maybe congealed action figures

[Frances Morey]

Tele,
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Remember the t-shirt idea. This group couldn't get it together for that simple project, and molded plastic dolls are a quantum leap beyond that. I paid rapt attention to the Mark Twain biography last night. His investment misfortune was an object lesson for me. The adventure of his investing in the early prototype of the lineotype machine left him in poverty. He squandered both his fortune and that of his wife on such a risky bidness.
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I had a neat mold making idea once. I wanted to make plastic jello molds like ice cube trays in the shape of small handguns. Bars could prepare jello shots in them and hand them out as "congealed weapons."
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--- On Jan 15, 2002, telebob x <telebob@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> OK  help me out here...  I am looking into these action figures...I have 
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> found a modeller who can sculpt the prototypes and make the molds...but 
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> before we go any further...we really need to examine what is worthy of an
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> 
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> investment...can we sell these puppies? This sculptor ain't cheap.
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> 
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> Now I read the other day that the Osama Bin Laden urinal cakes were (ahem)
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> stacking up in the warehouse.  So maybe the bloom is off the rose on the 
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> Osama cakes, but does the "Osama market" still have legs is the
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> question.  
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> Would an Osama action figure sell worldwide...kinda like the Fidel/Che tee
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> 
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> shirt thing from the 70's that endures today.
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> I was envisioning also a Saddam Hussein a/f in that famous pose of his 
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> firing pistol in the air with his cute little black beret on.  Of course I
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> 
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> wanted to make his belly a bit saggier and perhaps have his shirtail out.
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> Do you think a Ken Lay and Geo Bush duo doll with Ken passing $ to George
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> has a chance or is the market too esoteric?
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> Some of the other a/f figures and mini-dioramas I have been thinking about
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> 
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> include:
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> 
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> The Monica and Bill dolls.  Bill has his pants down and M's face is hidden
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> in his nether parts.  Bill is on the phone, and M has Bill's scotch drink
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> resting on the top of her head.
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> The JFK and Marilyn dolls.  In flagrante delicto with JFK watching TV
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> while 
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> Marilyn performs.
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> The JFK motorcade with Jackie trying to take her fast exit off the trunk
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> of 
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> the limo. Roses scattered, her little pink dress stained...
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> Nixon with his hand on the red button of the small Wollensak tape
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> recorder.
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> Would a Mickey Mouse crucified on a Dollar sign be too obvious or
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> didactic? (I am thinking yes, but gosh Goofy, I think it would sell.)
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> ++++++++++++
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> So this is the direction my idle thoughts are drifting this AM...
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> Is this a pony we can ride?  Will this dog hunt? Is the world/America
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> ready 
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> for Ghettoware products?  From the Ghetto Thinktank Research Group, the
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> ALL 
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> NEW
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> Hall of Shame Action Figures!
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> I was also thinking of the Great Villains series.  You know.
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> Rasputin
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> Pontius Pilate
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> Stalin
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> Lenin
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> Mao
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> John Wilkes Booth
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> Jeffrey Dahmer
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> J. Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson
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> 
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> etc...
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> Ideas anyone?
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> telebob
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