Talking Jesus Action Figure Sells Out At Walmart

Consumerist:

If you were planning on getting a Talking Jesus Action Figure this Christmas (or whatever) you're almost out of luck. Walmart has completely sold out of the toy and Target.com has "very limited supply," according to the manufacturer's spokesperson, Joshua Livingston.

"We feel blessed that the toys are now in the hands of thousands of children, teaching them the word of God. We knew that the toys would make great Christmas gifts, but to see them sell so well before the Christmas buying season begins proves that parents want alternatives in the toy aisle," says Livingston.

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Comments

[rh654]

What would rock is if Jesus was an action figure with a kung-fu grip on a bible that said something like "I'll be back"...

[ammitusen]

hmmmm this Jesus doll could spell the end of American Christianity. i mean ... what kid is going to grow up with "the fear of God" when his deity ends up headless and naked on the bottum of his toy box?

[johnmorgan]

If the Jesus action figures are sold out, how about other "family values" action figures, such as a Reverand Ted Haggard doll, complete with gay escort friend and a tiny bag of meth?

[Earl]

Y'all are so funny!

I can't narrow my contribution down to a single comment.

$12.99 for Jesus? JE-SUS!

When your kids grow up and you find this old toy in the closet, if you throw it away, you'll go to hell.

Have you seen the George Bush version? It somes pre-loaded with a firecracker up its ass.

If you peek up his robe, you won't see any gentiles.

Somewhere in China, there is a sweatshop boss making $100 a day off the backs of a thousand slaves making little Jesuses for twenty-five cents a day. SUCKAS!

They are actually just left-over Anna Nicole dolls refitted with new heads and a robe.

One special doll has a miracle inside!

[edresearcher]

G.I. Jesus. Maybe they can put him in desert fatigues. I'm sure he would support the Surge.
And the Christianists complain that there's an elite left-wing conspiracy designed to secularize America. The fact is that America is secular, and the goal of these nuts is to create a theocratic state -- not at all what American democracy is about.
BTW, this Jesus looks much too Anglo for me. Does he speak in Aramaic, as the original Jesus?

[maca]

"We feel blessed that the toys are now in the hands of thousands of children, teaching them the word of God."

Isn't it funny how words written 2000 years ago by a bunch of guys who thought the earth was flat and the moon was made of cheese somehow became "the word of god".

The bible, the quran, all of them, they're the word of MAN, folks. If there is a god, he or she or it hasn't said anything, except perhaps through that innate sense of right and wrong most of us were born with. Start listening to that and stop listening to men's words pretending to be god's.

[ReasonIsMyReligion]

I'd like to see them try a full motion Mohammed.

[helonias]

Oh and Jesus did not have long hair and had black curly hair just like his mom.

[helonias]

If you pull his string does he say anything about graven images?

[wadenelson1]

funny, he doesn't LOOK jewish....

[plooger]

His likeness may have died-out in Walmart and Target stores...

... but HE HAS RISEN!

.. on eBay: http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?satitle=talking+jesus+doll

[Trittydi]

What kind of action are we talking about? Does he come with a Mary Magdalene doll too?
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[VungTauVet]

David Koresh lives ! ! !

[RobertaInCT]

If it was made in China, which most likely it was, they better check for lead.

[angryliberal]

Where's his cross? Or do you just nail him to the wall?