{"id":43047,"date":"2005-07-15T18:56:38","date_gmt":"2005-07-15T22:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=43047"},"modified":"2024-09-25T00:04:11","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T04:04:11","slug":"soon-forget-earthworm-jim-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2005\/07\/soon-forget-earthworm-jim-vehicles\/","title":{"rendered":"Soon Forget: Earthworm Jim vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. Our subjects today are Playmates' <i>Earthworm Jim<\/i> Crazed Cycle and Worm Thrower vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the planned Series 2 (shown off at Toy Fair 1996), the Crazed Cycle was seen in the cartoon, and would have included a missile-firing feature that launched the eyes out of the face on the front. It's possible it also would have included the Driver Jim figure?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/07\/ewj2cycle.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"500\" title=\"Crazed Cycle\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>The \"Worm Thrower\" was just an excuse to reuse the <i>Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles<\/i>' Pizza Thrower molds, as evidence at a glance:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/07\/ewj2thrower.jpg\" width=\"330\" height=\"375\" title=\"Worm Thrower\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/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: Copterhead Earthworm Jim\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2005\/01\/soon-forget-copterhead-earthworm-jim\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Soon Forget: Copterhead Earthworm Jim<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #76\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/11\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-76\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #76<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Ninjas will strike where you least expect\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2022\/12\/ninjas-will-strike-where-you-least-expect\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Ninjas will strike where you least expect<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Middle-Age Mutant Dayjob Tortoises\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2017\/05\/middle-age-mutant-dayjob-tortoises\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Middle-Age Mutant Dayjob Tortoises<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #126\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2014\/03\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-126\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #126<\/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 subjects today are Playmates' Earthworm Jim Crazed Cycle and Worm Thrower vehicles. Part of the planned Series 2 (shown off at &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2005\/07\/soon-forget-earthworm-jim-vehicles\/\">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":[451,28],"class_list":["post-43047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancelled-toys","category-playmates","tag-earthworm-jim","tag-tmnt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43047","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=43047"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43049,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43047\/revisions\/43049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}