• I know this is a late entry, but right off the bat, The GWAR action figure line that Shocker Toys somehow managed to lose the license on. 4+ yrs later, and they're either still up for pre-order, or all traces of them (save for the Beefcake prototype) have completely vanished from the site. But in keeping with the theme, how about some more music-themed action figures from the McFarlane line: Scott Ian (Anthrax) Dimebag Darrell (Pantera) Max Cavalera (Sepultura/Nailbomb/Soulfly) Al Jourgensen (Ministry) Kerry King (Slayer) Cliff FUCKING Burton (who on all accounts SHOULD have been in the Metallica line) King Diamond (Mercyful Fate/King Diamond, just because it would be hilarious to own an action figure of him) And while we're at it, why not a whole line of some of the non-Ramones/Sex Pistols Punk Rock heroes? Lee Ving (Fear) Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys) Keith Morris (Black Flag/Circle Jerks) Henry Rollins (Black Flag/State Of Alert) Ian Mackaye (Minor Threat/Fugazi) HR (Bad Brains) Stiv Bators (The Dead Boys) Darby Crash (The Germs) Johnny Thunders (The New York Dolls/The Heartbreakers) Glenn Danzig/Jerry Only/Doyle (The Misfits '78, even though we got the 12" Jerry and Doyle figures a few yrs back, these would display better in 6" form) And if the Metal and Punk lines are a success, why not some more genres? Maybe a Goth Rock line: Robert Smith (The Cure) Captain Sensible (The Damned) Nik Fiend (Alien Sex Fiend) Peter Murphy (Bauhaus) Rozz Williams (Christian Death) Morrissey (The Smiths)

• Holy shit, that Dr. McNinja idea makes me realize that I would totally like to have a stuffed animal version of Roast Beef from Achewood. He would kick all kinds of ass, staring at the ceiling, not moving..empty, dismal expression on his face...JUST LIKE IN THE COMIC!

• Something I've ALWAYS wanted, with the comics hitting I thought it may be a possibility and now with the movie seriously being hinted at there's an even better chance... The Dark Tower. Series 1: Roland with a lobstrosity and removable fingers Eddy with free drug paraphernalia Susannah with wheelchair and plates Jake with Oy Randall Flag Set: Blaine the Mono scene Series 2: Young Roland Cuthbert Alain Susan Delgado Big Coffin Hunters Set: Susan burning I'd kill for a larger selection with Sheemie, Mordred, Rhea, The Crimson King and so much more say Thankee!

• Screw my idea. I want some fucking Dr. McNinja toys!!!

• LEGO Hospital was an idea I submitted back to LEGO when I was 13. Now I know there was a LEGO hospital, but the back in the day version lacked something like realism. Everyone was smiling, where were the burn victims, amputees, and nail gun accidents. That's why LEGO TRAUMA CENTER (TM) would have been the best toy evah. Dog eat one of your minifigs and barfed it out, just send them to the ER, that figure would fit in perfectly with minifig without an arm, minifig with nail in head, minifig with burns over 70% of its plastic body, minifig with VD (you can't see it, but look at his face, he's really embarassed about something), minifig with mental disorders (That one comes with a helmet.)

• The best toy they never made was Lawn Darts 2 (Jarts 2). Sure old lawn darts were fun, with the throwing, the scoring, and the massive cranial injuries, but Jarts 2. Would have taken it to a whole new level, a ballistic level. Jarts 2 would have had not just one air cannon, but two! In festive blue and red! This would have increased the weap... er toys effective range to 150 meters! Variations packages would have sold styrofoam shields to block the darts of opposing players. As a bonus, one dart out of every 1,000 produced would have razor sharp edges, EVERYWHERE! Try throwing that one kids. Yes, Jarts 2 fun for the whole family, or at least the kid that hates the rest of his family and neighbors and classmates and crazy cat lady and so forth.

• I want anime figures. Sure, your answer must be, but there's already tons of anime figures out there. Yes, but I want them articulated, not some crappy gashapon plastic, and I aslo want the supporter character. No, I only want the supporter characters. I don't care about Spike, I want Jet Black from Cowboy bebop, maybe together with Ein. I don't care about the Elric brothers I want Scar from Fullmetal alchemist, possibly with interchangable hands. I don't care about Motoko, I want Batou from Ghost in the shell with a ton of high-tech weapons. I don't care about Naruto, I want Kakashi and Asuma in G.I. Joe size, fully articulated to go against Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow.

• I have to go with Princess Leia as Jabba's slave. Let's face it, everyone had a huge boner for that outfit. I also would have loved to have that Uhla dancer and that girl with the six tits, but Leia was a main character, we had to have one of her. Nope. But we got guys like Yakface that nobody knew or cared about or bought, so they go for thousands of dollars these days. We could have had so much fun with that figure, but Kenner never made one. Maybe they didn't want calls from angry parents with kids having "fun" with their figures. That was just in the original line of Star Wars figures. Years later, they came out with one, but I moved on to real girls by then.

• @Telezombie: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41nfEAF9uEL._SL500_AA280_.jpg

• also a life size realistic version of Cavity Sam from the game operation with removable body parts. He needs to shock you when you touch the sides also.

• HR Puff n Stuff and Witchy Poo Mayor Mccheese with all the points of articulation and moving parts of a mcfarlane masterpiece. Yummy Mummy and Fruit Brute from general mills this doesn't count as an action figure I guess but I always wondered why they didn't make slime with other body parts besides eyes and ears.

• Dr. Mcninja. Lucy the Gorilla. Yoshi the Raptor. Gordito the mustachioed, 12-year-old gunslinger. And maybe Dr. Mcninja wearing the spacesuit while surfing in the air on robo-Dracula while flipping the bird. Then again, the Italian Spiderman is fine too.

