faith-based in the toy isle at Wal-Mart

or is it toy "aisle"?

I always get that mixed up.

Since they'll sell Samson - I wonder if they'll sell Delilah?

I'd be fun to build a temple out of building blocks and have him push it down!

and KILL all the other dolls!!!

Yeah! Wal-mart is certainly where I would want to go to get inspiration.

If you look at the Archie McPhee catalog (or website) you can buy a Jesus Action Figure.

Yeah, I'm a sicko.

ha ha

(or should that be a "boo-hoo"!)

ps..wouldn't they have to sell the "whole" set?

Can you imagine a David and Goliath toy in the rock em sock em format?

Peter, Peter, Peter.

You're neither a sicko nor a boo-hoo.

Now, go to your room! Lol!

Both Mary and Jesus look a little pale. I don't think these toys are being honest.

Maybe they could make a line of toys like Susie has 2 moms dolls and playset and Joe's dad in now a mom dress up doll and put it down the aisle from the religious toys and watch chaos ensue

I have a Jesus action figure. I'll have to think about where I got it. But he has little wheels on the bottom for 'gliding' action. I only got it because I thought it was unique and I like unique, not because I'm religious.

As if I needed another reason to stay as far as possible away from walmart.

Well: sounds like good news to me; as far as the Pope telling you'll, almost, I'm a bit Lutheran, that you are not, in some ways, Catholic, and only one time was enough, I remember you protestant....xyz's......(I'm one I guess) that the major fault with the Roman Catholic Church is their adoration of the Mother of God....Is that way that Priestess shot her Minister husband in the back a few times. If I were her attorney I would plead insanity due to religious teachings....a really good attorney...I couldn't do it, would say it was a religious killing and use a certain, which would be, and is unknown to me, Supreme Court ruling that said it was this way, because of that way, and because she was confused by her early teachings, secretly of the Goddess Isis, (Star of the Sea) and that she was shocked that she was sleeping actually with her brother who was whacked by someone else and she is innocent, and only because she has the immense desire to put all his parts back to together again....Holy Toledo!....Humpty Dumpty and Isis....Now that's a true mixed marriage????Isn't it.....As for Wal-Mart....Jesus, Yes; Samson, Yes, Moses, Yes; Ruth, Yes; Superwomen (A Hindu Book) Yes. And while my kids, were buying up all the toys, I would be heading for the book section: here's where I'm not to sure or know about Wal-Mart: could I pick before I buy that mag?...Jesus wouldn't mind, would you? Wait a minute...the ice-cream man cometh...I have to go out and play!!!!

Besides Jesus Archie McPhee has a whole raft of religious toys. One of their top sellers for many years has been the punching nun. They have all sorts of fascinating action figures. I have a Jane Austen (in the original package) hanging in my cube at work. She comes with a desk and quill pen.

I'm waiting for a Queen of Sheba. Let me know when she shows up at Wal-Mart.

Now I want an Isis doll. I have a cool Bride of Frankenstein doll. How cool is that?

I'd buy a Samson doll. My Mom calls my son Samson because he has long hair.

Nice.

Not surprised to see that the "Ministry Partners" for the doll company are Focus on the Family (James Dobson) and Family Life (Campus Crusade for Christ).

Some of the "Tales of Glory" figures have some crazy eyes:
http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/yhst-92329296945469_1958_12089816

I prefer stoned Jesus to big-eyed Jesus:
http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/yhst-92329296945469_1959_5907127

(and yes, it's "aisle")

We have the Sigmund Freud action figure, in the package, hanging in our den.

I sent the Lunch Lady Action figure to a friend in Scotland who is, yes you guessed it, a lunch lady.

I have a beautiful statue of Isis that my kids bought me for mothers days.

Peter - don't go to WalMart - they treat their employees like crap and now they're marketing like they care about the environment. Ha!

The only "holy" doll I'd ever want would be Mary Magdalene because she was way cool!

Loved reading this conversation with my sons. Now we're off to play the Marvel Superheroes board game.

I don't know the whole thing is silly if you ask me. Some people may deem it as Walmart's reaching out to all types of people and I think it's just another marketing gimick by the all mightly retail giant to give themselves a wholesome edge. I have to admit I shop there. I have to I can't afford it anywhere else, however I stay real about what it is I am doing. Can't say the same for them though can we?

I believe Moses would be a big seller. All children love this story and know it at a very young age. Otherwise: I believe Jesus would outsell Samson by far IMHO.

Samson might sell the best ...... but I'm not into religious action figures, myself .....

A set of bobble-heads of the 12 Apostles. That might be fun.

Evie: "Well, this is all the more reason to NEVER set foot in Wal-Mart, isn't it?"

On the other hand....from RFK, JR's article in Rolling Stone, "Global Warming: A Real Solution"

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/15051506/
global_warming_a_real_solution/1

Wal-Mart has installed new, energy-efficient light bulbs in refrigeration units that save the company $12 million a year, and skylights that cut utility bills by up to $70,000 per store. The company, which operates the nation's second-largest corporate truck fleet, also saved $22 million last year just by installing auxiliary power units that allow drivers to operate electric systems without idling their vehicles. In a move with even more far-reaching potential, Wal-Mart has ordered its truck suppliers to double the gas mileage of the company's entire fleet by 2015. When those trucks become available to other businesses, America will cut its demand for oil by six percent.

