Target carries this exclusive 6 pack of "Star Wars" figures. They're 12" tall and the whole box goes for the low, low price of $49.99. That's about 8 bucks per figure.
I really have to say that this is the STUPIDEST toy concept ever. 12" tall action figures with maybe 5 points of articulation. Back in my day, Gi Joe was 12" tall and he had clothing and oodles of accessories. Gi Joe was articulated as well as an artist's mannequin, although some modern toy companies have upped the articulation ante considerably, especially in 1:6 scale.
So these things are like the original 70's Kenner line of "Star Wars" figures (which were 3.75" tall) but blown up to 12", with no increase in posability. They don't even have movable elbows or knees, ferchrissakes. 12" figures that can't sit down or be minimally posed are pretty pathetic. All they can do is goose-step.
The new Darth Vader wannabe, Kylo Ren, has molded plastic robes and what is known as the "T crotch". It looks incredibly stupid in this scale. Any figure wearing floor-length robes NEEDS to have cloth robes, not the molded plastic T crotch with hard plastic molded robes.
A quick look at the girl toys aisle shows that Barbie, Monster High and Bratz feature dolls with actual cloth clothing. I suppose that action figure collectors (mostly dudes) bristle at the question, "action figure or doll?" and many consider any figure that wears cloth clothing to be a "doll". They avoid "dolls" or "doll-like" action figures. So, toy companies follow suit and now everything in the action figure aisle, no matter what the scale, has molded, painted plastic clothing. Sometimes even with wrinkles and seams sculpted in to emulate what real cloth looks like, all while avoiding the use of real cloth. This is just absurd.
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