{"id":2249,"date":"2009-07-18T16:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-18T23:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=2249"},"modified":"2009-07-18T16:17:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-18T23:17:00","slug":"bonus-post-boris-the-raccoon-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=2249","title":{"rendered":"BONUS POST: Boris the Raccoon! Now Available!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I only <a href=\"http:\/\/bootlegsketch.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/star-wars-lite-1-of-6-that-little-droid.html\">mentioned it in passing<\/a>, but <a href=\"http:\/\/nathanhamill.blogspot.com\/\">Nathan<\/a>&#8216;s new designer toy, Boris the Raccoon, has been getting a decent amount of coverage:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vinylpulse.com\/2009\/04\/nathan-hamill----boris-the-raccoon.html\">Vinyl Pulse<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plasticandplush.com\/plasticandplush\/2009\/04\/boris-the-raccoon-vinyl.html\">Plastic and Plush<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.toycyte.com\/boris-the-raccoon-vinyl-by-nathan-hamill\">Toy Cyte<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yesterday, in a rare excursion into the outside world, I attended the official launch party for Boris at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meltcomics.com\/\">Meltdown Comics<\/a>. Vinyl Pulse has posted coverage <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vinylpulse.com\/2009\/07\/seen-nathan-hamills-boris-launch-party.html#more\">here<\/a>. Err&#8230; I mean coverage of the launch party, not of my attendence thereof.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a picture of the Boris that I purchased, now integrated into my menagerie of desktop toys!<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/80738133@N00\/3732955483\/in\/photostream\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2440\/3732955483_bd6312837b_o.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">click above for larger view<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Also pictured: Shia Lebouf, Optimus Prime, G2 Sideswipe, Wreck-Gar, Mer-Man, Slash, and my Wacom tablet.<\/p>\n<p>Boris is created by <a href=\"http:\/\/nathanhamill.blogspot.com\/\">Nathan Hamill<\/a>, sculpted by David Kawano, and produced by <a href=\"http:\/\/u1toyarts.com\/\">U1 Toy Arts<\/a>. He&#8217;s available for purchase at the <a href=\"http:\/\/u1toyarts.com\/\">U1 Toy Arts<\/a> website, and will be sold at Comic-Con at the <a href=\"http:\/\/tiredgirl.wordpress.com\/\">Tired Girl Collective<\/a> table in small press (<b>Table M07<\/b>). More Comic-Con plugs in my next post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I only mentioned it in passing, but Nathan&#8216;s new designer toy, Boris the Raccoon, has been getting a decent amount of coverage: Vinyl Pulse Plastic and Plush Toy Cyte Yesterday, in a rare excursion into the outside world, I attended the official launch party for Boris at Meltdown Comics. Vinyl Pulse has posted coverage here. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shameless-plugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}