{"id":38792,"date":"2007-08-22T16:23:27","date_gmt":"2007-08-22T20:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=38792"},"modified":"2023-01-24T17:42:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T22:42:01","slug":"soon-forget-buffy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2007\/08\/soon-forget-buffy\/","title":{"rendered":"Soon Forget: Buffy"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. Our subject today is Diamond Select's Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Initially picking up where Moore Action Collectibles left off, the DST Buffy<\/i> line was heavy on repaints and light on articulation, and was limping to the end now that it's been replaced by the superior Deluxe edition figures.<\/p>\n

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The final series, divided into two waves, was to include \"Doppelgangland\" Oz, \"School Hard\" Drusilla and \"Band Candy\" Giles<\/a>, and then \"Fear Itself\" Oz, Vampire Drusilla and Principal Wood<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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There was also going to be an exclusive \"New Moon Rising\" Oz, but no word on where:<\/p>\n

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The really annoying thing is that this series was going to adopt ToyBiz's popular \"Build-A-Figure\" scheme, with each figure coming with a piece that would allow you to build Season 2 baddie The Judge: sculpted by Rudy Garcia, the Judge was originally planned to be part of a \"monsters\" series that gave us lots of villains and demons, but that was apparently canceled because retailers insisted on having \"main characters.\"<\/p>\n

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According to Diamond, they fell abut 3,000 short of the preorders needed for this series to move forward, so now the non-deluxe Buffy<\/i> line is finished.<\/p>\n

<i>And now, some more OAFEry:<\/i><\/H5>