{"id":1482,"date":"2009-03-24T21:14:47","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T05:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=1482"},"modified":"2026-02-18T11:15:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T19:15:32","slug":"a402-bob-toy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=1482","title":{"rendered":"#a402 :: &#8220;B.O.B.&#8221; toy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/032409.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1483\" title=\"032409\" src=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/032409-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"032409\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" align=\"right\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/032409-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/032409-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/032409.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Since my wife is a member of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asifa-hollywood.org\">ASIFA<\/a> we got passes to a pre-release screening of <a href=\"www.asifa-hollywood.org\">Monsters vs. Aliens<\/a> tonight. Verdict: It&#8217;s no <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kungfupanda.com\/\">Kung Fu Panda<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/disney.go.com\/disneypictures\/bolt\/ \">Bolt<\/a>, but it&#8217;s got enough yuks and snappy design to make an honest buck, and I might even see it again.<\/p>\n<p>They were giving away McDonald&#8217;s toys in the lobby &#8211; this is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&amp;hs=PMg&amp;q=monsters+vs.+aliens+bob&amp;btnG=Search\">B.O.B.<\/a>, whose plastic incarnation swivels and rolls erratically across the table if you wind him up.<\/p>\n<p>The movie industry turns out billions of toys like this in dozens of fast-food-premium deals every year, and somewhere there must be a gimme <i>otaku<\/i> whose walls are lined with every movie tie-in toy ever made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since my wife is a member of ASIFA we got passes to a pre-release screening of Monsters vs. Aliens tonight. Verdict: It&#8217;s no Kung Fu Panda or Bolt, but it&#8217;s got enough yuks and snappy design to make an honest buck, and I might even see it again. They were giving away McDonald&#8217;s toys in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,21,22,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ephemera","category-miniature","category-model","category-toy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1482"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1787,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482\/revisions\/1787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}