{"id":23318,"date":"2010-08-28T04:39:35","date_gmt":"2010-08-28T08:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=23318"},"modified":"2016-11-27T05:19:36","modified_gmt":"2016-11-27T10:19:36","slug":"soon-forget-lotr-minimates-series-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2010\/08\/soon-forget-lotr-minimates-series-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Soon Forget: LotR Minimates Series 3"},"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 Series 3 of Art Asylum's <i>Lord of the Rings<\/i> Minimates.<\/p>\n<p>Series 3 was shown off at Toy Fair 2006, with a new style of packaging.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/lrmm3a.jpg\" title=\"LotR Minimates Series 3\" width=\"255\" height=\"255\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The figures would have been Ringwraith One & Ringwraith Two:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/lrmm3b.jpg\" title=\"Ringwraiths\" width=\"490\" height=\"395\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>Eowyn & Morgul Lord Witch-king:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/lrmm3c.jpg\" title=\"Eowyn & Morgul Lord Witch-king\" width=\"490\" height=\"415\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>Twilight Witch-king (clear) & Strider:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/lrmm3d.jpg\" title=\"Twilight Witch-king (clear) & Strider\" width=\"490\" height=\"355\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>Lurtz & Twilight Witch-king:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/lrmm3e.jpg\" title=\"Lurtz & Twilight Witch-king\" width=\"490\" height=\"395\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>Though they've never been officially cancelled, it's a safe bet that they will never be produced. What a loss!<\/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 #46\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/01\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-46\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #46<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"It comes in pints?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2002\/10\/it-comes-in-pints\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">It comes in pints?<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #69\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/08\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-69\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #69<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #142\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2014\/07\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-142\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #142<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #107\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2013\/08\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-107\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #107<\/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 Series 3 of Art Asylum's Lord of the Rings Minimates. Series 3 was shown off at Toy Fair &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2010\/08\/soon-forget-lotr-minimates-series-3\/\">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":[39,331],"tags":[12,53],"class_list":["post-23318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-asylum","category-cancelled-toys","tag-lotr","tag-minimates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23318","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=23318"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23326,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23318\/revisions\/23326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}