Republican Candidate Action Figure Dolls For Sale

Political diehards who want something to remind them of the 2012 Republican primaries are in luck.

Action figure retailer Hero Builders is selling a range of 2012 action figures, including Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann and Herman Cain. (Ron Paul fans will have to look elsewhere.)

Talking editions of several are available. A sweater-vest-clad Santorum lambastes President Obama's "phony theology,", while Perry delivers his famous debate-night failure to remember which departments he'd cut. While the Cain figurine doesn't speak, he is available with a "Playmate" doll.

Hero Builders owner Emil Vicale told the Detroit Free Press that he predicted the Santorum figure, with its "goofy sweater vest," would sell best. He also alluded to a dark side of the cheerful-looking Gingrich figure. “Newt is a little complex. One moment, he’s happy and fuzzy and the next …" he said.

The action figures sell for between $34.95 and $69.95.

Comments

[Real12]

07:15 PM on 02/29/2012

Also, actual Republican candidates are for sale!

[gmb007]

09:40 PM on 02/28/2012

OMG, they even have a talking Santorum.

[torgman3]

05:37 PM on 03/17/2012

With a kung-fu grip!

[gmb007]

09:34 PM on 02/28/2012

I'm surprised they don't have wind-up keys in their backs.

You know - for the Kochs.

[HamOnRye]

07:28 PM on 02/28/2012

Move over Chucky, there is a much more creepy batch of dolls out there now.

[mgmgmg]

06:52 PM on 02/28/2012

The Santorum doll looks like Obama in a sweater vest.

[amaboss52]

06:36 PM on 02/28/2012

I think the dolls would do a better job at campaigning, they can't talk and that seems to be the main problem with the real guys.

[DanJake]

06:06 PM on 02/28/2012

They actually might sell pretty well. I would suggest we brace for the numerous non-Republican bloggers who will show pictures of them all over the internet in unflattering poses.

[amaboss52]

06:37 PM on 02/28/2012

Especially Santorum, I can picture him naked and bent over with a GI Joe doll naked and standing behind him.

[budyzer30]

06:04 PM on 02/28/2012

WHy do they all look like they were Arnold Shwartzeneeger dolls that had their heads replaced. I don't think any of those guys are as "built" as the dolls. And the Gingrich one is way off base.

[MsMoonpieJD]

06:00 PM on 02/28/2012

Don't they have a cheaper version for target practice?

[averagezoe]

05:57 PM on 02/28/2012

Did the manufacturers sift through a few litter boxes to stuff the insides of those quaint figures?

[WeirdScience]

05:52 PM on 02/28/2012

I'm sorry, but when I think about Newt Gingrich, a lot of words come to mind, but none of them are even remotely close to "Action", much less "Hero".

Same goes for the other two jokers. Paul apparently isn't fit to be portrayed in effigy.

[ausscyn]

06:00 PM on 02/28/2012

Paul has a GREAT doll & you can find it at dailypaul.com!

[ppswg]

05:26 PM on 02/28/2012

THE NAME ACTION HERO WILL NEVER BE THE SAME, THESE SLUGS ARE A JOKE, THANK YOU GOD, FOR SHOWING ME THE WAY ON REAGAN'S 2ND TERM, I AM A SOLID DEMOCRAT, AND HAVE NO RETRETS...THIS GROUP IS ALMOST, (NO) THEY ARE EMBARISEING....WE NEED A RUS LIMBAUGH AND THE JOE (SHERIEFF) WHAT EVER HIS NAME IS, YOU KNOW THE PLAIN LOOKING MEAN SPIRITED APPARENTLY TOURCHERED AS A CHILD SHERIEFF IN ARIZONA.......

[ecurbwl]

05:23 PM on 02/28/2012

They were going to offer a Democratic doll but, the screen was not big enough to accomodate the huge ears that refuse to hear what the American people want and need.

[torgman3]

05:38 PM on 03/17/2012

Why didn't take the ears off of the Bush dolls? I bet they have a HUGE overstock of those.

[drscorpion]

04:42 PM on 02/28/2012

With no animation or action out of the candidates themselves, this is great entertainment news for mainstream Republicans.....both of them.

Doc

[Guy Incognito]

04:31 PM on 02/28/2012

"Chief, if I were surrounded by eight or ten of these things, would I stand a chance?"

"Well, that's no problem, if you got a gun shoot 'em in the head. That's the sure way to kill 'em. If you don't get yourself a club, beat 'em or burn 'em. They go up pretty easy."

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