{"id":36458,"date":"2020-09-02T20:21:04","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T00:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=36458"},"modified":"2022-03-02T20:45:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T01:45:00","slug":"soon-forget-dc-direct-dceased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2020\/09\/soon-forget-dc-direct-dceased\/","title":{"rendered":"Soon Forget: DC Direct DCeased"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. Our figure today is DC Direct's <i>DCeased<\/i> line.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=34826\">Last month<\/a> we finished up looking at all the DC Comics figures Mattel left unreleased when their license expired, and right after that it was announced DC Direct would be shutting down entirely. There aren't a ton of figures left on the chopping block (more statues than toys are being cancelled), but one thing we will be losing is the zombified \"DCeased\" figures.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/dceased1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/dceased1-300x138.jpg\" title=\"click to embiggen\" width=\"300\" height=\"138\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Series 1 was Superman, Batman, Harley, and Joker; Series 2 was Supergirl, Aquaman, Green Lantern, and Flash; and Series 3 (shown unpainted at Toy Fair 2020) would have been Batgirl, Deathstroke, Nightwing, and Red Hood.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/dceased2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/dceased2-300x138.jpg\" title=\"click to embiggen\" width=\"300\" height=\"138\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Early packaged samples of Series 1 have made their way out to some press outlets, so there's a slim chance those <b>may<\/b> show up at your local comicshop - if you preordered them - but in all likelihood these zombies are all on their way to the grave.<\/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=\"Walking Dead Mystery Minis: Denise Cloyd (In Memorium) review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2019\/10\/walking-dead-mystery-minis-denise-cloyd-in-memorium-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Walking Dead Mystery Minis: Denise Cloyd (In Memorium) review<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"The homagiest cover to ever homage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2018\/05\/the-homagiest-cover-to-ever-homage\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">The homagiest cover to ever homage<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Lego Batman Minifigures: Officer Barbara Gordon review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2017\/02\/lego-batman-minifigures-officer-barbara-gordon-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Lego Batman Minifigures: Officer Barbara Gordon review<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Kingdom Come action figure poster\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/03\/kingdom-come-action-figure-poster\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Kingdom Come action figure poster<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Flippin' through Previews - October '12\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/10\/flippin-through-previews-october-12\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Flippin' through Previews - October '12<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. Our figure today is DC Direct's DCeased line. Last month we finished up looking at all the DC Comics figures Mattel left &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2020\/09\/soon-forget-dc-direct-dceased\/\">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":[331,27,35,174],"tags":[52,173,110,256,395,153],"class_list":["post-36458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancelled-toys","category-dc","category-dc-direct","category-toy-fair","tag-batman","tag-flash","tag-superman","tag-teen-titans","tag-toy-fair-2020","tag-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36458","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=36458"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36465,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36458\/revisions\/36465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}