{"id":45634,"date":"2025-10-07T01:52:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T05:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=45634"},"modified":"2025-10-07T01:52:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T05:52:56","slug":"the-weakest-crossover-designs-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/10\/the-weakest-crossover-designs-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"The weakest crossover designs yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TMNT, Thundercats, even Stranger Things... those were all pretty great designs. But now there's... this.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/motutfhemanprime.jpg\" width=\"430\" height=\"560\" alt=\"*photo of Masters of the Universe x Transformers He-Man, who is (as always) a large, musclebound oaf, except now he's wearing 'Optimus Prime armor' that looks like a low-rent costume more than an actual crossover figure*\n\nThere he is. He-Man in his Optimus cosplay.\n\n''Trick or treat. I am a normal human child of trick or treating age.''\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/brentosaur.bsky.social\/post\/3lzqjmdott22v\" target=bsky>via<\/a>)<\/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=\"Christians vs. He-Man\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/christians-vs-he-man\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Christians vs. He-Man<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"The Fallen addendum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/05\/the-fallen-addendum\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">The Fallen addendum<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Soon Forget: Titanium Bumblebee\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2021\/11\/soon-forget-titanium-bumblebee\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Soon Forget: Titanium Bumblebee<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Fugitive Waspinator addendum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/05\/fugitive-waspinator-addendum\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Fugitive Waspinator addendum<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"MotU Minis: Castle Grayskull BAF review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2016\/08\/motu-minis-castle-grayskull-baf-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">MotU Minis: Castle Grayskull BAF review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TMNT, Thundercats, even Stranger Things... those were all pretty great designs. But now there's... this. (via) &lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;Transformers Legacy Evolution: Nemesis Prime review Action figures + cartoons = good Not everything comes with clear instructions Transformers BotBots &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/10\/the-weakest-crossover-designs-yet\/\">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":[7],"tags":[96,15,14],"class_list":["post-45634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mattel","tag-he-man","tag-motu","tag-transformers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45634","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=45634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45635,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45634\/revisions\/45635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}