# 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:** 2
**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 8, 2007, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/21 "2007-01-08T13:53:53Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] Boudicca [/QUOTE] Boudicca comes with remote=controlled Battle Chariot with authentic working light & sound! Have Boudicca launch her Battle Chariot’s Missile Launcher! Manfred Von Richthofen ---
**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 8, 2007, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/22 "2007-01-08T14:00:15Z")
Pressing von Richthofen’s button activates a pair of wings, and sends him flying into the air with a can of flyspray to knock out any mosquitos or models of Snoopy which happen to be hanging around. Perkin Warbeck. ---
**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 8, 2007, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/23 "2007-01-08T14:15:16Z")
[QUOTE=Chez Guevara] Perkin Warbeck. [/QUOTE] With removable disguise! Gengis Khan. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/24 "2007-01-08T14:28:44Z")
[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor] Gengis Khan. [/QUOTE] Voice provided by John Wayne. John Wilkes Booth. ---
**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 8, 2007, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/25 "2007-01-08T14:42:49Z")
John Wilkes Booth. With “Sic Semper Tyrannis” action! Richard The Lionhearted ---
**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 8, 2007, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/26 "2007-01-08T14:45:06Z")
John Wilkes Booth comes with Amazing Outsize Ego TM, detachable cape and derringer, and a passionate hatred of Yankees. It’s part of the American Assassins playset, which includes Charles Guiteau, Leon Czolgosz and Lee Harvey Oswald. Pontius Pilate. ---
**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 8, 2007, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/27 "2007-01-08T14:46:19Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] John Wilkes Booth comes with Amazing Outsize Ego TM, detachable cape and derringer, and a passionate hatred of Yankees. It’s part of the American Assassins playset, which includes Charles Guiteau, Leon Czolgosz and Lee Harvey Oswald. Pontius Pilate. [/QUOTE] Too little, too late. 😛 ---
**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 8, 2007, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/28 "2007-01-08T15:08:49Z")
Well… OK, then. The Richard the Lionheart action figure features Amazing Crusading Sword-Fighting Action TM, longsword, mix-and-match plate armor, and a red tabard with golden heraldic lions. Sniveling Prince John action figure sold separately. Pontius Pilate. ---
**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 8, 2007, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/29 "2007-01-08T15:21:41Z")
Model depicted leaving the lavatory without washing his hands. Isaac Newton. ---
**Author:** ![Borborygmi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/borborygmi/32/217_2.png) [@Borborygmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Borborygmi)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/30 "2007-01-08T15:29:13Z")
Fashioned after the traditional Mexican ball-and-cup toy, the head is hollowed to catch the apple attached by string to the doll’s feet. Nikola Tesla ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/31 "2007-01-08T15:32:00Z")
[QUOTE=Borborygmi] Fashioned after the traditional Mexican ball-and-cup toy, the head is hollowed to catch the apple attached by string to the doll’s feet. [/QUOTE] Oooh, nice. ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/32 "2007-01-08T15:50:43Z")
When activated, the Nikola Tesla action figure emits an electromagnetic field that brings all of your other action figures to life. May cause extremely loud buzzing noise and mysterious crackling fingers of blue lightning. Pope Boniface 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 8, 2007, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/33 "2007-01-08T15:52:48Z")
[QUOTE=Borborygmi] Nikola Tesla [/QUOTE] Batteries not included. Louis the XVI ---
**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 8, 2007, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/34 "2007-01-08T16:12:31Z")
Head not included. Geoffrey Chaucer. ---
**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 8, 2007, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/35 "2007-01-08T17:03:55Z")
I think we’re getting a little out of order here. The Pope Boniface VIII action figure comes astride his very own Papal Bull (quill and ink not included), and is displayed to best advantage in the My Lil’ Dante’s _Inferno_ Pit of Eternal Suffering for Simony. Geoffrey Chaucer (again). ---
**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 8, 2007, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/36 "2007-01-08T17:15:42Z")
Two Chaucers there for the price of one. Billy the Kid. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/37 "2007-01-08T17:25:00Z")
[QUOTE=Chez Guevara] Billy the Kid. [/QUOTE] Pull the string and he’ll make you famous. Dick Nixon ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/38 "2007-01-08T17:59:12Z")
[QUOTE=Hypno-Toad] Pull the string and he’ll make you famous. Dick Nixon [/QUOTE] Comes with free audio recording and editing software and a button marked ‘Pardon my Pardon’. John Lennon ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/39 "2007-01-08T18:10:45Z")
The John Lennon doll comes with amazing growing hair, so you can have either a Beetles era John, or the later version. He also has a small MP3 player imbedded in the body, so he can sing any song he’d ever done in life. (No, no port available to remove the songs or add any others… It would be too silly having a John Lennon doll singing, say, Eminem.) Iosef Stalin ---
**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 8, 2007, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/40 "2007-01-08T18:12:47Z")
The Stalin action figure comes with bulletproof hair, a formless jacket and blood on its hands. Reinhard Heydrich. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069.md?page=3)