Action Figures to Be Noted: Childhood

 

Notes:

Though not necessarily my childhood. The Frosty the Snowman looks more like the animated version and less like the stop-motion version (Christmas in July) that I already have. But put a top hat on an action figure and you have my immediate attention. The Goosebumps villains belong mostly to my nephew's childhood; Mr. Hooper from Sesame Street would make a good 'civilian' in any action figure adventure story. That odd-looking Popeye is how he first appeared in the Thimble Theatre comic strip (which he later took over and it became simply Popeye), and he originally got his great life-preserving luck by rubbing the head of Bernice the Whiffle Hen before spinach assumed a role in his life. That's Castor Oyl, Olive's brother, not a short Wimpy, in that Popeye line up: he was the original owner of the Whiffle Bird and the 'hero' of Thimble Theatre. That figure of Snoopy merely confirms that he is terrible 'from a design point of view', at least for translation into three dimensions. Sweetums and Robin both first publicly premiered in 1971 in Jim Henson's The Frog Prince (we watched the original broadcast). Oh, and there are several other Richard Scarry characters besides Huckle the Cat and Lowly Worm, a meager handful from his cast of thousands.