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Originally Posted by Ninjinister

Ignoring your apparent psuedo-feminist rant starter attempt, have you not noticed that outside of ones that cost hundreds of dollars, dolls are pretty cheapo product as well? I mean I can't think of any mass retail doll that has more than five PoA and super basic paint apps.

Considering GI Joe itself came from dolls as did much of the action figure market today, your point isn't really all that valid.

And what you see, isn't what you get with "dolls".
Take the recently done exclusive swamp thing for example. It used "doll" tech to hide the articulation entirely. Such practices are actually common among Barbie dolls. Many have elbows, knees, and other pose potential, but you can't see it because of how the plastic covers it. It varies as greatly as "action figures" do.

Though honestly, "Action figures" are dolls. That term evolved from the need to separate girl toys from boy toys as marketers felt selling dolls to boys wouldn't go over with parents. The term came from the original GI Joe doll which was essentially a ken doll. They marketed it as an action figure, and the rest is history.

So a "barbie doll" is an action figure and the reverse is true too. Though then you also get into blanket statements that include plushies and other forms of cloth material made items with plastic heads, and other similar products that are under "dolls" as "Doll" became the blanket term for girl toys while action figures were used as the term to market to boys.

There really is no difference other than the forced gender perceptions of marketers.

More directly, the term Action Figure is a sub-type of the more broader term Doll.

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Originally Posted by ArsGratiaArtis

Why is that your choice of zinger though? Why are you using doll as a pejorative? Happy Meal Toy implies a cheap product, one packed-in with something else and not worthy of sale itself. Why is doll negative to you? Do you feel it emasculates collectors of other scales?

As for "happy meal toys". Mcdonalds has done some awesome ones over time. The Power Rangers line they did for the 90s movie, and the He-man 2k3 ones they did are comparable to store releases. But they also had a cost that under today's standards would lean more towards what we see from the lower priced 3.75 avengers, green lantern, and man of steel figures. Detailing was pretty damn good too. I still keep that He-man and Orko in my 3.75 displays.

So if that's what you mean by happy meal toys. I wish mcdonalds would do more like that! The ones they have today are more towards cheap party store trinkets you'd find in a dollar store.

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Originally Posted by ukmu

I would like to start a rumour that Dwight Stall is a cross dressing nazi who beats dogs and is responsible for ozone depletion.

*Sigh* and you wonder why Hasbro is moving farther and farther away from wanting to interact with fans at all.