• @Ohiopest, They already made Dinosaucer toys: http://www.toyarchive.com/Dinosaucers/Dinosaucers.html

• Oh man, the Orgasmo toys are a great idea. I also like the Spanish Inquisition idea.

• From Dusk Til Dawn figures, specifically a Seth Gekko with his hydrolic vampire-staking machine engine thing. Badass.

• The Doctor Death Action Figure... with Atomic Elbow Action. http://s3.amazonaws.com/lefora-attachments/site/3/attachments/20090202/Dr.D_World_Camp.jpg Also, in his Space Suit for Galactic Wrestling Missions. http://s3.amazonaws.com/lefora-attachments/site/3/attachments/20090204/Doctor_Death_Space_suit.jpg

• Some great ideas! McFarlane did a pretty cool Snake Pliskin with removewble coat. DC Direct did the 3 stars of Preacher, along with a Saint of Killers. And A Jesse Custer eyepatch variant. I'd love to see an Herr Star with various degrees of damage, from regular to penile headed to gential mutilated to double amputee! Does that make me a serial killer? What I really want is a modern version of the unproduced 80s G.I.Joe...Rocky Balboa! I had a joe comic featuring his image and file information as a kid, which must have broken my brain with it's pure world colliding insanity since I forgot it entirely until recently. They printed a retraction the following issue with no explanation and no toy, although prototypes have surfaced and apparantly Sly's likeness rights got wrapped up in G.I.Joe's bastard bootleg imitator Rambo cartoon. A lot of collectors scrambling to complete that line. He would have been a fighting trainer. His weapon of choice? A stick with boxing gloves on the end. That's right, the ultimate enforcer for God's America with punch your face off without even touching you. No guns needed, the Itallion Stallion will exploderate an entire army of HISS tanks with a well planned training montage. Hilariously stupid, skull shatteringly awesome, a single tiny Russian AND Cobra stomping crossover of a toy that is an intense, raging boner of 1980's patriotism. Reagan would violently pop the hell out of the ground for the chance to wait in line to fellate this thing. That is the toy I want. Rocky as a Joe, I mean. Not Ronnie the Blowjob Zombie. Pervs.

• My Vote is for ZombieZeus and his Predator Toys in scale with GI Joes. I remember doing the EXACT same thing, mixing and matching my figs for a "close enough" cadre of Soldiers. (I think I used gung ho as Blain' of course, the figures I really wanted were GI Joe scale ALIENS colonial marines. Kenner tried in the early 90s, and their G1 Hicks was okay, but wasn't that accurate, and he DIDN'T HAVE A PULSE RIFLE!!! so last year hot toys put out a series of screen accurate, GI Joe scale figures, including a Hicks with pulse rifle and shotgun. At the time I was a full time student and barely had any money. to get the complete set would have cost almost 150 in the local coin. I had no way of justifing that sort of frivilous expense. But I still bought em. go me.

• i think our snarky, sarcastic society needs a set of 6 inch, or close to scale robots from mst3k, i would love to be able to sit on the couch in my home theater, watching my flatscreen with crow t. robot to my left, and tom servo to my right, i would carry them into the living room, going through as many numbered doors as possible and we'd take our seat next to my now, or soon-to-be, ex-girlfriend, and i would be able to sit and watch the episodes of biggest loser, or america's next top model that i kindly recorded for her on my house's tivo, or the newest sisterhood of the traveling pants sequel dvd, and i would be able to make my comments and jokes about alexis bledel, tyra banks and obesity, and ignore the death looks and remarks about my lack of maturity, all because of my robot friends, for fuck's sake!!! i saw "the women" in theaters, tom and crow, how i needed you then,

• @fishman2020 Here's the sad thing about The Fearless Photog, it actually looked awesome. It probably would have been a hit because it was unique and could have been a really cool toy. But that's Mattel for you. The biggest asshole toy company in the world. I swear if it wasn't for Barbie and Hotwheels which pretty much sell themselves, Mattel would be nothing. I mean slut girl dolls and little toy cars are pretty much the standard staple of every girl and boy in the world. We're not talking rocket science here where Mattel actually has to get off their fat asses and actually try to develop and market something interesting. If you look at how they handle anything outside their flagship brands they can't do anything right. I want my fucking Katara, Toph, Azula, and Uncle Iroh figures!!

• Exactly.

• @Aaron: I think you're on to something, but maybe it should be an entire "Famous Assassinations" package; Booth and Lincoln, Oswald and Kennedy (Grassy Knoll optional), etc...

• John Wilkes Booth action figure w/ .44 caliber Derringer

• Diamond Select actually made SOME Serenity figures, 1 Mal with sword and no coat, 1 Mal with coat and a bag o' loot, a reaver with axe-type weapon, and 2 slightly different Jayne figures, one with cigar and gun and one that appears to be minus a cigar but still has a gun. There are also Serenity and reaver versions of Serenity available from Dark Horse that are ornaments.

• The Gotcha Borgs from the Gamecube game "Gotcha Force." It's the best game you've never played. A third-person shooter about robots that come to earth to duke it out sounds done to death, until you find out they're actually toy-sized (their battlegrounds are classrooms and kids' bedrooms). And with dozens of "tribes" in the game--knights, ninja, cowboys, dragons, angels, transforming vehicles, samurai, girls with high-tech weapons--an army of 1:1 scale diecast toy robots invading my desk has been a dream of mine for years. Capcom may have released figurines of some of the Borgs when the game first hit, but I'd want to see fully articulated figures across the board.

• Exclusives don't count in my opinion! If it was made, but not made widely available, it may as well have not been made at all!

• I support 100% the guys what suggested House and Christopher Walken figures. Especially the arguments for House's cane.

• Venture Brothers Monarch has already been made I'd like to see a toyline for Death Race 2000 with vehicles or a Battle Beyond the Stars line.

