{"id":22425,"date":"2016-05-10T00:00:23","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T04:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=22425"},"modified":"2024-08-18T18:45:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T22:45:20","slug":"soon-forget-animated-waspinator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2016\/05\/soon-forget-animated-waspinator\/","title":{"rendered":"Soon Forget: Animated Waspinator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. Our figure today is Hasbro's Fugitive Waspinator.<\/p>\n<p>Fugitive Waspinator would have been part of the <i>Transformers Animated<\/i> line, a straight repaint of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/tfan_bb.php\">the existing Bumblebee<\/a> mold done in shades of green, with translucent purple plastic.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/tfan_wasp.jpg\" title=\"Fugitive Waspinator\" width=\"435\" height=\"535\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>The figure was seen in the cross-sell art on a few packages, but the line ended before he went into production. There wasn't any room in the budget to design him a new head (that cash went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/tfan_ih.php\">Ironhide<\/a>, instead), so there was no reason for Hasbro to push to get him released, the way there was with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/tfan_rod.php\">some<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/tfan_rc.php\">other<\/a> unreleased figures.<\/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=\"Transformers Code Red addendum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2024\/03\/transformers-code-red-addendum\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Transformers Code Red addendum<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Flippin' Through Previews - April '07\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2007\/04\/flippin-through-previews-april-07\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Flippin' Through Previews - April '07<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Baja Blast Prime\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2026\/01\/baja-blast-prime\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Baja Blast Prime<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Transformers Snarl addendum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2018\/06\/transformers-snarl-addendum\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Transformers Snarl addendum<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Transformographagizers 4: Age of Oreo-Bot\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/01\/transformographagizers-4-age-of-oreo-bot\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Transformographagizers 4: Age of Oreo-Bot<\/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. Our figure today is Hasbro's Fugitive Waspinator. Fugitive Waspinator would have been part of the Transformers Animated line, a straight repaint of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2016\/05\/soon-forget-animated-waspinator\/\">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":[41,331,8],"tags":[453,14],"class_list":["post-22425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addendums","category-cancelled-toys","category-hasbro","tag-tf-animated","tag-transformers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22425","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=22425"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22429,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22425\/revisions\/22429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}