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Free to Be You and Me: William's Doll (1974)

dotdudesays...

This video provoked me to look up "action figure" in Wikipedia:

"History

The term "action figure" was first used by Hasbro in 1964, to market their G.I. Joe figure to boys who wouldn't play with "dolls". G.I. Joe was initially a military-themed 11.5-inch action figure proposed by marketing and toy idea-man Stan Weston. The action figure featured changeable clothes with various uniforms to suit different purposes. . ."

The rest of the article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_figure

rickegeesays...

Good research find, dotdude. I am rather surprised that 'action figure' as a marketing term was not around in the 1950s.

Once Star Wars came out, it rendered the central issue of this video moot. William could pretend that stormtroopers or cantina creatures were female or just spend an inordinate amount of time with Leia.

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