{"id":46058,"date":"2025-12-19T00:00:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T05:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=46058"},"modified":"2025-11-21T19:16:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T00:16:30","slug":"rudolph-the-red-nosed-reindeer-60th-anniversary-mystery-minis-santa-claus-exclusive-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/12\/rudolph-the-red-nosed-reindeer-60th-anniversary-mystery-minis-santa-claus-exclusive-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer 60th Anniversary Mystery Minis - Santa Claus exclusive review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/funkfri.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"72\" alt=\"Funko Friday\" title=\"Funko Friday\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/funko_rbr60mm_san1.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"435\" title=\"Santa Claus (shown twice actual size)\" align=right style=\"margin:-5px 0px -5px 15px\">All these <i>Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer<\/i> not-so-mystery <i>Minis<\/i> have a sticker on the front of the box declaring them Five Below exclusives, but that's really a half-truth at best: although these were released in 2024, the molds were first available in 2023; the thing that makes these \"new\" exclusives is the 60th Anniversary branding on the packaging - a minor change, to be sure, but a change nonetheless. At least until you throw the box away.<\/p>\n<p>This is Santa as seen at the end of the special - at the beginning, he was so worried about getting everything ready for Christmas <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/funko_rbr60mm_san2.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"220\" alt=\"Santa's got a brand new bag!\" align=left style=\"margin:7px 15px 0px 0px\">that <A href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/crooked.bsky.social\/post\/3m5n44r3wvk2y\" target=bsky>he was skinny<\/a>, so Mrs. Claus had to turn him back into the Santa children knew and loved. Or maybe it was some sort of psychosexual forced feeding thing, who's to say? Although Santa appeared in a bunch of the Rankin\/Bass specials (even two of the Easter ones!), <i>Rudolph<\/i> was the only time his design included beady black eyes like this. I guess they thought realer eyes made him look friendlier? The mini is waving and carrying his sack of toys over his shoulder, and his mouth is open beneath his big mustache, presumably <a href=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/gallery\/little-lost-lad-by-theotherend-comics-hdVofuu\" target=_blank>to call someone a ho<\/a>. This is just a nice, standard Santa, perfect for a seasonal Giftsmas display.<\/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=\"Arkham Knight Mystery Minis - Mr. Freeze exclusive review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2019\/12\/arkham-knight-mystery-minis-mr-freeze-exclusive-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Arkham Knight Mystery Minis - Mr. Freeze exclusive review<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Walking Dead Mystery Minis: Gareth (In Memorium) review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2022\/10\/walking-dead-mystery-minis-gareth-in-memorium-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Walking Dead Mystery Minis: Gareth (In Memorium) review<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"A cool thing: @funko_layout\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2016\/08\/a-cool-thing-funko_layout\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">A cool thing: @funko_layout<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Rick and Morty Mystery Minis - Squanchy review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2020\/01\/rick-and-morty-mystery-minis-squanchy-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rick and Morty Mystery Minis - Squanchy review<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Horror Mystery Minis - The Nun exclusive review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/10\/horror-mystery-minis-the-nun-exclusive-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Horror Mystery Minis - The Nun exclusive review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;Walking Dead Mystery Minis: Michonne, Mike &#038; Terry reviews Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer 60th Anniversary Mystery Minis - Misfit Elephant exclusive review Soon Forget: Horror Classics Mystery Minis Series 3 Rick and Morty Mystery Minis - &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/12\/rudolph-the-red-nosed-reindeer-60th-anniversary-mystery-minis-santa-claus-exclusive-review\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,250],"tags":[291,490],"class_list":["post-46058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-exclusive-review","category-funko","tag-mystery-minis","tag-rankin-bass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46058","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46058"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46065,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46058\/revisions\/46065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}