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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

And sometimes an action figure will come with a breastplate or boots or Thor's hammer.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

Uh, but there is a little fun fact that Dave dug up and I think I remember this, but the arcade punch out, uh, had a boxer.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

Maybe they gave Thor kung fu grip.

Stuff You Should Know
SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

The Russian boxers name was vodka drunk in ski.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

So you'll have to mold that also separately.

Stuff You Should Know
SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

But then sometimes, and you'll know this already probably as the designer,

Stuff You Should Know
SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

So great.

Stuff You Should Know
SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

And he got changed to Soda Popinski very famously.

Stuff You Should Know
SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

They're going to be like, no, we don't want any of that weird cloth.

Stuff You Should Know
SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

That's like a big G.I.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

Anyone who played Punch-Out is very familiar with Soda Popinski.

Stuff You Should Know
SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

Joe and it just weirds people out.

Stuff You Should Know
SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

We want it plastic and molded.

Stuff You Should Know
SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

And one of the big revelations of my childhood was that the great tiger who wore a turban with a gem on it, his gem flashed before he came at you to throw a punch.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

So they'll basically carve the clothing out of the original sculpture as well.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

Yeah, and this all takes about two weeks.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

Of course, it depends on who you're working with.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

And when I realized that you could predict it, yeah, it just changed my life.

Stuff You Should Know
SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

But two or three weeks to carve this dude out to its kind of rawest form.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

That's funny.