Which rock icons would make good action figures/dolls?

Lee "Scratch" Perry
Freddie Mercury
Brian May
Phil Lynott
Jerry Garcia
Perry Farrell
Flea
Rod Stewart
Ritchie Blackmore
Eric Burdon

Neca toys should just go ahead and make all of them. I'm sure there's enough crazy MFers who would get 'um all.

Axl Rose = inaction figure

Lee "Scratch" Perry
Freddie Mercury

would buy

well, okay, i probably wouldn't, but i would think about it a lot before deciding not to

PM dawn w cloud on which to recline majestically

There's already a Bowie af:

http://actionfigureinsider.com/main/wp-content/uploads/Jareth1.jpg

Also Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop, Presley, Ozzy Osbourne, Hendrix, Morrison, Johnny Ramone, Sid Vicious, Lennon, Jagger and all of the guys on Kiss have been released as action figures.

Minority interest perhaps, but one of my proudest moments...

Keiji Haino meets mini-Haino at Arika 12: Episode 2: A Special Form Of Darkness
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7070/6933238405_e30eb2bb43_z.jpg

awesome! nice work, krakow.

bushwick bill, w gurney and detachable eye

Jobriath - there's potential for a ton of crazy outfits and accessories.

I had the mini-Haino specially made by a crafty friend a couple of years ago. My obsessions know no bounds...

needs a wall of tiny amplifiers!

I'd love the Moondog action figure. Here's some more that even tho not 'rock' would make bitchin action figures:

Aphex Twin
Buckethead
Chico Che
Daft Punk
Devendra Banhart
Devo
George Clinton
Giorgio Moroder
Grace Jones
Kraftwerk
The Knife
Lady Gaga
Laurie Anderson
Fever Ray
Gorillaz
Jamiroquai
MF Doom
Rammellzee
The Residents
Secos e Molhados
Sun City Girls
Sun Ra
Weird Al Yankovic
White Stripes

i said sun ra! good idea tho. grace jones too. should be posed as in THAT PICTURE, w microphone and blue display stand/wall.

there has to have been an mf doom doll though, right? like, i'm sure cartoon network or somebody has made one. if not, they are sleeping on their responsibilities and need to wake the fuck up.

done: devo, kraftwerk, gorillaz

needs to be done if they haven't already: daft punk, gaga, LAURIE FUCKING ANDERSON (such a great idea!), residents, white stripes

Ned Raggett

Metal bands also provide lots of content apt for action figures:

Anna from Sopor Aeternus
Birdflesh
Ghoul
Green JellŸ
Gwar
Manowar
Portal

There's also Momoiro Clover Z. I'm pretty sure there's better examples in Japan but their whole look seems completely lifted from mazinger z / power rangers / sailor moon.

And of course: Hevisaurus!

http://www.ouka.fi/oulunpaivat/Kuvia%202010/hevisaurus_DSC_0357.JPG

There totally already is an Aphex Twin action figure. It was Windowlicker Aphex IIRC.

(posts very much in character.)

i said sun ra! good idea tho. grace jones too. should be posed as in THAT PICTURE, w microphone and blue display stand/wall.

there has to have been an mf doom doll though, right? like, i'm sure cartoon network or somebody has made one. if not, they are sleeping on their responsibilities and need to wake the fuck up.

― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Thursday, March 29, 2012 9:11 AM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

done: devo, kraftwerk, gorillaz

needs to be done if they haven't already: daft punk, gaga, LAURIE FUCKING ANDERSON (such a great idea!), residents, white stripes

― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer)

Ok just checked and apparently there's a Madvillain action figure and it's as perfect as I imagined:

http://leastmost.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/madv.jpg

Happy to see there's already kraftwerk and devo figurines! Also double checked and you're right Daft Punk has action figures. Loads of different ones, even as legos.. The rest haven't been done as action figures but I found this cute White Stripes finger puppets:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FwVL82ww6oM/S9pRPjJnBxI/AAAAAAAAAWA/R3FlatczZtc/s400/jack%26meg.jpg

Shit it seems my hevisaurus image is heavy indeed and is making the page load slowly.

dang, want those white stripes marital aids finger puppets

Gwar
Manowar

shit yeah, stat

poison idea (cast in lead)

gg allin
klaus nomi
divine

http://geekiss.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Amy-Winehouse-Barbie-Doll.jpg

ow...

http://s7.directupload.net/images/120329/db9zxhpo.jpg

The collectibles company Aggronautix is releasing their very first female throbblehead, Wendy O. Williams “1982″,
in the limited capacity of 2000 numbered units.
[...]
Wendy is the sixth punk personality to be polyresinated by Aggronautix. In May of 2009, the company launched with a
highly popular GG Allin “1991″ figure, which was limited to 2000 numbered units. That figure has since sold out…
or you could say, in words suiting GG, it “expired.”

