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

So that was G.I.

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

Joe, shaped my childhood.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: Cabbage Patch Kids: Must-Have Toy of the Century

Listen to the Brothers Ortiz on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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

Just a tad.

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

But prior to G.I.

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

That's how the zapper worked, which is pretty ingenious.

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

Joe, the first three- and three-quarter-inch action figure in the U.S., as far as I know, was the Star Wars line.

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

Very ingenious.

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

And the kid thinks it's a laser gun because they don't know how that stuff works.

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

Exactly.

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

There is no kid who picked up the zapper and didn't go pew, pew, pew.

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

And the Star Wars line, again, when Mego passed it up, they quickly realized that we really screwed up.

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

All right.

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

I guess here at Minute 40, we'll take our second break.

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

They released like a Buck Rogers line and a Black Hole line.

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

Oh, man.

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

And we'll come back and talk a little bit about what happened next.

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

Remember that movie, The Black Hole?

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

From Disney.

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

It's really creepy, even still.