Whiskeyjack Toys is Your source of Vintage Style 3 3/4" o-ring Action Figures - both original, and select licensed properties
Once upon a time...
I was a quiet kid. Fun, humorous, playful, but mostly, I kept to myself, finding the hubbub of the regular world to be a bit too much in my early years.
To help me understand the complexities of the grown up world, I would re-enact my day, or interactions with people, or items I heard on the news, or tv in general. I would re-enacting these out with my cherished action figures, at my pace, to fully digest the nuances, implications, and emotion of that difficult world.
I became a passionate action figure enthusiast throughout my life, with reverence for how much they helped me process and cope as a child.
As an adult, I would be diagnosed with ADHD, which made everything make sense looking through that retroactive lens.
I decided many, many years ago that all I wanted to do was create action figures, for those kids that struggled a bit, just like me. I wanted to put those story-telling vehicles literally in the hands of the children that needed them.
After a few false starts, and 6 successful years working the kinks out in his previous small toy company, I'm ready to present my life's work - in the form of 1000's of action figures to come.
I have been lucky enough to find a cast of many friends, partners, and professionals (sometimes all in one person), who have joined me in this - developing some of the most original, amazing, mind blowing, incredibly cool, and undeniably fun toy lines unlike the world has seen before.
And I thank each and every one of you for being part of it.
But What are we about?
Characters
It all starts with characters. We spend years developing each character. Their look, yeah, their name, yeah - easy stuff - but the relationships with each other. Their history. Their family, friends, and enemies - and how those came to be. Their idiosyncrasies and flaws and mannerisms. All of that matters when creating characters that feel real. Three dimensional. We know these characters like our circle of friends or co-workers, because we've spent years with each of them before presenting them to you.
Storytelling
Having great characters means nothing if there isn't a great story to go along with it. And it can't just be 'these guys fight those guys'. It has to have a core conflict, with lots of other conflicts that spring from it. It has to have depth. It has to have many interpretations and sides and beliefs. It should make you ask yourself what you would do in a similar scenario. The story is hopefully, what keeps you coming back for more.
Genres
We are fans of many, many, many genres - and can't wait to explore them all with you! Ninjas, Special Forces, and Super-Villains have all been presented to you so far, but right around the corner we have Cyberpunk, Superhero, Post-Apocalyptic, and Steampunk to name a few. We'd love to hear what genres excite you!
Format
We are sold on the vintage style 3 3/4" o-ring format. Everything we develop will start there. We may add others later on, but 10cm is where it all starts for us. Not just for nostalgia, and definitely not for cost effectiveness. We just feel it is the ideal size for child and adult alike. It is the smallest you can go without sacrificing too much detail. It is also the ideal size for vehicles and playsets...
Intentions
A brief glimpse into our play-book: Step 1: Create a fun and immersive story and characters to create a brand. Step 2: Get the story out there and in the hands of everyone who cares to know it in any and all forms of applicable media. Step 3: Push for greater and further distribution and mass market availability. Step 4: Repeat.
Anti - AI
None of it. Not here. Not ever. We dipped our toe in the beginning and it came out dirty and broken. Human people need to have their hands in every step of creating our figures - they just feel phony and incomplete without the love that comes through from human effort.
