{"id":28316,"date":"2005-05-02T00:00:57","date_gmt":"2005-05-02T04:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=28316"},"modified":"2019-04-19T06:23:25","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T10:23:25","slug":"soon-forget-professor-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2005\/05\/soon-forget-professor-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Soon Forget: Professor X"},"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 <i>Marvel Legends<\/i> Professor X.<\/p>\n<p>Originally, ToyBiz wanted to make <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/ml9_px.php\">Prof. X<\/a> one of Series 9's variants - there would have been a version in his hoverchair from the Jim Lee era. But with the inclusion of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/ml9_gal.php\">Galactus<\/a> piece, the cost of production would have been too high, so the idea was scrapped.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/art\/ml9_px6.jpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"350\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Professor X's hoverchair\"><\/p>\n<p>As you can see, Chuck would have gotten a change of clothes, as well, trading his blue suit for a black one.<\/p>\n<p>There was some question of holding the figure back two series, so they could have included the alternate chair, but as Jesse Falcon said, there's just something wrong about putting a guy in a wheelchair in a group called \"Legendary Riders.\"<\/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=\"Flippin' through Previews - July '12\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/07\/flippin-through-previews-july-12\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Flippin' through Previews - July '12<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Age of Apocalypse Sunfire designs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2020\/06\/age-of-apocalypse-sunfire-designs\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Age of Apocalypse Sunfire designs<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #91\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2013\/04\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-91\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #91<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Fantastic Four Marvel Legends: Mr. Fantastic review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2020\/02\/fantastic-four-marvel-legends-mr-fantastic-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Fantastic Four Marvel Legends: Mr. Fantastic review<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Our first look at post-tariff pricing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/05\/our-first-look-at-post-tariff-pricing\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Our first look at post-tariff pricing<\/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 Marvel Legends Professor X. Originally, ToyBiz wanted to make Prof. X one of Series 9's variants - there &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2005\/05\/soon-forget-professor-x\/\">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":[41,331,25,11],"tags":[88,74],"class_list":["post-28316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addendums","category-cancelled-toys","category-marvel","category-toybiz","tag-marvel-legends","tag-x-men"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28316","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=28316"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28319,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28316\/revisions\/28319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}