{"id":6407,"date":"2010-08-15T22:21:21","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T02:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=6407"},"modified":"2015-10-19T02:59:10","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T06:59:10","slug":"tarot-minimates-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2010\/08\/tarot-minimates-cancelled\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarot Minimates cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=1328\">a few months ago<\/a> when Minimates based on <i>Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose<\/i> were solicited? Well, forget it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/tarot.jpg\" title=\"*sad trombone sound*\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lukestoystore.com\/\" target=luke>Luke's Toy Store<\/a>, the set is officially cancelled from DST. He said <i>Tarot<\/i> had the lowest preorders of <b>any<\/b> Minimates set - and that includes the also-cancelled <i>Godfather<\/i> and <i>Beverly Hills Cop<\/i> Minimates. Bad news for the fans who preordered - all both of them.<\/p>\n<p>Update: someone emailed Broadsword Comics to find out the real story, and Holly G! gave this response:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yaa<br \/>\nTotally sucks<br \/>\nBut because of an initial SNAFU<br \/>\nThe set won't happen right away<br \/>\nBut some ideas are in works<br \/>\nSo hold tight!<br \/>\nBest Witches<br \/>\nHolly <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So that's it, no Tarot. We have to think that soliciting them as 2&#189;\" figures, rather than the usual 2\", hurt the interest. Or maybe it was just that nobody who reads <i>Tarot<\/i> is interested in toys with flat chests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember a few months ago when Minimates based on Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose were solicited? Well, forget it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,331,24],"tags":[53],"class_list":["post-6407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-asylum","category-cancelled-toys","category-news","tag-minimates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6407","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6407"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11617,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6407\/revisions\/11617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}