{"id":9808,"date":"2012-08-24T19:02:07","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T23:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=9808"},"modified":"2013-07-31T22:08:08","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T02:08:08","slug":"john-carpenters-the-thing-1982-toy-commercial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/08\/john-carpenters-the-thing-1982-toy-commercial\/","title":{"rendered":"John Carpenter's \"The Thing\" 1982 toy commercial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember back in 1982, when <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B001CW7ZWG\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B001CW7ZWG&linkCode=as2&tag=lp\" target=amazon>The Thing<\/a><\/i> got a full toyline? Wait, you don't? How could you have forgotten, they had a tv commercial and everything!<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"319\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7MKOMgl-hHw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=4708\">Reminds us of this<\/a>.<\/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=\"A REAL Real American Hero\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/09\/a-real-real-american-hero\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">A REAL Real American Hero<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #182\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2017\/07\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-182\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #182<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"GI Joe meets John Carpenter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/gi-joe-meets-john-carpenter\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">GI Joe meets John Carpenter<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"GI Joe Movie Watch 2: the sequel is a go!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2010\/01\/gi-joe-movie-watch-2-the-sequel-is-a-go\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">GI Joe Movie Watch 2: the sequel is a go!<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Action Force: Sgt. Slaughter review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2023\/01\/action-force-sgt-slaughter-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Action Force: Sgt. Slaughter review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember back in 1982, when The Thing got a full toyline? Wait, you don't? How could you have forgotten, they had a tv commercial and everything! Reminds us of this. &lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;Larry Hama - the action figure! &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/08\/john-carpenters-the-thing-1982-toy-commercial\/\">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":[247,8,13],"tags":[22,134],"class_list":["post-9808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fan-films","category-hasbro","category-mcfarlane","tag-gi-joe","tag-movie-maniacs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9808","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=9808"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13197,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9808\/revisions\/13197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}