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If you remember Starting Lineup figurines from the '80s and '90s, you'll remember that they don't look anything like the player they're supposed to. I have a Jose Uribe figurine, for example, who's built like an MMA fighter.
That's the point of this quiz -- look at the figurine, and try to guess who in the heck it's supposed to be. Unless you actually had the figurine, you'll be surprised at how beautifully awful these likenesses are.
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Got 6 0f 10.
I remember I had a Cal Ripkin Jr. It looked like Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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by hunterpencefan on Feb 4, 2012 12:53 PM EST reply actions
Bobbleheads are almost as bad.
I have a Kyle Farnsworth bobblehead (back when the Cubs thought he was worth bobbleheading).
He looks like he’s wearing lipstick.
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by Al Yellon on Feb 4, 2012 2:03 PM EST reply actions
5 of 10. I even got the Rockies’ slugger wrong, and I had that one.
by Phrozen on Feb 4, 2012 4:52 PM EST reply actions
I have never been so ashamed
I actually got them all right. What do I do with my life now?
by LonghornTiger on Feb 4, 2012 5:06 PM EST reply actions
I never even had any of the damned things. My strategy was “Which player does this figure most sort-of like like, kind of?”
by LonghornTiger on Feb 4, 2012 5:08 PM EST up reply actions
The handedness gives many away
Like the first one when it’s clearly a righty and the options are two lefties and a righty.
by MarshMac on Feb 5, 2012 5:34 AM EST reply actions
Nothing was worse than this Aroldis Chapman action figure.
It looks more like a Barack Obama action figure, or a Carlos Fisher action figure if you want to keep it to players that were on the Reds 40-man last year.
Let a man come in and do the Popcorn.
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by -ManBearPig on Feb 5, 2012 11:42 AM EST reply actions
It does
kind of look like Obama… I’d make a joke here about how Chapman isn’t an american citizen and something about Obama’s birth certificate, but I have a feeling you won’t appreciative that much
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by imstillhungry95 on Feb 5, 2012 1:02 PM EST up reply actions
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by imstillhungry95 on Feb 5, 2012 1:03 PM EST up reply actions
it doesn't even look like the picture on the box
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by WHYG Zane Smith on Feb 5, 2012 11:36 PM EST up reply actions
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