{"id":38423,"date":"2024-05-19T14:56:42","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T18:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=38423"},"modified":"2024-05-19T15:05:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T19:05:32","slug":"soon-forget-savage-world-mad-max","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2024\/05\/soon-forget-savage-world-mad-max\/","title":{"rendered":"Soon Forget: Savage World Mad Max"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. Our figures today are Funko's <i>Mad Max: Fury Road<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Remember a few years ago, when Funko was doing a bunch of lines inspired by the original 1980s <i>Masters of the Universe<\/i> toys? You know: Thundercats, DC Comics, horror movie slashers, all that. No one knew at the time they were also working on adding Mad Max to the <i>Savage World<\/i> line-up:<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-38423 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/funko_sw_max1.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/funko_sw_max1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Mad Max\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/funko_sw_max1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/funko_sw_max1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/funko_sw_max1.jpg 475w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/funko_sw_max2.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/funko_sw_max2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Furiosa\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/funko_sw_max2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/funko_sw_max2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/funko_sw_max2.jpg 475w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/funko_sw_max3.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/funko_sw_max3-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Immortan Joe\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/funko_sw_max3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/funko_sw_max3-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/funko_sw_max3.jpg 475w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>According to designer Reis O'Brien, he was asked to do the characters \"on-model\" instead of wildly exaggerating them into barbarians, though whether that was at the request of WB or Funko is unknown. Either way, the line never moved forward.<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/reisobrien\/status\/1622276443521818624\" target=\"twit\" rel=\"noopener\">via<\/a>)<\/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=\"Keldor addendum\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2003\/07\/keldor-addendum\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Keldor addendum<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Why are MotU Classics showing up at Walmart?\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2013\/01\/why-are-motu-classics-showing-up-at-walmart\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Why are MotU Classics showing up at Walmart?<\/a><\/li>\n<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=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #224\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2020\/04\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-224\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #224<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"An Infomercial from the He-Man Universe\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2013\/11\/an-infomercial-from-the-he-man-universe\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">An Infomercial from the He-Man Universe<\/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 figures today are Funko's Mad Max: Fury Road. Remember a few years ago, when Funko was doing a bunch of lines &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2024\/05\/soon-forget-savage-world-mad-max\/\">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":[331,250],"tags":[370,15],"class_list":["post-38423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancelled-toys","category-funko","tag-mad-max","tag-motu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38423","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=38423"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42227,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38423\/revisions\/42227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}