{"id":23554,"date":"2017-02-03T04:15:59","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T09:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=23554"},"modified":"2017-02-03T04:15:59","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T09:15:59","slug":"that-time-arbys-prompted-a-transformersgi-joe-crossover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2017\/02\/that-time-arbys-prompted-a-transformersgi-joe-crossover\/","title":{"rendered":"That time Arby's prompted a Transformers\/GI Joe crossover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arby's, the amazingly delicious restaurant that got constantly picked on by <i>The Daily Show<\/i> for some reason, has a history of making cute, artsy ads to promote itself on social media. Yesterday they posted this:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Farbys%2Fposts%2F10155074408811812%3A0&width=450\" width=\"450\" height=\"535\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->To which, amazingly, Hasbro responded!<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Ftransformers%2Fposts%2F1343716372365220&width=450\" width=\"450\" height=\"415\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And then Arby's fired back with this:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/comment_embed.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Farbys%2Fphotos%2Fa.403194711811.180375.51500251811%2F10155074408811812%2F%3Ftype%3D3%26comment_id%3D10154825797347211%26reply_comment_id%3D10154945992029378&include_parent=false\" width=\"450\" height=\"209\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It's fun to see brands being playful, rather than uptight and stuffy. It's also nice to see Hasbro remembering that <i>GI Joe<\/i> exists. Props to the social media teams on both sides!<\/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=\"When did they reinstate the draft?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/when-did-they-reinstate-the-draft\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">When did they reinstate the draft?<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Transformers BotBots Shredder Jack review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2021\/06\/transformers-botbots-shredder-jack-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Transformers BotBots Shredder Jack review<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Optimus Prime will keep your head warm\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/07\/optimus-prime-will-keep-your-head-warm\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Optimus Prime will keep your head warm<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Soon Forget: Fossilsaurus\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2016\/07\/soon-forget-fossilsaurus\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Soon Forget: Fossilsaurus<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Transformers BotBots Hawt Mess, Sumthin' Fishy, &#038; Bok&nbsp;Bok&nbsp;Bok-O reviews\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/transformers-botbots-hawt-mess-sumthin-fishy-bok-bok-bok-o-reviews\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Transformers BotBots Hawt Mess, Sumthin' Fishy, &#038; Bok&nbsp;Bok&nbsp;Bok-O reviews<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arby's, the amazingly delicious restaurant that got constantly picked on by The Daily Show for some reason, has a history of making cute, artsy ads to promote itself on social media. Yesterday they posted this: &lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;Transformers &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2017\/02\/that-time-arbys-prompted-a-transformersgi-joe-crossover\/\">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":[8],"tags":[102,22,101,14],"class_list":["post-23554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hasbro","tag-cobra-commander","tag-gi-joe","tag-megatron","tag-transformers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23554","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=23554"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23557,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23554\/revisions\/23557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}