ASH: CSS #28 - Thirty Years of Jenny!

[Andrew Perron]

On Fri, 1 Jul 2011 17:01:50 +0000 (UTC), Dave Van Domelen wrote:

>      James Peterson is also known as Jim Smiley, and is a member of Andrew
> Perron's Corps of Discovery.  I liked the idea of someone who worked with mad
> science all the time taking some bit of spinoff tech and turning it into a
> girl's doll.  

And this is part of why I love shared universes!  

> Minuteman and the Second Squad fill the GIJoe niche, naturally,
> although in real life Barbie and GIJoe were introduced by competing companies
> and they didn't share parts or cross-promote.  You can bet Purcell Toys had
> fun backpedaling when it was revealed that Minuteman was really Chinese
> behind that helmet....

Heck, at that point, it might be a good sales boost to start putting out
ethnically-accurate ones.

Andrew "NO .SIG MAN" "Juan" Perron, if one was savvy.