{"id":45841,"date":"2025-10-15T14:05:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=45841"},"modified":"2025-10-16T14:36:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T18:36:21","slug":"madballs-at-five-below","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/10\/madballs-at-five-below\/","title":{"rendered":"Madballs at Five Below"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=45470\">Target Madball knockoffs<\/a>? You can now get them - and several others - at Five Below:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/madballsfivebelow.jpg\" width=\"470\" height=\"360\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"A box of knock off Madballs on the shelf at Five Below. There are six designs, so two of each in the box. In addition to Slobulus, Repville, and the facehugger one, there are also legally iffy versions of Slobbernaut, the Taiwanese version of Bash Brain\/Crackhead, and what appears to be an original snake(?) design.\"><\/p>\n<p>It's still a mix of stolen designs and more original work, but if you missed them before, you now have a second chance at them.<\/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=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #75\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/10\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-75\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #75<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Scrunchie + action figure = tutu\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2013\/09\/scrunchie-action-figure-tutu\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Scrunchie + action figure = tutu<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Like Barbie needed one more job\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/04\/like-barbie-needed-one-more-job\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Like Barbie needed one more job<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #207\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2018\/07\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-207\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #207<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #124\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2014\/03\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-124\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #124<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the Target Madball knockoffs? You can now get them - and several others - at Five Below: It's still a mix of stolen designs and more original work, but if you missed them before, you now have a second &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/10\/madballs-at-five-below\/\">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":[39,29],"tags":[80,348],"class_list":["post-45841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-asylum","category-reports","tag-alien","tag-madballs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45841","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=45841"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45843,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45841\/revisions\/45843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}