If there aren't already gwar action figures I'll be shocked

Minority interest perhaps, but one of my proudest moments...

That is...amazing.

Shonen Knife.

Looking at the Bobbleheads site, there are categories for movies, television, politics, cartoons, religion, military, but none for music/rock stars. Lame!

Some of the suggestions above are entertaining, but would never, ever happen as they're far too obscure for most toy companies to mass market, as most people wouldn't recognize them. I suppose someone could start a boutique shop that puts out limited editions that would cost hundreds of dollars, but, meh.

Joan Jett

Abbath

A good friend of mine named her cats Iggy and Angus last year. We rescued a cat last month and named him Ozzy. I'm still thinking Lemmy and Bootsy are the next best names after that. She was given this Iggy doll for her birthday, which inspired me to start this thread.

http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/dragonballzcentral_2203_7087046522

I considered getting her this, but it's a bit pricey:

http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/dragonballzcentral_2203_921589433

Kinda funny how the Iggy doll is the 50+ year-old version (he's 64 now and is way more wrinkly/leathery).

http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/dragonballzcentral_2203_7091857619
http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/dragonballzcentral_2203_4337209762
http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/dragonballzcentral_2203_7090642672

I'd personally rather have Ozzy, Lemmy and Bootsy before Jimmy Page, and most of the list before Kurt Cobain, but I can see how the above would sell better.

Remember the Bongwater song about Nick Cave dolls? "They make Nick Cave dolls? I want one..."

I want an Aphex Twin action figure with the accessories of a group of disabled people playing volleyball, based on the shit Mike Skinner was talking about him recently.

That Kurt Cobain doll is not scaled right. Kurt was actually 5'7", not 6'4"

i have an ozzy figure, todd macfarlane has done tons of rock ones, it even comes with a bats and a dove w/the head bitten off and a crucifix for ozzy to hold in his kung fu grip

ah cool there are gwar action figures all is right w/the universe:

http://www.figurerealm.com/userimages/customs/4500/4237-1.jpg

Wow, lots of McFarlane stuff.

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Tons of great images of Le Petit Prince!

http://troygua.com/work/le-petit-prince/

http://troygua.com/files/gimgs/29_29bikeposter2web.jpg

http://troygua.com/files/gimgs/29_29yellow4.jpg

What, no Blackie Lawless??

Ha! Does anyone under 40 remember him?

Yeah the assless outfit, priceless. Did Prince really wear that?

http://www.iae.nl/users/maes/cave/pix/fans/Elena77.JPG

Nick Cave and Nick Cave doll from this fabulous web page.

I love the first one, but a bit pricey at $115. The mid-80s Freddie is even more.
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I love the first one, but a bit pricey at $115. The mid-80s Freddie is even more.
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Too many of these aren't articulated. Not action figures, IMO.

Flavor Flav, obviously. Ghostface, Eazy-E and Kool Keith as Black Elvis, too.

I'd be shocked if Bootsy Collins didn't already have an action figure/doll out there somewhere.

And yeah, Prince really did wear those chaps.

ZZ Top - the whole band - would be another good one.

Gary Numan
Roy Wood circa Wizzard

Jerry Garcia - pot smoke could come out of his head when you pushed in his belly

Buckingham/Nicks era Fleetwood Mac (patch of "tall grass" included; Record Plant replica sold separately)

Buzz Osborne & Tina Turner 2-pack (with interchangeable hairpiece)

i would definitely buy the led zeppelin 4-pack

Would you want a Captain Beefheart circa 1969 or Captain Beefheart circa 1981/82?

I used to have one of those Lemmy figures on my desk at Metal Edge, but I didn't take it with me when I left.

tiny tim

throbbing gristle in 20 jazz funk greats costume, with range rover and decorative nude

Gary Numan

Yes, with WWII fighter plane as accessory.

anyone got a photo or link for the Kraftwerk ones?

i claimed that they existed. i may have been mistaken. can only find this one-off art project:

http://cdn.synthtopia.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/kraftwerk-action-figures.jpg

Anybody say Diamanda Galas yet?

Or Wesley Willis?

Looking at the Bobbleheads site, there are categories for movies, television, politics, cartoons, religion, military, but none for music/rock stars. Lame!

Some of the suggestions above are entertaining, but would never, ever happen as they're far too obscure for most toy companies to mass market, as most people wouldn't recognize them. I suppose someone could start a boutique shop that puts out limited editions that would cost hundreds of dollars, but, meh.

