{"id":21505,"date":"2011-02-25T16:43:17","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T21:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=21505"},"modified":"2016-01-22T16:58:11","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T21:58:11","slug":"soon-forget-rocky-horror-picture-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2011\/02\/soon-forget-rocky-horror-picture-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Soon Forget: Rocky Horror Picture Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. Today we look at two figures, Riff-Raff and Dr. Frank-N-Furter from <i>The Rocky Horror Picture Show<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/rhps.jpg\" alt=\"Rocky Horror\" width=\"440\" height=\"515\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>These made it as far as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=242\">being solicited in <i>Previews<\/i><\/a>, but it's been a long time since we heard any news about them. But hey, we live in an amazing future, so we were able to reach out to NECA directly to ask them what was up:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OAFE\">@OAFE<\/a> sadly cancelled due to some licensing issues. Shame as the protos were top notch<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NECA (@NECA_TOYS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NECA_TOYS\/status\/40957096191070208\">February 25, 2011<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Well shoot. Apparently (executive proder and rights-holder) Lou Adler didn't want figures that actually looked like the actors.<\/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=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #207\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2018\/07\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-207\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #207<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Toony Terrors Winifred Sanderson addendum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2023\/10\/toony-terrors-winifred-sanderson-addendum\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Toony Terrors Winifred Sanderson addendum<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"NECA's making Robocop - now here's what I want.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2011\/04\/necas-making-robocop-now-heres-what-i-want\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">NECA's making Robocop - now here's what I want.<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #110\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2013\/09\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-110\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #110<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #101\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2013\/07\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-101\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #101<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. Today we look at two figures, Riff-Raff and Dr. Frank-N-Furter from The Rocky Horror Picture Show. These made it as far as &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2011\/02\/soon-forget-rocky-horror-picture-show\/\">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":[331,36],"tags":[61,337],"class_list":["post-21505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancelled-toys","category-neca","tag-reel-toys","tag-rocky-horror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21505","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=21505"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21509,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21505\/revisions\/21509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}