Steve Jobs action figure

The Next Web predicts this unauthorized Steve Jobs action figure will get the kibosh before it goes on sale in February. (Thanks, Rachel!)

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Aeron

Steve Jobs never wore a belt with that outfit.
- http://borborygmist.influxofdust.com/ Wayne Dyer
  
  Beard’s too heavy as well.
- Marktech
  
  He did. But the belt’s probably removable for that pre-2009 look.
- chaopoiesis
  
  Especially one so oversized and over-cinched … which reads as schadenfreude on the part of the makers.
lavardera

oh. that’s creepy.
http://profiles.google.com/silberdrachi Erik Gilson

Looks like he is holding that phone wrong.
Iron Clad Burrito

Oh cool, now I can have the complete the set of “Multinational Corporate CEO” dolls!
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_UGUB2S725C7ZH5SKCRWSMVEKQM Cina M.

Realllllly!!! he is dead remember? very smart, but as Bob dylan sang “don”t follow leaders and watch your patking meters
Mike Jackson

There’s just something not quite tacky enough about it.

Perhaps if it had kung-fu grip and you can get the evil Bill Gates doll to go with it. And maybe a Terminator figure to scale as well. Or even better, a Jonathan Ives doll you can dress like Steve’s sidekick Robin. I would say as a knight in armor since he’s a knight now, but technically it wouldn’t be chronologically appropriate. Unless Steve Dolls can come with an optional iTARDIS…
- Andrew Singleton
  
  Pity there’s no Apple Store playset (complete with staff and rabbid fan customers…. and the token anti-fan figure for hat guy that loiters around the front explaining to anyone going in why they’re morons.
waetherman

I could be wrong here – it’s been awhile since law school, but I think that right of publicity generally expires with death. While Steve may have been able to stop these while he was alive, now that he’s gone it’s open season on his likeness.
- http://twitter.com/cjporkchop cjporkchop
  
  I don’t know the legal concepts at work, but I don’t think you’re correct. Just try selling unauthorized Elvis or Marilyn Monroe products and see how far that goes.
  - Mujokan
    
    I think if you draw an original picture of Elvis you can put it on a t-shirt and sell it with no problems.
    
    However, when Apple used Gandhi on a poster they were given a patent on the concept of using images for commercial purposes, and now everyone who does that has to pay them five cents each time.
Genre Slur

Bwahahaha! Now all I need are dolls of Dawkins and Leary — that way I can build a scene with Leary nailed to a stick, Dawkins poking him in the side with a spear, and jobs denying him three times. Merry 2012!
http://2012diaries.blogspot.com/ tristan eldritch

Cool, you could get him to fight Godzilla!
Mona Morgan

Complete with “magical thinking” hypnosis power- “You WILL completely overhaul the Mac lineup in 6 months”

Great for the kids!
pjcamp

I never noticed it before, but Jobs DID have G.I. Joe hair.
Zach Cone

reminds me of psystar. The mac clone company that knew it was walking into a lawsuit.
Pedantic Douchebag

Something something Chinese slave labor something.
bigyup

if the JOBS FAMILY had any sense, they would make the company sell these for double the price, take half the money (do whatever it sees “fit” with it) and LET THESE GET MADE

shit, i think you can buy similar dolls of others like Beastie Boys (they come to mind) for $750… and they had the money go to cancer charities

http://gothamist.com/2011/08/01/beastie_boys_selling_dolls_action_f.php
- artbyjcm
  
  It’s unauthorized. Point was to sell it for less.
  
  Best they could do is commission a better company with a better likeness to make a different one.
Pope Ratzo

For some reason, most Apple fans just want to know if it’s “anatomically correct”.

I’m not sure why.
- Mujokan
  
  With Apple, you can never be sure if peripherals will fit your port.
CH

Holy crap!!! I didn’t realize it was a doll, even though I had read the header, until I noticed the hands.

Yeah, I agree with bigyup… authorize these and donate the money to cancer research.
- boomsb
  
  Was thinking the same thing, “My, what big hands he has..”
- retchdog
  
  actually, his hands are fine; the reality distortion field is well-known for playing tricks on optical perspective: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2008/jan/21/liesdamnliesandstevejobs
chrimux

Somehow it does not really look like jobs. Rather like leo apotheker. Maybe they can reuse it afterwards.
awjt

If you pull the cord, does he say, “Oh, one more thing…” ?
Ryan Lenethen

Why not just hand Robot Chicken a gun and some crack while your at it!
- artbyjcm
  
  I saw this and instantly thought Robot Chicken.
regondi

Jobs immortalized as a plastic piece of crap nobody really needs but think they do; there’s poetic justice.
Jedobe LLC

Does it come with interchangeable liver?
Manhattan Project Playboy

It’s Les Grossman from Tropic Thunder! Oh, wait… it’s a different asshole!
YakityYak

Does it insult you and yell at you too?
- Mike Jackson
  
  Does it park in handicap spaces with no visible car tag? It does if you lease the optional Mercedes Steve Dolls car!
http://findajobfaster.blogspot.com/2012/05/xerox-hiring-300-workers-in-lexington.html Xerox Hiring 300

Everybody’s criticizing and making jokes but I’d bet each of you bought one.
Rollingsworth_T_Vestibule

I would buy one for $19.99 and not a penny more. A Jobs Doll is no way worth more than a G. I. Joe with a canteen and an M-16
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CKEISCSCZPOAUX4NANHDTIVKGA evenstar

Wish they’d have made the doll patterned about the time Steve made his first computer—he was sooooo hot in college!
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_O6VYEQQKXRAOXAGN7WPSO5XLXE Mike

all of you Ipeople are wierdos. seriously.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QI3SRQB4CUEG2IYOZLZBR5UVYI Chris

Kewl, now Barbie has a potential boyfriend with a brain. She can quit working now!