{"id":41690,"date":"2024-02-20T00:00:59","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T05:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=41690"},"modified":"2024-02-15T05:54:43","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T10:54:43","slug":"the-ballad-of-cat-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2024\/02\/the-ballad-of-cat-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ballad of Cat Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/tfxc_gijtmswzz.php\">today's review<\/a>, we said <i>Collaborative<\/i> Ravage got colors based on early concept art you've likely never seen:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/tfxc_gijtmswzz12.jpg\" title=\"instead of the ''Cats'' soundtrack, his cassette mode would have been The Blues\" width=\"500\" height=\"495\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/art\/tfxc_gijtmswzz08.jpg\" width=\"390\" height=\"280\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"there's only one pose to go around\"><\/p>\n<p>It's not a perfect match, but the inspiration is clear.<\/p>\n<p>Just think: in some alternate universe, kids who grew up in the 1980s loved watching Soundwave deploy \"Stalker\" from his chest and seeing him turn into this.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to James \"Cereal:Geek\" Eatock for digging this art up.<\/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=\"An iconic piece of art\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/04\/an-iconic-piece-of-art\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">An iconic piece of art<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Flippin' Through Previews - July '10\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2010\/07\/flippin-through-previews-july-10\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Flippin' Through Previews - July '10<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Transformers BotBots Batter Splatter exclusive review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2021\/02\/transformers-botbots-batter-splatter-exclusive-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Transformers BotBots Batter Splatter exclusive review<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Transformers Kre-O Long Haul review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2013\/11\/transformers-kre-o-long-haul-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Transformers Kre-O Long Haul review<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Autobot X\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2023\/05\/autobot-x\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Autobot X<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today's review, we said Collaborative Ravage got colors based on early concept art you've likely never seen: It's not a perfect match, but the inspiration is clear. Just think: in some alternate universe, kids who grew up in the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2024\/02\/the-ballad-of-cat-blue\/\">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],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-41690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addendums","tag-transformers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41690","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=41690"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41694,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41690\/revisions\/41694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}