{"id":23601,"date":"2015-04-04T11:19:35","date_gmt":"2015-04-04T16:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/?p=23601"},"modified":"2015-04-04T11:20:11","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T16:20:11","slug":"in-2005-the-force-was-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/2015\/04\/04\/in-2005-the-force-was-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"In 2005, The Force Was Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeditemplearchives.com\/content\/modules.php?name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=15351\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-23602 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ROTS-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"ROTS\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ROTS-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ROTS.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A decade ago, a lot of us were in Star Wars collecting heaven with the ROTS product launch, and literally throwing our money at Star Wars as we ate up the action figure line.\u00a0 Our good friends at <a title=\"jeditemplearchives\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jeditemplearchives.com\/content\/modules.php?name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=15351\">jeditemplearchives<\/a> have posted some great pics of the retail launch back then.\u00a0 Take a trip down memory lane, and enjoy the images by clicking <a title=\"here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jeditemplearchives.com\/content\/modules.php?name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=15351\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Personal Note:\u00a0 In my opinion, Hasbro should be looking back at what made that toy line so popular and needs a similar approach for The Force Awakens&#8230; great variety of vehicles, characters, troops, background aliens, weird droids, nice sculpts, good articulation, etc.\u00a0 There were very few duds in the ROTS line, and the low price point and excitement for the brand were able to wash the silly figures like &#8220;spinning Yoda&#8221; and &#8220;Force kick Obi Wan&#8221; right off the pegs.\u00a0 Star Wars needs\u00a0a ROTS-kind of commitment from Hasbro again for this toy line to dominate the toy section like it used to.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A decade ago, a lot of us were in Star Wars collecting heaven with the ROTS product launch, and literally throwing our money at Star Wars as we ate up the action figure line.\u00a0 Our good friends at jeditemplearchives have posted some great pics of the retail launch back then.\u00a0 Take a trip down memory &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/2015\/04\/04\/in-2005-the-force-was-alive\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In 2005, The Force Was Alive<\/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],"tags":[42,39,128,1610,1609,1392],"class_list":["post-23601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collecting","tag-collecting-2","tag-hasbro-2","tag-jedi-temple-archives","tag-midnight-madness","tag-revenge-of-the-sith","tag-the-force-awakens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23601","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=23601"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23604,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23601\/revisions\/23604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}