{"id":38807,"date":"2012-01-24T18:34:18","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T23:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=38807"},"modified":"2023-01-24T18:47:53","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T23:47:53","slug":"soon-forget-michael-keaton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/01\/soon-forget-michael-keaton\/","title":{"rendered":"Soon Forget: Michael Keaton"},"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 Kenner's <i>Batman Forever<\/i> Batman.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously there were <i>Batman Forever<\/i> toys, but none like this.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/keatonforever.jpg\" title=\"Michael Keaton Batman\" width=\"345\" height=\"595\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>When Kenner began work on the third <i>Batman<\/i> movie's toys, it was assumed Michael Keaton would be returning to the role. When he dropped out and was replaced by Val Kilmer, the toys were redesigned with the new likeness, so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amoktime.com\/batman-forever-keaton-proto.html\" target=\"at\" rel=\"noopener\">this 1996 prototype is a glimpse at an alternate world.<\/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=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #185\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2017\/08\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-185\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #185<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Flippin' Through Previews - March '07\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2007\/03\/flippin-through-previews-march-07\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Flippin' Through Previews - March '07<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Lego Batman Minifigures: Nurse Harley Quinn review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2017\/03\/lego-batman-minifigures-nurse-harley-quinn-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Lego Batman Minifigures: Nurse Harley Quinn review<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Red Hood addendum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2023\/01\/red-hood-addendum\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Red Hood addendum<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Batman Begins\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2005\/06\/batman-begins\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Batman Begins<\/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 Kenner's Batman Forever Batman. Obviously there were Batman Forever toys, but none like this. When Kenner began work &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/01\/soon-forget-michael-keaton\/\">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":[331,9],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-38807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancelled-toys","category-kenner","tag-batman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38807","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=38807"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38810,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38807\/revisions\/38810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}