{"id":11318,"date":"2013-02-08T15:54:50","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T20:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=11318"},"modified":"2013-03-09T15:47:35","modified_gmt":"2013-03-09T20:47:35","slug":"legendary-monsters-take-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2013\/02\/legendary-monsters-take-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Legendary Monsters (Take 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may recall a few weeks back when we told you about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=11226\">Legendary Monsters Kickstarter<\/a>. As predicted, that one didn't meet its funding goal, but as promised, the creators are trying again with a much lower target.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"319\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1336904045\/legendary-monsters-toys-of-urban-legend-and-folklo\/widget\/video.html\" frameborder=\"0\"> <\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><iframe loading=\"lazy\" align=right frameborder=\"0\" height=\"380\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1336904045\/legendary-monsters-toys-of-urban-legend-and-folklo\/widget\/card.html\" width=\"220\"><\/iframe>This time the price they need to hit is only $25,000, which is a ton more achievable! They've already got more supporters and more money than they did last time, so this one is on a roll!<\/p>\n<p>As a reminder, the guy behind them has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yorkdispatch.com\/weekend\/ci_22464531\/monstrous-work-afoot-new-freedom\" target=_blank>trying to make them a reality for over a decade<\/a>. The prototypes were shown in <i>ToyFare<\/i> magazine ages ago, with a target release date of Fall 2001. Here's a shot of them from way back then:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/monsters.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/monsters-300x230.jpg\" title=\"Legendary Monsters\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>On the down side, there are no longer any victim figures, and no display bases. However, there are now glow-in-the-dark options, and <a href=\"http:\/\/kck.st\/Y8kMcA\" target=ks>they look awesome<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Remember that you can pledge to Kickstarter projects without worry: no money is taken from you until the project closes, and then it's only taken if enough people have pledged to get it \"over the hump.\" If they fall even one penny short, you keep all your money and have risked nothing. So pledge with confidence!<\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H5>&lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;<\/H5><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Supervillain primary debate, part 3\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/04\/supervillain-primary-debate-part-3\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Supervillain primary debate, part 3<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Human Alliance Sgt. 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Chaos addendum<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"GI Joe Movie Watch 2 - first trailer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2011\/12\/gi-joe-movie-watch-2-first-trailer\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">GI Joe Movie Watch 2 - first trailer<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"The original GI Joe Classified Storm Shadow design\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2022\/11\/the-original-gi-joe-classified-storm-shadow-design\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">The original GI Joe Classified Storm Shadow design<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"GI Joe Movie Watch: Rumors and Scuttlebutt\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2008\/01\/gi-joe-movie-watch-rumors-and-scuttlebutt\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">GI Joe Movie Watch: Rumors and Scuttlebutt<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may recall a few weeks back when we told you about the Legendary Monsters Kickstarter. As predicted, that one didn't meet its funding goal, but as promised, the creators are trying again with a much lower target. &lt;i&gt;And now, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2013\/02\/legendary-monsters-take-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201,42],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-11318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kickstarter","category-videos","tag-gi-joe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11318"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11609,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11318\/revisions\/11609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}