Hell, "Inappropriate Children's Toys" could be its own thread.
I'd be down for that. I was looking for a while on a thread that could be more appropriate but his seemed to (vaguely) fit.
I think that toys have to try to keep up with the 'good stuff'. I mean, if your bigger brothers are playing awesome looking video games with awesome characters, who the hell would want to play with "baby toys"? Although it does make me wonder how far we are from CoD:MW Action figures.
I actually googled it after I had the thought: There are no Kid's "action figures", but there are McFarlane ones that are rare and expensive it seems.
I'd like to add, as much as it fits into the vein of this: Halo Reach Toys. They've made an entire series, and I'm glad they took the direction I thought they would. They sell parts packs and characters with the multiplayer armor (in addition to all the campaign characters), meaning if you buy the right figures you can make your own spartan action figure. It's a pretty neat idea, if executed in a roundabout way.