Apparently the Obama Action Figure is making news all over the world now! If we said it ourselves we’d be laughed at, but when the NY Daily News and the UK Daily Mail are reporting that we are giving Tickle-Me Elmo a run for his money, who are we to argue?

We had a nice weekend love affair with the press.  So we’ll forgive them if they can’t get our name right (Obama Action Figure, not Obama Doll, thank you very much) or remember where we’re from (Come on… New Jersey??? Give us our Brooklyn props please.)

Here’s the post from the UK’s Daily Mail…

How Barack Obama Is Giving Tickle Me Elmo A Run For Its Money This Christmas

By Mail Foreign Service

This Barack Obama action figure has become the unlikely Christmas toy hit among kids, say American retailers.

The cartoon-like toy, which stands six-inches tall, is giving the likes of the popular Tickle Me Elmo doll a run for its money.

And some New York stores report selling out of the likeness of the President-elect in the run up to Xmas.

An action figure we can believe in: This Barack Obama toy has become the unlikely Christmas hit among kids, say American retailers.

Tickle Me Elmo was a runaway hit among children – until the launch of the Obama doll

“They are literally flying off the shelves,” said one worker at the Scholastic Store in Manhattan’s SoHo area.

“The kids see Obama, and they just want to grab him.”

Store manager Denys Ramos said they have sold more than 200 of the $12.95 figurines, which features the future White House resident with oversized ears and fingers, since the beginning of the month.

And it has proved significantly more popular than a doll of Obama’s defeated Presidential rival, Senator John McCain.

“This holiday season Barack Obama has been our Tickle Me Elmo,” Ramos told the New York Daily News.

“We did have the John McCain figure but we had to discount it.”

The fully poseable figure is manufactured by New Jersey-based toy firm, Jailbreak Toys. It was created by artist Jason Feinberg.

The doll, dubbed “An Action Figure We Can Believe In”, comes packaged in a window box along with original illustrations of the politician.

Here are links to the actual articles:

“How Barack Obama Is Giving Tickle Me Elmo a Run For His Money” – The UK Daily Mail

“Obama Action Doll Tickles Kids Pink” – The NY Daily News