{"id":42543,"date":"2024-07-20T18:59:54","date_gmt":"2024-07-20T22:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=42543"},"modified":"2024-07-23T03:09:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T07:09:56","slug":"soon-forget-simpsons-series-17-and-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2024\/07\/soon-forget-simpsons-series-17-and-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Soon Forget: Simpsons Series 17 and 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new <i>Simpsons<\/i> figures have begun to show up, so before we review any of those, let's take a look back at when Playmates had the license.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The final series of Playmates' <i>World of Springfield<\/i> line to be released was Series 16, and featured Devil Homer, Squishee Bender Bart, Doug, Benjamin, and Gary (the three college nerds), Agnes Skinner, and Artie Ziff - clearly not the strongest lineup ever, but also not terrible. Still, it was time to fade out quietly, rather than hanging on to the bitter end. However, work had already been done on future figures, and the lineups for the next two series had been revealed.<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt>Series 17<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/wos17.jpg\" title=\"Series 17\" width=\"450\" height=\"320\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/dt>\n<blockquote>\n<dd>\n<ul>\n<li>Ninja Bart<\/li>\n<li>Cecil Terwilliger<\/li>\n<li>Lewis<\/li>\n<li>Arnie Pye<\/li>\n<li>Richard<\/li>\n<li>Fightin' Hellfish Abe<\/li>\n<li>Bigfoot Homer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not a bad group. Ninja Bart never would have been that dynamic, so he would have been a weak spot, but his friends Lewis and Richard would have been good for filling up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=38560\">the elementary school<\/a>. Cecil would have been a must, though Arnie Pye really doesn't work without his helicopter; they should have made that an Environment playset, with a bas relief half-helicopter as the backdrop. Call it the \"Channel 6 Rooftop\" set. The clear standouts in this assortment would have been Homer and Abe, though. Even if shared voice chips meant nothing Abe said would have really gone with this look.<\/dd>\n<\/blockquote>\n<dt>Series 18<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/wos18.jpg\" title=\"Series 18\" width=\"450\" height=\"320\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/dt>\n<dd>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Lindsey Neagle<\/li>\n<li>Uncle Moe<\/li>\n<li>Akira<\/li>\n<li>Sanjay<\/li>\n<li>Tuxedo Kang<\/li>\n<li>Tuxedo Kodos<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not terrible. Half of them would have been new characters, and Kang and Kodos had only been available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/wosthoh2.php\">in a Treehouse of Horror set<\/a>, meaning they'd be new to most fans. Do you think they would have actually been remolded to have their tuxedos, or would those have just been pieces slipped on the existing figures? Uncle Moe's colors don't match what he wore in the episode, but that may have been fixed by the time of production. Lindsey Neagle is as important as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/wossm.php\">Sarcastic Man<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/wosmain.php\">Pimply Faced Teen<\/a>, and Sanjay and Akira would have been good scene-fillers.<\/dd>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/dl>\n<p>And of course, there were Environments to go along with those. First, we would have had our third Springfield Elementary playset, joining <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=38560\">the classroom<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/wosdoris.php\">the cafeteria<\/a>. This one would have showed the playground, complete with some non-functional playground equipment. The figure included would have been Janey, Lisa's best friend.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/wos17ps.jpg\" title=\"Springfield Elementary Playground\" width=\"500\" height=\"320\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>And then, they would have <b>finally<\/b> completed the Flanders family by releasing Maude, in the Flanders family rumpus room. That location was obviously designed in earlier seasons of the cartoon, because pool? Darts? Those are <b>way<\/b> too fun for latter-day Ned.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/wos18ps.jpg\" title=\"Flanders' basement\" width=\"500\" height=\"320\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>These are far from the only <i>WoS<\/i> figures to see cancellation, but it's interesting to see where the line would have been going.<\/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=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #148\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/01\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-148\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #148<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"NECA to do The Simpsons\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2013\/06\/neca-to-do-the-simpsons\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">NECA to do The Simpsons<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Flippin' Through Previews - April '07\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2007\/04\/flippin-through-previews-april-07\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Flippin' Through Previews - April '07<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #169\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/08\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-169\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #169<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Flippin' through Previews - August '14\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2014\/08\/flippin-through-previews-august-14\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Flippin' through Previews - August '14<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Simpsons figures have begun to show up, so before we review any of those, let's take a look back at when Playmates had the license. &lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;Todds R Us Psylocke addendum Do you remember? \"Please &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2024\/07\/soon-forget-simpsons-series-17-and-18\/\">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":[331,37,10],"tags":[157],"class_list":["post-42543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancelled-toys","category-lists","category-playmates","tag-simpsons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42543","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=42543"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42569,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42543\/revisions\/42569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}