{"id":32732,"date":"2020-10-24T00:00:41","date_gmt":"2020-10-24T04:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=32732"},"modified":"2020-10-25T01:36:19","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T05:36:19","slug":"alien-ripley-addendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2020\/10\/alien-ripley-addendum\/","title":{"rendered":"Alien: Ripley addendum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today's review of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/necaalripj.php\">NECA's <i>Alien<\/i> 40th Anniversary Ripley action figure<\/a> touched briefly on the use of photo-realistic paint for the figure's likeness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/ripleyfaces.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/ripleyfaces-300x190.jpg\" title=\"Ripleys (click to embiggen)\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the left, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=20117\">the original 2015 release<\/a>; on the right, the 2020 release. The difference is quite apparent, even before you click to view the full-sized image.<\/p>\n<p>Also, it turns out her hair is a new sculpt as well.<\/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=\"NECA's making Robocop - now here's what I want.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2011\/04\/necas-making-robocop-now-heres-what-i-want\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">NECA's making Robocop - now here's what I want.<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Flippin' through Previews - September '15\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/09\/flippin-through-previews-september-15\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Flippin' through Previews - September '15<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Happy Aliens Day!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2016\/04\/happy-aliens-day\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Happy Aliens Day!<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"The Aliens\/TMNT crossover that never was\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2022\/11\/the-aliens-tmnt-crossover-that-never-was\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">The Aliens\/TMNT crossover that never was<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"I seem to recognize your face - David Bowie\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2016\/01\/i-seem-to-recognize-your-face-david-bowie\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">I seem to recognize your face - David Bowie<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today's review of NECA's Alien 40th Anniversary Ripley action figure touched briefly on the use of photo-realistic paint for the figure's likeness. On the left, the original 2015 release; on the right, the 2020 release. The difference is quite apparent, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2020\/10\/alien-ripley-addendum\/\">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":[41,36],"tags":[80,61],"class_list":["post-32732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addendums","category-neca","tag-alien","tag-reel-toys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32732","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=32732"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32736,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32732\/revisions\/32736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}