Action Force and Valaverse

[Damien]

Real quick like ...

The only real world action figures I would buy and would love to see happen are Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill.

My reasons are simple: Franklin Roosevelt founded the Justice Society of America. He is considered by them to be an honorary member. Likewise, Winston Churchill founded the Invaders. They would not exist without him. I would happily put Roosevelt and Churchill on my (meager) Golden Age shelf.

As far as the other big real life players from World War II ... Stalin, Hirohito, Mussolini, Hitler, Eisenhower, Rommel, Patton, Truman, de Gaulle, Tojo, Zhukov, Oppenheimer ... nope. Don't want 'em.

It's a moot point because it's extremely unlikely Roosevelt and Churchill figures will ever be made and that's okay too.

I don't mean this at ALL as a 'gotcha' question; but it is very relevant to why this was brought up at all. Would you feel at all weird having Churchill as an action figure knowing he sucked as a person in a lot of very specific, white supremacist sort of ways?

 

[superdoug55]

Dude.. my daughter is 16 years old and they have never actually covered the Holocaust in school yet. Not even a mention.

Yikes! I am going to have to ask my kids about that now. Since I am a descendant of Holocaust survivors (I even had one great uncle that escaped two concentration camps) on one side of my family tree, all my kids know about it but I have no clue if anything was actually taught in school.

 

[Damien]

Yikes! I am going to have to ask my kids about that now. Since I am a descendant of Holocaust survivors (I even had one great uncle that escaped two concentration camps) on one side of my family tree, all my kids know about it but I have no clue if anything was actually taught in school.

Yeah, man. It is scary as hell to think that the only reason my daughter has any idea what actually happened in WWII is because I told her about it after finding out they hadn't really discussed anything beyond 'WWII is a thing that happened.' But these fucking kids are taught about the Canadian Fur Trade, of all things, four roughly FOUR YEARS.