Here is my response after reading Black Doll Collecting posting about the Django Unchained 8" action figures. See her post at : http://blackdollcollecting.blogspot.com/2013/01/django-action-figures-chained.html
As a doll collector, I love collecting dolls that represent me and I am upset that the Django figures* will not be produced.
First:
The discontinuing of the line of figures has raised the price on them. Some cost as much as $2000 for one because of the limited production.
Second: I will not be able to do my Black History Trivia with these figures/dolls.
1. Prior to Django Unchained, Kerry and Jamie started in what other film together.
2. Which star won an Oscar for his/her role in Question 1.
3. What actor remade a Richard Roundtree movie?
4. What actor is starring in a Prime time television show?
The figures represent so much more than the movie. Instead of stopping production the figures, the company should have redressed them (to please parents) as the real life person with the character costumes as additions. Thus, the figures would still get produced.
Third:
Where were the critics when Vivica A. Fox or Pam Grier characters were not created?
Fourth:
There are not enough African American dolls/figures being created, and now they have removed three more figures/dolls from the market.
*photo came from a posting by koko55509
