{"id":35578,"date":"2021-10-30T08:54:27","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T12:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=35578"},"modified":"2021-10-31T09:19:53","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T13:19:53","slug":"soon-forget-toybiz-fat-bat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2021\/10\/soon-forget-toybiz-fat-bat\/","title":{"rendered":"Soon Forget: ToyBiz \"Fat Bat\""},"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 ToyBiz's \"Fat Bat.\"<\/p>\n<p>This character, designed in 1995 by Marvel mainstay Ron Lim, would likely have been part of the <i>Spider-Man Arachniphobia<\/i> line, which offered mash-ups of Spidey's various villains. Obviously, this one was a combination of Morbius and the Kingpin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/fatbat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/fatbat-292x300.jpg\" title=\"''Spider-Man'' Fat Bat (click to embiggen)\" width=\"292\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whether this figure would have reused the existing Kingpin molds (for the torso and legs) or been an entirely new sculpt, ToyBiz never went past the concept stage, leaving this hand-drawn art the only evidence of its passing.<\/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=\"Minimate Mini-Review #87 - Spider-Man Friends &#038; Foes\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/12\/minimate-mini-review-87-spider-man-friends-foes\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Minimate Mini-Review #87 - Spider-Man Friends &#038; Foes<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Spider-Man Legends: Anti-Venom review\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/03\/marvel-legends-anti-venom-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Spider-Man Legends: Anti-Venom review<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #135.2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2014\/06\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-135-2\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #135.2<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"A double vampire\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2014\/10\/a-double-vampire\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">A double vampire<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Minimate Mini-Review #364 - Sinister Six Iron Spider &#038; Sinister Six The Spot\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2018\/11\/minimate-mini-review-364-sinister-six-iron-spider-sinister-six-the-spot\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Minimate Mini-Review #364 - Sinister Six Iron Spider &#038; Sinister Six The Spot<\/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 ToyBiz's \"Fat Bat.\" This character, designed in 1995 by Marvel mainstay Ron Lim, would likely have been part &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2021\/10\/soon-forget-toybiz-fat-bat\/\">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":[331,25,11],"tags":[59,293],"class_list":["post-35578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancelled-toys","category-marvel","category-toybiz","tag-spider-man","tag-vampires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35578","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=35578"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35600,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35578\/revisions\/35600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}