― Fastnbulbous.

I took it as which icons would make cool-looking action figures/dolls not which icons would make the best-selling figures. I'm assuming people don't know any of them. If you want to change the question to best-selling figures then (and assuming they haven't been done yet):

Beyonce
Coldplay
Lady Gaga
Radiohead
Katy Perry
Snoop Dogg
Rihanna
Black Eyed Peas
Brandon Flowers
Eminem
The Beatles
Muse
Pink Floyd
Queen
Led Zeppelin

yes, thought about Diamanda Galas!
but her figure should have some functional sound module for distinctional reasons (Maila Nurmi/Vampira, Morticia Jones and so on)

calling.....Chris & Cosey (twice the price, a lot of LED blinking hardware as stage set)

It would be great if you could pull a string in Diamanda's back and she'd start chanting in multi-octave Latin.

Yma Sumac

I watched the Lemmy documentary last night, and he had a kick-ass figure of himself, still in the box amidst all his clutter. It looked cooler than the all silver/gold/black versions posted above. Must be long gone to the land of collector scum now.

This one looks to me like King Diamond, if he was barrel-chested like the abomidable snowman in Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41mc3wKb3KL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

Do Frankie Goes To Hollywood count as "rock icons"?

Nah. And I even kind of like that one album, sorta. But no. Not even a crappy one.

http://www.cherrybombed.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/52_161390.jpg

Phil Spector would be scary

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41T92HG8D3L._SL500_AA300_.jpg

Something like this?

King Diamond would be rad, but Glenn Danzig, despite getting knocked out by that dude from Northside Kings(which actually makes this better) is the hands down winner here...

yuck no. might as well just buy a skeletor and call it a day.

the irony is way better than have it be a ligit superhero... Everytime he says his catch phrase, "fuck you, Mothefucker" POW!!...he gets knocked out!!

this came first to my mind as an answer to the thread question:

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These are actual Barbies by Mattel!

http://www.thehipstermom.com/wp-content/uploads/joan-jett-doll.jpg
http://www.thehipstermom.com/wp-content/uploads/cyndi-lauper-doll.jpg
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I Want A Wino Doll

KnuckleBonz announced its production of their own Lemmy doll to come out this Fall, as well as Ronny James Dio. Most of Knucklebonz’s Rock Iconz series are priced at $115 or higher, which is a lot, but what I like about them is that they’ve done statues of slightly less mainstream musicians like Zakk Wylde, Dimebag Darrell, George Lynch and Keith Emerson. Email at i✧✧✧@knuckleb✧✧✧.c✧✧ and tell 'em you want a Wino doll!

Also your prayers have been answered (or some toy manufacturer was lurking this thread): Gwar action figures!

http://www.highergroundmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/gwar_promo.jpg

I own a Mike Watt bobble head that I keep on my nightstand. I find it centers me.

Immortal.

less mainstream musicians like Zakk Wylde, Dimebag Darrell,

Yeah, less mainstream musicians who have their own branded guitar strings.

http://www.jimdunlop.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/zwstrings.jpg

http://images.guitarcenter.com/products/optionLarge/DRStrings/DV016_Jpg_Large_105268.jpg

Janelle Monae
Andrew WK
Lightning Bolt
Outkast
Paul Simonon (with bass accessory)
Kim Gordon
Rick Rubin

Andrew WK and Outkast OTM.

Y'know, so many of the action figures I had as a kid were just weird things from forgotten toy lines that my mom found at yard sales and which found roles in my collection as, like ''evil looking guy'' or ''dragon thing with cape'' or whatever. I hope someday some kid out there somewhere can have the experience of using Andrew WK as a generic street-goon in a beat-em-up scenario, or maybe some sort of wizard.

Andrew Wizard King

I was sure I'd seen an AWK one before, so I started googling and found this:

http://aggronautix.com/products.cfm?categoryid=1&categoryname=Throbblehead

AWK!
Keith Morris!
Mike Watt!
Tesco Vee!
Multiple different GG Allins!

http://mikeshouts.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Daft-Punk-Action-Figures.jpg

Yo La Tengo dolls for sale:

http://store.matadorrecords.com/yo-la-tengo-tree-soft-vinyl-dolls-dvd-set/

http://farm1.staticflickr.com/11/17362323_8fa8e5ea7e.jpg

Is this really not on here yet? Is it one of the broken links?

Someone should make a Momus doll where you pull a string attached to it's back and it says random Momus ilx posts.

http://www.toxicteddies.com/ramones3a.jpg

We have these on our mantelpiece

LOL @ momus