I don't know exactly when the term "action figure" got established but it was after this
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When I was a teenager in the nineties, I used to babysit for a little boy who had one of these Rugrats dolls, but his father insisted that he call it an action figure and not a doll.pic.twitter.com/1BisdGvriR
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how very Gender of him
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The marketers have obviously never actually payed attention to how little girls play...
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So Barbie is an action figure?
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According to the ads, He-Man was an action figure, but She-Ra was a doll.
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