{"id":37229,"date":"2022-06-26T00:00:09","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T04:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=37229"},"modified":"2022-06-26T01:36:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T05:36:04","slug":"soon-forget-the-mummy-minimates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2022\/06\/soon-forget-the-mummy-minimates\/","title":{"rendered":"Soon Forget: The Mummy Minimates"},"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 <i>The Mummy<\/i> Minimates four-pack.<\/p>\n<p>This set would have been part of Series 3 of the <i>Universal Monsters Minimates<\/i> line, alongside the <i>Hunchback of Notre Dame<\/i> figures. But the factory where they were being made fell behind schedule, so they chose to bump DST in favor of bigger customers; by the time production would have started, it would have been too late for the set, so it ended up cancelled.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/ummmmum.jpg\" title=\"The Mummy Minimates\" width=\"310\" height=\"495\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>The one bright spot is that three of the four figures were available at Toys \"&#1071;\" Us: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=13715\">Imhotep and his awesome sarcophagus<\/a> in one set, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=15611\">Anck-Es-En-Amon<\/a> with an exclusive Frank Whemple, so technically only the Helen Grosvenor Minimate went unreleased. Still, if you were holding out to get the four-pack, you missed out.<\/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=\"Horror Classics Mystery Minis - The Mummy review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2019\/11\/horror-classics-mystery-minis-the-mummy-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Horror Classics Mystery Minis - The Mummy review<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #156\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/03\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-156\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #156<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #73\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/09\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-73\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #73<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"London After Midnight. Rockin' to the dawn.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/06\/london-after-midnight-rockin-to-the-dawn\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">London After Midnight. Rockin' to the dawn.<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Horror Classics Mystery Minis - The Wolf Man\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2016\/10\/horror-classics-mystery-minis-the-wolf-man\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Horror Classics Mystery Minis - The Wolf Man<\/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 The Mummy Minimates four-pack. This set would have been part of Series 3 of the Universal Monsters Minimates &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2022\/06\/soon-forget-the-mummy-minimates\/\">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":[41,39,331],"tags":[53,179],"class_list":["post-37229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addendums","category-art-asylum","category-cancelled-toys","tag-minimates","tag-universal-monsters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37229","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=37229"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37244,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37229\/revisions\/37244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}