# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![Hugh\_Jass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4da419/32.png) [@Hugh\_Jass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hugh_Jass)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/141 "2007-01-12T17:21:50Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] Mohandas Gandhi. [/QUOTE] Now with loin cloth! Alfred the Great ---
**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 12, 2007, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/142 "2007-01-12T17:46:35Z")
Free cake mix, box of matches and top of the range oven. Kingdom of Wessex extra. Howard Hughes. ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/143 "2007-01-12T18:17:46Z")
[QUOTE=Chez Guevara] Free cake mix, box of matches and top of the range oven. Kingdom of Wessex extra. Howard Hughes. [/QUOTE] Comes with his own Autoclave. Adlai E Stevenson III ---
**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 12, 2007, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/144 "2007-01-12T18:23:40Z")
Howard Hughes was already done; post #104. Adlai Stevenson comes with a hole in his shoe, a gleaming pate and a hangdog expression. Recommended that you play with the Dwight D. Eisenhower action figure (Presidential Series) at the same time. Queen Isabella. ---
**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 12, 2007, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/145 "2007-01-12T18:51:04Z")
Queen Isabella comes with a treasure chest to finance Christopher Columbus expedition to the East, and a sword to run the Muslims out of Spain. My Little Inquisition Set ™ sold separately. Kaiser Wilhelm. ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/146 "2007-01-12T18:57:16Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] Queen Isabella comes with a treasure chest to finance Christopher Columbus expedition to the East, and a sword to run the Muslims out of Spain. My Little Inquisition Set ™ sold separately. Kaiser Wilhelm. [/QUOTE] Kaiser Wlihlem I comes with spikey helmet, dress uniform, hatred of France and railway tables. Prussian troops sold separately. (Kaiser Bill II was also done) Marco Polo ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/147 "2007-01-12T18:58:51Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] Kaiser Wilhelm. [/QUOTE] Comes with a full arm for state occasions and a shrivelled one for when he’s at home with no artists or photographers around, a cigarette that can be shot out of his mouth by the Annie Oakley figure and his own abdication escape hatch. GERALDO RIVERA ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/148 "2007-01-12T19:17:50Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] GERALDO RIVERA [/QUOTE] Comes with a microphone, oversized mustache and matching wig, a chair and a map of Jimmy Hoffa’s tomb. His nose really breaks! Rosa Parks ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Il_Palazzo)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/149 "2007-01-12T20:33:14Z")
[QUOTE=Mindfield] Rosa Parks [/QUOTE] Comes with a seat on the bus and there’s no way you’re getting it from her. Jim Henson ---
**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 12, 2007, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/150 "2007-01-12T20:51:20Z")
Whaddya mean? Jim Henson _was_ an action figure (or at least a living Muppet)! Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry. ---
**Author:** ![Hugh\_Jass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4da419/32.png) [@Hugh\_Jass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hugh_Jass)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/151 "2007-01-12T21:00:37Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry. [/QUOTE] Comes with empty can of insect repellant. Hovsep Pushman ---
**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 12, 2007, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/152 "2007-01-12T21:10:15Z")
[QUOTE=Hugh Jass] [Commodore O.H. Perry]: Comes with empty can of insect repellant… [/QUOTE] OK, I’ll bite. I don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![Hugh\_Jass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4da419/32.png) [@Hugh\_Jass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hugh_Jass)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/153 "2007-01-12T21:26:40Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] OK, I’ll bite. I don’t get it. [/QUOTE] Perry died in the tropics from a disease (I forget which) contracted by insects. You see, he, um, used all his insect repellant, and, um, then he got bit, you see, because he no longer could repel the insects, and, um… HOVSEP PUSHMAN! ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/154 "2007-01-12T22:20:40Z")
[QUOTE=Hugh Jass] HOVSEP PUSHMAN! [/QUOTE] Admitting that I had to [google him](http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=gmail&q=HOVSEP%20PUSHMAN&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi), all I can guess is that he comes with every shade of brown pencil, brown paint and brown crayon imaginable. Countess Elizabeth Bathory ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/155 "2007-01-12T22:29:33Z")
Countess Elizabeth Bathory This one’s a bubble-bath kit. The Countess is a wind-up talking doll with dialogue like “I vant to live forever!” and “Bring me the virgin!” and comes with a virginal maiden plastic squeeze-bottle doll and a 16-oz. bottle of blood-red bubble bath soap. You fill the victim doll with the bubble bath and squeeze, and the bubble bath squirts out of tiny slits at their carotid arteries… Recommended for children 13 years and up! Next up: Otto Weininger ---
**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 13, 2007, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/156 "2007-01-13T05:01:36Z")
The Otto Weininger action figure comes with an elegant suit, stiff collar, a Bible, a smoking pistol and a sign reading, “I’m not a Nazi, dammit.” Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry. ---
**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 13, 2007, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/157 "2007-01-13T14:02:28Z")
I had to look up this dude in Wikipedia. He’s a distant antecedent of the crooner Perry Como who, in turn, is the father of American football player William “The Refrigerator” Perry. These items are only sold as a trio but they are available as (a) heroes of the 1812 war (b) vocalist, guitarist, and drummer and © an offensive backfield. Willie Shoemaker. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/158 "2007-01-13T16:10:43Z")
[QUOTE=Chez Guevara] Willie Shoemaker. [/QUOTE] Buy each of the 8,833 trophies and ribbons separately. Al Jolson. ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/159 "2007-01-13T17:45:27Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] Buy each of the 8,833 trophies and ribbons separately. Al Jolson. [/QUOTE] From the “1920s Hollywood Action Set.” Pull his string and the other figures panic. Feargus O’Connor ---
**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 14, 2007, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069/160 "2007-01-14T01:55:10Z")
[QUOTE=saoirse] From the “1920s Hollywood Action Set.” Pull his string and the other figures panic. Feargus O’Connor [/QUOTE] Feargus O’Connor comes with his own straitjacket and a miniature copy of _The Northern Star_. Charter sold separately. Elvis Presley [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-historical-action-figure-game/387069.md?page=9)