Posted on 08/13/2018 9:38:45 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Company to ship Ruth Bader Ginsburg action figures in October
By Aris Folley - 08/13/18 10:37 AM EDT
A company that created a successful Kickstarter campaign to make a Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg action figure says it is planning to ship the products in October.
Fctry, a product incubator based in Brooklyn, N.Y., initially hoped to raise $15,000 to create the “Notorious RBG” superhero but instead raised over $613,700 on its Kickstarter crowdfunding page.
Zoe Cronin, the company’s marketing coordinator, said it was "shocking" that the funding campaign reached the initial goal in less than an hour.
“The $15,000 is really the base level of what we need to begin production,” Cronin told AM New York. “We actually hit that in under an hour of starting the project, which was kind of shocking.”
Cronin also said that the company has already given Ginsburg an action figure of her own.
“She said she would put it on her mantelpiece, so we’re really excited about that,” Cronin said.
The company said on its Kickstarter page that the action figure will include “wire-rimmed glasses to see through the patriarchal bulls--t” and a “righteous robe, the next best thing to a cape.”
Fctry also said on the page that it plans to make a $1 donation for each of the 15,654 people who donated to the campaign to the “She’s The First” organization, which is a nonprofit group based in New York City that strives to fight gender inequality through education.
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Accessories will be a headrest pillow, blankets and an IV bottle drip stand.
Just like in real life!
You wind it up and it slumps over a desk.
One of those ideas where in one sense, one wishes one had thought of it instead.
I don’t know I’d want to buy one of those figures though, even to symbolically abuse it. More and more I am shutting the devil out of my loop. Even if he seemingly does me a favor. Kind of like the prayer for the Tsar in “Fiddler On The Roof” I would say about Ruth, God bless, take, and keep her, far away from the Supreme Court.
All these dolls do is what Ruth Baader-Meinhof does best: SLEEP!
“I’ll take Oxymoronic Toys for $800, Alex”
Action figure?
Which implies some connection with 'action'?
Really, action?
Someone needs to refer to a dictionary...
” Kickstarter campaign”.... A better name would have been “Vaporlock campaign”.
If a president got that way, he WOULD be removed. Why can’t a similar constitutional amendment be passed for the USSC — that when a person on it reaches obvious figurehead status (the show being run indefinitely by that person’s office) then the person is dismissed from the court.
That should be popular with the PussyHat crowd.
Judge Ginsburg’s judicial robes come in three colors;
Black, Pink, and of course Rainbow.
Batteries unnecessary...............it just lays there..........
More like sleeping figures.
I am going to wait for the Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots version: her vs. William O. Douglas.
Hopefully it comes with a retirement home.
Batteries not included...............
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... and not needed.
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