# 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:** 16
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2007, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/301 "2007-01-18T23:58:54Z")
Forgot my action figure.Sorry. Princess Diana (has she been done?) if so, then Nancy Reagan ---
**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 19, 2007, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/302 "2007-01-19T00:23:21Z")
[QUOTE=eleanorigby] Forgot my action figure.Sorry. Princess Diana (has she been done?) if so, then Nancy Reagan [/QUOTE] Sleeps with all your male action figures. Brain the size of a pea sold separately. Bastard younger son not available. Shakespeare ---
**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 19, 2007, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/303 "2007-01-19T00:47:39Z")
[QUOTE=Sonia Montdore] Shakespeare [/QUOTE] > **[Archie McPhee Wholesale - Accoutrements Toys and Novelties](https://wholesale.mcphee.com)** > > Archie McPhee Wholesale AKA Accoutrements provides the best and weirdest toys and novelties for you to sell! We're the makers of the Horse Mask, Handerpants, the Horse Head Squirrel Feeder, Finger Hands, the Nancy Pearl Librarian Action Figure,... As you can see comes with book and quill pen. King Edward the Confessor ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2007, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/304 "2007-01-19T02:35:49Z")
[QUOTE=Bippy the Beardless] King Edward the Confessor [/QUOTE] Pull his string to hear him say “Sun’s bad for an albino!” and “I’m saving myself for my wedding night… in fact, not even then!” Comes with a faceless unnamed successor figure. Peg Entwhistle ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2007, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/305 "2007-01-19T03:53:29Z")
(In case it’s too obscure, Peg Entwhistle [whose name comes up on these boards a fair bit] was the actress who jumped to her death from the Hollywood(land) sign and also [just for trivia] the stepmother of actor Brian Keith.) ---
**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 19, 2007, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/306 "2007-01-19T06:00:09Z")
Well, with that bit of research help… The Peg Entwhistle action figure is equipped with Amazing Hollywood Sign-Leaping Action ™. Caution: NOT a flying toy. Hollywood sign, Brian Keith and Grieving Family action figures sold separately. (I hope everyone noticed that I restrained myself from making a Tolkien joke. “Entwhistle”… heh.) George Michael. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2007, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/307 "2007-01-19T11:45:44Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] (I hope everyone noticed that I restrained myself from making a Tolkien joke. “Entwhistle”… heh.) [/QUOTE] My first thought was “I wonder if she’s related to the Who bassist,” so I guess we all have our own forms of nerdery. George Michael Watch its amazing Park Restroom Pickup Action! Part of the Sad Pop Hasbeen Line – collect them all! Alger Hiss ---
**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 19, 2007, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/308 "2007-01-19T14:30:08Z")
The Alger Hiss action figure opens up a world of Cold War play options. Is he a Soviet agent? Parlor pink? Courageous public servant? You decide! Comes with a well-cut suit, briefcase and revokable State Department security clearance. Whittaker Chambers action figure, HUAC Hearing Room and Pumpkin Patch playsets sold separately. Richard Nixon 1950s action figure with Dynamic Microfilm-Reading and Red-Baiting Action ™ now discontinued due to lack of sales. (BTW. Alger Hiss was a classmate of my grandfather’s!) ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2007, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/309 "2007-01-19T14:43:49Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] (BTW. Alger Hiss was a classmate of my grandfather’s!) [/QUOTE] No shit! Cool! And who’s next? ---
**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 19, 2007, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/310 "2007-01-19T14:49:32Z")
Ooops! Right. Ethel Merman (it was her birthday earlier this week). ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2007, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/311 "2007-01-19T21:09:42Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Ooops! Right. Ethel Merman (it was her birthday earlier this week). [/QUOTE] It doesn’t come with a megaphone – it _is_ a megaphone – because _There’s **no** business like **show** business …_ Harriet Beecher Stowe ---
**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 20, 2007, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/312 "2007-01-20T00:32:05Z")
Dressed in a crinoline. Has lifelike, ink-stained hands. Pull her string and she says, “I’m the little lady who wrote the big book that started the great war.” Henry VIII ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2007, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/313 "2007-01-20T00:42:14Z")
[QUOTE=Sonia Montdore] Dressed in a crinoline. Has lifelike, ink-stained hands. Pull her string and she says, “I’m the little lady who wrote the big book that started the great war.” Henry VIII [/QUOTE] Henry VIII–has lifelike, blood-stained hands. Has several old wedding dresses, which may or may not be like crinoline. Comes with bluprint for several generations of religious civil war. Yuri Gagarin. ---
**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 20, 2007, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/314 "2007-01-20T00:44:15Z")
[QUOTE=Sonia Montdore] Henry VIII [/QUOTE] Pull his string and he says in a Richard Burton voice, “I care not if the sun and the planets cease in their courses, I shall have her!” Nice action figure to impress the ladies. Really, really annoyed Pope is not included. Wives available separately. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2007, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/315 "2007-01-20T01:14:54Z")
[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor] Yuri Gagarin. [/QUOTE] Comes with a dog and a monkey; other cosmonauts sold separately. Thomas E. Dewey ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2007, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/316 "2007-01-20T02:11:35Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] Comes with a dog and a monkey; other cosmonauts sold separately. [/QUOTE] There were no other Cosmonauts—those were unmanned test launches. Completely unmanned. The other figures advertised on the back of the Gagarin package were…prototypes that were dropped from the toy line. Tom Dewey comes with a card-model gallows, and a complimentary UMD disk featuring a music video by the Kingston Trio, and the full-length motion picture _The Legend of Tom D_—oh, sorry. Wrong figure. Uh…Thomas E. Dewey comes with an easy-bake-oven wedding cake kit, a stack of death warrants, and he is a very nice figure, very nice indeed. He has a bright future. (Over-optimistic newspaper sold seperately.) Figure may be redeemed for a John Kerry action figure with a mail-in offer. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2007, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/317 "2007-01-20T16:23:58Z")
[QUOTE=Ranchoth] There were no other Cosmonauts—those were unmanned test launches. Completely unmanned. The other figures advertised on the back of the Gagarin package were…prototypes that were dropped from the toy line. [/QUOTE] :smack: Since **Ranchoth** forgot to give a name, let me throw out … CG Jung ---
**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 20, 2007, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/318 "2007-01-20T17:21:26Z")
The C.J. Jung action figure comes with a stack of books, ink-stained fingers and a little sign that says, “It’s pronounced ‘Yung,’ dammit!” J.K. Rowling. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2007, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/319 "2007-01-20T19:45:39Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] J.K. Rowling. [/QUOTE] Damn close to impossible to find behind all the stacks of money – keep digging, though, she’s in there. Coco Chanel. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2007, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/320 "2007-01-20T19:53:51Z")
Coco comes complete with her own miniature bottle of gold colored water, labelled No. 5. She also comes with a pillbox hat, and a severly tailored suit with contrasting piping. Pull her string and she says, “There have been many Duchesses of Westminster; there is only one Chanel.” Little black dress and Nazi officer escort sold separately. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069.md?page=15) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069.md?page=17)