{"id":7540,"date":"2012-11-28T00:49:18","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T05:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=7540"},"modified":"2012-11-28T00:49:18","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T05:49:18","slug":"equipment-on-sale-this-week-knight-rider-115-kitt-and-marvel-select-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=7540","title":{"rendered":"Equipment: On Sale This Week: Knight Rider 1\/15 KITT and Marvel Select Storm!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, a.k.a. New Toy Day, is almost here, and it&#8217;s a big day for Diamond Select <a href=\"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/KITTElec1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-7552\" title=\"KITTElec1\" src=\"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/KITTElec1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"348\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/KITTElec1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/KITTElec1-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 348px) 100vw, 348px\" \/><\/a>Toys! In addition to the next figure in their popular Marvel Select action figure line &#8212; Storm of the X-Men &#8212; comic stores and specialty shops will receive the first electronic vehicles of KITT vehicles from Knight Rider!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Knight Rider 1:15 Scale K.I.T.T. Electronic Vehicle<br \/>\nThe Knight Industries Two Thousand (K.I.T.T.) was an experimental vehicle developed by the Knight Foundation as a deterrent to criminal activity. Outfitted with numerous cutting-edge technologies &#8212; most of them defensive and nonlethal &#8212; the car&#8217;s systems <a href=\"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/KITT_Electronic1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-7553\" title=\"KITT_Electronic1\" src=\"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/KITT_Electronic1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"231\" \/><\/a>were controlled by an advanced artificial intelligence, partnered with a human operator. This 14-inch replica is based on K.I.T.T.&#8217;s appearance in the 1984 television series Knight Rider, and is capable of replaying key dialogue and sound effects from the original broadcasts at the push of a button. Features the original voice of K.I.T.T., authentic sound effects, and light-up fog lights, tail lights, sensor bar, voice box, instruments and monitors!<\/p>\n<p>Marvel Select X-Men Storm Action Figure<br \/>\nThe X-Men series of Marvel Select figures continues! Cyclops, Colo<a href=\"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/storm1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-7554\" title=\"storm1\" src=\"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/storm1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"273\" height=\"418\" \/><\/a>ssus and company are now joined by Ororo &#8220;Storm&#8221; Munroe in her original costume. Standing 7 inches tall, Storm features 16 points of articulation, and comes with a section of the Danger Room featuring saw and torch pieces, which can be displayed alongside the sections that come with her fellow X-Men figures. Retailers who buy a case will get five regular figures and one figure with an alternate pinned-up hairstyle. Storm comes in oversized collector packaging, and is only available on the specialty market! Sculpted by Sam Greenwell!<\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicshoplocator.com\" target=\"_blank\">comicshoplocator.com<\/a> to find the nearest comic shop, and get regular DST updates on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/diamondselecttoys\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/CollectDST\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Storm_box1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-7555\" title=\"Storm_box1\" src=\"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Storm_box1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"377\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, a.k.a. New Toy Day, is almost here, and it&#8217;s a big day for Diamond Select Toys! In addition to the next figure in their popular Marvel Select action figure line &#8212; Storm of the X-Men &#8212; comic stores and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=7540\">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":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[21,206,332,14,1278,282,24,428,915,22,557],"class_list":["post-7540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equipment","tag-action-figure","tag-diamond-select-toys","tag-dst","tag-james","tag-k-i-t-t","tag-knight-rider","tag-marvel-comics","tag-marvel-select","tag-storm","tag-toy","tag-x-men"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7540"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7559,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7540\/revisions\/7559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}