{"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=\"ATFC '16 - Day 3: Mattel\/Mega Bloks\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2016\/02\/atfc-16-day-3-mattelmega-bloks\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">ATFC '16 - Day 3: Mattel\/Mega Bloks<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Wingnut Begins\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2026\/03\/wingnut-begins\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Wingnut Begins<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #215\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2018\/10\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-215\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #215<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"TMNT: Armaggon addendum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/11\/tmnt-armaggon-addendum\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">TMNT: Armaggon addendum<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Baxter Stockman addendum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/05\/baxter-stockman-addendum\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Baxter Stockman addendum<\/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}]}}