{"id":33252,"date":"2020-12-14T00:00:51","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T05:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=33252"},"modified":"2020-12-20T19:00:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T00:00:30","slug":"eternia-minis-stinkor-exclusive-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2020\/12\/eternia-minis-stinkor-exclusive-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Eternia Minis: Stinkor exclusive review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/minifigs.png\" alt=\"Mini-Figure Mini-Reviews\" title=\"Mini-Figure Mini-Reviews\" width=\"375\" height=\"95\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->When <i>MotU Minis<\/i> Series 2 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=32900\">got cancelled<\/a>, we lost two uses of one mold: Mekaneck and Stinkor, who have since the '80s shared the same distinctive chest armor. Well, <i>Eternia Minis<\/i> Series 2 has at least rectified half that deficit, putting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/etmin2st1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/etmin2st1-300x257.jpg\" title=\"Stinkor (shown actual size - click to embiggen)\" width=\"210\" height=\"180\" align=right style=\"margin:7px 0px 0px 25px\"><\/a>Evil Master of Odors in the case <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=33067\">marked with an F<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mini Stinkor is based on the vintage figure, not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/motustink.php\">the superior <i>Mo2K<\/i> design<\/a>, because he's just got <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=32278\">Skeletor<\/a> arms instead of claws, and there's no air tank on his back. Even though there's a hole where they could have plugged one in. His only accessory is a cornflower blue shield; the cancelled one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/etmin2st2.jpg\">would also have come with a gun<\/a>, but a shield is all the vintage one came with anyway. Credit, though, for not just reusing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/motumin1bahmmm.php\">Mer-Man's<\/a> head: remember, they used the same head back in the '80s, but these days Mermy gets a more aquatic look.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/etmin2st3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/etmin2st3.jpg\" title=\"shown half actual size\" width=\"140\" height=\"130\" align=left style=\"margin:5px 25px 0px 0px\"><\/a>The Minis only swivel at the neck, waist, and shoulders. The Series 2 figures are sold in purple plastic containers shaped like the old Snake Mountain toy. The back is just as detailed as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=32906\">the front<\/a> - vines, stones, all that. It's even sculpted with representations of the wolf-gated cage and the curling snake-head next to it. And given the way the shells work, you can even display it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/etmin2st4.jpg\">fully open<\/a>, like the old toy.<\/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=\"Blue with evil\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2002\/11\/blue-with-evil\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Blue with evil<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Until Mattel does a Scare-Mare\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2026\/04\/until-mattel-does-a-scare-mare\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Until Mattel does a Scare-Mare<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"In all fairness, \"Tilted Towers,\" \"Slurpy Swamp,\" and \"Nightshift Forest\" do sound like places in Eternia\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/09\/in-all-fairness-tilted-towers-slurpy-swamp-and-nightshift-forest-do-sound-like-places-in-eternia\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">In all fairness, \"Tilted Towers,\" \"Slurpy Swamp,\" and \"Nightshift Forest\" do sound like places in Eternia<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Christians vs. He-Man\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/christians-vs-he-man\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Christians vs. He-Man<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Jimmy's Toy Time\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2017\/10\/jimmys-toy-time\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Jimmy's Toy Time<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;Jeez Mattel, no need to do Mantenna dirty like that Soon Forget: Savage World Mad Max Lou Scheimer: Creating The Filmation Generation MOTU meets MUSCLE Toy sculptors as toys<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,7,43],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-33252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-exclusive-review","category-mattel","category-walmart","tag-motu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33252","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33252"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33263,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33252\/revisions\/33263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}