• At the top of my action-figure wishlist (which is, I admit, rather short)is a set of I, CLAUDIUS / Sci-Fi crossover figures, in which each of the principal characters of the '70s BBC series does double duty as a character played by the same actor in a well-known SF series or movie. Examples would include: Dual-action Augustus / Vultan figure, with optional speech module - pull the string and he alternates between bellowing "Quinctilius Varus, WHERE ARE MY EAGLES?" and "Hawk-Men, DIVE!" Dual-action Livia / Reverend Mother Helen Mohiam - each with its own unique methods of poisoning your other action figures! Triple-action Sejanus / Captain Jean-Luc Picard / Dr. Xavier. Carries a death warrant in one hand and a cup of tea, Earl Grey, hot in the other. Comes with wheelchair for X-MEN crossover action. Livilla / Magenta action figure - can either sleep with your Sejanus (q.v.) figure or swan about your Frank N. Furter figure dressed as a maid. Caligula / Cain figure. Accessories include face-hugger alien figure and aborted fetus carved directly from sister Drusilla's womb. Rosy-Fingered Dawn costume and play-set sold separately! And Macro / Maximilian Arturo figure - comes with centurion's uniform, three-piece suit, vortex timer, and extra helpings of smug. Also included: detachable limbs and dwarf axeman costume for transformation into Gimli from LORD OF THE RINGS. I anticipate that this will inaugurate a whole series of action figures based on BBC historical dramas and light comedies. The exact details I leave as an exercise for your more inebriated readers.

• I'm going to have to throw in with the Firely camp. ThatCostumeGirl is right. My GI Joes would have definitely wanted to get it on with Kaylee and not Barbie. Except Shipwreck for some reason.

• Although I also really like the suggestion for Law and Order. I'd especially like a Fred Thompson failed presidential bid action figure, or a Detective Munch with Token Jew Grip!

• I can't believe no one has mentioned this yet: ORGAZMO action figures. Given Trey and Matt's ventures into merchandizing with South Park, I can't believe a line of Orgazmo figures has not been made, especially in an era where action figure lines from cult-classic movies is all the rage Imagine a company like McFarlane putting out the cast of Orgazmo as action figures? Seriously, the toyline actually writes itself! I mean you can start off with: Mormon Joe Young (complete with the Book of Mormon and Happy Tart) Orgazmo (with light-up Orgazmarator) Ben Chepleski/Choda-Boy (with removable dildo-head, furry handcuffs and a spring-loaded "cock-rocket") Jizz Master Zero with removable pants and alternate "smashed pottery face" head for battle scenes. Maxxx Orbinson with his nylon jumpsuit and voice chip that quotes immortal lines from the movie "And you don't even have to fuck!" "Sleeping with the fishes...see?" Ass-Fuck Twins playset with American Flag bedspread. G-Fresh Sushi Bar playset with battle damage sushi counters. Underwater coral reef scene that comes with Lobstra and Choda Dog). Garden of Eden Bedroom set with a "thud thud" sound effect button, along with a voice chip on the bed so when you place T-Rex onto a reluctant Orgazmo you hear her say "You're going to make me cum or I'm going to kick your butt!" Ghost-Jesus in a similar way they did with ghost-Kenobie through the Corn Pops exclusive a few years back. Sancho with a voice-button that repeats "I am Sahcho" every time you press it. Orgazmobile (aka the Buick Century) Orgazmo ebony/ivory double Stunt Cock set "Real" Orgazmo also complete with Orgazmorator, tank top and movie sounds (old lady riding her walker optional) Neutered Man with realistic farting action "merry christmas!" I'd spend all sorts of hard earned money on even a fraction of these posibilities.

• I'm totally gay for whoever said Pyramid Head, but to be fair: http://figurerealm.com/viewcustomfigure.php?FID=13917 Now if it was Kubrik - Mmmmmm... The things mini red pyramid would do to my pencils... OH THE HUMANITY!!!

• Well my first thought was a Hellblazer lineup complete with every different look he's had and most of his friends, enemies and of course throw in a box of slik cuts with every figure. gotta get these kids hooked somehow. also if no one said it, more planetary figures and League of extraordinary figures from each book. my favorite from that one: the invisible man = empty box.

• Lot of good (and weird) choices on here,but I've got to go with those who want Firefly/Serenity figures. I've actually dreamed about finding those in a store one day...make 'em 3 3/4 scale,throw in tons of accessories(guns,booze,apples) and give us a BMF-sized Serenity and I'd be a happy,happy boy....

• Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs with his garbage tucked between his legs... it would be the most fucked up terrifying figure ever.

• In the original Transformers G1 comics, there was a badass special forces team called The Wreckers, two of the members of which were Rack'n'Ruin (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/02/RackNRuin.jpg). Formerly separate Autobots that turned into jets, their bodies were fused together after both suffered debilitating injuries. A set of these two guys would have be cool because: -Probably the first Siamese twin action figures (Go diversity!) -Certainly the first Siamese twin robot figures (Groundbreaking!) -Separate, transforming bodies that could then lose an arm each and conjoin-i-form together (2 for 1!) -Crazy amounts of exchangeable melee weapon arms (Endless play combinations!) -Spring-loaded arms for super-bludgeoning action (Action feature!) -Very similar figures allowing for efficient mold sharing (Marketing savvy!)

