{"id":39111,"date":"2023-01-30T00:00:58","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T05:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=39111"},"modified":"2023-10-05T03:16:02","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T07:16:02","slug":"soon-forget-mojoworld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2023\/01\/soon-forget-mojoworld\/","title":{"rendered":"Soon Forget: Mojoworld"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. Our subject today is ToyBiz's Mojoworld set.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/xml_mojo.php\"><i>Marvel Legends<\/i> Mojoworld 4-pack<\/a> yo reviewed today was not the first attempt at such a set. Back in the day, ToyBiz planned their own:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/tbmojo-768x504.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/tbmojo-300x197.jpg\" title=\"click to embiggen\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All the figures in this set did see release individually: Longshot was in the third series of <i>X-Men<\/i> figures in 1993, while Mojo, Quark, and Shatterstar were all part of 1994's <i>X-Force<\/i> Series 3; basically, this was just an excuse to reuse existing molds, though it's possible some of the figures may have received altered paint jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Since the art is undated, it's also possible this set pre-dates the <i>X-Force<\/i> line, and was simply broken up to fill some slots there.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Bonus! Here's Art Adams' original design for Mojo:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/mojo.jpg\" title=\"original Mojo\" width=\"340\" height=\"535\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>What a difference! He looks like a knockoff <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/mlrcff1_he.php\">High Evolutionary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And hey, just because: doesn't this picture of Tom Petty look like a perfect Longshot?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/longshot.jpg\" alt=\"a bust shot of Tom Petty staring straight into the camera. He has thin blond hair, deep cheekbones, and is wearing a black leather jacket over an inexplicable bandolier of bullets. It's uncanny.\" width=\"460\" height=\"460\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/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=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #154\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/02\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-154\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #154<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Minimate Mini-Review #178 - Avengers vs. X-Men\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2014\/07\/minimate-mini-review-178-avengers-vs-x-men\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Minimate Mini-Review #178 - Avengers vs. X-Men<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Minimate Mini-Review #15 - Storm &#038; Colossus\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/minimate-mini-review-15-storm-colossus\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Minimate Mini-Review #15 - Storm &#038; Colossus<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Flippin' through Previews - August '11\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2011\/08\/flippin-through-previews-august-11\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Flippin' through Previews - August '11<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #152\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/02\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-152\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #152<\/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 subject today is ToyBiz's Mojoworld set. The Marvel Legends Mojoworld 4-pack yo reviewed today was not the first attempt at such &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2023\/01\/soon-forget-mojoworld\/\">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":[41,331,11],"tags":[74],"class_list":["post-39111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addendums","category-cancelled-toys","category-toybiz","tag-x-men"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39111","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=39111"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40856,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39111\/revisions\/40856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}