{"id":36,"date":"2002-10-29T11:41:47","date_gmt":"2002-10-29T11:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=36"},"modified":"2010-12-15T05:28:39","modified_gmt":"2010-12-15T05:28:39","slug":"it-comes-in-pints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2002\/10\/it-comes-in-pints\/","title":{"rendered":"It comes in pints?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It's well-known that a fansite will generally provide more news and information about a given product than an official site. There are numerous examples of this, but in the toy collecting world one of the most salient is Mattel's official site for its Masters of the Universe line, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mastersoftheuniverse.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.mastersoftheuniverse.com<\/a>, and its inferiority to the much larger and more comprehensive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.he-man.org\/\" target=\"hmo\">He-Man.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Another site that deserves some attention is<!--more--> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegd.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Green Dragon<\/a>. Since ToyBiz has the only barest of web presences (a tiny <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marvel.com\/toybiz\/\">offshoot<\/a> of Marvel's main site), the Green Dragon gives collectors of the ToyBiz's movie-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/reviews.php#lotr\"><em>Lord of the Rings<\/em> line<\/a> (and <em>LotR<\/em> collectibles in general) a single place to go to for the latest news. The site features an attractive Middle-Earth-inspired design and situates the news front and center. I especially like the \"New Pics\" feature to the left of the news, which offers a picture of a new figure every day (today it's a perfectly hideous close-up of an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegd.com\/images\/slides\/slide_1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Uruk-Hai berserker<\/a>). In addition to the toy news, the site features interviews with designers and other people involved with <em>Lord of the Rings<\/em> merchandise.<\/p>\n<p>The Green Dragon also set up the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petitiononline.com\/balrog\/petition.html\" target=\"_blank\">Balrog petition<\/a> encouraging ToyBiz to produce the Balrog figure they unveiled at Toy Fair 2002. So far the petition has only 437 signatures, so if you want to own a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/lotrbalrog.php\">Balrog<\/a> in the near future, I recommend adding your John Hancock.<\/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=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #89\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2013\/03\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-89\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #89<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #46\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/01\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-46\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #46<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"When you wear a nerdy shirt and some boy starts quizzing you\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/02\/when-you-wear-a-nerdy-shirt-and-some-boy-starts-quizzing-you\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">When you wear a nerdy shirt and some boy starts quizzing you<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #132\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2014\/05\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-132\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #132<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"C2E2 2017\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2017\/04\/c2e2-2017\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">C2E2 2017<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It's well-known that a fansite will generally provide more news and information about a given product than an official site. There are numerous examples of this, but in the toy collecting world one of the most salient is Mattel's official &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2002\/10\/it-comes-in-pints\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3,11],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mattel","category-retro-poa","category-toybiz","tag-lotr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}