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| | | Description: | | Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski is a real laid-back kind of guy. He enjoys "bowling, driving, (and having) the occasional acid flashback." In the classic film The Big Lebowski, this humble pacifist and his bowling buddies become entangled in a web of embezzlement, supposed kidnapping, and White Russians. These 8-Inch "stylized" non-phthalate PVC figure assortment of The Big Lebowski characters each come with removable clothing and accessories. | | | Features: | |
• Stands approximately 8" tall
• Made of vinyl with cloth outfit, this figure comes with a "movie-accurate" bowling ball accessory.
| | | Product Details: | | | Package Length:
| 12.1 inches | | Package Width:
| 10.0 inches | | Package Height:
| 2.6 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.65 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 2 reviews |
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 The Dude AbidesMar 29, 2010
Bad news first, the ball does not fit his hand properly and needs to just 'rest' in there. Other than that, this action figure (it's not a doll) has just guaranteed that I have the coolest cubicle on the block. Anyone who's seen the movie regonizes him right away, those who haven't seen the movies just give me a dumb look when they see a grown man with doll on his desk.
 Remembering an old comedy bit...Jan 04, 2009
Years ago, a comic--maybe it was George Carlin--did a bit about dolls. A girl will get, say, a Barbie doll. A guy will get a GI Joe. A girl can play with dolls, and a guy cannot. So he'd get a complex. And the bit went how the guy will rationalize that his figure is NOT a doll.
I thought of that when my wife gave me this figure of The Dude. While she despises "The Big Lebowski," I think it's one of the funniest movies ever made. For those who haven't seen it, The Dude is perhaps the laziest individual in the Los Angeles ares, which makes him the laziest of all time, to paraphrase the narrator of the story--played in the film by Sam Elliot. As a character, I think of him a little like Barnie Fife (The Andy Griffith Show) and Eddie Haskell (Leave It to Beaver) in that we see a little of ourselves in him. In the case of The Dude, perhaps we envy him. How can a guy survive with so few concerns?
Anyway, the character--played by Jeff Bridges--is hysterical. And he's developed a cult following. (I could get the latest version of the DVD wrapped in bowling ball for $15 more than just the DVD! You'll have to see the film to recognize the significance of that...)
This figure would be hard to evaluate in terms of durability. I'm not gonna PLAY with it, Dude. I'm just gonna let it stand there. (Much like The Dude!) He's supplied with a bowling ball--again, see it. And he's got a walkie-talkie type cell phone, relevant to the film as well. This figure will stand proudly and eternally on the bookshelf overlooking my computer. Just like the living Dude, it'll collect dust. Perhaps millenia from now, someone will see a petrified, plastic Dude and wonder: what in the name of infinity was some homo sapiens thinking when s/he created such a figure? Well, then, they can look at whatever media exist in the century and watch "The Big Lebowkski."
Why not 5 stars? Well, had she know it was available, my wife might have gotten me the other Dude figure in the pajamas--a symbol of how The Dude spent most of his life.
Yep. That's the consummate Dude. This one will do, but he in a bathrobe and PJs--like I am now--that's what the dude is all about.
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