{"id":37053,"date":"2016-02-13T00:00:19","date_gmt":"2016-02-13T05:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=37053"},"modified":"2022-06-01T06:46:37","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T10:46:37","slug":"soon-forget-the-tomb-raider-tmnt-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2016\/02\/soon-forget-the-tomb-raider-tmnt-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"Soon Forget: the Tomb Raider\/TMNT connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. Our figures today are Playmates' Casey Jones and Raphael.<\/p>\n<p>These figures, shown off at SDCC 2003, would have been paired together in a deluxe set:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/trtmnt1.jpg\" width=\"520\" height=\"455\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>That diorama should look familiar: it's the London Motorbike set we <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/tr3_mb.php\">reviewed today<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/art\/tr3_mb7.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"560\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>There would have been thematic graffiti on the wall, and Raphael would have had \"battle damage\" paint apps, but the rest is recognizably the same. Unfortunately, this clever re-use never materialized.<\/p>\n<p>And it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=37060\">wasn't the only one<\/a>...<\/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=\"Minimate Mini-Review #233 - Storm Guard &#038; Storm Guard Stalker\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/04\/minimate-mini-review-233-storm-guard-storm-guard-stalker\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Minimate Mini-Review #233 - Storm Guard &#038; Storm Guard Stalker<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Flippin' through Previews - July '14\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2014\/07\/flippin-through-previews-july-14\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Flippin' through Previews - July '14<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"The MotU\/TMNT crossover that never was\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2021\/07\/the-motu-tmnt-crossover-that-never-was\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">The MotU\/TMNT crossover that never was<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"We want this, NECA!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2023\/08\/we-want-this-neca\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">We want this, NECA!<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Minimate Mini-Review #253 - TMNT Black &#038; White box set exclusive\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/08\/minimate-mini-review-253-tmnt-black-white-box-set-exclusive\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Minimate Mini-Review #253 - TMNT Black &#038; White box set exclusive<\/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 figures today are Playmates' Casey Jones and Raphael. These figures, shown off at SDCC 2003, would have been paired together in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2016\/02\/soon-forget-the-tomb-raider-tmnt-connection\/\">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":[41,331,10,135],"tags":[223,28,187],"class_list":["post-37053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addendums","category-cancelled-toys","category-playmates","category-sdcc","tag-sdcc-2003","tag-tmnt","tag-tomb-raider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37053","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=37053"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37068,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37053\/revisions\/37068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}