E=Action Figure Squared!
Now I'm not a man of science but I thought this Albert Einstein action figure absolutely Rocked! Better than that new pansy Action Man with his dayglow consumables, and infinitely more useless than the obligatory NHS specs held together with a band-aid... this little buddy will keep your kids... er... bemused...? for hours :S
In the same range of figures there's also Moses, Jesus (really! - Not my bag but still funny nonetheless), Sigmund Freud, Beethoven, some bloke by the name of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Billy Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde and that Wagner chap (no, no, not Robert Wagner...)
My personal favourites have got to be BlackBeard and Alexander the Great (my kinda heroes) but if they did any more I'd request that they made an MC Escher, Salvador Dali, Carl Jung and a (Sir) Tim Berners Lee (THE main man - respect!)
Wonder if they do a Dr. Stephen Hawking action figure (with all terrain tyres)?
In the same range of figures there's also Moses, Jesus (really! - Not my bag but still funny nonetheless), Sigmund Freud, Beethoven, some bloke by the name of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Billy Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde and that Wagner chap (no, no, not Robert Wagner...)
My personal favourites have got to be BlackBeard and Alexander the Great (my kinda heroes) but if they did any more I'd request that they made an MC Escher, Salvador Dali, Carl Jung and a (Sir) Tim Berners Lee (THE main man - respect!)
Wonder if they do a Dr. Stephen Hawking action figure (with all terrain tyres)?
Blue Skies thinking @ 6/21/2005 07:34:00 PM
16 Comments:
At Tue Jun 21, 07:05:00 PM,
superfan said…
heheh. i've seen the jesus ones. theyre rather...i dunno. i cant work out if theyre an offence or not :)
At Tue Jun 21, 07:30:00 PM,
BeckyBumbleFuck said…
My cool science advisor got my lab-mate, Paul a nun-zilla action figure one Christmas. She was on wheels and blew sparks... It SO coincided with my personal experiences with nuns, that I was on the floor laughing....
And your action-figure ideas are spot-on!! (Hmmmm, maybe I'd add a Watson, Crick, and Rosalind Franklin trio to be nerdy and Elizabeth I, as well. We need some solid female role models in the mix...) LMAO at the all-terrain Stephen...
At Tue Jun 21, 08:08:00 PM,
rebekah said…
ohh my friend who is a counselor for mental people (there's a more adult term for it than that but that's basically what she does) anyway, she has the little sigmund freud doll and he talks and says little things i can't understand because it's in an accent for some reason ... i rather fancy the albert einstein one though ... such kick ass hair !
At Tue Jun 21, 10:36:00 PM,
Vicious Summer said…
I NEED THAT! Where can I get an Albert Einstein doll? Oh wait, I mean an "action figure". Guys would never buy an Albert Einstein "doll", but throw "action" in the title and they are all over it ;). Guys are so simple...
At Tue Jun 21, 11:21:00 PM,
Jay said…
What an indignity. I mean, you work hard to garner a reputation as a genius, and for all of eternity you go down in plastic. Crap.
At Wed Jun 22, 02:40:00 AM,
[-o-] said…
The most important question: are the joints fully articulated?
At Wed Jun 22, 07:23:00 AM,
ergo said…
My votes would be for Marie Curie and Ghandi, the nonviolent action figure.
At Wed Jun 22, 07:53:00 AM,
Lever said…
Sef: Yeah, me neither... you'd think, to be representative of other religions, they'd do Buddah, Mohammad, Shiva, Ganeesh, L Ron Hubbard and stuff too :S
My BBFK: Nun-zilla? LMAO Oh wait... they're here...
Watson & Crick? DNA right? And Rosalind Franklin... I'm sure you've told me this one too...
And positive female role-models? Oh yeah... Lara Croft, right? ;) Or a Maggie Thatcher to stick pins in LOL Or Hilary Clinton... I like her :)
Rebekah: The more adult term is "nutters" BTW ;) (LOL - "Nutters by the Way" - good name for a band (Royalties please ;) ))
Does the Siggy Freud doll come with innuendos?
Yeah, Einy's hair is just wicked - I think the official phrase was "Features realistic disheveled hair."
Vicious Summer: You can buy Einstein online here ;)
Spot on there, Summer, I'm not a "doll" buyer but I'm OK wearing pink... well, OK, *sometimes* (hot summer day)
So what about the "tom-boy" girls and boys who aren't sure? Do they get action dolls? LOL
Jay: LMAO trust you *laughing* It's a bit easier than crafting them from the fabric of space & time ;)
[-0-] : Yes they are. AND, AND... you can't see but he apparently has a piece of chalk in his hand. Bonus Accessory!
Ergo: Hey Ergo, welcome aboard ;) :)
Curie - that's cool and Ghandi... now that's very good. Do you think he'd play nice with all the other toys?
At Wed Jun 22, 11:42:00 AM,
Brom said…
I think the Curie one would be good, it will have to glow in the dark tho'
At Wed Jun 22, 04:47:00 PM,
Lever said…
Brom-man: Hey Brom, glow-in-the-dark curry is a great idea... at least you could see where the can't-handle-their-drink idiots had left it on the pavement on your way back from the pub...
...oh...
...Curie. Ha, silly me ;)
At Thu Jun 23, 11:44:00 AM,
Mummy/Crit said…
I bought one of these in the US for a maths/physics nerd friend of mine once...they are great...and nun-zilla, the best present for lapsed catholics known to man. I bought one for my homeopath. he loved it...
My bet for action figure would have to be Amanda Vanstone (our minister for brown people - dept of immigration, multicultural and indigenous affairs, I kid you not) She is a smallish, dumpy woman given to very loud floral shirts, and pretending to like said brown people. Comes with razor wire and abandoned phospate mining island....
At Thu Jun 23, 09:01:00 PM,
jonny ragel said…
my friend bonnie collects off-color religious objects and action figures. included in her cache is a 'buddy christ', from the movie 'dogma'. her birthday will be coming up sometime, so thanks for the head's up, one could always use a moses to lead their collection to the promised land.
At Thu Jun 23, 11:55:00 PM,
searchingforMrDarcy said…
Cool Post Lever! I'm geeking out over the possibilities. I will also jump on the all terrain Stephen Hawking refrain, "That would be awesome!"
Ooo and the Marie Curie one could glow in the dark because of the radiation - darn brom-man already thought of that one.
At Sat Jun 25, 02:25:00 AM,
Lever said…
Mummy/Crit: LOL and for lapsed catholics Joe's Garage Act 1 by Frank Zappa is good too :)
Nun-zilla for your homeopath LOL
This Amanda Vanstone figure sounds quite crazy - what sorta kid would you get one o' those for?
Johnny Crash: Ah man, Dogma - ace movie. Wow, that's kinda cool - is Bonnie actually religious or just into the iconography?
Let me know if there's any decent accessories with the Moses figure - like the stone tablets (in the arc - neat), bushes to burn or mysterious voices... LOL
SFMD: Hey there SearchingForMrDarcy, Welcome aboard :D
D'ya think the Stephen Hawking figure should be remote-controlled? Glow-in-the-dark toys are just ace aren't they? - used to have this luminous bendy skeleton; I Loved that toy :)
At Sat Jun 25, 09:09:00 AM,
shina said…
Nun-zilla?....hey it means "what time is it now?" in my area's dialect...!
At Sat Jun 25, 01:44:00 PM,
Lever said…
Shina: Hey Shina, that's funny :D Time to buy a Nun-Zilla then ;)
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