{"id":39511,"date":"2014-07-21T00:20:14","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T04:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=39511"},"modified":"2020-07-13T00:20:28","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T04:20:28","slug":"are-toys-fun-when-theyre-op","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=39511","title":{"rendered":"Are toys fun when they\u2019re OP?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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O\u00b7P<\/strong>.\u00a0adj<\/em>. (pron.\u00a0oh-pee<\/em>).\u00a0 Acronym for \u201coverpowered.\u201d\u00a0 Established as video game slang; used to describe when a particular character, weapon or item is opinionated to be excessively effective, to the detriment of the claimer\u2019s opinion, but has capabilities of being applied in uses outside of exclusively video games.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the case of action figures, protagonists that are three times the size of their antagonists, could be classified as being OP.<\/span><\/p>\n

I saw this commercial for these\u00a0Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles action figures<\/a>, and the first thought that came into mind was \u201care you fucking kidding me?<\/em>\u201d\u00a0 Gigantic TMNT action figures to do battle with Foot Clan villains that are a third of their size?\u00a0 Is that even remotely possibly fun for kids?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Seriously, in no (even) imaginary world should the Turtles made to be this OP.\u00a0\u00a0Shredder<\/em>\u00a0is the one supposed to be large and imposing, and twice fold for Krang in his giant robot.\u00a0 If anything at all, an OP Shredder figure is really the only thing that should make sense, because as far as action and adventure goes, good is always supposed to have this uphill climb to make, and nothing signifies adversity more than a size discrepancy.<\/span><\/p>\n

But no, Playmates has decided that they want to mislead children into thinking good can steamroll bad, with superior size.\u00a0 And they represent it pretty wholly, in the way that all four Turtles dwarf an entire army of Shredder and a horde Foot clan soldiers.*<\/span><\/p>\n

*I love when TMNT commercials past and present always show an army of Foot soldiers, as if any parent would actually buy their kid more than one sold separately Foot clan soldier.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t know a single kid growing up with more than one, much less ten, to really be able to portray that massive battle with their action figures.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

From a kid\u2019s standpoint, this can\u2019t really be that stimulating to the imagination.\u00a0 Just how many times can they imagine up scenarios where Godzilla sized TMNTs don\u2019t just fall on top of the Shredder action figure, and end every skirmish in two seconds?<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m pretty sure the only action figures that would stand a chance against these massive TMNT giant figures, are the old dense rubber\u00a0WWF action figures back from the 80s<\/a>\u00a0that had no articulation whatsoever, much less an opening and closing compartment, and they weighed a ton for what they were.<\/span><\/p>\n

But at least they had the appropriate size to combat giant TMNTs.\u00a0 It only took almost three decades before someone made an appropriate challenger for them, and we saw how well things ended up for them; OP toys just can\u2019t really be that much fun.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

O\u00b7P.\u00a0adj. (pron.\u00a0oh-pee).\u00a0 Acronym for \u201coverpowered.\u201d\u00a0 Established as video game slang; used to describe when a particular character, weapon or item is opinionated to be excessively effective, to the detriment of the claimer\u2019s opinion, but has capabilities of being applied in uses outside of exclusively video games. In the case of action figures, protagonists that are … Continue reading Are toys fun when they\u2019re OP?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[129,83,15],"class_list":["post-39511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-nostalgia","tag-observations","tag-og"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39513,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39511\/revisions\/39513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}