{"id":1582,"date":"2009-01-15T12:51:23","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T19:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=1582"},"modified":"2009-01-15T12:51:23","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T19:51:23","slug":"mighty-jean-leads-to-toy-brainwashing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=1582","title":{"rendered":"Mighty Jean Leads to Toy Brainwashing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Previously, I documented<\/a> my probably-futile attempts to squelch a potentially dangerous Mighty Muggs obsession. Since then, I’ve given in a tiny bit. I bought the wee Skrull<\/a>. Someone gave me Pissed-Off-Yet-Still-Cute Princess Leia to go with Chewie. I’m trying to be selective, but I won’t lie — I get a tiny thrill when I can somehow justify purchasing yet another piece of adorably-molded plastic.<\/p>\n

Thus my heart skipped a beat — several! — when I saw the magic words “Wave 6: Cyclops and Jean Grey.” I can absolutely<\/em> justify that purchase. I can justify it several ways, with charts and graphs and excruciatingly detailed essays, and then I can pose them holding hands (well, sort of, all the Mighty Muggs have their digits frozen in a closed-off, claw-like position) and beating up the cute Skrull.<\/p>\n

Then I clicked over and saw the picture and the Jean Grey is sort of…weird-looking.<\/p>\n

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Image from MarvelousNews.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Like, I don’t know, they can’t get the hair right in this form? Or the shiny smile is perhaps a little manic-looking?<\/p>\n

I paused. I thought. Maybe I shouldn’t buy this? Maybe being selective means only purchasing character representations you find absolutely perfect, even if it’s one of your FAVORITE CHARACTERS OF ALL TIME and you want to own ALL REPRESENTATIONS, even the not-perfect ones?!<\/p>\n

But, then<\/em>…okay. I went looking for this image to include with my post and when I looked at it this<\/em> time, I thought it was kind of cute. Have I been somehow toy brainwashed? Am I trying way too hard to convince myself? Was I just plain wrong in my initial impression? And the lopsided-grin Cyclops<\/a> is pretty cute regardless, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Previously, I documented my probably-futile attempts to squelch a potentially dangerous Mighty Muggs obsession. Since then, I’ve given in a tiny bit. I bought the wee Skrull. Someone gave me Pissed-Off-Yet-Still-Cute Princess Leia to go with Chewie. I’m trying to be selective, but I won’t lie — I get a tiny thrill when I can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,127],"tags":[61,63,37,128],"class_list":["post-1582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-toys","tag-cyclops","tag-jean-grey","tag-marvel","tag-mighty-muggs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}