{"id":22591,"date":"2005-04-05T23:32:36","date_gmt":"2005-04-06T03:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=22591"},"modified":"2016-06-03T23:55:23","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T03:55:23","slug":"soon-forget-alternators-bumblebee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2005\/04\/soon-forget-alternators-bumblebee\/","title":{"rendered":"Soon Forget: Alternators Bumblebee"},"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 and Takara's Bumblebee.<\/p>\n<p>Bumblebee would have been part of the <i>Alternators\/Binaltech<\/i> line, as revealed last month in <i><a href=\"http:\/\/tfarchive.com\/fandom\/interviews\/alternators_binaltech\/takara_binaltech_interview_translation.php\" target=_blank>The Transformers: Binaltech & TF Collection Complete Guide<\/a><\/i>, a coffee table book released last month in Japan:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/04\/tfb_bb1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/art\/tfcl_bb7.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"515\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sadly for those of us wishing for the return of Bumblebee, VW is not interested in promoting \"war toys,\" so they wouldn't license out the Beetle's design. What a shame!<\/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=\"The best of Barbie posters\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2023\/04\/the-best-of-barbie-posters\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">The best of Barbie posters<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Transformers Tuesday: The War Within\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2007\/03\/transformers-tuesday-the-war-within\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Transformers Tuesday: The War Within<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"What's up with Transformers movie product\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2007\/05\/whats-up-with-transformers-movie-product\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">What's up with Transformers movie product<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Rise of the Beasts - the #1 movie in history\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2023\/08\/rise-of-the-beasts-the-1-movie-in-history\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rise of the Beasts - the #1 movie in history<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Transformers BotBots Burgertron review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2019\/06\/transformers-botbots-burgertron-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Transformers BotBots Burgertron review<\/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 and Takara's Bumblebee. Bumblebee would have been part of the Alternators\/Binaltech line, as revealed last month in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2005\/04\/soon-forget-alternators-bumblebee\/\">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":[331,8],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-22591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancelled-toys","category-hasbro","tag-transformers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22591","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=22591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22592,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22591\/revisions\/22592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}