{"id":13808,"date":"2013-10-19T03:06:38","date_gmt":"2013-10-19T07:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=13808"},"modified":"2021-02-10T06:14:02","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T11:14:02","slug":"krangs-alternate-bodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2013\/10\/krangs-alternate-bodies\/","title":{"rendered":"Krang's alternate bodies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/tmnt_v_kab.php\">today's review of Krang<\/a>, yo mentioned that Playmates had several other options for the evil brain's body. Here, <a href=\"http:\/\/lavignebrownart.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/body-of-work.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">via Steve Lavigne<\/a>, are two of those rejected designs:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/krang1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/krang1-225x300.jpg\" title=\"click to embiggen\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\"><\/a> &nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/krang2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/krang2-225x300.jpg\" title=\"click to embiggen\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Now why weren't those ever approved\/produced? Kids would have eaten that up!<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->As a bonus, the cartoon may have showed what Krang looked like in his native form: a 1993 episode, \"Invasion of the Kranganoids,\" saw Krang so frustrated at his existing henchmen that he cloned himself six times. Initially, the clones were just brains, like him, though they soon began to grow big, lizard-like bodies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/krang3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/krang3-300x158.jpg\" title=\"click to embiggen\" width=\"295\" height=\"155\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There was no mention of anything going wrong with the cloning process, and Donatello even points out that some lizards can regrow lost bodyparts and speculates that's what's happening here, so it's likely that's his species' natural appearance.<\/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=\"An amazing collection of TMNT model sheets\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/09\/an-amazing-collection-of-tmnt-model-sheets\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">An amazing collection of TMNT model sheets<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"X-TMNT\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/05\/x-tmnt\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">X-TMNT<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #126\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2014\/03\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-126\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #126<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Flippin' through Previews - August '15\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/08\/flippin-through-previews-august-15\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Flippin' through Previews - August '15<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"A suggestion for Michael Bay\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/03\/a-suggestion-for-michael-bay\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">A suggestion for Michael Bay<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today's review of Krang, yo mentioned that Playmates had several other options for the evil brain's body. Here, via Steve Lavigne, are two of those rejected designs: &nbsp; Now why weren't those ever approved\/produced? Kids would have eaten that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2013\/10\/krangs-alternate-bodies\/\">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":[41,331],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-13808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addendums","category-cancelled-toys","tag-tmnt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13808","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=13808"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33729,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13808\/revisions\/33729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}