{"id":41523,"date":"2024-01-13T15:08:57","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T20:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=41523"},"modified":"2024-01-13T15:08:57","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T20:08:57","slug":"soon-forget-darkstalkers-morrigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2024\/01\/soon-forget-darkstalkers-morrigan\/","title":{"rendered":"Soon Forget: Darkstalkers Morrigan"},"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 SOTA's Morrigan Aensland.<\/p>\n<p>We continue our look at SOTA's planned spin-off\/expansion of their <i>Street Fighter<\/i> line, featuring Capcom's monster-based 2D fighter, <i>Darkstalkers<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/dsmorr1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/dsmorr1-300x300.jpg\" title=\"Darkstalkers Morrigan by Will Harbottle and Kat Sapene (click to embiggen)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Like last month's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=41421\">Zabel Zarock<\/a>, the succubus Morrigan was in the planning long enough to get two sculpts. The first, shown off at SDCC 2006 (in the same display case as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=39003\">Micronauts<\/a>), was by Will Harbottle, but she'd been completely redone by the time she was seen again the next year:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/dsmorr2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/dsmorr2-300x300.jpg\" title=\"Morrigan v2 (click to embiggen)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Being planned for Series 2 of the toys, Morrigan didn't even get the chance of a crowdfunded preorder, like Raptor and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=41210\">Dmitri<\/a> did.<\/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=\"San Diego or bust!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2006\/07\/san-diego-or-bust\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">San Diego or bust!<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Soon Forget: Bring On the Bad Guys\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2006\/10\/soon-forget-bring-on-the-bad-guys\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Soon Forget: Bring On the Bad Guys<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Soon Forget: Frog Thor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2022\/08\/soon-forget-frog-thor\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Soon Forget: Frog Thor<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Minimate Mini-Review #157 - Marvel vs. Capcom Minimates Series 3\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2014\/05\/minimate-mini-review-157-marvel-vs-capcom-minimates-series-3\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Minimate Mini-Review #157 - Marvel vs. Capcom Minimates Series 3<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Soon Forget: Darkstalkers Demitri\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2023\/11\/soon-forget-darkstalkers-demitri\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Soon Forget: Darkstalkers Demitri<\/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 SOTA's Morrigan Aensland. We continue our look at SOTA's planned spin-off\/expansion of their Street Fighter line, featuring Capcom's &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2024\/01\/soon-forget-darkstalkers-morrigan\/\">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":[331,51],"tags":[432,147,258],"class_list":["post-41523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancelled-toys","category-sota","tag-darkstalkers","tag-sdcc-2006","tag-sdcc-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41523","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=41523"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41529,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41523\/revisions\/41529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}