{"id":29742,"date":"2019-11-17T17:50:07","date_gmt":"2019-11-17T22:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=29742"},"modified":"2019-11-21T19:18:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T00:18:11","slug":"soon-forget-chewbaccas-wookie-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2019\/11\/soon-forget-chewbaccas-wookie-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Soon Forget: Chewbacca's Wookie family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Life Day!<\/p>\n<p>This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. Our figures today are Kenner's <i>Star Wars<\/i> Lumpy, Itchy, and Malla.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Chewbacca's family - wife Mallatobuck, son Lumpawarrump, and father Attichitcuk - first appeared in the <i>Star Wars Holiday Special<\/i> and Kenner, looking for any merchandise they could add to the world's hottest toyline, worked up these prototypes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/lifeday.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/lifeday-300x206.jpg\" title=\"click to embiggen\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Itchy and Malla are built on the existing Chewie mold, with the bandolier grinded off and new fur resculpted in its place (you can still see hints of it right below Itchy's new gray paint); Lumpy is a heavily reworked \"Johnny\" from the Fisher-Price <i>Adventure People<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pixelpiper\/9572395356\/sizes\/l\/\" target=flik rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wild Animal Safari<\/a> set.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, Hasbro realized in time that the <i>Holiday Special<\/i> was going to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cracked.com\/article_24427_7-true-stories-that-explain-why-bad-movies-sucked.html\" target=cracked rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a full-on orphanage collapse<\/a>, and never went further than these handmade prototypes. <\/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=\"Star Wars: Cassian Andor addendum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2020\/01\/star-wars-cassian-andor-addendum\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Star Wars: Cassian Andor addendum<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Supervillain primary debate, part 4\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/04\/supervillain-primary-debate-part-4\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Supervillain primary debate, part 4<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #161\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/04\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-161\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #161<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Lights, camera, ACTION (figures)!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2011\/02\/lights-camera-action-figures\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Lights, camera, ACTION (figures)!<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Transformers Collectors' Club gets mad about knock off toys\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2011\/09\/transformers-collectors-club-gets-mad-about-knock-off-toys\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Transformers Collectors' Club gets mad about knock off toys<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Life Day! This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. Our figures today are Kenner's Star Wars Lumpy, Itchy, and Malla. &lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;Wouldn't it make more &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2019\/11\/soon-forget-chewbaccas-wookie-family\/\">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":[331,9],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-29742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancelled-toys","category-kenner","tag-star-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29742","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=29742"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29755,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29742\/revisions\/29755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}