{"id":34735,"date":"2025-09-24T15:24:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T20:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34735"},"modified":"2025-09-24T15:24:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T20:24:28","slug":"the-wistful-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34735","title":{"rendered":"The Wistful Adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"

A fun little piece of sponsored content dropped into my Facebook feed earlier this week — Dark Horse Comics is making figures based on the Rankin-Bass animated Hobbit<\/i> of the 1970s. The Hobbit<\/i> I grew up with. The Hobbit<\/i> whose songs I know — “The Greatest Adventure,” “That’s What Bilbo Baggins Hates.”<\/p>\n

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Mock-ups of Dark Horse’s figures of Bilbo Baggins and Gollum were shown at Toyfair in New York back in February. I wasn’t there — I never attended Toyfair in my time with Diamond, though I certainly made marketing materials for the team members who went over the years — but I saw pictures, and they looked lovely.<\/p>\n

Absolutely something I would have wanted in my collection — whether I actually bought<\/i> them is a different matter, and would have depended on price and size — and something I would have enjoyed writing about for PREVIEWS<\/i><\/b>. “Does this sound like John Huston’s Gandalf? No? Let’s keep working at it until it does!”<\/p>\n

I’d have worked with Graphics to have order form ads made for these figures, too. They’d have gotten the full court press!<\/p>\n

That’s all gone now.<\/p>\n

I’m not sad about that. Just wistful. I’d have liked writing about these.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A fun little piece of sponsored content dropped into my Facebook feed earlier this week — Dark Horse Comics is making figures based on the Rankin-Bass animated Hobbit of the 1970s. The Hobbit I grew up with. The Hobbit whose songs I know — “The Greatest Adventure,” “That’s What Bilbo Baggins Hates.” Mock-ups of DarkContinue reading “The Wistful Adventure”<\/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":[49],"tags":[4028,4744,5302,5301,134],"class_list":["post-34735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comic-books","tag-bilbo-baggins","tag-dark-horse-comics","tag-gollum","tag-rankin-bass","tag-the-hobbit","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}