{"id":31732,"date":"2017-02-12T00:00:29","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T05:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=31732"},"modified":"2023-04-24T16:58:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T20:58:15","slug":"gorilla-alien-addendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2017\/02\/gorilla-alien-addendum\/","title":{"rendered":"Gorilla Alien addendum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today's review of NECA's Kenner-style <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/necaalkengor.php\">Gorilla Alien<\/a> said that the creature it emerged from was shown in the comic. Here, take a look:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/kengoral1.jpg\" alt=\"purple four-armed primates\" width=\"380\" height=\"255\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->As a bonus, here's the original concept art of the character created for the toyline:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/kengoral2.jpg\" alt=\"Gorilla Alien concept art\" width=\"450\" height=\"415\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>Quite different, eh? A double-layered crest, thick limbs, wings, nostrils... not at all like the figure we eventually got. They even had a simplified version intended for animation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/kengoral3.jpg\" alt=\"Gorilla Alien simplified art\" width=\"360\" height=\"355\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>The design art was used a few times on packaging, but that's it.<\/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=\"Madballs at Target\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/09\/madballs-at-target\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Madballs at Target<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"When that first hint of fall hits the air\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2024\/11\/when-that-first-hint-of-fall-hits-the-air\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">When that first hint of fall hits the air<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Kenner-style Panther Alien addendum\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2022\/04\/kenner-style-panther-alien-addendum\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Kenner-style Panther Alien addendum<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Alien\/Predator two-pack addendum\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2011\/01\/1419\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Alien\/Predator two-pack addendum<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #234\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/01\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-234\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #234<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today's review of NECA's Kenner-style Gorilla Alien said that the creature it emerged from was shown in the comic. Here, take a look: &lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;C2E2 2017 Rustin's Spoils of the Week #163 Flippin' through Previews - September &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2017\/02\/gorilla-alien-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":[41,160,9],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-31732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addendums","category-comics","category-kenner","tag-alien"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31732","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=31732"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39684,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31732\/revisions\/39684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}