{"id":23674,"date":"2017-03-24T21:17:09","date_gmt":"2017-03-25T01:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=23674"},"modified":"2018-01-26T19:11:15","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T00:11:15","slug":"rainbow-dash-addendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2017\/03\/rainbow-dash-addendum\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow Dash addendum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In today's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/mlpfimgh_rd.php\">Rainbow Dash<\/a> review, you learned that she was based on Lauren Faust's childhood Firefly toy. Specifically, <b>this<\/b> Firefly toy:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/mlpfirefly1.jpg\" title=\"G1 Firefly\" width=\"350\" height=\"435\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Here's what she looked like in the cartoon:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/mlpfirefly2.jpg\" title=\"animation\" width=\"205\" height=\"155\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>It's still hard to get the connection between that old pony and the modern one, right? Things become a bit clearer when you see Faust's rendition of Firefly, done in the <i>Friendship is Magic<\/i> style:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/mlpfirefly3.png\" title=\"FiM Firefly\" width=\"460\" height=\"495\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>Okay, suddenly that makes a lot more sense! It's all about the attitude.<\/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=\"ATFC '12 - Day 1: Hasbro\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/02\/live-toy-fair-2012-hasbro-coverage\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">ATFC '12 - Day 1: Hasbro<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"My Little 'Jira\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2024\/04\/my-little-jira\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">My Little 'Jira<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Flippin' through Previews - April '13\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2013\/04\/flippin-through-previews-april-13\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Flippin' through Previews - April '13<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"GI Joe: Re-Stallion-ation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/01\/gi-joe-re-stallion-ation\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">GI Joe: Re-Stallion-ation<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Christians vs. He-Man\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/christians-vs-he-man\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Christians vs. He-Man<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today's Rainbow Dash review, you learned that she was based on Lauren Faust's childhood Firefly toy. Specifically, this Firefly toy: &lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;My Villain Ponies - Friendship is Tragic A tour of Toys R Us in 1991 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2017\/03\/rainbow-dash-addendum\/\">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":[41,8],"tags":[159],"class_list":["post-23674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addendums","category-hasbro","tag-mlp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23674","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=23674"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23681,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23674\/revisions\/23681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}