{"id":31351,"date":"2019-12-01T06:13:17","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T11:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=31351"},"modified":"2020-06-06T06:41:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T10:41:53","slug":"the-watch-is-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2019\/12\/the-watch-is-over\/","title":{"rendered":"The Watch is Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bad news, <i>Overwatch<\/i> fans! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/product\/HSE6388C?id=BR-004285470\" target=\"ee\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">According to Entertainment Earth<\/a>, the third series of Hasbro's action figures has been cancelled:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/ow3cancelled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/ow3cancelled-300x270.jpg\" title=\"cancelled\" width=\"300\" height=\"270\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The assortment would have included refreshes of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/ow1_trc.php\">Tracer<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/ow1_mcre.php\">McCree<\/a>, normal versions of D.Va and Reaper, and a repainted Mercy. No pictures were ever shown, but the D.Va mold at least showed up in that GameStop four-pack.<\/p>\n<p>Hasbro has been completely silent about what's going on with the license, but the piles of unsold figures at both GS and Walmart probably give us a hint of what went wrong.<\/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=\"Legend of Vox Machina: completing the team\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2024\/06\/legend-of-vox-machina-completing-the-team\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Legend of Vox Machina: completing the team<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"An Overwatch by any other name\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2019\/07\/an-overwatch-by-any-other-name\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">An Overwatch by any other name<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Soldier 76: the secret origin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/soldier-76-the-secret-origin\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Soldier 76: the secret origin<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Hasbro announces SDCC exclusive online sale details\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2019\/08\/hasbro-announces-sdcc-exclusive-online-sale-details\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Hasbro announces SDCC exclusive online sale details<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Jimmy's Toy Time\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2017\/10\/jimmys-toy-time\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Jimmy's Toy Time<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad news, Overwatch fans! According to Entertainment Earth, the third series of Hasbro's action figures has been cancelled: The assortment would have included refreshes of Tracer and McCree, normal versions of D.Va and Reaper, and a repainted Mercy. No pictures &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2019\/12\/the-watch-is-over\/\">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],"tags":[354],"class_list":["post-31351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancelled-toys","tag-overwatch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31351","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=31351"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31355,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31351\/revisions\/31355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}