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These days, you haven't really "arrived" until you have your own action figure.
In a press release, Brooklyn-based company FCTRY has announced the release of an action figure in the likeness of California's Senator Kamala Harris, reports The Hill.
FCTRY boasts that the 6-inch Harris figures are “a perfect size for all uses” whether “you want to keep her on your desk for all to see, or bring her to your next Senate hearing.”
The doll-maker's timing couldn't be more perfect. Last week, the California Democrat announced her candidacy for the White House in 2020.
“Think of the impact California has had on our culture,” FCTRY CEO Jason Feinberg said in a statement about the company’s Harris doll, according to the American Bazaar. “Same-sex marriage. Computers, of course. Movies. Even small things like avocado toast! As a proud New Yorker, it’s a little hard to admit this, but California always figures things out a bit before the rest of us.”
“Right now it’s hard to look at Kamala Harris and not get that same sense,” Feinberg said.
The Harris action figure won't be available until spring, says the FCTRY release, but the doll manufacturer is taking pre-orders.
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Earlier this month, the Brooklyn-based manufacturer announced the release of its special counsel Robert Mueller, the special counsel, who’s investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
It’s also fashioned figurines bearing the likenesses of Harris’s fellow 2020 White House contender Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and former President Obama.
Not to be left out, the current president has an “Evil Trump” figure — complete with a pointed middle finger — made in his image during the 2016 campaign. Ironically, the Trump dolli is the company's best seller for more than one reason.
The company says the $20 Trump figure — which features removable hair, “Twitter-sized hands” and “sturdy and durable shoes for stepping on feelings” — was originally crafted as a way to mock the then-GOP presidential candidate.
“Following the (2016) election, sales surged, and it became clear that a growing number of customers were Trump supporters,” FCTRY said in a news release.
“When the immigration ban went into effect, it became clear,” FCTRY founder Jason Feinberg wrote in a recent Medium post, “If we want to stand for something, we must take nothing.”
“So, as of today, we are giving 100% of the profits from our Trump Action Figures to the ACLU,” Feinberg wrote, adding that the company is seeking out other nonprofit organizations “working to hinder the darkest parts of Trump’s agenda.” Thus far, the company has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to the civil rights organization.
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The company says the $20 Trump figure — which features removable hair, “Twitter-sized hands” and “sturdy and durable shoes for stepping on feelings” — was originally crafted as a way to mock the then-GOP presidential candidate.
“Following the (2016) election, sales surged, and it became clear that a growing number of customers were Trump supporters,” FCTRY said in a news release.
“When the immigration ban went into effect, it became clear,” FCTRY founder Jason Feinberg wrote in a recent Medium post, “If we want to stand for something, we must take nothing.”
“So, as of today, we are giving 100% of the profits from our Trump Action Figures to the ACLU,” Feinberg wrote, adding that the company is seeking out other nonprofit organizations “working to hinder the darkest parts of Trump’s agenda.” Thus far, the company has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to the civil rights organization.
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