Is Jingle All The Way's Turbo Man A Real Action Figure?

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Is the Turbo Man action figure from Christmas comedy Jingle All The Way a real toy? Many popular Christmas movies are all about the warm and fuzzy feelings the festive season generates, but some actually explore the very real problems that Christmastime often poses too. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, for example, focuses on the chaos that ensues when extended family arrives for a festive visit, and Four Christmases explores the difficulty of having to divide the holiday season between multiple family members.

Jingle All The Way, meanwhile, is about a very relatable problem that many parents have faced at Christmastime; trying to track down a must-have, sold-out toy that their kid desperately wants. Directed by Beethoven helmer Brian Levant, this 1996 Arnold Schwarzenegger comedy cast the star and Sinbad as two fathers trying to find a popular action figure toy based on the title character from a TV show named Turbo Man. After unwisely leaving the task until Christmas Eve, the pair find every store sold out and soon form an intense rivalry as they set out to claim the last Turbo Man doll in town.

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Jingle All The Way is a satirical take on the commercialization of Christmas and was inspired by real-life holiday shopping crazes that took place in the 1980s and 1990s for toys like Cabbage Patch Kids dolls or Toy Story tie-in merchandise. Nevertheless, when Jingle All The Way was released several critics accused the movie of being made just to sell toys based on Turbo Man but the reality of the matter wasn’t quite so cynical.

Thanks to Jingle All The Way’s swift production, distributors Fox didn’t have much time to develop a major merchandising line or secure tie-in deals