{"id":9583,"date":"2012-08-03T14:16:43","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T18:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=9583"},"modified":"2012-08-03T14:16:43","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T18:16:43","slug":"uss-flagg-still-the-king-of-toys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/08\/uss-flagg-still-the-king-of-toys\/","title":{"rendered":"USS Flagg - still the king of toys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There's a lot of talk about Hasbro's <i>Avengers<\/i> movie Helicarrier and whether or not it's big enough to really accommodate the toys. Spoiler: it's not, but the SDCC version, with an extra foot of length in the middle, comes closer to being adequate.<\/p>\n<p>But compared to the largest toy ever made, GI Joe's <i>USS Flagg<\/i>? It might as well be a lifeboat:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/flagg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/flagg-285x160.jpg\" title=\"click to embiggen\" width=\"285\" height=\"160\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When the <i>Flagg<\/i> was released in 1985, it cost $89.99 - adjusting for inflation, that would be $191.92. Clearly a toy of that size would cost much more than that today: the much-lauded big <i>Millennium Falcon<\/i> from a few years back cost $150, and it was only &#8531; the size of the <i>Flagg<\/i>. We'd be lucky to get away with \"only\" paying $300 for a version of the aircraft carrier today.<\/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=\"Deadpool\/GI Joe mashup\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2014\/02\/deadpoolgi-joe-mashup\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Deadpool\/GI Joe mashup<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Avengers 2 Movie Series Hulkbuster BAF addendum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/12\/avengers-2-movie-series-hulkbuster-baf-addendum\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Avengers 2 Movie Series Hulkbuster BAF addendum<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"A free angry white boy for you\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2021\/09\/a-free-angry-white-boy-for-you\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">A free angry white boy for you<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Minimate Mini-Review #35 - Ms. Marvel &#038; Ultron\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2011\/12\/minimate-mini-review-35-ms-marvel-ultron\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Minimate Mini-Review #35 - Ms. Marvel &#038; Ultron<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Minimate Mini-Review #297 - Cyborg Spider-Man &#038; Songbird\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2016\/06\/minimate-mini-review-297-cyborg-spider-man-songbird\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Minimate Mini-Review #297 - Cyborg Spider-Man &#038; Songbird<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There's a lot of talk about Hasbro's Avengers movie Helicarrier and whether or not it's big enough to really accommodate the toys. Spoiler: it's not, but the SDCC version, with an extra foot of length in the middle, comes closer &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/08\/uss-flagg-still-the-king-of-toys\/\">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":[8],"tags":[131,22],"class_list":["post-9583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hasbro","tag-avengers","tag-gi-joe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9583","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=9583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9585,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9583\/revisions\/9585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}