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

All right, so just to put a little bow on the action figure thing before we get into how they're made.

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

This was just totally different.

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

And it was really simple.

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

Transformers came along, was huge.

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

It was really sleek.

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

Everything was laid out just right.

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

Throughout the 90s, then you saw Marvel and DC really come on the market.

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

And it was just so perfectly made out of the gate that, like you're saying, it just laid the groundwork for all of the console controllers to come, even today still.

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

Every movie you could think of had action figures.

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

TV shows started having action figures.

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

Older popular movies started having action figures.

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

It's based on those.

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

Yeah, it didn't start there.

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

Like for nostalgia's sake, I literally had a Scarface doll.

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

They had it initially on this handheld game called a Game & Watch, which if you look at this, it looks like it's sort of the predecessor to the Game Boy.

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

Oh yeah, I've seen that.

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

The Scarface Al Pacino that I used to have in the office.

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

Did it come with a mound of cocaine?

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

And it's called a Game & Watch because it had a clock on it.

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

It did.