[Snowflakian]

Spider-woman's costume is looking great in figure form! Still wish we got a 4'' figure of that costume, but am glad that after decades of the same costume, they finally gave her a new one. Pops so much better as a design this way too. Makes the figure feel more individualized too without seeming like a blank buck painted in spandex pattern of her suit.

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Originally Posted by Tomax

wrong.

You do understand the thin line between action figure and doll is solely because of fragile male ego not being able to handle that they are playing with dolls? That is literally why they created the term "Action figure" even though they are all offshoots of dolls. Because marketers in the 60s knew that males weren't secure enough to acknowledge they are playing with dolls. That's literally the birth of the term "action figure."

Bild Lili gave inspiration to Barbie, then from Barbie came Ken, then 3 years later came GI Joe. From that came all the similar items from companies trying to jump into this new market, including Mego in the 70s, and from there came all the size variations on the concept. All various scales of dolls. The only difference is that they decided to call it an action figure because "boys" wouldn't buy "dolls" even though they are.

So the term "Action figure" was created by a marketer to tell boys to play with & buy dolls.