{"id":34993,"date":"2021-08-09T00:00:55","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T04:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=34993"},"modified":"2021-08-09T09:04:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T13:04:02","slug":"eternia-minis-orko-exclusive-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2021\/08\/eternia-minis-orko-exclusive-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Eternia Minis: Orko 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-->Well this is an unexpected find! Target had a single new <i>Eternia Mini<\/i> hanging by itself on a peg near the unsold <i>MotU Origins<\/i> He-Men and Skeletors, and it was someone new: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/etmin4or1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/etmin4or1-197x300.jpg\" title=\"Orko (shown actual size - click to embiggen)\" width=\"125\" height=\"190\" align=right><\/a>the heroic court magician Orko!<\/p>\n<p>Orko has never had the same kind of proportions as the other <i>MotU<\/i> characters (though that would be hilarious - get on it, customizers!), so it makes sense that his Mini is different from the rest. Can't have huge arms and little legs when you have no legs to begin with, right? Really, his proportions hardly seem exaggerated at all; this is just a normal Orko, with his orange hat, pink scarf, red robe, and blue skin. His face is concealed in shadow, and the O on his chest is sculpted in place. And considering the size he was on the cartoon, this might actually be in scale with vintage <i>MotU<\/i> toys.<\/p>\n<p>Since he floated everywhere, Orko is mounted on a clear plastic stand. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/etmin4or2.jpg\" title=\"something to drool over\" width=\"180\" height=\"255\" align=left style=\"margin:2px 10px 0px 0px\">It's a balljoint, so he can be removed if you want. His shoulders swivel, and his head is balljointed as well. Since his molds don't have as much re-use potential as all the other figures, no portion of his budget went to any accessories. He never used much, but they could have given him his \"Mo2K\" scepter\/wand thing. He wasn't pictured with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=32900\">the other cancelled <i>MotU Minis<\/i><\/a>, so we don't know if anything was planned back then.<\/p>\n<p>Mattel seems to have given up on the molded plastic shells used for the first two series, but if the back of Orko's little card is any indication, Series 4 would have repped the Slime Pit. And yet they already did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=32278&page=2\">Slime Pit He-Man<\/a> in Series 3! Missed opportunity.<\/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=\"You don't know the power of the Grayskull\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/01\/you-dont-know-the-power-of-the-grayskull\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">You don't know the power of the Grayskull<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"The origin of Trapjaw\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2003\/09\/the-origin-of-trapjaw\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">The origin of Trapjaw<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Flippin' through Previews - December '14\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2014\/12\/flippin-through-previews-december-14\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Flippin' through Previews - December '14<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"ATFC '11 - Day 2: Mattel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2011\/02\/atfc-11-day-2-mattel\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">ATFC '11 - Day 2: Mattel<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Once MOTU\/TMNT is done, they can move on to these\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2024\/09\/once-motu-tmnt-is-done-they-can-move-on-to-these\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Once MOTU\/TMNT is done, they can move on to these<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;Flippin' through Previews - June '15 Why are MotU Classics showing up at Walmart? ATFC '14 - Day 2: Mattel Popular toys of the last 145 years How Mattel Can Fix MOTUC<\/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-34993","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\/34993","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=34993"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35005,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34993\/revisions\/35005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}