I don't know exactly when the term "action figure" got established but it was after this
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But of course that sucks because then your parents are aware of how many cookies you make and can prevent you from going on to eat them all yourself
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Now I'm just thinking of the Family Guy bit with a shaking, sweating Cookie Monster crouched in a bathroom stall desperately holding a cigarette lighter to a spoonful of cookie dough
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something something the modern construction of childhood as completely disjunct from the labor of the household
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The wild thing is that the Easy-Bake oven is the final form of a history of tiny functional ovens to teach children to cook dating back at least to the victorian era. They used to make TINY COAL-POWERED STOVES FOR KIDS.
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(Though it's debated I think which are legit toys and which are functional miniatures used as salesmans' samples)
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