{"id":567,"date":"2008-04-27T22:50:57","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T05:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=567"},"modified":"2008-04-28T22:58:14","modified_gmt":"2008-04-29T05:58:14","slug":"a74-mcfarlane-monsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=567","title":{"rendered":"#a74 :: McFarlane monsters"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ENLARGE\"<\/a>We plunge onward now, order<\/a> from the sublimely simple<\/a> to the ridiculously obscene:<\/p>\n

My wife’s company made a licensing deal that left a storage room packed to the gills with sample toys. They emptied it last week, order<\/a> and out popped these two hideous bastards. She concluded, rightly, that they belonged with me.<\/p>\n

I immediately opened it and recycled the packaging – and with it, any hope of recalling the name of this particular pair of monster symbiotes crafted by the low-paid artisans who toil in overseas obscurity for the twisted, cash-bloated juggernaut McFarlane Toys<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But that almost doesn’t matter …<\/p>\n

Nor does it matter that, see, the li’l feller with the black horns, see, he’s smarter’n’the bigger feller, who’s huge and powerful, and they’re both, like reallyreallyreally evil<\/i>.<\/p>\n

What really matters is they’re very handsomely sculpted and hand-painted, and the big guy’s hairy sporran is dyed to match his leathery jowls.<\/p>\n

As manufactured as they are, someone hand-made these little freaks, who weigh more than a pound combined, yet stand only 10 inches tall.<\/p>\n

Keith Hunter would have loved them. A bit more about him with tomorrow’s HLO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We plunge onward now, order from the sublimely simple to the ridiculously obscene: My wife’s company made a licensing deal that left a storage room packed to the gills with sample toys. They emptied it last week, order and out popped these two hideous bastards. She concluded, rightly, that they belonged with me. I immediately […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,22,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miniature","category-model","category-toy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}