# The historical action figure game **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 7, 2007, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069 "2007-01-07T18:46:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Sonia\_Montdore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Sonia\_Montdore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sonia_Montdore)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/201 "2007-01-15T17:47:20Z")
[QUOTE=Tracy Lord] Cleopatra comes with detachable snake; press a button, and she combusts into fire and air! Margaret of Anjou. [/QUOTE] Ahem, Tracy, let me refine the obscure persons rule: If it’s anybody that the average Doper (we’re a pretty erudite bunch, but come _on,_ even we aren’t omniscient) has to google, it’s too obscure for the game. Maggie of Anjou is declared a defunct entry. New Historical Action Figure: Alexander the Great ---
**Author:** ![Sonia\_Montdore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Sonia\_Montdore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sonia_Montdore)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/202 "2007-01-15T17:55:11Z")
[QUOTE=Tracy Lord] Margaret of Anjou. [/QUOTE] Sigh. Let’s refine the obscure persons rule: If it’s anybody that the average Doper (we’re a pretty erudite bunch, but come _on,_ even we aren’t omniscient) has to google, it’s too obscure for the game. Please stick to instantly recognizable persons. We now return you to the regularly-scheduled thread. ---
**Author:** ![Sonia\_Montdore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Sonia\_Montdore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sonia_Montdore)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/203 "2007-01-15T17:56:16Z")
Bugger. Didn’t mean to post that twice. _Bugger._ ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/204 "2007-01-15T18:28:49Z")
[QUOTE=Sonia Montdore] Bugger. Didn’t mean to post that twice. _Bugger._ [/QUOTE] Alexander the Great and Bugger- that’s easy enough. Comes with “significant other” action figure. Put armor on and it’s Hepheastion; remove the armor and the testicles and it’s Bagoas. Mary Magdalene ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/205 "2007-01-15T18:44:37Z")
Who? ---
**Author:** ![Sonia\_Montdore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Sonia\_Montdore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sonia_Montdore)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/206 "2007-01-15T18:55:32Z")
[QUOTE=Chez Guevara] Who? [/QUOTE] Okay, that was deserved. Mary Magdalene. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/207 "2007-01-15T20:03:17Z")
The Mary Magdelene action figure comes with your choice of two outfits, depending upon your preference in Scriptural interpretation: either the tattooed harlot, or the demure companion of Christ. _The DaVinci Code_ Louvre Tomb playset sold separately. John Muir. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/208 "2007-01-15T21:30:38Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] John Muir. [/QUOTE] With Magic Tree-Hugging Action. Eleanor Roosevelt. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/209 "2007-01-15T22:25:48Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] Eleanor Roosevelt. [/QUOTE] Pull her string, and she says, “My big fat ass? 've been to the Doctor, Franklin, and strangely anough your name didn’t come up.” Not reccomended for use with other action figures, lest she put them in a wheel chair. Crazy Horse ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/210 "2007-01-15T22:27:32Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] Pull her string, and she says, “My big fat ass? 've been to the Doctor, Franklin, and strangely anough your name didn’t come up.” Not reccomended for use with other action figures, lest she put them in a wheel chair. Crazy Horse [/QUOTE] Crazy Horse, with White Eye killing action and Buffalo headress (with real Buffalo hide!\*)! Plains Indian Incarceration camp sold seperately. H. Ross Perot \*not real buffalo hide ---
**Author:** ![Tracy\_Lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/211 "2007-01-15T23:57:32Z")
[QUOTE=Sonia Montdore] Sigh. Let’s refine the obscure persons rule: If it’s anybody that the average Doper (we’re a pretty erudite bunch, but come _on,_ even we aren’t omniscient) has to google, it’s too obscure for the game. Please stick to instantly recognizable persons. We now return you to the regularly-scheduled thread. [/QUOTE] Sorry! I figured that the biggest role in Shakespeare would be at least peripherally known to most Dopers. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/212 "2007-01-16T00:11:31Z")
Does that mean I have to explain the Roosevelt joke? ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/213 "2007-01-16T00:28:46Z")
H. Ross Perot Doll : sorry but due to lack of interest this doll never made it to the shops and all remaining Ross Perot dolls have been buried in a landfill next to the Atari ET game cartridges. Ian Paisley ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/214 "2007-01-16T00:35:13Z")
[QUOTE=Bippy the Beardless] Ian Paisley [/QUOTE] I had to Google him. This doll comes dressed in green, with a shamrock on his derby. Pull his string to hear his position on the Roman Catholic Church and homosexuals! Bodyguards sold separately. JOHN LENNON (query–do the people have to be dead? And please 'splain the Eleanor Roosevelt joke) ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/215 "2007-01-16T00:43:04Z")
[QUOTE=Tristan] H. Ross Perot [/QUOTE] H. Ross Perot action figure was planned to have a business suit, white socks, a tiny easel, folding charts and colored pens. Canceled due the presence of tiny parts that could be swallowed by Independents. Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/216 "2007-01-16T00:46:11Z")
[QUOTE=eleanorigby] JOHN LENNON (query–do the people have to be dead? And please 'splain the Eleanor Roosevelt joke) [/QUOTE] Dang. Franklin and Eleanor apparently did not get along well. Eleanor entered the room while Franklin was playing poker with his cronies. He ignored her. She turned at the top of the stairway and announced, “If you care, I went to the Doctor today!” “Did he say”, responded Franklin, “anything about your big fat ass?” “Frankly,” retorted Eleanor, “Your name didn’t come up.” I’m here all week. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/217 "2007-01-16T00:59:56Z")
Sorry and all, but that it ignorance fought… JOHN LENNON (he is _persona non grata_ for the game or what?) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/218 "2007-01-16T01:13:03Z")
[QUOTE=eleanorigby] Sorry and all, but that it ignorance fought… JOHN LENNON (he is _persona non grata_ for the game or what?) 🙂 [/QUOTE] used in post #38, go again ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/219 "2007-01-16T01:17:41Z")
The John Lennon action figure comes with an assortment of guitars, outfits ranging from collarless grey suit to India caftan to “I Love New York” T-shirt. Other three Beatles action figures sold separately. Playsets include Liverpool flat, Hamburg bar, “Ed Sullivan Show” set, Shea Stadium, roof of Apple Corps studios, and Dakota condo. Yoko Ono action figure discontinued due to intense public hostility. Chairman Mao. ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/220 "2007-01-16T01:18:27Z")
He’s been used twice? Then he must be more popular model than the Jesus model. Richard III. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069.md?page=12)