• Tetsuo as a giant mutant freak. Sure, we've had a lot of Akira figures over the years. There's a lot of cool ones with Kanada on his bike, Tetsuo looking angry, and even one with Tetsuo looking at horror at his mutated arm, but never has there been a figure that fully captures the glory of his ultimate loss of control, culminating into his transformation into a giant, ugly, bubbling, baby thing. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vwt55TQq-3k/SN6R1fLVdII/AAAAAAAAC80/HjsvPoJAw3k/s320/akire+tetsuo.jpg That's what I'm talking about! Give me a giant, ugly mutant so that I can put it next to a small child and say, "You see that! That's what happens when you do drugs! To be more accurate, that's what happens when you do experimental drugs and then you lose your supply from the government, but you're clearly losing the intricacies of my statement because you're crying now! Suck it up, kid! Welcome to THE REAL WORLD!" Hell, it could even be made of playdough or something so that it can morph into new interesting shapes when you squeeze it. Maybe even somewhere that you can put puss so that it can ooze from time to time, and even a button so that you get some authentic Kaori crushing action. That would be the coolest thing ever.

• HA! I remember Fearless Photog. I was so excited for that He-man figure. For many years, I was under the impression that figure was made, but I just never found it. It wasn't until I got internet that I discovered we were screwed and misled. Damned Mattel

• Well, being a kid of the seventies I always wanted a sweet classic Sleestak from Land of the Lost! The closest thing was a MAYBE an alien from Star Wars such as Greedo (yea right-THAT SUCKED!) Hell the only thing even today are bobble heads or banks from Funko! I haven't seen anything from the new movie yet... so maybe my wish to the Blue Fairy will come true that instead of my Real Doll becoming flesh and blood (she'll probaby hate my small wad anyways)I'll get a sweet classic Sleestak of my very own!

• I'm surprised no one has snapped up the license to make Sopranos figures. I think it would only a need a few waves, and they should be in McFarlane style - realistic, but exaggerated a bit to bring out their sneering tough guy personas. It would be awesome to have Tony, Paulie Walnuts, Big Pussy and the gang lurking on the shelf.

• Dr. House and Colbert figures? I'd buy those... or maybe drool over them. But is there no love for the Spanish Inquisition? Think about it. 6 inches of pure Monty Python menace. I can already see the accessories: a rack and a comfy chair, maybe some tiny cushions. The Michael Palin figure has to be fully articulated and dressed in highly fetching red cardinal robes. But the figure has to be wearing fishnets or a lumberjack shirt underneath for more fun. Think of the potential of this item, how beloved this set is going to be. Backpackers around the world will carry it with them for odd photos at exotic locations. Tweens with hip parents will terrorize their friends with it. Work in painfully boring cubicle land will grind to a halt, simply because NO ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!

• I'm throwing my hat in here with the Master's of the Universe figure... The Fearless Photog... Back in the early/mid 80's when He-Man was all the rage with the kiddies, Mattel held a create-a-character contest in which the winner would get their character made into an action figure! Fucking awesome right? Well a kid named Nathan Bitner won that contest with his camera/based character creation named Photog. Photog was apparently fearless... However, Mattel being the cheap company it is, couldn't justify making molds for a new figure that replicated Nathan's design and decided to just sent him to Disneyland instead... Needless to say, they probably broke and 11 year old kid's heart and his figure never got into production... Here are some pictures of his design... the http://www.grayskullmuseum.com/conception/Fearless.htm

• I LOVE Liam's idea of the Dune Sandworms. Fucking awesome. Kul Wahhad!

• I would like to withdraw my previous entry. After further consideration and inspiration I would like to pose the following figure. As he is a prick for all things presented outside the comics medium, I find it suiting that an Alan Moore action figure be constructed. The beard, long hair, somber dark sweater and maybe tan trench coat could have interchangable arms (like Swamp Things) or accessories like type writer, smiley face button, etc. A homage to the work of a man who wants to see his work only represented in comics, ironic with a kung fu grip.

• Death Bed Optimus Prime How cool would that be, you could act out your own death of optimus prime.

• Dinosaucers... Most cartoons being 22 minute toy commercials, I can't believe that this cartoon did not have an associated line of toys to go with it. There were at least a dozen characters and each one had their own ship as well. I think that there were mother ships as well. There was a planned toy line but they were never released. Although I was a bit old for these toys at the time I still kinda wished they were released.

• No one's said this one yet? Srsly? Nurse Joker.

• Well, I think some Discworld action figuires would pretty sweet. Proper nicely scaled ones, not shoddy desktop plastic statues. Think about it, Rincewind with running away action, Death and his accessories (trusty scythe, egg roll and kitten) and Granny Weatherlox with LYING DOWN HEADOLOGY POSE or a Captain Carrot with a real shiny breastplate and teeth you can polish. Even a Luggage which you can somehow fit at least an entire figuire in. Also, I would like some pretty well done plastic statuettes of the Team Fortress 2 classes posing with their weapons and taunting. Complete with button that activates said soundbye for the taunts.

• Morgor the Bone Dragon from Skeleton Warriors. Shit, Playmates could still release this without the Skeleton Warriors logo on the box and it would still sell like hotcakes. Why? Because it looks fucking awesome. We were robbed.

• Ever since i was little and read Marvel's Transformer comics i've wanted Skids. Not the G1 toy of course, but one in the current Classics 2.0/Universe series. Dunno why, but i always loved the character. However i gotta cast my vote for the Stephen Colbert figure. Provided he comes with a flag, an oscar, and a rocket launcher.

• I want a 6 inch line of generic thug type figures. Supervillains are great and all, but sometimes you just want someone your hero can beat down without a problem. Characters like Spider-man, Daredevil, Punisher, and Batman who focus on cleaning up the streets need thugs to fight/ kill if its Punisher. Plus they could double as low level henchmen. The line would include a mugger with purse accessory, a gang member with bat, gun, or brass knuckles, drug dealer with drug paraphenalia, a bank robber with bags of cash, the list could go on.

• I just want a Psylocke action figure that actually looks Asian. I waited years for that Marvel Legends figure and I end up with a tanned white girl?

• You know, I like the idea for Law & Order figures! Cast my vote for that one. That's a LOT of figures (from each show) and the team-ups are near limitless!

