{"id":21943,"date":"2004-12-04T17:52:37","date_gmt":"2004-12-04T22:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=21943"},"modified":"2016-02-25T04:11:58","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T09:11:58","slug":"soon-forget-shadowrun-duels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2004\/12\/soon-forget-shadowrun-duels\/","title":{"rendered":"Soon Forget: Shadowrun Duels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. What with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/srdnat.php\">yo<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/rustin\/srdkrs.php\">Rustin<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/poe\/srdkrkv.php\">Poe<\/a> all reviewing some of the Series 2 <i>Shadowrun: Duels<\/i> figures recently, this seems like a fine time to take a look at the probably-not-going-to-be-released Series 3.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->These figures were shown off at Toy Fair 2003, alongside series 1 and 2, but slow sales seem to have doomed their release:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/12\/srd31.jpg\" title=\"Decker\" width=\"250\" height=\"495\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/12\/srd32.jpg\" title=\"Street Ganger\" width=\"300\" height=\"535\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/12\/srd33.jpg\" title=\"Bannockburn the Scottish Elf\" width=\"280\" height=\"495\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/12\/srd34.jpg\" title=\"Saeder-Krupp Security Guard\" width=\"315\" height=\"495\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/12\/srd35.jpg\" title=\"Lovecraft the Vampire\" width=\"270\" height=\"495\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/12\/srd36.jpg\" title=\"Cyberzombie\" width=\"470\" height=\"455\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>They're all very stylish, so it's a shame they'll never become real. Support unique properties while you can, or else we'll be left with nothing but comics and movie tie-ins.<\/p>\n<p>As punishment for not buying the toys, watch this hideous 1990 promotional video for the original game:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8GPGQoR6f6w?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/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=\"Flippin' through Previews - August '15\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/08\/flippin-through-previews-august-15\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Flippin' through Previews - August '15<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Vitruvian HACKS 2020 Deluxe Advent Calendar review - Day 9\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2020\/12\/vitruvian-hacks-2020-deluxe-advent-calendar-review-day-9\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Vitruvian HACKS 2020 Deluxe Advent Calendar review - Day 9<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Minimate Mini-Review #122 - Morgan &#038; Zombie Mike\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2013\/10\/minimate-mini-review-122-morgan-zombie-mike\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Minimate Mini-Review #122 - Morgan &#038; Zombie Mike<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Zombie Lab: Zombie 007 (025) review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2019\/08\/zombie-lab-zombie-007-025-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Zombie Lab: Zombie 007 (025) review<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Vitruvian HACKS 2020 Deluxe Advent Calendar review - Day 13\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2020\/12\/vitruvian-hacks-2020-deluxe-advent-calendar-review-day-13\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Vitruvian HACKS 2020 Deluxe Advent Calendar review - Day 13<\/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. What with yo, Rustin and Poe all reviewing some of the Series 2 Shadowrun: Duels figures recently, this seems like a fine &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2004\/12\/soon-forget-shadowrun-duels\/\">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":[41,331,343,42],"tags":[342,293,153],"class_list":["post-21943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addendums","category-cancelled-toys","category-plan-b-toys","category-videos","tag-shadowrun","tag-vampires","tag-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21943","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=21943"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21957,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21943\/revisions\/21957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}