{"id":42215,"date":"2015-05-08T14:39:39","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T18:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=42215"},"modified":"2025-08-02T18:59:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T22:59:20","slug":"soon-forget-mad-max-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/05\/soon-forget-mad-max-vehicles\/","title":{"rendered":"Soon Forget: Mad Max vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. Our selection today is N2 Toys' <i>Mad Max: The Road Warrior<\/i> vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Before being shamed into changing their name due to their poor work with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/poe\/tick.php\">The Tick<\/a>, N2 had some success with <i>Mad Max<\/i>, releasing two series in 2000 and 2001. At Toy Fair 2001, they showed off the V-8 Interceptor and the Gyrocopter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/n2mm2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/n2mm2-300x100.jpg\" title=\"click to embiggen\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The car would have come with swappable front ends: intact or smashed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/n2mm1.jpg\" title=\"N2 Toys Mad Max Interceptor\" width=\"550\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/n2mm3.jpg\" title=\"Last of the V8s\" width=\"450\" height=\"295\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>Neither of them would have come with their drivers; hope you already had the Series 1 releases!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/n2mm4.jpg\" title=\"Gyrocopter, with much less nudity than usual\" width=\"475\" height=\"360\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>Neither of these rides ended up being released. And although a new <i>Mad Max<\/i> movie is coming out next week, no one seems to have the license for it, so it remains the only way to get that iconic car is via <a href=\"https:\/\/spencer1984.com\/review\/dda-mad-max-interceptor.php\" target=\"s84\" rel=\"noopener\">model kit<\/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=\"If They Could Transform\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2014\/03\/if-they-could-transform\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">If They Could Transform<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Mad Max: Fury Road Mystery Minis - Immortan Joe review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2018\/03\/mad-max-fury-road-mystery-minis-immortan-joe-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Mad Max: Fury Road Mystery Minis - Immortan Joe review<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Mad Max: Fury Road Mystery Minis - Nux review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2018\/06\/mad-max-fury-road-mystery-minis-nux-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Mad Max: Fury Road Mystery Minis - Nux review<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Mad Max: Fury Road Mystery Minis - Furiosa reviews\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2024\/05\/mad-max-fury-road-mystery-minis-furiosa-reviews\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Mad Max: Fury Road Mystery Minis - Furiosa reviews<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Witness these Lego Mad Max creations\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2024\/05\/witness-these-lego-mad-max-creations\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Witness these Lego Mad Max creations<\/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 selection today is N2 Toys' Mad Max: The Road Warrior vehicles. Before being shamed into changing their name due to their &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/05\/soon-forget-mad-max-vehicles\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[331,443,174],"tags":[370,484],"class_list":["post-42215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancelled-toys","category-n2-toys","category-toy-fair","tag-mad-max","tag-toy-fair-2001"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42215","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42215"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45092,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42215\/revisions\/45092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}