{"id":34337,"date":"2021-05-10T00:00:12","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T04:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=34337"},"modified":"2021-05-10T03:22:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T07:22:28","slug":"eternia-minis-ninjor-exclusive-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2021\/05\/eternia-minis-ninjor-exclusive-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Eternia Minis: Ninjor exclusive review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/minifigs.png\" alt=\"Mini-Figure Mini-Reviews\" title=\"Mini-Figure Mini-Reviews\" width=\"375\" height=\"95\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->So here's a surprise: walked into Target one day and saw a hanging display on the side of an endcap. It was <i>Masters of the Universe<\/i>-themed, and had <i>MotU Minis<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/etmin3nj1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/etmin3nj1-300x263.jpg\" title=\"Ninjor (shown actual size - click to embiggen)\" width=\"200\" height=\"168\" align=right><\/a>in the slots. New <i>MotU Minis<\/i>! Not just ones from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=32900\">the cancelled Series 2<\/a>, ones that (as far as we knew) hadn't even been solicited. Hot diggety daffodil! One of the new figures was the Evil Ninja Master known as Ninjor.<\/p>\n<p>In his one mini-comic appearance, Ninjor used He-Man's arms and legs, but that was changed before the toy went into production. This Mini follows his forebear's suit by using the arms and legs from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=32900\">Skeletor<\/a>. The head and torso here are new molds, so they can look like baggy cloth, and the tampo on his chest (a red dragon winding around a sword) <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/etmin3nj2.jpg\" title=\"packaging\" width=\"180\" height=\"255\" class=\"alignleft\">is applied very well. He's armed with the same sword <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=33712\">Jitsu<\/a> had, in gray instead of orange.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than being sold in little plastic castles like <i>Eternia Minis<\/i> Series 1 and Series 2 were, these little oddballs are on blister cards that re-create the wintage '80s package design: blue along the top, exploding red stones everywhere else. Even the shaped blister (ie, something other than a plain rectangle) is a reference to the way things used to be. And double-bonus, no more blindpacks! Being able to see what you're buying before you buy it? What a novel idea!<\/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=\"Toys vs. Toys in an epic stop-motion showdown\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2016\/04\/toys-vs-toys-in-an-epic-stop-motion-showdown\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Toys vs. Toys in an epic stop-motion showdown<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Is Mattel repeating its mistakes?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2007\/03\/is-mattel-repeating-its-mistakes\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Is Mattel repeating its mistakes?<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Soon Forget: Moss Man\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2010\/09\/moss-man-addendum\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Soon Forget: Moss Man<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Darth Skeletor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2011\/12\/darth-skeletor\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Darth Skeletor<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Eternia Minis: Sorceress &#038; Evil-Lyn reviews\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2023\/01\/eternia-minis-sorceress-evil-lyn-reviews\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Eternia Minis: Sorceress &#038; Evil-Lyn reviews<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;Rustin's Spoils of the Week #233 Masters of the Galaxy Far Far Away Flippin' through Previews - October '12 MotU Classics: The Map of Etheria MotU Minis: Moss Man &#038; Battle Armor Skeletor reviews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,7],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-34337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-exclusive-review","category-mattel","tag-motu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34337","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34337"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34354,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34337\/revisions\/34354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}