{"id":33829,"date":"2021-02-25T00:00:33","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T05:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=33829"},"modified":"2021-02-25T20:43:56","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T01:43:56","slug":"the-first-iron-giant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2021\/02\/the-first-iron-giant\/","title":{"rendered":"The first Iron Giant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we reviewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/monmec_ig.php\">the <i>Mondo Mecha<\/i> Iron Giant<\/a>. Although the movie is ultimately based on a book, there was a musical in between the two. Originally just a concept album (which included John Lee Hooker and Nina Simone, blues artists so major that you've heard of them), the musical was eventually turned into a stage show, and that's what got Warner Bros. to option the story. Anyway, what you may not have known is that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/simp25who.php\">Pete Townshend<\/a> commissioned a music video for one of the musical's songs, \"A Friend is a Friend,\" in 1989.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/08rO0-fFO94?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The models and effects were by <a href=\"https:\/\/asylumsfx.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Asylum Ltd.<\/a>, so they're the first studio to make the Iron Giant, a full decade before WB would.<\/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=\"Mondo's Iron Giant available NOW!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/01\/mondos-iron-giant-available-now\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Mondo's Iron Giant available NOW!<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"The biggest properties of the '90s\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2014\/08\/the-biggest-properties-of-the-90s\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">The biggest properties of the '90s<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Mondo toys are coming\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2014\/07\/mondo-toys-are-coming\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Mondo toys are coming<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Vin Diesel, \"Street Sharks\" booth babe\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2016\/01\/vin-diesel-street-sharks-booth-babe\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Vin Diesel, \"Street Sharks\" booth babe<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Minimate Mini-Review #370 - The Iron Giant\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2019\/08\/minimate-mini-review-370-the-iron-giant\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Minimate Mini-Review #370 - The Iron Giant<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we reviewed the Mondo Mecha Iron Giant. Although the movie is ultimately based on a book, there was a musical in between the two. Originally just a concept album (which included John Lee Hooker and Nina Simone, blues artists &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2021\/02\/the-first-iron-giant\/\">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":[41,42],"tags":[283],"class_list":["post-33829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addendums","category-videos","tag-iron-giant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33829","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=33829"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33831,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33829\/revisions\/33831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}