{"id":904,"date":"2011-01-01T14:34:13","date_gmt":"2011-01-01T18:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seanpallas.com\/?p=904"},"modified":"2019-09-25T17:42:57","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T23:42:57","slug":"project-canceled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/?p=904","title":{"rendered":"Project Canceled"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_916\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/seanpallas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/pkemeter.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-916\" class=\"size-full wp-image-916 \" title=\"pkemeter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/seanpallas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/pkemeter.jpeg?resize=360%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/seanpallas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/pkemeter.jpeg?w=750&amp;ssl=1 750w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/seanpallas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/pkemeter.jpeg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-916\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matty Collector&#8217;s PKE Meter<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As you can probably tell by my lack of progress with this project, I&#8217;ve been struggling to find both the time and motivation to finish it. Lucky for me, I found a fairly good solution. Mattel Toys has teamed together with <a title=\"MattyCollector.com\" href=\"www.mattycollector.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MattyCollector.com<\/a> to release a replica of the PKE meter!<\/p>\n<p>This piece was part of an exclusive release through Matty Collector, who&#8217;s recently come out with some great Ghostbuster items, but this is their first prop replica.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, I&#8217;m very satisfied with it. It has a dual-mode display screen, sequencing LEDs, sound effects, and moving wings, which is exactly what I was after. The electronics are not as functional as the replica I was building, but it works for me&#8230;and you can&#8217;t beat it for sixty bucks!<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, I&#8217;ve decided to cancel this build so that I can focus on some of the other kits I have piled up next to my workbench. My apologies to anyone who may have been following along, but stay tuned for some other prop\/model builds!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you can probably tell by my lack of progress with this project, I&#8217;ve been struggling to find both the time and motivation to finish it. Lucky for me, I found a fairly good solution. Mattel Toys has teamed together with MattyCollector.com to release a replica of the PKE meter! This piece was part of an exclusive release through Matty Collector, who&#8217;s recently come out with some great Ghostbuster items, but this is their first prop replica. Overall, I&#8217;m very satisfied with it. It has a dual-mode display screen, sequencing LEDs, sound effects, and moving wings, which is exactly what&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":916,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[16,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pke-meter-project","category-projects"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/seanpallas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/pkemeter.jpeg?fit=750%2C1000&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p930oe-eA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2284,"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions\/2284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}