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Leon Lazarus

Lazarus additionally wrote for Ziff-Davis, under editor Jerry Siegel, doing stories for Kid Cowboy, G.I. Joe (unrelated to the later Hasbro action figures) and other comic books for about a year, and also did work for the writer/artist team of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, and for American Comics Group (AGC), under editor Richard E. Hughes.

Steel Rabbit

When the Muppets were released as action figures by Palisades Toys in 2002, Steel Rabbit came packaged with Bunsen, but was mistakenly identified as "Robot Rabbit."


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Active Enterprises

Action 52 also included a game titled The Cheetahmen, which Active Enterprises trademarked in 1992 and hoped to turn into a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles-inspired media franchise consisting of action figures, a comic book series and even a television cartoon series.

Diamond Select Toys

Alice: Madness Returns - Minimates, Select action figures, Femme Fatales PVC statues

Golden Pharaoh

Golden Pharaoh is a fictional character, a DC Comics superhero created exclusively for the Kenner Super Powers Collection line of action figures.

Hardcase

Hardcase was one of the action figures produced for Galoob's Ultraforce line.

Harry Potter action figures

This is a list of action figures produced by Mattel for the Harry Potter film series for films 1 through 4 and produced by NECA for films 5 through 8.

Jareth

NECA released three Jareth action figures: a 12 inch one, dressed in black (it can talk, speaking lines from the movie), a 7 inch version of the 12 inch figure, but without the talking, and a 7 inch one, which comes with a figure of Hoggle the dwarf.

Kenner Star Wars action figures

In the 1994 episode of The Simpsons, Lisa's Rival, Ralph Wiggum enters a diorama contest with a diorama made up of re-packaged Star Wars action figures.

Killer Klowns from Outer Space

In 2006 SOTA Toys produced a Killer Klown figurine as part of their Now Playing movie action figures line.

Kiss action figures

The deal included the creation of the 31 issue Kiss: Psycho Circus comic book series, along with, Kiss action figures based on the characters appearing in the comic series.

Link Hogthrob

An action figure of Link was produced in 2003 as part of Series 4 of Palisades Toys' line of Muppet action figures.

Marketing of Halo 3

While previous Halo action figure series were produced by Joyride Studios, Todd McFarlane produced several sets of Halo 3-related action figures.

McFarlane's Evil Prophecy

Players battle creatures based on a line of Todd McFarlane's action figures including classic movie monsters such as Frankenstein's monster and Dracula.

Mego

Mego Corporation, a toy company that produced action figures during the 1970s and early 1980s

Polistil

In addition, Mego and Lion Rock military action figures were marketed under the Polistil name.

Protesting the Dixie Chicks

In the man-on-the-street style of "Heavy Metal Parking Lot", anonymous fans and protesters are interviewed outside the arenas of the Dixie Chicks 2003 USA tour, while the context of the drama is reenacted with toys and action figures of Natalie Maines, Toby Keith, General John Abizaid, Senator Richard Lugar, Senator John McCain and President George W. Bush.

Re-Ment

Targeted at the adult collecting community, these 1:6 scale toys are typically displayed in dioramas and dollhouses or used with action figures and fashion dolls such as Blythe or Barbie.

Ronald Volstad

His work is best known as box art for DML brand model kits and 1/6 scale military action figures, and as illustrations for books published by the Osprey and Concord brands.

The Hell Song

They were joined with other action figures such as those of Snoop Dogg, Ozzy Osbourne with his family, Marilyn Manson, Korn, Metallica, Eddie the Head, Gene Simmons, Spice Girls, Angus Young, Jesus, Tuck Turner Willison, Alice Cooper and Ludacris .

The music video was of a concert with dolls and action figures, with Sum 41's faces on those "performing" in front of a Lite-Brite screen.

Uglydolls

Uglydoll Action Figures can be seen in the background on bookshelves in the British comedy show, "The IT Crowd."