these darn action figures

[Jim Strong]

There has to be a SUMMIT meeting in Austin soon to
explore this.
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Billy Jim
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--- telebob x <telebob@hotmail.com> wrote:
> OK  help me out here...  I am looking into these
> action figures...I have 
> found a modeller who can sculpt the prototypes and
> make the molds...but 
> before we go any further...we really need to examine
> what is worthy of an 
> investment...can we sell these puppies? This
> sculptor ain't cheap.
> 
> Now I read the other day that the Osama Bin Laden
> urinal cakes were (ahem) 
> stacking up in the warehouse.  So maybe the bloom is
> off the rose on the 
> Osama cakes, but does the "Osama market" still have
> legs is the question.  
> Would an Osama action figure sell worldwide...kinda
> like the Fidel/Che tee 
> shirt thing from the 70's that endures today.
> 
> I was envisioning also a Saddam Hussein a/f in that
> famous pose of his 
> firing pistol in the air with his cute little black
> beret on.  Of course I 
> wanted to make his belly a bit saggier and perhaps
> have his shirtail out.
> 
> Do you think a Ken Lay and Geo Bush duo doll with
> Ken passing $ to George 
> has a chance or is the market too esoteric?
> 
> Some of the other a/f figures and mini-dioramas I
> have been thinking about 
> include:
> 
> The Monica and Bill dolls.  Bill has his pants down
> and M's face is hidden 
> in his nether parts.  Bill is on the phone, and M
> has Bill's scotch drink 
> resting on the top of her head.
> 
> The JFK and Marilyn dolls.  In flagrante delicto
> with JFK watching TV while 
> Marilyn performs.
> 
> The JFK motorcade with Jackie trying to take her
> fast exit off the trunk of 
> the limo. Roses scattered, her little pink dress
> stained...
> 
> Nixon with his hand on the red button of the small
> Wollensak tape recorder.
> 
> Would a Mickey Mouse crucified on a Dollar sign be
> too obvious or
> didactic? (I am thinking yes, but gosh Goofy, I
> think it would sell.)
> 
> ++++++++++++
> 
> So this is the direction my idle thoughts are
> drifting this AM...
> Is this a pony we can ride?  Will this dog hunt? Is
> the world/America ready 
> for Ghettoware products?  From the Ghetto Thinktank
> Research Group, the ALL 
> NEW
> 
> Hall of Shame Action Figures!
> 
> I was also thinking of the Great Villains series. 
> You know.
> 
> Rasputin
> Pontius Pilate
> Stalin
> Lenin
> Mao
> John Wilkes Booth
> Jeffrey Dahmer
> J. Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson
> 
> etc...
> 
> Ideas anyone?
> 
> telebob
> 
> 
> 
> 
>
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