mike Golly G. Way. Do you see who we have with us today? You know him from all sorts of TV and film and fun-loving stuff. I’m just going to announce it: Alan Tck.

“Hello, hello, how are you?”
“I’m fun-loving, just loving. I’m loving fun, and I’m fun when I’m loving.”

Is that awkward to be?
Yes. It’s the best start we’ve ever had in Pop Talk.

Alright, so we have in front of us all these pop accessories—heads, hair, fun. When we talk and do this interview, we like you to just build a pop.

“I think I’m going to build the perfect woman.”

How creepy is that?
No, no, she’s my wife. Alright, but uh, it’s actually my wife, cuz like I’ve got some pops, but she has no pops, and I can make one for her also.

If anybody’s interested, pop yourself from Funko. It’s the newest, latest, most wonderful thing—you can make a pop of anyone, your family member, or your wife. I want to see that commercial.

“Pop yourself.”
No, it’s fun. Do it together as a family.

I just popped myself. God dang.

Anyway, let’s do this. This hurts.

“Do you, Alan Tck?”
“That’s me.”

Collect anything?
We’re a collectibles company here at Funko.

“Do you collect anything?”
I collect yardsticks. For real. Yeah, yardsticks—old yardsticks. It’s very hard to get them now because about 10 years ago it was easy. I got a lot, and now they’re just… you would think, I don’t know, maybe it’s because the internet, but people have grabbed them up. They’re really expensive when you do find them, and the ones that are out there are not that good.

Okay, I want to test a theory. Tell me the reason you collect yardsticks.

I grew up with yardsticks. It’s an old way of advertising that people used back before even my day, where they would shop at a store, and they give you a yardstick on your way out. And it was a yardstick to have at your house, and I guess the idea was you’re always going to need to measure stuff, and when you’re measuring stuff, you’ll see “David and Sons” or “David and Sons Funeral Home and Car Service.”

Yeah, like what is that?

So, it has… it’s like a little time capsule, because a lot of these stores don’t exist anymore. There’s been so much consolidation of stores that you see. And also, phone numbers are like “5, call us at 5,” that’s where we are.

I got one that was liquid asbestos, which is awful—got to give you cancer and bad stuff. That was my first one, and it was such a cool thing. It was made out of really good wood, and it reminded me… I grew up with yardsticks. I would fight with my brother with them. They were swords. You could get spanked with them, ‘cuz I did grow up in Texas, and you’ll get… you’ll get a smack.

Pop in, come down, get your pops. Yep.

“Do you really think at the root of it, it goes back to your relationship with your brother and the fun you think of, you know, like family?”
I think so. And then it’s just something that went away—you don’t get yardsticks anymore.

Yeah, man, I’ve got some good ones.
“You have to be this tall to ride the ride.”
Oh yeah, that’s a good one. And ‘cuz they have history—like who has had them, where have they been—the “too tall to ride the ride.” Think of all the… just all the broken hearts that… that… that measured… yeah, they were this.
Sorry brother, just went haha. Uh-huh. Yeah, that’s what I would do with my little brother. Yeah, my bigger brother did that with me.

Hey, let’s talk about this whole sci-fi thing. You want to?
Yes, let’s do that. Resident Alien, season 3, coming up.
Yes, it is finally. The show—we finished it a while ago, season 3, and then the strike happened, so it got put on a back burner. But we’ve since moved it to a front burner, and now it’s going to be on SciFi.

“I will save the Earth.”
Do you really trust Harry’s plan? What was his last plan again? To come here and kill everyone?

The show is about a guy named Harry Vander… well, it’s about an alien. I play the alien who crash-lands on Earth. He was coming to just drop off a bomb to kill all of the humans on Earth, but his ship gets hit by lightning. He goes down in a storm, and he ends up on this planet that he didn’t study—he wasn’t going to stop off. So he has to try to blend in. He sort of kills a guy and takes his identity—this guy, Harry Vanderspiegel, who’s a doctor, and he’s at his fishing cabin.

Somebody murders the town doctor, and they come out to this guy and say, “Aren’t you a doctor? We need some help in town.”

He gets pulled into the town, and he starts to meet humans. Now we’re in season 3—he’s learned a lot about being human. He’s kind of… his teenage years. In this season, I’m going to fall in love.

Wow. Yeah.
And have you done it before, yet, fall in love?
No. Oh wait, have you? Yeah.
Fallen in love? I have. I’m building her right now.

Okay, one thing I noticed—it’s a great balance between comedy and sci-fi.
Uh, it is. It’s a nice balance. It’s a dramedy—a one-hour dramedy. But every season, it’s a little bit more comedy-drama. I don’t know… it’s a dramedy, but there’s so much more comedy.

It does get dark, because, you know, people—whether… I don’t know… do you believe in aliens?
Yes. You do. Well, I feel like you’re on the spot. Do you want me to…? I don’t care. I’ll do whatever you say.
Spoken like a human.

You’ve got… I don’t know… they have these pictures in Area 51. It seems like there’s a lot of proof that someone could say there was something. I mean, they find all these weird, kind of fish and stuff, and even now, after all this, they find stuff that we never thought existed.
Yep, that’s so true. You see, so why wouldn’t there be an alien? Yeah, I do believe in aliens.

A lot has come out in the last few years that allows a lot of people who were on the fence to get off the fence. Yeah, but there was a book called Communion, I think, that talks about this guy who had abduction experiences, and it’s freaky. It’s freaky.

It was given to me when I first got this job by Christopher Sheridan, who created the show. He created it for television, I believe in it, and there are a lot of people who believe in it as well.

If it is real, to be abducted is a very dramatic thing to have happen, whether it’s by some other human or by some extraordinary force. So it does get dark, ‘cuz we cover those sorts of events. It’s played real. There is a lot of humor in it because he’s an alien who doesn’t know what he’s doing a lot of the time.

But if someone were to take you against your will and give you a… let’s say, a checkup—a medical checkup, mainly focusing on one of your orifices… not up here, right?
Yeah.

Do they… let me show you on the doll—they touch you, you have to pay for that. It’s on this region of the body.
Yeah, I had one of those.

As things are, you know, coming… we’re into season 3 now. There’s some serious stuff going on with the gray aliens—the ones that were at Area 51. Oh, and they’re the ones who do the probing. They want to know more, or are they doing it for fun?

My alien believes… ‘cuz they’re perverts. They’re totally perverted, always sticking things up there. But I think that’s maybe his take on it—more in the comedy, in the dramedy. But for the people that it happens to, it’s very serious.