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What characters would you like to see detailed action figures made for?

No, I am not referring to bobble-head figurines. Funko has a wide range of those and because they're simpler to make they do have more characters (I even saw a Grey Worm one the other day), but it's not the same as the detailed six inch "action figures" (the bobble-heads are "Figurines" not "action figures).

Now there are actually two different companies making action figures, Funko and Dark Horse. The Dark Horse ones are larger and more detailed, albeit more expensive, though there are drawbacks to a larger 7.5 inch figure (they maker fewer of them, and they're harder to fit on a shelf).

So here are all of the characters who already have action figures, from Funko, Dark Horse, or Both.


 * Ned Stark (Both)
 * Jon Snow (Both)
 * Daenerys Targaryen (Funko has two costumes, Dark Horse has a different one)
 * Daenerys - in wedding dress from Season 1 episode 1, with box containing dragon eggs (Dark Horse)
 * Daenerys early Season 2 costume, including her three newly-hatched dragons, which can be mounted on her shoulder. (Funko)
 * Daenerys in Season 3 blue traveling costume with cape, including the slave whip she takes from the slave-masters of Astapor (Funko)
 * Cersei Lannister (Season 2) (Dark Horse only)
 * Tyrion Lannister (Both)
 * Jaime Lannister (Season 1) in Kingsguard armor (Both)
 * Tywin Lannister - in Season 3 costume (Dark Horse only)
 * Joffrey Baratheon - in formal wedding attire (Dark Horse only)


 * Robb Stark (Both)
 * Arya Stark (Both; in Seasons 2-4 costume)
 * Brienne of Tarth - in Season 2 armor


 * Khal Drogo (Both)
 * Sandor "The Hound" Clegane
 * White Walker (Both)

Now I picked up more than a few Lord of the Rings action figures...nearly 30, I think (Spread out across four years, birthday and christmas, like 3-4 at each holiday). And the problem we had there is that they usually focus on making a lot of the starring cast, which doesn't work well for an ensemble story. How the hell many Legolas re-releases or minor variants were there? Compared to other characters who never even got a figure?

Star Wars is the king of action figures and...yes there are hundreds of Darth Vader variants, but they've also worked their way down to minor background cantina characters over the years.

So who are characters who don't have an action figure, which should?

A problem is that the action figure people rarely make figures of people who don't actually fight. We got a Galadriel action figure in LOTR because she's magically powerful and so forth. But I'm using these as display items.

So like, would we get a Margaery Tyrell? I don't know. Doubtful we'd even get a Sansa Stark in Vale Dark Sansa costume.

They've covered the "Big Seven" except for Sansa (Jon Snow, Daenerys, Cersei, Tyrion, Jaime, Arya, Sansa), plus Ned Stark and Tywin Lannister, and also Joffrey.

We'd probably have to be realistic and ask for people who have fight scenes of some kind.

Okay...Ygritte? Grey Worm? Stannis? Melisandre? Renly in Season 2 armor? Loras Tyrell?! Theon Greyjoy?! Yara Greyjoy? Ramsay Snow?

Hodor? 