The executives gathered at the retreat weren't waiting around for federal subsidies or new regulations to tilt the market in their direction. Business logic, not government intervention, was driving them to cut energy costs and invest in new fuel sources. "We haven't even touched the low-hanging fruit yet," Kim Saylors-Laster, the vice president of energy for Wal-Mart, told the assembled CEOs. "We're still getting the fruit that has already fallen from the trees."

Wal-Mart is all about saving money. They save money on payroll. They squeeze their vendors. I know, the vendors must be making money on the deal.

Nippy: "Wal-Mart is all about saving money. They save money on payroll. They squeeze their vendors."

No doubt. Walmart is not an angel (despite the image they try to create by carrying faith-based products in their stores), but if "squeezing" vendors makes them more energy efficient - less polluting - less ghg producing, why would you not want that?

How interesting this will be to see take place... and how far it goes...

Well personally, I prefer the Jesus bobble head doll

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It's a coincidence when something Wal-Mart does has anything to do with social responsibility. It's all about profits and the quarterly earnings report.

Oh, "squeezing vendors" means using strong arm tactics to make the companies that sell them their merchandise take a minuscule profit margin on their goods. I think the term retailers and wholesalers use is "predatory." It's like dealing with organized crime.

It is all about the money, baby! We all know that sex sells, and in this country anything christian sells like hotcakes. What they should be making is sheeple dolls: people dressed like sheep, desperate for a Shepard. "Need someone to tell you 'right' from 'wrong'? Can't make your own opinions and require the opinions of others before you decide? If a bloated, political, rich man tells you his version of 'the word of god' do you believe it without question? Then congratulations! You get your very own doll, made in your likeness! Yay!"

LOL the whole idea sounds a wee bit blasphemous to me !!! Now personally, I'm going to amass the Harry Potter ones and re-enact my fave fanfics . heh heh heh...

Can I get a life size, anatomically correct Jezebel or Delilah?

Well anywhere except Wal Mart, they could be selling two dollar bills for a buck and a half and I would still shop elsewhere.

Nippy: "It's a coincidence when something Wal-Mart does has anything to do with social responsibility. It's all about profits and the quarterly earnings report."

Listen, I'm really not defending Walmart so much as making a case that environmental responsibility is profitable. In this case, if Walmart "squeezes vendors," they will also find ways to become more environmentally responsible. I don't take issue with the other criticism you levy at Walmart. Personally, I'm not boycotting them yet. If Walmart, GE, Dupont and other corporate giants are going to discover that they can make money being responsible, then I can support that. On the other hand, corporate giants like Exxon, which revels in destructive practices - well, I have boycotted Exxon for years.

Oh My. Oh Dear. I can't go into Walmart. If there is something that I need in there, Ihave to have a friend go with me who knows me really well. I tend to lose all sense of direction. My eyes glaze and I can't get out of there, nor can I find or remember why I came. This is true. sorta. Why can't we have Bush in a boxing ring with Sampson? hmmmm. Anatomically correct dolls. eeeeuuuu. what happens if you poke a hole in it. Will walmart give you an exchange??? Hmmm?

I don't shop Walmart--its the anti-christ--evil!
Anyway, when I was in catholic elementary school in the dark ages, we didn't have a halloween party, we had an all saint's day party(which was held on 10/31) where we had to dress up as a biblical figure.
My mother and I decided on "Mary"--only she meant the blessed virgin and I meant Mary Magdalene! When we had to tell who we were to the class, I said, "I'm Mary Magdalene, Jesus' girlfriend"--sigh...that didn't go over too well.
Of course, as I've gotten older, it seems I wasn't as far off as the catholic church would have us believe!

Oh, c'mon!

I remember reading about the controversy over - I think it was Walmart - selling a Christian computer game that had players shoot down unbelievers.

April,
I read your comment and I thought to myself "BWAH?"
Who put out this game?

That is really funny, Kim. I went to a church party like that when I was, I guess 7, 8 or 9, judging from the pictures, and my sister was two years younger. I was Queen Esther and she was the Queen of Sheba. We looked foxy.

Now I wish I knew where that pic was, lol.

Also, when I was a kid I had a Deborah doll and my sister had Ruth. Our parents were born-again fundamentalist Christians.

I think the Bible toys is just a ploy by Wal-Mart to broaden its appeal.

Michael, the game was supposed to be set after the rapture, at the end of the world (like the "Left Behind" books), and by then most people left behind are going to hell anyway so it's okay to shoot them.

I used to read those books when I was a Christian teen, and now I just think back on how sick some of the concepts were, and how psychologically damaging it is for someone (like myself!) to be raised believing those things.

Hey, Peter, while you are in a Wal-Mart, check out the mental health isle.