{"id":976,"date":"2006-08-24T22:00:19","date_gmt":"2006-08-25T02:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=976"},"modified":"2006-09-09T16:46:09","modified_gmt":"2006-09-09T20:46:09","slug":"the-manmelter-and-other-nice-toys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=976","title":{"rendered":"The ManMelter and Other Nice Toys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"pic\/themanmeltergun.jpg\" alt=\"themanmeltergun\" hspace=\"40\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As a fan of retro science fiction movies (including&#8230; yes&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0068595\/\">Flesh Gordon<\/a>), this puppy gets a big smile out of me. The above image is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wetanz.com\/updates\/rayguns\/manmelter3600zx.html\">ManMelter 3600ZX<\/a>, one of several &#8220;rayguns&#8221; apparently in development as part of a line of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wetanz.com\/updates\/rayguns\/index.html\">WETA Raygun Collection (Link)<\/a>. I&#8217;ve not found a price or any other shipping information, so I&#8217;m guessing these are limited edition niche products. I bet they sell out of these in a day.<\/p>\n<p>If the Long Tail increasingly fills with this kind of stuff, I myself may actually turn into a normal consumer. Maybe. But with so much neat stuff &#8211; like the found art pieces I mentioned some time back (<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=916\">reLink<\/a>) &#8211; I&#8217;d have a tough time deciding what to get and shut down altogether.  There ya go, another reason we&#8217;ll need Filters more than Distributors in the years ahead.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2006\/08\/24\/steampunk_rayguns.html\">Boing Boing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>{Image source: WetaNZ}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a fan of retro science fiction movies (including&#8230; yes&#8230; Flesh Gordon), this puppy gets a big smile out of me. The above image is the ManMelter 3600ZX, one of several &#8220;rayguns&#8221; apparently in development as part of a line &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=976\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}