{"id":35798,"date":"2007-03-02T03:57:36","date_gmt":"2007-03-02T08:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=35798"},"modified":"2021-11-22T04:25:06","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T09:25:06","slug":"soon-forget-fantastic-four-trapster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2007\/03\/soon-forget-fantastic-four-trapster\/","title":{"rendered":"Soon Forget: Fantastic Four Trapster"},"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 Trapster.<\/p>\n<p>Originally known as Paste-Pot Pete, Trapster was created in 1962 by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby as an enemy for the Human Torch, but was more popular as a member of the Frightful Four.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/trapster.jpg\" title=\"Trapster\" width=\"200\" height=\"335\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>Trapster was meant to be part of ToyBiz's 1995 <i>Fantastic Four<\/i>, but when Series 4 was dropped from six figures to five, Trapster was the one chosen to get the axe.<\/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=\"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=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #37\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2011\/10\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-37\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #37<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"It's time to steal a rocket, it's time to take test flights\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/02\/its-time-to-steal-a-rocket-its-time-to-take-test-flights\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">It's time to steal a rocket, it's time to take test flights<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #57\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/04\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-57\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #57<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #212\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2018\/09\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-212\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #212<\/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 Trapster. Originally known as Paste-Pot Pete, Trapster was created in 1962 by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2007\/03\/soon-forget-fantastic-four-trapster\/\">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":[331,11],"tags":[127],"class_list":["post-35798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancelled-toys","category-toybiz","tag-fantastic-four"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35798","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=35798"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35802,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35798\/revisions\/35802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}