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

Right.

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

But he still looked like Frank O'Harris.

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

But he still looked like Frank O'Harris, yes.

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

And listeners at home, if you can look this stuff up as you go safely, please do, because just seeing all these various units we're going to talk about is really a lot of fun.

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

And then the other big innovation was not an innovation at all.

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

It was following the Barbie model, but for boys it was.

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

It was this doll, which no one called a doll.

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

Yeah, they teeter on the edge of being creepy.

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

In fact, I believe Hasbro wouldn't do business with you if you were going to call it a doll as a retailer.

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

They're like at that age.

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

They're not quite wicker wheelchair creepy, but they're getting there.

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

They would just be like, well, you don't get any G.I.

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

Give them another decade or so.

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

You know what I mean?

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

Joes.

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

Yeah, I think they're cool looking.

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

This is an action figure.

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

I mean, this is the kind of thing that would look cool sitting on a shelf as a collector these days.

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

That's right.

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

But on the package itself, and I don't know if you remember this or not, I don't because I wasn't born yet, but there were pictures of the other dudes and the other outfits you could get.