{"id":31119,"date":"2020-05-09T20:14:06","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T00:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=31119"},"modified":"2020-05-09T20:14:06","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T00:14:06","slug":"soon-forget-flashpoint-aquaman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2020\/05\/soon-forget-flashpoint-aquaman\/","title":{"rendered":"Soon Forget: Flashpoint Aquaman"},"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 Flashpoint Aquaman.<\/p>\n<p>In the <i>Flashpoint<\/i> story, Aquaman was returned to Atlantis when he was a teenager, so he had very little affinity for humankind. He was a military leader, and was willing to sacrifice millions of human lives in his war against Wonder Woman and the Amazons.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/dccm_faq.jpg\" title=\"Flashpoint Aquaman\" width=\"220\" height=\"495\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>This more martial costume, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=31061\">Rustin's fave<\/a>, was first seen at SDCC 2018. The figure was never officially cancelled, but with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=27806\">Mattel losing the DC license<\/a> as of this year, he's never going to be released.<\/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=\"DC Universe Classics 17: Sinestro Corps Scarecrow review\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2011\/07\/dc-universe-classics-17-sinestro-corps-scarecrow-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">DC Universe Classics 17: Sinestro Corps Scarecrow review<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Soon Forget: DC Multiverse Clayface Build-A-Figure\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2020\/08\/soon-forget-dc-multiverse-clayface-build-a-figure\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Soon Forget: DC Multiverse Clayface Build-A-Figure<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Soon Forget: Wendy's DC Heroes\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2024\/12\/soon-forget-wendys-dc-heroes\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Soon Forget: Wendy's DC Heroes<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Flippin' through Previews - August '14\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2014\/08\/flippin-through-previews-august-14\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Flippin' through Previews - August '14<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Kingdom Come action figure poster\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/03\/kingdom-come-action-figure-poster\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Kingdom Come action figure poster<\/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 Flashpoint Aquaman. In the Flashpoint story, Aquaman was returned to Atlantis when he was a teenager, so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2020\/05\/soon-forget-flashpoint-aquaman\/\">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":[331,27,7],"tags":[133,166],"class_list":["post-31119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancelled-toys","category-dc","category-mattel","tag-aquaman","tag-dcuc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31119","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=31119"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31123,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31119\/revisions\/31123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}