{"id":31096,"date":"2020-02-09T14:48:04","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T19:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=31096"},"modified":"2020-05-09T18:25:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T22:25:50","slug":"soon-forget-dc-multiverse-black-canary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2020\/02\/soon-forget-dc-multiverse-black-canary\/","title":{"rendered":"Soon Forget: DC Multiverse Black Canary"},"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 Mattel's Black Canary.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=30099\">Ray variant<\/a> we showed you last month is far from the only DC figure that went unreleased before the end of Mattel's time with the license, so for the next few installments of Soon Forget, we'll be looking at ones that were displayed but never released.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/dccm_bc.jpg\" title=\"DC Multiverse Black Canary\" width=\"310\" height=\"475\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>In the New 52, Black Canary was a former runaway who joined a covert government strike team, was framed for treason, and went on the run, then formed the Birds of Prey to help people who needed it. Later she went on tour with a rock band. That's the costume this toy would have given us, along with an alternate head showing her with her mouth open to release her sonic scream. The figure was never officially cancelled, but with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=27806\">Mattel losing the DC license<\/a> as of this year, she's never going to be released.<\/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=\"On the subject of Mattel and its subscriptions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/07\/on-the-subject-of-mattel-and-its-subscriptions\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">On the subject of Mattel and its subscriptions<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"DC Universe Classics 17: Orange Lantern Lex Luthor review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2011\/07\/dc-universe-classics-17-orange-lantern-lex-luthor-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">DC Universe Classics 17: Orange Lantern Lex Luthor review<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Flippin' Through Previews - February '07\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2007\/02\/flippin-through-previews-february-07\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Flippin' Through Previews - February '07<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"DC Universe Classics 17: Sinestro Corps Scarecrow review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2011\/07\/dc-universe-classics-17-sinestro-corps-scarecrow-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">DC Universe Classics 17: Sinestro Corps Scarecrow review<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"A Lego Batcave worthy of Bruce Wayne\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2018\/06\/a-lego-batcave-worthy-of-bruce-wayne\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">A Lego Batcave worthy of Bruce Wayne<\/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 Mattel's Black Canary. The Ray variant we showed you last month is far from the only DC figure &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2020\/02\/soon-forget-dc-multiverse-black-canary\/\">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":[331,27,7],"tags":[166,90],"class_list":["post-31096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancelled-toys","category-dc","category-mattel","tag-dcuc","tag-green-lantern"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31096","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=31096"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31116,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31096\/revisions\/31116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}