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Barack Obama – The Action Figure

By Hervé St-Louis
August 22, 2008 - 07:47

“ I have found the answer. It is the same question that action figure collectors are asking. I have found the one. I have found the Barack Obama action figure.” If you have been immortalized as an action figure, you know that you have definitely made it and that to someone out there, to some scrawny action figure collector, you are the one!

Vendor Jailbreak Toys has released a Barack Obama action figure. The toy producer is best known for the Oddfellows’ line of action figure based on historical figures like Alfred Einstein and Mark Twain. These are short cartoon action figures with big heads. The Barack Obama action figure follows the same pattern of short pout body and big head, but unlike the other toys produced by Jailbreak, it actually has articulations at the elbows, the shoulders, the wrists, and the neck.



Melville, New York-based Jailbreak Toys is short on comments on why it released a Barack Obama action figure, but it definitely supports the presidential candidate. Jailbreak Toys which is not affiliated with the Barack Obama campaign, will donate money to the candidacy organization for every action figure sold. They are short on words with what they will do after the 2008 election.

Now Jailbreak Toys is not the only company to have produced a Barack Obama action figure. Hero Builder, based in Oxford, Connecticut, has been releasing action figures of political figures for years. Their George Bush is well known. They also have a John McCain action figure. However, their Barack Obama action figure lacks the charm of the six-inch Jailbreak Toys’ version. It’s based on a Mego-like twelve inch build that they use for all of their action figures which have to be dressed. Personally, I’ve always maintained that if you have to dress it, it’s not an action figure, it’s a doll.



Jailbreak Toys’ Barack Obama action figure, at least looks like the presidential candidate and is unique and inspired in its design. It comes with a neat packaging modeled in the presidential candidates’ colours. The Barack Obama action figure comes in two versions, a white suit called the Toy Tokyo Summer Suit and the regular black suit version. The black suit version retails for $12.99, the white suit version is $19.99.

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