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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

And the one I actually had, even though I have no idea why, I had the Star Trek Enterprise bridge.

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

It's not like they shut down the toy industry.

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

Yeah.

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

It was just home video games.

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

So what they invented was the ROB, the R-O-B, the Robotic Operating Buddy, which is a very sweet name.

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

Oh yeah?

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

And then I guess, I mean I know I had Spock and Kirk and a couple of others, but

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

You should totally go look at ROB online and especially YouTube videos of ROB in action and just be prepared for the speed of ROB.

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

I'm well known to not have ever seen any Star Trek at all.

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

Except for maybe one movie or something.

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

So I have no idea why I got that.

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

Right.

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

But the thing is, Rob was a robot.

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

I mean, if it was a cool action figure.

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

He moved and he functioned.

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

He interacted with the games that they came up with.

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

I had a weird wizard action figure when I was a kid.

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

Very slowly.

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

Right, very slowly.