{"id":19142,"date":"2015-08-17T00:00:03","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T04:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=19142"},"modified":"2016-01-09T05:27:50","modified_gmt":"2016-01-09T10:27:50","slug":"rom-spaceknight-addendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/08\/rom-spaceknight-addendum\/","title":{"rendered":"Rom: SpaceKnight addendum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/rustin\/mimurom.php\">today's review<\/a>, here's Rom's pitch video from Toy Fair 1979:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c_yROqKLzSk?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The same one was sent to Marvel, to get them on-board with the comic. Writer Bill Mantlo recalled in <i>Comics Feature<\/i> #17:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Jim Shooter] said, \"Come on in, look at this videotape,\" ... we took the videotape out of the box, put it in the Betamax, and what do we see? This weird-looking robot in swirling mists and this voice-over saying, \"The Dire Wraiths from the supernatural galaxy are going to get Rom the robot.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\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=\"IDW leads the way to Hasbro's shared universe\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2016\/06\/idw-leads-the-way-to-hasbros-shared-universe\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">IDW leads the way to Hasbro's shared universe<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Soon Forget: ROM Spaceknight\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2013\/11\/soon-forget-rom-spaceknight\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Soon Forget: ROM Spaceknight<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Licensed Contest of Champions\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/06\/licensed-contest-of-champions\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Licensed Contest of Champions<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Soon Forget: What (was) UNIT:E?\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/10\/soon-forget-what-was-unite\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Soon Forget: What (was) UNIT:E?<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Soon Forget: Marvel's Dire Wraith\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2017\/10\/soon-forget-marvels-dire-wraith\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Soon Forget: Marvel's Dire Wraith<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned in today's review, here's Rom's pitch video from Toy Fair 1979: The same one was sent to Marvel, to get them on-board with the comic. Writer Bill Mantlo recalled in Comics Feature #17: [Jim Shooter] said, \"Come on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/08\/rom-spaceknight-addendum\/\">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":[41,25,174,42],"tags":[334],"class_list":["post-19142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addendums","category-marvel","category-toy-fair","category-videos","tag-rom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19142"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19977,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19142\/revisions\/19977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}