{"id":339,"date":"2007-03-21T07:42:12","date_gmt":"2007-03-21T07:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=339"},"modified":"2007-03-21T07:42:12","modified_gmt":"2007-03-21T07:42:12","slug":"rayguns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=339","title":{"rendered":"Rayguns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at Weta Workshop have an online store called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wetanz.com\/collectibles\/index.php?main_page=index\">Weta Collectibles<\/a>. (Yes, this is the Weta Workshop responsible for jaw-dropping effects in films like the <em>Lord of the Rings<\/em> series and <em>The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe<\/em>.) In addition to the movie-related merchandise, the store also offers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wetanz.com\/holics\/index.php?catid=4\">rayguns<\/a>. And when I say rayguns, I mean Dr. Grordbort&#8217;s Infallible Aether Oscillators, &#8220;a line of immensely dangerous yet simple to operate wave oscillation weapons&#8221;. These limited-edition handcrafted guns appear to be 19th-century technology, using <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phlogiston_theory\">phlogiston<\/a> and compressed <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aether_theories\">aether<\/a> for ammunition. Three models are available:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ManMelter 3600ZX Sub-Atomic Disintegrator Pistol<\/li>\n<li>F.M.O.M. Industries Wave Disrupter Gun<\/li>\n<li>Goliathon 83 Infinity Beam Projector<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These are exactly the kind of weapons you need when you&#8217;re battling nameless horrors at the center of the Earth, setting out to explore the distant future in your time machine, or just going for a stroll through the East End of London on a foggy night.<br \/>\n<em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jmsnews.com\/msg.aspx?id=1-17650\">J. Michael Straczynski<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at Weta Workshop have an online store called Weta Collectibles. In addition to the movie-related merchandise, the store also offers rayguns.<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=339\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}