It has been a while (nearly
a year: I’d estimate maybe January 2024) since I’ve really been deeply engaged
with action figures, new action figures. About that time the seasonal wave was
petering out and they were getting few and far between, so I kind of let things
drop. But yesterday my brother John pointed this one out to me on Entertainment
Earth, asking me “Did you ever think we’d see the day?” That stirred my
interest and I had to go to that website, and there I found a whole new batch
of things I’d never seen before, or even dared to dream of. I spent nearly
three hours going over sixty-five pages culling notable figures as a list of
things to be remembered. I mean to post them in batches over the day.
What impressed me again as I
gleaned the fields this time was how many figures were aimed at nostalgia. This
should not surprise me. My generation spanned the era from MEGO Planet of
the Apes to Kenner Star Wars. It was perhaps inevitable that we
would design the toys we’d always wanted or that someone would produce them to
take advantage of the market. We’re old enough to have some disposable income
(well, I don’t, but more industrious folks do), staid enough that visits to
Cancun or Hawaii or drunken weekend binges no longer have great appeal, and
wistful enough to want more tangible reminders of our old enthusiasms, perhaps
to spark the interest of the young folks. And some of the figures just have
immortal ‘geek’ appeal that spans the generations.
It is unlikely that I will
get many, or any, of the figures to be posted today. Quite a few of the fancier
ones are in the $100 range. Not this one, though; it’s a mere $22. Always did
like me a ‘gator toy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVDUYJo3CjU
‘Royal red rug’ was in our
family vocabulary for many years; I think we had a highly desirable soft blanket of
that color. Alliteration!
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