{"id":31387,"date":"2020-06-08T00:00:23","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T04:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=31387"},"modified":"2020-06-09T19:51:55","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T23:51:55","slug":"age-of-apocalypse-sunfire-designs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2020\/06\/age-of-apocalypse-sunfire-designs\/","title":{"rendered":"Age of Apocalypse Sunfire designs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/xml7_sun.php\"><i>X-Men Marvel Legends<\/i> \"Age of Apocalypse\" Sunfire review<\/a> spoke of the figure doing a better job at matching the original comic designs. Let's take a look.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Here's a colorized version of the original sketch, as presented in the <abbr title=\"trade paperback\">tpb<\/abbr> collection:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/madsunfire1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/madsunfire1-185x300.jpg\" title=\"click to embiggen\" width=\"185\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Notice there was no armor on the abs and the armor on the legs was asymmetrical. Here's a later take on the idea, closer to the final look:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/madsunfire2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/madsunfire2-176x300.jpg\" title=\"click to embiggen\" width=\"176\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The containment suit wasn't drawn consistently through the entire series, so here's a collage of a few clear shots we do get to see:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/madsunfire3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/madsunfire3-300x298.jpg\" title=\"click to embiggen\" width=\"300\" height=\"298\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So this toy is close, but there's still work to be done. 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Let's take a look. &lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;Marvel Legends Havok &#038; Polaris addendum Scarlet Witch addendum: &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2020\/06\/age-of-apocalypse-sunfire-designs\/\">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":[41,160,25],"tags":[74],"class_list":["post-31387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addendums","category-comics","category-marvel","tag-x-men"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31387","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=31387"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31393,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31387\/revisions\/31393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}