{"id":31119,"date":"2020-05-09T20:14:06","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T00:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=31119"},"modified":"2020-05-09T20:14:06","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T00:14:06","slug":"soon-forget-flashpoint-aquaman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2020\/05\/soon-forget-flashpoint-aquaman\/","title":{"rendered":"Soon Forget: Flashpoint Aquaman"},"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 Flashpoint Aquaman.<\/p>\n<p>In the <i>Flashpoint<\/i> story, Aquaman was returned to Atlantis when he was a teenager, so he had very little affinity for humankind. He was a military leader, and was willing to sacrifice millions of human lives in his war against Wonder Woman and the Amazons.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/dccm_faq.jpg\" title=\"Flashpoint Aquaman\" width=\"220\" height=\"495\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>This more martial costume, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=31061\">Rustin's fave<\/a>, was first seen at SDCC 2018. 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, he'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=\"Metamorpho addendum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2008\/02\/metamorpho-addendum\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Metamorpho addendum<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"DC Bombshells Mystery Minis - Mera review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/dc-bombshells-mystery-minis-mera-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">DC Bombshells Mystery Minis - Mera review<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Transformers: Pretender Iguanus addendum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/02\/transformers-pretender-iguanus-addendum\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Transformers: Pretender Iguanus addendum<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Kingdom Come action figure poster\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/03\/kingdom-come-action-figure-poster\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Kingdom Come action figure poster<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"DCUC Starman addendum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/dcuc-starman-addendum\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">DCUC Starman addendum<\/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 Flashpoint Aquaman. In the Flashpoint story, Aquaman was returned to Atlantis when he was a teenager, so &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2020\/05\/soon-forget-flashpoint-aquaman\/\">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":[133,166],"class_list":["post-31119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancelled-toys","category-dc","category-mattel","tag-aquaman","tag-dcuc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31119","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=31119"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31123,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31119\/revisions\/31123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}