• Hmm, this is probably as close to the contest idea I suggested a few weeks ago as we're going to get (or it may even be spot on, I'd have to check), so this seems like a good time to roll this out. Probably won't win, with stuff like hoverboards in our midst, and Andraxx above me here hits really close. But allow me to take you back in time, to the late 80s/early 90s... Nintendo Mania is at its peak, and everywhere you look, there's Mario's mug. Pencils, folders, shirts, snowboots, bedsheets, storage chests, plush dolls, wind-up toys, ice cream sandwiches, candy bars, cartoons, comic books, Happy Meals... And yet, no one stepped up and made a Super Mario Bros. action figure line. It was something I had always wanted, but never really got. I know what you may be thinking: Yes, there have been Mario figures over the years, but they've never really been "there," so to speak. Applause made little, unposable figurines in the 80s that looked good, but did nothing. Toy Biz made Mario Kart 64 figures, which are rather nice, but a little too tied to the whole go-kart thing. Recently, PopCo Entertainment/Corgi/Master Collector has begun releasing imported molds from Japan of Mario and friends. They look great, just like the games, but are lacking in articulation, and have no "action" to speak of. In the 90s, something close came out... close, yet so far away. Super Mario Bros. action figures... based on the movie. Bob Hoskins as Mario, John Leguizano as Luigi, Dennis Hopper as Koopa, Iggy, Spike, a Goomba, and even a Dinohattan police car and Devo Chamber were made. Posable, in a scale that would work with other toys, action features, vehicles, playsets... this could've been it, except it was based on the movie. Now, I love the movie, despite everything, but just as people who like the movie will tell you, it's still not the same thing. Let me paint a picture for you based on what I always waited for someone to announce. I wanted a Super Mario Bros. line of action figures based on the games. Something that looks good, has articulation (at the time, a basic level would have been fine: shoulders, legs, neck), some action features thrown in, and plenty of characters, accessories, and playsets. For example, Mario. He's like a blank check to create variants. Regular Mario. Fire Mario, with a spring-loaded fireball missile-launching action (or, conversely, make the arm throw it like a capapult)! Raccoon and Cape Mario, with tail/cape-smashing spinning action! Hammer Mario, Tanooki Mario, Frog Mario, and so on. Maybe a light-flashing Invincible Mario with Starman! Other characters of course range from Luigi to Toad, Peach, and Yoshi-- just for starters. Oh, and for Super Mario and friends? Well, there's the key to a second line of figures at a larger scale! There would be no shortage of enemies to choose from: Goombas with wings and Micro-Goombas, Koopa Troopas with removable shells, fall-apart Dry Bones, Shy Guys and Snifits-- lots of troop-builder material, plus bigger guys like egg-firing Birdo, or bomb-throwing Mouser. The Koopalings, each with a magic wand and transformed king, stuck as an animal! And of course, big King Bowser himself, who could shoot fireballs from his mouth, maybe even throw hammers. Vehicles would be easy, and I don't mean Mario Karts (though those from Double Dash!! would be fun). Doomships/Airships and Bowser's tanks, or the Koopa Clown Car (with Mecha-Koopas and perhaps a big ball) would be fun stuff. And before anyone knocks the airship idea, check out some of SMB3's art; there was a more compact version used in promotional materials and such. And playsets! Castle Koopa, with its laser-shooting statues of Bowser and crumbling bridge with ax! Fortresses with lowering spiked ceilings, lava pits, roto-discs, and Boom-Boom Koopa! Even Peach's castle has potential. I could go on and on... but I think I've given you an idea of what I've always wanted and dreamed of, but mysteriously, no one ever capitalized on. It seems like such a natural fit, and the strangeness of Mario's world seems like it would also make him a good "go anywhere" type hero, from your living room to the kitchen table to the backyard. The whole world's an adventure! What I had to make do with growing up was the aforementioned Applause figures. They were soon accompanied by the Super Mario Bros. 3 Happy Meal toys-- not the springy Mario and cloud-riding Luigi, though. They mostly sat aside as I would let Little Goombas and Koopa Paratroopas get in the way of my figurines. ...except one: the under-3 toy proved to be the most valuable to me. It was a finger-puppet of Raccoon Mario, fixed in a position with his arms as if he were jumping in the game, though his feet remained flat. A little weird, but a good size. Eventually, I took it upon myself: If some toy company didn't want my (parents') money, then I'd make my own toys! And so I freeze-framed video tapes I had of the Super Mario Bros. 3 cartoon to draw and color my own Koopa castle, Doomship, and tanks, as well as tiny "figures" that were drawings of Mario, King Koopa (going by the toon version here), and all their lot. I cut them out, and affixed them to some posterboard-type material, and made wands and other odd stuff, and used those to stage my own adventures. I think I still have most, if not all of them buried away somewhere. Even still... it just wasn't quite the same, and I don't know if there's really a market to support such a venture today. The current PopCo figures seem to be selling well, though, but even then, I doubt they'd reach that far back for some of those ideas. Nonetheless, some of the modern cast wouldn't be so bad.

• The world could do with a Vodak action figure, and I can't no one's approached me for any licensing opportunities. I'd come with a playset, including couch, tv, and computer. You could simulate my everyday life of sitting around and zipping around the internet!

• My god matt, you are right! The world NEEDS a Codpiece action figure!

• also, built in ad-line "Wu Tang Toys Ain't Nothin' ta Fuck Wit". Shit sells itself.

• Chad, you stole my response for the Shark from M.A.S.K! So I'll go with something else... Howzabout an action figure line of "The Ice Pirates!" You can relive the adventures of Jason, Princess Karina, and Roscoe as they do battle against the Supreme Commander to rescue Karina's father, and gather ice! That's right - ice!

