{"id":11822,"date":"2009-01-23T11:02:02","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T19:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2009\/01\/23\/11822.html"},"modified":"2009-01-23T11:02:02","modified_gmt":"2009-01-23T19:02:02","slug":"obama-action-figure-and-comic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2009\/01\/23\/obama-action-figure-and-comic\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama action figures, and comic book"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Someone pointed to online photos of a great Obama action figure the other day. Unfortunately, the page at gamu-toys.info where all the photos were seems to have disappeared, so I'll link (below) to the copies of the photos on Gizmodo instead.<\/p>\n<p>A bunch of the photos just show the figure and basic accessories--pretty ordinary stuff for any action figure.  An ill-fitting suit, apparently an openable mouth, and a set of hands in different hand positions. Plus an American flag and stuff.<\/p>\n<p>But then comes the fun stuff.  Gun-wielding Obama!  Dancing Obama!  And the special super-cool action scene that I'm not going to spoil by describing it. On the original page, it was a fun surprise halfway down the page, but Gizmodo promoted it to the very first photo in their <a href=\"http:\/\/i.gizmodo.com\/5136576\/best-obama-action-figure-ever-battles-darth-vader-terrorists-karaoke\">writeup<\/a>. You can also view a <a href=\"http:\/\/i.gizmodo.com\/photogallery\/bestobamaactionfigure\/1006316897\">bigger version of that photo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While I was trying to find the disappeared page, I also happened across another, unrelated, set of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walyou.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/12\/president-barack-obama-action-figures\/\">Obama action figures<\/a>--Harry Potter Obama, Graffiti Obama, Optimus Prime Obama, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>Also: Obama revealed a while back that he has collected Spider-Man comics.  Well, there's a new Spider-Man comic (I think it came out last week, if I'm reading the dates right) in which Spidey saves the inauguration.  You can read a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/entertainment\/arts_and_culture\/7819726.stm \">BBC article about it<\/a> (with spoilers), and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/life\/gallery\/l090107_obamaspidey\/flash.htm?gid=842&aid=3995 \">samples from the comic itself<\/a> (also with spoilers).<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone pointed to online photos of a great Obama action figure the other day. Unfortunately, the page at gamu-toys.info where&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}