{"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=\"Even Sith Lords deserve a relaxed weekend\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2024\/09\/even-sith-lords-deserve-a-relaxed-weekend\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Even Sith Lords deserve a relaxed weekend<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #205\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2018\/07\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-205\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #205<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Surely it won't just be more greed, right?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2026\/03\/surely-it-wont-just-be-more-greed-right\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Surely it won't just be more greed, right?<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Minimate Mini-Review #286 - Mallrats\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2016\/04\/minimate-mini-review-286-mallrats\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Minimate Mini-Review #286 - Mallrats<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"The horrible secret we all share\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2013\/04\/the-horrible-secret-we-all-share\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">The horrible secret we all share<\/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;Captain Phasma addendum: Star &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}]}}