• I just want a 1/6th scale figure of Clint Eastwood based on The Man With No Name trilogy. Hopefully it would be made by Medicom or Hot Toys.

• and a torture victim! with his butt sewn shut so method man could keep feedin him...and feedin him...and feedin him.

• Don't forget the Wu-Tang torture accessory pack, with the spiked baseball bat, the dresser and the wire hanger/stove combo...

• And gza could have an actual liquid sword! Monkey Boy should win.

• back when i was a kid and well into adulthood there were a lot of figures i wanted to be made, like gremlins 2 figures (i know neca made some but where's my spider and bat gremlins?), good willow figures, figures from robert rodriguez's mexico trilogy, even sideshow type 1/6th scale figures...but what i always really wanted was: wu-tang clan figures. the rza, the gza, ghostface killa, u-god, inspekta deck, ol' dirty bastard, raekwon the chef, the masta killa and of course the one and only method man. they could feature the actual likenesses of the rappers themselves, but of course the bodies would be highly articulated masterpieces each in unique ninja/kung fu/samurai/vaguely asian garb, with appropriate weapons. give ghostface killa a kick ass mask. and method man (johnny blaze) would have some wicked flame projectiles. give u-god (aka golden arms) some mother effing vac-metalized gold cybernetic looking appendages. rza could have all kinda swords and crap and ol' dirty bastard...he would just fuck you up. yeah maybe masta killa would be a pegwarmer, but the hardcore fans like me would bite. all proceeds from the sale of the toys could go to the many, many children of the late ODB (aka big baby jesus) himself.

• Yo Rob! They did make a Barret figure back in 1997 under the Final Fantasy VII Extra Knights figures by Bandai. http://www.tuulisti.com/ff_figures_extraknights_usa.htm Individually you could get: Cloud Strife, Aerith Gainsborough With Chocobo, Barett Wallace, Red XIII, Tifa Lockhart, Legendary Soldier Sephiroth, and Vincent Valentine. There was a four pack that contained: Cloud Strife, Aerith Gainsborough With Chocobo, Barett Wallace, and Tifa Lockhart. My cousin has the four pack plus the Sephiroth and Valentine figures. I remember seeing on the back of the blister pack that a CID figure was supposed to be release, but it was never made. There is no Yuffie figure for that series. To me the elusive CID figure is as annoying as the "Distructo Disc" (Kienzan) Krillin figure that Bandai never made, but showed a picture of along with the Saiyan saga version of Gohan. Bandai is such teasing tramp. Cid Prototype Evidence: http://berryrare.com/Final%20Fantasy/aerithfigure2.jpg

• I would like a collection of action figures inspired from the Sunday funnies. Yea sure some of them have some but there is so much more that can be done. -Dagwood running into his mailman -Zits with his broken van -Prince Valiant killing something -Sarge clobbering Beatle Bailey -Calvin and Hobbes doing anything -Hagar the Horrible on his kick ass viking ship Just an idea but I think it'd be pretty cool.

• As the world's first analrapist, Dr. Tobias Fünke deserves an action figure, with non-detachable cut-offs (befitting a never-nude) and the option to have it (poorly) painted blue. A toy that could potentially stain your hands is always a good ides. And think of the alternate costumes: "leather daddy" Tobias, "gay pirate" Tobias, and "hippie" Tobias, with optional autoharp and bottle of Teamocil.

• I remember years ago watching Black Adder and thinking these would make great figures. Black Death Plague and bedchamber not included.

• A moment for the Venture idea (easily the best one on here). You'd have to have a Grand Galactic Inquisitor, standing two heads of Brock, with a button that would SCREAM "IGNORE ME!" at top volume. You know...the kind of toys that exspouses buy their children, and then send to the other parent's home. My own idea would stem from simply the worst Wes Craven film ever made. "Deadly Friend". The first film I liked because of how bad it was. Think of it: Smug-Ass Paul with interchangeable Poly Tech shirts of different colors. Passed Out Mom on Couch Playset. Elvira with Exploding Head Action (Accessories, basketball and shotgun included). Badly Directed Kristy Swanson with Pop-eyes and Big Floppy Rack. B.B., the World's Most Annoying Fucking Robot, with Bread Basket Chest! Tom: The Only Grown Teenage Boy to Die of Shaken Baby Syndrome. "Slime" with Detachable Balls. Sam's Dad with Extra Crispy Skin, and Wicked Backhand. And, of course, UltraBB/Sam from the very confusing ending of the movie. That's right...a robot with fangs bursting right out of Kristy Swanson's skin! I so would have bought that whole set!!! I was going to suggest Re-Animator, but some of those have been made. The important one, anyways.

• The Rebel Blockade Runner for 3 and 3/4 Star Wars figs. http://theswca.com/index.php?action=disp_item&item_id=48884 It was mocked up and ready to go, but they just. never. made it. I've hunted around the Hasbro Q and A's and seen people ask for it. I've even BEGGED Hasbro myself for it. Via the QnAs and by email. Their answer is frustratingly static: "We only produce toys that were 'iconic' in the Star Wars saga." What?! I'm sorry, but what the hell is more iconic that the Rebel Blockade Runner getting routed by a gargantuan Star Destroyer in the opening scene of the original Star Wars? I have an x-wing (2 actually) I have a TIE fighter and the Falcon. I WANT THE FRICKING BLOCKADE RUNNER. Not a electronic 'model'. Not a LEGO version. Not an "action fleet" thingy, or a matchbox rip off. I want a vehicle-playset just like the BMF with exploding main deflector, a torch scorched access door, a firing escape pod for 3PO and R2, and shining white halls waiting to be bloodied by Vader's super-articulated 501st with the screams of rebel vermin. Is that too much to ask?

