{"id":8515,"date":"2012-04-13T14:39:37","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T18:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=8515"},"modified":"2013-04-06T02:05:35","modified_gmt":"2013-04-06T06:05:35","slug":"joe-friday-customs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/04\/joe-friday-customs\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Friday customs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here, take a look at these:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/corps1.jpg\" title=\"core characters\" width=\"600\" height=\"235\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>Nice, aren't they? Somebody's made G3 updates of old toys, but you can't quite place them, can you? They almost look familiar, but they're not any Joes you can remember. There's a good reason for that.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->They're not GI Joes. They're The Corps! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joecustoms.com\/forums\/viewtopic.php?t=32214\" target=_blank>night force cynic<\/a> designed and built these figures, using the classic The Corps! figures as inspiration:<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-8515 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/04\/joe-friday-customs\/corps1\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/corps1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/04\/joe-friday-customs\/corps2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/corps2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/04\/joe-friday-customs\/corps3\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/corps3-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/04\/joe-friday-customs\/corps4\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/corps4-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/04\/joe-friday-customs\/corps5\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/corps5-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/04\/joe-friday-customs\/corps6\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/corps6-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/04\/joe-friday-customs\/corps7\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/corps7-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/04\/joe-friday-customs\/corps8\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/corps8-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/04\/joe-friday-customs\/corps9\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/corps9-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>You'll recognize one figure we've reviewed - <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/corps.php\">Bengala<\/a> - but also a few of the names we mentioned in that review, including Whispering Willie and the infamous Hat Trick Lemonade! These really are great. It really makes us wish Hasbro would buy out Lanard, just for the character library. The highly improbable character library.<\/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=\"JoeCon 2013 script reading\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2013\/05\/joecon-2013-script-reading\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">JoeCon 2013 script reading<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Fight for freedom, wherever there's trouble\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/fight-for-freedom-wherever-theres-trouble\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Fight for freedom, wherever there's trouble<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Larry Hama - the action figure!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2017\/03\/larry-hama-the-action-figure\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Larry Hama - the action figure!<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Flippin' through Previews - June '12\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/06\/flippin-through-previews-june-12\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Flippin' through Previews - June '12<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Soon Forget: Only Human Transformers Part 2\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2018\/02\/soon-forget-only-human-transformers-part-2\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Soon Forget: Only Human Transformers Part 2<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here, take a look at these: Nice, aren't they? Somebody's made G3 updates of old toys, but you can't quite place them, can you? They almost look familiar, but they're not any Joes you can remember. There's a good reason &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/04\/joe-friday-customs\/\">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":[200],"tags":[22,232],"class_list":["post-8515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-customs","tag-gi-joe","tag-the-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8515","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=8515"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11911,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8515\/revisions\/11911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}