{"id":33,"date":"2002-10-29T10:16:40","date_gmt":"2002-10-29T10:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=33"},"modified":"2010-12-15T05:22:12","modified_gmt":"2010-12-15T05:22:12","slug":"kingdom-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2002\/10\/kingdom-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"Kingdom Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mirage Toys (formerly N2 Toys) continues to annoy collectors by releasing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/khdf.php\">Kingdom Hearts<\/a> figures in two-packs of Disney and non-Disney characters. The toyline, based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000066TS5?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=lp&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B000066TS5\" target=\"amazon\">the upcoming videogame<\/a>, features original characters alongside a huge variety of classic Disney ones, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0013ND30M?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=lp&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B0013ND30M\" target=\"amazon\"><em>Sleeping Beauty<\/em>'s<\/a> evil witch Maleficent to well-known ones like Donald Duck and even Jack Skellington. But each Disney figure is packed with a non-Disney figure from the game.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I realize that the value of the <em>Kingdom Hearts<\/em> license is that it allows Mirage to produce classic Disney action figures without having to score a master license from Disney. I also realize that spreading out the Disney characters one to a pack forces collectors to buy more than they may want to. Some people, I'm sure, will like the game-original characters. But given N2's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/poe\/tick.php\">previous work<\/a>, forgive me if I'm wary of this line. I'll want to see it first before I may any purchases. It's hard to trust a company that had to change its name due to its association with a previous product (it's rumored the name-change happened after the failure of their <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0000AUHQE?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=lp&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B0000AUHQE\" target=\"amazon\">Tick<\/a><\/em> line).<\/p>\n<p>Also, in a line packed with such cool and obscure Disney characters, where's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/TheTropics\/Shores\/1622\/Chernabog.html\" target=\"_blank\">Chernabog<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mirage Toys (formerly N2 Toys) continues to annoy collectors by releasing the Kingdom Hearts figures in two-packs of Disney and non-Disney characters. The toyline, based on the upcoming videogame, features original characters alongside a huge variety of classic Disney ones, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2002\/10\/kingdom-heat\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retro-poa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}