Inspired in part by this thread, there are several I’d love to have had over the years. The first ones I can remember wanting were Gilligan’s Island, but save for a strange resemblance between Johnny West and the Professor they never made them, and I moved on. A few years later I wanted fully jointed LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE action figures, but from the books as opposed to the TV show.
Action figures that I’ve wished were available since I was an adult:
BARNUM’S SIDESHOW figures (mentioned in the other thread)- you’d have to have Seth MacFarlane or someone equally good make them, but I’d LOVE to have a set of Barnum’s “special people”. They’d have to be as exact as possible and perfectly scaled, but imagine your very own Chang & Eng jointed figures posed between Tom & Lavinia Thumb and Anna Swan & Captain Martin Bates [pic, preferably with a museum display set. Even the movie Freaks could be cool, though I’d prefer the Victorian originals.
King Tut- my ideal action figure would be similar to a nesting doll. His partly decayed leather corpse, which comes in an “as it would have appeared when his mummification was new” figure that it can fit inside of, then the wrappings, then the mask/sarcophagos/coffin/etc…
Henry VIII & family- but fully poseable, dressable and with modern ware accessories just as a matter of curiosity ("let’s see Anne of Cleves in Goth).
John Wilkes Booth and the conspirators plus the Lincolns, etc., and not just because I got recommended for counselling in sixth grade for reenacting the conspirators hangings using Best of the West figures.
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