{"id":20772,"date":"2009-02-03T15:03:45","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T20:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=20772"},"modified":"2015-10-24T18:12:32","modified_gmt":"2015-10-24T22:12:32","slug":"xevoz-series-5-mech-shell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/xevoz-series-5-mech-shell\/","title":{"rendered":"Xevoz Series 5: Mech Shell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It's Old Toys Month, so let's take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=20766\">another<\/a> unreleased <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/articulation\/0406.php\">Xevoz<\/a><\/i> figure. This time it's the Reptosaur Mech Shell.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/XevozS5MechShellArt.jpg\" title=\"Mech Shell art\" width=\"335\" height=\"455\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>First spotted in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=20758\">the Stikfas HQ tour<\/a>, Mech Shell is a little turtle guy, with add-on armor to create his namesake carapace. Yes, that thing's not biological, it's heavy-duty protection! He would have had articulated thumbs, just like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/shocka\/xevrsfd.php\">Firedrake<\/a>, and a snapping jaw on at least one of his heads.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-20772 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/XevozS5MechShell.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/XevozS5MechShell-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/XevozS5MechShellArmor.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/XevozS5MechShellArmor-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/XevozS5MechShellArtSm.png\" title=\"Mech Shell control art\" width=\"100\" height=\"175\" class=\"alignright\">Looking at the showroom photo, his arsenal of accessories would have included two big knives, a bazooka, small double-barreled cannons, a big wrench, several bombs and missiles, an oil can, and more. His joke piece was a key that would fit into his back like a wind-up toy, and he had a little jetpack-wearing turtle sidekick\/drone that he would have been able to fire from his rocket launcher. Plus, the shell itself would have had little turbines, to help him maneuver while underwater (unless those were supposed to make him fly?). Look at all those goodies:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/XevozS5MechShellComp.jpg\" title=\"so many accessories\" width=\"475\" height=\"315\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>This would have been an absolutely <b>amazing<\/b> set! If you'll excuse me, me and my glass cutter are taking a trip to Singapore.<\/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=\"A few Xevoz customs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2007\/08\/a-few-xevoz-customs\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">A few Xevoz customs<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"The broken down future of Xevoz\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/10\/the-broken-down-future-of-xevoz\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">The broken down future of Xevoz<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"When they get tired of He-Man, they could start doing these\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2024\/07\/when-they-get-tired-of-he-man-they-could-start-doing-these\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">When they get tired of He-Man, they could start doing these<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Xevoz customs - part 16\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2010\/09\/xevoz-customs-part-16\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Xevoz customs - part 16<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Xevoz Series 5: Warlock\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/xevoz-series-5-warlock\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Xevoz Series 5: Warlock<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It's Old Toys Month, so let's take a look at another unreleased Xevoz figure. This time it's the Reptosaur Mech Shell. First spotted in the Stikfas HQ tour, Mech Shell is a little turtle guy, with add-on armor to create &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/xevoz-series-5-mech-shell\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[331,8],"tags":[202],"class_list":["post-20772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancelled-toys","category-hasbro","tag-xevoz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20772","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20772"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20800,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20772\/revisions\/20800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}