{"id":6494,"date":"2009-07-30T11:27:04","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T15:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=6494"},"modified":"2011-11-14T03:35:20","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T08:35:20","slug":"oafenet-email-update-for-thursday-july-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/oafenet-email-update-for-thursday-july-30\/","title":{"rendered":"OAFEnet Email Update for Thursday, July 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The OAFEnet Email Update is recovering from its bout of the nerdflu.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/gij25hawk.php\">JOE FRIDAY<\/a>! Hawk was one of the original 13 Joes, released in 1982. Of course, he was only available as a pack-in with the Mobile Missile System, so he was a rare find even among that already tough-to-find crew. That's why the cartoon chose to promote Duke, instead - he was a new figure at the time, so putting him on the show would help drive sales...<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Putting Gowron and Worf together makes a lot of sense, though - much as Gowron wouldn't have liked to admit it, Worf is pretty much <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/artemis\/stds9worfgow.php\">the king-maker of the Klingon Empire<\/a>, having murdered Duras to put Gowron on the throne, supported him (despite various stints of discommodation, which is sort of a biannual tradition for Worf) through various wars...<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Best to tell you this right away: we weren't originally planning to review this figure. But when we mentioned him in the Han Solo (Stormtrooper Disguise) review, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/sw4sdls.php\">a lot of people seemed surprised<\/a> that Luke even existed. Well of course he exists! Did you really think Hasbro was going to pass up on the opportunity to put ANOTHER Luke into a new assortment...<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Machiko is still mostly naked, so Hot Toys have had to grapple with the usual problem of 1:6 scale dolls showing off their midriffs - how to hide <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/artemis\/htavp_mach.php\">those unsightly torso joints<\/a>? The Hot Angel body puts its faith in a rubber \"skin\" which covers her body like a vest, providing an unbroken physique from neck to waist (including such minor details...<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/mu_dd.php\">MARVEL MONDAY<\/a>! I don't care how you spin it, DD's enhanced senses would not allow him to survive a dive from a rooftop to the street. It doesn't matter how well you can hear, gravity still works the same way. I can buy that the improved sense of touch could provide better balance, and would thus KEEP him from falling, but once he's in the wind...<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/tft_clhz.php\">TRANSFORMERS TUESDAY<\/a>! The figure is mostly a light baby blue, just like the G1 Hot Spot was, with black limbs, silver panels, and a few red accents to spice things up. His head is black with yellow eyes, and there's an inset panel in the faceplate that's been painted silver. From a distance, it looks like a big toothy grimace. He's smiling at us...<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>\"Soldiers,\" huh? Looks like someone's worried about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/artemis\/legoijfly.php\">copping PR flak<\/a> for making toys of Nazis. Mind you they're also carefully skirting how the \"mighty mechanic\" gets torn to pieces by the propeller, but that's an Indy film for you - fine for kids, but terrible for squeamish over-protective parents worrying about kids...<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>This bad boy was sculpted by Mike Locasio and Jason Frailey, but the package doesn't bother to break down who did what. I like to imagine that Mike did the right half of the figure, Jason did the left half, and then they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/necapsgwhld.php\">crossed their fingers that everything would line up properly<\/a> when they put them together. That's probably not even close to what happened...<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The OAFEnet Email Update is recovering from its bout of the nerdflu.<\/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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oeu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6494","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=6494"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6497,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6494\/revisions\/6497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}