{"id":12013,"date":"2006-04-12T14:40:19","date_gmt":"2006-04-12T18:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=12013"},"modified":"2013-04-18T15:06:23","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T19:06:23","slug":"about-staction-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2006\/04\/about-staction-figures\/","title":{"rendered":"About staction figures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last August, when I reviewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/motusnout.php\"><i>Masters of the Universe<\/i> Snout Spout<\/a>, I pointed out how stupid the phrase \"staction figure\" (short for \"static action figure\") is. And yet people are still using it. Shame on them.<\/p>\n<p>But now, the webcomic <i>Penny Arcade<\/i> has published <a href=\"http:\/\/penny-arcade.com\/comic\/2006\/04\/10\" target=pa>a strip<\/a> that (with a few textural modification to the first panel) adequately expresses how I feel about the term:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/staction.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/staction-300x156.jpg\" title=\"and that's why we never use the term\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So much hate. SO MUCH.<\/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=\"Skeletor Gundam\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2021\/10\/skeletor-gundam\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Skeletor Gundam<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Popular toys of the last 145 years\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/09\/the-popular-toys-of-the-last-145-years\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Popular toys of the last 145 years<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"My Toy Shrine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2008\/01\/my-toy-shrine\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">My Toy Shrine<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"MotU Scare Glow addendum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2026\/04\/motu-scare-glow-addendum\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">MotU Scare Glow addendum<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"ATFC '12 - Day 2: Mattel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/02\/atfc-12-day-2-mattel\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">ATFC '12 - Day 2: Mattel<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last August, when I reviewed Masters of the Universe Snout Spout, I pointed out how stupid the phrase \"staction figure\" (short for \"static action figure\") is. And yet people are still using it. Shame on them. But now, the webcomic &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2006\/04\/about-staction-figures\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,160,34,71,7,36],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-12013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addendums","category-comics","category-commentary","category-geek-speak","category-mattel","category-neca","tag-motu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12013","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12013"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12017,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12013\/revisions\/12017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}