{"id":28601,"date":"2019-06-07T00:00:20","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T04:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=28601"},"modified":"2023-10-23T13:57:50","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T17:57:50","slug":"the-evolution-of-the-living-laser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2019\/06\/the-evolution-of-the-living-laser\/","title":{"rendered":"The Evolution of the Living Laser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/av4c_ll.php\">today's Living Laser review<\/a>, the toy we got is the modern look, not the classic. Here, as proof, is what he looked like as a human:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/LivingLaser1.jpg\" title=\"original\" width=\"200\" height=\"335\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>(That's not his first costume, but it is his best-known.)<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Here's how he looked after getting a big power upgrade:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/LivingLaser2.jpg\" title=\"photon form\" width=\"220\" height=\"335\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>And of course, the one on which the toy is based:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/LivingLaser3.jpg\" title=\"...ehn.\" width=\"175\" height=\"335\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Bonus info! ToyBiz planned to make a Living Laser toy in Series 5 of their <i>Iron Man<\/i> line, but that entire assortment got cancelled.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/LivingLaser4.jpg\" title=\"cancelled\" width=\"300\" height=\"495\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>The figure was based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=40323\">an also-cancelled USAgent<\/a>, and to recoup the mold costs, was eventually repurposed as \"Astral Armor Professor Xavier.\"<\/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=\"All 42 Iron Man movie armors\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2013\/12\/all-42-iron-man-movie-armors\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">All 42 Iron Man movie armors<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"SDCC 2014 - Ultron revealed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2014\/07\/sdcc-2014-ultron-revealed\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">SDCC 2014 - Ultron revealed<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Angie's List\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2022\/11\/angies-list\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Angie's List<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #71\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/09\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-71\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #71<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Minimate Mini-Review #178 - Avengers vs. X-Men\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2014\/07\/minimate-mini-review-178-avengers-vs-x-men\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Minimate Mini-Review #178 - Avengers vs. X-Men<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned in today's Living Laser review, the toy we got is the modern look, not the classic. Here, as proof, is what he looked like as a human: (That's not his first costume, but it is his best-known.) &lt;i&gt;And &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2019\/06\/the-evolution-of-the-living-laser\/\">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":[41,331,160,25,11],"tags":[131,87,56,74],"class_list":["post-28601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addendums","category-cancelled-toys","category-comics","category-marvel","category-toybiz","tag-avengers","tag-captain-america","tag-iron-man","tag-x-men"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28601","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=28601"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41022,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28601\/revisions\/41022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}