{"id":10895,"date":"2016-01-08T14:48:04","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T14:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/kenyatta-npr-star-wars-the-force-awakens\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T16:49:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T23:49:43","slug":"kenyatta-npr-star-wars-the-force-awakens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/kenyatta-npr-star-wars-the-force-awakens\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-10895 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/kenyatta-npr-star-wars-the-force-awakens\/attachment\/10896\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_o0jrqxqLFU1qdkv8qo1_1280-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/kenyatta.tumblr.com\/post\/136774240330\">kenyatta<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/npr.tumblr.com\/post\/136772921715\">npr<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i>Star Wars: The Force Awakens<\/i> revolves around the story of staff-wielding scavenger Rey.<\/p>\n<p>(That\u2019s hardly a spoiler; she\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/707676\/star-wars-the-force-awakens-new-poster-revealed-before-first-trailer-find-out-which-major-star-is-missing\">front-and-center in the movie poster<\/a>, after all.)<\/p>\n<p>But in the world of <i>Star Wars<\/i> toys, Rey\u2019s been hard to find \u2014 and fans took to social media, under the hashtags #WheresRey and #WhereisRey, to complain about all the movie merchandise that left her out.<\/p>\n<p>Target\u2019s <i>Star Wars<\/i> figurine 6-pack? Finn, Chewbacca, Poe, Kylo Ren and two unnamed characters: a Stormtrooper officer and a First Order TIE fighter.<\/p>\n<p>Central heroine: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.target.com\/p\/star-wars-the-force-awakens-6-action-figure-pack\/-\/A-17294971\">Nowhere in sight<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bedspread? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HKhug\/status\/681311984873160705\">No Rey<\/a>. Disney store display? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/acnally\/status\/681502669219971072\">No Rey<\/a>. Barnes and Noble bobbleheads? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shanegreer\/status\/681138520023547904\">No Rey<\/a>. Walgreen\u2019s shelves? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/laflaneuse\/status\/682366514016595968\">No Rey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In some of the Rey-less displays, <a href=\"http:\/\/thenerdybird.com\/more-star-wars-force-awakens-rey-merchandise-than-you-can-shake-a-staff-at\/\">her products<\/a> might not have been stocked by individual stores \u2014 or may have sold out.<\/p>\n<p>But in many other cases, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/star-wars-toys-wheres-rey\">toys featuring her simply hadn\u2019t been released<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2016\/01\/06\/462144156\/-whereisrey-shes-on-her-way-says-hasbro?utm_source=tumblr.com&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=npr&amp;utm_term=nprnews&amp;utm_content=20160106\">#WhereIsRey? She\u2019s On Her Way, Says Hasbro<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>Photo:\u00a0David James\/Lucasfilm<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If manufacturers refuse to make Rey toys and merch, it seems to me that the perfect response would be for fans to start screenprinting and 3d printing and distributing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/search?q=rey%20star%20wars\">their own<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>kenyatta: npr: Star Wars: The Force Awakens revolves around the story of staff-wielding scavenger Rey. (That\u2019s hardly a spoiler; she\u2019s front-and-center in the movie poster, after all.) But in the world of Star Wars toys, Rey\u2019s been hard to find \u2014 and fans took to social media, under the hashtags #WheresRey and #WhereisRey, to complain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-2PJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10897,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10895\/revisions\/10897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}