{"id":39,"date":"2019-05-20T10:59:17","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T10:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hmarmedforces.com\/blog\/?p=39"},"modified":"2019-05-20T10:59:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T10:59:17","slug":"stand-down-hasbro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hmarmedforces.com\/blog\/stand-down-hasbro\/","title":{"rendered":"Stand Down Hasbro"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hasbros Action Man Vs Characters HMAF Royal Marine\" src=\"http:\/\/hmarmedforces.com\/hmaf_actionman_comparison.jpg\" title=\"Hasbro Action Man &amp; GI Joe figures with Characters HMAF Royal Marines Commando\" width=\"350\" height=\"267\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hasbro's Action Man Vs Character's HMAF Royal Marine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He may represent a slightly smaller fighting force but Character Option&#8217;s HMAF Royal Marines Commando is not outgunned in the detail department.<\/p>\n<p>Since Hasbro stood down their military-style figures in favour of &#8216;action adventure&#8217; characters a massive gap has opened in the toy market.<\/p>\n<p>Step forward British toy company the Character Group.  Opening up a new front with their HM Armed Forces toys and figures Character are raising the standard for a whole new generation of toy fans.<\/p>\n<p>Commercially far outgunned but lacking nothing in skill and bravery a crack unit of around 150 Character employees are bravely facing up to the Hasbro challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Let battle commence&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-8515578631897851\";\n\/* 336x280, created 31\/08\/08 white big box *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"5349619280\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 336;\ngoogle_ad_height = 280;\n\/\/--><br \/>\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\"><br \/>\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Main Site  <a href=\"http:\/\/hmarmedforces.com\">HMArmedForces.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He may represent a slightly smaller fighting force but Character Option&#8217;s HMAF Royal Marines Commando is not outgunned in the detail department. Since Hasbro stood down their military-style figures in favour of &#8216;action adventure&#8217; characters a massive gap has opened in the toy market. Step forward British toy company the Character Group. Opening up a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hmarmedforces.com\/blog\/stand-down-hasbro\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stand Down Hasbro&#8221;<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hmarmedforces.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hmarmedforces.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hmarmedforces.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hmarmedforces.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hmarmedforces.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.hmarmedforces.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40,"href":"http:\/\/www.hmarmedforces.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hmarmedforces.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hmarmedforces.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hmarmedforces.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}