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    Steve Jobs action figure pulled from market

    SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The company that began advertising for an incredibly lifelike Steve Jobs doll won't sell the figurines after all because of pressure from family and Apple lawyers.

    In Icons had planned to offer the 1-foot-tall, lifelike figure dressed in Jobs' trademark black mock turtleneck, rimless glasses and jeans.

    But the San Jose Mercury News reports (http://bit.ly/AoI1ZQ ) the company posted a statement on its website Sunday saying it had received "immense pressure" to drop the plan and made the decision out of its "heartfelt sensitivity to the feelings of the Jobs family."

    The iconic Apple co-founder died Oct. 5 of complications from pancreatic cancer.

    In icons had intended to start shipping the doll in February. The company says any money received for pre-orders will be returned.

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    Online:

    http://inicons.com

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    Information from: San Jose Mercury News, http://www.sjmercury.com

     

    53 comments

    • Emmie  •  Powhatan, Virginia  •  4 mths ago
      Would people really buy dolls that look like Steve Jobs? Why?
      • Michael 4 mths ago
        I'd buy it, only to resell on ebay to Apple fanatics.
      • Mac 4 mths ago
        I'd buy it, only to resell on ebay to Apple fanatics.

        Why when they could just buy from the same place you did. Typical PC idiot.
      • A Yahoo! user 4 mths ago
        Because, Michael actually thinks he could buy them all before the Apple fanatics had a chance. Are you tryin' to make us Mac users look dumb, Mac? Hungry now . . . Mac & Cheeze . . .
    • Trollington  •  4 mths ago
      That's cute. If Apple was producing it, it would cost 2 dollars for them to make, and they'd sell it for 300 dollars. Since they aren't producing it, they won't let anybody else produce it. Oh apple fan boys... go drive your Passats into a pond please.
      • j 4 mths ago
        yeah, but if apple made it, you would be able to listen to music and watch movies with it
    • Thomas  •  Williams, Arizona  •  4 mths ago
      I think this belongs on News of the Weird...
    • Daniel  •  Little Rock, Arkansas  •  4 mths ago
      Considering how (over) protective Apple is of anything related to it, how did In Icons NOT think Apple and Jobs' family would disapprove?
    • D B Cooper  •  Longmont, Colorado  •  4 mths ago
      Who is Steve Jobs?
      • Michael 4 mths ago
        A dead guy.
      • DieselPB 4 mths ago
        Used to be CEO of Apple and one of the founders. Though, he gets all the credit for building Apple from the ground up when he had little to no contribution to building or designing the Apple I and the Apple II computers.
      • Mac 4 mths ago
        DieselPB, you're a #$%$ idiot. If you really believe that, then you were lied to. Watch Pirates of Silicon Valley. You might learn something. Yea Woz was the 'brains' of Apple and Steve was the marketing guy. But if you think Steve Jobs had little do with Apple's success, then you're an idiot just like those who blame Obama for the mess we're in. LMAO so stupid.
    • Michael  •  Denver, Colorado  •  4 mths ago
      Why was Apple involved? I can understand Jobs's estate getting upset and threatening action, but unless the packaging featured an Apple word or logo then it seems like Apple had no business.
    • Darius03  •  4 mths ago
      Next time, to prevent look-alikes, Job's irrational family and Apple lawyers will seize all black long sleeve mock turtle shirts and jeans and black-rimmed eye-glasses and sue anyone who will produce them.
    • Foxtrot Uniform  •  4 mths ago
      Why would anybody buy one?
    • greene_teeth  •  Chattanooga, Tennessee  •  4 mths ago
      I thought D B Cooper was dead. Who are you? Why would anyone want a small doll of Jobs?
    • testmeat  •  Austin, Texas  •  4 mths ago
      He's gotten even more hip since going underground.
    • Adam Schramm  •  Albuquerque, New Mexico  •  4 mths ago
      To be as authentic as possible the doll is made in third world country sweatshops by people making pennies a day, then moves out of your child's room to find a new home where it can bribe a doctor doll to put it at the front of the little plastic liver donor list.
    • A Yahoo! User  •  4 mths ago
      Mr Steve Jobs was an American hero and genius, something none of you will ever aspire to be.
    • alanf  •  Hollywood, Florida  •  4 mths ago
      They stopped it because he was holding a ipod 10. Top secret.
    • Steve-O  •  Plano, Texas  •  4 mths ago
      The company made the decision out of its "heartfelt sensitivity to the feelings of the Jobs family." Yeah right! More likely the lawsuit threatened by Apples parade of lawyers!
    • Michael  •  Denver, Colorado  •  4 mths ago
      Imagine if it did get mass produced... Chinese children manufacturing iPhones and iPads while other Chinese children manufacture dolls of Apple's founder.
    • A Yahoo! User  •  4 mths ago
      Does online anonymity and freedom of access encourage antisocial personalities?
      Do narcissistic people use the access to numerous relationships as a means to gain an admiring audience?
      Do people with dissociative personalities tend to isolate their cyberspace life from their face-to-face lives? Do they tend to engage in the creation of multiple and distinct online identities?
      Are schizoid people attracted to the reduced intimacy resulting from online anonymity? Are they lurkers?
      Do manic people take advantage of asynchronous communication as a means to send measured responses to others, or do they naturally prefer the terse, immediate, and spontaneous conversations of chat and IM?
      Are compulsives generally drawn to computers & cyberspace for the control it gives them over their relationships and environment?
    • Fenix  •  4 mths ago
      Now apple will start making the dolls. I refuse to call it an action figure. GI Joe Was an action figure.
    • Tom  •  Los Angeles, California  •  4 mths ago
      You mean people actually sent in money to buy one of these pieces of trash?!? LOL A fool and his/her money are soon parted.
    • Amboambo  •  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania  •  4 mths ago
      Is that because it never bathed or maybe because it said nasty things to it's daughter?
    • VVillbone  •  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania  •  4 mths ago
      Because the head was too big.
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