{"id":14252,"date":"2010-10-20T13:00:23","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T19:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=14252"},"modified":"2010-10-18T15:57:51","modified_gmt":"2010-10-18T21:57:51","slug":"mid-afternoon-theater-presents-monster-factory-its-totally-kunk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2010\/10\/mid-afternoon-theater-presents-monster-factory-its-totally-kunk\/","title":{"rendered":"Mid-Afternoon Theater Presents: Monster Factory. It&#8217;s Totally &#8216;Kunk!&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"> <object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/p\/DB7F642095328FCE?hl=en_US&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/p\/DB7F642095328FCE?hl=en_US&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p><strong>What is it?<\/strong> Monster Factory is a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/monsterfactory.net\/monsters\" class=\"external external_icon\">character <\/a>toy brand&#8221; based in Canada. The <a href=\"http:\/\/monsterfactory.net\/store\" class=\"external external_icon\">toy store <\/a>appears to have been around since 2003 but the web serials(above) look to be something new. <\/p>\n<p><strong>What We Learned:<\/strong> Monster Factory was found by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harrymyland.com\" class=\"external external_icon\">Harry Myland<\/a> through the ads on his webcomic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomadtofu.com\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">Nomad Tofu<\/a>. Like Harry&#8217;s comic, Monster Factory is a wonderful thing. This newly minted web series(5 episodes and rising) looks to be a promotional effort. Gotta get the kids, young and old, to the store to spend that hard earned cash on some cute plush monster action. We&#8217;ve watched the series from beginning to end. They&#8217;ve worked their magic on us. <\/p>\n<p>In the video above we&#8217;ve included the trailer and the five episodes. If you like quirky comedy where muppet monsters and people exist in the same reality, you&#8217;ll definitely like what they&#8217;ve got cooking here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating:<\/strong> E for everyone. A rare occurrence for this site no doubt. However that doesn&#8217;t make it any less entertaining.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When to Watch:<\/strong> Next episode(as of this posting) is November 1st.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Official sites:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/monsterfactorystudio\" class=\"external external_icon\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/monsterfactorystudio<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/_monsterfactory\" class=\"external external_icon\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/_monsterfactory<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/monsterfactory.net\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">http:\/\/monsterfactory.net\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/monsterfactoryvideo\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/monsterfactory.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"That&#039;s kunk.\" width=\"550\" height=\"308\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/monsterfactory.png 550w, https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/monsterfactory-300x168.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is it? Monster Factory is a &#8220;character toy brand&#8221; based in Canada. The toy store appears to have been around since 2003 but the web serials(above) look to be something new. What We Learned: Monster Factory was found by Harry Myland through the ads on his webcomic Nomad Tofu. Like Harry&#8217;s comic, Monster Factory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,52],"tags":[3318,11,3483,3388,3482,258,1240,65,582,2535,3481],"class_list":["post-14252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intertube-madness","category-just-freaking-neat","tag-for-kids-of-all-ages","tag-funny","tag-live-action","tag-mid-afternoon-theater","tag-monster-factory","tag-muppets","tag-oh-canada","tag-streamed-goodness","tag-toys","tag-toys-that-wont-let-you-down","tag-web-serials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14252"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14263,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14252\/revisions\/14263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}