# Identify this toy please

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-toy-please/182969>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 19, 2003, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-toy-please/182969 "2003-06-19T17:58:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Iteki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eada6e/32.png) [@Iteki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iteki)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-toy-please/182969/1 "2003-06-19T17:58:30Z")

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Helloo 🙂

A couple of years back I saw an incredibly cool toy online. It was an action figure, skeletal/robotic, in black plastic, highly articulated with many joints.

The joints were snap-in, ball & socket style, and the model/figure was assembled after having popped the pieces out from a flat frame (like with a model airplane). Included were a couple of weapons, a ladder etc.

The site selling them was clearly marketing them at quasi-adults like myself, and showed that you could customise them with paint etc. The actual models were very much like cartoon-stick-figures.

Does anyone know what it is I am talking about? I will know them instantly when I see them.

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**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-toy-please/182969/2 "2003-06-19T18:13:37Z")

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[This them?](http://www.actionfigurexpress.com/actionfigurexpress/stikfas.html)

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**Author:** ![Iteki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eada6e/32.png) [@Iteki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iteki)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-toy-please/182969/3 "2003-06-19T18:13:52Z")

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Sorry, talk about a brainfart…  
As so often before, the act of posting the question jogs my memory, releasing the answer. [www.stickfas.com](http://www.stickfas.com) is the answer.

A mod can close this if they pass by 🙂

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**Author:** ![Iteki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eada6e/32.png) [@Iteki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iteki)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-toy-please/182969/4 "2003-06-19T18:49:09Z")

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Hah, they were the ones yep, thankies QED.  
I drool not so much in their general direction as upon them.

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**Author:** ![35340](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/8baadc/32.png) [@35340](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/35340)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-toy-please/182969/5 "2003-06-20T00:05:51Z")

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Yeah, those are cool. I bought three or four of them, and … they were smaller than I expected. I only ever put one together.

Strange little things.