{"id":3147,"date":"2011-07-08T07:53:33","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T12:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hiracdelest.com\/blog\/?p=3147"},"modified":"2011-07-08T07:53:33","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T12:53:33","slug":"the-new-marco-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hiracdelest.com\/newsfeed\/2011\/07\/08\/the-new-marco-model\/","title":{"rendered":"The NEW Marco model!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Scholastic updated the Official Animorphs Website<\/em><\/a> today with the new Marco model they confirmed back in April<\/a>. Here is a comparison between the two:<\/p>\n

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As you can see, based on the whitewashing concerns from fans<\/a>, this new model (on right) now matches the half-Hispanic \u201cdark complexion\u201d (with dark skin and dark hair) that the character was often described by in the books. He does lack the long hair that Marco is known for in the earlier books, but that feature was changed according to the model type in the Classic<\/em> books as well (e.g. Animorphs #10). The height\/muscle is something I’m sure that the fans will debate over regardless, but the major issue about portraying the character’s correct ethnicity has been resolved. A big thanks to the Scholastic Animorphs Team<\/em> on a job well done!<\/p>\n

Aside from that, it seems as though we’ve caught the official site in the middle of their update. The individual character pages remain the same with the old Marco at the moment (thumbnail\/full profile picture), but once that’s been updated on their official site, we’ll reflect the change onto our own relaunch pages as well. <\/p>\n

That’s all for now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Scholastic updated the Official Animorphs Website today with the new Marco model they confirmed back in April. Here is a comparison between the two:     As you can see, based on the whitewashing concerns from fans, this new model (on right) now matches the half-Hispanic \u201cdark complexion\u201d (with dark skin and dark hair) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animorphs-relaunch","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiracdelest.com\/newsfeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiracdelest.com\/newsfeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiracdelest.com\/newsfeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiracdelest.com\/newsfeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiracdelest.com\/newsfeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hiracdelest.com\/newsfeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiracdelest.com\/newsfeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiracdelest.com\/newsfeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiracdelest.com\/newsfeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}