{"id":21916,"date":"2016-11-23T00:00:07","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T05:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=21916"},"modified":"2016-02-22T19:21:49","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T00:21:49","slug":"soon-forget-the-gobbledy-gooker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2016\/11\/soon-forget-the-gobbledy-gooker\/","title":{"rendered":"Soon Forget: the Gobbledy Gooker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. Our figure today is Mattel's Gobbledy Gooker.<\/p>\n<p>If you're unfamiliar with the Gobbledy Gooker, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/article_18918_the-9-most-unintentionally-depressing-pro-wrestling-gimmicks.html\" target=cracked>Cracked<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/71655\/gobbledy-gooker-wrestlings-most-bizarre-gimmick-25-years-later\" target=mf>Mental Floss<\/a> and even <a href=\"http:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Wrestling\/TheGobbledyGooker\" target=tvt>TV Tropes<\/a> have complete discussions of him. But really, all you need to know is in this video:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"239\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xh00VNHNB7o?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Yeah.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This figure was shown off at SDCC 2011, tucked away in a deep corner of Mattel's booth, alongside a statue showing Randy Orton delivering an RKO to CM Punk, and a statue of Beth Phoenix with Barbie hair and softgoods clothes. Judging by the articulation, it would have been part of the <i>Elite Collection<\/i>, not the basic series.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gook.jpg\" title=\"Gobbledy Gooker\" width=\"360\" height=\"595\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>The figure was never scheduled for an official release. Apparently it was \"revealed\" at SDCC in order to gauge interest, but the result wasn't enough to encourage Mattel to move forward with the idea.<\/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=\"Braun Strowman vs. a car\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2020\/01\/braun-strowman-vs-a-car\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Braun Strowman vs. a car<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"A boy and his dinosaur\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2021\/06\/a-boy-and-his-dinosaur\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">A boy and his dinosaur<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Soon Forget - Madballs Blind Bags Black Out Series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2018\/10\/soon-forget-madballs-blind-bags-black-out-series\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Soon Forget - Madballs Blind Bags Black Out Series<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"The only joke we're playing today\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2023\/04\/the-only-joke-were-playing-today\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">The only joke we're playing today<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"yo - who wants a free toy?\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2007\/02\/yo-who-wants-a-free-toy\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">yo - who wants a free toy?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. Our figure today is Mattel's Gobbledy Gooker. If you're unfamiliar with the Gobbledy Gooker, Cracked, Mental Floss and even TV Tropes have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2016\/11\/soon-forget-the-gobbledy-gooker\/\">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":[331,7,135,42],"tags":[162,69],"class_list":["post-21916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancelled-toys","category-mattel","category-sdcc","category-videos","tag-sdcc-2011","tag-wrestling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21916","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=21916"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21920,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21916\/revisions\/21920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}