{"id":1413,"date":"2007-03-20T15:07:21","date_gmt":"2007-03-20T20:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=1413"},"modified":"2011-01-31T03:57:56","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T08:57:56","slug":"the-wonders-of-an-advertising-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2007\/03\/the-wonders-of-an-advertising-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"The wonders of an advertising budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just saw an add for the new Spider-Man product from Hasbro - the dancing thing, the Mr. Potato Head, the iDog, Superhero Squad, action figures...everything. Apparently there's going to be some big release this Saturday - the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hasbro.com\/marvel\/spiderman\/\" target=\"bro\">Web Slinger Weekend<\/a>, which I guess is sort of like the Star Wars \"Midnight Madness\" things, but less structured. If you haven't been able to find any Spidey 3 toys yet, go to Target, Wal*Mart or TRU this weekend and you should be rolling in them.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the important thing is the fact that Spidey's being advertised at all. I realize it's mostly because the movie is on its way, but do you remember ever seeing a commercial from ToyBiz? Hasbro's a bigger company, so they have the budget to do that kind of thing. It's just cool, is all...<\/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=\"Flippin' Through Previews - April '07\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2007\/04\/flippin-through-previews-april-07\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Flippin' Through Previews - April '07<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Flippin' Through Previews - July '09\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/flippin-through-previews-july-09\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Flippin' Through Previews - July '09<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"\"Secret Wars\" #3 and \"Renew Your Vows\" #1 variants\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/06\/secret-wars-3-and-renew-your-vows-1-variants\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">\"Secret Wars\" #3 and \"Renew Your Vows\" #1 variants<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #189\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2017\/09\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-189\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #189<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Minimate Mini-Review #297 - Cyborg Spider-Man &#038; Songbird\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2016\/06\/minimate-mini-review-297-cyborg-spider-man-songbird\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Minimate Mini-Review #297 - Cyborg Spider-Man &#038; Songbird<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just saw an add for the new Spider-Man product from Hasbro - the dancing thing, the Mr. Potato Head, the iDog, Superhero Squad, action figures...everything. Apparently there's going to be some big release this Saturday - the Web Slinger &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2007\/03\/the-wonders-of-an-advertising-budget\/\">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":[34,8,25,11],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-1413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-hasbro","category-marvel","category-toybiz","tag-spider-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413","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=1413"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1415,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions\/1415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}