{"id":23497,"date":"2013-05-29T00:05:45","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T05:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=23497"},"modified":"2013-05-29T00:41:39","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T05:41:39","slug":"massivefantastics-mel-birnkrant-studio-visit-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=23497","title":{"rendered":"MassiveFantastic Studio Visits:<br> Mel Birnkrant Full Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=23497\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=left src=\"newsimages\/fourh\/mel01.png\" hspace=\"6\"><\/a>Last week, we posted a teaser video from Massive Fantastic for their upcoming interview with Outer Space Men creator and all-around toy legend, Mel Birnkrant. This week, Massive Fantastic has added the full 22 min interview to their library of posts featuring Mr. Birnkrant! <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"newsimages\/spacer.png\"> <\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8xx-_d2E9iY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Massive Fantastic has been doing great work featuring plenty of Birnkrant-related content including the <a href=\"http:\/\/massivefantastic.com\/?p=2728\" target=\"_blank\">aforementioned teaser<\/a>, as well as a two-part <a href=\"http:\/\/massivefantastic.com\/?p=1395\" target=\"_blank\">History of<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/massivefantastic.com\/?p=1432\" target=\"_blank\">Mel Birnkrant<\/a> and a <a href=\"http:\/\/massivefantastic.com\/?p=1514\" target=\"_blank\">text interview<\/a> with the man himself! A huge congrats to Massive Fantastic for some great coverage! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, we posted a teaser video from Massive Fantastic for their upcoming interview with Outer Space Men creator and all-around toy legend, Mel Birnkrant. This week, Massive Fantastic has added the full 22 min interview to their library of posts featuring Mr. Birnkrant!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[47],"tags":[1268,743,510],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pObc6-66Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9771,"url":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=9771","url_meta":{"origin":23497,"position":0},"title":"Mel Birnkrant&#8217;s &#8220;The Colorforms Years&#8221;","date":"October 12, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"We brought you our interview with Mel Birnkrant yesterday, but wait... there's more! 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