{"id":43045,"date":"2005-06-08T09:38:31","date_gmt":"2005-06-08T13:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=43045"},"modified":"2024-09-24T23:50:45","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T03:50:45","slug":"soon-forget-evil-earthworm-jim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2005\/06\/soon-forget-evil-earthworm-jim\/","title":{"rendered":"Soon Forget: Evil Earthworm Jim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. Our subject today is Playmates' <i>Earthworm Jim<\/i> \"Evil Jim\".<\/p>\n<p>Part of the planned Series 2 (shown off at Toy Fair 1996), this figure would have been a budget-saving repaint, reusing a plain Series 1 body with a new head.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/06\/ewj2evil.jpg\" width=\"260\" height=\"315\" title=\"Evil Jim\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>\"Evil Jim\" was a character seen on the show (alongside other evil copies of Jim's friends) and in the Game Boy game, so it would likely have been popular, had it been made.<\/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=\"The biggest properties of the '90s\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2014\/08\/the-biggest-properties-of-the-90s\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">The biggest properties of the '90s<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Soon Forget: Extendo-Arm Earthworm Jim\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2005\/02\/soon-forget-extendo-arm-earthworm-jim\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Soon Forget: Extendo-Arm Earthworm Jim<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Earthworm Jim Heads Pack review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2024\/09\/earthworm-jim-heads-pack-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Earthworm Jim Heads Pack review<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Soon Forget: Playmates Doc Duodenum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2005\/10\/soon-forget-playmates-doc-duodenum\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Soon Forget: Playmates Doc Duodenum<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Soon Forget: Playmates Clutch\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2005\/10\/soon-forget-playmates-clutch\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Soon Forget: Playmates Clutch<\/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 subject today is Playmates' Earthworm Jim \"Evil Jim\". Part of the planned Series 2 (shown off at Toy Fair 1996), this &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2005\/06\/soon-forget-evil-earthworm-jim\/\">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":[331,10],"tags":[451],"class_list":["post-43045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancelled-toys","category-playmates","tag-earthworm-jim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43045","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=43045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43046,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43045\/revisions\/43046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}