{"id":42889,"date":"2024-10-15T00:00:14","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T04:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=42889"},"modified":"2024-09-14T00:17:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-14T04:17:42","slug":"soon-forget-muta-party-wagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2024\/10\/soon-forget-muta-party-wagon\/","title":{"rendered":"Soon Forget: Muta-Party Wagon"},"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 Playmates' <i>Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles<\/i> Muta-Party Wagon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/tfxc_tmntpw.php\">Party Wallop<\/a> was not the first attempt at turning the Turtle Van into a robot. The 1993 product catalog tried to sell retailers on the idea of a fully in-scale Party Wagon that would \"mutate\" into a 19\" tall bot. And unlike <b>some<\/b> crossovers we could name, this one was smart enough to know that it should look like Metalhead without needing to buy a third-party upgrade kit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/tmnt93mpw.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/tmnt93mpw-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The interest just wasn't there, however, so until now fans simply had to content themselves with a Party Wagon that somehow transformed into Splinter.<\/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=\"Soon Forget: Fossilsaurus\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2016\/07\/soon-forget-fossilsaurus\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Soon Forget: Fossilsaurus<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"ATFC '12 - Day 1: Hasbro\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/02\/live-toy-fair-2012-hasbro-coverage\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">ATFC '12 - Day 1: Hasbro<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Transformers: Legacy Evolution Crashbar addendum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2023\/07\/transformers-legacy-evolution-crashbar-addendum\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Transformers: Legacy Evolution Crashbar addendum<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Flippin' through Previews - March '13\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2013\/03\/flippin-through-previews-march-13\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Flippin' through Previews - March '13<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Transformers BotBots Lumbering Jack review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2021\/12\/transformers-botbots-lumbering-jack-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Transformers BotBots Lumbering Jack review<\/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 Playmates' Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Muta-Party Wagon. Party Wallop was not the first attempt at turning the Turtle &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2024\/10\/soon-forget-muta-party-wagon\/\">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":[41,331,10],"tags":[28,14],"class_list":["post-42889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addendums","category-cancelled-toys","category-playmates","tag-tmnt","tag-transformers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42889","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=42889"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42894,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42889\/revisions\/42894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}