{"id":45374,"date":"2025-09-18T00:00:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T04:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=45374"},"modified":"2025-09-17T18:05:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T22:05:56","slug":"soon-forget-palisades-sesame-street-bert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/09\/soon-forget-palisades-sesame-street-bert\/","title":{"rendered":"Soon Forget: Palisades Sesame Street Bert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a way, it's good that Series 1 of palisades' <i>Sesame Street<\/i> line never made it to shelves: after all, Bert was scheduled for Series 2, so <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=45320\">Ernie<\/a> would have been relegated to being forever alone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/sesamebert1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/sesamebert1-300x190.jpg\" title=\"click to embiggen\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->It's also interesting to note one way in which <a href=\"\/yo\/neca_sesst_02bert.php\">NECA's Bert<\/a> is firmly superior: Palisades originally sculpted Bert with his eyebrow raised, but made it flat when revisions were done.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/sesamebert2.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"255\" title=\"Bert (original and revised)\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>They might have done that alternate expression on one of the later variations (there was a \"Bedtime Bert\" exclusive that was meant to come out alongside Series 1, and \"Bathtime Bert\" with Series 5), but only NECA came up with the idea to make the brows swap out.<\/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=\"Fraggle Rock scale comparison\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/07\/fraggle-rock-scale-comparison\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Fraggle Rock scale comparison<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"A tour of Toys R Us in 1991\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2021\/01\/a-tour-of-toys-r-us-in-1991\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">A tour of Toys R Us in 1991<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Dear NECA: make Sesame Street toys\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2010\/04\/dear-neca-make-sesame-street-toys\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Dear NECA: make Sesame Street toys<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"King of All (Cookie) Monsters\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2020\/02\/king-of-all-cookie-monsters\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">King of All (Cookie) Monsters<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"This is the last thing I will see before I die\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2026\/05\/this-is-the-last-thing-i-will-see-before-i-die\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">This is the last thing I will see before I die<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a way, it's good that Series 1 of palisades' Sesame Street line never made it to shelves: after all, Bert was scheduled for Series 2, so Ernie would have been relegated to being forever alone. &lt;i&gt;And now, some more &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/09\/soon-forget-palisades-sesame-street-bert\/\">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":[41,331,48],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-45374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addendums","category-cancelled-toys","category-palisades","tag-muppets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45374","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=45374"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45391,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45374\/revisions\/45391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}