ToyCyte: Toy Culture Collected

Giving the Barack Obama action figure a run for its money (while simultaneously running for the White House), Sarah Palin enters the toy game with these three figures from Hero Builders. Retailing for between $27.95 and $29.95, the figures are attired in executive, school girl and super hero clothing. The six-year old company also makes Barack Obama, John McCain and Hillary Clinton action figures. The success of Jailbreak Toys‘ Obama figure was solid enough to allow its proprietor to quit his teaching job to pursue toys full-force. Is Sarah Palin the next action figure celebrity? Only time will tell. As of now, her action figure has 252,000 Google hits to Obama’s 441,000. There’s so many fun/wrong soundbytes associated with Palin. Pity the figure doesn’t have a voicebox, er, nevermind.