ALT.SF4M Spooky SF Toys • g*****o@l**.****t.net 03/06/1996 00:00:000 UTC I couldn't beleive when I first saw the "John Carter of Mars" Action Figures on TV several months ago. I could understand the Tarzan Action Figures, but how many kids have actually heard of John Carter of Mars or even read the entire series. I remember reading the entire series when I was in Junior High School. I picked them up from a 2nd Hand book shop in Philly for .25 cents each and it was great summer reading at the time. It was a real mind-blast seeing that line of SF figures. I guess they wanted to cash in with all these Alien gibberish that found it's way into the hearts of the main-stream. Maybe some clever group of Subgenii can work a deal with the toy industry and put out The Bob Dobbs Action Figures. You can have Bob, Connie, the Xists, Nazi Hell Creatures from the inner Earth and all th rest of the cosmic horrors as Action Figures. Think of all the money the Church can make! --Glen • k******d@d*****i.com 04/06/1996 00:00:000 UTC > I couldn't beleive when I first saw the "John Carter of Mars" Action > Figures on TV several months ago. Oh yeah! I remember that commercial. Only saw it once. I thought maybe they were starting up some kind of kid's show or cartoon based on the characters, but that was the last I heard of it. > Maybe some clever group of Subgenii can work a deal with the toy industry > and put out The Bob Dobbs Action Figures. You can have Bob, Connie, the > Xists, Nazi Hell Creatures from the inner Earth and all th rest of the > cosmic horrors as Action Figures. Think of all the money the Church can > make! HP Lovecraft Action figures...? --Doc • s******j@**.com 04/06/1996 00:00:000 UTC In article <9606032305591.The_Win-D.*******d@d*****i.com>, Kevin Conod wrote:   >> I couldn't beleive when I first saw the "John Carter of Mars" Action   >> Figures on TV several months ago. >Oh yeah! I remember that commercial. Only saw it once. I thought maybe they >were starting up some kind of kid's show or cartoon based on the characters, >but that was the last I heard of it. Actually, they were going to reprint the books and distribute them FREE in schools to promote literacy and interest in imaginative literature! No, that's a lie. They'd never do that. A kid who reads doesn't watch TV, and kids that don't watch TV don't buy as much crap. There probably will be a John Carter show in a season or two. It'll be all cleaned up and indistinguishable from _He - Man_. The Radium Guns won't actually fire atomic explosives, and John Carter will probably ride around encouraging the nations of Barsoon to make peace and plant trees. If the effort falls through, and the figures go on sale for $1.00 a pop, I suggest y'all BUY as many as you can and hide them in your mom's attic. In a few years you can take them down and sell them at a convention for $25 each. I am dead serious about this!   >> Maybe some clever group of Subgenii can work a deal with the toy industry   >> and put out The Bob Dobbs Action Figures. You can have Bob, Connie, the   >> Xists, Nazi Hell Creatures from the inner Earth and all th rest of the   >> cosmic horrors as Action Figures. Think of all the money the Church can   >> make! >HP Lovecraft Action figures...? >--Doc The problem with Lovecraft action figures is the fact that some kids would go mad or die of fear after seeing them. Hmmm. They'd probably use that in their advertising. "The toys so scary your friends might DIE when they see them!" (Shot of kid lying on his back, eyes wide open and mouth twisted in a rictus of fear, hands frozen by rigor mortis as if to ward off some hideous thing; another kids squats nearby, rocking back and forth and running his hands through his now-white hair, mumbling "the angles . . . all wrong . . . the angles . . . MOTHER!") -- +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ ***@***.com ~ s*****s@a*****.***u.edu ~ s******j@**.com http://www.ini.cmu.edu/~sjones/ • a*******g@i*.******m.com 05/06/1996 00:00:000 UTC In <4p1m8e$***@b******.**o.com> s******j@**.com (Stefan E. Jones) writes: >The problem with Lovecraft action figures is the fact that some kids would >go mad or die of fear after seeing them. Hmmm. They'd probably use that >in their advertising. Hmmm. Dead kids means less sales revenue. They would have to tone them down, divide them into teams and have them fight each other. "Meet Action Cuthulhu(tm), with tentacles that really *SQUIRM* and twin rocket launchers. From his secret base at R'lyeh, Cuthulhu and the other Great Old Defenders fight the evil (relativly) Outer Gods. Help Cuthulhu, Tsathoggua (with real Fuzzy Fur(tm)) and Shub-Niggurath (collect all 1000 young!) fight the insidious Dr. Nyarlathotep." Insanity on the other hand might not be so bad. It could provide a secondary market for Mattel's line of playpen toys or even lead to innovative new toys, like the "Action Padded Cell" -Tony Hastur, Hastur, Hastur. See, nothing hap • a****4@f******.********n.ca 06/06/1996 00:00:000 UTC Anthony Matranga (a*******g@i*.******m.com) writes: > "Meet Action Cuthulhu(tm), with tentacles that really *SQUIRM* and twin > rocket launchers. From his secret base at R'lyeh, Cuthulhu and the > other Great Old Defenders fight the evil (relativly) Outer Gods. Help > Cuthulhu, Tsathoggua (with real Fuzzy Fur(tm)) and Shub-Niggurath > (collect all 1000 young!) fight the insidious Dr. Nyarlathotep." > Hastur, Hastur, Hastur. See, nothing hap And of course, they would have to have a movie...and get someone like Arnold S. to play a lead role...uttering lines like "Hastur la vista, baby."... ttyl Farrell