{"id":13789,"date":"2013-09-18T09:58:01","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T14:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/?p=13789"},"modified":"2013-09-18T09:59:25","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T14:59:25","slug":"the-black-series-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/2013\/09\/18\/the-black-series-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Black Series Woes Continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/blackseries.jpg\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/phpBB3\/viewtopic.php?f=136&amp;t=7359&amp;start=90\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13791\" style=\"border: black 1px solid\" alt=\"blackseries\" src=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/blackseries1.jpg\" width=\"203\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first wave of <strong>The Black Series<\/strong> has been available for nearly two months now at retail, and the sheer volume of issues with this line thus far makes it feel like a completly different company is running the show as compared to what we used to see from Hasbro.<\/p>\n<p>Oversized clone helmets, sloppy paint jobs,\u00a0warped Biker Scout helmets, distribution killing\u00a0case ratios, questionable character selections,\u00a0and\u00a0bubbles falling off the cardbacks\u00a0are all adding fuel to the fire.<\/p>\n<p>But is this all Hasbro&#8217;s fault?\u00a0 Are we being too hard on the folks who produce our beloved action figures?\u00a0 Share your thoughts on the situation with\u00a0 <strong>The Black Series<\/strong> after <a title=\"the jump\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/phpBB3\/viewtopic.php?f=136&amp;t=7359&amp;start=90\">the jump<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first wave of The Black Series has been available for nearly two months now at retail, and the sheer volume of issues with this line thus far makes it feel like a completly different company is running the show as compared to what we used to see from Hasbro. Oversized clone helmets, sloppy paint &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/2013\/09\/18\/the-black-series-woes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Black Series Woes Continue<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,32],"tags":[42,39,30,694,203],"class_list":["post-13789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collecting","category-site-news","tag-collecting-2","tag-hasbro-2","tag-store-reports","tag-the-black-series","tag-yakface-forums"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13789"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13794,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13789\/revisions\/13794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}