• Superhero action figures have been around for decades, and nowadays there are so many different lines and products that it boggles the mind why this one specific superhero hasn't been made - who just happens to be my favorite superhero. Madrox the Multiple Man. He's decidedly B/C-list, but has recently received a resurgence in popularity thanks to the success of Peter David's X-Factor series. And Marvel Legends, and this new smaller line, have surely created figurines of characters far more obscure and less popular. So why not Multiple Man? Here's the mind-boggling point: His super power is to make exact duplicates of himself, clones, if you will. Therefore, any true fan who wants to own a Multiple Man action figure would almost certainly buy multiple figures to recreate his power set. I know I'd buy at least 3. Here is an action figure whose whole purpose is for people to buy him over and over. How many Claw-Slicing-Action Wolverine figures are you going to buy? Just 1. How many Multiple Man figures? As many as you want! It's a no-brainer.

• A Moral Orel playset. You'd get Orel, his dad, his mom, his brother, the pastor, and maybe a few other characters. Then a church set for the dolls and a set for Clay's study. Clay, of course, would come with removable pants and belt.

• I totally vote for Forester and the Venture Brothers figures. Get that done now and send me my Monarch fig! Also lovin me some Hunter S Thompson figurines, but.... Why was there never a Flight of the Navigator toy? Have it big enough to fit a GI Joe, and talk? I'd have been the happiest kid ever! A bad ass metal starship voiced by Pee Wee Herman? Ya, I'll take one! Plus I'm not the only one that thinks so, those Naboo ships from what's his fucks raping of our beloved Star Wars, look an awful bit like ol' Max.

• There was never a specific figure I wanted. However, since I was six and still played on my N64, I've always wanted Super Smash Bros. figures. Everyone fights with their action figures, but I could have reenacted the whole game! All the fuses full in the living room? BAM, bring out the figures! Only have one controller? No problem! All my friends would have been SO JEALOUS. It just gets worse now that Melee and Brawl came out. Even now, I want to be the Master Hand and make Samus kick Link's ass. What kid doesn't want that?

• I second Om's 'Battlestar Galactica' toy. That woudl have been a really fun toy to wake up to on Christmas morning! Matell really fraked up by not making that one!

• The fucking Sandworms from Dune. Made to GI Joe scale, they would have to be about a foot in diameter and twenty feet long. Able to swallow whole hordes of other action figures while your Kyle MacLachlan and Patrick Stewart action figures from unrelated franchises ride atop them to glory. Herd of wild My Little Ponies cluttering up your sandbox? Not in my fucking backyard they're not. Also, they poop edible Spice. Sold separately.

• O.K. here's what I want, Of Course the venture brothers as 3 3/4 inch 2 packs so yuo can get hank and dean, doc and Brock, and for any obviously solo fig, give him a monarch henchman, Unterland soldier or member of Malice troop! Also Got to have figures from firefly (those three from diamond don't count, mal Jayne and reaver come on!!!!) instead I'm thinking mego retro with cloth costumes, and variants like Shindig Kaylee, or Big hair Book. Also FIGURES FOR RED DWARF: preferrably in either 3 3/4" or Dr Who scale, With a Kryten with spare heads, many chase variants of the Cat, and Real smell Lister who smells of Lager and Curry, a Star bug and bridge playset are a natch and I guess we can have a rimmer figure or too as well. Also Ranma 1/2 preferably with cloth costumes and transforming features :)

• All of the original villains from the 1960s Spider-Man animated series.

• ID from Xenogears. For the love of all that is unholy, let it be ID! Maybe I missed the figurine fervor in the land of the rising sun (and falling pantsu) at the time of its release, but I swear that Xenogears never got the proper figure love that all other giant mecha series are practically guranteed to receive. I've never seen a single Xenogears figure, come to think of it. Some products, but never a figurine. Frankly, I'd love for all the characters and gears from the series (if Revoltech, all the more godly), but if it had to be just one, I'm declaring a need for ID. Toss a nice sized ID on top of his godly red gear (in scale to him), and I'll squeel like a rabid fangirl who just spotted a bishie. Yeah, I'm part of the anime/manga/nippon fandom, but "meh", I'm still a nerd at heart, and it's the inner nerd that counts, isn't it? Tell you what - get me my ID, and I'll squeel like a pig. Does it get more Western than a Deliverence quote? I think not! What would I do with ID? Hook him up with Rei Ayanami, of course. In the world of mecha, you don't get more badass than ID or creepy sexy adorable awesome than Rei Ayanami. It's a match made in heaven (a heaven where angels descend to kill humanity, but let's not sweat the small details).

• I'd love to see some Buckaroo Banzai and the Hong Kong Cavaliers figures.

• Basically, any jumbo-sized (24'') Shogun Warrior, but with an opening head, and a cockpit in which you could put a small action figure. This is 2009, we have the Soul of Chogokin series and all sorts of nostalgia-inspired stuff and I can't believe the Japanese still haven't made these. If I have to pick one specific Shogun Warrior, I'd probably go with Grendizer since I watched the show as a kid, but Mazinga would be nice as well, with a separate "brain condor" (the small plane that inserts in his head).

• I've got 2 Votes. Firstly, PYTHONA from the GIJoe animated movie. They made all the lame Cobra-La folks but missed out on the awesome chick. Continuing on the awesome girls never made bandwagon, every female character from C.O.P.S. An awesome toyline with some pretty important and cool female characters (Nightshade in particular) and they never made a single goddamn one!

• Tom Cruise South Park Variant- with Closet! Put Tom in the closet! Now try to get him out of the CLoset! hours of FUN! Milton From Office Space- Comes with Stapler! Did they ever make Bill & Ted figures? I would've KILLED for Robo-Bill and Robo-Ted.

