{"id":33,"date":"2004-03-08T08:56:37","date_gmt":"2004-03-08T16:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=33"},"modified":"2004-03-08T08:56:37","modified_gmt":"2004-03-08T16:56:37","slug":"31-rockem-sockem-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"#31 :: Rock&#8217;em Sock&#8217;em Robot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.factoidlabs.com\/heavy\/archives\/2004\/03\/030904.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.factoidlabs.com\/heavy\/archives\/2004\/03\/030904.html', <a href=\"http:\/\/cialisbuy.net\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">about it<\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/cialis-cost.net\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">prescription<\/a> &#8216;popup&#8217;, <a href=\"http:\/\/cialis-sale-online.net\" title=\"buy ed pills\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">more about<\/a> &#8216;width=500,height=500,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#8217;); return false&#8221;><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.factoidlabs.com\/heavy\/archives\/2004\/03\/030904-thumb.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>He is Russian, I think. Sure, he&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=rockem&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;oe=UTF-8\">Mattellian icon<\/a> made (at least until recently) right here in the USA. But he&#8217;s got that Dostoyevskian brow, those sledgehammer fists, and he glows with a fiery red when the morning sun hits my office window. He&#8217;s a 6-inch Burger King knockoff with a thumb-lever for a spine. The original Rock&#8217;em Sock&#8217;em Robots were about 10 inches high, and connected to sets of dual thumb-powered triggers via sleds slotted into a bright yellow thermoplastic boxing ring. When I was 8 or 9, I desperately needed a set in my life, so that I could yell like the boy in the TV commercials, &#8220;Hey, you knocked my <i>block off!!!<\/i>&#8221; and then push the spring-loaded, ratchet-mounted skull of cubist plastic back onto those burly shoulders and go at it again. No, my folks replied coldly &#8211; as they did with <a href=\"http:\/\/users.snowcrest.net\/fox\/cc.html\">Creepy Crawlers<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfpg.com\/animation\/liteBrite.html\">Lite-Brite<\/a>, Monster Magnet and just about every other disposable must-have toy &#8211; &#8220;It&#8217;s a piece of junk.&#8221; And so it was, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/favoritetoys.com\/rockemsockem.html\">this review<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-toy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}