{"id":40186,"date":"2023-06-25T18:44:52","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T22:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=40186"},"modified":"2023-07-18T18:59:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T22:59:13","slug":"soon-forget-monstar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2023\/06\/soon-forget-monstar\/","title":{"rendered":"Soon Forget: Mon*Star"},"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>SilverHawks<\/i> Mon*Star.<\/p>\n<p>There was one Mon*Star toy, in his powered-up form, but only its swappable head gave us even a hint of the depowered version. However, a planned Mon*Star with \"Laser Lance\" did appear in a product catalog:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/silvhmonstar.jpg\" title=\"unproduced Mon*Star\" width=\"450\" height=\"635\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>For whatever reason, the toy never made it into production, meaning it took until 2023 for us to get our first chance at owning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/silvh_ult2_mons.php\">plain Mon*Star<\/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=\"Children of the '90s Try to Explain '80s Cartoons\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2014\/08\/children-of-the-90s-try-to-explain-80s-cartoons\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Children of the '90s Try to Explain '80s Cartoons<\/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 SilverHawks Mon*Star. There was one Mon*Star toy, in his powered-up form, but only its swappable head gave &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2023\/06\/soon-forget-monstar\/\">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":[41,331,9],"tags":[286],"class_list":["post-40186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addendums","category-cancelled-toys","category-kenner","tag-silverhawks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40186","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=40186"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40190,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40186\/revisions\/40190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}