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Those Meddling Kids!

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© Reis O'Brien

The Scooby Doo Gang, known officially as Mystery Inc., are the perfect mix of fun and adventure for a young child's first jump into the world of action figures.

Based on the character from the Hanna-Barbera cartoon series that started way back in 1969, this gang of teenage crime solvers became renowned with cartoon fans for their exciting adventures chasing ghosts, ghouls and monsters of all shapes and sizes (which always turned out to be some crabby old man in a mask) through various creepy settings such as run-down amusement parks or abandoned coal mines.

Over the years, the kids from Mystery Inc. have gone through a series of small changes, constantly being reinvented for the next generation of cartoon watchers. At one point they we even redesigned as young kids in the series A Pup Named Scooby Doo and later brought to the big screen in two live-action motion pictures (with a CGI talking great dane, of course).

The Mystery Inc. action figures from Thinkway are yet another incarnation of the famous cartoon characters, this time taking on an even more cartoony appearance, with their big, bulky feet and hands and slightly more simplified faces. Figures like this are perfect for now-grown action figure collectors with kids of their own looking to start off what could be a fun and rewarding mutual interest. And if shopping for action figures together isn't enough fun, you can always look forward to getting down on the carpet with the kids and playing with them just like the old days!

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