{"id":14239,"date":"2007-08-18T15:21:47","date_gmt":"2007-08-18T19:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=14239"},"modified":"2013-11-30T15:24:09","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T20:24:09","slug":"creature-from-the-black-lagoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2007\/08\/creature-from-the-black-lagoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Creature from the Black Lagoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poe scribbles:<\/p>\n<p>I've wanted the Creature from the Black Lagoon from the Toy Island line of <i>Marvel Legends<\/i>-style Universal Monsters ever since reading a (bad) review. But since my only options for getting one seemed to be paying $100 for a full set from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amoktime.com\/detail.asp?product_id=ti62330\" target=\"at\">Amoktime.com<\/a> or paying $50 just for the Creature on eBay, I'd more or less given up on it. Until, on a random visit to TRU today (in Framingham, Mass.), I came across the entire line.<\/p>\n<p>They were $13 a pop, at which price I could only justify getting the Creature, though Frankie was tempting. Still, this was one of those cases where I was almost a bit dazed for a moment. This was almost like a holy grail for me - definitely not something I thought I'd ever see in a store.<\/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=\"Dracula by Jack Kirby and Mike Mignola\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2014\/10\/dracula-by-jack-kirby-and-mike-mignola\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Dracula by Jack Kirby and Mike Mignola<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #57\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/04\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-57\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #57<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Soon Forget: more S.L.U.G.s\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2016\/10\/soon-forget-more-s-l-u-g-s\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Soon Forget: more S.L.U.G.s<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Universal Monsters Mystery Minis - black and white Dracula exclusive review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2019\/10\/universal-monsters-mystery-minis-black-and-white-dracula-exclusive-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Universal Monsters Mystery Minis - black and white Dracula exclusive review<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Monster cereal Madballs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2013\/08\/monster-cereal-madballs\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Monster cereal Madballs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poe scribbles: I've wanted the Creature from the Black Lagoon from the Toy Island line of Marvel Legends-style Universal Monsters ever since reading a (bad) review. But since my only options for getting one seemed to be paying $100 for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2007\/08\/creature-from-the-black-lagoon\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[179],"class_list":["post-14239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reports","tag-universal-monsters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14239","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14240,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14239\/revisions\/14240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}