{"id":16601,"date":"2014-07-20T22:10:59","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T02:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=16601"},"modified":"2026-04-13T08:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T12:54:09","slug":"mondo-toys-are-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2014\/07\/mondo-toys-are-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Mondo toys are coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know Mondo, the company that releases <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=4293\">fancy posters<\/a> for all sorts of movies, and somehow convinces people that paying $80 for a poster is fiscally sound? Well, prepare to get your wallets broken, because they're getting into the toy business. And not just artsy urban vinyl, either - real, actual toys, starting with <i>The Iron Giant<\/i>!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/mondoig.jpg\" title=\"The Iron Giant\" width=\"445\" height=\"675\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>This toy, along with a couple TMNT ones and a 12\"er based on Alfred Hitchcock will debut at SDCC later this week. And look for an article in tomorrow's <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/life\/movies\/2014\/07\/21\/mondo-pop-culture-toys-exclusive\/12937471\/\" target=_blank>USA Today<\/a><\/i> where Alamo Drafthouse CEO Justin Ishmael talks about what he wants to get from this line (the news is good: the toys shouldn't be as ridiculously hard to get as the posters).<\/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=\"NECA: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990 Movie) Ultimate Casey Jones exclusive review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2021\/12\/neca-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-1990-movie-ultimate-casey-jones-exclusive-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">NECA: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990 Movie) Ultimate Casey Jones exclusive review<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #195\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2017\/11\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-195\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #195<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Minimalist Lego designs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/06\/minimalist-lego-designs\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Minimalist Lego designs<\/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=\"TMNT movie Foot Soldier addendum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2020\/03\/tmnt-movie-foot-soldier-addendum\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">TMNT movie Foot Soldier addendum<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know Mondo, the company that releases fancy posters for all sorts of movies, and somehow convinces people that paying $80 for a poster is fiscally sound? Well, prepare to get your wallets broken, because they're getting into the toy &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2014\/07\/mondo-toys-are-coming\/\">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":[493,24],"tags":[283,28],"class_list":["post-16601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mondo","category-news","tag-iron-giant","tag-tmnt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16601","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=16601"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46629,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16601\/revisions\/46629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}