"Really?" Pokey squinted his eyes a bit. "I never really thought of doing that. I guess I thought that if you're going hi-tech, go all the way. Like it would diminish it or something to use simpler materials. But I guess that makes a lot of sense to do that, really."

He thought for a minute before smirking up at the scientist, "You know, when you first got ported in, I thought you were kinda a goober. I guess I was wrong about that. You're actually making this interesting cause, I gotta admit, I got a short attention span a lot of the time."

He tilted his head slightly and asked, "...Was it fun? Back where you're from? 'cause you said you had a real rival and everything."