Scott Brown: The Action Figure

Feb 1, 2010 7 Comments ›› Erik Wong

The Boston Herald:

Faster than a speeding pickup! More powerful than a locomotive full of Kennedys! Able to kill off Obama-care with a single vote!

Look, up on the Web! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Sen.-elect Scott Brown – Action Figure!

Herobuilders.com, a Connecticut company that makes custom dolls modeled after celebrities, politicians, reality stars and crooks, will roll out its latest action figure tomorrow – the new Republican senator from Massachusetts.

“He’s a superhero, this guy,” Herobuilders honcho Emil Vicale told the Track . “He’s a man of action who stepped into the ring, 30 points down, and in just one month does the impossible. This is some amazing guy. He’s not just a Democrat killer – he’s an administration killer!”

In fact, the Herobuilder is so taken with our Republican Flavor of the Week that he is manufacturing three different Scott Brown action heroes.

There’s the “2012 Executive Scott Brown,” dressed ever-so-presidentially in a suit. Then there’s the “Scott Brown Everyman,” dressed in a white T-shirt, jeans and sneakers. Which, if you ask us, makes the senator-elect look like a member of the Log Cabin Club! Where’s the manly barn jacket????

But best of all, is the anatomically correct Scott Brown Cosmo Doll, with rippling biceps, a Situationesque six pack and an oh-so-demure fig leaf!

“We thought maybe you women would like that one,” Vicale laughed. “He’s a good looking, sexy guy and we wanted to show different facets from his life.”

The Scott Brown action hero joins a lineup that includes the best-selling Sarah Palin doll – available in a variety of outfits including The School Girl and workout wear – Bill and Hillary Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack and Michelle Obama and Baghdad Bob, Sadaam Hussein’s ex-minister of disinformation. (Remember him? “There is no presence of American infidels in the city of Baghdad!”)

BTW, if it’s any indication of the mood of the country, Vicale reports that the Obama doll is a “terrible” sell.

“He doesn’t translate into a good action figure because he never does anything,” he joked. “All he does is babble nonsensically.”

Each Scott Brown doll is priced at $34.95. Go to herobuilders.com to place an order. And as a special postelection “thank you” to Mass. voters, Vicale is giving a 10 percent discount to buyers who use the code “Boston” between now and Feb. 8.

File Under: All Dolled Up.

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FOX News:

Move over, He-Man. Take a seat, She-Ra. Sen.-elect Scott Brown is the new superhero in town.

Seizing on Brown’s hero status within the GOP following his upset victory in Massachusetts, a custom dolls company has created a new action figure modeled after the truck-driving Republican lawmaker.

The Boston Herald’s Inside Track column reported that Herobuilders.com will release the Brown action figure on Tuesday.

“He’s a man of action who stepped into the ring, 30 points down, and in just one month does the impossible,” Emil Vicale, head of the Connecticut-based company, told the Herald.

The Beltway buff will come in three different versions.

The “Scott Brown Everyman Action Figure” dresses Brown in jeans, a T-shirt and sneakers. The “2012 Executive” Brown dresses him in a professional, presidential head-to-toe suit.

And, for “adults only,” the “Cosmo Man Anatomically Correct” Brown dresses the incoming senator in … well, nothing except for a tastefully placed fig leaf. That one is a send-up to Brown’s infamous 1982 Cosmopolitan photo shoot.

The company specializes in action figures of celebrities and has a full line of politically themed ones — including President Obama, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.