Aunt Ruby’s Sweet Jazz Babies Action Figure Collection, Volume Number Two
Aunt Ruby’s Sweet Jazz Babies is pleased to present this second collection of their beloved Children ’s Action Figures.  The Babies regularly donate their services and the proceeds of action figure sales to various children ’s educational testing organizations to help further the effectiveness of children ’s education methodologies.  

The Babies express their sincere gratitude to the Estate of Drs. Klaus and Gertrude Volmgarten for the photographic images of the action figures presented .
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This action figure was employed by researchers at the University of Deft in the Netherlands who were studying the perceptions of children aged 2-8 years when presented with a combination of multiple famous personalities onto the same physical action figure.  The study revealed that when presented with an action figure of the cartoon superhero Magneto and another of Magneto with the face of Frank Lee Devine, male children played with each action figure equally.  Astonishingly, the survey revealed that 92 percent of female children preferred the Frank Lee Devine and Magneto composite action figure.  Of the children’s families surveyed, it was found that while 83 percent of the families had encountered the Babies at some point during their lives, only 12 percent of the children had been exposed to the Babies.  Thus, concluded Dr. Tulf Zulch, the lead researcher, “Among those females who have never encountered the Babies, there appears to be some sort of mysterious natural attraction between females and Frank Lee Devine that needs to be researched further.
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For many years, producer George Lucas has experimented with various Babies in his Star Wars series of films.  This action figure of Faustyn Langowski portraying the Obi One Kanobi character was originally marketed in Australia during the distribution of the famed “A Star Wars Christmas” television special, circa 1978, which featured Mark Hamil and Faustyn Langowski.  Due to the unusual and provocative nature of the plot, which included the now famous scene of Luke Skywalker and Obi One Kanobi, both dressed as Santa Claus, using their light sabers to slice open a squirming Jabba The Hut shaped pi ñata filled with black monoliths of Han Solo to the wide-eyed delight of Chewbacca ’s litter of joyous, screaming children, George Lucas, along with numerous Christmas preservationist organizations, filed a class action lawsuit against Australia TV Channel B, which to date is being arbitrated in the United States court system.
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This civil war action figure of then Major General Ryan J. Gould surveying the foggy Ohio River in 1860 was originally constructed by the Hasbro Corporation in late 1965.  This action figure, and others of General Gould in Antietam, Cornwall, Little Bighorn, and Anahuac, sparked a rebirth of interest in General Gould ’s important role in the Civil War.  Numerous civil war reenactment societies were started at that time that still continue to this day.  Note the strong positive posture of General Gould’s action figure.  His calm, confident, and thoughtful expression are said to embody his gentlemanly nature, warrior code, and leadership skills.  A natural leader among men, many behavioral textbooks have been written regarding the effects of expressions and posture as a result of military psychologists ’ observations of General Gould.  It is said that this action figure is taken from eyewitness testimony obtained via Arnold Mueller.
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The origins of this action figure are considered by many as supernatural.  Early in 1963, Miss Penelope Mueller of St. Louis, Missouri was attempting to communicate with her brother Arnold Mueller, who had perished in Italy during World War II, through a s éance conducted by Medium Attan Monique Corvalisan.  After reportedly establishing communication, Arnold indicated that from his new perspective, he sensed a need for American children to become better connected with their spirits.  Recalling a series of G. I. Joe comic strips he had enjoyed reading, he wished that a line of military action figures could be created for children to enjoy based upon the concept of G. I. Joe.  Penelope asked Arnold, who had been an architect, what sort of action figures should be created and what would they look like?  Using a planchette, Arnold communicated through the spirit world via Penelope’s hands and developed numerous sketches of the great military strategist General Gould in various uniforms, which were ultimately sold to the Hasbro corporation and marketed as the G. I. Joe series of action figures.
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Indonesian craftsman created this image of General Ryan Gould, after the General’s visit to the city of Samarinda, on the island of Borneo, Indonesia, in August of 1974.  In late 1974, General Gould was the principal bassist as part of a double bass touring exhibition sponsored by the National Academy of the Arts, Manhattan School of Music, and the Julliard School of Music.  Indonesians likened the wondrous sound of General Gould’s bass playing to that of heavenly musical thunder, and believed that such a man who could command the sounds of the heavens must truly be a god.  Minute by minute attempts were made on General Gould’s life during his stay on Borneo by cannibals who sought to consume the General in the hopes of obtaining some semblance of demigod status.  This action figure is presently in widespread use in sacred religious ceremonies throughout the Indonesian and Malaysian island chain.