So McPhee stepped theirs up a notch and gave him some awesome glow-in-the-dark hands, allowing him to heal other action figures afflicted with leprosy all through the night. ?Archie McPhee is known for creating action figures of unusual historical figures and fictional characters however, Jesus has had more than one toy made of him. ?They may not be able to fall down, but that’s no reason they should have built Weebleville on an Indian burial ground. The only downfall of this was that it meant kids had to buy the same figures twice, and other toymakers quickly learned that kids would re-buy the same figure for a minor upgrade. ?The marriage of the 3 ?-inch format with the Universal Monsters was already an cocktail of awesomeness, then toymaker Remco went an extra step further and made the second series of figures glow-in-the-dark. So when Playmobil pirates die - presumably a violent, bloody death at the hands of the Navy, or perhaps their fellow pirates - and are denied entrance into heaven, and thus doomed to wander the earth for all eternity, they’re still pretty upbeat about it.

?Everybody in the Playmobil universe is adorable, including the dead. Had the Star Raiders undergone a nuclear attack inbetween the two series? Were they now all irradiated? Were they ghosts of their former selves, doomed to wander the galaxy for all eternity? We may never know, but they sure were fun for crappy Star Wars knock-offs. For no good reason, Series 2 included the exact same figures as Series 1, except that the figures were now all glow-in-the-dark. ?Tomland’s Star Raiders were obvious drug store rip-offs of Star Wars figures that somehow didn’t inspire the wrath of the Lucas lawyers.

Nuke them till they glow