seeing wonder woman toys makes me happy. Seeing little kids playing with wonder woman toys makes my heart explode with happiness.
And it probably has a lot to do with when i got my first action figure.
I had a xena action figure as a kid and i fucking adored this toy. I found it by the grace of Diana at the bottom of a bin in a Big Lots and i remember begging my dad to get it for me.( which didnt take much, he was a pretty chill dad for the 9 years he was around) we went back, though, so he could check the price but he picks one of the toys in the bins up and goes “heres another girl one but its blonde,” and im now shitting my jean overalls bc its fucking gabrielle. He sees the look on my faces and hes all like aw fuck why did i do that, but hes chill like i said and hes all like “alright since ur getting a toy ur sister is getting this one.” And i went home with the two baddest bitches on the fucking planet and was like YOOO IMA KICK YOUR ASS when i got home and my sister she was all like WHAT NO WAY WE’re a team!!!!!! And we’d beat up an Aladdin barbie doll or some beanie babies or maybe some crappy villian from those happy meal toys. We played with them EVERY SINGLE DAAAAY until they mysteriously disappeared. I still dont know what happened to this day but i did.. still do blame my mom bc she never liked ‘those kinds of toys.’ It was really hard for me to find another action figure like them and let alone la woman action figure.
And now that im remembering this story, these toy developers should make toys of not just Wonder Woman, but of Antiope, Doctor Poison, Hippolyta, Etta and some of the other incredible women i hope DC will continue to bring about bc i know my kid self would shit her overalls all over again if she saw all of them in the toy aisle
