{"id":14996,"date":"2013-12-13T22:35:02","date_gmt":"2013-12-14T04:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/?p=14996"},"modified":"2013-12-14T00:05:54","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T06:05:54","slug":"the-state-of-the-black-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/2013\/12\/13\/the-state-of-the-black-series\/","title":{"rendered":"The State of The Black Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/phpBB3\/viewtopic.php?f=10&amp;t=7257&amp;start=255\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14997\" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" alt=\"blackserieslogo\" src=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/blackserieslogo.jpg\" width=\"337\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/blackserieslogo.jpg 337w, https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/blackserieslogo-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 337px) 100vw, 337px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here we are, just a couple weeks away from Christmas &#8211; and there are warning signs all over that The Black Series may be in trouble.<\/p>\n<p>Retailers simply aren&#8217;t stocking anything past the first wave of 3.75&#8243; scale figures even during the holiday season, while online stores like Amazon are marking down figures from the first two waves for as little as $2.55 each.\u00a0\u00a0 This doesn&#8217;t seem to bode well for the future of this line.\u00a0 Head on over to <a title=\"the forums\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/phpBB3\/viewtopic.php?f=10&amp;t=7257&amp;start=255\">the forums<\/a> and share your thoughts&#8230; and it&#8217;s not like we didn&#8217;t warn Hasbro of these concerns when they <a title=\"first revealed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/phpBB3\/viewtopic.php?f=136&amp;t=7359\">first revealed<\/a> their lineup for the first two waves&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we are, just a couple weeks away from Christmas &#8211; and there are warning signs all over that The Black Series may be in trouble. Retailers simply aren&#8217;t stocking anything past the first wave of 3.75&#8243; scale figures even during the holiday season, while online stores like Amazon are marking down figures from the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/2013\/12\/13\/the-state-of-the-black-series\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The State of The Black Series<\/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":[42,39,694,203],"class_list":["post-14996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collecting","category-site-news","tag-collecting-2","tag-hasbro-2","tag-the-black-series","tag-yakface-forums"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14996","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=14996"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15003,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14996\/revisions\/15003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}