{"id":17,"date":"2006-08-19T11:51:04","date_gmt":"2006-08-19T18:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=17"},"modified":"2006-08-19T11:51:04","modified_gmt":"2006-08-19T18:51:04","slug":"megabyte-deleted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"Megabyte: Deleted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anybody with <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.playrecordpaws.com\">aspirations<\/a> as a voice actor pays attention to other voices. One of my favorite voice actors died recently &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/voices.fuzzy.com\/actor.idc?actor_id=621\">Tony Jay<\/a>, whose generic name probably doesn&#8217;t ring any bells with most people. Kids know him as Frollo from Disney&#8217;s <em>The Hunchback of Notre Dame<\/em> and the modern voice of Shere Khan in a bunch of TV cartoons; gamers know him as the Elder God from the <em>Soul Reaver<\/em> series, not to mention the narrator from <em>World of Warcraft<\/em>; geeks know him as Megabyte from <em>ReBoot<\/em>. He had one of those majestic baritones and a slight British accent that defined narration, if not villain. So many times I&#8217;d be in a game demo and go &#8220;Hey, Tony Jay!&#8221; and see a producer do a double-take that someone recognized the voice talent. So I&#8217;m really quite saddened. I really did enjoy his voice and his work.<\/p>\n<p>Someone once theorized that at any given time there are only about a dozen people getting 80% of the voice work out there, so with Tony&#8217;s passing, everybody probably moves up one slot. In that case, congratulations to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0911320\/\">Patrick Warburton<\/a>, who is ten times better as Brock Sampson and Mr. Barkin than he ever was on <em>Seinfeld<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anybody with aspirations as a voice actor pays attention to other voices. One of my favorite voice actors died recently &#8211; Tony Jay, whose generic name probably doesn&#8217;t ring any bells with most people. Kids know him as Frollo from &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=17\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}