{"id":1534,"date":"2011-02-08T02:08:28","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T07:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=1534"},"modified":"2013-04-17T01:55:22","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T05:55:22","slug":"first-transformers-prime-toys-appear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2011\/02\/first-transformers-prime-toys-appear\/","title":{"rendered":"First <i>Transformers: Prime<\/i> toys appear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hasbro decided to throw fans a bone yesterday, showing off the first <i>TF: Prime<\/i> figures. of course, rather than showing them off themselves, or sending the images to fansites, the reveals were spread around on various pop-culture sites:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First was <i>USA Today<\/i> with <a href=\"http:\/\/whosnews.usaweekend.com\/2011\/02\/exclusive-check-out-the-new-toy-for-arcee-the-resident-girl-bot-on-transformers-prime\/\" target=_blank>Arcee<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Within minutes UGO posted their exclusive image of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ugo.com\/the-goods\/hasbros-2011-transformers-prime-first-edition-action-figures\" target=_blank>Starscream<\/a><\/li>\n<li>We had to wait a while to see <a href=\"http:\/\/comics.ign.com\/articles\/114\/1148173p1.html\" target=_blank>Bumblebee<\/a> at IGN<\/li>\n<li>And much later in the day was AICN with an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aintitcool.com\/node\/48388\" target=_blank>Optimus Prime\/Megatron<\/a> battlepack<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Megs\/Prime pack also include the show's three humans. Really, Hasbro? <i>Transformers Animated<\/i> was the first TF show in <b>ever<\/b> where the majority of the fans didn't hate the humans, and it never got a single fleshling - hero <b>or<\/b> villain - but <i>Prime<\/i>, which has only aired five episodes and is already engendering a vocal dislike of the meat-based sidekicks, gets them in the first wave of releases? That's not cool.<\/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=\"Not everything comes with clear instructions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2022\/07\/not-everything-comes-with-clear-instructions\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Not everything comes with clear instructions<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Transformers BotBots Spud Muffin review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2019\/02\/transformers-botbots-spud-muffin-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Transformers BotBots Spud Muffin review<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"A note about Transformers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/a-note-about-transformers\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">A note about Transformers<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Transformers BotBots cartoon trailer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2022\/03\/transformers-botbots-cartoon-trailer\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Transformers BotBots cartoon trailer<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Transformers Kre-O Rampage review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2014\/04\/transformers-kre-o-rampage-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Transformers Kre-O Rampage review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hasbro decided to throw fans a bone yesterday, showing off the first TF: Prime figures. of course, rather than showing them off themselves, or sending the images to fansites, the reveals were spread around on various pop-culture sites: &lt;i&gt;And now, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2011\/02\/first-transformers-prime-toys-appear\/\">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":[34,8,24],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-1534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-hasbro","category-news","tag-transformers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534","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=1534"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12012,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions\/12012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}