{"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=\"Flippin' through Previews - July '15\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/07\/flippin-through-previews-july-15\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Flippin' through Previews - July '15<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Happy Batman Day\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2019\/09\/happy-batman-day\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Happy Batman Day<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Flippin' through Previews - March '14\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2014\/03\/flippin-through-previews-march-14\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Flippin' through Previews - March '14<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Flippin' through Previews - September '12\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/09\/flippin-through-previews-september-12\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Flippin' through Previews - September '12<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Multiverse DKR Joker addendum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2017\/07\/multiverse-dkr-joker-addendum\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Multiverse DKR Joker 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 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}]}}