Is Nimoy Now the Oldest Man to Have an Action Figure?

[Rackon]

If we're gonna use fiction...

We were talking about fictional characters to begin with, and the ages of the actors who played them at the time the action figure for the character hit the market. The Jesus action figure was sort of expected after the Mozart and Beethoven figures got tossed into the mix (or, at least, I expected to see it) but A) trying to top that with an animated character is stretching the original topic pretty far and B) the crack about Jesus as fiction is getting into territory more appropriate for TNZ than for this forum (which is for discussion of the Star Trek movie, as I'm sure you recall.)

WHOA!

You mean I missed the Beethoven AND the Mozart action figures???

I gotta get me some of those!

 

[Greg Cox]

Well, I've got my Harry Houdini and Mary Read action figures . . . .

 

[USS Triumphant]

Sebastian Shaw was in his late 70s in ROTJ? But wouldn't Anakin have only been in his late forties at that point?

Anakin had been rebuilt by the Empire. If anyone had been, as they say, "rode hard and put up wet", it would have to be Anakin.

Put another way - ever seen a long term drug addict who looked much older than they were? There ya go.

Hmmm...

Christopher Lee
Alec Guinness
Sean Connery

Roger Moore, I believe had an action figure released of him a few years back.

Ian McKellen

Dame Judi Dench had a figure made of her as 'M' in "Quantum of Solace", and she'll be 75 this year. (For those unfamiliar, "Dame" is essentially the title for a female knight.)

Sir Paul McCartney, 67, still has action figures made of him.

Sir Elton John, at 62, still has bobbleheads of him being made - not quite action figures, though, are they?

Well - this is a bit of a stretch but I have seen that jesus christ action figure in the book and bible store. does that count?

As has already been pointed out, no, it doesn't, because I'm pretty sure it's a figure representing Jesus in his early 30s.

I don't think the age represented is a good guideline.

Guidelines that might make this discussion mean something is that:

A. We're only talking about REAL people - whether represented by characters they have played or not, and

B. The age for comparison is their current age - and aging stopped at mortal death. So for the purposes of this discussion, Christopher Lee is 87, and DeForest Kelley stopped at 79 even though figures are still being made of him. Jesus stopped at about 35, according to most historians. (We'll leave the matter of whether or not He, or anyone else, continues to "live" in some other fashion out of this.)

C. We'll leave people for whom the occurance of their actual lives can't be reasonably verified outside of religious documentation out of it. No Methuselah action figures.