{"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=\"Vote Venom!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2018\/08\/vote-venom\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Vote Venom!<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"How far has toymaking come in 10 years?\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2024\/01\/how-far-has-toymaking-come-in-10-years\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">How far has toymaking come in 10 years?<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"When asked, all of them described it as \"uncanny\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/06\/when-asked-all-of-them-described-it-as-uncanny\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">When asked, all of them described it as \"uncanny\"<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Big Bad Toy Store introduces Monster Force\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2022\/11\/big-bad-toy-store-introduces-monster-force\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Big Bad Toy Store introduces Monster Force<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Minimate Mini-Review #394 - Black Costume Spider-Man &#038; Kraven the Hunter\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2020\/05\/minimate-mini-review-394-black-costume-spider-man-kraven-the-hunter\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Minimate Mini-Review #394 - Black Costume Spider-Man &#038; Kraven the Hunter<\/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}]}}