Why No Eowyn Action Figure?
– Tehanu @ 17:11 PST Email from Snix: I was reading my Entertainment Weekly this week and I ran across something that made me seethe with anger (and that I thought you folks at TORn might be interested in): “We chose our characters based on traditional play patterns for boys,” explains JoAnn McLaughlin, a senior VP at Toy Biz. “And they want the male role-model heroes.” That quote is from an article on upcoming action figures. It’s Toy Biz’s explanation for the lack of some notable female characters in The Hulk and X2 figure lines. It probably also helps explain why there’s been no Galadriel or owyn action figures in their Lord of the Rings line. (There is an Arwen figure, but she bizarrely doesn’t come with the sword that the character wields so prominently in the film.) I’m a girl. And I buy action figures. And when I was a kid I bought action figures and I played with them. And if anyone had bothered marketing action figures to girls I would have bought a lot more of them. You’d thi