• How has there never been a line of figures based on Michael Moorcock's Elric series? Even just a 12" Elric figure by itself. With a light-up Stormbringer whose runes glow red on the blade. With soul sucking action! Glowing red eyes effect. Or a whole series including Elric, Moonglum, Jagreen Lern, Zarozina, Rackhir and all the favorites. A to-scale dragon Flamefang. You see where I'm going with this? Hell, a whole Eternal Champion line with Hawkmoon and Corum would end up on my shelf. Ooh! And we haven't even gotten to what you could do with the Lords of Chaos. There could be 4 versions of Arioch alone in the Tod Mcfarlane cenobite style.

• Westworld Action Figure: Yul Brynner's Gunslinger with removeable face, silver eyes, and gun drawing action.

• Some good ideas there (esp Venture Bros, 3 3/4" Aliens, 3 3/4" Predator) but I have to throw another vote in for Big Lob, and Pythona, from G.I. Joe The Movie. How dare you make a movie about toys, and not make toys of prominent characters in that movie, Hasbro. How. Dare. You.

• Any of the buy a shit ton of action figures in order to collect the parts to put one together for yourself. They don't put them together you do. Star Wars did it with HK-47 an action figure. I would have actually bought if i didn't have to buy 6 dumb as hell figures. Who the hell wants a young Aunt Beru let alone the douche that is the young Uncle Owen, and ooooh a concept artwork Anakin.... I'd rather die in a fire will being digested by a sarlacc while suffering the intense vomiting and diarrhea that is the Krytos virus. Marvel did the same thing with Galactus... there are no words as to how badly i want a Galactus looking down from the top of my monitor down at me. On the upside of these figures, at least they aren't the DBZ or any anime assemble yourself action figures, those things were worse than trying to put together a product from Ikea with directions from Amanda Tapping (sure you'd be listening but your mind would be someplace else... a wonderful place).

• All I want is a Batmobile/Batjet that transforms into a giant Bat Mech robot!! It must fit a Batman figure and it must have Superman stomping action and . That... and a 1:18 scale solid snake and metal gear rex that could eat my old gi joes..

• The Dirty Dancing action line. Let's have a ripped Swayze figurine in a wifebeater, with action grip around Baby's waist to pick Baby up over his head over and over and over again... And I want the stage playset. That, and if the Law & Order line ever got made, that'd be a double whammy of sweet, sweet Jerry Orbach action figure awesomeness.

• I'll tell you what I want. I want a WHOLE line of action figures consisting of all the female characters that have been unjustly ignored over the years, due to the continuing bone-headed pig ignorance that makes toy companies think "girl action figures don't sell". More importantly, this line would render each and every girl ACCURATELY, as the few female characters who DID get action figures usually looked like deformed burn victims... either that or they were posable as bricks, defeating the purpose of making action figures in the first place. This line would have it all: Arcee, Scarlet, Lady Jaye, Baroness, She-Ra, Teela, Evil-Lyn, Jean Grey, Storm, Rogue, Pilot Jenny, Sally Acorn, Bunnie Rabbot, Callie Briggs, Gadget, the countless Pink and Yellow Rangers... And contrary to what some of you are thinking, I do NOT want this line for perverted purposes... not entirely, anyway. Here's my REAL reason: What better reason to have armies of male action figures fight each other than over beautiful ladies?

• @Varrior I Wouldn't be surprised if the House dildo-cane idea isn't a fanfic already

• I have little to no clue whether this has had some obscure limited release in the past or not BUT I would love to see a Taarna from Heavy Metal (1981) action figure. Except the jugs would be made of "Stretch Armstrong" material and could be 'formed' however you like. As well, whenever you pose her in any kind of sexual pose, say straddling the Loc-Nar (sold seperately), the Heavy Metal theme would play from inside the Taarna action figure. I'd buy it.

• I know this will never happen. But I can dream can't I? I would love an Alton Brown (of good eats & ICA fame). He would be fully articulated of course and come replete with a set of Shun knives, and his iguana Spike. He could also come with a sweet BMW motorcycle, or at the very least drive the Mcfarlane/bungie Halo 3 mongoose if it ever actually gets released. More realistically, A half-life line would be nice. With Gordon, head crabs combine with Breen-screens and DOG (for god's sake, no Alyx) and a gravity (and portal) gun! Just think... Alton supplying the knives as ammo for Gordon and his gravity gun while they rode together into the sunset of another culinrary/zombie adventure. That would be the life.

• @Napalm2112, that would be great if Wilford had a push-button ability to say "diabeetus"

• Beans Baxter you inappropriate bastard... you just stole the show with that one.

• Bea Arthur as Ackmena from The Star Wars Holiday Special. I'm not a fan of the series of films or the toyline, but if Hasbro would make this, I'd buy it just for the sake of having a Bea Arthur action figure. Harvey Korman sold separately.

• Star Wars Tonnika Sisters w/ smoking apparatus. Hasbro absolutely refuses to make them. A-holes.

• You guys are missing the greatest opportunity in the land of television action figures. DR. HOUSE. Seriously, the man even has a fucking weapon. A giant cane. Imagine all the things that could be done to the end of it. Modifying it to impale dumb patients. Putting a dildo on the end to fuck his female subordinates from a distance (surprise!) and sticking a scalpel on the other hand so that he can cutabitch from a distance. Because you know he would. And yes, I do sound depraved and wrong, because your FFF has done that to me, you bastard.

• I think ahriman has it with hunter s thompson the man was a god and deserves a figure. I would shell out a hundred bucks for it if he came with a pair of aligator tailed waders. I think my entry would be warren ellis' cock. Its got some serious. Nerd cred at the moment.

• Ok, so it's not an action figure, but I just bought my daughter a sleepover set from Toys R' Us, so I'm going for it. Where the fuck is my Tauntaun sleepingbag with lightsaber zipper and intestine lining? That thing was tits!

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